Through Foto Decadent, i discovered the photography of Linus Ricard, a Swedish London-based photographer.  He also happened to have recently shot the collection of Pia Stanchina which I rooted for two weeks ago, urging some magical collaboration to happen.  I'm still crossing my fingers of course.  What I found interesting about these images though was that from the fairy wings that I had envisioned when I first saw Pia's lookbook, now comes a much rawer image.  The garments become a little bit more sinister with a bit more mystery behind them.  Whatever way you look at it though be it Ricard's blurry lens or the original purist lookbook, it's still a heck of a lot of beauty but just presented different ways so yes, it

Fashion history video sequences such as the Mode en France one I posted a while back seem to be mighty popular with the clip having garnered over 50,000 views.  So, I wonder what will people make of this short film 'The Phenomenology of the Body', directed by Daphne Guinness which premiered on NYTimes T Magazine today and will also be presented during Paris Couture Fashion Week at the Hotel Crillon.   It features 13 historical female figures/roles, including Joan of Arc, Marie Antoinette (played by Guinness herself), the flapper, the commissar, the housewife all spinning on a turn table in the dark to an LCD Soundsystem soundtrack and finally ends with a vei

Are any of you doing the Arles Photography Festival (Rencontres D'Arles Photographie) from 8th to 12th July?  Nope, not me I'm afraid as much as I'd like swan around Southern France and bathe in some sunshine peering at photographs.  This year, the guest curator of the festival is Christian Lacroix and he's picked a stunning set of guests to exhibit at the festival along with other fashion-worthy exhibitions all themed around 'Photographing Clothes' with titles that make me want to book a random flight to  Nîmes-Arles-Camargue for that week pronto; 'Model Registration Photographs', 'The still life at Vogue', 'Fashion Publishing: look books & collection catalogues', 'Photographer of Fashion Shows: Guy Marineau', 'Clothes in Motion', 'From t

I may have missed the opening night but a spectacular Viktor & Rolf dolls' house will remain on exhibit until September and from these surreal yet wonderful images that Kate Rodgers shot for a special Dazed Digital feature (*nudge nudge wink wink*), I will make it my mission to see it all for myself even if I am slightly freaked out by the dolls' faces.

It's a day of unique pieces today but this time round, I ain't missing the beat again.  When I heard that Guy from Fashion156 had invited a selection of young designers to contribute a toile of a garment and then asking them to customise it with various methods of paint application, I was dying to see the results and they have just gone live now on the new Paint Issue.  It has just dawned one me that my own efforts of painting clothes are minor/amateur to say the least and whilst splattering paint on garments is supposed to be random/messy, somehow the designers here have made their clothes look beyond amazing.  Of course, the canvasses for the paint here are also far superior.  Rather than detracting from the sublime shapes and structures the designers have created, the paint seems to enhance the