Crop Goddess - McQueen Spring 2011

(Alexander McQueen Spring 2011 RTW, NYMag)

She arrived upon an alien husk a million-million years ago to sew her race into the land.

With a slight of hand she flung her seeds into fertile pleins seconds before summer rains.

Image Credits:

Alexander McQueen Spring 2011 RTW from NYMag, Dust on Barley Field by IluvABBeef, Barley Field from Bairds Malt

Fashomatic 2000

(Victor & Rolf Spring 2011 RTW, NYMag)

INTRODUCTING:

FASHOMATIC 2000

This industrial fashion machine prints 25 dresses per day. Using the marvel of steam energy, the press forms dresses at the pressure of over 3bar! Using paper alone and automated pattern cutters the Fashiomatic 2000 can produce any cutting edge design in minutes/hours.

Caution:

Steam rollers may render objects inserted into them obsolete

Steam bursts may cause severe burns/blindness/death

Dresses created are flamable/tareable and susseptible to water/steam damage

Image Credits:

Original Loom by UnitedWire, Victor & Rolf Spring 2011 RT from NYMag

Turn of the Century - John Galliano Men SS 2011

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(Thanks Sonny for letting me use these amazing images < click for link)

(Model images: Sonny Vandevelde)

(Clothes: Galliano Men SS 2011)

(Other: Archive photography)

Flower Girl - Christian Dior Fall 2010 Couture

(runway shot : NYMag ; background image : F.Sart)

SATC2 - End of the Line

Sex and the City had an excellent run, but I have no idea why it couldn't have ended just like that. It is now running through sequels of a  movie that was not that great to begin with, and if news on Tweet-street is anything to go by, SATC has only gotten worse in the second iteration (and there are talks of a 3rd and 4th movie). If SATC were a dog it would be 84 years old. It really is time to put it down girls, do the hard (and right) thing and take it to the V E T, shhhh don't tell it what I just said or you won't be able to put the bedraggled creature into your car.

Remember quit while your on top.

Fashion Comic Micro: Thoughts on Fashion

Victor & Rolf (RTW Fall 2010)

New posts coming soon...

In the meantime, have a look at this amazing dance performace from the Body Remix series:

Runhof vs Cerruti

(Runhof vs Cerruti; runway images NYMag)

Castelbajac - Forest Fire

(Jean-Charles de Castelbajac - Fall RTW 2010 - Images: NYMag)

Issey Miyake: Eco-Warriors

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(Issey Miyake Fall 2010 RTW, images NYMag)

Mirage

Hussein Chalayan Fall 2010 RTW

(image: via NYMag)

Fashion Comic: Guillotine S/S 2010 Part 1 & 2 S.A. Fashion Week

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Fashion Comic: Guillotine S/S 2010 Part 1 S.A. Fashion Week

The response to the blog in the last few days has been phenomenal. Thanks for all the comments (friendly and unfriendly, but mostly the friendly ones). I am taking all suggestions into consideration and will be putting them into the blog when I can [animated fashion comics coming in the near future].

Also I just picked up on a really interesting acticle by Threadbare: What is this "Fake" in The Fake Sartorialist? a snipet:

"Schuman actually provides a comment on The Fake Sartorialist post (March 31, 2010) that ominously intones, "Intellectual property beware. Intellectual freedom beware. En garde." I think the en garde is pretty funny - even charming in another context - but I'm not really sure if he's threatening Cachucho or being playful here." (Threadbare article)

I'm not sure wether this comment is by Scott or not (its unlikely, but no one can tell from anonymous comments). It is a rather charming comment, as long as it is playful and not threatening....

Since the comment itself is utterly baseless*  I'm assuming its not of the threatening kind?

* (see previous posts on what The Fake Sartorialist is really about, and the above mentioned article)

And now for some entertainment!

Part 1 of the fabulous 2010 Guillotine Spring/Summer show:

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Part 2 coming soon...

Superella S/S 2010 - S.A. Fashion Week

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Comic text: 

Spring/Summer is a circus affair this year for Superella. Geometric shapes bring to mind high school trigonometry, with squares and triangles abound. Ella uses a palette of black and white (for the outgoing mime in you) mixed with patches of bright playful colours and prints. Volume and shape is used superbly though at times the billowing forms could do with some reigning in. 

Global Cooling - Making Of

Making of - Global Cooling 

Global Cooling - Chanel Fall 2010

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Comic text:

This year for Chanel’s Fall 2010 show, Karl Largerfeld thought it would be a good idea to ship an entire iceberg from Sweden to the heart of Paris. Ignoring one of the major issues of our time, global warming, he decided to make a poignant statement. Karl Largerfeld is single handedly trying to bring back the ice-age through his stellar use, or in this case dis-use of fashion.

As we search for warmer climates in this modern ice age, we lug around our acrylic polymer jackets. They become matted as they drag along the floor. In fact they have been designed to collect small bits of food as the urban nomad moves around the ruins of our cities. At the end of a fruit full day he will return to his cave. Feeding his wife and two cubs, they will talk fondly of a time when clothes weren’t oversized, clunky and ill-fitting. To a time where people wore Chanel...