They don´t reinvent the wheel, but they really are proficient in the black-and -white T-Shirt thing.
Last year Rome-based designer duo Emeli and Diego aka 5Preview came up with their first Chanel fake and took the urban crowds by storm. Now, they present the third 5Preview T-Shirt edition and although i think it´s time to refresh the designs, i still like what Emeli and Diego do. (more…)
In the last year, Rome-based label 5Preview taught us how to create an hype with MySpace and a Fake Chanel T-Shirt. The designer duo Emeli and Diego created a matchless vertical take-off with their T-Shirt label and as you can see on their blog – the fame is growing, the numbers of fans too….
More from Byblos here, via Bleachblack. (more…)
Dresses with little pockets for colored felt-tip pens that bleed into the fabric? At first glance this sounds kind of odd to me. But Portuguese artist Fernando Brizio disabuses me.
As part of the Turin-based exhibition “flexibility – design in a fast changing society” Brizio turns heads with his “renewable clothing”, based on the concept I mentioned before. Surprisingly, the dresses are very beautiful and wearable. And the greatest thing of all: the dresses can be cleaned and colored again…and again…and again. Stunning idea! For more, jump to designboom.
All photos from designboom
Every Christmas, my dad sorts the manifold components of our Lego empire. Three children and one dad who is crazy for building and constructing – this fact bestowed a room full of small parts made of plastics on my family. Unfortunately, the Lego isn´t really used, besides the Christmassy sorting-meditation of my dad. My brothers and me, we are grown up now, but not so much grown, that grand-children might come in sight. I wonder, if it could make sense, to abet my dad to do street art actions like Jan Vormann. At least, our neighborhood would get a colorful make-over and my dad…he would finally have a REAL reason to sort his Lego pieces every single Christmas.
The shown Lego artwork occurred in Bocchignano, a village next to Rome as part of a group project calles “20 Eventi”. German Artist Jan Vorman started his studies in Berlin and moved to St. Petersburg in 2007 to work, live and study in Russia. Last, he was presented at St. Petersburg C.A.G. Gallery with „Vo chto my igraem zavtra? With what are we playing tomorrow? “.
Photos via Jan Vormann
No, no, no, it´s neither some extraterrestrial antennas nor self-defense-instruments with warning lights. It´s jewelry by Gualti – pieces that increased some hot discussions in the blogosphere. The designer himself describes his handmade creations as spectacular sculptures that evoke to live through light and movement. Critics are badmouthing the inexistent feasibility of the pieces. I guess, they didn´t get that it´s exactly the real-life unwearability that creates the valuable touch of the unachievable outstanding.
Gualti´s jewelry doesn´t get the right to exist in being compatible to my, to your to our styles and lives, it gets the right to exist with a uniqueness that can be found in the middle of fiction an reality. If the jewelry of Gualti should be worn by everyone – H&M would sell it. Basta!
Photos via Gualti
We all know the “myspace music hype”-thing that brought some unknown musicians fame and fortune. Now, the story continues – in the field of fashion. Why? Maybe, because you easily reach a certain subculture on a worldwide level, maybe, you just fit the contemporary taste of fashion and would have been successful anyway.
For 5PREVIEW, both arguments apply.
“…most of all pataphysics is the science of the particular (…) it deals with the rules governed by exceptions and expound a supplementary universe (…) rules are an exception to the exceptions (…) pataphysics is the science of imaginary solutions“. This is how Alfred Jarry explained pataphysics in “L’Echo de Paris litteraire illustré” back in 1893.
Patafisic borrowed the name from Jarry´s absurdistic philosophy and science concept and was established in Florence in 1995 by designers Brenda Cecchi and Andrea Sicuro, as a design studio dealing with fashion, interiors, graphics and live performances. (read on) (more…)
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