Rachel Freire
Rachel Freire is a London based designer with a background in fine art whose debut fashion collection was presented at London Fashion Week with On/Off in February 2009 at the Science Museum in London.
Already her work has been seen in publications such as Dazed and Confused, AnOther, Zink, Issue One, Sublime, Timeout London, Juxtapoz, Illustrated Ape, Art Business Today and Metro London.
Educated at Central Saint Martins, she graduated in 2006 with a BA in Theatre Design. Rachel is self taught in pattern cutting and tailoring and has never studied fashion. Her influences stem from her love of historical costume combined with futuristic imagery. Militaristic accents compliment the meticulous construction of each garment. Behind the dramatic silhouettes and decadent embellishments, the pieces are designed to be wearable, durable, feminine and flattering.
..'This London based designer certainly knows how to put on a show. As the final model exits the stage, I can’t wait to see her new designs....her fine art conceptual imagery and imaginative pieces are truly eye catching.'
-Fashion156.com
"...Rachel Freire, a London designer who has showcased at both On, Off and Vauxhaull Fashion Scout...
All the pieces from the AW10 collection resemble something that fabulous creatures from Neil Geiman’s darkest novels would wear – the oily green and dusty red fabrics look like they’ve been disshelved and then reassembled into clothes. Whereas the lookbook photos by Diego Indraccolo showcase the reflective qualities and shapes that certain pieces make when catching light. Indeed fit for a roam around the darkness of the underground.
-Posted by Johanna Pikver
<http://www.fashion156.com/blog.php?entry=1323&issue=25>
JOJI KOJIMA
Dress by Anja Mlakar
Mouth piece by Hotel Gluttony
Mouth piece by Hotel Gluttony
The Absence of Adam
Dress & Collar by Alexandra Groover
Mask by Hotel Gluttony
Alexandra Groover Spring Summer 2011 Fashion Film from Alexandra Groover on Vimeo.
ONE OF US
Text: Yolanda Muelas
Photo: Miguel Villalobos
BARCELONA / April 1, 2009
"We start with these photos by Miguel Villalobos as part of “One of us,” the fashion editorial shot for this issue. The styling is by Graham Tabor, another regular METAL contributor who shortly will appear here again when we talk about his first (and divine) collection that he presented at the Hyères Festival last year. But that will be another day. Now enjoy these beautiful pictures!"
<http://revistametal.com/2009/04/one-of-us/>
Taro Shinoda
Taro Shinoda, born in 1964 and residing in Tokyo, is a Japanese conceptual artist. The central theme in his work is “landscapes”, which is not surprising when considering that as a child Shinoda went to a special high school to learn how to create and tend to traditional Japanese gardens. Shinoda himself says that it is actually nature that interests him. He also sees himself very influenced by science.
Some examples of his work: During a three-month residency in Los Angeles in 2005, Shinoda constructed a trailer based on an Engawa, a traditional viewing platform that separates architecture (the domestic space) from the garden (the enchanted space). “Japanese gardens have platform-like balconies called Engawa, particularly in front of the dry landscape- style gardens (Karesansui). No-one is allowed to walk around in the garden, but they may practise meditation on the platform or look at the garden from it. By turning the Engawa into a trailer I can have my own garden anywhere and everywhere, as I like. I went on a trip with a Native American to look for the best gardens that are spontaneously formed by nature.”
Another “landscape” project Shinoda envisioned was Space Camp Site, which he explains as follows: “for long-term stays at a space station, there is currently no global environment brought in there except for the purpose of life support. I believe the space station requires a garden from a mental viewpoint. Based on advice from an expert, I calculated the costs of a rocket launch and garden maintenance in a space station and designed a garden with the highest feasibility using currently available techniques. I think it is difficult to stay away from the global environment even if we are in space.”
His latest work is Lunar Reflection Transmission Technique (LRTT), which was shown at the 10th Istanbul Biennale from September 8–November 4, 2007. As Shinoda tries to explain: “the LRTT is 2 DVDs running synchronously. You put file LRTT A on your right and LRTT B on your left and start them at the same time. To capture the images, I constructed a hand-made telescope and shot in Tokyo and Istanbul.” The attached drawing gives a hint of how it might look and what the artist envisioned.
Unfortunately, Shinoda does not have his own website, but further examples of his work can be found on the Internet.
<http://www.xymara.com/inmyx/index/inmyx307/atc-200703-index/act-200703-taroshinoda.htm>
Tokujin Yoshioka
Stella Crystal Star, the project created by the Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka. has been presented at Swarovski Crystal Palace for the Milan Design Week 2010, . The crystal illuminated sphere descends from the sky lighting the exhibition space with rays of light. Tokujin brings together the explorations made in his previous work with the intention of creating a ‘star’.
Venus Natural Crystal Chair will be presented at the “Second Nature“, an exhibition where Tokujin Yoshioka is giving an artistic and curatorial direction. 4 sets of 2.5-meter-wide water tanks will be prepared. Inside the glass tank, a block of fibre structure is soaked deep in water so that you can see the process of the structure growing, as if a living creature. In addition, there will be various works exhibited that stimulate people’s emotions such as Tokujin’s new installation, “Water block”(a bench presented at Design Miami 2007), and works by 7 creators from all over the world. All the works on exhibit will be based on the theme ‘second nature’, meaning they are not inspired by nature or aiming to imitate it, but instead they create new natural forms.
Wearable origami by Lianna Sheppard
by pleatfarmer on September 20, 2010
Check out the Modu_gram – a conceptual series of polyhedral garments and accessories designed by Lianna Sheppard who is inspired by mathematical models and fractional forms. View the clip below for a more detailed look at the collection.
< http://www.pleatfarm.com/2010/09/20/wearable-origami-by-lianna-sheppard/ >
"I am an imaginative designer with a flair for creative design solutions that are both unique and innovative. Currently based in London, I have been studying Fashion for the past five years and am currently doing an MA at Kingston University.
When designing I take inspiration from abstract images and forms, looking at the shapes within these to inform my garment shapes and silhouettes.
My work is mainly derived from the transition of these shapes from flat form to 3D and how they work both on and around the body. From this I create pieces that blur the lines between clothing, product and body structure design, utilizing specific design methodologies, but with a very experimental, playful approach.
I have an eye for originality and innovation, and strive to achieve this within my work, creating unusual pieces, with bold silhouettes and forms.
With a strong focus on the concept of multifunctional and interchangeable clothing which is a running theme throughout my work. Currently, I am exploring concepts of play and puzzles, focusing on the simplicity of shape and form with a minimalist edge."
liannasheppard.com
http://liannasheppard.blogspot.com/
Livraison
- Secret Identities
(http://www.livraison.se/)
ville de Hyères
Pictures from the 3rd issue of Livraison magazine (Sweden) What is more inspiring; to know it all or wonder what is hidden under the surface? If you heard a story about a young, handsome and quite marvellous man, who after a sudden fall from the top of the stairs ended up dead and was discovered to wear a mask, what would you think?
Under the mask his real, old face was revealed, covered with awfulblisters. The ladies didn’t know how to react. His death deprived them a love of their life, but also saved them from being foolish with anold man. They asked themselves why he had worn the mask but couldn’t find the answer.
In the concept magazine of Livraison, this story was the beginning of an issue about hidden faces and secrets. What do we have to hide and how do we hide it? Or is the mask a way to show the world how we see ourselves?
In collaboration with villa Noailles, Livraison selected the best ones to show in the city of Hyeres. A mix of ugly, horrifying, beautiful and weird masks. Who do you see behind it?
<http://www.villanoailles-hyeres.com/hyeres23en.php?cat_id=5#menu>
YOU WEAR IT WELL
YOU WEAR IT WELL is a unique traveling presentation of short films and videos from around the world regarding on fashion, style and beauty, and it is returning to Hyères with a brand new selection.
Curated by Diane Pernet and Dino Dinco(http://www.dinodinco.com/), YOU WEAR IT WELL seeks to unveil the best moving images from international filmmakers, artists, photographers and designers who investigate the intersection of fashion and film.
Launched in August of 2006, YOU WEAR IT WELL is the only curated, annual film presentation of its kind and is now in its 2nd year. And for the second year, YOU WEAR IT WELL is coming to the villa Noailles.
Out of the 200 submissions, only 30 films were selected by a jury comprised of Photography Curator and Documentary Film Producer Deborah Irmas, LACMA’s new Curator of Photography Charlotte Cotton,Executive Producer of HKM and Rockfight Ned Brown, Dino Dinco and Diane Pernet. Criteria for the films included a running time of 30 seconds to five minutes and a centralized theme around fashion, style, and/or beauty that expresses a unique thought which contributes to the artistry behind the fashion and film industries.
From the breezy beaches of Brazil in Osklen "Verao 07" to the calculated art direction of Dutch artist Erwin Olaf "Le Dernier Cri", viewers are to expect an insider look into the bright minds of fashion. Londoners Gareth Pugh and Nick Knight of SHOWstudio have a Fash Off: Make-Up-a-Thon while les super-chic Marlon & Marlene ripple through the YOU WEAR IT WELL presentation with five smart little films. Icon Dita Von Teese is filmed by Ali Mahdavi and Suzanne von Aichinger in their film, "Dita", and Diane Pernet and Alexandre Czetwertynski documented Eley Kishimoto. And, never to be forgotten, is Spaniard Antonio de la Rosa "LOveREAL".
More information on YOU WEAR IT WELL 2 can be found at youwearitwell.tv and ashadedview.com.
<http://www.villanoailles-hyeres.com/hyeres23en.php?cat_id=5#menu>
YOU WEAR IT WELL's Interests General
<http://www.myspace.com/ashadedviewonfashion>
YOU WEAR IT WELL 2 - TRAILER
Felipe Oliveira Baptista
For the purposes of the present exhibition, Felipe has decided to reverse the usual order of his creative process by working from garment to object. He has broken apart the pattern of two designs to mold them and hang them on display. A devoted admirer of the Villa Noailles, Felipe Oliveira Baptista suggests a fresh dialogue between the villa’s architecture and the many facets of his own imagination.
<http://www.villanoailles-hyeres.com/hyeres23en.php?cat_id=5>
Sandra Backlund
Swedish fashion designer Sandra Backlund has sent us images of her new collection, called In No Time. Backlund employs unusual materials and influences in her clothes: previous collections have featured items made of paper and hair, and her last collection was inspired by the Rorscharch inkblot psychological test. We don’t have any text about this collection yet but, as you can see, it features clothing made of clothes pegs. Backlund won the Future Design Days Award for young designers at the Future Design Days conference in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2005.
Iris van Herpen
Chaos as Structure
Fascinated by the secrets and invisibility of water, in particular the antithesis of structure and chaos, the 26-year-old designer takes this as the foundation of her collection. Imagine the transformation of water to crystal, soft and fluid as water, opposed to hard, mathematical structures as ice crystals. This process is not only translated visually, but also in the design process. Seemingly chaos to structured precision.
‘I am fascinated by the fact that there are secret lines hidden in totally transparent and liquid material. Life appears at the moment of freezing, when crystals form. Only then becomes the underlying symmetry and structure visible.’
Inspiration for the new collection was also found in an assignment in collaboration with Benthem Crouwel Architects for ARCAM, the Architectual Centre of Amsterdam. Inspired by the new ‘Stedelijk Museum’, “The Bathtub”, which Benthun Crouwel Architects designed, Iris van Herpen sculptured a dress that falls around you, like flowing water.
Innovative 3D printing
Iris van Herpen brings more opposites into her SS11 collection; handcrafted pieces, combined with new, innovative techniques. The designer collaborated with the leading New York based .MGX by Materialise and well-known architect Daniel Widrig in a prestige project of 3D printing.
LEE HYUNGKOO
Lee has cited Rodin and Giacometti as sculptural artists to whom he has responded within the development of his own work. Rodin was a breakthrough artist who sought to imbue the natural human form – warts and all – with a heroic sense of space, rejecting along the way the idealisation of the body that was previously the hallmark of Western sculpture. Rodin changed the way one could look at the human figure much in the same way that Lee’s optical helmets and body-distorting devices create alternative physical realities.
Giacometti’s own work passed through a number of critical stages – representational, cubist and surrealist – until he reached his apogee in Post-War Europe and sought to render the human form in all its existential angst. Giacometti found the inner reality of man.
Lee has spoken about the ability of these two artists to create a new sense of sculptural space. ‘Space’ is a concept that all artists working in three-dimensions must come to terms with. With this new body of work Lee has gone from the virtual space defined by his Objectuals series and has made the virtual a reality.
< www.hyungkoolee.net >
Úna Burke’s Medical Armor
prosthetics-inspired, insectlike body armor created by recent University of the Arts London graduate Úna Burke, blogged everywhere and recently rediscovered by Haute Macabre. On her site, Burke explains the rationale behind these creations: “This is a conceptual collection of wearable art pieces, depicting a series of eight human gestures associated with the cause, the physical and psychological effect and the healing stages of human trauma…in my research I have referred to the work of artists, photographers and designers such as Hans Bellmer, Anthony Gormley, Alexander McQueen, Erwin Olaf, as well as looking at the casts of the victims of Pompeii. The entire collection made from undyed vegetable tanned leather which is reminiscent of caucasian flesh."
Burke’s pieces are reminiscent of fellow Londoner Paddy Hartley’s Project Facade in their sensual combination of sculpture and fashion to represent body trauma and the trappings of recovery.
< coilhouse.net >
The face corset
Paddy Hartley has created face corsets that alter the shape of the wearer's face. Through the corsets, the artist examines perceptions of beauty and alternative means of achieving the wearer's ideals of perfection.
The corsets have been developed with Ian Thompson from the tissue-engineering group at Imperial College London, whose research involves making and refining bioactive glass implants to reconstruct faces damaged by accidents or surgery. Bioactive glass has a very similar composition to bone, and its surface opens within hours of implantation, and allows tissue to grow into it.
Paddy, Ian and Andrew Bamji, an expert on the historical origins of facial reconstruction, will discuss during the Rearranging Face evening, which takes place on October 5 and marks the launch of a series of events at the Dana Centre (London) dedicated to exploring the future of face research. Attendants will be able to try on the face corsets, handle the bio-implants, watch footage of them in the making.
UPDATE: BBC has wild pics of people with the face corset on!
< we-make-money-not-art.com >
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