BECAUSE LONDON

Incredibly excited to be featured in Because online's latest fashion film, entitled The Quiet Duel (credits below). To be paired with Margiela is too amazing to put into words. You all know how much I love monochrome, and any of these looks would be very happy in my own wardrobe! 

 In the meantime I'm working on SS13, went out and bought all the final fabrics yesterday ready to be dyed next week. I think I've created my dream jacket, I can't wait for you guys to see in September! Sorry you have to wait that long!

Credits:

Black look:

jacket MARGIELA

skirt CHARLIE MAY

shoes TENZIG CHARKVIANI

White look:

plastic jacket MARGIELA

skirt MARGIELA

Polo neck AMERICAN APPAREL

shoes J JS LEE

Hair by Ayo Laguda using 3 more inches by Michael Van Clarke

Make-up by Ciara O'Shea using Nude Skincare and M.A.C Cosmetics

Hair assistant: Jessica Hurley

Model: Ebba Lidvall@FM 

MOST WANTED

1. Hermes rose gold ring

2. Margiela screw ring

3. Margiela hoop earing

4. unknown silver cuff

5. Jennifer Zeuner thin band ring

6. Margiela rose gold 4 finger rings

7. Margiela twist ring

8. Balenciaga twin bracelet

9. Unknown gold spine ring

10. Margiela brass ring

Just a big Margiela love-fest, really.

PERMANENT INK

Writing on the mirrors of the first ever Margiela store in Brussels along the Rue de Flandre. I can't wait to show you more pictures of the boutique, follow me on Instagram to see some sneak pics. Now, out to party with Michael at the Stijl store then on to Margiela later!

HARDWARE

Fashion Sphere and Silver Scents

MARGIELA MOMENT

 

Margiela Returning

Tush

Winter 2010

Photographer: Armin Morbach

Stylist: Ingo Nahrwold

Model: Andrej Pejic

Andrej shows us his feminine side in this new editorial from Tush magazine.

PUSH IT MAG ISSUE 2

Issue 2 of PUSH IT Magazine is out and packed full of stunning imagery.

This Issues DEFENDER cover, has been shot by photographer Frank Berlin. Using designers such as the late great Alexander McQueen, Maison Martin Margiela and Bottega Veneta.

You can buy or read online HERE

Because sometimes in life we all need a little... PUSH!

Summer sandals to kill for

This year is the first and only time I have found myself really craving a pair of sandals. Maybe its because sandals have never been so sexy before or it's because I've been too focused on heels to ever really give them a chance. If I'm going to spend serious money on shoes they have to say something.
Procrastinating on Browns (as usual) today I found these beauties. The Louboutin's are my favourite, they're so pretty!

Top: Christian Louboutin
'Adona' sandal 445
Left: Givenchy
Flat python 410
Right: Balenciaga
Suede Gladiator 470
Bottom: Martin Margiela
Flat strappy sandals 380

Eeek!

Bonjour!

Paris was amazing! The city is so beautiful, I fall in love with it every time.
There's so much to say I don't know where to start.
Thank you for all your wonderful goodbyes when I was away. Sorry I haven't posted even though I've been back since Sunday. They was so much to catch up on, and I had to be back to uni on the Monday. A harsh back to reality!
The best exhibition I went to see in Paris was The Sonia Rykiel Retrospective, celebrating 40 years, at the Louvre. It's been running since 2008 so many of you might have seen it, if not then you absolutely must. It completely blew my mind. There were two floors showcasing previous collections, stunning photography, magazine articles, documentaries and around 30 silhouettes signed by other top designers in homage to Rykiel.


These designs were by Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Christian Lacroix, Martin Margiela and by Jean Paul Gaultier after Sonia Rykiel spring/summer 2009 ready-to-wear collection

The only photos I could find online of the collection pieces were badly taken tourist photos, which is a shame. The collections were so beautiful the photos dont do them justice at all.
The exhibition did actually make me hate the English, there were groups of college fashion teens who knew nothing about anything, went round taking photos with the flash against glass, asking if the tracksuits were Juicy Couture and saying that they'd never even heard of Sonia Rykiel.

Jean Paul Gaultier Illustration

Despite the annoying English teens the exhibition was completely mind blowing and I would urge everyone to go and see it. I have always loved Sonia Rykiel but never knew the extent of her wonders.


Images taken from
www.parispopcorn.com
www.Fashionfile.com

Maison Martin Margiela Exhibition

I have just booked my tickets to Antwerp for the Martin Margiela retrospective at the end of January next year. I am so excited, it's going to be so inspiring.

Maison Martin Margiela, the eponymous Paris-based fashion house known for its rough avant-garde couture, understated branding and mysterious leading man (the Belgian designer almost never makes public appearances and you'd be hard pressed to find a photograph) is the fascinating and inspired subject of a new exhibition at the MoMu Fashion Museum in Antwerp.

Maison Martin Margiela, which celebrates its 20th anniversary in October, is at once an illustrious part of the global fashion consciousness and a quirky anomaly proudly distinct from it. It is a brand driven by product and sheer invention rather than hype, fad, or celebrity. Four exposed white stitches attaching a clean label to the inside of each garment, a trademark aesthetic, is the only outward brand insignia, a subtle nod to those in the know.

The new exhibition is less a traditional retrospective than a visual examination of the themes that have underpinned the brand since its inception, from its deconstructivist, subversive design aesthetic to the esoteric numeric labelling, the unusual store fit-outs, the clinical, lab coat-clad sales clerks, and of course the clothes themselves. Even in the absence of a photograph, one gains a solid picture of the designer: a man who, among other things, clearly prefers to let his work do the talking.

In 1988, after graduating from the fashion department of the Antwerp Academy and working as an assistant for Jean-Paul Gaultier, Martin Margiela and Jenny Meirens established Maison Martin Margiela. Their first pioneering fashion show followed in October of that same year. Margiela’s was a radically new visual language, with a silhouette – long, with strikingly narrow shoulders – that diametrically opposed the power dressing of the 1980s. He furthermore declines public appearances. Early in his career, Margiela emphatically decided to let his fashion speak for itself. All interviews are consistently given in the name of the Maison as a whole and no photographs of the designer are distributed – a sharp reaction against the star status that dominated the fashion scene of the 1980s and 1990s.

Maison Martin Margiela is especially known for its deconstructivist approach and its use of second-hand materials or materials with low commercial value. Its entire oeuvre is characterized by an exceptional combination of classic tailoring and conceptual thinking. Margiela shows the inside of a clothing item, exposes its construction and focuses on that which fashion anxiously tries to conceal. Unravelling the grammar of clothing, Maison Martin Margiela reveals the strategies of the fashion system as he constructs something radically new. The working method produces an analysis of the system that underlies fashion and is followed through in the many varied aspects of the fashion house.

Pictures and information from www.momu.be and www.wallpaper.com