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I’ve blogged this once already, but it’s been entertaining to re-watch this Art Talk! series on Misaki Kawai. I’ll be heading to her solo opening tomorrow at the Paul Bright gallery. December is crazy.
Here’s a look at Swedish knitwear designer Sandra Backlund’s collection for Spring/Summer 2009. While I read about it on Where The Lights End, there is also an interview with Sandra on Dazed Digital that went up last week.
DD: You have done the student thing. You’ve established a signature. How do you see yourself moving forward?
SB: I don’t come from a fashion capital and so my journey is a bit slower. I’m not stressed but I’m anxious to move. I can’t wait! It’s going too slowly at the moment. I would really like to have a show in one of the capitals on-schedule. I had so many people requesting invitations last season when I exhibited in London.
It’s so funny that there’s this bubble/illusion that the press have created. People think there’s a production team and lots of people working for me. They write to me applying for internships and asking to speak to the press/production manager when really it’s just me doing everything!DD: Maybe people see that you’re on the edge of greatness and want to jump onboard for the ride. When can we expect a show then?
SB: I want it to be as soon as possible. I know I don’t have many looks, budget or know everyone. I still want it to be as perfect as possible…
Read more here.
I think I might be one of the few that still enjoys the shoulder pad cliché, but this Anne-Sofie Back commission for Fred Perry’s sixth installment of the Blank Canvas series is hard to deny. Great silhouettes.
Back draws her inspiration from products and issues that make her feel uncomfortable. The reverse shoulder pad, a design feature that runs through all of the collection, is a manifestation of that inspiration and is also found in Back’s catwalk collections. The reversed pads in the garments create a sloping shoulder, the opposite of the 80’s fashion cliché of power dressing.
To read and see more, click here.
Via This Heart’s On Fire
Straight from the Monkey’s Paw, I picked up some books on hold. A fifth print of An Aperture Monograph by Diane Arbus, a first-edition paperback of McLuhan’s The Medium is the Massage (though not his best work), and a nice book of poems by Paul Verlaine.
Eva also lent me two back issues of the Vancouver-based, really-well-done art magazine, Pyramid Power.
Pleasant synchronicity in design noted within…
A one-night-only outdoor slideshow exhibition featuring photography by Dana L. Goldstein, Eva Michon, Jeremy R. Jansen, Jimmy Limit, Lina Scheynius, Matthew Koudys, Melanie Schiff
Heating will be provided a fire pit.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Winter Gallery
Backyard of #2 Rusholme Dr.
7:00pm - 10:00pm
Just earlier tonight I was making jokes about spending an inordinate sum of money on scents, but I am in fact very keen on designer perfume, especially of the boutique variety, and I enjoy reading about it as much as I do wearing it. If I had to choose a bottle from the Six Scents series, I might find it hard—Gareth Pugh or Bernard Willhelm, I’m curious what both would smell like. It may be awhile, but I’m still waiting to sniff the turnout of what new scent Balenciaga will have in store.
Six Scents by Gareth Pugh, Bernard Willhelm, Preen, Jeremy Scott, Cosmic Light Source, and Alexandre Herchcovitch—The Individualist
This limited-edition series (only 2,000 bottles) just debuted with each potion reflecting the corresponding designer’s approach to Masculine/Feminine, and include ingredients like black tea, musk, cypress, and dill. Naturally, these designers scents and looks are inexplicably connected.
Read more scents here.
Via Refinery29
