What's up! trouvaillesdujour: March 2012

Saturday, March 31, 2012

Reed + Rader: " Jock Jams "

Bounce the ball, dunk and score.... This post will put a smile on your face and will also pleased Michael Jordan fans.
A tribute to the sport is the theme chosen by the duo artists Pamela Reed and Matthew Rader (AKA Reed + Rader) for their new fashion shoot. This animated story was done in connection with V Magazine's current "Sports" Issue.

Meet Emma Ishta all dressed up in designer clothes and enjoy the game!!!

Jock Jams

Burberry Prorsum coat, Blumarine top, Jeremy Scott for adidas pants, Alexander Wang shoes
© Reed + Rader

Stella McCartney dress, Akris top, Blumarine shorts, Jeremy Scott for adidas sneakers
© Reed + Rader

Alexander Wang collaged jersey bodysuit, Jeremy Scott for adidas sneakers
© Reed + Rader

Blumarine jacket, Missoni cardigan, swimwear, Chanel sneakers
© Reed + Rader

Jeremy Scott for adidas jacket, Burberry Prorsum dress, 3.1 Philip Lim top
© Reed + Rader

Stella McCartney dress, (from left) Chanel ring, Armenta rings, Stephen Webster ring, Armenta ring, New Era hat © Reed + Rader

Courtesy Reed + Rader

Credits V Magazine
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Mariano Vargas: " Soltanto Madonne," a Neo-Baroque Erotic Snapshots

Considered as one of the finest contemporary erotic photographers, Mariano Vargas draws most of his inspiration from the great masters of the Italian Renaissance, Botticelli, Raphael, and Leonardo da Vinci. In the series Soltanto Madonne, beauty is trapped in the form of unique women with enigmatic silhouettes.

Mariano Vargas wants to create beauty in the combination of bodies, clothing, theatrical decor, and other sophisticated details. His Madonnas are like "tableaux vivants," models involving their fantasies in a world that links the past, postmodernism and Renaissance. All these beautiful women portrayed are allegorized at the same time with the following themes: religion and the profane, transcendence and pleasure, magic and the quotidian.

Mariano Vargas lives and works in Spain.

This post is NSFW.

Mariano Vargas

Soltanto Madonne

Young woman with dog © Mariano Vargas

Young women playing © Mariano Vargas

Lady portrait with snake © Mariano Vargas

The Graces © Mariano Vargas

Young woman with camera © Mariano Vargas

Lady portrait with flower © Mariano Vargas

Young woman with mirror © Mariano Vargas

Courtesy of the artist / Galerie Lina Davidov, Paris
Soltanto Madonne was on exhibit at Galerie Lina Davidov
From January 26 to March 3, 2012
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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Fashion as Art; Exploring The Futuristic Creations of Iris van Herpen

Seeing a piece by Dutch designer Iris Van Herpen for the first time may provoke a shock and raise many questions. What is this? Is it a piece of clothing? Is it a piece of art? What is it made from? Is it intended to be worn as a garment? What is the designer setting out to achieve?
~~ Essay by fashion journalist Jean Paul Cauvin

Fashion designer Iris van Herpen is renowned for her remarkable outfits in which she combines traditional craftsmanship and diligent handwork with innovative technology and unconventional materials such as synthetic boat rigging, processed leather sorts and the whalebones of children's umbrellas to create visually stunning outfits. Van Herpen regards fashion as a form of self-expression in which she translates her associations and fascinations with everyday reality into a collection. Each collection has its own tale, and wearability is not the ultimate criterion.

"In my eyes, couture creates a balance. Although it can appear like an old club, things are changing and I believe that it is the place to try out new techniques and do research at a time when fashion is concentrating on commercial products. Couture represents the future of fashion."
~~ Iris van Herpen

These statements were made by Van Herpen in January 2011, just before her first show in Paris, while she was still outside the Haute Couture program me. Since then, having already won several Dutch Design Awards, she has met with an enthusiastic reception in France's capital, presenting a retrospective runway show there on the occasion of her first official participation in the Haute Couture calendar in July 2011.

From March 24 to September 23, 2012, the Groninger Museum will present the first large-scale solo exhibition of the work of Iris van Herpen (Wamel, 1984). An overview of her work from 2008 to the present, including a selection of her most recent work, such as Capriole and the Micro collection will also be on display.

Iris van Herpen

Refinery smoke, July 2008