Somarta AW 2012 Collection

New_fashion_1 Somarta AW 2012 Collection

Fri.
23/03
Fred

Highlight from Tokyo Fashionweek

The 2012-13 A/W edition of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo is on their way and the first highlight was the new collection by Somarta.

The brand was created by Tamae Hirokawa, the former creative assistant of Issey Miyake, in 2006 as part of her design firm Soma Designs. Already in 2007 she received the prize for "Best Newcomer" at the Japanese Fashionweek and since this time she became one of the upcoming Japanese Fashion designers to watch.

The actual collection shows a mix of ultra-feminine looks with avant-garde elements which remind us of Sarah Burton´s Alexander McQueen line. You also have to take a look at the outstanding Somarta footwear that Lady Gaga helped to make famous.

To see more of the new AW collection we strongly recommend to take a look at the runway video and for details about the brand just click on the picture in our slideshow below.

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Issey Miyake x WOW

Architecture Issey Miyake x WOW

Mon.
27/02
Fred

"Bloom Skin" wind installation in Tokyo

Fashion, Art and Architecture come together when Issey Miyake invites the Japanese visual design studio WOW to create an installation for the window display of his ELTTOP TEP store in Ginza, Tokyo.

WOW´s creative director Takuma Nakaji and his team used the very thin and light fabric "organdie" and smoothly moved it in the air controlled by six fans. The gentle movement reminds us of the famous scene in the movie American Beauty when a plastic bag glides in the air only directed randomly by the wind.

Take a look at the short video below, a perfect example of an excellent in-store architecture and wind installation and compare it to Daniel Wurtzel´s Air projects "Pas de Deux" and "Magic Carpet", probably the source of inspiration for WOW.

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BAO BAO by Issey Miyake

Accessories BAO BAO by Issey Miyake

Mon.
27/02
Fred

BAO BAO ISSEY MIYAKE is a line of bags and pouches with the theme of "shapes made by chance." The eco-friendly hand bags are based on the principle of repeating triangles a form well know from contemporary architecture. The S/S 12 collection is available in new shapes and forms in different colors. Our personal fav is the Lucent series which you can buy now in all Miyake shops.

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The Art of Japanese Fashion

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Wed.
23/03
Fred

Exhibitions in Munich & London

Yamamoto in V&A London

Since March 12th until July 10th 2011 the V&A in London presents a retrospective of the work of the incomparable master of Japanese Fashion design Yohji Yamamoto. Within the exhibition which was curated by Ligaya Salazar you will see all the great masterpieces including also the best pieces of the menswear collections. Yamamoto was the first designer who combined elements of Japanese art with Parisian Haute Couture or as he put it: " You can say that designing is quite easy, the difficulty lies in finding a new way to explore beauty."

Future Beauty in the Haus der Kunst in Munich

The exhibition in the Haus der Kunst shows between March 4th to June 19th a complete overview of Japanese fashion design within the last thirty years featuring the greatest brands like Rei Kawakubo, Issey Miyake und Yohji Yamamoto. These big names created in the 1980ies the unique Japanese style with its monochromatic mostly black colors and its fluid & reduced forms which put the focus purely on the perfect cut and proportion of the garments.

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Best of FW11 Avantgarde in Paris

New_fasion Best of FW11 Avantgarde in Paris

Sat.
5/03
Fred

Yamamoto, Miyake, Pugh & Vandevorst

If you wanna see Avantgarde in Fashion you have to look at Designers from Japan, UK or Belgium. On the following slides we made a selection of this F/W11 season´s new looks in Paris starting with Gareth Pugh who showed a collection full of tight cuts with leather & metallic materials. Big Japanese artist Issey Miyake presented symmetrical like architecturally designed garements while legendary Yohji Yamamotos showed his version of a positive future with colors in red and transparent elements. Finally we saw the asymmetrical cuts of A.F. Vandevorst with exceptional belts & unique back views.

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Best of Japanese Menswear in Paris

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Mon.
24/01
Fred

Japanese Designers Collections F/W 11

Since the 1980ies Japanese Fashion Designers inspire the western world with their unique styles. On the following three slides we made a selection of their acutal Men´s F/W11 collections. The Highlight of this season was Junya Watanabe´s show. He mixed British & American college style with Scandinavia patterns in his unique way. As a positive surpriese Mihara Yasuhiro showed the colors of Autumn11 in his collection from cardigan, layered knitwear to the must have duffle coats.

The collections of Kenzo & Issey Miyake could be described as New Japanese Classic. They both integrated European classic style in their collections showing perfect tailored suits as well as sporty casual wear. While Kenzo presented colorful pieces in yellow, orange, red & pink tones too, Miyake choose some shaded tones in green, bordeaux and blue.

Finally Yohji Yamamoto as well as Rei Kawakubo´s Comme des Garçons collections validated once again the famous Avant-Garde Image of Japanese Fashion. Yamamoto showed oversized jackets, coats and trousers partly worn by untypical models as well as long velvet robes printed with vintage erotica.
Rei Kawakubo created the so called "Decadence-Collection" which to our opinon was artistically interesting but a rather non-fashion statement.

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