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Samantha Pleet is taking Brooklyn and Fashion in general to new heights, reminding us that fashion at its best is like fine art. It tells a story and paints a portrait, providing bodies and faces with character and identity and Samantha Pleet’s characters are clear statements of playful style. Her Spring 09 line The Season of Wonders is indeed fitting of it’s name with her look book being shot not only in stills but in a short movie, which depicts her characters playing in a gallery location. This interactive form of showing is a prime example of why Samantha ain’t just the next pretty face she has captured the enchantment and mystery that makes a fashion show such an incredible experience and offered it to people everywhere. She has bought her designs to life right before our square computer eyes and on blank back drop these clothes really are as alive as the people wearing them. The characters that are enveloped in her magnificently wearable designs have a distinct modernity and yet also evoke strong nostalgia for the romance of fairytales and magic lands, they speak a foreign language that reeks with the mystery of possibility and whispers a secrecy that is beyond reality. Samantha has revived fashions ability to seemingly reveal majestic secrets of the unknown in stark, simplistic reality; The Season of Wonders is grandeur in a minimalist form. The collection evolves from nippy wasp waistlines into voluminous silhouettes embellished by simplicity of tailoring and a predominantly black white and pastel colour palette that is refreshingly spliced with brighter hues. The Season of Wonder really is wondrous and the girl behind it is too, this New York girl is dabbling in every field of fashion introducing Patrick Pleet, a menswear line co-designed by her husband and designing an exclusive collection for Urban Outfitters, called Rapscallion, which lead to curating an Urban Outfitters pop-up store in Los Angeles, all in 2008. But wait there’s more Samantha is also the co designer of and eco friendly line called Bodkin and has developed a specialty in dressing indie bands including bands such as Au Revoir Simone, Apache Beat, Grizzly Bear, Yeasayer, and Holy Hail. Samantha also paints, acts, makes films, and plans to start a band if she ever has time, see I told you wondrous. This is one truly inspiring girl who has coveted a sense of magic that seeps from the lining of her clothing...sit back and enjoy the wonder that moves and plays before your eyes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30glbqbpZIc
Oooh, yes, be thrilled movie-lovers and/or still-a-little-girl-inside women: Mattel has celebrated the 45th anniversary of Hitchcock’s 1963 masterpiece “the Birds” with a Tippi Hedren-like Barbie doll in a limited edition. The green-tailor clad blond heroin features "real fake birds" and a "high-quality head [that] looks scared and has awesome hair!” Don’t expect those real fake birds to save Tippi / Barbie’s perfect blow-dry from any inconvenience though.
Um. Excuse me Nancy Wu? I'm aware that recycling our precious resources has become important as of late, but constructing a Chanel handbag out of beef jerkey (and a Louis Vuitton wallet too) has got to be the most creative/bizarre concept. Coco would turn in her pearl encrusted grave.
Describing her clothes as "clothes for girls who wish they'd been sluts in high school" and "American dorky girl, but kind of effortlessly stylish", US designer Natascha Stolle has set the fashion blogosphere alight. Londoners fell in love with her high waisted pants, baggy T's and tailored jackets at the Fashion East show in September and since then has gained a steady following. Stolle, who is half German, a quarter Italian and a quarter Japanese, has proved to be a powerful solo force after working alonside Peter Jensen for a decade. And her collection won't massacre your wallet either. Check out her debut Spring/Summer 09 line - sophisticated, yet not too stuck up for a hint of tie dye.
Dear Santa
So... I´ve been particularly good this year. I was hoping you could help me out with a few things? I really, really, really would love to be the proud owner of a goat. Yeah, a goat. Actually, farm animals in general. Ducks, pigs, chickens and a donkey.
You see, I don´t actually need them, but I know you´re big on presents. So I thought rather than you getting me things I don´t need (socks and knickers three years in a row?), you could get me farm animals? Yeah, I know I don´t need farm animals, and let´s not even get started about where they would go in my shoebox apartment. But get your elves to have a look at Oxfam Unwrapped. Just make a purchase for me, and the present will get sent onto somebody who needs it more.
Got it? Okay great. Merry Christmas
Catholics never fear, and music lovers praise/rejoice, for the rod that beat Sydney's live music scene to a pulp has been dealt a mighty blow itself. The State Government has told Sydney councils which used The Place of Public Entertainment permit to charge venues for hosting live entertainment to lay off the hectoring. Sydney councils have been using the PoPE to combat 'noise pollution', control 'crowd safety' and decrease 'fire hazards', when the legislation was actually killed off in May. Not to mention the $85 venues were charged for a compulsory half hour inspection of the premises.So dust off your ukuleles, for the dark and dingy corners of your local surely await!
