CURATING FOR YOUR INTEREST

Tomorrow, Wednesday 2 September, two icons from the fashion world will fight about your attention.

Kate Moss will release her a/w 09 collection for Topshop and Lara Stone will be Not Just A Label´s online shop curator of September, selecting and presenting pieces from NJAL´s exciting designers.


Not Just A label is a leading global business directory for showcasing avant-garde fashion designers of today and nurture tomorrow´s fashion.

They matches demand and supply individuality, creativity, diversity and talent by providing a free tool which makes it available for up and coming designers to showcase and present themselves among their collections. This is a unique way for the industry participants and fashionistas to get an idea of what tomorrow´s fashion will be like, in many cases the collections that been showcased online have led to recruitment.

This year NJAL´s THE SHOP will have a bigger a/ w collection than normal. For the first time designers will be able to sell directly to customers. The lookbooks will turn into individual online stores which makes it possible to sell to customers from five continents. That´s what I call nurturing!!!

And this is where Lara Stone , Dutch model, famous for her gapped teeth, voluptuous figure and large lips, recently named "the most wanted face" by W magazine plays her part. She will be THE SHOP´s curator and her selection, chosen from the hundreds of lookbooks, will be available tomorrow.



May the best man win!

SPENDING AT WEEKDAY

A collaboration between young Austrian fashion designer, Ali Zedtwitz, and Weekday has become a twelve piece collection that are up for purchase in every Weekday store these days.

The twelve pieces are voluminous and comes in a black to fading grey colour range, though to add some colour for the normally grey autumn it also features accentuate colours cobalt blue and pale sepia. Since it´s a unisex collection it´s voluminous and clean lines. Zedtwitz wanted to create a collection with movement, silhouette, colour, structure and pattern that reflects common times. The price range is from 300- 1600 SEK.

(Picture knicked from fashtastic)

Ali Zedtwitz examined from University of applied arts in Vienna in 2008. She won the Fashion Award of the Ministry (wort a one year scholarship abroad) in 2009.

Earlier piece from Ali Zedtwitz

MARCHING ALONG

Designer Martin Margiela has in a collaboration with Dr. Martens created the white combat boot. To buy now!

MOST AWESOME GYPSIE

(Images knicked from Knightcat)

Editorial from Vmagazine #61, do I need to add that this is the most amazing beautiful stunning editorial I´ve seen in ages. Think the denim job in Vogue with Anna Selezneva was the last time I was starstruck.

FIND ME A CAPE TOWN

Ever since I saw the capes, previously owned by Janis Joplin, at the Hardrock café in Los Angeles I been wanting a cape. The obsession of purchasing a cape has been gaining strength in the latest days, maybe because it´s autumn, but still a bit too hot for a jacket and too cold for just a sweater. I have also seen the fantastic cape Kate Moss was wearing on stage, s I guess I´m not the only one in town looking for one eehhh?! But the cape fashion didn´t start witjh kate, neither with Janis Joplin.



It has been existing since the Antiques and has been doubled as a night blanket, protecting warriors and Arabs from the cold desert nights. It´s said to be one of the simplets garments to make, it´s features are fastened by the neck and covering half back of the wearer (supplementary course: the full length garment is called cloak).

It was highly popular in Medieval Europe and after that era it didn´t returned into European fashion until the 1850s and then became a staple in the female wardrobe. The etiquette books from 1890s advice every "real" lady to have at least two or three capes in her closet. The capes from these times also had secret inner pockets to keep the lady´s items. In the thirties it was the cloth of the fun loving, chic woman.

Victorian lady cape

Today it´s associated with Rock n´Roll because of the likes of Janis Joplin, Kate Moss, La Rouxe etc. but, it´s also a garment that signals ladylike. Everything depends on the styling.



The cape also signals protection, not just because French (for example)military units and police wears it, but because common superheros like Superman and Batman is wearing them while keeping streets clean.

SCULPTURE ME

It all started with a replica of a n 1800 century dress.

Instead of collections she calls them projects. Based on limited editions (mostly she makes just one of each garment), longlasting pieces and experimental tailoring; Josefin Strid recreates the natural body shape with her knife edged cutting and heavy sculpturing and not to mention the obsesssion with shoulders and the like of complicate constructions.

By using the preferable materials: wool, leather, silk and cotton, favorably mixed together she makes clothes that screams attitude.

Inspired by Tim Burton´s movies, mostly featuring Johnny Depp and the other half, Helena Bonham Carter, the French band Vive la Fête´s attitude, music and scene costumes, Haute Couture, architect Frank Ghery and painter Olle Baertling the project features sexy one shoulder dresses and umbrella shaped skirts, detailed knitwear, Russian tsar attire, dinosaur scarves, Evil stepmother dresses and playful ballerina costumes, pleated capes, star wars-shoulders.

Josefin consider that garments should be well- made and thereby an investment rather than a throwaway. She puts a lot of detailwork into the clothes and finds the building of the garment to be what speaks to her mostly.

She has been spending the summer in London designing for Giles Deacon.

(Check her website out to virtually turn each fantastic page after another).

DOING WORK EXPERIENCE

Today I felt a bit like Anne Hathaway´s character Andrea who is a second assistant at Runway magazine in The Devil wears Prada. I was literally running around in a very hot city where I don´t know the names of the streets and is unfortunately not gifted with a sixth sense telling me if I went North, East or just around in a circle. Though I always find where I´m going in some mysterious way, without using maps and all that crap.

Anyhow, there I was with this bags crammed with clothes and clothes which we were going to use for a job in the magazine, and I had to find a hotel which has a very fancy store inside. Well it seemed to rather has disappeared from the earth. So kind of hot like a chili, I went up to a builder guy and asked for the hotel. He didn´t seemed to know, just pointed to the opposite street and some other lads. I asked them, and I hoped they like to have a good laugh, since I was standin in front of that hotel, oh dear!

Well, I got the jewellery and headed back to the office with the metro.

PRETTY POLLY FOR HOUSE OF HOLLAND

I got a slight obsession with tights. Not that I wear them everyday, I don´t even style them as good as they could be styled I just keep stocking up on them.

Tucked in my plastic bag are heart printed white over knees, cobolt blue tights, Chanel copy in black and nude, white, grey, black and gold etc etc etc. And now my little collection has increased with some black and white block coloured ones from British hoisery brand Pretty Polly´s collaboration with 80´s t-shirt legend Henry Holland (designer for House of Holland).


I bought them here!
Shipping will take about 7- 10 days and the price is 172 SEK or £14.

SPENDING TIMES IN BATHROOMS

New shoes from Vagabond

To fit outside: shoes: Vagabond, jeans: Topshop, t-shirt: Resteröds, glasses: Punkt shop, ring: Primark, bracelet: mum´s

The new hair colour. Not brown, not black-purple, no still existing roots. Just copper-red as advertised on the package. Amazed!

CHEAP AND CHIC

No, I´m not promoting Moscino´s campaign here, more of a Vagabond men´s shoe really.

This black jodphurs goes is included in Swedish shoebrand Vagabond´s Autumn collection for 1100 SEK.

Seeing different collections and walking in and out of endless shops I forecast this shoe model to be the men´s it shoe this Autumn/ Winter and the price between them are quite various so this is a really good buy.

While seeing it I think of rock n´roll, decadent clubs i.e Pete Doherty carnage in the street.