Junya Watanabe Fall 2011

 

  

Junya Watanabe a/w 08/09

Picture by Penny Martin, which reminds me of...:



for the first pictures form Paris, make sure to stay updated with Pennys mobilecamera-blog on showstudio this week

J'taime

Oh I've been attending dog-shows and slept in containers (all true, documentation from our extreme dog-show-turned-hobo-weekend is being edited right now...), but here we go, Paris Fashion Week has started and I haven't figured out what too say about New York, London and Milan yet (and let's not forget about Oslo, lol...)

I like when my brain struggles a little bit, and I've just felt that what I've seen the last month is all stuff I've seen before and thought "we" where done with (like the Jil Sander-collection, where those grey jackets with cocoon-necks looks "outdated" already)

But Paris is always the most exciting week...the most spectacular, decadent and conceptual...

skatebård podcast!!!

We love skatebård, and he just made an podcast/mix/radioshow for Sid Loves Turbo( alllllo allo MNTRL!!!! ;)).

Enjoy som really nice tracks from OUT AND ABOUT, and best of all is his introducions to the songs!

RIGHTCLICK AND SAVE!!!!

or go to sid loves turbo

fashion is for fashion-people

Raf Simons have a good excuse for smiling

It seems like a year ago or so people thought they would loose their mind cuz omg how exciting isn't menswear gonna turn out, but then people got a little bit tierd of Cassette Playa and all those slogans, neons and cheap mondays, and well...somewhere I lost my interest too and stared wearing just grey and envy the Balenciaga-girl. Typical enough, for fall 08/09 I end up finding coats with marble-prints most exciting...and I guess it's not that weird, after all: Raf Simons began the whole now-menswear-is-going-to-take-more-chances-blablabla-revolution...(and that, without making an asymetrical mess, with diagonal zippers, skirts and some animal-horns)

Jil Sander fall 08/09

Raf Simons used delicate marble prints on this collection, but for his own mainline the inspiration was rather more colorful:

Mark Rothko? Why not, I guess it's a natural reaction after all those pixels...remember the handpainted dressed Dolce & Gabbana did? I think we might have a art-school prom king and queen here:

Anyway, I'm not sure about these ones, but it's gonna take months before they hits stores, so there's time to get used too them

Hair and make-up?

Hitlerjugend-cut and just color hair-roots, like here, from the Dries Van Noten-show

Yves Saint Laurent fall 08/09

As for the presentations, it looks like films instead of a ordinary catwalk-presentation is not just a trend...it started of with Yves Saint Laurent and a video directed by London based Colonel Blimp. Stefano Pilati did a video with Nick Knight for showstudio last year, 24HRS. (don't forget Knights collaboration with Hussein Chalayan, Readings.) 

And as a climax, it ended with Bernhard Willhelm

Check out the project-blog for this video on showstudio, as it's interesting too see the process before the final outcome, especially when it's a Knight/Willhelm-collaboration with balletdancers, a discofloor and a concrete-mixer...the working title? MEN IN TIGHTS

on webstores, "readings" and such...

Hussein Chalayan says he did a video for the spring 08-collection “Readings” cause it makes it accessible for a much bigger audience via the Internet (even though it looks like websites such as hintmag.com and style.com refuses to report on it).
Actually, Nick Knight replied on my theory that Hussein does this too save money after the last two spectacular shows:

In reply to Tor Erik:

"I know this was a factor ,but as he told me at the time he wanted to find a new way of showing his collection and he was excited by the ability to show his clothes in front of a much larger audience."


Showstudio.com have provided lots of alternative ways to interact with clothes using an impressive range of contributors, the website-forum and blog and it’s visitors. Check out “the sounds of clothes”-projects; watch the movies and notice how you actually “feel” the clothes when you hear the sound! Headphones are recommended!

I hope web stores take notes. A video (with sound!) of each garment provides a much more tactile impression of the movement, weight and textures. And when apple will develop touchscreen as standard on everything, we’ll maybe be able to “touch” the buttons and zippers to check out the inside and so on…

speaking of Balenciaga...

I just saw some videoclips from the collection and it made so much sence suddenly...Nicholas Ghesquiére is maybe the only designer I can think of right now (together with Margiela and Chalayan) that combines prints, construction and silhouettes in a way I that really makes me , well, think
And it's not "ah - cool" or "no, ewww"...It's actually "hm, interesting", and that's the reason one million blogs will continue to discuss these clothes. Everything else is so predictable

my so far favourite...

we all know he defined avant-garde design as we know it today
and he still does


it's techno-goth-babe
it's star trek
if you take some pieces out of their context it's wearable on your way to the nearest grosery store (i'm drunk writing this)
I guess you can remove those shoulderpads, but come on. They look fab. That unicornprint-outfit...mmm...

but what I find most important....it feels visionary, and I'm a sucker for that

(it's Martin Margiela by the way)

doing our best

it's really hard to report from the Paris fashion week when you actually aren't there...there is style.com (who we all rip pictures from here on 2depressed) reporting every single collection, with backstage- and frontrowphotos, and even some video-reports. Then there is showstudio.com, represented by Penny Martin, where it's being reported live with mobilecameras, this year with a little help from hipster-idols Henry Holland and Agyness Deyn! (cyberpuppy have to colour her hair now...)
And then there's hintmag.com where you get funny backstagephotos viewed as a slideshow with music to join

so what more can we offer? nothing more than our personal favourites and views...and bad english, ofcourse


Agyness reporting backstage at the Viktor&Rolf-show, for showstudio.com



photo from Bernhard Willhelms last collection, taken from hintmag.com

Hussein Chalayan does it again!

He always put on the most suprising shows, and speaking of the Jetsons, if somebody truly belive in taking futuristic fashion a step futher, Hussein Chalayan is the man. Last year he created a indoor tornado on the Paris catwalk, he have turned a coffetable into a dress, made clothes in paper and aluminium. The last two seasons he've used robot-technology, with a videoscreen-dress last year. This season the collection is inspired by celebrity-workshipping. It's presented as video made in collaboration with Nick Knight, showstudio.com and Antony (from & The Johnsons). He's beyond fashion and trends, seriously. Come on, as Björk once said in a interview:

"He raises daily life to a level of something magical, he was born with these powers and it is a question of whether 50,000 business people are willing to go there with him"

(let's hope she'll use that laser-dress on a award-cermony soon)


and by the way, why doesen't people talk more about the simple, but great hats he have done lately?