Archive | January, 2011

Amelia’s Compendium of Fashion Illustration: Tonight, I’ll be partying with a Mystery Jet

By Sabrina on January 28, 2011 in Art, Books, Fashion

The wonderfully talented Amelia Gregory, ethical queen and creative visionnaire, of Amelia’s Magazine and Amelia’s Anthology of Fashion Illustration has been tweeting (#ACOFI) , and planning furiously whilst trying to get her self-assessment for this day which is s finally here – the launch of Amelia’s Compendium of Fashion Illustration at 123 Bethnal Green Road.

Amelia’s Compendium of Fashion Illustration book brings together the best illustration from Amelia’s Magazine alongside the best new ethical fashion designers, all in a gorgeous coffee table book with a stunning pearlised cover designed by the Arizona based artist Andrea Peterson and also featuring none other than one of my favourite illustrators’ and my very good friend Abigail Daker.

I’m particularly looking forward to payday so I can get it here (and you also get 10% off by using the discount code ACOFI at checkout)

Alas I’ll be at work in the day and I’ll miss sitting for my own fashion illustration, and will probably miss the Dr Hauschka hand treatment, and the tea party with the lovely Pukka teas. I would mention more but it’s making me feel bad that I’m missing the afternoon shenanigans. But I’m very honoured to be invited, and will be throwing some shapes along some of my fellow talented talented writer and creatives!

Excited? Hell to the yes, considering there’s not going to be a CUPCAKE IN SIGHT.

via: Amelia’s Magazine

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The Thomas Beale Cipher

By Sabrina on January 28, 2011 in Art, Sabrina likes, Shorts

The Thomas Beale Cipher from Andrew S Allen on Vimeo.

This blows me away. This guy needs to be recognised for his talent, hard work and sheer creativity. Give him a goddamn award! Whilst reading the comments below the video, I saw this by the creator:

The textures are all from found sources—second-hand stores, fabric shops, etc. I looked for old vintage patterns with colors that evoked the era and palettes we had designed for the film and scanned them in digitally.

Freakin’ incredible.

Find out more at The Thomas Beale Cipher.

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HANDSOME MAN TALK FOR YOU!

By Sabrina on January 28, 2011 in Collaborations, Fashion

There’s also a lady version with some atmospheric Euro dance music here.

via: engadget

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I love Christian Lacroix and I’m not that keen on Desigual, but even I admit this is rather fetch.

By Sabrina on January 22, 2011 in Collaborations, Fashion

See more looks here.

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FUCK YEAH, ANOTHER RANDOM KAWS COLLAB!

By Sabrina on January 20, 2011 in Art, Limited Edition

Not just content with making labels for Kiehl’s and driving up the price of Creme de Corps, artist and designer, KAWS who if he likes it would put his ring on it is now making fancy filaments for your household staple, light bulbs. 1,000 sets will be sold, each with a red, purple and green filament bulb at the hotels’ retail shops located in New York, Los Angeles, and Miami.

Does the XX refer to The Standard Hotel’s voyeuristic views or just because he was too lazy to fashion anything else?**

You can buy ‘em here if you live nowhere near any of these locations (so 95% of my readers.)

via: PSFK

**sarcasm intended.

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Racist Shoes

By Sabrina on January 19, 2011 in Fashion

Et tu, Jeremy?

(There’s even a random Asian looking dude in the picture)

via: High Snobiety

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I want you to be MY hard persimmon.

By Sabrina on January 18, 2011 in Advertising Campaigns

Ugh. I’m flu-ish, again. I hoped that once I had this winter I’d be immune to this strain. But apparently it mutated, again! Also flu shots are a bunch of bunk. You can still get flu if you’ve had a shot! (Not talking about me, talking about my dad).

Having started a new job this week, I am loathe to come back and then further stare at my laptop. My eyes are more square than normal. My sister told me I may have to put my hobby on the side. My blog may have started as a hobby, but now it’s more of a glorified hobby. How many hobbies are there where you get paid to write bad things about people? What ho!

I was going to do a Golden Globes: What Are They Wearing – since I love award ceremonies, and dressy skinny people. But I found something more important to blog about: beautiful men.

I plan to also extol on the virtues of aesthetically pleasing males seen during MFW in a future post but there is something else, or someone else that has caught my attention.

You may remember my post about fashion’s latest gimmick, AZN models. I’ve just seen the beautiful new ASIAN face of Louis Vuitton SS11, Godfrey Gao. (The title of the blog post refers to one of his movies which I am sooooooooooo getting from Amazon).

The company doesn’t break down its sales by gender, but according to other reports, men spent more than women on luxury goods in China last year. Indeed, a walk through any major Chinese city’s business district shows that the Louis Vuitton brand is popular: As Mr. Gao appears in the brand’s advertisement, the LV man bag — worn across the body, of course — is a standard status symbol among men, especially middle-age ones.

Mr. Gao may be part of a greater trend of Asian models on the rise. Luxury labels now feature more Asian faces in their ad campaigns and on the runway. Chinese model Liu Wen signed a contract in November to be the new “face” of beauty company Estée Lauder. (A cosmetics contract is considered by some to be the “Holy Grail” of modeling.)

He is buff, he is Asian, there’s more about him in the link below, but all I want to do is gape at his sexy sexy self. I find it a bit depressing that LV looked to an Asian model just to target their Chinese market, rather than have him shortlisted as just one of their models to front a campaign, not just because he’s taps into a huge luxury market.

via: The Fashion Spot, WSJ, & Lifestyle Asia

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Boris Johnson Chooses Blue Cock

By Sabrina on January 14, 2011 in Art

A giant blue rooster by Katharina Fritsch and a curly haired boy on a rocking horse by Elmgreen & Dragset are the next two sculptures chosen for the Fourth Plinth platform in London’s Trafalgar Square. Mayor of London Boris Johnson announced the winners this morning. The two commissions will go ahead for the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square over the period covering the 2012 Olympics. The shortlist for the designs announced on 20 August and have been on display to the public. Brian Griffiths, Allora & Calzadilla, Hew Locke Elmgreen & Dragset, Katharina Fritsch, and Mariele Neudecker were selected for the shortlist stage of the competition. The artists produced maquettes (a scale model) of their proposed work, which have been on display in an exhibition in the crypt of St Martin in the Fields since 19 August 2010.T he chosen artist will be announced by the Mayor with the artwork installed after the current work, Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle by Yinka Shonibare MBE has been removed at the end of 2011.

Why, what did you think this was about?

via:Artlyst

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