The Masculine Collections

Graduated from BA ART Goldsmiths College London, Drie and Tiago are fantastic photographers with their magnificent editorials. This editorial is again one of their latest works ‘The Masculine Collections’. We also adored the styling which was by Kuki de Salvertes. Models; Julien Chanca and Mathias Bilien pose for the Metal magazine FebruaryMarch 2010 issue #19.

You can check out Driu&Tiago's portfolio from their official website; http://www.driuandtiago.com/

In The Cut Space - Age Sculpturalism

In the Cut, is a column written by Harriet Walker who is a fashion writer at The Independent and illustrated by Zoë Taylor who has appeared in Le Gun, Bare Bones, Ambit and Dazed & Confused. She is currently working on her third graphic novella and an exhibition.


Louise Goldin AW10

Peter Pilotto AW10 show

Hussein Chalayan AW10


"Designers came face to face with fashion's final frontier this season, with space-age sculptural pieces that owed more to 2001: A Space Odyssey than to A/W10. Hussein Chalayan gave us swirling tube dresses, embellished with intergalactic glitter and finished with spiralling headdresses that looked like a hungry galaxy eating a model alive.
And Peter Pilotto's signature mineral prints – which always look like so many stars twinkling in the night sky – came on soft dresses, structured and made sharp by delicate, neo-classical drapery. This dichotomy of fluidity and rigidity mirrors that romantic but very visceral maxim of even the wispiest-looking constellation: they have witnessed tremors and upheavals in time and space that we will never know of, and we just think they're pretty.
Louise Goldin's collection had this fearsome but delicate feel, where dresses and skirts had an armour-like quality of protective cladding, but swooped out at hips and shoulders in ethereal and decidedly un-ergonomic ways.
The look recalls the fusion of femininity and futurism that the likes of Cardin and Courreges were striving for in the Sixties. Against a backdrop of science-fiction and the Space Race, designers became concerned with modern dressing. But how to soften the austerity that inevitably came with the hard angles and rigid geometry associated with ideas of modernity?
By moulding them into something more fully three-dimensional. The flat-cut A-line shift was contoured with circle-cut coats and capes – early incarnations of Margiela's circle coat of black leather for S/S09. Cardin's balloon dress of 1959 stood away from the body but could be reeled in by way of a drawstring, while André Courreges' Couture Future line, which launched in 1968, was based around circles and tubular lines in clinical white.
Cardin is also known for his space-age tube dress, made from his own patented 'cardine' fabric (a sort of stretchy viscose), made rigid with integral rings spaced along the length of the body. They're a cross between a black hole and those tubes that children crawl through during obstacle courses.
So, to recap, how do we reconcile the romance of star-gazing with the unknowable chaos that lies beyond our skies? By sculpting our own universe, from the flows and folds of fashionable futurism."

Gaga Time

Lady GaGa has been included in the ‘artists’ section of this years TIME magazine 100 Most Influential People In the World list, landing herself a share of the magazine’s cover in the process.

Other popstars joining GaGa on the list include Taylor Swift, the legendary Prince and Elton John. The issue features an article written by Cyndi Lauper, a gorgeous photo and a video message from Lady Gaga.

“I first heard the name Lady Gaga through a mutual friend. He couldn’t stop talking about her. Then I heard her music, and I thought, Wow, I love this kid.
“An artist’s job is to take a snapshot — be it through words or sound, lyrics or song — that explains what it’s like to be alive at that time. Lady Gaga’s art captures the period we’re in right now. These days, you go to a club and wonder who all these kids are. They don’t seem to have jobs. How can they afford to be here? Her song “Beautiful, Dirty, Rich” explains that scene. It’s about the New York prep-school party kids she grew up with. It’s where she came from. Gaga’s lyrics are incredibly literary. When “Bad Romance” starts, the music grabs your ear immediately. Then she opens with the line “I want your ugly/ I want your disease,” and all of a sudden you’re listening. Most of the stuff on the radio is not very clever, but Gaga presents her ideas in a sophisticated manner. She has an incredible pop sensibility.People forget how young she is. She is barely 24 — much younger than I was when I became famous. It’s very tough being where she is right now. People are pulling her in all different directions. It’s hard to navigate that. Try to imagine what you were like at her age, if you still can. I can’t wait to see how she grows and what she decides her next act will be. She only has two albums out, but already she is inspiring other artists to go further in their own work.
“When I see somebody like Gaga, I sit back in admiration. I’m inspired to pick up the torch again myself. I did an interview with her once, and she showed up with a sculpture on her head. I thought, How awesome. Being around her, I felt like the dust was shaken off of me. I find it very comforting to sit next to somebody and not have to worry that I look like the freak. She isn’t a pop act, she is a performance artist. She herself is the art. She is the sculpture.”

Wear Your Wings and "Walk"

As you can see, inspiration has it's own wings too. After the magnificent Alexander McQueen's silver and gold ones;

We may not have the ability to fly but we see Marc Jacobs, Vivienne Westwood and Beatrix Ong seem to have.

These are Marc Jacobs wings;

These are Beatrix Ong Wings;

These are Vivienne Westwood for Melissa wings;

Get Industrial

Anna Wintour is on the cover of the mag INDUSTRIE's first issue. That's all we have to say.

Madonna is again the face of her "loved ones", Italian designers Dolce&Gabbana's 2010 forthcoming advertising campaign. The campaign was shot by also her favourite photographer Steven Klein. Here are some catches from behind the scenes if they will satisfy you :)

And.. Did you know that? Madonna first met the designers Stefano Gabbana and Domenico Dolce back in the early nineties while she was on the set of Dick Tracy in Newyork and the designers went onto design her costumes for "The Girlie Show" tour in 1993.

This is a photograph taken in 1993.

Christian Larger Than Life

With the great work of photographer Khuong Nguyen, we get a hint of a dreamland in Christian Louboutin's 2010 Fall/Winter collection under the title "Winter Tales". It is extremely visually rich and eyecatching.