>>Arnoldo][Battois + venice + assymetry +the following articles is straight from the site, just saying <<

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Behind the label Arnoldo][Battois, there are two stylists from Venice: Silvano Arnoldo and Massimiliano Battois. They met at the faculty of Architecture of Venice and discovered their common passion: fashion.

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>>Arnoldo][Battois + venice + assymetry +the following articles is straight from the site, just saying <<

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Behind the label Arnoldo][Battois, there are two stylists from Venice: Silvano Arnoldo and Massimiliano Battois. They met at the faculty of Architecture of Venice and discovered their common passion: fashion.

Scrupulous and perfectionist types, what brought them together was their taste for beautiful things, the passion for research, the recuperation of materials in total expressive liberty and their attention to detail.

A rich work experience (Mila Schön, Marzotto group, Scherrer, Cardin, Laura Biagiotti, René Caovilla...), flows into the long collaboration with Roberta di Camerino which was fundamental for their growth as professionals and for the discovery of a new passion: the bag accessory.

In 2001, armed with the professional experience acquired through various years of work, they took on the challenge to create clothing and accessories with their own label and to test their marketability by opening a shop in Venice.

The clothing and accessories that they produced were made from a highly specialised craftsmanship from the Riviera of Brenta. They obtained a very positive reaction from the beginning, both from the national clients and especially the international clients, who appreciated the originality and quality of the materials and craftsmanship.

In 2006, they were called to teach on the Design and Fashion degree course at the Faculty IUAV of Venice. This course was headed by Maria Luisa Frisa: from 2006-07, they held the laboratories for the design of Clothing and Accessories.

The work completed up until this point obtained optimal results, with the goods being distributed in prestigious stores as well as major international stores and with collection after collection earning main reviews in the sector, as the important insertion in “Percorsi di creatività 3” (“Fashion”, December 2004, LVMH) in Bag category.

They participated in 'Who is on next?' 2010, international competition organized by Vogue Italy and AltaRoma, and they are inserted between the three finalists in the accessories category.

On September they showed SS 2011 collection during Milan Fashion Week, at the event organized by Vogue Italy and Vogue USA in Palazzo Morando, with the presence of Anna Wintour, Franca Sozzani and the most important names of fashion system.

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concept:

overall different but connected by detail: this is the aim searched in the creations of each Arnoldo][Battois collection, result of careful reflection on relationship between clothes and accessories in their mutual contamination.

Bags are enriched by drawing on the workings of haute couture, clothes are thought as architectures that contain a body: a new language to experience unexplored worlds.

Accessories like dresses, complex and autonomous architectures: it’s an open project, that attempts to distance from existing idea of the bag, that produces contaminations bringing together, in a unique time, the moments of history and sedimentation of thoughts; it’s a suspended time where everything is possible: it’s the memory, the remembrance, the future made of past and future. A never-ending story, never perfect, that is continually enriched by experiences to experiment forms, volumes and texture.

Clothes as accessories, essential structures capable of define and valorise themselves just around the human figure. Evolving objects, transformable and adaptable to different situations, designed to be independent from the body proportions, but they exploit its movement to define themselves. Tunics, kimonos, cloaks, symbols of far worlds, gently emerge in these creations evoking austere sensuality and formal rigor; few elements are predetermined because just the body movement determines, instant by instant, the free drapery; also the light, using combinations of different materials, becomes complicit in this game.

Collections are born and developed in Venice, place of historical sedimentation and cultural contamination, where the glories of the Serenissima, Marco Polo’s travels and the lives of intellectuals and artists of the past still emerge in the contemporary look. City of indefinite, where everything is fragmented and reassembled under the same light, where past and present coexist in a dynamic equilibrium; it’s the Wunderkammer, which allows to rediscover the past to design the future.

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http://www.arnoldoebattois.com/brand-en/the-designers/

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>>london + central st martins + digital fashion print + obscure + organic + gone wrong + romanticism/ modernity + sinister <<

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>>london + central st martins + digital fashion print + obscure + organic + gone wrong + romanticism/ modernity + sinister <<

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>>backstage at the C19th Salon Imperial at Paris’ Westin <<

these images are gorgeous. they’ve been featured in several blogs and online mags…specifically

i’ve been obsessed recently, and think i will be for quite a while.

and soooo….found out that tsumori chisato was born in the city of Saitama, Japan, . . . → Read More: tsumori chisato]]>

>>backstage at the C19th Salon Imperial at Paris’ Westin <<

these images are gorgeous. they’ve been featured in several blogs and online mags…specifically

peut-être mag.

i’ve been obsessed recently, and think i will be for quite a while.

and soooo….found out that tsumori chisato was born in the city of Saitama, Japan, and studied fashion at the Bunka Fashion School in Tokyo. In 1977, she entered the Issey Miyake design company as the head designer for “Issey Sports”, later renamed “I.S. Chisato Tsumori Design”. She then started her own line in 1990, and presented her collection  at the Japan Fashion Week that same year.

Tsumori Chisato’s signature style uses innovative and luxurious textiles, intricate beading, embroidery, appliqués and prints designed by her.

the “Maïnichi Newspaper Award” is just one of numerous prizes she has received in recognition of her design achievements.

but…. (drum roll please) this is what’s new:

2011/ 11/ 14 – tsumori chisato opened shop in Kuwait

2011/11/02 – campaign aw2011-2012

2011/10/18 – finally, the tsumori chisato online store is up

click here ….NOW.

>>playful design<<

feel free to check her website out here, here,  and here

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she attended Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and graduated with a BFA in Metalsmithing and Jewellery Design in 2004.

currently she is at Craft Studio Resident at the Harbourfront Centre for . . . → Read More: anna lindsay macdonald]]>

>>playful design<<

feel free to check her website out here, here,  and here

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she attended Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and graduated with a BFA in Metalsmithing and Jewellery Design in 2004.

currently she is at Craft Studio Resident at the Harbourfront Centre for the Arts in Toronto, Ontario.

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My work with maps began as soon as I moved to Toronto to take up residency at the Harbourfront Centre. As I navigated the city I was struck by the grid-like quality of the Toronto streets, the intersections and interwoven connections. The imposing urban sprawl I reduced in size to a more legible scale, neighborhoods became bracelets and rings, adornment objects as well as informative objects. I wanted the wearer to engage with their neighborhoods, with transparent acrylic pieces wrapped around their hands and fingers like tattoos, their walking history etched into their skin. The gold and silver dotted paths or the walk to work became the adornment object.

Philosophical issues in cartography emerged, the fact that maps are subjective documents oftentimes used by corporations and polititians to convey ownership. I was made aware that the publication I was relying on could’ve been more a document of bureaucratic history than anything else. I therefore began to fabricate my own neighborhoods by incorporating lace patterning into the streetscapes, my own cartographic truth.

This was a significant turning point in my body of work, the realisation that the networks resemble knots and lace. I began to think of my work as a modern form of lace making. Hand cut from metal and vinyl I used elements of product design and contemporary jewellery design to transform the informative systems into decorative motifs. I found that the language and semiotics of cartography lent themselves well to wearable art. Beyond the streets weaving themselves together, the dotted lines became opportunities for patterning and ornamentation, and the fleur-de-lis historically used to point North, became another lace motif to employ.

Our inherent tendency toward mathematical balance in apparent in our urban streets as well as in our history of ornament. My work is an ongoing study of this relationship.

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–anna lindsay macdonald–

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>>oh la laaaa kababayan!<<

Buy it, use it, break it, fix it, Trash it, change it, mail – upgrade it, Charge it, point it, zoom it, press it, Snap it, work it, quick – erase it, Write it, cut it, paste it, save it, Load it, check it, quick – . . . → Read More: bea valdez]]>

>>oh la laaaa kababayan!<<

Buy it, use it, break it, fix it,
Trash it, change it, mail – upgrade it,
Charge it, point it, zoom it, press it,
Snap it, work it, quick – erase it,
Write it, cut it, paste it, save it,
Load it, check it, quick – rewrite it,
Plug it, play it, burn it, rip it,
Drag and drop it, zip – unzip it,
Lock it, fill it, call it, find it,
View it, code it, jam – unlock it,
Surf it, scroll it, pause it, click it,
Cross it, crack it, switch – update it,
Name it, rate it, tune it, print it,
Scan it, send it, fax – rename it,
Touch it, bring it, Pay it, watch it,
Turn it, leave it, start – format it.

Encore.

bea valdez fo’ lyffeeeeeeeeee

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>>wish list shapes; matryoshka dolls + corals + bark + faberge eggs<<

judith leiber.

. . . → Read More: la boite]]>

>>wish list shapes; matryoshka dolls + corals + bark + faberge eggs<<

judith leiber.

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New York, NY — September 17-19, 2011 Designer Ayaka Nishi will present her new jewelry collection at Capsule Trade Show. This refined event will take place September 17-19, 2011 at CENTER 548 (548 West 23rd Street, NYC).

Ayaka Nishi will feature her Spring/Summer 2012 collection . . . → Read More: just saying…]]>

New York, NY — September 17-19, 2011 Designer Ayaka Nishi will present her new jewelry collection at Capsule Trade Show. This refined event will take place September 17-19, 2011 at CENTER 548 (548 West 23rd Street, NYC).

Ayaka Nishi will feature her Spring/Summer 2012 collection at the show. Also available for viewing will be Ayaka’s latest work, which includes her new Cell Mask and Cell Bracelet, as well as new additions to her already popular Bone Collection. This exhibition will include, press, media, fashion influencers and industry leaders.

About Ayaka Nishi
Ayaka Nishi New York is a jewelry brand inspired by elementes found in nature. Bone, coral, honeycomb, spiderweb, sea urchin, bubble and more are crafted in metal as wearable accessories. ( www.ayakanishi.com)

Ayaka Nishi website: www.ayakanishi.com
Ayaka Nishi bio: www.ayakanishi.com/bio/e_bio.html
2012 S/S Jewelry Collection Look Book: www.ayakanishi.com/lookbook.html

RSVP IMMEDIATELY:
info@ayakanishi.com

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>>continued from my floorless boat post  + bianca rocks + syndney  + hookup<<

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