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July 2010 - III: Clothes made of fur?; beauty and body; high-tech styled as vintage
Clothes made of fur? Web/Mobile/
On this article, you will find one of the very rare fur clothes which are published on Fashionoffice. The reason therefore is: the quality requirements in Haute Couture are so high (density of the hair, shine...) that they can only be reached when the animals had been reared species-appropriately. And secondly: not everything is reality what you see...
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Fashionoffice has selected three art events that provide a new perspective on today’s society and the individual, such as Antony Gormley's landscape installation. Gormley's iron figures look in all directions but never face each other...
High-tech styled as vintage Web/Mobile/
The new music video by The Mynabirds has inspired the vintage outfit made of modern high-tech sportswear and environmental friendly pieces...
Fashionoffice Insight by publisher Karin Sawetz, July 2010 Web/Mobile/
We hope to give with this Fashionoffice Insight some useful hints to create your own online presentation from the 'Fabric of the Web'. Read about Twitter, inventory, keywords...
MUSIC:
Free music download: 'Impact' by Juliette Commagere
The track 'Impact', which is described as up-tempo vibe with breezy, island rhythms, is from the musician's second album 'The Procession' (release 20 September). LA based Juliette Commagere has already lend her vocals to Puscifer (Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan’s side project) and Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins’ latest solo album. Experimental musician Jon Hassell appears on the ambient 'Plantsong' of Juliette Commagere's album 'The Procession'.
Music video: afro-jazz, big band swing 'Morenike' by Siji from the album 'Adesiji'
The British born, now in New York living musician Siji sings about his (at this time fictional) daughter 'Morenike'. The video shows him on the way to collect the ingredients for a ceremony that visualizes the parents' hope for the child's good life. "Salt, Honey, Peppercorns, Water and Kola nuts, are used as symbolic gestures in prayer, so that the child’s life may in turn be sweet, adventure filled, self sufficient, healthy and tasteful."
Music video: 'Te Amo' by Rihanna
The video 'Te Amo' (Spanish for 'I love you') premiered in May 2010. It is directed by Anthony Mandler; the US music video director's list is extensive: Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige, Muse, Christina Aguilera... - to name only a few. In this video, Rihanna performs in a French castle with actress and model Laetitia Casta in the role of the femme fatale; she arrives in a Mercedes Benz sportscar...
FILM:
Movie trailer 'Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque)' (2010)
The movie about the French singer Serge Gainsbourg was already released in January 2010 in France and runs at this time in Spain, in October it comes to cinemas in Germany. Director Joann Sfar documents the 'vie heroique' - the 'heroic live' of Gainsbourg from the singer's growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris over the 1960s and the liaisons with Brigitte Bardot (starring Laetitia Casta), Jane Birkin (Lucy Gordon), Juliette Gréco (Anna Mouglalis)... to his death in 1991.
ART:
User tribute to the art-video installation 'Sip my Ocean' by Pipilotti Rist
Impressed by an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the YouTube-user xylophoria has collected several materials from the web and arranged a tribute to the psychedelic video installation from 1996 by the Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist. Pipilotti Rist, whose name comes from the late 60s and 70s Swedish TV-character Pippi Longstocking, works on gender and sexuality. The audio layer is a new interpretation of Chris Isaak's song 'Wicked Game' by the artist singing it herself. At this time (from 8 July to 1 November 2010), the Fundació Joan Miró shows 13 video-installations under the title 'Pipilotti Rist:
Friendly Game – Electronic Feelings' in Barcelona. The video installation 'Doble llum' - an interactive art-work by Rist on Joan Miró's sculpture 'Femme' from 1968, was created especially for this exhibition www.fundaciomiro-bcn.org.
FASHION:
Catwalk video Trina Turk swim/spa SS2011 at the Fashion Week Swim Miami
The video shows the new Trina Turk collection 2011. The US designer has opened on 15 July 2010 the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Swim in Miami (15-19 July). Realtime results from Twitter (installed on 16 July on the cover of Fashionoffice) lead to articles which report from the 'South Beach' (in Miami) such as about Trina Turk and her 'West Coast' (Los Angeles) glam: Hollywood, Acapulco are keywords for her collection which was presented with bright hats on the catwalk. One of the tweets brings you to the article on StyleList with information about Trina Turk's inspiration, who was there, the editor's thoughts, etc.
Catwalk video Ed Hardy swimwear SS2011 at the Fashion Week Swim Miami
On 16 July, US label Ed Hardy, known for the tattoo inspired prints (the label's name is a homage to the West Coast - California based tattoo collector Don Ed Hardy), has shown its new SS2011 collection in Miami. The collection is more flowerish and lighter in colors (mixed with neon and transparencies) and form (delicate flowers on geometrics or animal prints) than the year before; a refreshing appeal. The 'roaring tiger' - the symbol stands for power and is even used to protect from evil, is beneath the flowers (beauty, innocence) the collection's second classical tattoo print which catches the eyes.
Catwalk video Mara Hoffman at the Fashion Week Swim Miami
On 17 July, East Coast (New York) based Mara Hoffman presented her new swim SS2011 collection at the Fashion Week in Miami. The creations of the designer, who has studied at Parsons School of Design NY and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design London, look like inspired by the traditional cultures of the indigenous people from South America. Even the styling (feathers) and make up (white dots on the models faces) give the impression that the designer stages a tribal ritual from the Amazon or a shamanistic ceremony onto the catwalk in Miami. "This season, Hoffman's muse goes on a mystical journey through the jungle," describes the YouTube user Mara Hoffman's SS2011 swim collection.
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