8.15.2013

INGÉNIERIE ÉQUIVOQUE





"Whatever I may look at, everything is beyond me, everything surprises me. I don’t exactly know what I am seeing. It’s too complex." Alberto Giacometti

Undisciplined mood-boarding for London Fashion Week. A few of the darlings we had to kill, Faulkner-style, in the edit. Inappropriate, incongruous or just plain incorrect. But loved nonetheless.

7.16.2013

TODAY iS _____ sixteen.VII.


[one]
Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.

[two]
I was of three minds,
Like a tree
In which there are three blackbirds

[three]
The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.
It was a small part of the pantomime.

[four]
A man and a woman
Are one.
A man and a woman and a blackbird
Are one.

[five]
I do not know which to prefer, 
The beauty of inflections 
Or the beauty of innuendoes, 
The blackbird whistling 
Or just after.

[six]
Icicles filled the long window
With barbaric glass.
The shadow of the blackbird
Crossed it, to and fro.
The mood
Traced in the shadow
An indecipherable cause.

[seven]
O thin men of Haddam,
Why do you imagine golden birds?
Do you not see how the blackbird
Walks around the feet
Of the women about you?

[eight]
I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms;
But I know, too,
That the blackbird is involved
In what I know.

[nine]
When the blackbird flew out of sight,
It marked the edge
Of one of many circles.

[ten]
At the sight of blackbirds
Flying in a green light,
Even the bawds of euphony
Would cry out sharply.

[eleven]
He rode over Connecticut
In a glass coach.
Once, a fear pierced him,
In that he mistook
The shadow of his equipage
For blackbirds.

[twelve]
The river is moving.
The blackbird must be flying.

[thirteen]
It was evening all afternoon.
It was snowing
And it was going to snow.
The blackbird sat
In the cedar-limbs.

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.
Wallace Stevens

7.11.2013

OUR PLAYGROUND



 






We are lucky to have a little Millais-wolf with a wonderful eye. She has adorned our mood boards - our playground, made us smile and given us a beautiful palette with which to flex our editing muscles. A creative workout for the pack. And a lovely story emerged that as yet has no title - but which stars un éléphant sacré, a fairground hangover, a furtive embrace in Pacific Heights and a stolen vignette from the Cadre Noir.

3.01.2013

LFW AW'13 - 10 SHADES OF...



A little explosion of red around Somerset House at LFW AW'13.

LFW AW'13 - 4 SHADES OF...


We spotted so much colour around the courtyard at Somerset House this season at London Fashion Week AW'13. From Chloe Norgaard's PPQ beehive... to Jonathan Saunders' LFW uniforms... here's our favourite yellow ladies.

LFW AW'13 MAKE-UP LOOKS

Huishan Zhang

Emilio de la Morena

David Koma

Mark Fast

Mark Fast

Marios Schwab

Zoe Jordan

A few of our favourite make-up look sketches from London Fashion Week AW'13



1.18.2013

FOUND SONGS


The video for Ólafur Arnalds' "Ljósiô"... from his Found Songs.  We found it.  And lost ourselves in this mesmerizing, beautiful universe that defines the ever-elusive.

2.25.2012

A FEW OF MY FAVOURITE THINGS

London Fashion Week is work... hard work - producing three venues which house over 50 shows in 6 days.  But in amongst the hard work are a few glimmering moments when my eyes light on absolutely stunning, brilliant and original design.  So here's my guilty-secret.  The looks I adore and hanker after from Marios Schwab, Emilio de la Morena, Kinder Aggugini, David Koma and Osman... all of whom we are lucky enough to produce for.

2.11.2012

FLASHBACK | SS'12 | PHOTO-MONTAGE





We've been working up some "art" for the British Fashion Council's VIP Lounge at London Fashion Week (a small part of our very large design and production mandate for London Fashion Week). The design direction for this space was inspired by a joyfully gaudy palette (see previous post "Alice")of synthetic colours. And it seemed a propos to draw from last season's amazing collections - full of colour and print - and to create a series of deliberately clashing montages celebrating London's design talent. With thanks to Erdem, David Koma, Meadham Kirchoff, Holly Fulton, Mary Katranzou, Julien Macdonald, Clements Ribeiro, Peter Pilotto, Kinder Aggugini, Burberry, Jonathan Saunders, Michael van der Ham and Sass & Bide - whose collections appear in these montages.

12.18.2011

LANVIN DEMONSTRATES SAINT-EXUPERY

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

This may have been three years ago, but it goes to show the enduring genius of Alber Elbaz.  In a window: a mannequin, a box, a fan and a dress create dynamic movement, turning a window into a cinema screen - interpreting the slightly hackneyed idea of diaphanous fabric caught in a breeze into a modern poem.