Posts Tagged ‘fashion’

3-D Printing and Obsession Unrequieted

Posted by Winifred on October 15th, 2011  •  No Comments »

The possibilities, never ending.  Its creations haunting, exquisite, unfathomable. We, longing, short of breath, craving to touch, dreaming of its beautiful forms.  Then along comes a chance for an encounter,

Escapism by Daniel Widrig and Iris van Herpen

Via Dutch DFA

The Centraal Museum, a presentation, 25 of her works, a 3-D printer where the obsessed can watch up close, right there in front of their very eyes, a creation coming to life.  And we, not there, but far away, longing, still coveting, our hopes yet unfulfilled.  But we know it to be so, only just for now…

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Chaos

Posted by Winifred on October 21st, 2010  •  No Comments »

Fascinated by the secrets and invisibility of water, in particular the antithesis of structure and chaos, Iris van Herpen takes this as the foundation of her collection. Imagine the transformation of water to crystal, soft and fluid as water, opposed to hard, mathematical structures as ice crystals. Seemingly chaos to structured precision.

We do wish for our chaos

to crystallize -

for it to crystallize with precision for us,

and when it does and finds its form

we hope what is revealed

is beautiful,

and that its beauty may startle us

Crystallization by Iris van Herpen

Via dezeen

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If he has…

Posted by Winifred on March 24th, 2010  •  No Comments »

…large hands, firm grip

hair – netjes,

eyes dark, preferably beguiling ones

lips, sweet – maybe dangerous ones

height neck arching

stride commanding

then he too

should

have

these

Lucas Ossendrijver delivers yet another strong menswear collection for Lanvin

Lucas Ossendrijver for Lavin

Via Hellofrancis

Posted in : In an Ideal World..., Seven Deadly Sins  •  Tags: , ,

What’s a Budget?

Posted by Winifred on October 8th, 2009  •  No Comments »

It appears the idea of cutting back can be interpreted quite a few different ways, the most amusing of which had to be the concept as it was relayed on the runway by Viktor & Rolf.

Viktor & Rolf

Viktor & Rolf

Via Style

We would gladly

settle for just

the top

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And give our more serious consideration

to this footwear

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or further contemplate

these…

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De vissersvrouwen van Enkhuizen

Posted by Winifred on August 17th, 2009  •  No Comments »

We found it difficult to avert

our eyes once confronted with

this image of

fisherman’s wives awaiting the return

of husbands who might forever

be lost at sea

Gejaagd door de wind by Maarten Schets

Gejaagd door de wind by Maarten Schets

of course,

we wanted more

of course,

we went to Enkhuizen

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so that we might

re-discover

oud Nederland

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by way

of

experiencing

‘Gejaagd door de Wind’

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a sort of

treasure hunt

which caused us

to feel some hesitation

when first,

we were led here..

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..and surprised us

when we

landed here

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And as we drew closer to

the vissersvrouwen

we felt quietly

overwhelmed

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by this celebration

of Dutch traditional clothing

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and delighted

by every

revelation

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Hats by Elizabeth van der Helm

of just

how glamorous

a fish wife

can be…

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