The fashion observer

Modern, gothic and very futuristic. It worths a visit the web of this emerging nordic brand!!. You can click  here to see the complete colection and here for further info about the brand.

> Gilles et Dada, esta pareja de diseñadores finlandeses extrae su ideario del movimiento dadá ( uno de mis preferidos):

“Gilles et dada is a state of mind….applies to everything and yet it is nothing. It is the point where the yes and no and like everything in life, Gilles et Dada is useless. Without pretention, as life should be…and yet still have dreams..”.

Fotografías de modelos distorsionadas, con una cuidada iluminación y puesta en escena, sirven para ilustrar una bonita colección ” Walking through life” .

Está claro que debemos mirar al norte para descubrir nuevos talentos. En su página web tenéis toda su colección.

2009 A/W Collection. Photo courtesy Fashion156

> Anrealage is the brand under designer Kunihiko Morinaga, born in 1980 in Tokyo.  Inspired by the concept ‘God is in the Details’, Andrealage  re-examine ordinary lives through an excessive focus.

A complete overview of Anrealage colections/ installations here

Una Burke

Noemie Goudal

Daniela Droz

> ITS , International Talent Support is a creative platform developed by EVE in collaboration with Diesel, YKK and MINI to give visibility, voice and support to young talent worldwide, and has reached its eight edition. The aim is to provide financial opportunities, work placements and have their work shown to a jury of  induistry experts.

ITS is comprised of 3 areas: Fashion, Accessories and Photography. ITS is a state of mind, a lifestyle and a network that comes together during a 2 day event, 10-11 July 2009, that takes place in Trieste, Italy. Each and every selected finalist will become part of their online database of talent, which is accessible to anyone looking for talent coming from all over the globe, free of charge.

Complete information about ITS  here

Milan´s White Homme event. Photo courtesy Dazed Digital

> ” The next edition of the White Homme, Milan’s White Show event dedicated to menswear, promises to be particularly rich. Starting on the 21st June, the event will present many new and exciting brands and designers, while focusing the attention on a few special performances, presentations and collaborations.
Finnish duo Laitinen will present through an intimate event a sophisticated collection entirely dedicated to men; Marithé + François Girbaud will be back to showcase their new menswear collection; Italian company Collection Privée will launch a project with seminal brand K-Way, based on reinventing the iconic jacket for all outdoor purposes; the students of Milan’s Nuova Accademia delle Belle Arti (NABA) will decorate over the three days of the fashion event the walls of the space dedicated to Italian designer Maurizio Miri and Italian architect and designer Vincenzo De Cotiis will open a special installation that analyses the shapes and silhouettes of the sleeves in men’s jackets, tracing in this way a link between the world of fashion and architecture “.

 White Homme is at Superstudio Più, via Tortona 27, Milan, Italy, from 21st to 23rd June.

Full article and interview to Max Bizzi, Founder of Milan Showroom White here

> BLACK Comme des Garcons will be available as limited editions for 2 weeks at selected distribution worldwide such as : Barneys (NYC) , Colette ( Paris ), Dover Street Market ( London) ,Isetan Dept Store ( Tokio), I.T.Causeway Bay and Kowloon ( Hong Kong), Boon the Shop ( Seoul) , among others.

Alexandra Verschueren collection. Photos courtesy Diane Pernet

> Just found out this pictures form Diane Pernet  blog highlighting the creativity of Alexandra Werschueren, as a preview for upcoming Antwerp collections. This new designer, from prestigious  Antwerp academy has constructed the collection with paper as a  major tool.

Alexandra´s work resembles me of Kurl Schwitters and his geometrical interior design for Merzbau.

Kurl Schwitters. Merzbau interior design.

Alexandra Werschueren, beautiful & conceptual. Fashion beyond clothes, Fashion Art.

I hear they eay cigarretes brand

 > I hear they eat cigarretes  launch an online store.  Jump for it here

30 days left vintage concept store

> Arnhem biennale  offers during this month all kind of new initiatives around Fashion. There´s also the possibility to shop in a new temporary vintage concept store called 30 days left  that offers a selection of high-end vintage labels.

You can visit their blog and  get  a feeling of their unique pieces.

http://www.arnhem.platform13.com/

> “ Todas las brújulas, satélites, GP´S y demás sistemas de navegación apuntan en una dirección. El mundo del diseño y la moda emergente tiene una cita en Cádiz, en SOUTH 36.32N, la gran pasarela de creación independiente que reúne en Andalucía a los nombres fundamentales e incipientes del diseño y sus universos paralelos. Por segundo año consecutivo, la ciudad de la luz acoge en el Baluarte de la Candelaria los días 3, 4, 5 y 6 de junio la que será una de las convocatorias más importantes del año junto al showroom Mivestidoazul, escaparate de más de veinte marcas y creadores que en 2009 cumple su cuarta edición.

En 2009 SOUTH 36.32N se refuerza para acoger la visita de nombres internacionales de la creación independiente con Christian Wijnants a la cabeza. Nombres fundamentales como Ostwald Helganson, Peter Hornstein o Andrea Cammarosano que compartirán el cartel de una cita avalada por la presencia de uno de los diseñadores más importantes de la moda española actual, José Castro. “

Enmarcando. Instalación de Txell Miras

> Para los que ya saben que la moda no son sólo prendas que vestir. SOUTH 36.32N continúa apostando por un nutrido programa de actividades paralelas que se suman a las conferencias y a las marcas de Mivestidoazul. La instalación Enmarcando/Framing de la diseñadora catalana Txell Miras, las sesiones a cargo de prestigiosos djs locales, las degustaciones de la Escuela de Hostelería Fernando Quiñones de la Diputación de Cádiz o las propuestas de diseño industrial de Juan Santos compartirán aledaños con la exposición del Proyecto Simbiosis evolutive T-shirt (MOVEX) en el Centro Cultural Reina Sofía.

Más información sobre este evento de moda emergente aquí

5 Preview ( Rome). Photo courtesy Dazed digital

Jiwon Jahng ( London) . Photo courtesy of Dazed digital

>  NOT JUST A LABEL  , a platform that provides the opportunity for discovering new emerging wordwide designers  has just completed the project with the launch of  THE SHOP. An online shop that offers  new designers and unique garments. An idea that sets a revolutionary way of anticipating new retail ideas.

“Having done extensive market research, we’re convinced that today’s consumer is on the hunt for unique and one-off designer garments” says NJAL’s founder Stefan Siegel. “Whilst some designs are generally not considered commercially viable, we believe that it’s the “unique” pieces that prove your true design aesthetic and talent. We aim to offer these one-offs via a new concept in online shopping: THE SHOP.”

“THE SHOP  Teaming up with Vienna’s Unit F in June, THE SHOP gives each month’s curatorial duties to a different fashion insider. This month’s selection was picked by Robin Schulie, head buyer for Paris’s Maria Luisa store, and the July’s stock will be sifted through by fashion blogger Diane Pernet. A unique chance to purchase rare, off-the-wall pieces, June’s offer includes established names such as Tomosz Donocik and Ute Ploier, as well as clothing and jewellery from newcomers Serguei Povaguin, Rene Gurskov, Neurotica, Kisa and recent CSM grad Pia Stanchina”. ( Full article at Dazed digital)

THE SHOP will launch on the 28th day in May together with the 9 festival for fashion & photography in Vienna, initiated and organized by Unit F büro für mode.

> Changing room CALOR 2009 . A project that emerges between the desire to create a space of dialogue between fashion- curious, professionals and customers and give voice to new emerging  designers such as Cometrigo, Peseta, Gaspar Yurkievich, BaronBaronne, Lua, among others

During 1 day, 30 rooms of  the Chic & Basic´s hotel in Barcelona will be the scenario to discover  and buy unique fashion clothes and accesories.

Changing Room event will be held on june 6th at Hotel Chic & Basic ( Princesa 50 ) Barcelona

More information about changing room  here

> The WWXV Shop result of a perfect partnership between Vice, a canadian street-culture magazine with Wood Wood, a danish hipster-street wear label that opens a pop up concept store and gallery in Vienna with the help of  Berlin based Pool Gallery.

” The WWXV Shop makes designers such as Jeremy Scott, Eastpak, DRKSHDW by Rick Owens, Carin Wester, Happy Socks, Henrik Vibskov and Peter Jensen available to the Austrian market for the first time.”

This joint venture seems a perfect marriage for both companies that share the ” subculture mentality”  and will give them not only tremendous awareness for themselves but also umprecedent offer of new designers in Vienna.

WWSXV  is located at: Gumpendorfer Straße 23, 1060 Vienna Austria

More information about this article at JC Report

> Dazed digital include a complete article and pictures about the opening of  Magazine Alive, a concept pop up store by Rei Kawakubo ( Comme des Garcons)  in collaboration with Vogue Nippon, coinciding with the magazine 10th anniversary based on ” manga” event, which has been the theme of the products in-store. Takashi Murakami has created a special installation for the store, and  Hedi Slimane, Marc Jacobs and Donatella Versace have all been drawn into manga incarnations on t-shirts. Amongst the superbrands Chanel, Dior, Fendi, Loewe, Celine, Lanvin, Martin Margiela, Pierre Hardy, Chloe, Marni sits Turkish-born, New York-based designer Asli Filinta, whose ‘Kisses Can Fly’ collection caught the eye of Vogue Nippon.”

Vogue Nippon x Comme des Garcons Magazine Alive at 5-12-3 Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo until November 2009 with the selection of stock changing each month to coincide with each new issue. 

Full article of Magazine Alive pop up store at Dazed digital.

Arnem Mode Bienale

 > Every two years the Arnhem Mode Biënnale presents the state of affairs in fashion design at an international level. In the space of four years the fashion biennale has evolved into a major trend-setting event with a robustly international orientation.  Arnhem Mode Biënnale is an initiative of the City of Arnhem and ArtEZ Institute of the Arts .

Participants of the event include most of  international trend-setting designers such as Boudicca, Rick Owens, Maison Martin Margiela, Come des Garcons, Kei kagami together with emerging new talents such as Andrea Ayala, Iris van Herpen and a large list of promising new designers.

Arhem Mode Biennale presents ” Form” , “which is currently setting the tone in fashion. During the biennale dozens of fashion designers demonstrate that there is more than one way of attaining exceptional forms. The starting point for Jil Sander’s Summer 2008 collection was geometric forms, such as the triangle, circle and rectangle. Moulage (creating patterns in three-dimensional space) is the basis for the feminine gowns by Lanvin. Thom Browne designs men’s fashion inspired by his admiration for existing forms. These and other interpretations of the aspect of SHAPE will be explored in the guise of clothing, images, texts and historical references”.

Afhem Mode Biënnale ( 6 june-6 july) . Complete information about participants and events at Arhem Mode Biënnale web.

Yoshiguro Yamagata´s photo courtesy

> Yoshikazu Yamagata is a japanese designer who studied fashion design at Saint Martins School in London, and returned back to Japan. He created the brand Writtenafterwards which is a fashion label for ladys’ real clothing, that provides communication of an education, society, culture and environment into fashion.

He has been commited to different projects that express new kind of fashion freely, and now is using his new approach for teaching fashion in Japan. ( You can read more about this project at Diane´s Pernet  blog).  

Yoshikazu Yamagata Earthbackpack. Photo courtesy Diane Pernet

  He has a particular and vision about fashion that I´ve extracted from an early interview to the designer that I´ve considered could be a guideline for new designers in search of fashion as self-expression : 

” I would like to work in a different style from existing designers’ works. I guess it comes down to self-expression.  I think due to the quick development of internet technologies, the way of expressing oneself will change and differ. Does it mean people will not express themselves throughout clothings in the near future? …. New designers will easily get snapped off by the huge companies, and after two weeks of the newest fashion show, the copies will be in the high street shops everywhere. Even in such situation, I don’t want to give up attracting people through fashion and expressing fashion in different ways. We might need to change the system of fashion from top to bottom though… Maybe we will find some possibilities for the future through the changes in society, such as the intimacy between customers and designers through use of the internet... From clothing, space, system to picture books… I would like to realize many possibilities to seek new platforms of fashion”.  ( Complete interview to Yoshikazu Yamagata here ).

Yoshikazu Yamagata is presenting his new collection next week at Arhemmodebiennale.

For a complete overview of Yoshikazu Yamagata you can visit his web.