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.
sabato 26 settembre 2009
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.
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.
venerdì 25 settembre 2009
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
sabato 19 settembre 2009
FINGER BETWEENS ARE BACK
IN AND OUT AND IN BETWEEN
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.
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.'
venerdì 18 settembre 2009
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 collabor
ation with MKS agency.
ation with MKS agency.
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