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Happy Blues

Qing — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:37:39 +0000

Well…it’s not that I’m still soaked within Avatar’s wage. But I really admire all these blues for SS10. And these different mood of blues look the best if a dash of LIME mixing in. Hope you agree…?

Clockwise from top left—-Kenzo…Proenza Schoeler…Stella McCartney for Adidas—Alexander McQueen—Proenza Schouler—denim overall—Yohji Yamamoto(with hands)

Avatar Wave

Qing — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:37:44 +0000

It seems you could hear conversation starting like this everywhere in London recently—’have you watched Avatar?’ Which actually sounds quite sickly these days. Different people enjoy it in different ways. My colleague who is a 22 year-old straight minded graphic designer guy just nods his head with the technology used within film and the eye-ball impact. He thought the story line is rubbish. While rest of us—above 25 year-old—are thinking ‘the message’.

True, if you say every decade carries out a main message like hippies from the 70s, global warming is definitely the main message for this new decade. Dame Vivienne Westwood urged people by inviting herself to Friday Night with Jonathan Ross show in 2009, that even we are stopping all polluting and all other bad things for environment, it would still take our planet earth to heal itself to its best condition for another 200 something years long. The number is shocking! And this was how I felt while watching Avatar.

Back to the film, I agree that story line is simple. It could be a futuristic story version of how European killed native Americans… and how majority of Chinese people are also linking their own feelings with the local government and property developer…

While the film credit was finally rolling up the screen, the girl sitting next to us sneered ‘that was a rubbish’. My friend snapped her back with ’so why did you sit through the entire film then? trying to get your money worthy?!’. The silly girl couldn’t say anything. That hurts me…people like that…the careless people… …

It seems that Avatar has not only created the wave on big screen, but also in fashion world. High summer 2010 will be seen with many aquatic / sport-inspired items around in UK highstreet.

Even cosmetic brand Avon has launched a new signature fragrance.

I hope the Avatar Wave will not be just a ’splash of water’, but really an impact into people’s heart, whether from fashion, from economy, from people to people, from anything.

More Fantasy than Reality

Qing — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:28:04 +0000

It has been a while that reality TV shows being occupied in people daily life since a decade ago when Big Brother introduced to our life. Then came the pop reality show in 2002 which brings onto another level. I couldn’t agree more when I read the quote somewhere recently refers as ‘reality TV shows bring people back to human-to-human / human-to-beast arena fight around the Roman time’. However, after nearly a decade of pity fight in all kinds of angles, the reality recalls our basic instinct as human being, looking for a hope. And the ‘hope’ which was the last thing remained in Pandora’s box generates more fantasy thoughts.

In 2010, we see fantasy taking in all different art forms, from movie to fashion to illustration.

Avatar is no doubt the number one fantasy sci-fi movie for 2010. The colours (especially the deep crystal blue), the technology (new camera technology evolved just for the film), the message (save the planet)…all of which are quite fantasized.

Then never mention the upcoming Alice in Wonderland. Trailer sounds like a sequel story of Alice ‘returning’ to the Wonderland.

Alexander McQueen brings back the imagination of lost land ‘Atlantis’. The alien-reptile print, the hoof shoe, the titanic heel…

McQueen SS10 show

Clothes become more dreamy for Spring/Summer 2010. Vogue UK February 2010 reports the ‘Pretty Chic’…Natalia Vodianova is looking fresh.

Fashion editorial and illustration are focusing on this romantic power too.

Vogue February 2010 issue

and that reminds me an old illustration I’ve done back in the university.

and again…discovering Reed and Rader’s portofolio

and illustration from Banshee Beat

At the end this simple point of view slowly formed in my head—Reality is from human’s nature and fantasy is from interactions between human intellectuals and the surrounding environment.