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Archive for February, 2012

fashion interventions 3

(imagery/ the fashion sloth)

 

Chichi is pleased to invite you to see

 

New Fashion: Interventions in Materials and Techniques is the first of three exhibitions at the Fashion Space Gallery presenting emerging talent across the disciplines of fashion design, illustration and photography.

Curated by Leanne Wierzba and Gemma Williams.
Exhibition series devised by Magdalene Keaney.

Featured Designers:
Eleanor Amoroso
Felicity Brown
Una Burke
Fyodor Golan
Zyanya Kiezer
Derek Lawlor
Chi Chi Luo
Nicola Morgan

Fashion Space Gallery
1st Floor, London College of Fashion,
20 John Prince’s Street,
London W1G 0BJ

 

Exhibition runs from:
16th February – 7th April 2012
Monday – Friday: 10am – 6pm, Saturday: 10am – 4pm

 

(imagery: jybyjasonyaoyao.blogspot.com)

 

Here I recommend to read an article by Karen Hodkinson from Not Just A Lebel.com:

Click to view: ‘THE FUTURE OF THE FASHION SHOW   …Presentation is Everything‘

Good points of view, good consideration, good quoting… these are actually what I have been thinking these days after visiting london fashion week.

 

Azzedine Alaïa

(Azzedine Alaïa fits a model in his studio.   image from: the new york times)

 

Good quoting from Azzedine Alaïa in the article:

(from The Ground magazine): “As I said many times, the fashion world, its system, can be disturbing. The system imposed Galliano, and others, to make four collections for him, four collections for the house, four for men, and four for women. When you have one idea per year, it’s already a miracle! Now, it has become crafty fiddling at a breakneck pace. That’s not the essence of fashion. How can you really be creative under these circumstances? For the young designers it’s very hard, and for the more mature, they drink more, take more drugs… what I am saying is that the system is not right. We have to see the work from another angle. The system is too stressful: too many collections, too much pressure. As in other fields, if you want to do a good creative job, it takes time. What’s the point? I’m working 24 hours a day. I have had a house in Tunisia for 20 years, and I never have time to go because there are collections, fittings….”

 

what do you think?

 

 

 

__After years of grinding, experimenting and discovering,

Yayoi Kusama’s dots become diamonds which sparkle her dreams and life.___

 

 

highly recommend exhibition_

Yayoi Kusama @ Tate modern 

9 February  –  5 June 2012

more info: tate.org.uk

 

 

Yayoi Kusama, “Accumulation No. 2,” 1968.

image from: thelonelyone

 

 

 

* ‘women wait for love, but men always walk away’ is a title of one of Kusama’s acrylic paintings in 2009. This painting can be seen in the exhibition.

 

 

 

‘I found staffs who use iPhone, some of them could not even remember a phone number, their memory is really … … worrying. Modern mind seems to have less notes. They are like goldfish, only have the memory of three seconds.’

 

 From Karl Lagerfeld’s interview/ Kerstin Holzer, Suddeutsche Zeitung / The Interview People / 10th Feb 2011

 

PS:  As I read this interview in chinese translation version first, since I post this I still cannot find the original article , so I am afraid that I can’t  have a check before I post it… there might be a little bit different from what Karl originally said.

 

here are several version of different language of this interview：

english ver. http://www.cloudyled.com:8080/showItem/showDetail/12824129.html

chinese ver. http://www.ccdy.cn/yishu/jiaoyu/201202/t20120208_233590.htm

greek ver. http://www.imerisia.gr/article.asp?catid=14050&subid=2&pubid=111047454

 

image from: cloudyled

 

FASHION EXHIBITION – NEW FASHION

New Fashion: Interventions in Materials and Techniques is the first of three exhibitions at the Fashion Space Gallery presenting emerging talent across the disciplines of fashion design, illustration and photography.

Curated by Leanne Wierzba and Gemma Williams.
Exhibition series devised by Magdalene Keaney.

 

 

Wednesday 15th February 6.30 – 8.30pm
RSVP essential: events@fashion.arts.ac.uk

 

 

Featured Designers:
Eleanor Amoroso
Felicity Brown
Una Burke
Fyodor Golan
Zyanya Kiezer
Derek Lawlor
Chi Chi Luo
Nicola Morgan

Fashion Space Gallery
1st Floor, London College of Fashion,
20 John Prince’s Street,
London W1G 0BJ

 

Exhibition runs from:
16th February – 7th April 2012
Monday – Friday: 10am – 6pm, Saturday: 10am – 4pm

 

www.fashionspacegallery.com