Tuesday, 8 February 2011

Alchemia Mysteria

What a perfect shoot to compliment our [d]evolution objective. This particular campaign by British troupe The Non (headed by Tony Spackman, ex-designer for Nike) projects a resolutely surreal aesthetic, which reminds me of a cross between cult spaghetti-western El Topo and the Romanticised Harlequin, made famous by 19th century Italian opera. This particular SS11 collection, called Alchemia Mysteria, draws on ancient ideals of the ‘material and monistic philosophy’ which believes nature and material are one. Look at the Romantic lace, Androgynous styling and Futuristic silhouettes; a beautifully crafted and elegantly styled photoshoot.





To view the whole collection, visit http://www.the-non.com/


AGB

Thursday, 27 January 2011

Yuima Nakazato

Moving on from his graduate collection 'Wooden Dimension' and onto using metal, Tokyo fashion designer Yuima Nakazato's new collection for S/S '11 'New Gender' features origami-like structural pieces and strongly draped dresses of contrasting material, all androgynous. He has already created designs for Lady Gaga and Fergie!





Taryn Kalish

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

The Beautiful Boy

It seems that the days when women were women and men were men are definitely going out of fashion, if the industries' new muse is anything to go by. At nineteen, Serbian-born Andrej Pejic is already the new face of Jean Paul Gautier and Marc Jacobs. Currently ranked number sixteen in the top fifty male models by models.com, Pejic has walked for both womens and menswear. With a noticeable decline in female curves since the nineties, and a definite lack of body hair in their male counterparts, could this be the future of modelling?





Storm Woodroffe

JAPAN



Givenchy's collection by Italian designer Riccardo Tisci consisted of ten dresses inspired by the traditional Japanese art of butoh.

Tuesday, 25 January 2011

ADAM FUSS


Adam Fuss is one of the artists featured in the recent Shadow Catchers exhibition at the V & A. Fuss uses the process of capturing light and shadow on photographic paper to create metaphoric images of the universal themes of life and death.

TRIBAL




British Vogue 2009, Photographed by Mario Testino