More posts coming soon.... Next week.

In the meantime, check out The Fake Sartorialist mentioned in Dezeen Mail #45 (Shigeru Ban post).
[http://www.dezeen.com/2010/02/24/dezeenmail-45/]
Post from phone.

The Wasteland (continued)

Text: The Wasteland (by T.S. Eliot)

Too Sexy for My Shirt

Tyler had always been rather disturbed by the lyrics of Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy":
"I'm too sexy for my shirt, to sexy for my shirt
So sexy it hurts."
Tyler had never been to sexy for his shirts, he knew in fact that he would never be too sexy for his shirts and it hurt. So he set about on a three year journey that took him across the world.
In Japan he met leaders in the robotic escort world that would help supply him with the most lifelike skin-fabric on the market. While watching a Dolce & Gabbana show in Milan, he just knew that he had to get Noah Mills' torso as his shirt graphic. A Belgian design studio worked on the graphics, logo and print media. The best French directors shot the alluring adverts. Finally, all the shirts were constructed in China for a dime a dozen.
Three years later and the: My Shirt is Too Sexy for Me, label has become a huge success. Tyler is already working on a: My Shorts, My Boxers, My Socks are TooSexy for Me range featuring sculpted body parts from other world-renowned male models. See them in a store near you today.

Playtime - Modern X

A video I created recently for a live performance.

[Sound: Dj BC, Glassbreaks, Stand Up Dance)

Graphic Transformer, NYC

When jackets go Optimus Prime

The Wasteland

All this talk of the late great McQueen and his visionary fashion design has made me think of another visionary: T.S. Eliot. He like McQueen had a way with twisting what you already know. Reading any one of his poems is like reordering English in your mind, the combinations are so novel and vivid that you can almost smell the scenes he describes. I wonder what marvels he would have designed had he been a fashion designer...

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Alexander McQueen Tribute

Lee Alexander McQueen 1969-2010

RIP

As he walked through the forest, he happened across a fluttering swarm of butterflies. Waving to his assistants urgently, they brought what he required, a mirror. Carefully they placed it next to the swarm. Doubled in symmetry they took on a new form, they moved as one organism, flowed almost like fabric...

Over and over he would give a slight wave to his assistants. A a pit of snakes, rippling pool, chess board, birds-nest with scattered feathers.

The assistants could not explain or comprehend his behavior, these expeditions to forests, deserts, remote streams and treetop canopies seemed unnecessary and eccentric. 

They couldn't catch that moment in their minds. The moment of utter beauty, when all the shapes and patterns would coalesce, in his mind, into a form that would take your breath away. 

Mesh Street-Funk, Paris

The Alter Ego - Design Indaba Superstars

Welcome to my alter ego (click image for full quality). Scotty has been in the fashion industry from the age of 7, having inherited his fathers fashion empire Scuzi International (names have been changed to protect the identities of third parties). At 14 I started my own major international brand that set the fashion world ablaze, quite literally. Based on flame thrower routines, the outfits had a scary amount of kerosene doused baubles all over, tragically the models for the first catwalk show didn't survive to tell the tale.

*This mage is an entry into the Design Indaba Superstars competition.

you can vote for me Here. 

Beauty Hell for Pecha Kucha

Last year I gave a talk at Pecha Kucha, they pioneeded the 20x20 presentation format where 20 slides are played for 20 seconds on an automatic timer. It was fun doing the talk and I got a good reaction from the audience. The theme for the evening was: What is Beauty to You?

'The Fake Sartorialist' at work.

Hooked, Barcelona

Using glinting jewels as bait, Julio baits and tackles his 'catches' into submission. Indeed he has bagged quite a few A grade supermodels. Only unlike the fishing world, model catches are actually score higher the lighter they are. Finding a smoker is an automatic 10 points, as they really pucker those lips when they're gasping for air out of the water.

5 in 1, Paris