Some day I’ll tell my children: You know what? I was featured in Urban Outfitters!
This is one of the prints I made for the project with Thyssen Museum, it was preselected along with another two, but if finally didn’t make it to the production phase, so that’s why I can show it around.
I’m so happy, thank you UO!
So. The final day is here, and I have my presentation of the masters proyect for Thyssen-Bornemisza museum shop. There you are all my stuff packed and ready to go in a while, when I have to set up a mini stand. I reinterpreted very freely the painting “The garden of Eden” by Jan Brueghel I; I loved it, full of little animals all around. There’s even a cat on the top of a tree. Or maybe it’s a lynx or some other animal, who knows…
I have really enjoyed making this project and have made things I’d definitely buy. Only one of the twenty students will see her designs produced and sold at the museum shop, along with a little tag with her name. Same as always, here’s my motto: expect nothing but give everything. This time I’m quite proud.
Fingers crossed, wish me luck!
My french host tells me that, as a kid, one of her favourite christmas traditions was the visit to the window shops of Printemps department store at Boulevard Haussman, in one of the fancy, magnificient areas of Paris – which are, say, a thousand. The main luxury fashion brands have at least one showcase at their disposal, although what my friend really wanted to see was the moving decoration: the right to fill several spaces with animated puppets is reserved to a different firm every year. This year was Lanvin’s turn, but, I’m telling you, it was massively crowded and I couldn’t get to make a decent photo.
As you may realize, christmas is like that: true glamour and kitsch, fifty-fifty. You might as well find a piece-of-art-dress with astonishing brocades or a doggy covered in pompoms. I made both pictures thinking of La Condesa, lover of imperial-decadent style and of our four-legged friends.
So I was looking at all this stuff with great curiosity when I stumbled upon this wonder. You know that I go nuts for anything that mixes art and fashion. Altough this is mixing art and dishes. And some unknown ancient gentleman. The artist who has decorated the sculptures is called Anne Brunet and needs a website – now! We need to see more of her work.
I recommend that you click on each of these photos to see them in detail. Do you think I could find some kit of ready-to-customize bust + markers at my local handicrafts store? I can picture it in my living room, already…
I’m liking more and more the designs by Silvia Salvador and Nando Cornejo, from Potipoti. Beautiful graphics and clean lines that suit well.
I have to blame them for my obsession with printed-fabric-leggingousers (yep, I made up the name). I saw Silvia wearing them in a great workshop she gave in Madrid. I’d show you a pic, if only I could find it! They were gorgeous. I’ve seen no one else wearing or selling something alike.
Potipoti “Lovers Rock” S/S 2011
BTW, the photo on the left: the make-up, the pose, the pattern, the accesoire in the middle of the chest… is it me or we can sense some Klimt-Schiele here? If Amateur Couture checks this out, I bet we’ll see potipoti on one of the next posts (graphic art versus fashion)
A blank notebook with this on its cover: “Mi first novel”. A notebook with one face in each page, called “Face Book”. Simplest ideas are the best. Such a beautiful design, along with an idea of this kind, really wins me over.
Sukie make them and you can buy them here .
Via Print & Pattern
Some DIY’s, done by ourselves, are not terrific. Let’s admit it. Creating a chandelier out of wire hanging baskets or restoring a sofa with tea towels is not something anyone can make. It’s easy to cross the line between the cozy handmade and the child crafted style, but with a plant pot you can’t be too wrong. Some will, and paint, will most likely do the trick.
In the first plant pot I painted, I planted a gerbera flower whose adventures I also told you about. She wasn’t quite fit. Well, there’s a cyclamen now. But I don’t know what to put in this one. Would a persil plant endure our low temperatures in wintry Madrid?
These are my last free afternoons before I begin my master on Textile and Surface Design, and I’m spending them locked at home because of a sprained ankle. So I take advantage and read, draw and knit (will I ever finish the scarf I just started? who knows). And working, of course, no one needs a foot to do lay-out on the computer. Yesterday I decided to add one more drawing to my little collection of illustrations of music artists (you can see Jarvis Cocker, Lily Allen, Antony Hegarty, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys on my web, here).
There’s something about Lykke Li. Probably, her hard-featured beauty in contrast with such a sweet voice. She’s a swedish singer and composer that I discovered some time ago and I was smitten with just one song. Ever since, I’m following her career, and she’s doing great: she released album (brilliant one), was featured in Twilight‘s soundtrack and even starred a Levi’s commercial. Soon she’ll be releasing a second album and this autumn she’s on a mini european tour which, unfortunately, doesn’t have a stop at Spain. Oh, Lykke, please!
Here’s a video of an acoustic performance: isn’t she magnetic.
If fashion is your business, Première Vision is hard to cover in just one day. Trying to see every cloth sample in every stand is quite an impossible thing to do, so you should better focus on a specific kind of textile and go for it.
The accesories part is quite tempting: everywhere you look there’s eye-candy brooches, feathers, embroidery, buttons and almost anything you can think of. Here, we were delighted by Jaffé et Fils‘ feathers, who not only are suppliers to Scottish, Welsh and Irish Guards, but also have incredible, smooth, beautiful feathers, and were charming.
The textile design area didn’t dissapoint: lots of stands with nice designs ready to buy, such as those of french studio Minakani, with truly briliant designs that made me plant myself there for a while and tell them all about my life; fortunately, they’re quite nice people and they didn’t kick me out.
Minakani
I also liked a lot an area with stands featuring young talents, new graduated of British Colleges. There was a bit more of experimentation here, and there were beautiful things, such as Kezia Lewis‘, who was showing some nice drawings along with the textile, or Holly Bradley-Gill‘s weaves, so intricate and delicate that they could perfectly be exhibited in an art gallery.
Kezia Lewis
Holly Bradley-Gill
PS: I picked the photos from internet, because inside the show, discretion prevailed. We’re talking about fall-winter 2011-12 trends, it’s not something you can spread!
A hard-working girl like me, a month before her Master in Textile and Surface Design begins:
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I did this illustration some months ago, one day where I had to devote all my energy to fight spring and its flying attacking pollens. I’ve been doing many stuff by hand lately and it can’t be compared to digital work, though I miss ctrl+z.
It’s time for sunbathing at the beach, and reading Mr. Haruki Murakami, who writes wonderfully. I’ll be back soon!
