Posted by
Qing on February 3, 2010 |
No commentsIt 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.
Tags: Avatar, Avon, eco fashion, vivienne westwood
Posted by
awais on September 12, 2009 |
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Maybe it’s because of all the recent hype surrounding The September Issue, Valentino: The Last Emperror and The Day Before, but as of lately I have a new addiction – watching fashion documentaries. What I love about documentaries like the ones listed below is that you get to see what things are really like behind the scenes. You get an insight into how the designers work and what inspires them. Here’s a few of my favourites from YouTube:
BBC: The Secret World of Haute Couture 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07
CNN: Carine Roitfeld Revealed 01 | 02 | 03
BBC: The Secret World of Haute Couture >> Playlist
Loïc Prigent: Signe Chanel >> Playlist (episode 1 – 5)
Loïc Prigent: Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton >> Part 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09
Masters of style: John Galliano >> Playlist
Vivienne Westwood >> Part 01 | 02
Yves Saint Laurent >> Part 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06
Although I do like to watch fashion reality shows and find them entertaining, I find it kind of sad that a lot of people seem to think that reality shows like Project Runway is what fashion is really all about. As Loïc Prigent told Maya Singer in a recent interview:
I’ve seen a little bit of these reality shows, and whatever they’re about, they’re not about fashion. Competition, making fun of people, but not fashion. It’s very hard to convince people to do a real fashion show— there’s a prejudice against fashion people in TV, even in France.
I really hope that the recent popularity of the fashion documentary genre will help change this and that people realise that there’s more to fashion than creating dresses out of chocolate wrappers (heads up to Hershey’s for the great PR effort though!).
Photo source: NY Magazine/Christopher Anderson
Tags: Chanel, Haute Couture, John Galliano, Loïc Prigent, Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, vivienne westwood, Yves Saint Laurent
Posted by
awais on August 23, 2009 |
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A fashion/art/design/etc blog might not be the most original idea, but to quote one of our favourite designers, Vivienne Westwood:
“I’m not trying to do something different, I’m trying to do the same thing but in a different way”
So there you have it, this blog’s raison d’être.
Photo source: Graeme Robertson
Tags: vivienne westwood
