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Gray Scott Studio
2007-10-14 16:20:00
gray scottDo we love this? Yes we do! And it even gets better. Animated fashion editorials with nice background music as used for fly magazine ? Be sure to check out Gray Scott 's website (prints for sale aswell!) and his blog for updates.///Lieben wir das? Aber natürlich! Und es wird sogar noch besser. Animierte Modestrecken mit hübscher Hintergrundmusik, wie u.a. auch für das schöne fly magazine ? genutzt. Unbedingt müsst Ihr Gray Scotts website (die Bildchen werden dort auch als Prints zum Verkauf angeboten!) besuchen und sein blog, für aktuelle Anlässe.
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SWASH
2007-10-13 22:42:00
swashNow that Fashionweeks are over we have enought time to reconsider what was happening. I personally prefer all the smaller shows and exhibitions taking place besides the major defilées. Showrooms of young independent fashion designers showing young fresh labels and designs. Visiting a city during fashion week is always worth it even when you haven't got a ton of invitations in your bags. You'll always find something going on.I wish I had visited Swash's showroom. The british designduo - Sarah Swash und Toshio Yamanaka - lives and works in London, where they both aswell studied fashion design at the famous Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. More information here///Jetzt, da der ganze Fashionweek Trubel um ist, haben wir alle etwas mehr Zeit uns darauf zu konzentrieren, was eigentlich los war. Ich persönlich finde die ganzen kleinen Seitenveranstaltungen besonders interessant. Die Showrooms der jungen Nachwuchsdesigner mit ihren kleinen frischen Labels und Desig...

NEW BOOKS ON THE SHELF
2007-10-11 19:05:00
This was in today's mailbox. I'm so excited. Please expect a detailed review later. I'm on my way to a party...///Das hat mich heute im Briefkasten erwartet. Ich bin so aufgeregt! Bitte erwartet einen ausführlichen Bericht später, ich bin auf dem Weg zu einer Party...
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GERMANY IS SO BORING
2007-10-10 23:51:00
Credit: welt.deHey people they are things going on elsewhere. Although I'm not a fan of huge magazines having blogs - because I kind of believe in citizen journalism and expect the blogger to be honest and personal which I believe isn't possible when you write a blog in the name of a major fashion magazine - I kind of like them for the insights they offer into worlds and places only a few of us little fashion obsessed will ever enter. Marc Jacobs will never ('but, never say never ;-)') post a comment on f&art as he did twice in Cathy Horyn's blog for the New York Times.The reason why I post this is my hourlong attempt (which finally led to a more or less to conclusive rensponse...) to comment on a post riz wrote in her blog mode et utopie where she asks for "the radical contingency between fashion and art". Well, "where is the interesting experimentation and exploration of the aesthetic, formalistic and material boundaries and contours between these two fields happening??" ...
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THE OPERATION : I'M IN LOVE
2007-10-09 03:06:00
Directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondinovia laura minquini
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THE LOUIS VUITTON KINKY ART PERFORMANCE
2007-10-09 00:36:00
Marc Jacobs: "It all came from our collaboration with Richard Prince, who is an artist who appropriates references within his work, which is what we do?which is fine, so long as there are three differences in everything!"Wow. I don't know what to say. If I would have had to choose only one show to visit during Paris Fashion Week I would have loved to see the closing one by Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton. The pictures simply don't do it justice. I was very happy to find a (very crappy) video on youtube for you to enjoy. It was no fashion show, it was an art performance ('by the way, I'm really not fond about the Richard Prince bags. I never liked Louis Vuitton bags anyway'). The show was pure eyecandy. We had grandmasters like Nadja Auermann ('who still is one of my most favourite models ever'), Stepanie Seymour, Eva Herzigova and Naomi Campbell on the runway.Well and then there was spongebob: "I'm a fan of SpongeBob SquarePants?and for all I know, so is Rei Kawakubo (Comme d...
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THE RODNIK FACTORY
2007-10-08 20:37:00
Rodnik is a rock b(r)and although they deny it. I can't help it. These two boys rock and they don't even have a proper education (who needs this anyway?). I love that. Why not just doing it? Read all about it here. Clockwork Orange meets Andy Warhol's factory!? See their collection here.///Rodnik ist eine rock b(r)and ('=marke'), auch wenn sie es verneinen. Diese zwei Jungs rocken und haben dabei noch nicht einmal eine anständige Ausbildung (wer brauch so was überhaupt?). Fantastisch! Lest alles darüber hier. Clockwork Orange trifft auf Andy Warhols Factory . Die Bilder ihrer aktuellen Kollektion gibt es hier.Credit: rodnik

BERNHARD WILHELM : MODEL IN THE BOX
2007-10-07 22:49:00
Bernhard Wilhelm is some kind of enfant terrible of Paris fashion week. The German born designer/artist showed his upcoming spring/summer 2008 collection in boxes ('well the models who wore the designs were put in boxes'). The German newspapers got furious and if you are really interessted in getting to know what this is all about, please read fashionwindows.com. Besides the highly political references I really liked the quote of Rodin's thinker safely packed in a box as if he was going to be sent somewhere else.Want to learn more about Mr. Wilhelm? Please read this interview with Hint Magazine.///Bernhard ist irgendwie das enfant terrible der Pariser Fashionweek. Der Deutsche Designer/Künstler zeigte vergangene Woche seine Frühjahr/Sommer 2008 Kollektion in Boxen ('nun ja, die Model s, die die Entwürfe trugen, waren mehr oder weniger verpackt in Boxen'). Die deutschen Zeitungen drehten durch und ich empfehle daher, bei Interesse zu erfahren, worum es wirklich geht, den Artikel ...
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CLEMENS EN AUGUST
2007-10-07 15:51:00
Credit: clemens-en-augustWhat exactly is the sense in selling fashion in art institutions? No, I don't really expect an answer to this question, since we all seem to have gotten the point in fashion trying to revalue itself by collaborating with art.Alexander Brenninkmeijer, designer of Clemens en August ('which actually is a reference to the well known clothing company C&A, because, well Mr. Brenninkmeijer is part of the C&A family, but on his own now...'), doesn't have a store. The collections are only sold twice a year for three days in assorted galleries and museums. One of those selling periods started Friday September 22nd at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in ('where else') Berlin. But the tour isn't over by now. Please visit Clemens en August's website for a shopping event near you ('will try to check them out in Frankfurt at the end of october to see if the "art upgrade" works...').///Wo genau liegt der Sinn im Verkauf von Mode in Kunstinstitutionen? N...
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THIS IS NOT A PLASTIC BAG
2007-10-06 00:06:00
Via style_bubbleDefinitely not. And definitely a bag we need!Thank you Susie for sharing this...
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HUSSEIN CHALAYAN AND SHOWSTUDIO
2007-10-05 22:53:00
Via search&destroyIs this the future of fashionweek? Hussein Chalayan invited the fashion crowd into an art gallery to show his spring 2008 collection called "Readings" on a screen. No models, no photographers just a projection of a video done in collaboration with Nick Knight. Images were dispatched to attendees afterward. Sarah Mower from style file was there and wasn't so amused at all. As conceptual and avantgarde this presentation might have been it faced the audience with simple problems like a) "seeing the clothes clearly " and b) "having to demonstrate their competency as art-house film critics". ...The good thing about it is, that fashion addicts were able to view the show simultanously on their laptops at home and can still do it now.A making of can bee seen hereYou can say about it whatever you want. I love it. Although I don't think that this will be the future of fashion week, which actually is all about coming together and sitting in the first row (watching a...
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CINDY SHERMAN FOR BALENCIAGA
2007-10-05 02:20:00
Via Diorette @ tFsSince I simply can't afford buying and reading all the magazines I'd love to I sometimes are kind of slow in discovering interessting magazine stuff to post about. Lucky me I'm a member of the beloved fashion spot community where other magazine addicts like me scan and upload fashion spreads from every thinkable magazine worldwide. So I had a change to see the spread Cindy Sherman did herself for Vogue Paris' August 2007 issue (no wonder then that she showed up in the balenciaga show during paris fashion week three days ago...).Via Diorette @ tFs
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NINAKI
2007-10-05 01:02:00
Do we like this? Yes we do! Nina ki rings are huge, heavy, very sculpural and very organic. Although I don't like wearing jewelry that much... ('so this really means something!'). And the longer I watch the slideshow on her iqons* portrait, the more rings I want. Where fashion meets art (don't they remind us of Henry Moore?).

sasha pivovarova
2007-10-04 22:22:00
Credit: vogue.de and via pickyDon't we all love Sasha for her laid back but chique style? Well, I actually do and so that's why she's one of my inspirations for my winter wardrobe which will mostly consist out of black and grey. I found the most perfect pair (look AND price) of ankle boots today, unfortunately no pair in black (and my size) left and even online everything sold out. I'll be in Stuttgart on saturday for some shopping and for a gallery opening ('having rich friends can be annoying sometimes... esp. when you aren't rich at all!') and hope to find them there...
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fly magazine?
2007-10-04 12:19:00
Yesterday night fly magazine officially launched their third issue in paris (party photos might pop up in all the other fashionable blogs during the day..). I got an invitation, but unfortunately wasn't able to make it ('hey, flying to paris for a party, wouldn't that be great? Mybe next time...')Fly probably is the most interessting fashion magazine, which actually is no magazine, but a DVD, right now. It consits of animated fashion spreads, which means the models actually have to act rather than just standing around to be photographed. If you can't or don't want to afford (like in my case) the EUR 45 this amazing magazine costs the freebies must be enough to satisfy your hunger for new innovative avantgarde fashion publishing:Download clips of previous issues hereView the trailer of the current issue here.Credit: insidefly.com
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Balenciaga ::: Am I still alive???
2007-10-03 13:37:00
Credit: style.comWhere art meets art. Bale nciaga again causes me to interrupt my fashion week absence. Cindy Sherman and Nicolas Ghesquière posing for the photographs - what is this trying to tell us? Nicolas again gives us a bunch of artworks, sculptural shoes, dresses, that demand a huge amount of selfconfidence from its wearer. Do we love that YES YES YES. That's where fashion starts to really get interessting, where it crosses the line from beeing just clothing and as always I think that noone does it better than Mr. Ghesquière (well maybe Gareth Pugh, but that's London!!!!).But stop. I HATE THOSE FLOWER PRINTS, I HATE THEM SO MUCH, THEY ARE TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!!! And still, I love them. Oh what would I give for wearing that flowery carlike dress for just one night it's so amazingly contradictory. And although it reminds us of all these gucci (dolce&gabbana - who the f*** are they) crapp armors we had two seasons ago, we feel that this is simply more... Am I still alive?
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afghanistan's next topmodel
2007-10-03 12:58:00
When fashion strives political/religious borders. Two days ago we had Vivienne Westwood ♥. Today we have Afghanistan's next topmodel. Do you remember the burqini? Why shouln't all women have what we have?Read all about it here Credit: 20minuten.ch

patrizia pepe autumn/winter 07/08
2007-10-02 23:25:00
some inspirations for my winter wardrobe ? Credit: patrizia pepeShort Skirts and dresses. Grey and black tights. Heavy slouch boots. Large cardigans...See the whole collection here.
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Death in Venice
2007-09-30 22:07:00
credit: foto_decadentTod in Venedig by Thomas Mann is one of my favourite books. The fashion spread "Wellen" Karl Lagerfeld shot for Vogue Germany's current issue reminds me pretty much of that novel. Just one pictures doesn't fit so I didn't show it here. But you can see it here."Death in Venice " is about an author - Gustav von Aschenbach - in his early 50s who seeks rest in Venice/Lido. There he falls in love with a young boy, what he tells himself is an abstract, artistic interest. Well there happens nothing in that case. But, however, by accident he finds out about a cholera epedemic in Venice, but funks his resolution to warn the boys Polish family, knowing that if he does, Tadzio (the boy) will leave the hotel and be lost to him. So he stays and dies of cholera at last.This particular picture was my initial point:credit: foto_decadentSee the rest of the spread here

YVES SAINT LAURENT = NAVY SLUT IS NEATER
2007-09-28 19:53:00
50 years ago Yves Saint Laurent became a legend over night. Only 21 years old he was announced the successor of Christian Dior and therefore reign over the world's most famous fashion label. He gave the smoking to women, made the military look sociable and brought with his Mondrian inspired dresses painting to the runways ? Yves Saint Laurent ruled the silhouette of a whole generation. His love for art was reciprocated and still is. The German art magazine Monopol asked eleven artists for their personal view on Yves Saint Laurent. Gerwald Rockenschaub, Marc Brandenburg, Carsten Fock, Marilyn Minter, Dennis Loesch, Heinz Peter Knes, Ursula Döbereiner, Eva Grubinger, Tobias Rehberger, Paulina Olowska, Cerith Wyn Evans
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reality studio in paris
2007-09-27 00:46:00
I did an interview with Svenja Specht the designer of berlin based avantgarde fashion label reality studio recently, which will be published in the fall/winter edition of milkshake chocolate very soon. Svenja will present her spring/summer 08 collection during the rendez-vous fashion fair in paris at the beginning of october. Be sure to visit here if you are around ?
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Andree Volkmann ::: Vogue
2007-09-26 23:52:00
Credit: andreevolkmann.deAndree Volkmann's websiteInterview on modabot (only available in German!)
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robin rhode at haus der kunst munich
2007-09-24 00:37:00
The performanceJust now I had the time to look through the photos I'd taken during the opening reception of robin's exhibition at the Haus der Kunst in munich where I've been last saturday. They are just a few since I was so busy talking to all the people I met there: Sabinah (robin's "wife" girlfriend quote: "The rock behind the rhode") and parts of her family, Robin 's brother and his girlfriend from Southafrica, Robin's aunt and uncle, friend's I've been to the documenta with, Perry Rubenstein (who is very charismatic - see a picture here) and many others. The familyPart of the opening reception was a performace curated by Robin showing a dancer. Unfortunately I was so late, that I only had the chance to see the performance on a screen. The "original" place was so crowded that they didn't let any more people inside. But lucky me I met Robin and could see his performance standing next to him and experience all his excitement ;-) The guy who probably signed to most catalog...
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Irakli Bugianishvili
2007-09-23 21:38:00
Credit: bugiani.com Irak li is from Georgia and a very nice guy. Currently he lives in Mannheim with his girlfriend tea who happens to be a model to a lot of his paintings. Two of his works are shown at the Bourgeois Pig right now. They somehow remind me of Bernard Buffet (the solitude of the people in his pictures) and a little bit of Gustav Klimt (the sketches) aswell... Credit: bugiani.com
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bourgeois pig ::: vorhang auf
2007-09-22 17:13:00
If you are around be sure to don't miss it. Lots of fantastic artists and illustrators exhibited. Pictures coming soon...Irakli Bugianishvili, Penelope Dullaghan, Camilla Engman, Jan Kiefer, Ulrike Krappen, Kristin La Flamme, Kate Marshall, Antjuan Oden, Lilly Piri, Lena Reutter, Mark Traughber, Ana Ventura, Heiko Windisch, Mehrdad Zaeri.
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Gallerinas by the Satorialist
2007-09-21 16:59:00
A German magazine calles young and beautiful girls working for or running New York it galleries "gallerinas". I wonder if this is a dream of every young and beautiful art historian, to work or shall I say to be exploited by a hip and stylis art gallerist? Last weekend a New Yorker galerist made me an offer, I have no idea if he is to be taken seriously, but well, what an honour ;-) Can you imagine me beeing a New York gallerina? For now I'm a Heidelberg gallerina, that's not bad either, at least much cheaper... MIRABELLA MARDEN SABRINA MANSOURI SOPHIE ASCHAUER MONICA RAMOS FELICITAS VALLOTAll photos taken by Scott Schuman for Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin via les mads
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Is the swastica the new it symbol?
2007-09-20 13:49:00
What's next after the skull and the palestine scarf? We already saw the swastica on Alexander McQueens designs... So ladies be careful while deciding what to wear you could make more than just a fashion statement ;-) BBC News:Zara withdraws swastika handbagsThe fashion chain Zara has withdrawn a handbag from its stores after a customer pointed out that the design featured swastikas. Zara said the bag came from an external supplier and the symbol had not been visible when it was selected. A customer who returned the bag to the shop when she noticed the symbol said staff had been "shocked" to see it.continue reading via pudri

fashion?
2007-09-20 13:07:00
On youtube there is this video response thing going on (you might have heard of renetto - he's quite famous talking about life and whatever comes to his mind). It's not new, but kind of new to me since I haven't payed attention to it before. I posted a starting comment on fashion before. It was by tlg847 and interessting for me to see what "normal" nonfashion people think about the things that rule our lives.I got really excited to see what people would respond to tlg847's post. There aren't that many responses so far - which might show that fashion (still) is something many people don't know what to think about.Pedroatlarage compared the fashion shows's impact on streetware with the Grand Prix racing sports impact on family cars. Not exactly a response I would have expected, but one that could have been made by my father.
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too many american apparel posts?
2007-09-20 11:54:00
Are there too many posts on american apparel on this blog that friends start sending me more american apparel stuff to write about? I have no idea. But please see this post as my last on that topic for some time. It took me a second to realise that this is ought to be fun. Well doesn't that say something about my american apparel opinion (hey, I love american apparel stuff and I'm currently wearing my beloved lamé leggins). A very good friend of mine is working there. I hesitate to send here that article... © Copyright 2007, Onion, Inc.14 American Appa rel Models Freed In Daring Midnight Raid | September 19, 2007LOS ANGELES?Acting on information gathered from billboards, alternative weeklies, and Internet banner ads, an FBI strike team liberated 14 dazed, sallow, and undernourished American Apparel models in a raid on the controversial organization's downtown Los Angeles compound early Monday."There were girls lying everywhere?draped over furniture, sprawled spread-e...
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women with broad shoulders
2007-09-19 16:44:00
Credit: satorialist.comThe photo of this women taken by the satorialist a couple of days ago reminded me of myself. I probably have the exact same figure and the same broad shoulders but I'm not sure if I like the dress on her. It looks very feminine and masculine at the same time. I know, that I wouldn't wear it because I would feel uncomfortable highlighting my shoulders in that way, but why? Sometimes I have to remind myself that I'm not the sweet little tiny girl I sometimes wished to be. Oh fashion can be so cruel! I guess that's why I like that photo so much. This woman looks powerful and sexy at once, without the androgynous fragility of a supermodel (which I love aswell)...
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