AND THE PETE GOES ON

PETE DOHERTY

CALLING ALL BRIT-INDIE LOVERS

After cancelling his Irish tour due to an emergency spout in hospital for exaustion, Pete will be taking on the nation with the kick of his british tour in the U.K. dicember 10th ( great day).Voted this year for the Babyshambles in the N.M.E list of top greatest 100 albulms of the decade released between january 2000- dicember 2009.
This wild child genius is not only a great composer of his music genre, he is also one of the most original and undisputed style icons of the brit-indie wild child generation.

TIM HAMILTON AN AMERICAN IN EUROPE

THE HUNGER ( L'Atelier say's BRAVO)

A genius mix of draping and tailoring, dresses skimming all contours of the body. High waisted tapered trousers with diagonal pockets and details, shimmering white, seductives black and endless beautiful overlayering.

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It does not happen often that America turns out a fashion talent with all the right european flavours, yet The American designer Tim Hamilton appears to be the man of the moment, breaking old habits and making new rules.

Although predominantly a menswear designer, first showing in 2007, he manages to cross the barrier from menswear to womenswear with ease and elegance, leaving no trace of style confusion, his message is clear direct and precise and without ambiguity.

Shortly after launching his women’s wear Hamilton decided to do his first men’s wear show in Paris in June 2009. As history goes, oddly enough Tim Hamilton is the first American based designer to show during Paris Men’s Fashion week.

He presented a stunning eccentric space inspired S/S ’10 collection at the Palais Brogniart, sending his models down the runway emanating an airy feel of transparency. Despite this sudden relocation to Paris, Tim Hamilton is going to keep a presence in New York.

Tim Hamilton is stocked in luxury shops around the world, despite his global success

his business still today remains a small indepently run and funded operation with offices in New York and Paris.

Men's Collection
In men’s wear, Hamilton continues to blur the line between abstract design and fine craftsmanship. He mixes innovative ornamental details and geometric elements with functional simplicity and authentic craft production.

This leads to his street-wear meets tailoring look.

Women's Collection
Alongside men’s wear, Tim Hamilton launched his first women’s collection for the A/W ’09 season. The collection was shown during Paris Fashion Week in March 2009. The Tim Hamilton woman has a strong character. “She knows what she wants,” say Hamilton. This attitude is reflected through bold shapes, a minimal color palette, and an emphasis on textured patterns, all done while remaining feminine with an innate sense of elegance.

Official website

Official website

TODAY WE ARE FEELING PATRIOTIC ND NOSTALGIC

KEEPING IT SHARP

Do you know what a winklepicker is?? well! i guess not! without disclosing my age, i have to admit that i am now wearing them the second time around, yes, i was lucky enough to assist the movement of the MOD-ERA during my teenage years in London ( no age calculations please) :-)

Winklepickers (also known as Winkle Pickers) are a style of shoe or boot worn from the 1950s onward by male and female British rock and roll fans. The feature which gives both the boot and shoe their name is the very sharp and quite long pointed toe, reminiscent of medieval footwear and approximately the same as the long pointed toes on some women's fashion shoes and boots today. This pointed toe was called the winkle picker toe because, in England, periwinkle snails are eaten with a pin or pointed object to get the winkle out of the shell (hence the term "to winkle something out"). Fierceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! attention! not recommended for those with broad feet :-)

Today l'atelier is feeling homesick and nostalgic ( don't forget we are a bunch of foreigners in here), the weather here is crap, it's grey, quite dirty and extremely depressing, however saying that i'm quite sure that the weather in London is exactly the same if not worse. For reasons com pletely unbeknown to me, i feel that today i'd rather be there than here. The good thing about quiet days like this means that one can be uttertly selfindulgent, please don't get me wrong, this in quite simple terms means: spending more time on this blog, watching video memorabilia on youtube and going for endless coffees at Mai Lings bar across the road.

Today here the legendary band "The Jam" headed by the forever firecely charismatic Paul Weller is causing a stir. Just take a look at the get up they used to wear, absolute genius!!! cool bands with so much natural style are very few and far between these days, what a shame!

MOSTRA D'ARTE L'ATELIER DI CHRISTINE FORTUNE

MAXRTX “Storie da vegetali”


Inaugurazione giovedì 26 novembre 2009 ore 18,00

L'Atelier di Christine Fortune – Via Garigliano 5 – Milano

tel. 02 69901629

La mostra rimarrà aperta fino al 3 dicembre 2009
Orario 10 – 19,30 martedì 10-19


Il piccolo e magico spazio dell'Atelier di Christine Fortune, è lieto di presentare la mostra personale dell'artista toscano MAXRTX.
La mostra a cura di Maria Stella Granara presenta dei piccoli oli su tavola dove sono protagonisti i vegetali.
Il pomodoro, la melanzana, il limone, le ciliegie, le banane, il cavolo acquistano vita propria. Sono immagini affamate, attraverso le quali l’artista persegue un’indagine.
Ecco allora che questi frutti e queste verdure diventano metafora di qualcosa d’altro. Essi hanno i propri pensieri, le proprie idee politiche. Non risparmiano critiche alla società, al sistema capitalistico. Le storie sono frammenti di vita vissuta, l’artista usa i vegetali per inviare dei messaggi. I vegetali trasportano sulla tela una simbologia, che aspetta solo di essere decifrata. Piccoli dipinti con frutti invitanti e succosi, con verdure arrabbiate, microstorie che ci raccontano molto dell’artista. Croci rosse che attraversano i dipinti, o piccole croci ripetute lungo tutta l’opera. La vita ci mette in croce e i poveri frutti e le verdure facendo parte del nostro quotidiano subiscono come noi, gli eventi che tutto travolgono.
MAXRTX alias Massimiliano Cardone è nato ad Empoli nel 1975, dopo il diploma conseguito presso il Liceo Artistico Statale di Firenze, prosegue gli studi specializzandosi con il Corso di fumetto presso la "Scuola internazionale di Comics". Oltre alla sua fervida attività di fumettista con la Rivista Blue della Coniglio Editore, negli ultimi anni MAXRTX si è avvicinato alla pittura. Tra le mostre più importanti meritano di essere menzionate: "Ultracorpi" CENTRO GIOVANI JAVA INFOSHOP di Firenze a cura di Fiorella Nicosia; "Percorsi di pace" collettiva presso la galleria d' arte e design GARD di Roma; mostra collettiva presso la Galleria TECHNE CONTEMPORANEA di Montelupo Fiorentino; mostra personale "Storie da vegetali con Evoluzione" , Palazzo dei Priori, Colle di Val d'Elsa ; mostra collettiva "Mostra d'Arte Contemporanea Città di Pitigliano"; mostra personale “Un metro di vita”, Bottega del Rompicollo, Siena; mostra collettiva “A fil di lama-Tarocchi da visione”, Associazione culturale S'Umbra, Cagliari.



Contatti:
Maria Stella Granara
+39 333 2752497
msgranara@tiscali.it

L’Atelier di Christine Fortune
Latelierdichristinefortune@gmail.com

Aleksandra Wisniewska

L’Atelier would like to announce the arrival of a very talented new designer,Aleksandra Wisniewska a swiss based designer: Aleksandras autumn collection is destined to cause a riot and fly out the doors with a flash. The Collection" expresses the elegant, feminine and self-confident woman with a touch of extravagance.

Credits :
Photos :Jeanne Buchi
Make up&hair : Najat Zinbi
Model : Julie D@Kaizenmodels

Autumn / winter “Jardin d’hiver” 2009/10


The creations of Aleksandra Wisniewska play on ambivalence between structured rigor and loose extravagance. The “Jardin d’hiver” collection once again follows this philosophy. The lines remain strict and elegant while the details draw their inspiration from the infinite diversity of plant shapes. Collars become petals, the cut of a jacket turns into foliage, a flower blooms on the front of a dress. The sleeve becomes puffy, takes the shape of a bud or a blossom.

L'ATELIER SAYS " PUMP UP YA' VOLUME"

Last night I decided to take a look around the city of Milan after dark, you know what they say! The monsters come out at night J
Instead i was pleasantly surprised to see that a few of the kids were pushing looks, or doing shows, as my man L would say, there was a genuine buzz. Maybe because we are in the middle of Milan fashion week, I suppose everyone wants to feel that they have something to contribute to promoting this little fashion capital.
Anyway, word on the street was “pump up the volume” but keep it sweet, more to the point, keep it to yourself. Skullcandy oversize in ya’face headphones, this was a great nouveau discovery, mainly for the simple reason that I am an avid hater of those who feel the world needs to share ones tasteless choice in music, played on tinny sounding cheap mobile phones.

BLINGING IT!!!

L'ATELIER LUVVVVVVVVVVVSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GET YA'SELF SOME SKULLCANDY MAN!

SKULLCANDY, established in early 2003, Skullcandy has been producing high-quality headphones worn by some of the world's best action sport athletes. Skullcandy's headphones are renowned for their durability, portability, and style—all important aspects in the eyes of Skullcandy's customers. Skullcandy has a diverse, constantly evolving line of headphones that meet the high demands of its customers all over the world—whether it's a snowboarder sending it off a 20-foot cornice on a crisp, bluebird morning in the Wasatch Range or a DJ at the turntables in a crowded Ibiza nightclub in the wee hours of the AM. Whatever your needs be, Skullcandy's headphones allow you to take your beats with you and look good while you do it.
Rest assured, whatever your needs are in regards to headphones, Skullcandy has you covered. If you are in need of smaller headphones to get around with, check out our Full Metal Jackets, Smokin' Buds, or the brand new Holuas. If you are a DJ in need a set of the fattest bass headphones available, look no further than the SK Pro. With 50mm power drivers and 50mm speakers this headphone simply blows everything else away. If you are in need of hydration while you are bumping some beats on a bike ride, check out one of our stylish H20 packs. For true portability and fashion, opt for the wireless headphones, which include the Double Agent and Marc Frank Montoya's signature line, the MFM Pro headphones. If you are in need of blocking out the racket around you, try one of our noise reducing headphones, such as the Ti. The Ti headphones for that matter, has a sealed design that keep noise from slipping out so you don't have to worry about disturbing the lady next to you on your red eye flight across the country. With interchangeable ear pads and 40mm Titanium.

KEEPIN IT CHILL IN MILANO

FRANK OWEN GEHRY AT THE TRIENNALE DI MILANO

MUST SEE- NOT TO MISS

THE YOUNG AND THE CURIOUS IN THE HOOD AT L'ATELIER

The hood ( Isola) always sees a strange and assorted mix of people passing through, from the inquisitive group of Japanese on their fashion tour, to the diretor of my local bank :-)

All keeping it moving!

Sabrina Aiello, Pharmaceutical student

Favourite clothes line: Pinky

Favourite looks: Sportswear, Puma's

Must of the season: Earrings

Favourite film: Crash

Favourite music: House music

MILAN FASHION -STREETSYLE

The buzz is in the air for the long awaited fashion shows of spring summer 2010. Milan at this time of the year sees all walks of life and style, from the designer clad fashionistas to the streetstyle of the young and recession pressed students from all over the world, hoping to sneak a look at the shows of their sometimes overrated fashion maestros. Take a walk around all areas of the city and you'll find a melting pot of style.

ISOLA

Mirko Frignani, 24 years old-fashion student

favorite designer. Riccardo Tisci per Givenchy

Can't live without: my superga plimsolls,

fashion must of the season: sequins and leather

music loves: Madonna/pop music

favourite film: eyes wide shut

FADE IN BEAUTY PARTY IN FULL SWING

A great time was had by all at the inauguration party for the exhibition FADE IN BEAUTY, guests included noted fashion designer Angelos Frentzos, fashion journalist Stefano Roncato for MF fashion, artist Naomi Filmer and avant -garde photographer Pablo Arroyo, fresh from his recently launched bi-anual magazine "Grey". A good time was had all round. Music sounds by Paul Boulet were pumping all the time, leaving the last of the crowd chilling in the boutique, and winding down with a good bottle of red.

di Oliver de Place


FADE IN BEAUTY INAUGURATION PARTY

FADE IN BEAUTY INAUGURATION PARTY

L'ATELIER IN THE ISOLA ZONE

MARCHI EMERGENTI INTERNAZIONALI

L'ATELIER DI CHRISTINE FORTUNE

FINGER BETWEENS ARE BACK

IN AND OUT AND IN BETWEEN

At first glance, the pieces of silver on these pages look like torture instruments - beautifully crafted and carefully carved, but painful all the same. Take a closer look, and disregard all your preconceptions about what you think is jewellery.

Since graduating from the RCA with an MA in metalwork and jewellery in 1993, Naomi Filmer has been pursuing her own particular style of jewellery. She looks at the negative spaces of the body and has found a whole new way of adorning it. Instead of wrapping around the fingers, her rings slot between them. Likewise, she makes organic silver plugs that fit between toes, and inside the ear lobes. She has had to find new names for these pieces, calling them the "finger between", the "toe between", the "ear- plug" and the "ankle clamp" (below). Much of her work is sculpted to fit and made to order. She has also worked with designers Hussein Chalayan, Julien McDonald and Tristan Webber on pieces for their catwalk shows. Filmer calls herself a conceptual jewellery designer, working not only with precious metals but with light, UV tubing and brightly-coloured hair. WATCH THIS SPACE !!!!!!!! In the near future we could well have our bodies adorned with jewellery in spaces and places we never ever dreamed of.

NAOMI FILMER KILLER COUTURE FOR ANNE-VALERIE HASH

Fashion Designer Anne Valerie Hash and Naomi Filmer come together in collaboration for Anne Valeries third Haute couture, show. Anne Valerie chose Naomi Filmer to create a beautiful set of body pieces. These objects, with are about the body itself, explore and celebrate, rather than decorate. Visual impression remains integral however. To illustrate ideas with clarity there must be simple elegance and beauty.

BLOWN AWAY

Naomi Filmer continuously changes material mediums with ease. Her skillful manipulation and experimentation of blown glass was seen in "Our of the ordinary" exhibition at the V&A museum of London, alongside lenticulars demonstrating the fusion of glass and the human body.

The Art of Fashion: Installing Allusions

OUT OF THE ORDINARY

NAOMI FILMER REACHES NEW DIMENSIONS IGNORING SPACES



Naomi Filmer continues to reach new dimensions, breaking all the rules of what is considered contemporary jewellery design, the category from which she originates. Her latests works see her experimenting once again with unexpected mediums,and dimensions relating to the body. Oversize sculptural pieces in bronze with leather finishes, with smaller pieces in resin. This surprising yet extraordinary change of scale and depth in Filmers work confirms once again the geniality of her talent to manipulate almost any material, highlighting it's likeness and flexibiility to that of the human body, with delicate nurturing ,hence giving it life.

The Art of Fashion: Installing Allusions 19 September 2009 - 10 January 2010

This autumn five top international designers will be presenting exclusive work in The Art of Fashion. With this exhibition Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen explores the boundaries of fashion. Fashion shows and advertising campaigns have had their day. Designers use installations, performances and sculptural designs and enter the area of fine art. In Rotterdam the sparks that fly at the interface between fashion and art will be revealed spectacularly.

At the heart of the exhibition are exclusive new works by five top international designers. The H+F Fashion on the
Edge Foundation invited Viktor&Rolf, Naomi Filmer, Hussein Chalayan, Anna-Nicole Ziesche and Walter Van Beirendonck to make brand new pieces for this exhibition. The designers abandon the principle of a wearable collection and seek out the boundaries of fashion. The works will be unveiled at the opening of the exhibition on 19 September 2009.
Aroma Viktor & Rolf are masters in conjuring up complex, imaginary worlds. In their project Alternative No. 1 they subject the codes of worlds like these to close scrutiny. The perfume that they create is built up from unexpected elements. The fairy tale in which we are all too pleased to be a part is disturbed by an aroma, a bottle and a campaign that summon up more nasty experiences. Sarcophagus Walter Van Beirendonck also creates an ingenious fantasy world, inspired by comic strips and graphic motifs. He presents a six metre high temple for his own wooden sarcophagus as it will be found three hundred years after his death. He uses this to consider rituals and the meaning of life. Ignored spaces Jewellery designer Naomi Filmer is interested in ignored spaces and wonders how the body relates to its environment. For the Breathing Volumes project she investigates the space under the chin. The result is not jewellery but a sculpture that enters into a direct relationship with the observer.
In Filmer's practice she is both hands-on and hands-off: sketching and casting metal, and also working like a producer by collaborating closely with sound designers, glassblowers and cameramen.

'The work I make focuses on ordinary parts of the body that we never really celebrate, but actually there is nothing ordinary about them at all, they are unique to every individual. By isolating them, and making a spectacle out of them, they are made extraordinary. I am interested in recognisable sounds like breathing - there is nothing more familiar than the sound of your own breath. If you capture those sounds, amplify and repeat them, they become unfamiliar.'

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF IXBALAMKE

L'ATELIER DI CHRISTINE FORTUNE

L’ATELIER DI CHRISTINE FORTUNE

A Milano, nel cuore dell’Isola, nota per il suo passato di Malavita, ed oggi, uno
dei posti più eclettici e movimentati della città, c’e un negozio molto piccolo
che potrebbe quasi passare inosservato per la facciata discreta, ma che si
rivela essere un vero baule del tesoro da scoprire.
L’Atelier di Christine Fortune e’ caratterizzato dal lancio sul mercato italiano di
giovani stilisti internazionali.
La profonda abilità di Christine di riconoscere stilisti di talento e creatività, ma
che nello stesso tempo siano una proposta commerciale di successo, ha
trasformato il suo negozio in un ‘destination store’ per tutti quelli che vogliono
scoprire le novità e sperimentare nuovi marchi che offrono una proposta
individuale ed inaspettata.

“Voglio dare la possibilità alle donne di trovare nel mio negozio qualcosa di
unico e di diverso” ha detto Christine. “Le mie clienti, come me, desiderano
indossare abiti ed accessori che non seguano le tendenze del momento e che
diano la sensazione di essere dei pezzi unici. Sono creazioni e non prodotti di
serie. Ciò si può trovare solo in un atelier. Un luogo magico dove in passato le
donne si ritrovavano, non solo per scegliere il guardaroba della stagione, ma
anche per condividere pensieri ed emozioni".

Per la prossima stagione Autunno/Inverno ’09, Christine presenta: Londyn,
Ixbalamke, Michelle Lowe-Holder, Christine Bec e Antonia Goy, marchi
prevalentemente inglesi, ma che vengono anche dalla Germania ed offrono
una gamma di abiti ed accessori che vanno dallo stile austero ad un look
pieno di glamour e possibilità.
Christine Fortune si sposta con facilità fra Milano e Londra. La sua passione
per l’arte, fashion ed il teatro l’ha spinta ad intraprendere una carriera nel
mondo della moda. Ha frequentato la nota St Martins School of Art, scuola di
moda e fashion design, laureandosi nel ‘94.

FADE IN BEAUTY

L'Atelier di Christine Fortune presents "Fade in beauty "the photografic beauty exhibition by Michele De Andreis in collaboration with MKS agency.