FASHION INSTALLATION

Conceived by Kris Van Assche, the new short film for Dior Homme collection is inspired by horror movies like Jeepers Creepers, Larry Clark and the rural outskirts of Tulsa.

Directed by Willy Vanderperre

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Dior Homme's The Wanderer from Hintmag.com on Vimeo.

"PonPonPon" single performed by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, the high-school girl and blogger that's rocking the japanese fashion world lately with her really special style, from the debut mini album "Moshi Moshi Harajuku".An uplifting, addictive electronic tune and an unbelievable video.

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Sonia Rykiel

 After the latest terribles moments in Japan, the Asia Mix Culture Association along with Minimix web-zine present a new great project to help japanese children. 100 hygienic masks decorated by some of the most famous artists, fashion creators and graphic designers will be exhibited and sold at the museum of Les Arts Decoratifs  with all the funds donated to the KNK Japan/Children Without Borders organization, one of the most important ones worldwide. Sonia Rykiel, Lucien Pellat-Finet, Yohji Yamamoto, Christian Lacroix, Philippe Starck, Yazbukey and Victoire de Castellane are some of the creators who support this great effort.

20th and 21st of September 2011

Clockwise from left: Jean Colonna, Victoire de Castellane, Philippe Starck, Inga Sempe

Pascal Colrat

From left: Adeline Andre, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Lucien Pellat-Finet

Stephane Manel

All images courtesy of Les Arts Decoratifs

Dreamy, captivating, haunting..These are the first words that came up to my mind when i first saw Ellen Rogers' images.The London-based photographer has a unique talent in creating amazing images of enchanting witches and mythical female creatures that seem to have escaped from Celtic stories or Occult rituals. Ellen is a true lover of analogue photography, spending millions of hours experimenting in her darkroom giving to her pictures an antique feeling and faded colours, turning them to past-century-like visual masterpieces. Inspired by psychology, religion, history and retro horror stories, Ellen is one of those artists that keep being faithfull to their vision, with a personal taste that is difficult to be found in the works of more commercial artists, a true diamond in the contemporary world of photoshopping. She has also released some very interesting films and a new great book called Aberrant Necropolis.  I don't want to say more about her work, as images speak for themselves. Just visit her cool website and get blown-away by her gorgeous portfolio.






Switch from Ellen Rogers on Vimeo.

Video excerpt of Ivan Civic's recent marathon performance in Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. Inspired by the 1854 book of David Thoreau titled "Walden or life in the woods", the performance dealt with our lost memories of where we come from through the signs sent from our ancestors. Without the purpose of a spectacular performance, the artist stayed on stage for 101 uninterrupted hours, drinking only water, communicating with his audience through sign language, with lights on for night and day. Stage access was only permitted to blind people who could touch and feel everything during the entire duration of the performance. Just great.

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"WELCOME HOME" - IVAN CIVIC performance from IVAN CIVIC on Vimeo.

A rather different classical music video for Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No 3 in F Major, Op. 73, IV Adagio "In Memory of a Dead", performed by Nightingale String Quartet. The short video features strong scenes worthy to the divine music, with superb direction, amazing costumes and extravagant set design. One of the best films i've seen lately.

Directed by M. Nygaard Hemmingsen

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NIGHTINGALE STRING QUARTET (Classical Music Video) from M. Nygaard Hemmingsen on Vimeo.

2:12 is an amazing street artist from Houston with a passion for urban decay, as he says in his bio. He has the gift to give life and colour to underground, abandonded places with a spray can and an x-acto knife creating beautiful images of mysterious heroines in the form of a stencil. He usually uses his stencils on the streets before painting them in limited editions for galleries, using special techniques and textures that make each piece look as if it was cut from the wall.

Below you can enjoy a short video about the painting process of his works and don't miss to visit his blog for more exciting pieces:









Lupe timelapse from two twelve on Vimeo.

After the succesful exhibition for Shiro Kuramata's and Ettore Sottsass' work, 21_21 Design Sight museum in Tokyo is dynamically entering the new season with an exciting new exhibition, featuring two of the biggest names in the history of fashion, Irving Penn and Issey Miyake, opening to the public on September 16th, 2011.The exhibition will focus to the close collaborative work of the two legendary artists that lasted many years.


(Image above: From the original cartoons created for the animated film by Michael Crawford)

Exhibition Poster. Design: Taku Satoh. Photo top: Irving Penn. Poppy: Glowing Embers, New York, 1968. Photo bottom: Flower Pleats (Issey Miyake Design), New York, 1990

Issey Miyake's first encounter with Irving Penn was in 1983, when the second photographed his clothes for an editorial feature for American Vogue. Since then, the two men worked closely, with Penn shooting exclusively all Miyake's collections, until 1999. Miyake never attended the photo sessions, deeply trusting Penn's vision, offering him complete freedom for the final visual result. In the end, Penn made over 250 photographs of Miyake’s designs, many of which appear in collection posters, were published in art books, or exhibited in museums and cultural institutions.

Irving Penn, Vegetable Face (B), New York 1995

Issey Miyake himself says about this great collaboration: “I was looking for the one person who could look at my clothing, hear my voice, and answer me back through his own creation. I searched long for such a person and found in Penn-san. […] Through his eyes Penn-san reinterprets the clothes, gives them new breath, and presents them to me from a new vantage point — one that I may not have been aware of, but had been subconsciously trying to capture. Without Penn-san’s guidance, I probably could not have continued to find new themes with which to challenge myself, nor could I have arrived at new solutions.”(From Irving Penn: A Career in Photography, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1997).

Irving Penn, Issey Miyake Staircase Dress, New York 1994

Book Jacket. Irving Penn regards the work of Issey Miyake. Photograph, jacket design, and typography by Irving Penn

Among the individual and collaborative work of Irving Penn and Issey Miyake, the exhibition also features an animated film by Pascal Roulin with original drawings by Michael Crawford, Miyake's collection posters exhibited for the first time, original fine art prints by Penn, as well as his preliminary drawings for photographing Miyake's designs.

Installation image by Shigeru Ban

The exhibition will last until April 8th, 2012.

All images courtesy of 21_21 Design Sight


                                                             Installation images by Shigeru Ban

Berlin-based fashion label UMASAN explores the poetry and evolution of human form and movement with this beautiful short fashion film. An excellent piece of art.

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UMASAN - IN TRANSITION 2012 from UMASAN on Vimeo.

Thakoon is launching the limited-edition Masai scarf to support the relief efforts for the famine and devastation in the Horn of Africa. 100% of the proceeds are being donated to an international children's relief organization working in the Horn of Africa. For this special project, Thakoon worked with Ruby Aldridge who models the scarf in images and the following video. You can purchase the scarf online here.


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A short film about the making of the Prada Candy commercial, giving interesting information about the featured Apache Dance of Lea Seydoux.

Directed by Jean Paul Goude.

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Prada Candy - The Making of the Commercial from Know Wear on Vimeo.

A new hot project combining fashion with art is taking over Berlin. Alternative fashion label I Like Bunnies presents its F/W 2011 collection titled Patchwork Family in collaboration with lightwriting artist Tofa in an extravagant photo installation.

The collection is a happy mixture of traditionally patchworked pieces like sweater fabric cardigans, unisex trousers, sweater blazers and hooded or tube scarves transformed into showpieces, all handcrafted in Berlin.

Berlin-based artist and photographer Tofa aka Chris Noelle started his practice in lightwriting in 2003 and since then has worked with numerous brands and editions like Sony, Carlsberg, Lacoste, Red Bull, Page Magazine, Art Magazine and many more.