July 16th, 2010 HJGHER
After several months of sourcing, sketching and conceptualising, Time Taken To Make A Dress, a made-to-measure women’s label is finally ready to be introduced, with an exhibition by the dressmakers themselves.
— Of vein skin and bone, a debut collection defined by fifteen artisanal pieces will be showcased within their workspace for an intimate setting. Come, share their pride and joy as the studio opens its doors to the public for the very first time this Saturday, 17 July, 7pm at 61 Niven Road. We guarantee that time would be well spent.
Time Taken to Make a Dress × HJGHER.
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May 7th, 2009 Justin
Daisuke Obana aka Mister Hollywood’s N.Hoolywood 09-10 A/W collection aptly titled “Skyscraper”, once again reinforces his vision of fashion forward with his customary reinventions of fashion’s past.
Inspired by Ayn Rand’s, “The Fountainhead”, the set in Yebisu Garden Hall had his metropolis men stride past each other alongside a massive three tier monochorme backdrop of skyscrapers recalling New York in the 20’s. High collar coats and higher waist straight pants in tight bandwidths of grey and dark muted palettes, finished with gloves to match. Pullovers in art deco (think “Chrysler building”) patterns or simple grids of lines cast strong structured silhouettes almost as though the skyscrapers themselves were in motion. And all this while Gary Cooper spews Howard Roark’s right to reclaim his own individualism amidst an aural transition of classical and post rock tunes.
We wonder if Rand would be pleased with Obana’s selfishness, against the collective, against the dishonesty, against the machine. We’re not condoning Objectivism, but we do believe that an ingenious insanity, mindful of its perceived madness, is often necessary to make the world a better place. And it may be rightly so, perhaps in our current time when faith has left America and baggy pants are a joke, Obana may just be the best advocate of interesting changes to come.
The video above was sent to us in a tight little package from the team at N.Hoolywood. If only they sent us some Under Summit Wear samples too.
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April 3rd, 2008 Justin
Aitor Throup’s fascination of the human anatomy is articulated through his rather wearable costume garments that breathe of fictional characters in their own space and time. His CSM MA collection, “When Football Hooligans Became Hindu Gods”, is based on his conceptual comic book story of 8 remorseful football hooligans that transform into Hindu gods after taking the live of a Hindu boy.
Imagine personifying the Hindu man/lion god Narasimha by shaping the hood of a jacket like a lions head or the Hindu god of death Shiva by adorning a jacket with skulls that double up as bags. Do see and read more about this impressively authentic collection from Katie’s well researched write-up here.
His most recent collection “The Funeral of New Orleans” is a two part story about 5 musicians who die while protecting their instruments during hurricane Katrina. Part 1 displays garments made from instrument cases that transform in shape and function according to the musician’s needs. Pocketed-gloves to supposedly help the musicians protect their instruments. All the “musician’s garments” were sculptured to fit their pose while playing their specific instrument, so they may seem ill fitting when normal but when the musician is playing his instrument in pose, it fits perfectly. You can see the film and read more about this collection on ShowStudio’s blog here
We’re absolutely itching in anticipation for Part 2 which will be a collection of what we believe to be, after the musicians pass on. We sincerely cannot honour enough respect to how original, how well conceived, how playful and yet how functional his collections are. Now all we need is Guillermo Del Toro to turn Aitor’s comic book drawings into movies and Jonny Greenwood to produce the soundtrack and it’ll be a blockbuster for sure. In the meantime, stay tuned for Part 2.
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February 27th, 2008 Jerry
Some call her Hitler, some call her Mother.
Here’s a peep into the 14 departments of Miss Kawakubo’s brain.
Read here.
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December 5th, 2007 Justin
The launch of the Julius 2008 S/S collection was reinforced with a photo exhibition over at Midwest Tokyo, Tokyo and Mind Thrive, Kyoto.
Aptly titled “Pilgrimage“, the monotone exhibition displays the 2008 S/S collection in what seems like a fashion editorial spread executed with grandeur. Coming together for this project was the trinity of photographer Muga Miyahara, stylist Tetsuro Nagase and Julius head designer Tatsuro Horikawa. The Tokyo exhibit ended yesterday but catch the Kyoto leg if you can, from 17-20th Jan 2008.
He who wears Julius would probably have a manifesto that reads, “I’m really in touch with my feminine side but ask me again if I’m ”un-straight” and I’ll kill you”. It’’s absolutely poetic architecture in metrosexual motion.
And yes, if it isn’t obvious already, we are religiously ardent fans.
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October 4th, 2007 Justin
The hugely anticipated (by us and for certain many others) READINGS movie, spawned from the zeitgeist collaboration of Nick Knight, Hussein Chalayan and Anthony Hegarty is finally out today!
The showcase movie premiered this evening in Paris at Hussein’s show and was launched simultaneously on the site at 7pm (GMT+1). What was truly intriguing about this project was the invitation to the general public audience of SHOWstudio’s blog, to submit their treatments for READINGS, based on a brief provided by Hussein Chalayan himself. Dare we say we had a part to play in the result? Watch it and find out.
Be forewarned, it’s already been 79mins, and I’m still waiting for the full movie to finish loading. This better be worth it.
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