fine art

by Victor Antonio.








discovered at linn & horst
images copyright Victor Antonio.

do I know me do you know you

I don't know what to think about all these questions people ask and other people respond to, you find them in all kind of magazines, for instance in the Americain Vanity Fair where at the back page you always have a "noteworthy person answering a series of personal questions".

I am always impressed what people know about themselves. Especially because the answers always seem to be given so spontaneously. Well, evidently, people think about first, but still, there are some questions about things I never thought about, but now I want to know about myself and about you.
It's kind of a game I once played with my big boss staying in Florence for a fashion show, we were assisting to a fitting and therefore didn't have much to do, so he started the game asking me about my 5 favorite films, then about my five favorite bands, then about my 5 favorite books; and actually I realised that these are quite banal things you might think about every day, but I couldn't answer immediately...

The most famous and legendary version of this game is for sure the "Proust questionnaire" named after Marcel Proust and his answers: he had discovered these questions as a young boy in a classmade's confession album called "album to record thoughts, feelings, etc." and aswered them more than once in his life to learn about himself.

Today I gonna start to write my own album and I will start this by answering the questions.

go ahead, let's play the game, and then maybe YOU becomes I:

Your favorite virtue.
Your favorite qualities in a man.
Your favorite qualities in a woman.
Your chief characteristic.
What you appreciate the most in your friends.
Your main fault.
Your favourite occupation.
Your idea of happiness.
Your idea of misery.
If not yourself, who would you be.
Where would you like to live.
Your favourite colour and flower.
Your favorite bird.
Your favourite prose authors.
Your favourite poets.
Your favourite heroes in fiction.
Your favourite heroines in fiction.
Your favourite painters and composers.
Your favourite heroes in real life.
Your favourite heroines in real life.
What characters in history do you most dislike.
Your heroines in World history.
Your favourite food and drink.
Your favourite names.
What I hate the most.
World history characters I hate the most.
The reform I admire the most.

out of time

You remember last time we were happy me and you in the train on our way home
fields passing by in the window the sun in your hair I tell you I'm not dreaming out of time and no grey men stealing our time.


Momo would appreciate those. no time-saving and no time-wasting. these are just timeless - allegories of timeless moments. WATCH OUT.

above: T1MEPEACE designed by Denise Julia Reytan




and Maison Martin Margiela's gold watch, also sold as a necklace.



images. www.reytan.de
www.maisonmartinmargiela.com

Craig Lawrence: my knitwear king

Inspired by Craig Lawrence's amazing SS 2010 knitwear collection I spent my weekend knitting an incredible big black scarf with a nice cup of tea in front of the chimney. Ok, I did a more simple and decent version, since I am not a Central Saint Martin's graduate, and took my inspiration rather from Rick Owens' dark spirit than from "soft sweets and luxurious cocktails" (cf. the collection's press release) but me too, I will do fabulous loops with my new scarf....





check out Craig's blog

all images from Craig's agency, take a look on the whole collection, it's just amazing!!

What Women Want. "I love you" Magazine

When I first hold this new German magazine (no worries, it's all in English) in my hands I wasn’t aware of the fact that this is a women’s magazine - for women and written by women. I just was really fascinated and enchanted by their beautiful combination of words, poem like citations and visuals. Above all I was captured by its personal, even kind of naïve approach just to print what they love.
I really like the texts and little interviews done and written by editor in chief Christiane Börndner, the fashion shoots under the creative direction of Alexx & Anton and all these refreshing surprises I won’t tell you….















I LOVE YOU
The second issue is out right now, so go for it!!

looking through a veil

Folds. Since a little while I am fascinated about folds, drapery folds, and the way human bodies change through drapery. A rag is the most simple form of cloth: just a piece of fabric. This photograph published in the new issue of Volt magazine shoes in a very exemplary way the impact of clothes on the human body, their interdepency which for me is the essence of fashion.
Where does the fabric end and where does the body start? Where is the boundary? They cannot be seperated anymore, yet is the drapery transforming the body? Is it folding the women's breast and skin? Is it even deforming the harmonious body? The skin seems to fold up and to degenerate the body.
Through the veil the body even looses it's limitation against the background: where does the face end? it all seems to become one substance.



(unfortunately they didn't publish the photographer's name on their website, to find out!)

Its actually the very same motif of the veil which fascinates me in this amazing shoot with Lara Stone for French Vogue's October issue (this shoot showing a colored Lara Stone in an ethnological decor provoked a serious debate on the role and place of colored models and racism in fashion. see the video of the discussion on cnn and follow the discussion on Kristina Gisors' blog)






© by VOGUE PARIS/ Photographer: Steven Klein / Styling: Carine Roitfeld / Make-up: Stéphane Marais / Model: Lara Stone


all images via on of my favorite german blogs: coûte que coûte

Put your red shoes on!

Upcoming summer I wanna wear RED shoes.
My favorite styles are all from the new Parisian luxury footwear brand:

Aperlaï Paris

The label has been launched during last Fashion week by Burak Uyan, formerly working at Givenchy, Giambattista Valli and Alessandra Lanvin, and Srdjan Prodanovic. They convince with a new, fresh architectural design - citing Bauhaus architecture, Tadao Ando or Oscar Niemeyer as inspiration - and offer splendid flats and high-heels produced by Italian artisans for next summer.











click here to see their website: coming soon

SONIA RYKIEL for H&M!

brand new: wwd announced today the new collaboration between H&M and Sonia Rykiel

After several contributions by designers as comme de garçon, Mathiew williamson and lately Jimmy Choo Sonia Rykiel will be the next high-end designer to collaborate with H&M for two collections: a series of lingerie and accessory pieces for this winter that will be launched worldwide on December 5th and - still more interesting - a knitwear collection for spring summer 2010 accompanied by playful accessories that will be launched in around 250 H&M stores on February 20th, 2010.





image: Martin Margiela's tribute to Rykiel's 40th anniversary via style.com


Sonia Rykiel is known for having created in the late 60s at the very beginning of sexual revolution in May 68 not only a new brand but a long with that a new vision of femininity and women's clothing. In opening her own boutique in Saint-Germain - the epicentre of the intellectual movement at that time - her name and brand quickly became synonyme for a new Parisian, modern and individual style, the new emancipated women. Her impact even goes beyond fashion: it is her merit having democratised sex toys in selling them in her store and making them available for women of all ages and social backgrounds.



also check out their new blog on http://www.rykielles.com/


http://www.hm.com/us/press/pressreleases/fashion__prfashion.nhtml

all about belts!

girls, go out and get you a BELT like this. its THE essential Autumn winter accessory. just take an oversized jacket or even better a coat and put it around your waist to ooutline your shilouette!



all images via www.style.com

VOGUE Paris October Issue

Kate Moss starring Vogue Paris october issue!
After a glamourous Lara Stone shoot by Mert & Marcus styles as Gloria Vanderbilt on the september issue its up to the Kate Moss to introduce this "TOP MODEL" special. The issue will be out only on Monday 28th, but the vogue team got a nice pr strategy promoting the issue already in advance in offering this really appetizing "amuse-gueule": Kate sexy and seductive as ever smothered in a white mohair waistcoat.






www.vogue.fr

sisters.

via www.purple-diary.com

When I first saw this photo by Olivier Zahm taken at the Another Magazine party in New York two days ago, I thought, oh Lara, once again you're looking amazing, but then I read the credits and I realized that this wasn't Lara Stone but Georgia Jagger!
Is it only the charming tooth gap that gives them this striking resemblance?







last two visuals: Lara Stone in the actual AW 09/10 Jaeger London ad campaign by photographer Emma Summerton via www.popbee.com

LATEST NEWS: Lou Doillon for GIVENCHY. another fashion film

please follow this article on www.vogue.fr


Photographer Karim Sadli is starring Lou Doillon in a 3min black and white Video to promote Riccardo Tisci's collection for Givenchy. The film has been produced together with and for the online mag FLY 16/9. Like hint mag they are following this new tendency to personalize fashion and after Vanessa Bruno this is Lou's second "visual poem" in less than two weeks.

image copyright: www.fly16x9.com

streetstyle of the week

what an elegant and bohemian choice! white turned up jeans (might be Thom Browns influence on women fashion)with brown leather derbys, a clear blue shirt and a dark blue jacket, this fantastic hat and above all my favorite detail: the pochette, and then its great eyebrows, too and a very nice pose...
the old american way of dressing in its perfection, somewhere between the great gatsby and ralph lauren, somewhere out in the hamptons for a walk on the beach, a ride in the fields or just a glas of gin at a garden party.



images via www.facehunter.blogspot.com

facehunter.blogspot.com/2009/09/nyc-fashion-week-ss-10-day-7-091509.html

moving pictures II. various visual poems

I am really fascinated about these moving pictures.a few months ago I showed some perls I discoverd in Kristian schullers artwork. now there are more and more designers to use this kind of new media, this new way of presenting fashion which cannot be shown in magazines since they are condemned to be static. we all remember Gareth Pughs video for his last AW 0910 collection,



and now again he gave a preview during New York fashion week of his new SS 2010 collection.
film via www.showstudio.com


http://www.showstudio.com/project/garethpughss2010


fashion is motion. in true life it isn't static. only on stockmen. a film makes fashion more personal more real I would say. besides motion there is also the role of music: fashion becomes audible and touches our ears...somebody should also write about the kind of music which is a very special and similar one in all of these cases::

then, for sure, everybody's talking about Vanessa Brunos pittoresk video featuring Lou Doillon I also want to share with you:




well, and also Christopher Kane decided to show his top shop collection as a moving one and did this fantastic shortfilm with Daul Kim who was looking so good with her long platin blond hair.. I am sad she cut it off..




online magazines are playing with this advantage over print media and seem to revolutionize the old classic way of fashion productions we know them from all the magazines around the world.
see for instance this very fascinating production for the hintmagazine. All lanvin clothes.


take a look.

the list is to be continued....

poupée de cire.

don't forget your fameux "ciré" or Friesennerz or however you call it, next time you are going to Normandie, Bretagne or any of these rather windy and cold seasides. I am talking about these great yellow coats that make you look so fashionable when walking on the rainy beach. and the best thing is, they have got boy's names, so I am very proud of my gleamy glossy LOIC I bought this weekend at the pictoresque harbour of Honfleur. and with this striped lining, he's just perfect. So I am in desperate need of rainy weather in Paname...

you can buy it via http://annearbreiz.fr/pagevetement/loicf.htm