Trendletter
March 2009 - I: Trends developed from Continuity
March 2009 - II: Cultural Heritage
March 2009 - III: Fashion for Sun, Sea & Sport
April 2009 - I: Political Fashion
April 2009 - II: The Power of Fashion for Identity & Status
April 2009 - III: Opinion about men, style, internet...
May 2009 - I: Designing the media, Zeitgeist of music
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Post Punk Liverpool by Kevin Cummins On the 4th day of the Liverpool
SoundCity music festival where over 400 bands from 15 countries will present
new music, the photo exhibition "The Crucial 3-0" about the city's
most influential bands curated by British photographer Kevin Cummins starts
in London…
‘Zeitgeist’
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FASHIONOFFICE INSIGHT by publisher Karin Sawetz
Learning
machines and our role of designing them is the main theme of this month's
Fashionoffice Insight. You are the architect! It's the first time in history that
the masses are structuring a media by using a common 'brain'. This 'brain'
with its 'thinking memory'…
Designing the media
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Dsquared2 SS09
The twin brothers Dean
and Dan Caten present the debut eyewear collection as a homage to the
70’s hip-hop culture, "a decade
which brought strong contradictions and big historical change: a melting pot
of years merging the movements of the 60’s, while pushing the..."
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Barney's
New York
The auction
pieces from eight designers - Versace, Stella McCartney, Derek Lam, Alexander
Wang, Bottega Veneta, Rodarte, Rogan and Ann Demeulemeester - are made of
recycled denim. The auction started on 30 April 2009 at eBay.
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Tatsuya Matsui
…has
designed robots for the shop windows of Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, the MOMA...
His 'roboquin' is special: it learns from the behaviour of the visitors. The
roboquin uses visual data recognition to figure out which poses make people
want to buy its clothes...
Designing the media
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samsāra SS09
The vegan label Matt
& Nat announced the brand new launched samsāra collection with a
global charity. Through a voting on the samsāra website users can choose
which initiative (human rights, animal welfare, environment…) will get
one Dollar from each…
Designing the media
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Kymare SS09
Designer Kim Wormgoor
expresses with the Kymare SS09 swimwear the lightness and freedom of
'Butterflies & Birds'; the optical effect of the fabric used for the
'Blush Butterfly' line evokes the impression of a living cocoon - like the
butterfly is just… |
Your Happy
End
The music by 'Your Happy
End' can be described as fresh melodious with melancholic tones; the two
musicians are playing their folk guitars with experimental minds and make
space for electronic beats. Their first EP came out in May 2009… |
Zoe
Kendall SS09
The unisex art-jewellery
designer invites to a 'Voyage To The ‘Dead Deep’, if you
dare…'. In cooperation with illustrator Ted Pearce and the edgy store
Kabiri, Zoe is working on an alternative vision for the future of jewellery,
art and our globe…
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Accessories
and Artefacts: Women's Lives in Paris 1940–1944 The Mémorial-Musée
exhibits fashion from the years of occupation. During wartimes the
restrictions turned fashion designers and women into experts in the art and craft
of recycling.... |
ep_anoui FW9/10
Austrian designer Eva
Poleschinski about her FW9/10 inspiration: "Woman was challenged to the last years, decades by the
increased linking of family-job-everyday work to be also in the clothes
'multitasking'; … new challenges, also for fashion …."
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Louise
Dahl-Wolfe
The National Museum of
Women in the Arts in Washington exhibits the work of the American
photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe who has influenced with her style the fashion
magazine Harper's Bazaar from 1936 to 1958…
Designing the media
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Clever
fastening
The Viennese initiative against eating
disorders 'S-O-ESS' with the motto "No body is perfect" works
together with the fashion world against unrealistic beauty ideals…
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Miss
Kittin & The Hacker
The
revival of 80ies electronic/experimental music is expressed by robots in
music videos, such as in the video '1982' by Miss Kittin & The Hacker…
‘Zeitgeist’
of music
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Rosi Cobra The trend for eating in fresh nature
has caused a new culture for 'picnic'. The picnic happens often on occasion
of sportive activities. Rosi Cobra, what are the must haves…? |
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