Inspiration comes in many forms///

Austrian Artist Egon Schiele's work is noted for its brilliant intensity. The twisted body shapes and the expressive lines that characterize Schiele's paintings and drawings mark the artist as an early expressionist, but he is also strongly connected to the art nouveau movement. He was born in the year of 1890 and died on 31 October 1918, at the age of only 28. I find it interesting how modern some of his work looks.









I don't know where this picture can from, but it's been in my files for a while. I don't know what kind of tree this is, or if it's even a real tree. But I have decided that I want to plant a thousand of them surrounding my house. It would be incredible.




I never really liked earrings until I saw Christian Lacroix's s/s 2009 Couture collection. Now, I'm on the lookout for any humongous earrings I can find.

MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA ARTISANAL 09

Honestly, who cares about the Super Bowl when the best fashion week of the year (couture week) just happened? Hahaha...

I love this funky video showcasing Margiela's latest. It's almost scary.

More Couture///

I thought the Chanel show was okay. The best part were the headdresses of paper roses, camellias, leaf fronds, and feathers that adorned each model. Hairstylist Katsuya Kamo created the headdresses for the show. It only took him and six or seven helpers, three weeks, and two packets of 11 x 17 office paper. Isn't that amazing?

It's the details I love the most! Dior:

During this couture week in Paris, there are currently two questions going around; "What are your inspirations?" and, "And what do you think about the recession?"
For the first answer Mr. Galliano says his inspirations are "Flemish painters and Monsieur Dior,"
And, what does he think about the recession? "There's a credit crunch, not a creative crunch. Of course, everyone is being more careful with their discretionary purchases. I am. But it's our job to make people dream, and to provide the value in quality, cut, and imagination." Well said.

The Dior Couture collection was a beautiful blend of Van Dyck, Vermeer, and Galliano himself.












The inspiration, below. Van dyck and Vermeer:

It's that time again;

COUTURE WEEK BEGINS!

Stéphane Rolland:

The ever amazing, Dior:

I really don't know why the collections are not available on style.com or vogue.fr. Shouldn't they be?

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