For #FlashbackFriday, in collaboration with photographer Alex Wessely for Dash magazine, artist Ashkan Honorvar yet again takes my mind for a trip to an unimaginable place, where fashion + nature become blurred. Clothes are no longer something you wear for Ashkan’s subject, but rather, something that becomes something else, another part of you + at times, another being altogether, fighting to become it’s own entity.
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Here’s Marina Hoermanseder for SS/2014.
Funny how the look with red looks like an athletic uniform.
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It’s obvious how Mondrian + Picasso in the early 20th century were reference points for Sarah Burton when creating her spring collection. Full of rectangular shapes + lines in reds, blacks + white, pointing to Mondrian, there were feathers + leather + metal harnesses across the chest citing Picasso’s African influence, full of carefree inhibitions + strength. The 1920’s metal cloche hat, which was easily mistaken for a helmet, was a perfect finishing touch.
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Especially, this fur bag for spring:
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Photographer Laura Pannack sought subjects at nudist retreats + shot their day-to-day, while illustrator Micah Lidberg brought them to life in several designer looks. Present were looks by Marc Jacobs, Jake & Dinos Chapman’s collaboration with Louis Vuitton + Comme des Garçons.
One group play boules in restrictive get-up from J.W. Anderson below
while another eat bags of chips in outfits and sunglasses by Prada.
“It’s only natural to use clothing as an indication of what someone will be like,” said Pannack to NOWNESS + in this case, I would agree.
“It’s only natural to use clothing as an indication of what someone will be like.”
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I could see how Veronique Branquinoh’s spring collection channeled the Swinging Sixties of London, envisioning these chicks walking down High Street with their amazing bobs just bouncing with every step. But with all similarities aside, Branquinoh’s take was less than contemporary + fresh with modern silhouettes + fabrics. There was the requisite short dress along with shorts with a longer jacket. Some of the fabrics like sheer Lurex, had a beautiful iridescence (rows 1 + 3, look 1 + row 1, look 3 ) to them while others looked like rubber + dead ringers for looks in the flick ‘Bladerunner’ (row 3, look 2). The Seventies also slithered into the mix with shiny + tight looks, while different iterations of the tuxedo shirt as such + a very short dress completed the collection brilliantly.
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Could you imagine, not only teaching your child the ABCs but also about contemporary art, by exposing them to work by one of the world’s leading contemporary artists? Well that’s exactly what Damien Hirst did with his new ‘ABC’ book – a large-format board book for art lovers of all ages, which illustrates the alphabet using his art. A lot of the art featured includes plenty of dissected cows + sheep, butterflies, the incredible diamond skull, + many other well-known Hirst themes,
For Hirst, it was a natural thing to create as ‘he felt power of art from a very early age.’ When The Guardian asked Hirst what were his favorite images, he cited L is for Lamb + A is for Anatomy –
‘I love L is for Lamb. The image is of my 1994 work Away from the Flock [a lamb in a tank of formaldehyde]. Over 20 years on, it still has a powerful tragic quality for me. The formaldehyde gives it a kind of serene weightlessness, almost a new life.’
‘I also really like A is for Anatomy, which is represented by Hymn (1999-2005) – a 20ft bronze sculpture of an anatomical model that belonged to my son Connor, who is now 18. I loved that it was a toy rather than a medical tool.’
‘ABCs By Damien Hirst’ will be available Oct. 1 by Other Criteria + on Amazon Oct. 15 but can be pre-ordered.
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As always, the woman Haider Ackermann re-imagines through his designs, is usually the kind of woman that possesses the right to action with no apology. This woman oozes effortless elegance, with the occasional masculine touch. For spring, Ackermann did just that with plenty of shimmer, layering + lots of black chiffon, at times over pants or alone. There were also more structured suit looks with impeccable tailoring + small lapels.
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