Say hello to another collaboration: H&M and Lanvin!

Arriving during November 2010 is a new another designer collaboration; H&M and Lanvin.

Logo

Watch the video clip here: http://hmnews.bazooka.se/wp-content/themes/hmnews/designer2010media/...

No official pictures are in circulation at the moment.

Featuring the Launch of Thursday Evenings' first issue

On the 7th of November, I mentioned about an online magazine called 'Thursday Evenings'. (The official website is http://www.thursdayevenings.com/). Tonight is the official launch.

Thursday Evenings is an online magazine which showcases arts, fashion and literature. It is curated by Sunny Lim and Yun Ting.

More description from their page:

'...It is a product of inspiration by Virginia Woolf, who used to discuss philosophical ideas with her clique of friends every Thursday evenings over a cup of tea. We will like to convey that arts, fashion and literature are actually inter-linked disciplines, hence, guiding our readers through this journey of viewing the arts from various perspectives. A platform for art, fashion and literature to transcend new heights, and extend unrestrictedly.'

Here is a little teaser...

Do you to see more of these pages?

You can view the e-magazine at this link: http://www.thursdayevenings.com/issueone/ebook.html

Also watch out for the final pictures from photo shoot I mentioned before I came to London.

Note: It might take a while for the pages to load up. Once it does, it will be worth it!

Feature by Test Shoot Gallery: Made-To-Feet

Here's a quick entry as I have to run some errands for my projects. Remember I did a project called 'Resuscitation' and the photo shoot for an online magazine? Well, it's not entirely related.

Test Shoot Gallery (http://www.testshootgallery.com/) has done great shots incorporating the designer's customised Doc Marten's and the garments. Check it out at this link: http://www.testshootgallery.com/?p=68. Meanwhile, here's a shot of my design.

Also, check out this blog, Thursday Evenings (http://thursdayevenings.tumblr.com/) which will launch an online magazine soon.


Credits (as stated on Test Shoot Gallery):
Test Shoot Gallery
Photography / May Lin le Goff
Fashion Direction / Ashburn Eng
Model / Budavári Liza (Ave Management)
Make-up / Dennis Ee
Hair / Chris Ruth
Fashion Co-ordinator / Shanna Matthew

Photo shoot for an upcoming online project...

At the last moment last week, I got to participate in a photo shoot. In the photo shoot, organised by Sunny, Yun Ting, Mae and Brendan (the photographer), I had the chance to get one set of my garment from one of the recent project ('Resuscitation') to be part of the shoot. Here are some 'behind the scenes' pictures and video (I apologise for the quality of the video as it was taken from my phone and my video editing skills is nowhere near beginner's level!). This photo shoot is part of an upcoming project mainly set up by Sunny, Yun Ting and other collaborators involved, as well as to promote the gallery Osage Gallery (at Old School, Singapore). Also in this post are some close up of the Dr. Martens shoes that were customised by us for the last project (which hardly got any publicity (for the shoes).

More about the project in the upcoming months.


The video

Designed and customised (the boots) by Lee Yun-Ting

Designed and customised (the boots) by me


Designed and customised (the boots) by Sunny Lim

Designed and customised (the boots) by Mae Pang

Designed by Charlotte Wang (the customised boots were not available for shooting)

...and it was a great photo shoot!

What are they thinking?: Fashionable Cupcakes...

I wonder, what would it be like if fashion labels translated their style into food...however, I doubt they are on sale...

Chanel

Betsey Johnson

Christian Louboutin

Louis Vuitton

...so, would you rather buy their stuff or just have the cupcakes?

Now I'm craving for cupcakes (no worries, just kidding!)

Photos by 'High Snobiety': http://www.highsnobiety.com/news/2009/06/04/fashion-cupcakes-louis-vuitton-chanel-more/fashion-cupcakes-front/

Publish Post

My Current Works from the exhibition, 'Resuscitation'

Here are my works from the exhibition called 'Resuscitation' curated by Johnathan Seow (designer of Woods and Woods). Five other designers also submitted their works for this project. More in the future...

Apparently, for this exhibition, it was decided that elephant heads best represented my works...




More from this link: http://culturepush.com/2009/06/29/resuscitation/

Fashion Show at the 'Races'

Fashion show, located at the horse racing course at Longchamp du Chantilly (Paris) was done by Studio Berçot (school) on the 14th of June 2009. These clips (split into different parts from my understanding...) here show works from various students from the school.









Comments? Honestly, I'm not digging it but then again, who am I to judge? A few garments were quite interesting. I guess I had to be there to experience it...since from the clip, it looked like a
beautiful day! Also, I would have worn this feather hair clip I bought from "Liberty's" (during my trip to London)....

Featuring: The 'Next Generation' designer, Alessia Xoccato

'Next Generation' showcased one of Italian design-school graduates, Alessia Xoccato (her website: http://www.alessiaxoccato.com/ (still under construction) during Milan Fashion Week.

Here are two garments from her collection:



More on 'Next Generation' from WWD: http://www.wwd.com/fashion-news/next-generation-rtw-fall-2009-2033605?src=rss/fashion/20090226

...and a short video from C6.com:



...or just link up on this website: http://www.c6.tv/archivio?id=3137

By the way, Alessia, congrats on your show! Really liked the garments you produced (from what I saw on the video!).

A little more on the designer next time )of some of her other works as I'm working on a project which has almost taken a bit of my time (also more on that project in the future...).

Featuring: 'How It Ends' (The Three F's, 'Film, Fashion and Furniture').

Even though this video is almost a year old (a little late to show this I must admit), I thought it would be interesting to post it on this website.

In 2008, here was a collaboration with the local (Singapore) designers, each group, a fashion designer/brand and a furniture designer. This was done under the project called 'Blueprint'. This video was shown together with a fashion show during the Singapore Fashion Festival 2008.

Excerpt from 'designsingapore.org':

"The shared influences between the designers have seen the creation of multi-dimensional and transformational new designs with product designers drawing inspiration from the fashion designers collections for the Singapore Fashion Festival 2008. Arising from the partnership, the fashion designers have also drawn competencies and strengths from the product designers to produce new works for their fashion showcase."



The video was featured in Italian as this whole project was also shown during 'Salone Internazionale Del Mobile' (the furniture fair held in Milan annually) on the same year.

I recommend everyone to watch this video on high definition (HD) on YouTube. Just place your cursor on the triangle located at the bottom right of the YouTube video screen of this post and click 'HD' (after pressing the play button).

Raffles Design Insitute Graduation Show DEC. '08 (Update: Better video quality and more pictures)

!UPDATES!: Added a little more pictures and more comments (in italics) to the photographs shown.

Raffles Design Institute showcased the works from more than 20 graduates from B(A) Honours in Fashion Design on Wednesday at the Ritz Carlton, Singapore.

In my opinion, going to school is the only time were one get to experiment and make a huge impression to the industry. From my observations, most of the collections were mostly dark in terms of colour scheme (some were way too dark!) and the themes were mostly psychological, a little ethnic or historical. Perhaps it's because it's the 'Winter' period, I'm not sure...

Many of the collection impressed me nevertheless. Here are some pictures some taken on my own (unfortunately, my pictures are a little 'old school' as I had no choice but to use a disposable camera) and some pictures which I found from other sources (which I believe might be better than mine) for the exhibition and fashion show.

I've compiled a video which was taken from my camera to get the feel of the show. Cramming 24 collections in a video was hard, so I just selected a few. The video quality isn't as good as I wanted it to be since it was taken from my phone (hence the reason why I made the video look like an old film!).

Meanwhile, enjoy the visuals...

Exhibition:Ideal shop display from the Fashion Merchandising students...
Streetwear?

One of the lamp shades shown in the exhibition.
Hmmm, so this is what I should do with my old sunglasses... A way to go green I suppose!


Display board...a little preview on what the graduating class were presenting for the fashion show.
Very promising...

Going psychedelic!!!


Drawing done by Shannon Lee.
Love, LOVE (!!!) the drawing...it's actually two layers....it's drawn by a piece of tracing paper and underneath is a printed copy of the drawing with a background.


Fashion Show:


Video Compilation
Been trying to upload a better quality on Youtube...hope this works!

Designer: Leslie Yong
Title of collection: 'Message From Unknown'
Comment: Impressed by the collection. There was one outfit (that will be shown on the scanned in version next time) which was embellished by safety pins and I must say...'This is NOT new!'. At least it was done nicely and not clustered! Impressive array of outfits shown and the only thing that will stick in my mind is the masked male figure as shown above.

Designer: Shannon Lee
Title of collection: 'The Anomalies: Mr. and Ms. Anonymous'
Comment: At first, I was really worried about the colour scheme when this collection came out. However, I was won over by the orange jacket which suddenly popped out in the line up. If it was not for that orange jacket, it could have been lost. I did mention that there were too many hoods in this collection but who am I to be picky over such things since I like hoods as well?! This collection has been well thought out. I would have liked to have seen the accessories up-close though...


Designer: Joyce Wong
Title of collection: 'When Fashion Meets Architecture'
Comment: The person who saw the title of this collection on the brochure got excited when seeing the title. However, upon seeing the pictures of the garments, well let's just say that person was pretty disappointed...and that person's an architect! Personally, I think there is not much relevance to these two connection but person could say the lines on the first dress? Can I say that?


Designer: Stephanie Emmanuel Puteri Subagyo
Title of collection: 'African Art Conceals and Reveals'
Comment: Love the draped dress and the way the prints fell in place in the outfit (even though I am NOT a big fan of animal prints!). However, I've seen this concept done many times though I won't say it's a huge crime since there are many ways to go around dealing with any African theme.


Designer: Yang Jing
Title of collection: 'Walking on the Moon'
Comment: Interesting backpack! (Well at least that's what I think it is!)


Designer: Anny Theresia
Title of collection: 'The Exotic of Sardanapalus'
Comment: Honestly, I only remember this outfit out of the whole collection. Even though this silhouette has been done so many times, I still like it! The brochure pictures is much better though!

Designer: Xia Mai Xena
Title of collection: 'The Scream for Alfred Hitchcock'
Comment: Hard for me to comment...I guess these two outfits are the most memorable out of the collection. I would like to have a vest like that though. Amazing how a vest can make an outfit look a bit smarter looking.


Designer: Risma Novianti
Title of collection: 'Black Iris'
Comment: Apologies to the designer, I only remember this outfit perhaps it was because everyone had to sit through many minutes seeing over 20 collections (in around two hours!). I wish we could wear hats like this in Singapore without being stared at like an idiot. I bet I can get away with that in Europe...I think...


Designer: Aven Kee Ai Wei
Title of collection: 'Self Re-Invention, Obsession of Beauty + Lack of Self Confidence = Plastic Surgery'
Comment: What a long title for the concept!!! I wish I had a closer shot of the dress (worn by the blond model) that was partially made out of plastic. I remember doing a concept similar to this many years ago and it was not successful at all! This is quite a successful collection with the concept although a bit more colour would have been great. A splash of red (I don't mean to literately represent surgery!) would be great. Great construction on the garments.

To the graduates of 2008, congratulations!

PS. Once I get a new scanner (mine broke down mysteriously...), I will post more pictures from the brochure for the show.