'Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations'

An exhibition exploring how the two Italian designers from different eras share similar themes within their work. There will be seven different galleries consisting of images, videos and garments each presenting a different a theme: "Waist Up/Waist Down", "Ugly Chic", "Hard Chic", "Naif Chic", "The Classical Body", "The Exotic Body" and "The Surreal Body". 

Click on the title of this post to take you to the Met Museum site where you will find further information on the exhibition which launches on May 10th.

Image credits: fashionista.com/2012/04/first-look-the-mets-schiaparelli-and-prada-impossible-conversations-exhibit/

"The Exotic Body" - The influence of Eastern cultures

"Hard Chic" - Exploring the influence of menswear

"Waist Up / Waist Down" - Exploring the use of decorative detailing

"The Surreal Body" - How both women affect contemporary images of the female body

Katrin Korfmann - Ariel Art

Korfmann explores notions of space and time from a series of ariel shots to create patterns with the people and objects being photographed. 

The tiny pops of colour against the monochrome grounds (and indeed vise verse in Kings College Cambridge) are what draw me  into these beautifully constructed images.

Please follow the link to her website clicking on the title of this post to read more about how she produces her work.

'Running With The Bulls' Pamplona

'What We Believe in Ajax' Amsterdam

'Frank's Office' Hong Kong

'Kings College' Cambridge

'Nickel's Eye' Luanda

AW12 LFW Favourites

Basso and Brooke

Louise Gray 

Mary Katrantzou

The coat hanger print in this dress is a real highlight for me proving inspiration and great design can come from even the most inconspicuous of everyday objects!

Interiors and Fashion: Combining Influences

After being inspired by Kenziepoo (previous post), with a bit of research I found some links between fashion and interiors that I liked of my own:

Image Credits Below:

Interiors: http://www.apartmenttherapy.com 

                       Fashion: Shaun Samson SS12 Menswear http://www.totemfashion.com/

Kenziepoo

Kenziepoo (a really good blog for childrenswear) have a feature called 'Room Into an Outfit', a great concept for linking the ever prominent links between fashion and interiors:

(see the Kenziepoo website for details for where all the clothes are from, kenziepoo.com).

Colour Palettes

Ana Montiel - 'Floral Mantra'

Christopher Schreck

CTRLZAK Studio for Seletti

(Hybrid ceramics: half traditional Oriental patterns and half traditional European patterns)

Lance Letscher - 'One Thing'

Aranxa Esteve and Lucia Rallo - Sweet Letters

(Edible sweets)

Xenz - 'Cloud Cuckoo Land'

(Although a lovely colour palette, its the interpretation of cloud cuckoo land that I like perhaps more)

Car Lights

Car Lights

These were taken by moving the camera around while taking the photo which produced this lovely movement in the lights. The lights were just the car stereo, but I thought that they still had quite a collection of colours and combined with movement would create even more colours as they would mix together. I really like the loops produced and the softness that is applied to the otherwise, stronger, bolding lighting. The third photograph still had the flash on, and you can see just a subtle movement of light which I thought looked quite surreal! My favourite is where the light loops around, reminding me of tassles or a floaty fabric.

Tomas Saraceno and Cell Lighting

http://www.exibart.com/notizia.asp?IDCategoria=61&IDNotizia=25691



http://artscatalyst.typepad.com/photos/poetic_cosmos/dome9.html

Tomas Saraceno 'Poetic Cosmos'.

An Argentinian artist who I came across in my research. I thought this was amazing the way that he used iridescent foil and blew it up with heat which created all these beautiful colours. An interesting way to use heat and light!





http://www.zcell.kr/project/project_view.php?idx=22

Cell Lighting 'Lighting Kaleidoscope'

Again while researching my I came across Cell Lighting. This 'Lighting Kaleidoscope' uses lighting as an interactive source encouraging activity within children while at the same time creating beautiful imagery that could constantly change.

These were just two people I came across while researching but while I am researching it is making me realise how much light can impact in everyday life. In terms of colour, it can add so much to an evironment and change it completely. Light can be something we take for granted, but the more reseach I am doing and the more photos I am taking it is becoming apparent how much we need light, how much it can influence moods and spaces and even though it is something that features in our everyday lives, it is constantly changing and adapting. It can also be very beautiful purely as it is when manipulated and viewed differently to how we see it day-to-day.

Light Photographs

(in order)

Nottingham City Centre: Love the elegance of the pattern created by light on the side of the structure

London, Trafalgar Square: natural light on architecture

I have just started working on my final project at uni and I am studying Textile Design and specialising in Weave. I want to produce a fabric that can be used for both fashion and interiors and a concept that I have chosen for inspiration is 'Light'. I chose light because I thought it would be a great opportunity to really get a good vibrant colour palette. At the moment I am just taking photo's of anything that I find interesting in terms of colour and light, particularly how light falls on architecture and the patterns it makes and also how artifical lights can produce interesting colours and patterns.



London Southbank: Merry-go-round, I like how bright the colours surrounded by the darkness of the tunnel



Nottingham, Noel Street: I like the contrast between the dark blue and the orange



Nottingham, Lace Market: Love the different colours in the windows, the gradation is something I could use as inspiration. The colours are bright which is definitely something I want to have in my project, bright, uplifting and contemporary colours.



London Oxford Street: Wanted to capture the bright bold colours of the street lighting




Stealth Nightclub Nottingham Lasers