Being not a real fashion weeks addicted, I adore all the extra efforts that makes a fashion show look more than a mere accumulation of expensive wonderful stuff. Alexander - My God - McQueen and a few others regularly make me scream with joy and excitement every season, but of course I regularly find some other shows to like.
And if you choose to showcase your new collection on a 12 foot tall zoetrope, you can be sure I'll love it!
This happened when Temperley, looking for an alternative way to exhibit their new circus inspired Spring/Summer 2010 collection, hooked up with Legs and they ended building a 12-foot-tall carousel structure that combine rudimentary film loops with modern projection technology to showcase ten circus acts while at the same time displaying 15 different Temperley looks.
Read more about it here and watch the videos below to see the zoetrope in action!
T-post is certainly the smartest thing I stumbled upon recently.
Neither a paper thing, nor an online one, T-post is the new frontier of magazines cause it's...wearable and it combines offbeat news that represent in some way the world and time we live in, cool graphic designer works and t-shirts.
Printed in a limited edition, each issue is available only to subscribers that receive their "copy" via mail, a new one every six weeks.
The idea was born in 2004 as a fun project amongst a group of friends in Sweden. They started out by making the first t-shirt in just 5 copies. The word began to spread and today T-post is distributed to over 50 countries.
Still sounds a bit strange? Look at the video below to see how it works:
Each new issue of T-post is not just a fashion piece, but it's a conversation one and the whole thing is a real communication project.
Sign up here to subscribe. I bet it would be a perfect Christmas present for every graphic t-shirt addict too :-)
"With T-Post, it’s not just what your t-shirt says about you or the artist who designed it, but also what your t-shirt says about the world".
Sorry for the lack of new posts this week...I had a million boring things to do. Some nice too, as my sewing course started on tuesday...we only made skirts paper patterns this week but next time we'll sew a real one.
Yesterday I went buying the fabric; I had a million ideas - I imagined to purchase a bold colored fabric or something like tweed - and then when I arrived to the store and I had to choose I was so nervous I forgot everything and I came home with something totally classic. It's beautiful though and for a first try it's more than ok!
Lately I am so excited for these sewing lessons that sometimes I find myself thinking I'll soon be able to create and reproduce every skirt, dress and top I see and love...I'm totally crazy and irrealistic, I know! By the way these days I constantly make plans and sketches of what I will wear when (and most of all, if) I will become I decent seamstress.
Just a couple days ago I stumbled upon an almost new Flickr group which is a new version of all the what-I-wore-today groups, cause this ones is for drawings only!
Founded by Gemma Correll, a UK based illustrator, in just about one month the group counts more than 1000 members and pictures. There's even a blog where Gemma post her favorites.
After my previous post about Fashematics I realized I've never posted about Trend de la Creme, a great blog where you can find another kind of amazing fashion features (and the whole blog worth more than a visit!).
Aren't they amazing? You can find all these and more here.
Compelled by calamity's magnet They loiter and stare as if the house Burnt-out were theirs, or as if they thought Some scandal might any minute ooze From a smoke-chocked closet into light; No deaths, no prodigious injuries Glut these hunters after an old meat, Blood-spoor of the austere tragedies.
Sylvia Plath, The Aftermath.
Beyond dioramas, something I always liked and never did, there's the intricate world of Thomas Doyle . Sculpted in 1:43 scale and smaller, his scenes are all about apparently ordinary stories, quite moments where something went weird or where something strange is about to happen.
In his own words:
"I am interested in beauty, absurdity, chance, and contradictions, all of which make their way into my work in some form or another."
The whole construction is often sealed in glass - bubbled, trapped, no escape - like everything you see is happening in a fragile dream. Something that remind me a lot of Martin-Munoz amazing snowglobes.
You can read a nice interview of Thomas Doyle here .
