12 Jul 2011

Digitalized by Alba Prat

Tron-inspired, polygonal textured new work from Berlin based fashion designer, Alba Prat. Tron, a cult film from 1982, takes place in two parallel universes: the real and the virtual. Through a laser that converts real people into pixels, the world of Tron appears like a strange foreign world without sun, where androids live surrounded by 3D landscapes.

The film has a strong retro character given by the era of production, which coexists with a high-tech nature. Both aspects are the basis of my collection. It consists in androgyn, straight silhouettes out of wool, leather, cotton and lack. Through different techniques I have created cube patterns on the surface of some of the materials. Giving the designs a technical yet minimalist character.

Lasercut Neoprene Collection

The aquatic world is being transformed into a grey and contaminated place without life as a result of the industrialization era. Thousands tons of plastic end in the ocean every year. As plastic hardly disintegrates, a synthetic environment is slowly coming over the underwater creatures, who in order to survive must adapt or will die.
The intersection between nature and this synthetic world is the basis of my collection. The outfits are made entirely of laser cut neoprene, a material that becomes our second skin and protects us when we are in the deep waters of the ocean.

PARIS, July 7, 2011 Roberto Cavalli

Lovely Prints

NATACHA TALAY S/S 2011

Very graphic and minimalist, the young half Italian, half Turkish fashion designerNatacha Talay is definitely one to watch. Just launching her second womenswear collection for Spring/Summer 2011, the sensual androgynous looks are inspired by her love of art, nature, the Orient and black and white movies.

Niky Roehreke Mixed-Media Illustrations

Paper Sculptures made from tax returns and rejection letters

9 Jul 2011

Miu Miu Spring/Summer 2011

It was a heady mix of glamour with long sleeved satin dresses - belted in tiny leather threads of neon - recalling early Sixties demure shapes, Seventies glam rock referenced by stiff silver and gold jackets embroidered with comic book stars and day-glo details that shone straight out of the Eighties. But the brilliance of Miuccia's work is that none of these are literal references - they're made so modern and new that they're barely references at all and everything is as it never has been before.

Dresses came in blocks of red, black and silver - or one entirely of electric blue that was simply gorgeous - and came straight to below the knee or featured pleats below the waist. They were followed by kilts of metallic gold and silver leather or day-glo yellow that were surely the brightest pieces we've seen.

There was a dark message in the presentation, the venue entirely blacked out unless the girls were walking by - the irregular red, white and black boarded catwalk reflecting the colour blocks of the dresses - one black and white silk one had a serpent sliding up it, while metallic leather jackets - that were a hybrid of Elvis Presley in Vegas with grown-up bolero - and square tunic tops had hyper real flowers embroidered across them.