Portable lunch setting by London-based product designer Demelza Hill. “Snap and Dine is a single use three-course table setting that integrates disposable cutlery with traditional silverware. The portable lunch setting expands the possibilities of eating outdoors in style whilst reinforcing the correct use of cutlery, which has been lost over time. This is achieved through the decorative qualities and formal setting which both are a visual reference to fine dinning. This product is fun and interactive whilst raising the standards of current eating on the go habits.” (Text & Photos via Demelza Hill)
Recently been featured in fashion156, Josefina Lar definitely polarizes with her autumn/winter collection that offers mainly pastel-colored 80´s shapes and highly detailed knitwear pieces. I kind of like it - not because of the wearability - more because of some great childhood memories. When i was a kid, my mom used to wear this strange shoulder-padded-batwing-high-waist-wide-leg-thing combinations and even beeing dressed in those ridiculous 80´s designers pieces, she then was the most beautiful woman in the world for me. Since grown up, I always asked her for this terribly ugly pantsuit (cutted like the suit shown below, but kept in the grossest green you can imagine) that she was wearing only on special occassions at that time - and shortly, before she passed away, she forced me to bear her on the attic where i had to sift through all these boxes full of clothes … you can imagine how shirty i was. But although beeing very weak and highly bemused by the cancer medication, she first keept quite when i found the green uglyness. With a bright smile from ear to ear, she was extremely happy to give it to me - and although i would never wear this terrible 80´s relict, i am keeping it like a treasure. Maybe, this is, why Josefine Lar´s collection seems so likable to me although it´s so superspecial. For those, who want to know more about Josefina Lar, check here.
Clever and kooky - inspired by jacobian ruffs & natural structures such as: fruit & coral KA/POW/WOW neckpieces are exquisitely organic in form and spirit. Each piece is meticulously hand crafted from reclaimed textiles sourced from charity shops & via the vast london on-line network: freecycle. So easy - so great!
Mwau…contemplating J.W. Anderson´s autumn/winter collection at first I almost felt confronted with a crossing-creation of forest trolls with an alpine folk music marching band. But of course, I was wrong! Not a single designer collection in the world would ever be based on such primitive sources of inspiration.
It´s Russia, the tsars and the communism that correlate with J.W. Anderson´s collection. Not to forget the mystical figure Grigori Rasputin. Combined with World War l and Egg-Maker Peter Carl Fabergé - for me, the collection description starts to become kind of overloaded. Not implausible, not disagreeable - just too much for me. So, I try to make it short: The bandwidth of Anderson´s collection goes from artsy-experimental to absolutely ready-to-wear. High-quality work, craftsmanship and the stitching of luxury materials are closely connected to the elaborated, detailed designs. Jewelry is sized, prominent and distinctive and underlines the theatrical character of Anderson´s creations.
With his second collection the 25-years old Irish-born designer slingshots himself into the front row of the most aspiring European young-designers and proves, that creativity and craftsmanship are not always a matter of age.
Inspired mainly by art, dance and film Ostwald Helgason´s creations are eclectic, wearable pieces with a playful und colorful aesthetic. Susanne Ostwald from Leipzig, Germany, and Ingvar Helgason from Reykjavik, Iceland - the designers of Ostwald Helgason - met while working in a London design studio. In 2007 the duo came up with the first collection and only one year later, the young label is well recognized and blessed with fantastic critiques for the spirit of their contemporary, feminine designs. I stumbled about Ostwald Helgason at Beck´s Fashion Experience 08 in Berlin and some of their dresses blew me away. So, I am pretty happy to see, that Ostwald Helgason´s Autumn/Winter collection contains even more of these fairy dresses with that wonderful playful twist.
Danish textile designer, illustrator and artist Kristine Mandsberg just finished her MA studies at the Royal College of Art in London. Her works convince with a blithe freshness and i am pretty curious which creative road she will take after her studies.
As Fashion is in Love with music, i am in love with Alison Goldfrapp´s multicolored fringe dress, worn last weekend at Lovebox Festival in London.. Maybe a little bit too much for an ordinary night out with friends - but definitely an eye catching smash-hit for a stage appearance. If i will ever become a pop star!!??!! i´ll go for this dress
***UPDATE*** I just found out that the dress was designed by Michelle May and Alison Goldfrapp.. ***
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Don´t worry, What´s Wrong With The Zoo isn´t going porn - instead, I have a look towards south. To Munich, Germany. In the midst of the Glockenbachviertel, the ... 
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