Category Archive: garment

07 May

travelling fretwork

travelling fretwork

December’s Bergdorf Goodman windows still tracing through the memory.

 
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13 Dec

Balenciaga

Balenciaga

His work is so structural. The shape of magyar seams and the use of large sleeve structures reminded me of Henri Moore’s sculptural monoliths, only Balenciaga’s monoliths have bows, tassels and cinched waists.

 
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30 Nov

Draw me some Dior

Draw me some Dior

It’s just the dash of brushstroke and the sparing elegance of it all!

 
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29 Nov

Leon Bakst, Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes

Leon Bakst, Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes

The hand-painted wavy lines and dots; the appliqued zig-zags and the beaded droplet shapes are so simplistic and yet so striking, strong and playful. And not least it is about the love of fabric teamed with movement; and of the textile, in it’s many shades and draperies.

 
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27 Jun

Chaconne etherium and Kirrily Johnston

Chaconne etherium and Kirrily Johnston

‘a distillation of the French Baroque spirit in all its ultraelegant subtlety’ but I could not help seeing neo classical etherium . This same spirit of reinterpreting the essence of these eras that I see being captured in the work of Kirrilli Johnston since her first collection in 2004…

 
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18 Jun

Tina Kalivas multiculture’s aesthete

Tina Kalivas multiculture’s aesthete

Tina Kalivas an ethnic rock chick of Australian fashion. Her inspirations are often drawn from ethnic textiles, different cultures and music – at once very raw and playful,…

 
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14 Jun

Dion Lee at the Sydney Opera House

Dion Lee at the Sydney Opera House

This young Australian designer, yet again, created quite a stir at May’s RAFW in his SS2010/11 showing; this time on the atrium steps of the iconic Sydney Opera House.

 
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08 Apr

Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm McLaren

‘to create anything you had to believe in failure simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear’

 
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14 Feb

more McQueen remembrances

more McQueen remembrances

A beautiful marriage of collaborators. This clip is an insightful expose into Alexander McQueen’s showing for spring 2007. London milliner Philip Treacy speaks briefly about his …

 
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13 Feb

FIT treasures

FIT treasures

Looking for inspiration? The Museum at FIT has many treasures to wet the appetite, both on display and in it’s vaults. Here’s a Lace manufacturer’s sample …

 
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