Bionic, Take It Supersonic!

June 5, 2013August 31, 2014 | Design & Culture by Ed

Thomas Tait. This is the super human of London Fashion. The title of this post, is taken of one of the best song by Christina Aguilera, BIONIC. When I see the collection by Tait for AW13, I only hear in my head this song. It matches everything. The collection feels like if UFO came to our planet and super agents, so the models, plan the defense attack. Green clouds around, grafitti around. I think the show was presented in a garage, cause under every sit of the guests there was a car number… But coming back to the designer- The old movie Runaway about Sci Fi inspiration is clearly visible here! The clothes, well they are really cyber-superb! Kept in extra neon colours like orange, green and red, the pieces (look at these SUNGLASSES!) are really visible in the crowd. The use of fabrics is always pretty much cosmic- latex, polar mixed with leather and plastic! I love it! his is so “other” and fresh.

The THOMAS TAIT sign is visible everywhere with the .COM ending. Is this a metaphor for the future fashion that Thomas sees? Will be so full of HiFi, pixels and this computer staff? If yes then I don’t have anything oppose about it. One more time about sunglasses- it’s difficult to see something as REFRESHING as this! Last time I so something like this, were the Celine furry sandals. Totally different. The curvy geometric frames look so out of this worls, that I think they would bestseller on Jupiter! And maybe in London?

Porcelain Pretty

April 15, 2013July 1, 2017 | Design & Culture by Ed

Porcelain figurines are usually kitsch but still very beautiful. So why shouldn’t the porcelain topic be shown in fashion? And if we can say that everything is in fashion, then there is no problem with that! Staffordshire figurines had always these amazing flower details. Spanish, for example Liardo, is advanced in hand made 3D elements like tiny flowers in baskets, embroiderment on the Geisha’s kimono and other artistic fantasies. And here I’ve taken my own pictures when I was in New York from Metropolitan Museum of Art! (These are all very mind blowing!).

Meadham Kirchhoff, London based label known for very kitsh collections, had a surrealistic collab with Nicolas Kirkwood- ornamented and kitsch sandals full of embroidment, flowers, colours and ribbons. Kept in mostly in pastel colours they look like cakes on feet! That’s a bit fairy tale like, but this is how it is. Who else from London thought of porcelain as a inspiration? Queen of prints, Mary Katrantzou and her archival collection. The dresses had 3D prints with tea pots, flowers, jewels- like if Katrantzou was redrawing all the porcelain figurine features. That’s so porcelain fantastic!

Fei Feng (the graduate from Central Saint Martins) was inspired for her new haute couture collection with Ming dynasty vases and the splendor of Chinese wedding. The highly crafted detail like these flowers that move on air, or trees around the dress. Ok. Everything looks in reality ugly. And not practical. And hilarious. But still, I think it’s all very spectacular, if we have in mind that Fei did all these dresses handmade. And it matches the topic!

Ron Mueck’s Hyperrealism

March 30, 2013March 30, 2013 | Design & Culture by Ed

Ron Mueck is an Australian hyperrealist sculptor working in the United Kingdom. His sculptures that look like real people thanks to a really advanced technology, are going to be presented in Foundation Cartier in Paris and possible will have even bigger exhibitions. This hyperrealistic art is known for real looking like human faces in amazingly big sizes, whole bodies with a mind blowing area and proportional to real people’s scale figures shown in different actions!
Some of the most known art pieces by Mueck are The Woman in Bed, The Newborn and The Man’s Face. Unfortunately, I will not see it (😭) becuse it’s gonna be much later in Paris, so the last thing to do, is to see it in IPad…

Hotel Costes in Paris

March 29, 2013January 6, 2024 | Design & Culture by Ed

Costes restaurant is located in Costes Hotel on Rue du Saint Honore and is fantastic. The interior, food, legs of waitresses… Perfection. The interior is kept in rich bohemian style full of fashionable parisian people and models. When you come in, you feel like in a elegant night club- it’s dark and luxurious. Inside there is a beautiful patio with open top, and around it are rooms for restaurant that is full of ornaments.

The food is delightful and scrumptious. My favourite- thai chicken spring rolls, butterfly chicken and of course tuna atlantic style! It’s in a soya and lime dressing with chilli peppers and lemon grass. Everything in this restaurant is perfect. And delicious! Thanks all to Costes brothers of course. J’adore!

Oh and happy Easter to all! This is a Costes Flower Shop recent bouguet of flowers in egg shape!

Martin Margiela’s Artisanal Comb Dress

March 28, 2013January 6, 2024 | Design & Culture by Ed

Yesterday when I was visiting one of the Maison Martin Margiela boutique in Paris, I saw first time in my a MMM artinasal dress! It was a vintage one, I think from 2009, and it had… Combs everywhere! That was so surrealistic expereince! All the hair brushes in multicolour of brown were connected with gold chains. Don’t think it’s for sale, it’s more a ART, but still it’s mind blowing!