Now I have something to look forward to in 2012 :D
WWD Fashion Scoop: Remembering Alexander McQueen
GUINNESS SHOW: One of Alexander McQueen’s closest friends, Daphne Guinness, will exhibit part of her wardrobe at the Fashion Institute of Technology in September 2011. About 80 to 100 pieces including outfits by the likes of McQueen, Balenciaga, Comme des Garçons, Dolce & Gabbana and Azzedine Alaïa will be in a show on her personal style, which will run at the school’s museum through January 2012. The socialite and Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of The Museum at FIT, will co-curate the show. Yale University Press will publish a book to accompany the exhibit. “She is so creative and inspirational in the way that someone like Tina Chow was,” said Steele. For the show, Steele plans to identify the components of that style, which range from Guinness’ interest in sleeves and ruffles around the neck to accessories like hats, veils and ribbons.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Misako Aoki event photos!
Misako Aoki event photos plus Dekoden!
I have 6 blisters (3 on each foot) but they're worth it! I got to meet Misako Aoki and made a few new friends ^^
Photos were taken by Tokyo Rebel. For all the photos, check out their official blog:Misako Aoki event photos!
Earlier that morning, I just felt the need to start my Dekoden ^^:
Pretty cool huh? Now my phone looks so girly Japanese XD it kinda feels like an addiction now. I'm eye balling my camera and tempted to Deko it out! <3
I have 6 blisters (3 on each foot) but they're worth it! I got to meet Misako Aoki and made a few new friends ^^
Photos were taken by Tokyo Rebel. For all the photos, check out their official blog:Misako Aoki event photos!
Earlier that morning, I just felt the need to start my Dekoden ^^:
Pretty cool huh? Now my phone looks so girly Japanese XD it kinda feels like an addiction now. I'm eye balling my camera and tempted to Deko it out! <3
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Save the date! February 20, meet Misako Aoki!
Save the date! February 20, meet Misako Aoki!
Some of you may be aware that Misako Aoki is coming to New York for the Tokyo Fashion Festa on February 19. Well, the next day, she will be at our store! And she wants to meet you guys!
This came up rather suddenly so we still need to work out the details, but we wanted to let you know now since it's already short notice.
When: Saturday, February 20 (exact time TBD)
Where: Tokyo Rebel, 170 Avenue B, New York NY 10009 (between 10th and 11th Sts.)
What: Misako Aoki meet & greet
This will most likely be an informal event since there's not a lot of time to plan. She just wants to meet Lolitas from the area, take some pictures and write a report from our store.
Because we're a small store with limited space, we will have to control the number of people inside at any given time. We're now figuring out the best way to do that. Don't worry, everybody will get to meet Misako.
We'll announce more details very soon.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Alexander McQueen Is Dead
Original Article
Alexander McQueen, the British fashion designer known for some of the most controversial collections of the last two decades, was found dead Thursday morning at his apartment in London, said Ed Filipowski, a partner in the public relations firm KCD.
The cause was apparently suicide, though Mr. Filipowski said Mr. McQueen’s family had not yet made a statement.
Though he apprenticed on Savile Row, Mr. McQueen, who was 40, thumbed his nose at the conventions of English style by staging often lavish runway productions that included clothes made with animal bones, and models made to look as if they were patients in a mental ward or participants in a life-size chess match. Yet he was a tailor of the highest order, making impeccably shaped suits that were also surprisingly commercial.
But Mr. McQueen’s troubled personal life was often the subject of concern among his colleagues and close friends. He was deeply affected when Isabella Blow, the eccentric stylist who discovered and championed the designer, committed suicide in 2007, and he was said to be devastated by the death of his mother on Feb. 2.
Mr. McQueen was the youngest of six children and the son of a London taxi driver, who survives him. He left school at 16 to apprentice at Anderson & Sheppard and then Gieves & Hawkes, two of the most revered English tailors. He worked briefly in Italy before returning to London to pursue a master’s degree from the Central St. Martins design college, where Ms. Blow discovered his work and bought his entire thesis collection. His first shows in London, in dark underground places, were received as a break from the traditional luxury collections being shown elsewhere in Europe.
For five years, until 2001, he also was the designer of the couture label Givenchy, where he turned the classic French house on its head, often drawing the ire of longtime fans of the label known for its elegant black dresses. He offended several French journalists for calling Hubert de Givenchy’s past work as “irrelevant.” That year, he sold his own label to the Gucci Group, a rival of the parent company of Givenchy, LVMH, following several conflicts with its management.
During his early days in London, Mr. McQueen’s collections often made audiences uncomfortable, as when he referenced the ravaging of Scotland by England by showing brutalized women in a collection called “Highland Rape.” But since he began showing his collections in Paris in 2001, he became more widely respected for designs that were seen as commentary on the often surreal, and self-referential, world of fashion.
Tags: alexander mcqueen, fashion
Alexander McQueen, the British fashion designer known for some of the most controversial collections of the last two decades, was found dead Thursday morning at his apartment in London, said Ed Filipowski, a partner in the public relations firm KCD.
The cause was apparently suicide, though Mr. Filipowski said Mr. McQueen’s family had not yet made a statement.
Though he apprenticed on Savile Row, Mr. McQueen, who was 40, thumbed his nose at the conventions of English style by staging often lavish runway productions that included clothes made with animal bones, and models made to look as if they were patients in a mental ward or participants in a life-size chess match. Yet he was a tailor of the highest order, making impeccably shaped suits that were also surprisingly commercial.
But Mr. McQueen’s troubled personal life was often the subject of concern among his colleagues and close friends. He was deeply affected when Isabella Blow, the eccentric stylist who discovered and championed the designer, committed suicide in 2007, and he was said to be devastated by the death of his mother on Feb. 2.
Mr. McQueen was the youngest of six children and the son of a London taxi driver, who survives him. He left school at 16 to apprentice at Anderson & Sheppard and then Gieves & Hawkes, two of the most revered English tailors. He worked briefly in Italy before returning to London to pursue a master’s degree from the Central St. Martins design college, where Ms. Blow discovered his work and bought his entire thesis collection. His first shows in London, in dark underground places, were received as a break from the traditional luxury collections being shown elsewhere in Europe.
For five years, until 2001, he also was the designer of the couture label Givenchy, where he turned the classic French house on its head, often drawing the ire of longtime fans of the label known for its elegant black dresses. He offended several French journalists for calling Hubert de Givenchy’s past work as “irrelevant.” That year, he sold his own label to the Gucci Group, a rival of the parent company of Givenchy, LVMH, following several conflicts with its management.
During his early days in London, Mr. McQueen’s collections often made audiences uncomfortable, as when he referenced the ravaging of Scotland by England by showing brutalized women in a collection called “Highland Rape.” But since he began showing his collections in Paris in 2001, he became more widely respected for designs that were seen as commentary on the often surreal, and self-referential, world of fashion.
Tags: alexander mcqueen, fashion
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