Why? To take pictures of strangers for aforementioned project ( post 24/09)
Wearing?
( see post 06/03/10, was gonna bin this dress but made into a skirt instead)
Why was it unsuccessful? Basically we trundled around London for nearly 7 hours and we all took about one or two photos, we just couldn't see anyone that remotely fitted the brief. Also at like 3pm it started bucketing down with rain, which didn't help. Did see Mathew Horne around chinatown though, ha. :)
I know we've known about this for a while now but I just realised I haven't blogged about it... OFC I'm talking about the collaboration of Lanvin and H&M. I ♥ Alber Elbaz ;
“H&M approached us to collaborate, and see if we could translate the dream we created at Lanvin to a wider audience, not just a dress for less. I have said in the past that I would never do a mass-market collection, but what intrigued me was the idea of H&M going luxury rather than Lanvin going public. This has been an exceptional exercise, where two companies at opposite poles can work together because we share the same philosophy of bringing joy and beauty to men and women around the world.” Alber Elbaz, artistic director of Lanvin.
The collectiion will be revealed on 2nd November and hit stores on 23rd, who's up for camping out?
I chose this one because I think it's a pretty shocking thing to do and also I had the weirdest, vivid dream last night that's sort of connected to this...
What is defined as 'cool'? who's 'on trend'? and who's just pretentious? I'm starting to think that all these things just blend into each other at the moment. So we received all the briefs for the next few weeks at uni and one of them is to photograph a variety of people who are wearing future trends. Yes FUTURE trends. Nobody that's trying to hard but no-one that's too casual either. Don't take photos of people that catch your eye because they look weird but nobody 'generic' either. Seriously. I'm confused. How do you generalise 'style', 'trends' and 'coolness' everybody has a different perception.
This is the age old question of what's considered stylish? Personally I think people should stop trying so hard. But then again it's not cool to say you're effortlessly cool. Apparently.
London is known for having lots of different people wearing every style you've ever seen, mostly just attention-seeking, but as people are so used to this, they won't get stared at. Street style is something you can't quantify, that's why this project has to be one of the hardest yet.
Anyone wanna dress up like a twat so I can take a photo of you?
Also this is a piece I've written about Nicole Farhi's after party at The Brompton Club.
After you, Nicole Farhi...
In the hectic times of London fashion week the after parties become the thing to look forward to. The exclusive Brompton Club, SW7, was host to Nicole Farhi's glamorous soiree. As you walk in you are greeted by a smartly dressed man with a clipboard, you know you're not getting in unless you're name is on the list. You are then greeted by a vast dark spiral staircase that leads into the unknown, the bass line of the music gets louder as you descend. Entering the cavernous crepuscular room, it's dripping wall to wall with models and beautiful slender women. In trend with most opulent designer parties somebody needs to wear the designer in question. A tall woman with distinctive features and radiant hair wore an inky glittering dress with a black sheer long sleeved layer over the top from Farhi's Autumn/Winter 2010 collection. Spying the “fashionistas” from a snakeskin sofa was the characteristic Actor Bill Nighy, with the champagne flowing it was a magical night.
London, that is. Yes, yes so we've had New York and there were some amazing showssss, but we all know it's ALL about London ;) Paul Costelloe kicked things off, with Sass & Bide, Felder and Felder and Hannah Marshall following suit. Personally I'm most looking forward to Vivienne Westwood Red Label on Sunday and obviously Giles Deacon on Monday :D
I apologise profusely for my lack of posts, not that anybody reads this anyway!, I have no proper excuse really, I haven't been that busy lately I have just been neglecting this.
Recently I have been listening to Russell Brands Podcasts from the old Radio 2 days, before all that "Sachsgate" nonsense. Russell and Matt Morgan are genuinely hilarious together and I miss it :'(
Last week I went to see Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Edgar Wright is a genius! It was really good, Michael Cera is amazing (as always) and the actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead acts very well in it. It's a good one for all the geeks out there as well with many video game references. (I'm a bit of a geek really, been playing super mario bros on Wii alotttt).
Oh and me and my mate Sam seem to be on a movie downloading spree lately and so we watched Zombieland (which is frikkin awesomee!) and Kick-Ass (which is terrible!) on Monday. :)
Here are some random images that I like, including a postsecret from sunday because I forgot to upload one.
