Fashion Designers, Seasons, Trends, Models, & YOU.

[JoeTheStoner]

i find this amusing for more reasons than one. the words "it's a crazy, rogue, fucking model" the passive-aggressiveness of "not" and ultra-chill rick owens punching the guy backstage.

Imaan Hammam. pic reminds me of a quote "That girl didn’t want to die, she just wanted out of that house. She wanted out of that decorating scheme”

i know shit is crazy but im in a good mood today.

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

owens was granted his request ...

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I-D

stella lucia is quite the weird looking beauty. and she's having a breakout year, including her second givinchy campaign.

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by mert & marcus

by kenneth richard backstage at no. 21 fall '15/16

was a baby not long ago ...

by kosmas pavlos for C-Heads Magazine (2013)

sneakers can make a look so much more appealing

lou lisa lesage by fabrice laroche for anne valérie hash

 

[socko]

I never pay attentio nto the fashion industry, but Hermes is setting up for a show for tomorrow where I work. It's an 800 year old former monastary. The runway, a cobblestone path, goes through the monastary garden in the courtyard. It winds between flowering plants, like snowdrops, hydrangeas, rose tree, bamboo, and fountains. It ends in the cloisters at the statue of Mr. Death and the stone angels . If I'm in tomorrow, I'll take some photos. My window overlooks the runway.

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

that's awesome, socko. hope we get to see some pics.

 

[socko]

They have set up for the Hermes photo shoot at my lab. I've never seen a photo shoot before so I took pictures. In the 3rd one, my lab is on the 2nd floor and the windows overlook the set. The event doesn't start for another hour or so, but here are a few photos of the set.

Security at work is extremely paranoid today. Not only do they have the usual armed guards, but they have the fashion police checking everybody over a second time. Maybe if I hang out long enough, I can get a chance to mingle and go their afterwork party or get a chance to ask out a model.







Maybe Mr. Death and the Stone Angels will be in the shoot. This is at the end of the runway:

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[JoeTheStoner]

They have set up for the Hermes photo shoot at my lab.

what a cool thing to just happen to pop up unexpectedly.

i did find this installation visually appealing...

really don't wanna be a debbie downer BUT i did watch the inhumane treatment of the alligators hermes uses for skin earlier =/ the fact i posted the hermes slaughterhouse installation is just a weird coincidence, not oblivious to the global exploitation of fashion. tbh sometimes i just feel like throwing my hands up in the air... life is just too much...

“He lived within himself, nourished by his own substance, like some torpid creature which hibernates in caves. Solitude had reacted upon his brain like a narcotic. After having strained and enervated it, his mind had fallen victim to a sluggishness which annihilated his plans, broke his will power and invoked a cortège of vague reveries to which he passively submitted.
The confused medley of meditations on art and literature in which he had indulged since his isolation, as a dam to bar the current of old memories, had been rudely swept away, and the onrushing, irresistible wave crashed into the present and future, submerging everything beneath the blanket of the past, filling his mind with an immensity of sorrow, on whose surface floated, like futile wreckage, absurd trifles and dull episodes of his life.”

― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature

dro, nailed it with the sneakers on lou. infinitely more appealing if they are converse all-stars

o and im browsing vogue.com and just read this... Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Groundbreaking Hip-Hop Musical, Hamilton, Hits Broadway

“I Googled ‘Alexander Hamilton hip-hop musical’ and totally expected to see that someone had already written it,” Miranda says. “But no. So I got to work.”

 

[Kenickie]

I spent all night last night drunk with my friend who is moving to NYC ranting about Gucci and Prada. I realized I am such a bad friend because I never just hung out with her and got drunk and ranted about Prada and now she's moving to NYC to be famous and super cool and go to Parsons and I will literally be posting her first collection in this thread because she's going to be that cool. fuck.

i want that to be my default existence. drunk and ranting about prada in a friend's backyard eating cheesecake listening to cocteau twins.

 

[socko]

Stoner: Can you post a link to the hermes alligator slaughter house? I didn't take any pics of the fashion show bc it was an all male model show and after seeing 1000S of half-naked men prancing down the street outside my window during yesterday's pride parade, I'd had enough. Also, the house where j.k. huysman was born ( in your quote) is very close to my work. I like that author.

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

looks like it was a cool place for a show. too bad about it being male. and about the alligators. whatever hermes was doing must have been really horrible to make people care about alligators. best to your friend, Kenickie.

there is a girl i'm facebook friends with from bluelight. added her long ago, and no longer know her bluelight name. she doesn't post here anymore. but her facebook posts make me think of this thread. she does her makeup like anna karina; posts (borrowed) backstage shots from couture shows and stills from movies like Daisies, Suspiria, and Valarie and Her Week of Wonders; and even had her hair cut like nana from Vivre sa vie for a bit. she's all about pop culture and sees it in some strange dry humor, showcased in her art ...

been liking christian lacroix couture on tumblr ...

fall '01

spring '04

 

[realtalkloc]

hermes is so expensive!!! It makes versace look cheap.

 

[Kenickie]

chanel wrecked my brain. their set was ridiculous, kristen stewart loping down to a giant roulette table with her cigarette holder and her suit and escorting julianne moore to her seat. this was one of my favorite shows of theirs - ever. of all time. minus the hair and shoes, which is regrettable.

first - i think this was the first show i've ever seen where models had real, not fake, facial piercings. and not little nose studs. big, silver, septums. there were little nods to punk rock all over. a single safety pin earring. the nose piercings. it was just those little pieces of aggression, of masculinity which totally wrecked me. that's basically how i move through life and how i want to move through life and was just SO HAPPY.

the 1920s decadent vibe (set in a casino, after all) was luxurious without being ridiculous.

this was the first collection with 3d printed items in it. probably my favourite look of the whole thing

this came in a close second

the entire back has those gorgeous gold buttons...fuck life. Rinko Kikuchi was there and omg just everything *crying exasperated voice*

backstage

alright freak out over

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

does it beat cruise '13 for yea?


dior's is making headlines. through the only avenue high fashion can, controversy. and it's the same story every year. "14-year-old model walks for well-known designer." though the media is taking a different angle on it -- i suspect due to some smooth PR -- branding it a cinderella story ...

Dior’s New 14-Year-Old Lead Model Was Just Plucked From Poverty -- Yahoo Style

How a 14-year-old Israeli became the new face of Christian Dior -- Washington Post

while i obviously take no issue with images of underage models, the industry "plucking" children from poverty sounds scary. what's more vulnerable than a child in poverty. makes me think of that modeling documentary where eastern european families are sending their 13-year-old daughters off alone to work in foreign countries with the expectation they will earn the family's livelihood. that kinda seems like what happened here. hopefully these chaperons are on it.

she says her single mom can finally quit her job, according to a news article. which means the family will dependent on this little girl being able to earn through her physical appeal. that's a lot of pressure for a kid, especially in an industry so quick and ruthless. maybe family will travel with her now that they have the means. because she just signed a $265K contract. hope mommy's financially literate.

but practical concerns are no fun, and the internet knows it. this is of course a moral issue, involving nipples.

from getty images, featured with the yahoo article. actually pretty bold for american media. i think Washington Post cropped theirs after receiving comments. and the comments -- below both articles -- are class.

it's a pretty dress ...

there's something going on with the back of it that helps it be so flow-y. you can catch a glimpses in the youtube video.


wanna see something heavy-handed ...

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viktor & rolf fall '15 couture

clicking through fall couture and stumbled upon a surprise ...

fendi's inaugural couture line. isn't what i'm after, but the above coat is cool and represents fendi well.

 

[Max Power]

If I could sum up my entire existence up to this point in two words it would be:

fall couture.

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

then you're gonna love these yumi katsura gowns ...

 

[Kenickie]

does it beat cruise '13 for yea?

rewatched to double check. still does.

while i obviously take no issue with images of underage models, the industry "plucking" children from poverty sounds scary. what's more vulnerable than a child in poverty. makes me think of that modeling documentary where eastern european families are sending their 13-year-old daughters off alone to work in foreign countries with the expectation they will earn the family's livelihood. that kinda seems like what happened here. hopefully these chaperons are on it.

she says her single mom can finally quit her job, according to a news article. which means the family will dependent on this little girl being able to earn through her physical appeal. that's a lot of pressure for a kid, especially in an industry so quick and ruthless. maybe family will travel with her now that they have the means. because she just signed a $265K contract. hope mommy's financially literate.

but practical concerns are no fun, and the internet knows it. this is of course a moral issue, involving nipples.

i agree. well. mostly. there isn't much out there thats more vulnerable than a poor, girl, child. dior should not have done this. don't put her in a sheer fucking dress?? like even for france that's a bit??? the one promise of not having anyone under 18 walk is maybe they'd get rid of the horrible nude underwear. which i saw NONE of at the valentino show. does rome have better skin matching interns/people in charge of panties?

i actually was hyper into the viktor + rolf. at first i thought it was a stretch but after the second one i was just like hell yeah, thats couture as shit. i entered the contest to win it.

that valentino. mesmerizing. pagan? ancient. princesses~! warriors. goddesses. so fucking italian. i want every single one. some of them actually inspired fear in me. some of them were regal, some sensual. fuck, man. this season has been so fire. the symbols everywhere. so many of those delicate little golden headbands featuring wolves - romulus & remus?

ugh.

i need better images. fascism never looked so delicate.



best lana del rey song ever. hands down.

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

somehow high fashion is able to exist free of the male gaze, and i'm all for it exploring all the beauty that affords.

women are blinded by lust as well. i'm not laying that on any one gender. that's just the term we're given to work with.

we can agree about the valentino headbands and chokers. i didn't catch how beautiful they are when first watching the show.

love the new lana song. i think she has another album coming out in not too long. thank goodness her threats to abandon show business turn out blank.

rewatched to double check. still does.

holy smokes!


more 3-d printer fashion ...

danit peleg. can be printed with a domestic 3-d printer.

found via http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com. n. Information that a person does not know, but can access as needed using technology. particularly up your alley, Joe. i left a comment on one of their posts, and they were nice enough to reply ...

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re: "seems like a lot of art these days is a real time, digital representation of something that’s happening somewhere else." - It is one advantage of the medium that others do not have. That isnt to say all real-time work is great (sometimes the results are very similar to each other) but it can go into interesting places :)

 

[Kenickie]

after what - two years? Alexander Wang is leaving Balenciaga. Is Ghesquiere feeling some serious burn right now? All these reports of mutually respected partings are just so laughable to me - I wouldn't be happy leaving a brand I brought back from the edge for some goth kid who is now leaving because he can't do what he wants within the confines of the brand. that Ghesquiere created. whatever. Suddenly Balenciaga is left looking for a designer right before they turn 100 years old and that's a terrible place to be in.

so not to be photo less - damaris at thomas tait looking fantastically bored

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

damarias is looking good.

i know already posted it on tumblr, but tumblr's no reason to keep pretty things out of this thread ...

nastya for georges hobeika couture fall '15


ondria got hurt ...

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only real problem with models being teenagers is that they think the bird is cool. in this time of selfies, there should be an ngo providing them personal, round-the-clock creative teams.

hit by a bike. i'm sure it looks worse than it is. you know, because her face is naturally grotesque.

"soul eating specter fo'sho." she could easily of been cast as ava in 'ex machina'

i saw this movie recently. that's some solid fantasy casting, Joe.

 

[Kenickie]

sorry! i'm home from new orleans. here's an outfit i wore that i really fucking liked.

3 weeks till Berlin/Milan/Zurich!

spoke to my friend Kenickie who works at American Apparel. She's gotten fat which is disappointing. But she said for me to hurry up and stock up on things because the new CEO has changed the direction so seriously that somethings I really love at the store - the sheer, the floaty delicate sexual stuff - no more. It's moving towards being exactly like J.Crew - crepe pants for 40 year old women. Crushing. Also because I know she works there I've got 75% off so even though I'm headed to Berlin in two seconds I bought two dresses. Fight me.

wearing head to toe am appy outside our friends artist studio where we staid on st. ferdinand

this is my first time on the internet in a week. how liberating.

ormora? i know hydro knows the name of this pretty pretty woman with her little pink feet.

miss y'all.

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

welcome back, Kenickie. love the outfit. good to see more of oroma elewa.

i was going through elle fanning editorials last night, wishing something new and worthwhile would come out. posted an old photo, and it was reblogged by someone who had this in the profile ...

by angelo pennetta

it's for Vogue's sept '15 editorial "Forces of Fashion." their list of the most powerful names in the industry. the above photo is to include alessandro michele of gucci, not little elle fanning. while every photo of elle is wonderful, this is one's the best in a bit. the colors turned too warm when i resized, but white balance display varies from device to device so i've given up on that battle [nope, was able to fix with photoshop at work]. i recommend checking it out here or it's available in full resolution from the source (clicking makes the jpg download for some reason). the glasses remind me of the bight orange pair she used to wear.

check out the full list here. cara and karlie made the list as themselves, and fka twigs is representing miuccia prada.