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EKB

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

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

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.

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

We saw it coming before everyone else.....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jan/23/androgyny-tomboy-transgender-models

http://www.thelovemagazine.co.uk

This year androgyny is one of the four main themes of ECFS 2011. Have a look at these links (LOVE magazine - the androgyny issue) which illustrate how much the transgender style is very much incorporated into fashion today.

Cigarette Ash Landscape by Yang Yong Liang

Just discovered an incredible installation by the Chinese artist Yang Yong Liang. Black and white photographs were collaged together to create the image of an enormous cigarette dropping three-dimensional ash into a field of flowers!












His website here

Rubina Azizi

Formichetti for Mugler Menswear 2011/2012

 Nicola Fromichetti, known as Lady Gagas stylist, creative director of Dazed & Confused magazine, fashion director at Vogue Hommes Japan and Uniqlo, has been appointed as the creative director at Thierry Mugler, changing the name of the house to just Mugler and presenting the houses first menswear collection yesterday in Paris. This is a link to the fashion video using snippets of the show amongst other material. Check it out, it is, in my oppinion, pretty fantastic. What else is to be expected, eh?

http://www.thierrymugler.com/uk/en/

David Oberlaender