The fashion observer

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> Beautiful!! Diane Pernet´s 1 minute Fashion Film Festival ( Light Series) in colaboration with Vogue Italy at Palazzo Morando ( Milan) til 30th june.

You can find complete info here and here. Wonderful projects that worth a look!!

Photos courtesy noovo editions

> Lost and found ” a collection dedicated to pure ideas based on the diminishing craftsmanship and artisanal nature that has been lost or replaced by hyper industrialization and the obsessive desire for constant change. In an attempt to preserve and revive old techniques and materials, the collection evolves from research and creative experimentation aspiring to define a more complex sense of luxury…(noovoeditions)

> Paula Immich. Berlín

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