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Walter Van Beirendonck Autumn Winter 2012 2013

This is maybe one of the most captivating collections of Fashion Week season 2012/2013. The Belgian designer and agent provocateur Walter Van Beirendonck used exclusively faceless models to present his new collection. Usually when you watch a runway show your perception of the models is not really one of human...

transmediale 2k+12: in/compatible

Have you visited the transmediale website recently? It looks horrible! It’s so 1999. It’s just wrong. It’s simply incompatible. At transmediale 2012 everything will revolve around the theme in/compatible. Incompatibility refers to the condition that arises when things don’t work together – a pervasive phenomenon in the field of technology....

Jean Paul Gaultier Autumn Winter 2012 2013

Only one word can describe Jean Paul Gaultier’s next season collection: patterns. And I’m not talking some lousy boring ones. Look at this whole palette of patterns – from brick over to crazy cartoons, classic romanticism, sometimes military and even shaped materials bring the collection of otherwise rather dark and...

Blown In A Gentle Wind: Mute Poetry #1

Dear fruits, This week “senza parole”. Mementically yours, Per Joannesson Teodor Kračun and Arsenije Marković, “The Descent of the Holy Spirit and The Council of Prophets with the Holy Virgin,” 1775-178 Joachim Brohm Robert Polidori, “After The Flood” Paul Sietsema, Modern Struggle, 2008 Sze Tsung Leong, Zhongshan Lu I,...

Under The Line

Bulgaria is not just a third world-country defined by its notorious corruption and high-level crime rate. It is also a source of raw talent and true inspiration. And this project is here to prove that. Let me introduce you to under-the-line.tv – an independent platform for video and short films. It’s a project of a...

nerds

by Christo on Jan 27, 2012 • No Comments

WOODKID live in Paris [video]

Woodkid is Yoann Lemoine, an acclaimed French director and photographer. He started learning illustration and animation at Emile Cohl School, Lyon, France and screen-printing techniques at Swindon College, London. After college in 2004, Lemoine started illustrating in several magazines and children’s books, in France and the USA. At the same time, he joined a French...

misc / nerds

by Christo on Jan 27, 2012 • No Comments

Coked Out Fags

Berlin is a city full of aspiring designers and innovators. Some of them find a stage to express themselves during Berlin Fashion Week – right under the spotlight, in the tent at Brandenburger Gate. Others end up at a studio in a warehouse in Kreuzberg. These photos are the full series of shots of the...

horny nerds / nerds

by Christo on Jan 26, 2012 • No Comments

Thom Browne Autumn Winter 2012 2013

Is Thom Browne for real? The New York-based designer took famous for his prankster fashion collections took his irony and sarcasm to a completely new level. The Herman Munster inspired show separated the fashionistas in two poles – those who hate the new collection and those who love it but wouldn’t really wear it. Women’s...

fashion / nerds

by Christo on Jan 23, 2012 • No Comments

Dries Van Noten Autumn Winter 2012 2013

Dries Van Noten manages to put a multi-media installation down on a pair of trousers or a coat. During the presentation of his latest collection I couldn’t help but think if the colors and prints are too much, and if they don’t start to remind me too much of the crazy patchwork clothes by Desigual....

fashion

by Christo on Jan 23, 2012 • No Comments

Drop The Needle, Berlin!

Who said events that raise awareness and put ethics in the spotlight should be dull, tasteless and involve a lot of dreadlocks? Drop The Needle is the event that will let you keep your sass on and make you dance for ethical fashion during Mercedes Fashion Week. FRONT ROW SOCIETY and THE ETHICAL FASHION FORUM...

offline

by Christo on Jan 20, 2012 • No Comments

Yohji Yamamoto Autumn Winter 2012 2013

There was something disturbing in Yohji Yamamoto’s collection for Autumn Winter 2012 2013. This something wasn’t necessarily a positive assumption – the idea that by fall 2012 we’ll all be dressing up like hobos and Russian war prisoners isn’t that calming. Nevertheless, the collection used, like in past runway shows, unconventional models, which made it...