Chantal Thomass

Twelve Calendar

Berlin Fashion Week is starting today, so i suppose we are all anticipating for the great avant-garde capital city to reveal its new gems for next winter.

Schatje Design

Schatje Design brand was created by Sachico Suzuki and her design team in 2008. The Japanese avant-garde design brand offers a great range of artistic objects, from homeware to furniture and jewellery, along with various art direction projects. Playing with various materials like glass, metal and plastic, the Shatje Design team creates trompe l' oeil items mixing kitsch style with japanese heritage. Exclusively sold at Novelax.

Andrea Pompilio New Performer @ Pitti Uomo 81

Winner of the 2011 edition of Who Is On Next? Uomo, Andrea Pompilio held a preview showing of his F/W 2012-13 menswear collection as one of the New Performers at Pitti Uomo 81, on January the 12th at the striking venue of the Spazio Alcatraz at the Stazione Leopolda in Florence. Describing his look as an American Sportswear, Andrea drew his inspiration from men's real life and original style to create a cozy, versatile and eclectic collection rich in prints and with a very interesting colour palette. The collection features 30 outfits with an important group of jackets, suits and coats in revisited classic materials and shapes, teamed with outstanding hats, oversized scarves, shoes and bags. Andrea Pompilio has also created a video in collaboration with the thecorner.com previewed at the Pitti Uomo and on the net.

Narelle Dore

 Narelle Dore's spectacular designs involve many things: craftmanship, mystery and spiritualism among them. The Australian, currently based in Antwerp, fashion designer treats textiles gently and naturally, transforming them into true pieces of art. Since her graduation from the Royal Academy of Arts in Antwerp in 2008 she has drawn a global interest with many features of her annual collections in glossy online and printed editions. Her latest knited and crochet experiments on feminine dresses in earthy and pastel hues, all made by organic materials like wool will be presented at the Amsterdam Fashion Week during the last week of January.

The Race Behind The Hill

Athens - based Michalis Baboussis is the creative mind behind the alternative online project The Race Behind the Hill. Being a multitalented person with styling, photography, fashion design, creative writing, video art and graphic design among his interests and activities, Michalis enters into a dialogue process through each of his different roles and collaborations. He started his artistic journey after graduating from AKTO school of Arts & Design doing great collaborations with the Callas, art photographers Spyros Staveris and Photoharrie, artist H.O.P.E and online art mag Mixtape.gr just to name a few. His deeper need for communication and dialogue with more greek and foreign artists urged him to create The Race Behind The Hill platform in 2009, making it a constant in-progress project based on DIY aesthetics. The strictly black & white, male-figured images combined with poster poems attached in urban locations connote the artist's intention to create a rather different, virtual human race, inspired by the principles of mysticism and neoplatonism. I think it's one of the best greek online projects, loaded with amazing images, don't forget to visit.

Improv-isualists by 3.1 Phillip Lim

Enjoy the S/S 2012 menswear collection of 3.1 Phillip Lim in film. One of the best and sleekest meswear collections for next season with alternative sport style, fine materials and smart patterns. I'm sure you'll love the faded-coloured pieces.You can see the full collection here

Trine Lindegaard S/S 2012 Collection

Danish designer Trine Lindegaard specializes in avant-garde menswear fashion. Trine is a graduate of  the Instituto Carlo Secoli in Milan, the Middlessex University in London and the Royal College of Art, while her graduate collection was voted among the ones to watch by Vogue.com. Since her graduation she started evolving rapidly by selling her own label through ASOS, also collaborating with textile designer Elisabeth Buecher on a special label titled Move Me Shirts, currently on sale at the Tate Modern.

Her new exciting collection for next summer is dealing with Trine's favourite elements: bright colours, experimental sewing techniques and playfulness. The result is a desirable and extravagant collection, a celebration of everyday objects with rubber bands widely layered and stitched together to create an intriguing play of different dimensions on sweaters, pants, shorts, impressive coats, even on wigs. She's a genious, really can't wait to see her next collection.

Issey Miyake Animated

The following short animated film with drawings by Michael Crawford is featured in the big exhibition titled Irving Penn & Issey Miyake: A Visual Dialogue, still running at the 21_21 Design Sight Museum in Tokyo. Excellent, amusing and a true piece of art. You can read the full exhibition report here

Enjoy:

Knotted by Maya Hansen

For her S/S 2012 collection, Spanish corsetery designer Maya Hansen decorates her creations with synthetic hair, braids and tons of swarovski crystals, teaming them with matching sky-high heels, metal armour accessories and white burlesque wigs.
The collection is titled Knotted and you can see it in full here

"KNOTTED Spring/Summer Collection 2012" by Maya Hansen from Sergio Ojeda on Vimeo.

Nuptus by Sylvio Giardina

The S/S 2012 collection of fashion designer and visual artist Sylvio Giardina is titled Nuptus and is inspired by clouds and their ever-changing forms. Playing with proportions, volumes and the sphericity of the feamle figure, Giardina gave his garments a fluid, almost liquid form with the use of polyethelene foam and Swarovski-crystal-embellished jersey.
The result is an outstanding game of sculpture and movement.