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I don't know this model's name but he's featured everywhere this season. He's in the VNFOLD magazine link below, too.

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VNFOLD

Premiere issue of VNFOLD, Argentina art, culture, and fashion magazine. OUTSTANDING photos.

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Showstudio Fashion Revolution at Somerset House

Blogs, Twitter, websites of all kinds… Our perception of fashion is changing. The fashion image is nowadays so much more than just the printed photograph.

Visionary photographer Nick Knight understood this 9 years ago and founded Showstudio, an innovative, interactive, imaginative and inspiring website.

Somerset House now hosts an exhibition showing some of Showstudio’s best works, created by Knight himself in collaboration with some of the biggest and most exciting personalities in fashion.

Nick Knight's 100 Portraits LIVE at Somerset House

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More Lifelounge Goodness

Daphne Guinness (who is famous for being thin, stylish, marrying/divorcing a Greek shipping magnate and having tons of cashish) actually wore those McQueen shoes. This shit is outrageous. In a good way.

Where will the shoe pendulum swing next? Fashion takes such outrageous risks. You don't see many extreme looking oh, let's say, books or dinner ware or cars or buildings. Maybe a tad different but fashion is outrageously innovative and who doesn't love that rebellious attitude?

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Designer Michel Berandi

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Michel Berandi and his clothes are a thing of beauty. And I like the influences that he's cited in the following interview.

What are some key experiences in your life that had shaped your point of view as a designer?

The Damned’s gig in London circa 1978/79. My first screening of Alejandro’s Jodorosky’s The Holy Mountain and Luis Bunuel’s Belle de Jour. Those provided compelling wallpaper for the mind, but my deepest key experiences are mostly literary.

Aldous Huxsley for precision, Allen Ginsberg for flow, William Blake for beauty, Ed Sanders for smartness & coolness, Anthony Burgess for linguistic joy, Fredrich Nietzsche for historical vision and Frank Zappa for weirdness. Issac Asimov and the Marquis de Sade remain perhaps my favorites overall. Read More »

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Would You Wear These?

OLIVIA MORRIS has collaborated with English brogue-makers Grenson for autumn/winter 2009-10.

"I wanted to collaborate with a British handmade shoe company. I met Tim Little a few years ago on a photoshoot and heard he was working with Grenson, so got in touch with them to see if they'd be interested in working on a small ladies range," Morris explains.

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I would easily wear these shoes. I've had ruby red leather oxfords before. In fact, I'm so butch so keen on oxfords and brogues that I'm currently looking to buy some old school oxfords. (think clodhopper cheerleading shoes)

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Hong Kong Fashion Week

by Michael Lau, artist and toy designer.
(Photos by Victor Fraile / Getty Images /zimbio.com)

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I hate to be such a one note wonder with posting so much fashion but it's really catching my eye lately. Really creative and well crafted. Go see the other pieces in the collection. Outstanding!

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Girly and Galliano

From (the adorable) John Galliano’s latest couture collection for Dior.

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Although the top of this dress I'm not crazy about, the lovely bottom part of this dress really stood out when I ran across it. Why, you ask? Because I have been trying to embrace my femininity lately. Taking closet inventory I realized that most all my clothes were androgynous or masculine looking. Classic, plain, but manly. Why don't I buy girly clothes? I really never have. I'm athletic and sporty and it probably fits who I am but now I'm finally looking at feminine things. Even at this late juncture I feel like I'm still trying to figure out who I am.

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If I had these shoes...

If I had these shoes...

...I'd be on the floor, too. Resting.

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Stephen Sprouse

LIVING ON: BOOK AND EXHIBITION OF STEPHEN SPROUSE

Rock On Mars

Deitch Project Gallery
January 09, 2009 — February 28, 2009
18 Wooster Street, New York

Rock on Mars, a retrospective exhibition of the work of Stephen Sprouse, will transform Deitch Projects’s 18 Wooster Street gallery into a realization of Sprouse’s rock and roll futuristic vision.

Stephen Sprouse (1953-2004) was one of the most influential fashion designers of his time and a key figure in the dynamic mix of punk rock, wild style graffiti, and street influenced fashion that characterized the downtown New York community in the early 1980s. He was one of the first to build on the influence of Andy Warhol to create a fusion of art, music and fashion. He continued on a course that disavowed any division among these fields throughout his career.

In conjunction with the exhibition project, Marc Jacobs has created a new collection for Louis Vuitton, inspired by Sprouse’s famous collaboration with Louis Vuitton in 2001, which featured the classic monogram bag scrawled with Stephen Sprouse graffiti. The new limited edition Stephen Sprouse – Louis Vuitton collection will be available in Louis Vuitton stores worldwide from January 9, 2009, the opening date of the exhibition.


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Gareth Pugh | Spring 2009 | Paris

Brit-kid designer Gareth Pugh had a lot to prove in Paris last night.

"Fetish-lite" for Spring/Summer 2009 from Gareth Pugh is what I'd call it with the usual patent, latex and pvc. His collection was entirely in black and white, inspired by Hamlet, Millais' Ophelia and Elizabeth I.

See his whole collection from fashion week in Paris here.

Pugh, 27, one of the stars of London Fashion Week for the past three years, has built a cult following for his bizarre, cartoon-costume creations involving cyber-gothic ensembles in leather, metal and PVC, accessorized with masks, 'topiary' headgear and fetishistic footwear. Read More »

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Bad Unkl Sista

Bad Unkl Sista
So inventive with her badass DIY creations. And she taught herself to sew. (via)

MySpace | Make a shrug from a t-neck

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The Westwood Beat

Vivienne Westwood is set to bring the beat back this season as she launches her first ever compilation album, Catwalk Breakdown, released on September 15 at an exclusive launch event in Selfridges' Oxford Street store.

It features everyone from Billy Fury and New York Dolls to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra not to mention Mae West doing "Great Balls of Fire."

I love how she keeps on going and going and going as she's constantly inspired and must create. Such an inspiration to this old bird.

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You May Not Be Cool, But Your Baby Can Be

BABY WIT - You May Not Be Cool, But Your Baby Can Be

Lovely Tattoo Shift Dress at Baby Wit for your small child or grandchild but I just can't justify buying one for my grandson, Phoenix (who's a year old September 9). Nice, affordable stuff for kiddies.

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Elena Gregusova

“Wearing The News”

Designer Elena Gregusova is currently appearing at EnviroCouture in Vancouver, BC.

Haute Art from the Waste Container. (via)

Part of getting to live so long is that I can enjoy watching things like this inch their way from the odd and the weird into the acceptable. Not that anyone reading here can relate to the odd and the weird, right? :)

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Central Park to Host Exhibition Pavilion by Zaha Hadid

Central Park to Host Exhibition Pavilion by Zaha Hadid

This October, New York City's Central Park will serve as the sole American venue for Mobile Art, a traveling international exhibition housed in a gleaming futuristic pavilion designed by London-based architect Zaha Hadid.

Commissioned by Chanel, Mobile Art presents changing installations of works by foremost contemporary artists from Europe, the United States, Asia, Russia, and Latin America, each of whom has made a unique piece for the project exploring the visual, conceptual and cultural possibilities in the convergence of fashion and art.

That it displays Chanel fashions is purely incidental.

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Hail McQueen

Hail McQueen

Alexander McQueen has entered a bold new phase, with a fabulous fall collection, a stunning L.A. store and even an unexpected lightness of being.

In Alexander McQueen’s new, gracefully curved store on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, the imposing figure of a man—a wingless angel, actually—rendered in shiny stainless steel extends through a circular skylight, his head outlined against the clear L.A. sky.

For his fall fashion show in February, McQueen told a tale inspired by the ancient elm in his garden, about a girl who lives in a tree but eventually flees its leafy oppression to find love, sunshine and a bounty of spectacular frocks. [More »]

See his LA and Vegas stores @ Pentagram


Alexander McQueen

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A Walk on the Dark Side

Gothic: Dark Glamour

"The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) will present Gothic: Dark Glamour, the first exhibition devoted to the gothic in fashion, from September 5, 2008 through February 21, 2009." "The main gallery space will be designed as a labyrinth, featuring iconic themes such as Night, with black evening dresses; the Ruined Castle, with fashion inspired by gothic images of the Dark Ages, ruins, and fragments; and the Laboratory, where futuristic fashion "monsters" are created." (2008, www.fitnyc.edu)

Gothic Dark Glamour features designs from many other international designers, some included in the show are: Alexander McQueen, Ann Demeulemeester, Comme des Garçons, John Galliano for Christian Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, Hussein Chalayan, Christian Lacroix, Gareth Pugh, Kei Kagami, Thierry Mugler, Rick Owens, Anna Sui, Olivier Theyskens, Jun Takahashi of Undercover, and Yohji Yamamoto.

Will we see the fashion old guard turning out goth-like Chanel suits for their ladies who lunch? Eek! But it will be exciting to see what Pugh, Theyskens, the amazing Jun Takahashi (Underworld), and the others pull off.

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STEAMPUNK

STEAMPUNK

A Retro Design Movement That's All About the Future

Whether you love it or hate it, it's here to be mainstream-ed. The New York Times profiled it last weekend.

Steampunk style clothes and designers have been around for a long time as have authors, performance artists, and musicians (DeVotchKa, Rasputina, Abney Park) around the world. The local Burlesque reviews and caberet shows are appearing in most every town across the country. Some people are over it and think it's silly but I like the return to this bygone era and admire the beauty and creativity.

Kat Bret has a nice photo portfolio and you can see how she pulls from different periods so skillfully. She really captures the clothing and style of that dark, mad max melancholy, steampunk, whateverthefuckyouwannacallit genre. You're welcome. NSFW

"The term "steampunk" is a play on cyberpunk, a type of near-future science fiction where rebellious hackers use handmade tech to wage virtual warfare with corporations and governments. Steampunk was a term used almost jokingly as a name for science fiction that was set in the Victorian era as opposed to the virtual future, but which still featured rebellious protagonists utilizing strange technology. In steampunk, the punk is not a computer hacker, but a mechanical one. I do believe the pendulum has swung."



Abney Park

for more on Steampunk:
Workshop | PaperMag | Wired | Jake von Slatt | Jeff Vandermeer | Datamancer | Treehouse | Flickr | More Flickr | Maker Faire

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Tiffa Novoa 1975-2007

Tiffa Novoa 1975-2007 Costume Designer, Performance Artist.

Tiffa was not just a fashion designer, she invented an entire aesthetic style. She was not just one of the founding members of a notorious performance troupe, she helped to create an entire subculture.

She wasn’t just a visionary artist, she was a force of nature whose ripple effects inspired, and will continue to inspire, her closest friends and countless, thousands, of people who are likely not even aware that this is the woman responsible for their inspiration.

El Circo [is credited] with creating the postapocalyptic fashions that many now associate with Burning Man. Most of the original El Circo fashions, which convey both tribalism and a sense of whimsy, were designed by member Tiffa Novoa, who has since hit it big with her Onda Designs.

Tiffa Novoa, the legendary Bali based mind behind fine and exotic couture was teamed up with Evan Sugarman to form the now infamous fashion system, ERNTE Fashion Systems.

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An Example of Her Work

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