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More liked postsAn Awakening: KONY 2012
By Charlotte Jacovou
Kony 2012 is an ‘international justice’ internet campaign by humanitarian group Invisible Children. THe video has brought uganan conflict into the light. The movement was started to raise awareness about the alleged war crimes committed by Ugandan military group the Lord’s Resistance Army under the leadership of Joseph Kony. It aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice.
Kony is wanted on 33 separate criminal charges, including 12 counts of crimes against humanity, following a hearing at the International Criminal Court in 2005. Other charges include murder, enslavement and rape, while the US has named Kony as one of the world’s most wanted terrorists after being on the run for over 26 years.
The militant is believed to have overseen the guerrilla group’s abduction of an estimated 66,000 children, forcing them to become child soldiers.
The video posted by the “invisible Children on Youtbe on the 5th of March the video has gone viral, with the world sharing it on social netwroking platforms. As at March 7th 18:22pm GMT the video had amassed 4,285,557 views, thats over 4 million hits in just 48 hours. Today ’KONY 2012’ and ‘Invisible Children’ were trending worldwide on Twitter, with the group’s 30-minute documentary being retweeted thousands of times.
HOW TO HELP:
Join TRI or Donate to Invisible Children: http://bit.ly/yp5Ffv
Purchase KONY 2012 products: http://invisiblechildrenstore.myshopify.com/
Sign the Pledge: http://www.causes.com/causes/227-invisible-children
On curated site, gift givers offer recipients a hand-picked choice
The challenges of gift giving may be felt most keenly at this time of year, but there’s no end in sight to the companies willing to help make it easier. Enter Wantful, a new service that helps gift givers put together a hand-picked selection of items from which recipients can choose which they’d like best. READ MORE…
ABSOLUT BLANK: Utilizing Collaborative design
by Charlotte Jacovou
Absolut Vodka has launched a creative marketing campaign that will bring together emerging artists from across the globe. The Absolut Blank initiative which launched on July 20, comprises of 18 artist collaborations, from different disciplines including; drawing, painting, sculpting, print making, film making and digital art. They created films, print and outdoor ads, consumer events and a digital piece that will evolve on mobile phones.
An outline of the vodka bottle is make into a blank canvas to inspire a new generation of artists to fill it with creativity and the result depicts how artists and creativity are inspired through Absolut. You can see Behind the scenes footage from ABSOLUT BLANK yourself in the video above and a couple of finished examples below.
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Pop-Up Art Exhibition Reveals Young People’s Protest Issues
By Charlotte Jacovou
National arts charity Noise Festival is hosting a pop-up exhibition to highlight creative and peaceful protests. In the photographs, they hold up signs answering the question “What would make you protest?” to show what they’re really concerned about. Noise charity founder Denise Proctor said:
Over the last year protest has dominated the UK’s headlines. ‘Art of Protest’ sees the NOISEfestival.com charity demonstrating that protest can be achieved through creative means to deliver a powerful message without violence. We want to motivate young people from across the UK to communicate their issues safely and effectively.
It will include work from international artists like Banksy, Gillian Wearing, Billy Bragg, Stella Vine, Joseph Beuys, Thomas Peiter, and Katherine Hamnett.The ‘Art of Protest’ exhibition will also feature the Noise charity’s positive response to the recent youth riots, and an international compilation of photos from young people in Berlin, Madrid, Valencia and Manchester that identify their protest issues.
The ‘Art of Protest’ exhibition was presented from the 19th-27th October in the windows of an empty retail space in Manchester, UK where the recent riots took place.
Hyper-Personalization: The T-Shirt Issue
By Charlotte Jacovou
Bespoke tailoring is taken to a new level with these custom-made T-shirts that incorporates forms based on the personal memories of the wearer. To generate the highly personalized garments, Mashallah Design and Linda Kostowski scanned three people’s bodies in three dimensions and interviewed them to unearth meaningful images from their experiences or dreams. It is the latest example of “Embedded Life-stories”.
The Wolf T-Shirt (below) features a fabric wolf head attached to the shoulder, this was created for someone who, as a boy, heard the story of a child being brought up bywolves and subsequently imagined he had a wolf-friend of his own.
NO 419 - After hearing a story about a boy brought up by a wolf I wanted this more than anything else. The wolf would have accompanied my nocturnal wanderings, would have eagerly shared my reconnaissances and sometimes my thunderous sighs.
NO 379 (below) - When I was small and just about to learn swimming I was petrified that my swimmies would leak. I squeezed them constantly to check the air level. Surprisingly the swimmies had a different effect outside the water, they gave me tremendous self assurance. In default of that I just left them on all the time.
NO 318 (below) - She changed my life from the first moment I was fitting her, when she slipped through my drapery purring. The sounds she made, unerring and self-confident. She fills my design with ease, making me believe in her more than ever.
The data and the imagery is digitally combined to create a series of polygons that, when laser cut from fabric and stitched together form a perfectly fitting T-Shirt with a uniques sculptural addition.
The garments are made from thick jersey material and designed in 3D modelling software more commonly used to design industrial products. To generate the dozens of flat polygons required to assemble the items, the Berlin-based designers used the software’s ‘unfold’ function, which turns a three-dimensional object into a 2D pattern that can be used to create a paper model.
For more information visit: http://www.the-t-shirt-issue.com/
Postmodernism: The Substance of Style
Postmodernism is the notoriously slippery subject tacked by the V&A’s new exhibition, ‘Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990’. This fast-paced film features some of the most important living Postmodern practitioners — Charles Jencks, Robert A.M. Stern and Sir Terry Farrell among them — and asks them how and why Postmodernism came about, and what it means to be Postmodern.
‘Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990’, 24th September 2011 - 15th January 2012. Purchase Tickets here
Pudsey Bear Gets a Makeover
By Charlotte Jacovou
Pudsey Bear, one of the UK’s most loved bears, alongside Paddington and Winnie the Poo, has just had a designer makeover to help raise money for this year’s appeal. No longer yellow with an eye patch, Pudsey now sports trendy guises as designed by some of the biggest names in fashion. Erdem, Mulberry, Louis Vuitton and Giles Deacon, are just a few of the coveted designers who created a new identity for Pudsey, and the designs range from leather, through florals and checks to on-trend metallic material.
Images from Top left to Botom right: Giles Deacon, Erdem, Hillier, Henry Holland, Liberty, Mulberry, PPQ and Saunders.
All the bears are on display at Liberty in London. They are also being auctioned online, with a reserve price of £200, to add the the pot of money going towards the Children in Need telethon on November 18. To get yours visit Liberty now!
LumiBots
by Joie Reinstein
We love this super adorable installation of little robots drawing with light created by Mylean Kronemann. Basically a table is set up with phosphorescent paper that asorbs the trails of light left by the robots. The Bots follow a random pattern, not computer programmed, that consists of only 2 rules: go to the light, and leave when bumped.
A full report on Light Art will soon be available on www.fashionsnoops.com.
Science in Style: Bio Jewellery
By Charlotte Jacovou
Designers Tobie Kerridge and Nikki Stott developed the idea of using human bone tissue that has been grown in a laboratory. The project involves extracting bone cells from a couple and seeding them using bioglass, a special bioactive ceramic to produce bone tissue that would be used to make a pair of rings. The bone is combined with precious materials and formed into rings, the rings designed accrding to the donors wishes, would then contain their combined DNA and serve as a uniques symbol of their relationship. By exchanging rings, the couple would, in effect, be giving a part of themselves to each other.
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Science in Style: Unsustainable Jewellery by Greetje van Helmond
By Charlotte Jacovou
Crystals formed from everyday materials such as salt and water (in the form of ice) can appear every bit as beautiful as precious stones, but are not particularly prized for making jewellery.
This observation prompted Dutch designer Greetje van Helmond to produce a range of jewellery from sugar. The crystals that decorate the collection are grown in-situ by suspending unadorned necklaces and bracelets in a saturated sugar solution; sugar crystals begin to form naturally along the thread, growing larger over time. It can take a couple of weeks to grow the largest crystals, which are more robust than the extremely fragile ones that form in the first few days of the process.
Van Helmand caller her collection Unsustainable as both a comment on today’s throwaway culture, and as an admission that jewellery made from sugar will not last particularly long if worn.
The collection was first show in 2007 as part of van Helmand’s graduation show at the Royal College of Art in London.
Hyper Personalization: Retail for the Male (Update)
By Charlotte Jacovou
When it comes to fashion, the fairer sex has always held a privileged position, but times are changing. Following on from “Retail for the Male” trend report, we see a continuation in male retail. The latest progression is brought to us by Hongkong Land who presents a sprawling 60,000sq.ft. one-stop fashion hub for the male trendsetter.
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Pixelated: Space aliens invade São Paulo
By Charlotte Jacovou
French urban artist Invader has brought his unique mosaic art to the streets of São Paulo, Brazil. In an eventful year for the artist, his arcade game-inspired art is exhibited as part of ‘De Dentro e De Fora’ (‘Inside Out/Outside In’), a celebration of street art at São Paulo’s MASP gallery and in the surrounding area.
‘De Dentro e De Fora’ hopes to encourage people to see art in all parts of the city, not only in museums. As well as Invader, the exhibition includes other international urban artists, including Remed (Spain), Chu (Argentina) and Point (Czech Republic).
Source: http://unurth.com/2011255/Space-Invader-Sao-Paolo
Science in Style: Inlaid fantasies by Andreea Mandrescu
By Charlotte Jacovou
Spotted at 100% Design Inlaid Fantasies is a series of fluid, soft surfaces inlaid and overlaid on fabrics which can be used in fashion, accessories as well as in interiors. The materials used are fabrics, different kinds of rubber, velvet, leather, faux fur or veneers.
As accessories, the pieces, due to their flexibility and ease in manipulation, can be attached and wrapped around the body. These pieces can also be made to fit on fabric different garment patterns in fashion design. The same surfaces can be used in interior design and can be done in any colour and size.
The fabric pieces can easily be cut and draped on the body. The weight of the pieces changes in a playful way the drape of the fabrics. The fabrics can also be used for interiors as panels, curtains or blinds. They can be easily made to fit different sizes.
I love the mixed media, and layered application techniques she employs to create these pieces. It is further progression in the exploratory nature of the future of materials and methods of their application.
For more information visit: http://www.andreeamandrescu.com/
Science in Style: ‘Living Pod’ by Ying Gao
By Charlotte Jacovou
In ‘Living Pod’, a collection of coats and dresses by Montreal fashion designer Ying Gao the garment plays a mediating role between man and his environment. Light, shape variations and mimicry meet as garments curl and unfurl in reaction to light.
In addition to the mechanical movements of the garments, Living Pods underlines two fundamental aspects of today’s fashion system: confrontation and imitation. Using flat-pattern cutting techniques, Ying Gao was able to give the process fluidity and flexibility.
Coats in the series Living Pod were developed in tribute to the British architectural collective Archigram. In the 1960s, Archigram conceived mobile, ephemeral and inflatable structure-dwellings. The user can slowly set the coat in motion. Using a light source, light sensors In front of the false twin pieces activate tiny electric motors sewn into the fabric folds.
Ruffles in the second dress copy and exaggerate this movement, the dress then imitates the coat in an exaggerated and unbalanced fashion, spilling out from a slash in a leather coat. It changes structure through miniature electric motors activated by light sensors that are sewn through the garment.
Watch how it reacts to light for yourselves…
living pod, interactive coats from ying gao on Vimeo.
For more information visit: http://yinggao.ca/
Interactive Dress Becomes Transparent With A Combination Of Technology And Intimacy
By Charlotte Jacovou
INTIMACY is a fashion project by Studio Roosegaarde exploring the relation between intimacy and technology. Its high-tech garments entitled ‘Intimacy White’ and ‘Intimacy Black’ are made out of opaque smart e-foils that become increasingly transparent based on close and personal encounters with people.
In response to the heartbeat of each person, INTIMACY 2.0 becomes more or less transparent. When a person gets close to others, hugs or dances with them, the e-foils in the dress are activated and the level of transparency alters, “creating a sensual play of disclosure.”
Currently Studio Roosegaarde is inviting haute couture designers to develop their own vision for the next INTIMACY. Take a look at the video below to see the design and its changing looks:
‘Intimacy 2.0’ by Studio Roosegaarde from Daan Roosegaarde on Vimeo.
For more information visit: http://www.studioroosegaarde.net/project/intimacy/info/
