Wearable ART

Heidi Wikar : a Royal Collage of Art MA graduate, said that this collection is, “a statement about the environmental changes in the northern Scandinavian winter, due to global warming.” Following this, the clothes have a highly functional use too, as the clothes are designed to maximise the flowing of air both up and down, to increase insulation but now impact the lightweights of the garments.

Heidi Wikar

2nd Skin Watch

Second Skin’ a prototype watch by Russian-born, New York based designer, Svetlana Blum. The futuristic design works as both a captivating time-piece and stylistic bangle. Made out of PU and metal, the LED lights switch on through a touch of the surface display in order to reveal the time. The time’s displayed in a simple format, showing the the hours on one side and five-minute intervals of the hour, on the other. The designer has recently exhibited other works which involve the conceptualisation of light, including a recent instillation piece at the Light Art Biennial in Austria this year.

Svetlana’s work

Creep S/S 2011

Taking on Hiroshi Awai as the creative director in 2008, Creep has enjoyed continued success under the Toronto-based designer. Pushing an agenda of Japanese sensibilities with traditional utilitarian American workwear, the combination is apparent in various cases over the brand’s 2011 spring/summer collection. Light-colored patterns and a generally more casual aesthetic are prominent traits for this forth coming range.

I Loved the hippy sense of it.

Gareth Pugh

The radical geometries of Gareth Pugh's monochromatic designs are like armoury for futuristic night fighters. Although associated to the Rick Owens group and quite macabre, Gareth emanates more of a sense of adventure and the essence of British fashion. 

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Damir Doma Leathered Laced

Damir Doma have just released these leather lace-ups as part of their fall winter range for the close of this year. The avant-garde design features two waxed lacing systems, a premium leather upper in an all black colorway, finished with white leather lining.

Shopping Fever by Karl Lagerfeld

Lagerfeld plans to turn the few minute sequence into a full feature soon!

SKINGRAFT

an exclusive preview of the mens collection from SkinGraft for Spring 2011.

SKINGRAFT

Theatre Of War

maharishi Spring Summer 2011

Collage has a new name: ELLA PLEVIN

Ella studied illustration at Camberwell College of Arts.

She is inspired by cinema, myth and strange ritual.  She is really trying to use less pink. (at least that's what's written on her website)

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Illuminating Heels

 Francesca Castagnacci, an Italian-born, fashion designer who has fueled her artistic inspiration in a rather revolutionary fashion concept . Her latest project involves the design of hats and shoes using special optical fibres enduced into fabrics and creating effects with light and dimesions.
Her fiber-optic-wrapped stilettos is Clad in fabric woven with light-reflecting optical fibers and high-efficiency light-emitting diodes, each shoe radiates an ethereal luminescence that is splashy, not flashy.

        

        

Jean Paul Gaultier for La Perla

Gaultier: Lingerie is part of my DNA and of my heritage. It is now almost thirty years since I have designed my first corset dress, and in my latest prêt-à-porter collection I revisited the conical bras and corsets worn as outerwear. This collaboration was a natural and logical step especially since La Perla is the pearl of the lingerie, with a long history and the best savoir faire.

  

The awaited Jean Paul Gaultier for La Perla lingerie collection is set to hit the stores in November 

Miu Miu Directed by MADONNA

This Video is secretly directed by Madonna for Miu Miu F/W 2010-2011

Mathieu Lehanneur

S.M.O.K.E lamp

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Sur La Plage

Bea Szenfeld is Taking her inspiration from the sea, the collection, Sur La Plage, is made entirely out of paper.

        

       

Wearable? No.
Washable? No.
Strangely exquisite? Yes!

Jane Bowler's Fusion

Jane Bowler’s avant-garde raincoats, Sculpted from recycled and reappropriated plastics, including shower curtains, Bowler’s “Fusion” collection marries the poles-apart aesthetic of the traditional Japanese straw coat and the classic British macintosh. The Royal College of Art graduate’s process is completely stitch-free, a combination of industrial techniques such as heat-forming and ultrasonic welding. (The latter method involves high-frequency ultrasonic acoustic vibrations to bind materials together.)

"Fusion is designed to make plastic fantastic for longer,” she says. “And to create a garment that the owner will be reluctant to throw away.”

Fusion will be on display at the Royal College of Art’s Upper Gulbenkian Gallery, as part ofLondon Design Week, from September 23 to October 7.