It's a little late, but,

*drools*

Christian Dior, A/W 2007.

I loved that season, so many designers creating such... lovely 'dark' things.

Soliloquy 88

SOLILOQUY 88 from JASON LAST on Vimeo.
Found via Twisted Lamb
"SOLILOQUY 88 is a fashion film collaboration between Jason Last & art director Jaime Rubiano.
Commissioned for Hintmag, the film features Rodarte's spring 2010 collection, with shoes by Nicholas Kirkwood for Rodarte.
Radium, a white radioactive metal with the atomic number 88, turns black when exposed to oxygen. The film explores themes of decay, metamorphosis, transformation, etc, all through the lens of a dystopian and sci-fi vision, with a soundtrack by David Madden."

The fashion world have lately (in the past few years), started to fully embrace technology as a medium of presentation. Fashion films are starting to go viral. Why not? They are attractive, interesting, and a really fast way of 'spreading the word' so to speak. In the past two years or so, with the financial 'crisis', many of the less wealthy designers have used this medium as a way to present their fashion shows. It is much, much cheaper than the traditional runway show. (Only one model is required, and thus probably only one makeup artist, stylist, etc, and the location is probably fall cheaper to rent too). It's probably not as 'grand' as a traditional show, and all that stuff. But, it is the new age.

And I'm liking this =)

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BD: Nicole Kidman
DD: Carl Friedrich Abel
World Refugee Day
Father's Day 2010.

Smoke and Mirrors

A set of art/fashion photographs that I found through one of my favourite blogs, Haute Macabre

Photography: Solve Sundsbo

Model: Dree Hemingway

*Warning, contains NWS images*

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BD: Jerry Seinfield

DD: Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein, Alfred Hitchcock, Albert Hofmann

International Dance Day

Marchesa

A woman's fashion label that I stumbled upon over a year ago.
http://www.marchesa.com/


Only a few years in, and their designs have already become a stable on the red carpet. Personally, I like their brand, it's soft, feminine, fairytale-like at times, soft - safe colours, and just... very inspirational overall. Plus, they have two ladies as their directors =).

Unfortunately though, their dresses are something that we'll never be able to afford. (High end label, haute couture, you're looking in the something thousand range per dress. Not that we would ever have an occasion to wear it...)
 
And, for their spring 2010 collection, Asian influences! Origami! ^_______^
While not the most conventional, it is an art, wearable art almost. I think that's what I like the most about their designs, they are not just clothes anymore, but an absolute form of art.

*Edit: something that I realized I haven't done in a LONG while... opps.

  Today's birthdays: Septimius Severus and James Parkinson.