Fashion News

H and M and Zara are dropping online stores (finally) and today is the day for Zara and I believe H and M is dropping sometime later on this month.

These stores are the ones I would always hit when I lived in Southampton and received my student loan. Zara is so classically beautiful with great cuts and fabrics and H and M is a higher end Primark (Is it okay to say that?) with some cute prints and would always buy their accessories.

I'm quite keen on these Autumn/Winter '10 trends, alot of use of charcoal grey, olive and military green, grey, petrol blue and tobacco brown. Hints of colour came in the form of golden honey, nude,baby pink and splashes of ruby red.

My Pick of Zara items.

(L-R) DRESS WITH CUTS £39.99, FLOWER-PATTERNED KNITTED TUBE DRESS £25.99, SHORT-SLEEVE PONTE DI ROMA KNIT DRESS £39.99.

H and M have also been confirmed for launching a collection with Lanvin which will go on sale on 23rd November in 200 stores worldwide.
Here's a bit of background on Lanvin and what we can more than likely expect.

"France's oldest couture house was born in 1889 when 22 year old designer Jeanne Lanvin opened a boutique on Paris' prestigious rue du Faubourg Saint Honoré. In 1909, an induction into the country's Syndicat de la Couture confirmed its place as a highly respected fashion house. Since 2001, under Israeli designer Alber Elbaz's creative direction, the much desired Lanvin has been revitalized, it is now the epitome of elegance and the accessories reflect this perfectly. This season, get breathtakingly beautiful bridal gowns, intricately-crafted footwear, soft leather bags and exquisite jewelry."



I'm excited!

Sam Bayliss-Ibram

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Amy Dover

She is Frank

Incredible work from 'She is Frank' when looking on the 'Who I'm I?' section on the website there was a very different approach to general 'I am a 23 year old photographer from South London' Intrigued? Have a look here. I really liked the concept and the outcome. A recent favourite. Thanks to @juliaunderwood for the hook up.

Supremebeing // Goldie and Matt Helders

Goldie and Matt Helders have recently collaborated with Supremebeing.
The launch night takes place on Wednesday 8th September
6-8pm in-store launch at Urban Outfitters, Oxford Street.
Following the launch at U.O there will be an after party at 8pm over at Cable, Bermondsy Street.

MORE DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED.

Learn Something New Everyday

Learn Something New Everyday
Been peeping this for months, not sure why I have never shared it within the blog before.
A website containing informational 640px × 416px images displaying facts from past and present people, animals and general knowledge. I think this website is a really fun way for kids to learn. I'm going to suggest to my Mum that she shows her kids this site! I felt quite knowledgeable knowing some of them though like the John Cleese one and the eyeball one.
What a dork!

Jeff Soto

I'm pretty sure I have never seen an artist like this, so living in a dream world it's unreal, mixing 'cute' characters with pokemen style ones...colours and dark sided skulls. I find this guys work really interesting and slightly crazy.

David Bray

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MALE - An Exhibition

MALE – an exhibition curated by VINCE ALETTI
4 September — 3 October 2010
private view: Saturday 4th September 6.30 – 8.30 pm


MAUREEN PALEY.
21 Herald Street
London E2 6JT

Male is an exhibition and book on understanding the many representation's of masculinity.
These images will involve the stereotypical look of: the jock, the rebel, the thug, the stud, the pretty boy and so on. I think it sounds quite intriguing and defiantly hope to get up there to check it out.

Taken from the Press Release.


"Not one version of masculinity, but many variations, gathered here side-by-side for a conversation, an exchange—sometimes reasoned, often heated. What do these guys have to say to one another? And to us?

For me, and for many of the artists gathered here, pictures of men are rarely neutral. Desire, with its potential for drama, always complicates things. The male gaze is often at its most intense when directed at another male, and even a casual look can be charged (Wolfgang Tillmans’ photographs of two passersby seen from the back). Whether romantic, erotic, or some messy combination of the two, the work is far from cool. It’s ardent, obsessed, freaked-out, blissed-out, sexy. Material appropriated from internet hook-up sites (Graham Durward), vintage porn (Stephen Irwin), turn-of-the-century medical records (Gary Schneider), and various, frequently pastiched, printed sources (Paul P., Geoffrey Chadsey, Attila Richard Lukacs) is re-interpreted with a mix of devilish devotion and passionate restraint. The violently disheveled boy from Jack Pierson’s “Self-Portrait” series, the stocky working man and quartet of Puerto Rican brothers who posed in Peter Hujar’s bare East Village studio, the young beauties in Scott Treleaven’s flower-strewn dreamscapes, and the proto-punk dandies Karlheinz Weinberger cultivated in postwar Zurich have nothing and everything in common.

They come together here not to define the concept of maleness but to keep the definition as open and fluid as possible. Masculinity can be a straitjacket, an armour plate, a bad joke. Or it can be loose, light, and vibrant: Something unexpected, something sweet, something wild."

Currently Listening to: Refused - New Noise