LOUISE GRAY - LONDON F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW Louise Gray took a bold stance on playing with color, pattern, and texture for her electrifying Fall 2012 collection, "I'll Take It." Gray focused on wildly patterned knits, mixing them together to create depth and a visual shock to the system. Although the ensembles are covered head-to-toe in these designs,…
MARK FAST - LONDON F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW Aiming to illustrate what he described as “sophisticated grunge”, Canadian Mark Fast kept attention primarily fixed on large draping cardigans and tightly fitted mini dresses. Fast restricted his color palette to shades of sand, grey and navy, complementing the muted overtones with cropped tops and whimsical touches…
MARY KATRANTZOU - LONDON F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW Last year’s winner of the Emerging Talent Prize at the British Fashion Awards, Greek Mary Katrantzou set out to “discover the beauty in the everyday.” While preserving her signature lampshade shape, and A-line coats, Katrantzou did just that by using highly imaginative embellishments based on patterns from…
MATTIJS VAN BERGEN - LONDON F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW Two weeks after Mattijs Van Bergen showed in Amsterdam, he wowed audiences at London Fashion Week with his “Starbust” Fall 2012 collection. The collection was inspired by some of Bergen’s favorite childhood films, including The Never Ending Story and Star Wars. These inspirations were translated into…
MICHAEL VAN DER HAM - LONDON F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW Michael Van der Ham explored a variety of fabrications and prints for the F/W 2012 collection. This Dutch designer used a mélange of different textures – including organza, wool, lace and jacquard – and bold, brightly colored patterns, and found a pleasing harmony between simple separates…
INDIRA CESARINE INTERVIEWS PAM HOGG POST SHOW PAM HOGG - LONDON F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW Pam Hogg continues to surprise with her adventurous, brazen fashion. Dramatic and theatrical, this A/W 2012-13 collection flaunted boldly defined silhouettes of dresses with cinched waistlines and flared, triangular skirts and skin-tight bodysuits. Hogg combined a color palette exclusively composed…
PETER PILOTTO - LONDON F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW A collaborative effort of Austrian/Italian Peter Pilotto and Belgian/Peruvian Christopher De Vos, the Peter Pilotto label’s reputation for pioneering fashion earned them the Best Emerging Talent Award at the British Fashion Awards in 2009. This A/W 2012-13 collection adds various Asian subculture references, from Japanese…
PPQ - LONDON F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW Amy Molyneaux and Percy Parker of PPQ , known for dressing music icons like Amy Winehouse and Pete Doherty, dedicated their Fall 2012 collection to the apocalyptic romance of winter. This collection showed a more elegant, sophisticated side of the label known for propelling the drainpipe jean trend.…
BACKSTAGE AT PROSE Prose designer, Miriam Lehle, was inspired to create her Fall 2012 collection from an old curtain that she found and cut up into pieces. The collection reflected the colors of the curtain, with midnight, ochre, and chestnut. It also mimicked its detailing, with explosive, dramatic fringe on almost every look that had a…
SHAO YEN - LONDON F/W 2012 FASHION PRESENTATION Shao Yen, a Taiwanese designer, wanted to play with traditional English formal wear in his Fall 2012 collection, "Class," by mixing in stylistic elements from British street and sportswear. Sedate tweeds and tailored blazers were given a youthful edge with additions of fur and leather, in bright orange…
SPIJKERS EN SPIJKERS - LONDON F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW Spijkers en Spijkers Fall 2012 collection, Birds of Paradise, mixed and layered silks to create art deco prints and silhouettes. The look of the show was a demure, 50s shape, that was then taken into the present day through an autumnal color palette, sheer elements, and…
TEMPERLEY LONDON - LONDON F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW As the title of Temperley London's Fall 2012 collection suggests, it was heavily inspired by sumptuous Renaissance religious paintings from the beginning of the 18th century. However, It was not just paintings that gave the "Renaissance" collection its title, but the word itself, meaning creative…
TOPSHOP UNIQUE - LONDON F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW Turning from the bold, adventurous trends of the past two seasons, Topshop Unique’s A/W 2012-13 collection, under new creative director Kate Phelan, aimed to reinvent the uniform with a good mix of masculine and feminine. The collection featured military-inspired outerwear, a velvet jumpsuit, shirt dresses,…
ZEYNEP TOSUN - LONDON F/W 2012 FASHION SHOW Zeynep Tosun is one of the foremost fashion designers coming out of Turkey, and her futuristic Fall 2012 collection, shown during the House of Evolution show, cemented that reputation. The collection both referenced traditional Japanese garments, and fabrics, with many looks consisting of deconstructed or re-imagined…
PHOTOGRAPHS FROM BRIAN GRIFFITH'S 'INVISIBLE SHOW' OPENING On January 11th, Bethnal Green’s Vilma Gold Gallery unveiled the exhibition titled The Invisible Show by London-based artist Brian Griffiths. The show is a series of cuboid metal frames cloaked in a beige tarpaulin material placed in a long row. On opening night visitors maneuvered around the tent-like objects, some crouching…
GAZELLI ART HOUSE - THE ELEMENTS 2011 Throughout 2011 Gazelli Art House presented a five part thematic series of exhibitions based on the “five classical elements of Fire, Earth, Water, Air and Ether”. The first two exhibitions, “Fired Up” and “Down To Earth”, revolved around the elemental themes of Fire and Earth, while “Still or…
RYAN MCGINLEY: WANDERING COMA EXHIBIT EVENT PHOTOS On Wednesday November 23rd, the new exhibit, Wandering Coma by photographer Ryan McGinley, opened at Alison Jacques Gallery in London. Wandering Coma exhibits seven images presented in the largest format the artist has ever worked with. Each photograph was printed in a variety of sizes to fit the…
THE VOYAGE ISSUE TRAILER (10:15) The Voyage Issue 4 features films from a wide array of international contributors, coming from locations as varied as Buenos Aires, Paris, London, Greece, New York, Canada, Sweden, and Los Angeles, each with their own take on what the theme "voyage" means to them. Directors and artists include: Andrea Tese, Bell…
LAZARIDES GALLERY OFFSITE IN THE OLD VIC TUNNELS EVENT PHOTOS During this year’s Frieze Art Fair 2011, Lazarides Gallery returned to The Old Vic Tunnels with the exhibit The Minotaur which opened on October 10th . The maze-like installation was inspired by the ancient Greek legend of The Minotaur, the labyrinth-dwelling, half-bull, half-man creature. Gallery…
LEE FRIEDLANDER: AMERICA BY CAR AND THE NEW CARS 1964 EVENT PHOTOS Timothy Taylor Gallery presented a two-part exhibit, Lee Friedlander: America by Car and The New Cars 1964, in London on September 7th 2011. Both series by the critically acclaimed American photographer involve automobiles. One is a collection of photographs from his journeys while on road…
