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August 2010 - IV: Nordic Design; Love Pieces


Fruity, flowerish, green, and provocative Web/Mobile/
Fashionoffice was inspired by the Nordic designers and picked some pieces - not for fitting them together. And they have nothing else in common, except that they are looking...

Love is in the air Web/Mobile/
...collected some 'love'-pieces, inspired by a press day about new fragrances from Paris. One of the men's perfumes got the nice remark: "With this scent on, I won't let him go out alone."

Fashionoffice Insight by publisher Karin Sawetz, August 2010 Web/Mobile/
Postcards and tweets have one in common: they are written in the consciousness that a wider public can read it. This makes the texts on Twitter as 'harmless' for the privacy of the sender and recipient like postcard-writings. Fashionoffice has installed...


UPDATE:






Fashionoffice is removed from the Google Map searching for 'fashion' in Austria
After hard work on changing the wrong entry for fashion.at (you landed instead on fashion.at/triumph), the magazine is now removed from the Google Map for the search 'fashion' in Vienna/Austria. On 21 Aug, we have found out that someone has changed the entry: "Changed 17 hours 9 mins ago. Name: fashion.at (English, type: Obscure). Place removed"

FASHION WEEKS, ART - CITIES:

HELSINKI

Storytelling with design
By searching for upcoming fashion weeks, Fashionoffice has looked closer at the websites of participating designers of Helsinki Design Week (26 Aug - 5 Sept 2010). This year, Helsinki Design Week invites to a week of events centred around the theme of storytelling. One of the participants is Finnish designer Minna Hepburn. She has produced two videos for her website http://www.minnahepburn.com/ to represent the style of her 'Eco-Luxe' (sustainable, recycled material; local production) women's and children's wear.

STOCKHOLM

Tiger of Sweden SS2011 at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Stockholm
On 18 Aug, the Swedish label presented tailored suits for men in light colors and soft floating tops and dresses for women with abstract prints. The label was founded 1903, since 2000 it has an own jeans line. If you want to know more about the brand, watch video producer WatchMojo.com's documentation about the history and the philosophy of 'Tiger of Sweden' on http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xe9cfb_the-history-of-tiger-of-sweden-clot_lifestyle.

Cheap Monday SS2011 at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Stockholm (16-18 Aug)
Catwalk report and interview from the presentation of Cheap Monday SS2011 on 17 Aug at the Stockholm Fashion Week by the glamour and fashion channel Star! (belongs to the Nordic/Baltic NonStop Television). You can see Cheap Monday's designers Örjan Andersson and Ann-Sofie Back speaking about the inspiration for their comfortable jeans, shirts, pullovers and jackets in minimalistic Nordic design with a touch of glam. If you are interested in the full-length fashion show, visit the labels website http://www.cheapmonday.com/news/1000-fashion-show-ss-2011/.

OSLO

Fam Irvoll SS2011 at Oslo Fashion Week
On 18 Aug 2010, the Norwegian designer (graduate from Esmod international, Central St Martins London) presented her colorful, comic-alike, sculptural collection with models wearing speech-bubbles. Unfortunately there is no video from the SS11 collection online. Enjoy in the meanwhile the nice presentation of Fam Irvoll's FW2010/11 collection in February 2010 at Oslo Fashion Week on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmrqyxBX1xQ or the photos on the link above.

DÜSSELDORF

Düsseldorf invites to reflections on art, artists, and the consumers of art
On 8 and 9 September 2010, the Quadriennale 2010 in Düsseldorf invites to the 'Symposion: Objects for everyone and no one.' The symposion is the opening event of a series of exhibitions that happen on several places in the city. The symposion is very practically: it's an examination of viewing art and is arranged even for the ones who have no practice in following artists on their eccentric way. One of the lectures comes from the philosopher and art historian, professor Ursula Pia Jauch about 'objects' and how they become important things in life - life-companions like the fetish iPhone, and how viceversa humans turn into objects.

COPENHAGEN

Catwalk presentation with social intention
On 13 Aug 2010 at Copenhagen Fashion Week, stylist and creative director Simon Rasmussen presented his men's and women's collection with a catwalk performance that seems like a statement against the throwaway society. The catwalk looks like a garbage dump. Simon Rasmussen's pieces are designed and created out of recycled clothing. "The theme and inspiration for the show and the collection is taken from the street heroes - the homeless, the prostitutes, the crazy people, the ones, nobody want's to be around." writes Simon Rasmussen on his blog.

Search for tweets on 'Oslo Fashion Week'
After the Copenhagen Fashion Week just ended (11-15 Aug), Norwegian designers show the new collections for SS2011 at the Oslo Fashion Week. Fashionoffice has installed the search for tweets on the magazine's cover.

PARIS

The object 'headdress'
La Maison Rouge, a private art foundation in Paris which presents different facets of contemporary creation, exhibits the collection of ethnic headdresses by its founder Antoine de Galbert until 26 Sept 2010. 'Journey in my head' shows more than 400 headdresses, which had been collected by Antoine de Galbert in the last fifteen years on his travels. The objects have been used for rituals, show status and possession, or used for seduction. Under the subtitle 'Rites of passage and seduction', feminine headdresses are presented as records of the different stages in a woman's life. One of the example pieces is the 'Ladakh headdress' from the western Himalaya, which is given from a mother to her eldest daughter when she marries and who will keep it her whole life. The 'Petit Journal' on the website of La Maison Rouge gives a good insight into the thematic structure and the exhibited pieces.

MUSIC:

Video premiere 'Thank You For Your Love' by Antony and The Johnsons
'Thank You For Your Love' is the title-track of Antony and The Johnson's EP that will be released on 23 August in Europe, 24 August North America; the song is the lead single of the next album 'Swanlight' (release in Oct www.swanlights.com). The video (premiere on 20 Aug) is made of Super 8 footage from the early 1990's. The pictures are shot by Antony himself when he first arrived to New York City as a teenager.

'Never Been There' by Christopher Paul Stelling
Brooklyn (New York) based singer Christopher Paul Stelling remembers the traveling poets from the European Middle Ages who had told their stories with music. Fashionoffice received the information with the words: "Take one look at his road-worn, weathered guitar, and you know that Christopher Paul Stelling is a musician with a story to tell. With a heartfelt voice, dynamic finger-picked guitar stylings, and a songwriting approach that combines folkloric, mythological, and religious imagery..." Christopher Paul Stelling's full-length album is announced for 2011. The musician performs on 19 August at East Village Radio (interview + performance), 24 Aug - Rockwood Music Hall, etc. Details on http://www.myspace.com/freedumbmusesick.

'We Won't Run' by Sarah Blasko from the album 'As Day Follows Night'
Australian artist Sarah Blasko's third album 'As Day Follows Night' is now available in a special edition on vinyl through Europe. The folk-jazz-pop songs are souled by hope and bewitched by the vocals of Sarah Blasko.

Yann Tiersen on stage
Yann Tiersen, multi-instrumentalist who plays folk classical music and performs as guitarist with punk-bands or composes soundtracks like for the French movie 'Amélie' (2001), will release his new album 'Dust Lane' in October 2010. Yann Tiersen is on tour - on 23 Oct at The Village in Dublin, followed in Oct/Nov by cities in UK, ES, DE, IT; on 1 Dec at the Arena in Vienna (AT), 2 Dec Budapest... Details on http://www.yanntiersen.com/

'Cumbia Incoming' by the Cumbia Cosmonauts
The Australian band 'Cumbia Cosmonauts' will perform on 21 Aug at Club Planetarium in Vienna (Austria), on 28 Aug and in early Sept in Berlin (Germany), other countries like FR, NL, etc. follow. Details on http://www.myspace.com/cumbiacosmonauts.

'A Little Less Conversation' remembering Elvis Presley (8 Jan 1935, Tupelo, Mississippi - 16 August 1977, Memphis, Tennessee)
The Elvis Presley song 'A Little Less Conversation' from 1968 was remixed by musician JXL especially for Nike's Football Worldcup campaign (2002, Amsterdam-based advertising agency Wieden & Kennedy). Good things never go out of fashion!

'I’ll Be Gone' by ¡MAYDAY! from the upcoming new album 'Stuck On An Island'
Fashionoffice received the hyperlink to the new video with the information about Miami based ¡MAYDAY!'s first performances in New York (28, 30, 31 Aug, and 2 Sept).