" Line Of Beauty" - Rene Gruau

This is the first time that i'm posting my look, so its pretty unusual for me. What a late post, i got a lot project going on now. i'll be posting about it soon, so this post is about my next exhibition that i visit. Its pretty interesting, all about Gruau Master Piece.

This is some picture that we took on our way to Somerset House.

i love my glasses, its from Tom Ford colllection for S/S 2011

My best lady from Stillettonizer! Love the candid pose, i took a lot of her candid pics.

The house’s current designer designed a special dress in homage to Gruau that’s included in the exhibition. Also on view are more than 40 vintage perfume bottles, original sketches, magazine covers, and posters from the Italian artist’s 1940’s-to-1960’s prime

                                             Pictures of Christian Dior And Rene Gruau.

 

As John Galliano says: " To be inspired by Dior is to be inspired by Rene Gruau. His sketches capture the silhouette and spirit of Dior and a new era of fashion and feminity. His illustrations are timeless, ever youthful, ever faithfull to the moment he saw; they capture the energy, the shophistication and daring of Dior and equally are tokern of an enduring friendship"

VIP'S 

Chloe Moretz

Daisy Loewe

Leaning woman by Jasper Goodal

Inspired by Gruau's use of bold shapes, striking composition, silhouette and negative space. It has this modern and contemporary feeling.

Few illustrations that catch my eyes...

Diorama 1955, Dior second parfume, Depicted Neo louis XVI chair with elegant woman gloves and scarf.

Flower Woman, Diorrissimo 1956

Miss Dior, Circa 1960

This is the time when photography fashion are rising, declining the use of fashion illustration. Gruau Respond to it was with daring compositions and break the classic illustrations. Captures the spirit of age.

This is the one that i love the most ; Diorling, it use water colour,gouache and ink. The initial for Diorling illustration breaks here, i mean for the Gruau style. He adapt the fashion that abandoned structure.Painted loose garment.

This limited edition Dior compact features an iconic René Gruau printed on the eye shadow make-up pad. Each compact was hand made and will each featured unique colour combinations. 

                                                                  

Future Beauty : 30 Years of Japanese Fashion

Today i went to this exhibition on Barbican Centre and i got lost on my way there, thank god i bring a map. well, i just live here. Anyway, Its about Japanese Fashion. It is the very first exhibition in Europe to survey avant-garde japanese fashion from the early 1980's. Mostly as we know, the Japanese visionaries such as : Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo - Comme des Garçons. redefined the basis of fashion. They used clothing as an autonomous form of expression, turn fashion into art.

Here the work of Miyake, Kawakubo, and Yamamoto are presented alongside Junya Watanabe, Jun Takashi, Tao Kurihara, and Mint Designs.

This is my scrap paper during the visit.

Issey Miyake, folded garment 2010.

Issey Miyake, recognised as most innovative designer today. We known him by his interpretation on technique and material innovation. Both suited the modern lifestyle as well.

 

 Jun Takashi A/W 2000-01 | Melting Pot Collection 

Anarchic punk style. Adopted from culture of street fashion, he designs for his own label, his own admission- tread a fine line between beauty and the ugly. He got a Gothic constructive characterised by its patched,layered,slashed and bold printed graphic.

Yamamoto " i know its just a fabric. but it speaks to us like a world. If it were a dessert & youre a traveller, you would talk about its stars, its sun, you probably will"

Issey Miyake S/S 1999

This is the craziest and the most awesome piece of art i have ever seen. A-POC they called it. Which stands for "A piece of cloth". You can spell it "epoch". Revolutionary concepts weaving process that produce fully finished garments w/out the need of machine sew seams. A long tube double knit fabrics are woven flat on computer - controlled looms an yam linked in a fine mash of chain stitches embed on a garment shape. Then the wearer removes the cloths from section of the roll, by cutting along marked lines & when cut free stitches layer of mesh at bottom shrinks & stop the whole fabrics from unrevealling.

Koji Tatsuno A/W 93-94 

Golden Brown of nylon net dress.

A little information about him , Tatsuno moved to london in 1980 & taught himself fashion design wjile experimenting with rare craft technique. 1993 he launch his own label Culture Shock. Along side Pret-a-Porter he also present art on a garment. This dress above later are used in the main character of peter in Green Away film the Pillow Book 1996.

FASHION NIGHT IN - 2010

Mrs. Moss Is In The House! Its the Day of Fashion Night In, where every fashionistas can shop any fashion brand w/Discounts and Freebies. BUT, instead of joining the celebration i decided to celebrate FNI w/ Kate Moss for TopShop Launching Party in Oxford Circus. The event starts from 7- 8Pm until Moss leave the building.

Theres plenty of nice designs by her.. oh and also, lots of paparazzi waiting for her in TopShop, The Queue is just unbearable, Thank god i got the yellow entry pass. We're the first that can get into the spot!

Here's our entry pass

       

         

       

Heres the adorable supermodel, sorry for the blurry pics.. i took it from my blackberry. Had no idea today i'll be taking picture of Moss.

Moss Freebies from the collection which is her poster. And here's a piece that i got from the collection.

I'll be posting my look soon, having kinda hectic moment right now. x.o.x.o