Princess of polka dots Yayoi Kusama has teamed up with Louis Vutton for a special capsule collection. The collection, entitled Infinitely Kusama, is set to be unveiled on July 10, conveniently timed with Kusama’s major retrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York. The goods will be available in Vuitton’s 461 stores starting July 11, with a second line arriving in October.
Beginning June 6, 2012 the Barneys New York Madison Avenue flagship store’s windows will be transformed into dymamic vitrines for a public art exhibition organized in collaboration with DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, based in Athens, Greece. Conceived by DESTE’s founder, the internationally admired collector and patron Dakis Joannou, and Barneys Creative Director Dennis Freedman, this exhibition will present five ambitious site- specific installation projects by prominent artists in different disciplines. Each of the artists has participated since 2007 in destefashioncollection-- a DESTE Foundation special initiative devoted to investigating, interpreting and celebrating the complex relationships between art, fashion, and the culture at large. On view through July 4th, the project at Barneys New York will be the first U.S. presentation of destefashioncollection. The five participating artists are M/M (Michael Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak) Paris; photographer Juergen Teller; artist Helmut Lang; poet Patrizia Cavalli; and filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari.
From Maison Martin Margiela's Spring/Summer 2012 Défilé collection
Berlin based photographer Alexandra Waespijust sent over these amazing photographs from Zoe Jordan's A/W 2012 presentation last London Fashion week which were shot on film and manipulated in the darkroom. Waespi uses uses various techniques; painting with the chemicals, adding colored ink into the developer and more.
Societies Labyrinth is the graduate collection by fashion designer Deborah Morgan. This conceptual fashion film creates an insight into the AW 2012.13 collection which has seen her being nominated at this years Scottish Fashion Awards for Graduate of the Year 2012.
Jewelry designer Noemi Klein and tattoo artist Liam Sparkes team up for a capsule collection available at No-One in London.
Illustration by Kaori Ed
Japanese artist Kaori Ed wife and muse of photographer Araki is also a talented actress and illustrator. She has has teamed up with Yasmin Eslami with an illustration of cats embroidered on a her new line of lingerie.
Javier Peres', of Peres Projects, t-shirt based on his collection of paintings of River Phoenix entitled One of Ours available now at Opening Ceremony.
One of the best fashion films to come around in a good while, from writer and director Jessica Hundley, a film entitled The Morning After for Grey Ant sunglasses. See film after the jump.
Yves Saint Laurent and his "twin sister" and YSL muse Betty Catroux from Tomboy Style
Women who dress boldly, androgynously – sometimes mixing in men's styles – will resurface and recede as an iconic and oft referenced trend, but never does it go out of style. A new book by journalist Lizzie Garrett Mettler entitled Tomboy: Beyond the Boundaries of Fashion is a "visual history that chronicles the past eighty years of women who blur the line between masculinity and femininity [and] explores the evolution of the style and its icons."
One look from Romance Was Born's presentation at Australian Fashion Week. Photograph by Yimmy Yayo
Fashion Film for Emma Mulholland's Spring/Summer 2012/13 directed by Alex Goddard
Avant-garde fashion designer Henrik Vibskov releases his first book.
A surreal feast. Film about the rampant consumerism of contemporary society.Filmed and directed by Anastasia Ivanova, starring Aza Shade. Winner of Best Fashion Film award - Mode Vision, Moscow.
Dubbed fashion’s enfant terrible, Jean Paul Gaultier launched his first prêt-à-porter collection in 1976 and founded his own couture house in 1997. Emerging as a designer in the 1970s, he developed his own dress codes that reflected the changing world around him. This dynamic, multimedia exhibition will include 140 haute couture and prêt-à-porter designs created between the mid-1970s and 2010, along with numerous sketches, archival documents, fashion photographs, and video clips that spotlight Gaultier’s collaborations with filmmakers, choreographers, and musicians, most notably Madonna. Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalkwill be on view until August 19, 2012. Photography by Oliver Maxwell Kupper.
An amazing, rare pair of vintage Elsa Schiaparelli sunglasses will be on sale May 2 as part of a vintage jewelry sale timed to the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's opening of Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations explores the striking affinities between Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada, two Italian designers from different eras. Sunglasses like the ones above were made in 1957 for American Optical bear a resemblance to Prada's Spring 2012 collection which also includes pieces decorated with enamel roses. Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations will be on view starting May 10 at the Met in NYC.
Photograph of Kurt Cobain wearing Jean Paul Gaultier at the amazing Jean Paul Gaultier exhibition on view now at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco. More photos coming soon. Photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper for Pas Un Autre.
Jean Paul Gaultier's amazing exhibition is on view now at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco. More photos coming soon. Photograph by Oliver Maxwell Kupper for Pas Un Autre.
London based designer Gabriella Marina Gonzalez presents her amazing Autumn/Winter 2012 collection entitled Un-Self Portrait which was designed, hand made and shot by the designer while traveling abroad in the United States. Using material she pick up along the way, the collection includes vintage monkey fur reassembled from a 1920’s coat to form part of the showpiece dress. In the designer’s signature style, shredded silk appliqué was made from discontinued chiffon. Vinyl from a 1950’s table cover manufacturer’s dead stock was used to create metal like tubes and a new take on the GMG harness. Silk rope from home decor was used to create luxury straps on high gloss wooden platform shoes.
Maximilla Lukacs & Sarah Sophie Flicker create a video for Wren's Fall/Winter 2012 collection starring Tavi Gevinson
