Alexander McQueen S/S '99

Few designers can execute fashion as art and fashion as fashion at the same time as well as Alexander McQueen. It was a tragic loss for the fashion world when McQueen made his departure. Fashion lost its star performer. Some designers have tried and failed to make their shows as much of an experience as McQueen's. Hussein Chalayan's older shows are among the successful few.

For McQueen's Spring/Summer 1999 runway show, two mechanical robots were stationed around legendary model, Shalom Harlow on a spinning wooden platform. A sense of suspense was built up by the way the robots pensively moved, as if they were contemplating what they should do. When a decision is reached, the way the model reacts is up to our own interpretation. The story is given to us and we are the creators of what is actually happening. It takes a true artist to involve his or her viewer without literally interacting with them. A bond was born between anyone who attended Mcqueen's S/S '99 show, and anyone who ever watches this video.

So Light is Her Footfall

With all the crazy shoes designers have the ability to design with the new given technology, spanning from McQueen' alien-like hunched platforms (S/S 2010), the Lego palace Balenciaga shoes (A/W 2007), it's pretty amazing that no designer has yet to tackle the idea of creating some kind of shoe embodying a cat. The closest thing to this idea would perhaps be Topshop's kitty flat. But I'd like to see something even closer to the resemblance of an actual cat. Maybe something like the shoes/feet in Romanian artist Victor Braunser's Mitsi (1939).

DeviantArt

I finally decided to add some art to my DeviantArt account after having it for a year and not uploading anything. So, to anyone who may be interested or to anyone else who has an account, here's my link:

http://toujours-en-vogue.deviantart.com/

Carsten Höller's Slides; "voluptuous panic upon an otherwise lucid mind"

Remember the sickly yellow colored macaroni playground slide from your childhood? The slide that was superior to all others- predominant in the prototypical idea of what a kid wants. Carsten Höller, a Belgian artist has recreated this infamous slide and regenerated the concept of a slide to question human behavior, perception and logic. His slides complexly offer art pertaining to three different kinds of senses. The eye; because of the beautiful sculpture-esque view of the slide, touch; for the literal experience of gliding down the often three stories of slide, and the mind; pertaining to the experience of self exploration. His slides, which have been installed in at least six various galleries and venues, are also used as Miuccia Prada's exit out of her main office.






Miuccia Prada's slide shown above ^

More repetition

Linoleum block printing; my new found love.

Yayoi Kusama

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's (born 1929) art is composed of paintings, collages, soft sculptures, performance art and environmental installations. She was even involved in fashion, but the information is hard to find. Repetition, pattern, and accumulation comprise obsession and result in the overall effect of Kusama's extravagant conceptual art.

The polka-dot was reborn under her name, and flourished to be a theoretic object of meaning.

"A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colourful, senseless and unknowing. Polka-dots can't stay alone; like the communicative life of people, two or three polka-dots become movement... Polka-dots are a way to infinity."

~ Yayoi Kusama

POP art; LE PUPPY!

I've never seen anything quite like the beautifully lacquered sculptures of Jeff Koons. One usually wouldn't take a second glance at something so childish and inane as a balloon dog - but Koons reinvents the banal and insipid object into some sort of wicked and majestic eye-popping treat.

Lorenzo Nanni

All with fabrics- silk, tulle, and embroidery, Lorenzo Nanni captures and recreates forms that appeal to the those who indulge in the more grotesque side of things. Organic matter inspires these beautifully sinister pieces. It's a relatively new approach to art. When asked the simple question of "Why?", Nanni replied "I wanted to create an extra dimension and bring the designs to life." It's fabric play spun by a god who dwells in the glorious realm of textiles.










ImgSource: Dazed

Horse Wave

Jordan Askill, ex-Ksubi designer and current jewelery designer now takes on sculpture. From the Maker of chains dangling translucent boy heads, and treacherous roses perched on ring bands, the art is guaranteed to be something "new". Wiiild horses...

Define Intensity

Black, white, gray. Light, perception, energy. Balance, proportion, emphasis: Harmony. The epitome of a composition. How is a single drop of water laden with the idea of catharsis? Adam Fuss releases wanton ardor in the form of photography. Browsing the Givenchy Fall 2009 collection is what made me think of his work.











Givenchy///

Goat hair, tulle, and a modern sense of vintage decadence come together for a grand cocktail party. Claps for the grandeur of fabrics.