ALL ABOUT EVE: September 2009

30.9.09

Here are some sleepy thoughts. I have just found an parisian artist, Christian Schloeler, his work is mainly distinctive because of the blend of traditional oil paints and a focal inspiration of contemporary fashion imagery. his sitters are all male, really geeky looking, selected of all personality and securities, known similar to Heidi Slimane's preference of Dior Homme models. Reading an interview on dazeddigital.com , i learn that his seclusion to conform as a child, withdrew a right to be a man in the very narrow society he lived in. But he now believes his unhappy experiences to be a positive thing, as he can draw upon them for material in his art. but this is what i found interesting....

"when i paint, i am not looking to make a deep social or political statement, i just want to represent beauty- or at least what i personally find beautiful'

esentially his work is male portraiture; this is what he claims.. (surely art is subjective.. no?) it is indeed a personal staatement of nostaligia, but the autobiographical qualities of what he is representing unavoidably challange the social idea of masculinity being in crisis.

ALSO WHILE IM TALKIN. fashion breathes art, it merely sits within the creative world just for its inspiration of fine art, and a similar creative process. without this, perhaps clever people would would think it was more pointless and shit than they already do. (although from recently watching the september issue i agree with anna wintour that people can be scared because they arent 'cool'. however, contradicting my lifepath, i also think that there are more important things, im not sure what i personally consider to be more important, but there are...) anyway it seems schoeler has defiantly used his art to breathe fashion...big taboooo that innit? his inspiration lies within the beauty that is seen in the fashion industry... its what he wants to demonstrate, which really isnt interesting because we see this everywhere, its boring. what is, is that i cant help but notice another political observation that he is challenging society as they debate whether fashion should be art?

to me his ignorance of having any political agenda dries his work of any potential substance. still what he doesnt intend to challenge is still being thought, so i dont suppose it matters.. im sleeeepy xoxox

LOLCATS

There are 6 you must watch them all, especially 'fly guy' which was too big to post xox

CHOCOLATE RAISINS

I should be asleep :( but I have just fallen in love with Lina scheynius, so i thought i would write about it whilst i can still seeee. She is a Swedish photographer, she starts her day eating chocolate raisins, maybe this is her creative boost. she is currently based in Paris, she caught my attention in a feature for the digital magazine www.ilovefakemagazine.com. Distinct from the current fashion photographers who have walked into planet-art, what she shoots is (...never before until now) thought-provoking landscape parallel to memories that fearlessly confront subjective tension of sexual desire and personal emotion. She blames the run of similarity through her images on her view of the world around her. Everything is so romantic, glamorously fragile, and significant to the everyday but prob filtered through some fancy cinematic lens. She often uses herself as the sitter; she makes self portraiture seem understated, it’s usually just planned and really embarrassing. www.linascheynius.com/

28.9.09

MOONMILK

Fleeing the bright, sunbathed landscapes of his past summers’ travels—but sticking with the cross-country American road trip idea—Ryan McGinley headed below ground to explore the bizarre topography of huge, ancient caves for a new show that opens Thursday night in London. With his troupe of naked models and muses in tow, McGinley hauled elaborate lighting down into America's subterranean bowels, turning the sprawling caverns into glowing, alien scenes.

- I know where the summer goes

www.alisonjacquesgallery.com

MEEOW

DEVELEECIOUS

-Louise Goldin

-Philip Lim

-Moschino cheap & chic

-Versace

-Millie Cockton
She hasn’t even made it out of her teens, In her foundation year at LCF, she has successfully garnered the attention of fashion folk across the board. Her developmental pleating is a favourite at Dazed with a dramatic neck ruff featured in a menswear shoot styled by Robbie Spencer. Working with paper, inspired by the costume of royal grandeur, Cockton pleats creations into elaborate neckwear. The softer (textile) side remains true to her Shakespearian connotations, which dominate her current designs.

-Yvonne lau
How would you describe your own style?
Yvonne Lau: Simple and bold shapes, but exaggerated by different materials to create big structures. I try to keep my designs very futuristic and modern in terms of the colour and materials I use. I tend to have a robotic theme to my current and previous collections.

House of Holland

25.9.09

BEAUTY IS A RELIGION

really good bloggers these two, my good friends alex and lou, absolute babes teachin people how to be megababes. hair babe and face babe. their point of view on bein a babe are often things you just wouldnt think about. cos they sooo weird. they document interviews on other megababe gurus. also well lol youtubes.. av a look. im probably gonna do this now...

I'LL BE SEEING YOU <3

TALK TO

NAKED LUNCH

From studying Menswear designers for a previous uni project i had already established that Katie Eary was my fave newcomer, although her collections arent wearbable for everyone, her visionary concepts are beyond it bein an issue. she defines her work as been refined chaos, her AA09 graduate collection was a Russian blend of 'The Master and Margarita' Military attire, and criminal tattoos resulting in architechtural couture...(by the way i think she is just gonna be huuuge. ) a lot of her inspiration seems to be from literature, last year it was George Orwell's Animal Farm. for the 2010 spring summer collection shown at LFW, it was William Burrough’s 1959 dark psychadelic masterpiece Naked Lunch;

each look is taken from characters, theives, pushers, pretty boys and street rats, that fill Burroughs nightmare. a visceral yet glamorous version of the open body. Frayed denim, eyes sprung out of sockets (like them) gold pigskin over sunglasses, gold bones and pearl ribcages. Hmm. Refined chaos then...

THE PLAY'S THE THING

Marc jacobs. New York. He is soooo ova black & studz... hmm yeh. i definitely prefer girly. but i still like those kirkwood shoes. he claims the show was like a trip to the theatre, rather than the 2008 trip to the 80's. Despite the Alladin trousers, hmm, there was resonance of something between Tchaikovsky and The King and I. Massive love for the kabuki make up, mermaid-scale dresses, choice of layering and the bum bags.