While preparing some other posts about the trends in Corisière 2012,
i realised thatCéline's proposal is simply perfect and deserved its own post.
Chiffon, transparences, blouses, leather, how they've mixed the patterns, prints and clothes, the accesories... It's all so ready to wear and look fabulous!
Though these pictures are an impressive example of photography, there's a story and a reason under them.
They were taken by American photographer Jill Greenberg, whose work and career has focused intermittently on feminist issues.
They come from a commercial shoot Greenberg was asked to make for the U.S. Olympic Synchronized Swim Team in which the professional athletes and dancers had to swim in high heels, hindering their ability and making them struggle with ambiguous movements and rush for the surface.
" The result is a sadly relevant series of shots depicting women struggling to keep head above water in a context defined by the constraints pressed upon them by others. "
It's great that a beautiful fine art has such a powerful reason behind it, denouncing the absurdity of what sometimes women are pushed to be or appear like.
If you're interested in reading the artist's statement about this series, click here
The name of this New Zealand labelsounded familiar to me, I guess I read it in some magazine somewhere, but i thought it was a band's name.
(hey, it's a good name for a band as well)
So when today I've found their clothes while shopping at Urban Outfitters, I've been amazed by them and instantly visited their official website to know more about them.
Renowned for their individual ideas and eclectic designs, Stolen Girlfriends Club not only make beautiful clothes, they also have very interesting projects. Apart from "No Safety Helmut", a photographic tribute to Helmut Newton which is linked with an exhibition an charity action for the Aids Foundation, they also have very original ideas when it comes to presenting their collections.
Like this supermarket show, For 6 minutes New World Supermarket at Victoria Park (Auckland) was taken over by twenty models treating each aisle as a catwalk, and the public were the inadvertent guests to the"Untitled" show.
Apart from all of this, I know what you want to see are the clothes! So here you have some pieces from the "Last Nights Party" collection. I specially like here the quality fabrics throughout their collection, such as leather and fur... that fur dress, well, just great.
