DIY is going couture. While the former Maison Martin Margiela Artisanal collections have been rather superior DIY with shredded paper experiments and balloon fantasies, this time,  the Paris-based fashion forward house is coming up with some serious ready for runway fashion art. And although i truly liked the handcrafted and imperfect touch of the former Artisanal pieces, i would be a complete douchbag not admiring, adoring…praising…the this years output. But if i could state a wish….i`d gently ask to rethink the fantastic mirror top again for runway. It`s just too great to rest in the archives. (more…)

Nicolas Chevallier is rather a painter than a designer. With his young label 180g the French is turning what appears as a funny idea into an attractive business model: he paints clothes. An he paints them in a way that makes them even look better than before. One look at the Nike`s might be enough to explain what he`s aiming for. I like. Wich he could get over to paint my wardrobe mistakes into most-loved pieces. (more…)

Indeed, Raphael Young`s creations are the opposite of clothing items. His artwork called shoe is beyond all characteristics of an accessories. It´s nothing that completes an outfit – it`s the outfit maker itself. And so I dare to state, that instead of “urbanising haute couture shoes” – like Raphael Young himself considers his design attitude-, he´s “couturizing urban shoes”.
Platform, architectural and geometric shapes as well as material-mixes have been seen multiple times in shoe design. But the way, the Seoul-born designer courageously forces up those attributes to a uber-pointed scale, is beyond prêt-a-porter, it`s shoe couture and true master class. Compared to what we´ve seen in his first collection, Raphael Young´s autumn/winter pieces push the level of shoe design out of reach for a standard fashionista but into the scale of the superior fashion. I am curious how far the designer will go with his third collection.

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Remember NDEUR, Europe´s most famous shoe customizer?

He´s causing quite a stir with his new discipline: paper folding. With this stunning heels and some more paper artwork you can see here, the French artist promotes a new design studio, he founded together with the Make a Paper World Duo. Purpose: bringing the do it yourself culture together with professional communication. More infos have not been revealed yet. Stay tuned. (more…)

Although I am way less excited today about Naco-Paris as I was then, I have to state, that this guy really knows how to get his pieces into the spotlight. (more…)

Maybe it´s the easyness that triggered me when finding Faustine Steinmetz´ collection at MySpace. Patterns, prints and oversized tops aren´t that new, but anyway, something made me stuck at Faustines profile. (more…)

Maison Martin Margiela shows how to go as a mirror ball. (more…)

UUUTCH -Sometimes i am wrong and sometimes i am a moron. It was dull to event think about if maybe a colorful, itsy-bitsy piece of Palestian scarf as a dress would bother. (Continue reading) (more…)