by one of my favourite photographers Isabella Andronos.
(She made me fall in love with seeing people's dressing tables)
P A R A L L E L S P T . O N E
There are many theories as to how ideas are born.
One of my favourites suggests that there are infinite numbers of idea floating about in the atmosphere and people just reach up and grab them at specific times. Occasionally two or more people may grab a hold of the same idea at the same time, completely by chance, but end up producing things that are somehow related.
However, a similar idea may be expressed in different mediums, as different objects, for different uses, which is something that has always fascinated me.
This is the first of many posts which i hope to create that explores P A R A L L E L S
specifically between Architecture and Fashion, in form, texture, finish, material and concept. I personally have found myself inspired by clothing details in designs for architectural works, and one of my most memorable lectures was on the very same subject.
Durian Esplanada Singapore
Christian Louboutin for Phillip Lim
A durian
Givenchy Haute Couture SS10
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Jil Sander Menswear S/S10
SANAA - Zollverein School
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Dries Van Noten F/W 09/10
(that's all for now, but i think this will become a regular post topic...because I think about it a lot)
One of my favourites suggests that there are infinite numbers of idea floating about in the atmosphere and people just reach up and grab them at specific times. Occasionally two or more people may grab a hold of the same idea at the same time, completely by chance, but end up producing things that are somehow related.
However, a similar idea may be expressed in different mediums, as different objects, for different uses, which is something that has always fascinated me.
This is the first of many posts which i hope to create that explores P A R A L L E L S
specifically between Architecture and Fashion, in form, texture, finish, material and concept. I personally have found myself inspired by clothing details in designs for architectural works, and one of my most memorable lectures was on the very same subject.
Durian Esplanada Singapore
Christian Louboutin for Phillip Lim
A durian
Givenchy Haute Couture SS10------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jil Sander Menswear S/S10
SANAA - Zollverein School------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dries Van Noten F/W 09/10(that's all for now, but i think this will become a regular post topic...because I think about it a lot)
J A N E L L E M O N A E
Janelle Monae has the best face ever.
She actually looks like a Kewpie Doll.
It's amazing.
I hope she tours Oz...maybe with No Doubt in the new year?
Eitherway, I think I'd better get my mits on the new Paper Mag A.S.A.P.
She actually looks like a Kewpie Doll.
It's amazing.
I hope she tours Oz...maybe with No Doubt in the new year?
Eitherway, I think I'd better get my mits on the new Paper Mag A.S.A.P.
F L O W E R
I'm not sure if you caught wind of the recent hype over the downloadable game for PS3 called Flower?
it one a bunch of awards and got a lot of publicity in magazines like Monocle for being quite innovative.
Now, i grew up playing video games (i have many fond Memories of the SNES and original GameBoy) but unfortunately these days, i don't get around to playing them as much as i used to.
However, i insisted, yesterday that my brother download this game for me.
And boy am i glad i did.
Essentially, you are the wind, and you tilt the controller forwards, backwards and side to side to blow around plains and valleys to collect as many flower petals as you can which eventuates in areas of the landscape coming back to life.
It's really dreamy and relaxing, and surprisingly addictive.
The graphics are really beautiful and the petals you collect make a trail in the wind behind you so you can do all kinds f swirly acrobatics and see them fluttering about.
watch and learn:
it one a bunch of awards and got a lot of publicity in magazines like Monocle for being quite innovative.
Now, i grew up playing video games (i have many fond Memories of the SNES and original GameBoy) but unfortunately these days, i don't get around to playing them as much as i used to.
However, i insisted, yesterday that my brother download this game for me.
And boy am i glad i did.
Essentially, you are the wind, and you tilt the controller forwards, backwards and side to side to blow around plains and valleys to collect as many flower petals as you can which eventuates in areas of the landscape coming back to life.
It's really dreamy and relaxing, and surprisingly addictive.
The graphics are really beautiful and the petals you collect make a trail in the wind behind you so you can do all kinds f swirly acrobatics and see them fluttering about.
watch and learn:
o b s e s s i o n s d u j o u r
a few of the things that refuse to exit my brain of late:
1: Maison Martin Margiela Interiros.
minimal. deconstrcusted. Margiela.
i want to end up working for them.
2. Roisin Murphy
as much as I listen to anything else, I seem to always end up in the same place at the end of it all.
and what a place it is.
1: Maison Martin Margiela Interiros.
minimal. deconstrcusted. Margiela.
i want to end up working for them.
2. Roisin Murphy
as much as I listen to anything else, I seem to always end up in the same place at the end of it all.
and what a place it is.
SANAA
SANAA are a Japanese Architectural firm based in Tokyo, comprising of Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima. They started gaining international recognition in 2004, and have only continued the upward climb since, with their designs becoming part of the lives of many world over. Some of their most iconic buildings include Dior Omotesando, The Muesum of Modern Art New York, Kanazawa 21st Century Art Museum, Derek Lam boutique in New York and the winning design for the Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art Competition which was tragically never to be constructed. And, i must add, the spectacular 2009 Serpentine Pavillion in London's Hyde Park, which just opened last week.
Personally, i have always felt a strong connection to SANAA since being assigned one of their buildings, A Police Box at Chofu Station, in my first semester at uni. This tiny little police station dealt with geometry and materials with playfulness, purity, curiosity and respect. This is something SANAA does with ease, creating clean spaces that are simultaneously cold and minimal, while mainting a sense of playfulness or childish curiosity. I often find myself drawing parallels between their architecture and the artworks of Yoshitomo Nara. They both share this sense of childish plafulness while still harbouring something darker and deeper, but by no means repelling viewers/users.
Enough blabbering.
Naturally i was chiffed to find out that SANAA would be exhibiting at The Sherman Institute for Modern Art on Goodhope Street in Sydney's Paddington. The thrill only escalated when i found out that the Institute had commissioned SANAA to create an installation just for them.
I will now stop typing and let you see what i saw.
The installation is part of their series of installations that explores the limits divides and spatial definition, a theme often explored in their architecture through the ranging opacities of materials used and the limits structural exposure (SANAA often employ metal work in order to allow for the thinnest possiby structures to be created).
I was quite lucky to be in the gallery while no one else was allowing me to experience the spaces created by the undulating perspex walls in solitude. I was left feeling at once confined and even claustrophobic due to the narrowness of some of the openings and the sense of activity and crowdedness created by the volumes of rabbit chairs. Never would i have thought this possible while still having a clear view of everything around me, even if through clear walls. The maze completely engulfs you, and you are completely immersed in a maze of shiny reflections of light and sound as you try to navigate your way through invisible doorways.
It was complete dreamy confusion.
I can;t wait to go back and experience it with other people though, i imagine it would be quite different sharing conversations in some of the perspex alcoves, or even communicating while in various locations throughout the maze.
I was greeted at the end of the maze by some of the Institute staff who, after I gushed at them abouthow FFFAAANNNNTTTAAASSSTTTIIIICCCC it was to see SANAA exhibiting in Oz, revealed to me that Kazuyo Sejima herself is on the cards to give a lecture in August.
I can not wait.
To hear an architect who has created her own architectural language that infiltrates all that she does, and is instantly recognisable speak is one of my dreams. That this architect has created buildings in the very domain i am most interested in, for fashion houses, is a huge huge plus.
Kazuyo Sejima (left) at the opening of Dior Omotesando, one reporter asked "Who are you wearing?" to which she replied,
"I only wear Comme Des Garcons!"
<3
A piece by Yoshitomo Nara.
An interior shot near the exterior wall of the Kanazawa 21st Century Art Museum
MOMA New York
One of the spaces beneath the hovering, paper thin silver cloud that is the 2009 Serpentine Gallery
Police Box at Chofu Station
Dior Omotesando
Derek Lam Flagship Store New York
Personally, i have always felt a strong connection to SANAA since being assigned one of their buildings, A Police Box at Chofu Station, in my first semester at uni. This tiny little police station dealt with geometry and materials with playfulness, purity, curiosity and respect. This is something SANAA does with ease, creating clean spaces that are simultaneously cold and minimal, while mainting a sense of playfulness or childish curiosity. I often find myself drawing parallels between their architecture and the artworks of Yoshitomo Nara. They both share this sense of childish plafulness while still harbouring something darker and deeper, but by no means repelling viewers/users.
Enough blabbering.
Naturally i was chiffed to find out that SANAA would be exhibiting at The Sherman Institute for Modern Art on Goodhope Street in Sydney's Paddington. The thrill only escalated when i found out that the Institute had commissioned SANAA to create an installation just for them.
I will now stop typing and let you see what i saw.
The installation is part of their series of installations that explores the limits divides and spatial definition, a theme often explored in their architecture through the ranging opacities of materials used and the limits structural exposure (SANAA often employ metal work in order to allow for the thinnest possiby structures to be created).
I was quite lucky to be in the gallery while no one else was allowing me to experience the spaces created by the undulating perspex walls in solitude. I was left feeling at once confined and even claustrophobic due to the narrowness of some of the openings and the sense of activity and crowdedness created by the volumes of rabbit chairs. Never would i have thought this possible while still having a clear view of everything around me, even if through clear walls. The maze completely engulfs you, and you are completely immersed in a maze of shiny reflections of light and sound as you try to navigate your way through invisible doorways.
It was complete dreamy confusion.
I can;t wait to go back and experience it with other people though, i imagine it would be quite different sharing conversations in some of the perspex alcoves, or even communicating while in various locations throughout the maze.
I was greeted at the end of the maze by some of the Institute staff who, after I gushed at them abouthow FFFAAANNNNTTTAAASSSTTTIIIICCCC it was to see SANAA exhibiting in Oz, revealed to me that Kazuyo Sejima herself is on the cards to give a lecture in August.
I can not wait.
To hear an architect who has created her own architectural language that infiltrates all that she does, and is instantly recognisable speak is one of my dreams. That this architect has created buildings in the very domain i am most interested in, for fashion houses, is a huge huge plus.
Kazuyo Sejima (left) at the opening of Dior Omotesando, one reporter asked "Who are you wearing?" to which she replied,
"I only wear Comme Des Garcons!"
<3
A piece by Yoshitomo Nara.An interior shot near the exterior wall of the Kanazawa 21st Century Art MuseumMOMA New York One of the spaces beneath the hovering, paper thin silver cloud that is the 2009 Serpentine Gallery Police Box at Chofu Station Dior OmotesandoDerek Lam Flagship Store New York
Recent Purchases
Acne Hex Cash jeans.
You cannot get me out of them!
They're slim.... but not denim legging slim.
And they are wearing beautifully.
They're double dyed, so where the get the most wear gets a subtle sheen.
They have also stretched out a good size.
I managed to score the Christopher Bailey Burberry Prorsum watch for half price at the Burberry store in Sydney. It's quite beautiful, i think. The strap is long enough to fit around my waist, and you can tangle your wrist in it in a multitude of ways. The leaher is also really slightly metallic, which adds a little extra pizazz.The face of the watch is exactly what i have ben looking for for wuite a while. I think it looks like the dial off a WWI fighter plane....non?
(p.s. hope you are enjoying my hand modeling.)
Of course I've also indulged in some glossies...no where else can you find such a wealth of inspirational images, chesively bound into a singularly themed issue.First, Arean Homme Plus: my first time buying this magazine. I bought it for a singular image, to be honest, the one of the three boys in capes and Givenchy.
The magazine as a whole however has quite a loud and brash layout that makes me a bit unconfortable.
next, the lovely Dee Humidifier of You Got Good Taste sent me some NZ magic. First is Black, which is now also sold in Oz. It's kind of i-D like. With a cover like that you know it's good.
Secondly, and my personal favourite, Pilot. I'm honestly considering subscribing to this magazine. This was the Architectue vs Fashion issue. A topic that fuels my everyday life. The editorrials are also exceptionally beautiful. If i had to make a comparisson, i'd say this magazine was most liek WOUND from the UK. It takes a theoretical look at art/fashion/architecture and how they all coexist inhabiting a communal sphere of lush inspiration.
Finally, the little green book is the program/catalogue from the SANAA Exhibition currently on show on Goodhope Street in Paddington. One of the most beuatiful and surreal explorations of space i have ever had the pleasure of experiencing..but that will all get its own post.
Privelidge House
i was lucky enough to get a feature on the gorgeous blog of the always lovely Caitlin Shearer.
check it out.
http://privelidgehouse.blogspot.com/
The blog exposes the beautiful works of lots of young artists.
check it out.
http://privelidgehouse.blogspot.com/
The blog exposes the beautiful works of lots of young artists.
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