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February 2011 - III: Runway views; functionality of fashion

London Fashion Week The eye of the camera Web/Mobile
Behind the scenes, the ones who are posing for the camera are still looking nicer than the rest; seen at Burberry's catwalk show...


New York Fashion Week Christian Siriano Web/Mobile
...presented the new collection during New York Fashion Week. The phenomenon of today's 'reality' media age speaks in a video interview about his...


Functionality Fashion that survives more than one season Web/Mobile
Fashionoffice has collected some pieces that are following the sustainable design concept of staying in fashion longer than one season like seen at Grüne Erde...


Functionality Additional functionality of a corsage; Spring-Sight by publisher Karin Sawetz Web/Mobile
On the motorbike, I wear additionally to the kidney belt a similar holder-'object' like the corsage by p2...


UPDATE:

This month, Fashionoffice publishes the statistics for users from France in ratio to global traffic. The traffic is counted by the third-party supplier Quantcast on basis of the data delivery by Fashionoffice's hosting provider Globat; view the data on fashionoffice.org/contact. As online is a self-regulating system that functions in a response-flow, the users’ choice has the most impact: if the found information is not relevant, users will search for new sources and will produce with their behaviour the statistical data for the eco-system internet – and this regardless of whether it’s the intention of an online source to produce these data; because these data are keeping the eco-system ‘internet’ alive. More about what statistics tell.


SHORT MESSAGES (from the FashionFeeds):

11 Feb 2011 - Bloggers in Egypt
...in a story by GEO Magazine with images contributed by English photojournalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind who has received already several awards for her work like by The Guardian, Canon Italy, or Deutsche Bank. Now, Taylor-Lind was selected as one of the winners of the 2011 FNAC grants for original photography (FNAC belongs to the PPR group - Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent, Sergio Rossi, Boucheron...) for her reports on the life of female members of the armed forces in Russia and Crimea. Her photographic work will be presented at the next Visa Pour l’Image-Perpignan international festival of photojournalism (27 Aug - 11 Sept) and will travel later to FNAC photo galleries in France.

10 Feb 2011 - Mobile Library
...in containers by the Chinese artist Jaffa Lam Laam. The Mobile Library containers are made of recycled umbrella fabrics, rice bags and manufactured by sewers from the Hong Kong Women Workers' Association. Jaffa Lam Laam has designed the containers to treat the books like seeds "in a metaphorical plant". Now, the Asia Art Archive (Hong Kong, China) travels with the project 'Open Edit: Mobile Library' to Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) where visitors are invited to interact with the books in unconventional ways (re-interpret the information by applying notes or even tearing out pages) between 24 February and 9 April 2011 at the contemporary art space and reading room Sàn Art.

10 Feb 2011 - Amor 2.0 study shows that 36% re-sell the gifts from the ex
Just received an information from eBay.at about a study that gives insight into the behaviour of consumers. One of the results is that 36% of the Austrians (whose relationship came to an end) are trying to re-sell the gifts from the ex-partner as fast as possible - especially around emotional days like Valentine's Day, which also affects the auction platform.

10 Feb 2011 - Love-chemistry scanner application
...for Android. Fashionoffice has just received the tip by Sony Ericsson for Valentine's Day on 14 Feb. (Note: the cost-free app is for entertainment only!)

10 Feb 2011 - Re-listen: '320' by 'Project Jenny, Project Jan' from the album XOXOXOXOXO (2007)
The electronic dance beats with vintage layering come from music programmer Sammy Rubin, the experimental melodious voice is contributed by Jeremy Haines. If you don't understand everything what he sings, the beginning of the lyrics of the song about paranoia is like a 'secret code' - you can read the lyrics on projectjennyprojectjan.bandcamp.com/track/320. Now, the indie rockers' album release of 'Home Sweet Home' is announced for 5th April. "... a download code of Home Sweet Home will be available to anyone that purchases PJPJ merch via the band’s website and at live shows. Each composition, from liner notes, to t-shirts, to press photos and the visual elements that are part of every performance, is designed by them or by people they admire, as an interpretation of the music."

9 Feb 2011 - 'Inserts in Real Time' by artist Dora Garcia about on- and offline realities
The online presentation of the work 'Inserts in Real Time' by the Spanish artist Dora Garcia consists of several chapters that are inspired by our multimedia-world questioning today's power structures and its rules: 'Proxy' references to the technical device that storages information and is used as a sort of 'time-machine' that can transfer the past into the present, or 'The Possible' is showing keywords which can be combined to create a sound-atmosphere of different situations. Now it's announced that Dora García represents Spain at the Venice Biennale (4 June - 27 Nov). "Dora Garcia is an artist who is interested in analyzing the paradigms and conventions of art, and who has frequently challenged notions of power and the way in which it operates. Her work is also directed at demystifying the relationship between artist and audience, and using fiction to question the ethical and moral elements of this relationship." says Katya García-Antón, curator of the Spanish Pavilion.

8 Feb 2011 - New video for 'Patience' by Nas and Damian Marley
...from the album 'Distant Relatives' directed by the Australian in Los Angeles living director and photographer Nabil Elderkin, whose client list includes Nike, Coca Cola, Rolling Stone, Paramount Pictures, MTV...

7 Feb 2011 - Making-of the short film with French actress Josephine de la Baume
...who is starring in the new Agent Provocateur spring/summer 2011 campaign. Josephine de la Baume, Agent Provocateur creative director Sarah Shotton and director Johan Renk speak in the making-of video about the 60/70s inspired collection and the idea behind the campaign, which combines sex, playfulness and humour. The campaign movie 'Watching Josephine' is shot with a 'voyeuristic camera' agentprovocateur.com/videos/josephine.html.

7 Feb 2011 - Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable
...on the film set, photographed by Inge Morath is one of the images of the exhibition 'Magnum am Set' at the Museum Moderner Kunst Wörlen Passau (until 27 March, DE). The famous agency 'Magnum' was founded in 1947. Since the beginning, the Magnum photographers such as Robert Capa - a friend of Ingrid Bergmann, Billy Wilder, have captured film sets in Hollywood - and made them legendary. The Magnum images have defined what we still have in our mind when we think of stars like Montgomery Clift, James Dean, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne...

7 Feb 2011 - Shooting Stars of the European Film
...such as Clara Lago have inspired the Madrid (ES) based design label Peseta for a special series of backpacks for the 14th edition of Shooting Stars in collaboration with the European Film Promotion on occasion of the next Berlinale (10 - 20 Feb, Berlin, DE). "This is the first time we make a classic backpack bag (convertible into a backpack or a shoulder bag with two movements) for a collaboration but we are really happy with the result." peseta.org.

7 Feb 2011 - Clip with Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher from the new movie 'No Strings Attached'
The movie 'No Strings Attached' comes in February into cinemas in Europe, Asia, South America. The love story is about a woman and a man who know each other from youth. After years without any contact, they meet and love is flaming again. As Emma Kurtzman (Natalie Portman) is working hard in her job as a medic, she has no time for a close relationship and prefers 'sex without breakfast'...

7 Feb 2011 - Swimwear designer Amahlia Stevens from Vitamin A
The video is one of the favorite videos of the Marbella (ES) headquartered online swimwear shop Beachfashionshop.com on the shop's own YouTube channel. Fashionoffice just has received the shop's information with the words: "We have discovered your fashion website and we are impressed! We think that your visitors might also be interested in our website." This is very probable - and by the way: the swimwear video producers, the siblings Howie and Gail Sonnenschein - former fashion television producers, have a great site for sun- and beach-hungry users too: Bikini.com (founded 1997).

7 Feb 2011 - 'Running With Insanity' by the Danish experimental folk-indie band Alcoholic Faith Mission
...is the title track of the new 'And The Running With Insanity EP'; comes out on 29 March on Paper Garden Records. The band tours in Feb in Denmark, March in Canada, US...

7 Feb 2011 - 'Crazy' by the French chanson-rapper Soprano
...sings about today's youth that uses smartphones, wearable audio-devices, Facebook and Blogs, and have lost their believe in the political discourse. On 21 March, Soprano's re-edition 'La Colombe et Le Corbeau' of his last album 'La Colombe' with additionally 12 yet unpublished tracks will be released.

5 Feb 2011 - Narration in philosophy and art
In the video by the Asia Art Archive, artist Huang Yong Ping speaks about his experience of reading philosophical texts and art from other cultures, understanding them from different perspectives, and combining this knowledge with the philosophy of Zen and Taoism, which is reflected in his own experimental Dada inspired art work from the 80s. At this time, Huang Yong Ping's 25 metre gigantic octopus alike installation 'Wu Zei' (Chinese name for cuttlefish - 'Wu' means also the color black, and 'Zei' stands for betraying or corruption) is inspired by the biodiversity of the sea and refers to the maritime disasters caused by man, is on show at the Oceanographic Museum in Monaco (until 20 May 2012) www.oceano.mc