Cut&Paste and V&A
Cut&Paste London was really kind of disappointing. C'mon I thought London designers knew how to party?
I went to the event in NY last year and in all honesty, I thought it was anticlimactic to start, but they held the event at some church in NY this year and had a 2000+ turn out! London was their first international event, and it looks like the smoke faded across the Atlantic...about a 300 or so turn out and the crowd was quiet and shy. Some complaints: the judges didn't comment on each of the designs before they gave a score, and the competitors didn't have a chance to explain where they were going with their work (unlike last year). The MC was funny but totally unprepared. Venue wasn't so great either. What happened??
Anyway, good to meet some new people.
A few pictures:
Guy at the drawing table is the organizer...
With Winnie from Contra, and her friend Clement, they happened to be buddies with 2 of the competitors...
With Winnie and Dan
This was taken by Sam Cho, check out what he's all about here.
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I went to see the Golden Age of Couture exhibition at the V&A. I went especially for the evening gowns and they were amazing, in great condition considering that they were donated to the museum. (There were security guards every second step you take, otherwise I would have sneaked some photos.)
Jean Dessès, who did these gorgeous fluid chiffon gowns. Paris, 1953.
So pretty... She might look happy and comfortable, but that dress would have structure and boning inside it. Yeah, and we know how that would feel...
Check out the 3 months work of beading on this dress. Hubert de Givenchy. Paris 1955.
The exhibit ends with 3 pieces from the Dior Fall 04 haute couture collection, which I don't particularly like...
Galliano reminds me of Dali, must be the moustache. Why is it that men with moustaches are usually wack?
Sure you've all seen this already: Dior Spring 07, inspired by Puccini's Madame Butterfly, prettiest by far I think. The geisha thing is old, but no one else does it better than him.
I could totally pull this one off! hehe. From Dior Fall 07/08. Seems tacky? Take a look at the details on the bodice...
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Eek who cut Medusa's hair off? No no, that's the glass snake chandelier hanging at the V&A. Like?
I do! It's by the American sculptor Dale Chihuly, who happens to be a RISD alumni!
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I just saw the pics from Friday's Fendi show at the Great Wall of China. Yeah no kidding!
When I first heard about it I was thinking: No way! Somebody stop that waxy man! I can't believe they let him to do that! The Great Wall as a runway??
Why is there a huge fuss over it?
"Fendi's revenue from China has grown about 75 percent a year during the last two years and will rise around 50 percent this year, the CEO said. At that rate, Mr. Burke expects China to account for 15 percent to 20 percent of Fendi's global revenue within the next 15 to 20 years from 5 percent. That would make China as big as the U.S. market, which represents 18 percent to 20 percent of Fendi's global revenue."
- Wall Street Journal
Still, I could never have imagine it being used for something like that. And I've never been a huge fan of Fendi either, I've always thought it was for way older women. So an entire mini-collection was created just for this show plus they've added some pieces from the Spring 08 collection a few weeks back. After seeing these pictures, I might have just changed my mind. After all, I would grow old too...
The belts were my favorite...and the short pieces from the Spring 08 collection.
Big ups Du Juan for making it and rockin the top runways. Awesome.
Damn, Zhang Ziyi looks great. Kate Bosworth looks like a yeti...
Lagerfeld, as aways, looks like he's a piece of wax from Madame Toussauds.
I went to the event in NY last year and in all honesty, I thought it was anticlimactic to start, but they held the event at some church in NY this year and had a 2000+ turn out! London was their first international event, and it looks like the smoke faded across the Atlantic...about a 300 or so turn out and the crowd was quiet and shy. Some complaints: the judges didn't comment on each of the designs before they gave a score, and the competitors didn't have a chance to explain where they were going with their work (unlike last year). The MC was funny but totally unprepared. Venue wasn't so great either. What happened??
Anyway, good to meet some new people.
A few pictures:
With Winnie from Contra, and her friend Clement, they happened to be buddies with 2 of the competitors...
With Winnie and Dan
This was taken by Sam Cho, check out what he's all about here.
***
I went to see the Golden Age of Couture exhibition at the V&A. I went especially for the evening gowns and they were amazing, in great condition considering that they were donated to the museum. (There were security guards every second step you take, otherwise I would have sneaked some photos.)
Jean Dessès, who did these gorgeous fluid chiffon gowns. Paris, 1953.
So pretty... She might look happy and comfortable, but that dress would have structure and boning inside it. Yeah, and we know how that would feel...
Check out the 3 months work of beading on this dress. Hubert de Givenchy. Paris 1955.
The exhibit ends with 3 pieces from the Dior Fall 04 haute couture collection, which I don't particularly like...
Galliano reminds me of Dali, must be the moustache. Why is it that men with moustaches are usually wack?
Sure you've all seen this already: Dior Spring 07, inspired by Puccini's Madame Butterfly, prettiest by far I think. The geisha thing is old, but no one else does it better than him.
I could totally pull this one off! hehe. From Dior Fall 07/08. Seems tacky? Take a look at the details on the bodice...
***
Eek who cut Medusa's hair off? No no, that's the glass snake chandelier hanging at the V&A. Like?
I do! It's by the American sculptor Dale Chihuly, who happens to be a RISD alumni!
***
I just saw the pics from Friday's Fendi show at the Great Wall of China. Yeah no kidding!
When I first heard about it I was thinking: No way! Somebody stop that waxy man! I can't believe they let him to do that! The Great Wall as a runway??
Why is there a huge fuss over it?
"Fendi's revenue from China has grown about 75 percent a year during the last two years and will rise around 50 percent this year, the CEO said. At that rate, Mr. Burke expects China to account for 15 percent to 20 percent of Fendi's global revenue within the next 15 to 20 years from 5 percent. That would make China as big as the U.S. market, which represents 18 percent to 20 percent of Fendi's global revenue."
- Wall Street Journal
Still, I could never have imagine it being used for something like that. And I've never been a huge fan of Fendi either, I've always thought it was for way older women. So an entire mini-collection was created just for this show plus they've added some pieces from the Spring 08 collection a few weeks back. After seeing these pictures, I might have just changed my mind. After all, I would grow old too...
The belts were my favorite...and the short pieces from the Spring 08 collection.
Big ups Du Juan for making it and rockin the top runways. Awesome.
Damn, Zhang Ziyi looks great. Kate Bosworth looks like a yeti...
Lagerfeld, as aways, looks like he's a piece of wax from Madame Toussauds.
posted by Alice at
1:50 AM
8 Comments:
great design work.
cut & paste was good in nyc. it was at a synagogue in the LES.
Its good to see you are doing so well! I love those artworks on your page, keep up the good works!
btw, nice Cut&paste event, wish I can go.. envy evny :o
That's bcoz Fendi is the favorite of rich Chinese buziness men's mistressez.
Bahaha, love the running commentary. Definitely puts things in perspective
hey - wow looks really cool - everything looks so glamorous!! very nice artworks n photos :) lov it!!
I couldn't believe they used the Wall for a fashion show too! They should be protecting it. But then from the pictures, it looked actually quite cool..
and your comment about Karl L. is very funny, haha.
the show looks amazing.. i wish i was there.
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