netstyl.es

Rafael Rozendaal - “Intotime.com” edition of 10

After seven months working on, last week Sterling Crispin finally launched his new project called Netstyl.es, a very limited collection of t-shirts designed by well known artists on the internet. In this first edition the six artists participating are; Rafael Rozendaal, Ryder Ripps, Sterling Crispin, Tabor Robak, Travis Egedy, and Laura Brothers. 

Like I have already said the series is very limited, consisting in 10 copies each design, awesome collectable pieces. I really like Sterling's new project, because I also see it as a great way to promote and support the artists participating on, a big part of the profits go directly to them.  Sterlin tells us more about Netstyl.es. See more;

FABRIC Project by Stéphanie Baechler

FABRIC Project by Stéphanie Baechler_

"Starting point for my project are formations, shapes and material combinations that result from the rather accidental than conscious every day actions of human life. I was inspired by curtains, fabric pleats, plastic bags, fabrics that happened to be spread on the floor, wrapped objects and creased blankets. The sheer fascination that fabric drapery can evoke! I was equally absorbed by mass production of clothes, their usage (consumption) and wastage." See more;

Entity by Killian Loddo

Entity by Killian Loddo_ 

"From Identity to Entity is an autonomous publication following resulting from of a serie of photos. This publication blurs limits between commercial display, fashion photoshoot and art installation. The book is positionned as an inbetween object, playing around with the possibilities of the display of scarves and material all coming from inside rietveld academie. The book is edited on the thread of a love story, staged and verry directed but partly unfinished, a love for composition, manipulation of shapes, objects, visuals and a physical retained tension with the model. It is the expression of momentary passions and, the assertion of interests staged in a glass case, and the begining of an identity and landscape for my collections of scarves." - Killian Loddo. See more;

OMA/AMO - PRADA MEN'S SS 2012

OMA/AMO designed a runway framework for the latest show of PRADA's Men's SS 2012 collection. The audience was organized in a perfect field. 600 visitors sit on individual blue foam blocks distributed over a 1.5 x 1.5 meter grid spread through the entire hall. Models flow through the highly-organized audience, following multiple choreographed routes that allow maximum visibility. See more;

More or Less by Nanna van Blaaderen

The designs of textile designer Nanna van Blaaderen are as gentle to the skin as they are to the environment. Specialized in hand- and in machineknitting, she blends craft, materials and innovation to develop textiles that integrate comfort, elegance, quality and ustainability. Animal life and nature are essential sources of inspiration and are recurring themes in her designs. The sculptural knits of Nanna van Blaaderen with raw structures and soft textures, are applied in fashion, in interior and in autonomous fields. See more;

Samantha Harvey

Samantha Harvey, 1988, UK | GIFfer since January 2011 | Loops: 2-30 frames | ∼500Kb

Can you tell us something about your background?

I'm from Bath in the UK and grew up there, and actually used to do a lot of painting and illustration, but I guess I discovered photography on the art foundation course I did after A-Levels and carried on from there. Then I went to Kingston University in London and studied Graphic Design and Photography which I graduated from last year, I now live in central London working for a few different people whilst also trying to continue my own creative work.

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Pen Nib Dress

Pen Nib Dress is an amazing piece of wearable, fashion technology created by Steven Tai and John Nussey. Consisting in 795 pen nibs, mounted on tiny motors, and sewn into the dress. The result is an interesting animated visual pattern made of these pen nibs creating a hypnotic shimmer of movement which changes over time, varying the tempo, pattern and the overall mood of the piece. See more;

Mintdesigns Fall/Winter 2011-12

Mintdesigns was launched in 2001 by fashion Japanese designers Hokuto Katsui and Nao Yagi, graduated two both from Saint Martins. Their new collection called  “Fashion Surgery” before  the earthquake and tsunami in Japan was sub-titled “A New Hope” after the disaster. The show was presented at the amazing place TABLOID in the Tokyo bay (you can see this place and the show in the video below). The collection is based in simple geometric shapes such as circles, squares and triangles and is full of rainbow colors, considering it was done for the Fall/Winter season. Mintdesigns added a futuristic theme to their comfortable and relaxing clothes with the interesting abstract and illuminated LED head-pieces. See more;

Proef

Proef is a conceptual design label founded in 2010 by Japanese designers duo; shoes product designer Manami Saito and space/fashion artist Katsuhiro Igarashi. Their main project is focused on printed stockings whose key feature is their function as a second skin. "Reviewing a object through fragmented reflection surface, rediscover the hidden beauty of daily movement." The work is inspired by the art work of Michelangelo Pistoletto, who exhibed '16 broken mirrors' at Bienale Venezia 2008. They translated this idea into a daily product. It was presented during Amsterdam Fashion week and Salone Internazionale del Mobile Milan in April 2010 as part of Collectie Arnhem Product 2010. Proef products are currently stocked in Japan, Taiwan. Soon will be available in London and Amsterdam. See more;

N12 3D-printed bikini

Jenna Fizel and Mary Haung from Continuum Fashion have created a 3D-printed bikini called N12, it was developed in collaboration with 3D-printing company Shapeways. 

The N12 bikini is the world's first ready-to-wear, completely 3D-printed article of clothing. All of the pieces, closures included, are made directly by 3D printing and snap together without any sewing. N12 represents the beginning of what is possible for the near future.

N12 is named for the material it's made out of: Nylon 12. This solid nylon is created by the SLS 3D printing process. Shapeways calls this material "white, strong, and flexible", because its strength allows it to bend without breaking when printed very thin. With a minimum wall thickness of .7 mm, it is possible to make working springs and almost thread-like connections. For a bikini, the nylon is beautifully functional because it is waterproof and remarkably comfortable when wet. See more;

Dazed and Confused - June 2011

Brillant collaboration between Richard Burbridge, Robbie Spencer and Maurizio Anzeri for Dazed and Confused issue June 2011. Cool fashion photography + embroidery on top of the pictures. See more;

Emmanuel Bossuet + Stockman

I absolutely love the design of these dress forms designed by French art director Emmanuel Bossuet from EEM Agency in collaboration with Stockman to produce a limited edition “Haute Couture” busts. Limited to 10 copies for each model, the original 3 are currently on exhibit at the department store Bon Marche in Paris. See more; 

NewVillager - IAMSOUND

NewVillager announce the release of their official self-titled debut coming June 21 on IAMSOUND. Ben Bromley and Ross Simonini, splitting their time between Brooklyn and San Francisco, lead the project and weave mythology throughout their music and art.  Functioning as an artist collective, NewVillager brings multiple dimensions to their sound with visual direction from Ben Dickinson (LCD Soundsystem, the Rapture, Q-tip, etc), live drums and video by Collin Palmer, and a cast of characters reminiscent of a Wonderland-esque board game come to life. To coincide with the album release, there are also plans for art shows and installations across the country as well as live tour and a book release to follow.  The album will be available digitally and in retails stores this summer. See video;

CHANEL - Universal Everything

CHANEL invited Universal Everything to create a series of video artworks, in response to the 5 codes of Mademoiselle Chanel; Black & White / Pearls / Diamond Padding / Camellia / Art Deco.

The minimalist films were created to be adaptable to different display formats, from low-pixel building facades in Hong Kong and Tokyo, to retail LED walls in Shanghai and Los Angeles. See video;

Dervishes in Space

DERVISHES IN SPACE is the new great project by Riese Farbaute, a young film production company from Hamburg, Germany. They  produce mainly fashion films and art films. This work is a fashion film trilogy revolving around three futuristic space travelers. When their space station crosses an unknown energy field, the astrogirls are transcended into a hyper-reality where their inmost desires and fears become uncannily vivid.

Dervishes in Space is a three-part fashion film series directed by Cristian Straub. The “Science Fashion Film Saga” merges elements from High Fashion, Science-Fiction, Music Video and Art Film into one cosmic (fashion) film experience. See videos;

Modu_gram by Lianna Sheppard

Lianna Sheppard, graduated from her MA in Fashion at KIngston University, last September, exhibiting at both Vauxhall Fashion Scout and at Tent London.

Like she told us, Lianna is a triangle obsessive and an imaginative fashion designer whose work sits in the hybrid space across the three-dimensional design landscape.

Inspired by mathematical models and fractional forms, her Masters project ‘Modu_gram’ is a collection or series of 3D wearable structures. Initially created through simple folds and origami's generating form on varying scales each structure is then named separately, Octa, Tetra, Edra and Poly. See more;

3D printed collection by Iris van Herpen

Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen has just shown her Escapism couture collection during the haute couture week in Paris Spring Summer 2011.  This is her second 3D printed fashion collection after Spring/Summer’s Crystallization. The collection is a collaboration between Iris van Herpen and architect Daniel Wildrig with the label .MGX by Materialise. See more;

NU by Lara Costafreda

Lara Costafreda is 22 year old, a young fashion designer and illustrator, born in Llardecans, Lleida, Spain and currently living in Barcelona.

NU is one of her latest collections, its presentation was on June in “Sala Razzmatazz”, Barcelona. The name of my final degree Collection, it means “nude, naked” in catalan. The project was about the relation between fashion, human body, and art, in other words. NU is naked and honest, imperfect and deformed, bathed in white and transformed in a queer beautiful sculpture. Nu is an artistic, sculptural and pictorial representation of the human body, devoid of garments, seen from a standpoint grotesquely real and essentially human. See more and a brief chat with Lara;

Phil Defer

Cool organic reliefs by Phil Defer who is 21 years old, and is currently studying refined Cabinet-Making in Paris.

"What seems as a normal 2D picture, is actually a cut-out relief through an ordinary high gloss magazine. The final work is built up of about 50-60 layers, which gives the piece the special relief optic into the depth of the magazine pages. It takes me about 15hours to cut through the pages. This remains the most creative part of the process, before that choosing a picture is the only difficulty."  - Phil Defer. See more;

IREK KIELCZYK

Abstraction, movement, imperfection, colored and b&w environments, the photography by Irek Kielczyk seems a perfect dream! He tells us how he started in the photography world and how is his creative process;

"I was born in Warsaw/Poland in 1967.I am self-tought photographer. At the age of 20 I left my homecountry to live in Cape Town/South Arica, where I discovered my passion for photography.Working as an assistant to some renowned fashion photographers ( Bruce Weber,Warren du Preez) gave me the chance to watch and learn many technical and psychological aspects of photography.

In the mid 90's I returned to Warsaw and started shooting for local fashion magazines.In a short time I established myself as one of top fashion and portraiture photographers in Poland.After photography went digital I began to experiment with various techniqes and subject matters .From that point my intersts have  changed from fashion photography to abstract imaginery.Currently  I live and work in Warsaw,Poland." See more;