#project: the mondrian dress

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Eeek! The mock up for the dress is coming together! Lots of adjustments to make but the mock up has turned out better than I'd hoped! 🥹

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bitch I bet you thought I’d forgotten about Riverdale, “Chapter Thirty-Seven: Fortune and Men’s Eyes”

I absolutely agree with Archie’s wild careening off the side of the road of justice to plead guilty to a crime he “may as well have” committed. I couldn’t believe Archie was so preposterously on the money about himself: “I didn’t kill anyone, but I could have.” GOOD, ARCHIE. I love Juvie Archie. better than Fascist Archie!!!!

I didn’t google “prison powder” to see if that shit’s soap or for lice or what but y’all’ll fill me in on that won’t you

“Leopold and Loeb” is just the level of allusory on-brand naming hubris I demand

“Captain Golightly” doesn’t seem to be a reference to anything other than a brutal dichotomy between whimsy and a dictatorial prison state

you know they hit us up with that Pop’s lighting not even at Pop’s! I never met a window I didn’t want to have bathe me in God’s light!

Sixth period is Intro to Film: the cross stitch quote on the warden’s wall, which I assume dude’s wife made for him because he and she adhere to traditional gender roles, is of course from Sonnet 29, referenced in the title to a play and 70’s movie very much about sexual slavery in prison (Archie has not seen it)

Day One at Juvie Coif: very good, uplifted, touchable but held fast

they really did the line-up of the Hot Dads of Riverdale right there: Tom seems to be eating pancakes and bacon, and FP is wearing a scarf like a headband but like a necklace

Fred’s flannel is an interesting mix of colors like, for a flannel, and Veronica appears to be wearing subtle yellow eyeshadow to go with her waitress dress

when were we going to hear about the three perjuring thugs? who corroborated Archie’s false confession???? cold

“Shadow County” is the third county in “Riverdale State”

The Blossom spawn: Dr. Patel seems to be the Cooper family GP with specialities in both obstetrics and neurology; Betty is still wearing her hospital bracelet

I never noticed the teensy blackboard under Alice’s kitchen cabinets; the Coopers are truly peak bourgeois chic

Polly’s itty bitty lace headband is good and the Farm has done wonders for her and Alice’s accessory game

Betty’s body language at “Uh...because I saw you and mom throw the twins on a fucking fire” is very funny (Betty has not told a joke yet)

Dilton Doiley is a canonically great dancer: RIP!!!!!!

I want to get out of the way that for some reason Jughead looks really good throughout this episode. I can’t explain why, maybe it’s because he’s finally wearing plaid again, but he looks good. if you thought he looked good in the first place, he’s back

is Betty wearing her Carrie: the Musical outfit?

last week I misheard Dilton and thought he said “Cardinal King,” and I was like, What? and then it got even better

Places Bughead are Fucking: the Blue & Gold office

Archie > Dawson: God bless Archie but he does try to be personable with Mad Dog right away, unleashing one of his legendary “bros.” how old were you when you realized you couldn’t do a pull-up? I’ve never done a pull-up in my goddamn life and certainly not to a vinyl of a piano sonata

Mad Dog (I just wrote “God,” because I guess he’s that beautiful) has approximately 100 cigarettes, which he certainly does not smoke, so he is hoarding them for some grand purpose?

when Mad Dog turned around I swear I saw muscles I didn’t know the human body possessed. I’m talking fresh-out-of-the-science-tube Steve Rogers

Fwoopy hair is the best hair: Mad Dog’s impeccably maintained fade

The 2001 Josie and the Pussycats movie was a masterpiece: Josie has the right attitude about LBJ and Vietnam, except I think JFK got us into Vietnam, but then the Gulf of Tonkin was LBJ. I don’t want to google the Vietnam War. look, McNamara is a war criminal

Cheryl’s sheaths: I wish I had the energy to coordinate my bras with the rest of my aesthetic like Josie, in a leopard print, and Cheryl, in red lace. I will say I have recently discovered unlined bras and they have changed me for the better

do you think Archie + varsity football + theater extracurriculars = Cheryl + student body president + 4.0 GPA + theater extracurriculars?

Serpent with the General-style opthalmic frames and low-rise Chucks intrigues me

Joaquin does Archie so bad!!!!!!! even after he got the fucking tattoo, damn!

Sexy, aesthetic Southside: Joaquin’s eyes are so crystal clear that I don’t think they have a color of their own. he’s wearing the optional grey shirt, so they look grey; if he wore the optional navy shirt (I can’t yet tell a difference in status) they would look blue

oh god, what is that Ghoulie doing at the fucking fence? is he slicing his fingertips for fun? what the fuck, the Ghoulies are so fucking bizarre

Archie calls Joaquin “bro” which means he is fucking serious

we all need to take a moment to ourselves to truly absorb the skull of Dr. Curdle’s son, who is also a corrupt coroner (his name tag says “Dr. Curdle Jr”). of the three most alien skulls so far, this is the most take-abacking (I HAVE seen every episode and my calculations are sound)

he’s really gonna let Dilton (RIP!!!!!) have his arm hang down off the table like that, in this, his final repose? cold

the almost ironic intonation of “signs….of stress….” as he pulls the sheet down is amazingly 50’s horror movie

“Runic, I’d say.”

mmmmmmmmmm Fresh-Aid! I listened to the Jonestown tape in an episode of Last Podcast and was well disturbed!!!!!

you tell me why Jughead is using the camera he used in the pilot instead of like, his phone camera: because Jughead?

because Jughead

Places Bughead are Fucking: coroner’s Office

I want one of these L & L shirts. I would prefer the navy version with the little sleeves

excuse me but one of these Ghoulies has an absolute 2008 sidebang

I’m writing a scene where it’s gay.: “DON’T TOUCH HIS FACE”

Veronica’s flower sweater

BEN BUTTON

Betty’s 70’s-collared Piet Mondrian shirt is super cute, although a white-backed women’s shirt with that thin Forever 21 fabric always fucks you if you have to wear a bra

the actress who plays Evelyn Evernever is named Zoé de Grand Maison and honestly I don’t know who has the better name

DOES KEVIN STILL WANT TO LOSE HIS VIRGINITY BY HALLOWEEN

if homecoming is in September or October, the schedule should be roughly 1) Archie gets out of juvie, followed by 2) Kevin loses his virginity with Moose

Gay.: Kevin’s kiss is VERY good and quite bold! for a hallway, and Moose’s twangy hair is nice

at my high school, everyone just said “rot-see” for ROTC, so surely these hip kids wouldn’t go around saying R-R-O-T-C like that, UNREALISTIC, RIVERDALE

the extremely tall gothy Vixen is even taller than the extremely tall Ghoulie and I would like to take her to homecoming

Summer + Blair = Veronica: “You’re acting like trash, and I don’t want to get a citation.”

what the hell does student body president even do? to the extent I can even recall our student body president, whose name I believe was Lauren, I think she read the afternoon announcements

Ben WAS the kid Kevin ordered that hot dog from during the James Dean closing night! (I’m not double-checking)

Ben WAS the kid Miss Grundy was ~grooming~ when she got merked!

Ben’s mom is such a boring white mom lady that she’s wearing a denim button-down with but a single flower appliqué

YOU KNOW I LOVED THAT BLAIR WITCH TWIG BABY

Officer Henderson WAS the cop who found the “HL” briefcase at the dead Serpent’s hotel room!

I looked into what starting a chapter of the Innocence Project entails for a “couple of minutes.” I assume Veronica is going to go with option one: nonprofit organization, “independently incorporated” with “its own governing board” and fundraising, as I would doubt Riverdale has a local law school or much of a public defender’s office, you know what I’m saying?

What damn high school in America: Veronica is wearing some high-waisted black slacks and quite the polka dot top, which may in fact simply be a bustier. I imagine Principal Weatherbee has battled so many times over the years with Cheryl, who is constantly toeing the line of what a 16-year-old can legally wear, that he has since given up entirely

Jughead crawling over the back of the couch and dangling the totem baby is such a throwback to Jughead crawling over the back of the diner booth and eating the whipped cream cherry that now they are simply teasing me with the grandeur of times gone by, like an Andy Williams Christmas song thrown up on 101.9 KINK

Ethel has on some sort of wicked pin but it’s not in focus!

Betty’s top is very cute, structured

everyone has their own “Yeah, I guess” face at “Dilton Doiley [RIP!!!!!!!] has a secret bunker in the woods?”

Jughead cooly threatens Ethel with quote-unquote telling the police; this of course calls back to Jughead threatening Dilton (RIP!!!!!) in the third episode with Sheriff Keller, but let me ask you this: if Betty & Jughead DID take Ethel to the sheriff, would Sheriff Minetta give a flying fuck? doesn’t he answer directly to Hiram on all things Jughead at this point? could Betty and Jughead POSSIBLY still imagine the cops will heed anything they bring them?

Sheriff Minetta: Jughead Jones now seems to be under the impression that a band of Riverdale High juniors are in an underground RPG cult that has led to a double-suicide

Hiram: Thank God

something about Jughead’s teensy Yes’m head nod is just enough like a chivalrous bow that I have thus taken the time to note how cute it is

Day Two Juvie Coif: visibly succumbing to stress, but with dignity; starting to feather

I don’t know anything about sneakers but I like Mad Dog’s hightops

the cinematography in Archie’s cell is great. I especially like the panning around Archie when he’s not even moving, just listening to Mad Dog talking about, “The moment you set foot in here,” etc.

Mädchen Amick, MÄDCHEN AMICK: FP AND ALICE BOOOOOIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!! missing is the implied scene where Alice called FP to “get over here” so they can “talk to our kids” “together”

50 Shades of Betty: Betty tries hard to communicate with only her left eyebrow, fails

am I imagining a callback to Alice assuming Jughead was the one who railroaded Betty into looking at Jason Blossom? Alice’s stance on Jughead is too exhausting to track

Alice is certainly wearing a sheer floral peasant blouse she would NOT have worn the previous two seasons, SUSPICIOUS

Places Bughead are Not Fucking: Betty’s room

Gay?!: Archie’s incredulous delight at Reggie having helped picked out his RHS-themed sneakers; the Bulldogs are all about that #threestripelife

Veronica was rich: “FRESH KICKS”

Moose is apparently a “straight beast,” if you will

one of these Serpents is holding two playing cards, just chilling and holding two playing cards. I hope his prison name is like SNAKE EYES or THE JOKER

that Ghoulie dude is so striking and elongated, I swear to God he looks like John Travolta in Grease. that undercut, the well-oiled curls on top? can he be Josie’s fall fling?

God bless jingle-jangle: can you DROP OUT of fourth grade? doesn’t the state come for you, what the fuck?

I unironically love Archie’s plan. I fucking love it

“YOU’VE NEVER KNOWN THE EPIC HIGHS AND LOWS”—ARCHIE—YOU’RE A FUCKING SAVANT

I’m looking for other good haircuts in the background. one dude has a solid Wakanda-era Bucky Barnes and there’re slicked up curls aplenty. this juvie is like a candy box

you know this bitch loves a rack focus, especially onto prison wardens

Please protect Betty: “It’s chamomile, Betty. Calm down.”

FREAKISHLY good micromoment of Alice just like wiping away an eyelash or something

aloud, with witnesses, I said “This is like when they first held hands, am I right?” and then Betty said the “kind of reminds me of when we first started dating,” just to prove to you I HAVE seen every episode

Betty calmly checking in with Jughead re: Satan’s Reindeer

he’s most certainly Ethel on stilts (I’m very bad at predicting), but I love the Gargoyle King. he’s just the right mix of she-puts-you-in-the-corner and herky-jerky T-Rex, plus she put paint on him or whatever, in case somebody put a flashlight beam on him? Ethel fucking Muggs or whoever

love the sexy noir diner lighting and I will die loving it

Jughead eats: a toothpick

Day Three Juvie Coif: back at it, flush with victory; firm and wavy

Cheryl’s a chaos angel from hell: I do wish Cheryl were not so permanently a good guy. I wish she wanted to be Student Body President, all of a sudden, so badly that she was trying to keep Archie in juvie so he could never reclaim his throne, like if she were Scar

Kevin’s magenta polo has a subtle wave print

I hope the RROTC is somehow rotting from the inside, like the Adventure Scouts or Aquaholics

The female gaze: Archie’s cranking out push-ups and Mad Dog is doing tricep dips to warm up, for the game and “other business,” respectively. sometimes I like to do tricep dips too, usually for forty-five seconds while I’m waiting for the microwave to reheat my Kraft Thick N’ Creamy

Archie’s “What the hell are you to him?” is maybe his most astute query into something not being right that doesn’t include his remarkable quickness on the uptake of Jughead at the end of season one (I HAVE seen every episode)

These students are legally children: what the fuck did Mad Dog do that he’s been sentenced to like 25 years in prison? he’s a minor for God’s sake. get on this, Veronica

Places Bughead are Fucking: the fucking woods

catch me hightailing it the fuck out of there when Betty and Jughead do anything that even remotely resembles opening a circular hatch to ANYTHING out in a fucking forest clearing and peering down inside. BYE BITCHES YOU’RE ON YOUR OWN!!!!!

someone in the writer’s room at even only one point said the phrase “like in True Detective” while unspooling this yarn

Fifth period is AP English: I have to take Jughead’s word for it that there’re any bunkers in any Philip K. Dick novel

I am STILL salty that the Swords & Serpents thing IS NOT THE SAME THING as THIS RPG and that it was wholly abandoned. I can’t believe we’re not doing Jughead being sucked into the RPG cult and Betty have to haul him out SIMULTANEOUSLY with her mother being sucked into the postpartum cult and having to haul HER out

“He’s also featured prominently on this copper coin.”

y’all can just buy cyanide like that, in that glass growler? it has a “reliable prescription” sticker on it, WTF?

“Drink from the correct cup and ascend to the kingdom” is definitely ripped from one of the tracks on that Avenged Sevenfold album I bought at Borders freshman year

Jughead doubts it: “OR SOMETHING EVEN MORE INSIDIOUS”

I fucking knew that Adventure Scout was gonna be under that fucking cot but it still scared the crap out of me because The Haunting of Hill House exhausted my reserves

I’m going to come out and say that I’ve never cared for Charmed and I’m not watching the reboot. however I am exceedingly ready for Sabrina

“Princess Etheline”

guys, I found the “Jailhouse Rock” dance charming, especially the implication that the boys started the game up again in the middle to like, show off for the girls. am I getting soft in my old age?

Josie’s VERY bright blue eyeshadow

Cheryl’s hair: Cheryl had to have been influenced by the trend started pre-2012 in So You Think You Can Dance wherein dancers with very long hair just leave it down

Hiram…..Archie’s in jail. what else do you want? like, he’s IN JUVIE

am I out of my fucking mind or is Hiram wearing a pin that is PSYCHOTICALLY close to being the Hydra hydra?

Archie overtaking the first few guards with those slow-mo crosses until they finally beat him down by their sheer numbers was basically a scene from Spartacus: War of the Damned

Betty’s bug print is cute while being, subconsciously, slightly unsettling; this is true for Betty as a whole

Ethel’s mustard yellow cotton cardigan has some sort of flower print on its back? COOL

I would like to extend a hearty “fuck off with that for fucking me” to whoever blocked out seizing-Ethel whipping her arm up like that with her jacked hand JUST LIKE IN HEREDITARY. FUCK OFF!, and I mean it

“Damn good coffee”: Evelyn has just the sort of niche superpower I wish I could have: to fuck with other people’s social interactions from a casual remove

Jughead is remarkably polite with 911, much calmer than with the desk nurse after Fangs got shot (I HAVE seen every episode)

(Hereditary was much better than Hill House)

Best costume bit: Monica Posh is hot

Every triangle has three corners, every triangle has three sides: Kevin wants that dick SO BADLY that he has JOINED THE ARMY (or whatever)

how did Pop’s lighting manage to glide all the way over to L&L?

Day Four Juvie Coif: slept on but still truckin’

Archie can only be fucking imagining what is about to happen to him (Archie has definitely seen Fight Club, and Jughead had to explain how it was satire)

Certified pedigree: LEGENDARY SQUAD OF PARENTS!!!!!! Hermione’s getting the band back together à la It

Penelope Blossom has gone full Victorian goth in that floor-length lace Chicago black widow number

“At the mere mention of ‘blue lips,’” Jughead wrote, “a shiver frissoned around the room.”

you can tell Alice is in a hippie cult because not only is she wearing crystals but she has stopped wearing eye makeup (I could never be in this sort of cult because if I don’t smear kohl all over them I look like I have tiny eyes; I am sensitive about this)

I’ve seen Brick like thirty times: the reveal of Ben in the window, bathed in the blue glow of Pop’s diner, was like, ~chills~

“You’ll fly too” is of course also It, which, FUCK OFF

NEXT WEEK: I could be very fucking wrong about this but FP has a tattoo on his left pec that may very well be of a jellybean

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HELLO FRIENDS! This month I'll be working on a new character design/fashion illustration project called 28 Dresses! Each day I'll draw different kinds of people (and maybe animals) wearing all sorts of dresses!

For day 1 we have one of the many Mondrian-inspired dresses designed by Yves Saint Laurent in the 60s. Wish I could wear one!

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Some ongoing projects!

I met up with my model to discuss outfits for the fashion front cover and we decided on the one in the photograph above:

•Blue headscarf •Bold yellow beaded necklace •Classy red dress •Yellow wedged shoes

I think this looks very high fashion and beautiful.

I also designed the coloured boxes by finding some blue and red wrapping paper (very very difficult)and using some cardboard boxes to cover them. Finally I used some black tape to add to the Mondrian effect.

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Uggs just got a major makeover at one of Fashion Week's buzziest shows

Models walking in the Ugg x Eckhaus Latta footwear collaboration. (Photo: Nathan Perkel)

There are no limits to Ugg‘s high-fashion appeal. Eckhaus Latta, one of the buzziest designer duos, dropped a brand-new collab with Ugg at New York Fashion Week.

Six new Ugg shoe styles were launched on the runway, with each shoe featuring a prominent square toe and revitalized in fresh new colors and textures. There were high-heel mules, clogs, boots and slippers in chestnut brown, sky gray, mandarin orange and absinthe green. They featured slim wood heels, whipstitch detailing, lamb suede and sheepskin lining.

All the shoes were styled with Eckhaus Latta’s artful series of Mondrian-inspired dresses, cold shoulder LBDs, blazers, shearling coats and trousers. At first glance, you don’t immediately notice the stylish set of shoes each model wears on the runway are, in fact, by Ugg. Each outfit looked plucked from a fashionista’s closet in Brooklyn, where the show was fittingly set in the ultra-hip Bushwick neighborhood.

Models walk the runway at the Eckhaus Latta ready-to-wear fall/winter 2019 fashion show during New York Fashion Week on Feb. 9, 2019, in New York City. (Photo: Victor Virgile/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images)

Mike Eckhaus and Zoe Latta are not trained fashion designers, but that didn’t get in the way of their success. They first met while studying at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2011. Eckhaus studied sculpting, while Latta focused on textiles. The fashion label originally began as an art project, but has since grown into a subversive cult-favorite label that has caught the attention of LVMH and even Kylie Jenner.

The duo is unafraid to challenge fashion norms by casting nontraditional models for both their runway shows and their infamous “NSFW” ad campaign (which featured real couples having sex). This year, the collection’s silhouettes and styles have matured from seasons past, with more structured shapes, tailoring and graphic art prints.

Models walking in the Ugg x Eckhaus Latta footwear collaboration. (Photo: Nathan Perkel)

Models walking in the Ugg x Eckhaus Latta footwear collaboration. (Photo: Nathan Perkel)

Models walking in the Ugg x Eckhaus Latta footwear collaboration. (Photo: Nathan Perkel)

At first, the partnership between Eckhaus Latta and Ugg may have seemed strange. But upon closer look, it makes complete sense. Ugg has a long history of partnering with high-fashion labels — Y/Project, Sacai, Heron Preston, Jeremy Scott and Kith, to name a few. These new Ugg x Eckhaus Latta styles still possess the Ugg DNA, but have been reworked for a high-fashion context. For the Eckhaus Latta’s consumer, the laid-back style fits in with Ugg’s Californian roots. “We love the fact that Ugg products embody an easygoing lifestyle and have crossed from being a more casual product to being iconic in a fashion sense,” said Eckhaus and Latta in a press release. “Being able to add to this foundation has been an exciting honor.” 

However, this all comes at a premium price point, which Ugg consumers might not be accustomed to. The new styles range in price from $295 to $525, and will launch this fall.

Models walking in the Ugg x Eckhaus Latta footwear collaboration. (Photo: Nathan Perkel)

Until then, keep scrolling to shop 10 different Ugg shoe styles you can wear right now.

Ugg Lane

Ugg Lane (Photo: Zappos)

Who needs Gucci fur loafers when you can have these plush (under $100) beauties instead?

Shop it: $90, zappos.com

Ugg Hailey 

Ugg Hailey (Photo: Zappos)

An easy, slip-on-and-go kind of loafer that is just as stylish as it is comfy.

Shop it: $100, zappos.com

Ugg Bandara Ankle Boot

Ugg Bandara Ankle Boot (Photo: Zappos)

These stylish ankle booties have a Western flair you can wear all year long. Style them with skinny jeans for an ultra-chic weekend look.

Shop it: $150, zappos.com

Ugg Lynwood Clog

Ugg Lynwood Clog (Photo: Zappos)

Have you heard? Clogs are more popular than ever, especially with hip Brooklyn moms.

Shop it: $70 (was $120), zappos.com

Ugg Marte Boot

Ugg Marte Boot (Photo: Zappos)

Switch up your favorite Uggs for a feminine wedge. With these, you’ll no longer feel guilty for wearing Uggs every day of the week.

Shop it: $120 (was $180), zappos.com

Ugg Aya Waterproof

Ugg Aya Waterproof (Photo: Zappos)

Finally, a pair of winter boots that are functional and gorgeous. These boots are made from waterproof leather and Vibram’s innovational Arctic grip to give you better traction on ice. The perfect dose of flair for dreary winter months.

Shop it: $160 (was $350), zappos.com

Ugg Dalla

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Today is apparently the day for crying over making this Lady Penelope dress for next month. I can't make heads or tails of the pattern, I can't find where I got the pattern from in the first place because I think the site has been changed, and the stress is starting to build up. The question of "why did I decide to try and make this again?" is circling the brain. I'm terrible at sewing 😭 but I refuse to give up, even if I am just:

A postive, however, is I had to finally sew together the pillows I was making, because I needed the pins to start this project. They look semi-decent at least.

But this dress... Ahaha this dress is going to drive me to insanity before I'm done.

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When Art meets Fashion

For decades the relationships between art and fashion has been a source of controversy and debates. There are dozens of prejudices involved in this discourse: the question of "high art", consumption, fashion as a mere product manufacture, commercializing etc. Amid all these obstacles, fashion and art has been interfering with one another over time; sometimes more  successfully, while other times - not so much. Today we are going to have a loo at some of the most interesting and controversial collaborations between these two fields.

Yves Saint Laurent & Piet Mondrian While we are familiar with the oeuvre by the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian, not everyone knows about his contribution to the fashion world. His works were very much about rhythm, musical as well as the dynamics of nature around us. This is the perfect pursuit for swinging 60s and its experimenting fashion. Yves Saint Laurent created an a-silhouette dress with the complex seamlessness structure - each peace was sewed separately to create this illusion. The dress turned into an iconic symbol of the era, just as the artwork that inspired it.

Zaha Hadid & Chanel Yes, the collaboration between an architect and a famous fashion brand is possible. Though it might not deal with garments directly.In 2008 Zaha Hadid, who was names as  'Queen of the curve' by The Guardian, cooperated with Chanel in order to create a mobile pavilion for the famous fashion house. The structure of the pavilion's surface played with the design of iconic Chanel purse and was designed in a way to be put together in less than a week. Though the project gained a lot of criticism due to its neglect of the surrounding architectural environment (well, just as some other Hadid's daring buildings), it became a significant point in the Chanel promotion campaign.

Cindy Sherman & Comme des Garcons Cindy Sherman who is famous for her series Untitled Film Stills where she had created an enigmatic and collective image of a movie-and-media influenced woman had a collaboration with Japanese brand Comme des Garcons and its designer Rei Kawakubo. The Kawakubo's style is not traditional in any kind of way, so the final product of the cooperation was quite unique. Sherman created an image of a peculiar model, rather going for decadence that the glamorous perfection typical for the fashion campaigns. As an outcome we have a perfectly surreal and daring photos that expressed style and manner of the designer and a photographer in a most flattering way for both of them.

Rene Magritte & Opening Ceremony As for desert, last collab we are going to talk about today is absolutely mesmerizing 2014 collection by the brand Opening Ceremony. What is so special and "tasty" about this collaboration? Well, it was inspired by the works of the famous surrealist Rene Magritte. And it's no wonder, simply because Magritte's oeuvre stands as a rich field for inspiration and interpretation for decades now. just look at this garments! You can easily put them on your walls instead of the traditional paintings, and it will be just as conceptual as any surrealistic picture!

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Artist: Tobias Kaspar

Venue: Urs Meile, Beijing

Exhibition Title: Horn of Plenty

Date: November 2 – January 5, 2020

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Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.

Images:

Images courtesy of the artist and Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing

Press Release:

Galerie Urs Meile is pleased to announce Horn of Plenty, Tobias Kaspar’s (*1984, lives and works in Riga, Latvia and Zurich, Switzerland) first solo exhibition in China. The “Horn of Plenty” is a symbol of bountiful harvest from ancient Greek and Roman mythology. “Horn of Plenty” was also the title of Alexander McQueen’s 2009 Autumn/Winter fashion collection, his last before committing suicide. At this landmark runway show, the fashion designer turned a critical eye on the excesses of the fashion industry that uses the name of “creativity” to maintain the cycle of consumption, thus shifting the subjectivity of “creation” from specific creators to the capital production and sales process—a perpetual motion machine driven by human desire.

A decade after McQueen’s collection, Tobias Kaspar turns this critical view of the fashion industry on a forgotten corner and shifts it to the art world. Since 2015 Tobias has been producing artworks using the infrastructure of a Swiss textile company known for producing fabrics for haute couture, and in the process became interested in a series of embroideries the company developed for the Asia market from the 1960s to the 90s. For the exhibition in Beijing, Tobias Kaspar photographed a series of these embroideries, which were originally sent out as markers of the Western lifestyles to which Asian consumers aspired, which Kaspar is now questioning. With the use of photography, a method for capturing images with a sense of distance, he has produced pictures with bright colors and clean, simple forms, and is now “re-exporting” them to Asian countries in the name of art. In the photographs, we see women wearing ballet costumes, the famous YSL Mondrian dress, street scenes of London or Paris, and polo players. The metaphor of old desires returning as spiritual products is not only an exploration of the power of criticism in today’s international art market, but also a look back over a process—of how a material is infused with a fleeting allure.

Another part of the exhibition is connected to the artist’s stay in Beijing with Galerie Urs Meile this spring. The artist collected birdcages—these cages used for raising and enjoying birds by Qing dynasty elites can still be found among Beijing’s elderly in 2019, but are now no longer attracting the interest of a new generation of youth—and adorned them with elegant, fashionable “new clothes.” In the artwork Delivery, this vehicle and symbol of express package delivery, that indispensable yet unassuming facet of commercial circulation, has been draped in cotton, just like the bird cages, and applied with acrylic and ink drawings made by the artist himself with motifs based on the current September issue of China’s biggest fashion magazine. Tobias uses concealment to render it visible, while also beautifying this concealment, as if he is showing pity for them. In Soymilk and other sculptural works, the artist has created nearly identical, life-sized replicas of everyday consumer items such as soymilk as bronze sculptures. For the artwork Raven, which takes the form of a carpet, the artist has geared up with Chinese fashion and home textile brand JNBY.

Tobias Kaspar’s works have been shown in institutions including the Kunsthalle Bern (2018) (solo); Kim? Contemporary Art Center Riga (2017) (solo); Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2016); Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (2015); Solo Shows, Sao Paulo (2015) (solo); CAFA Museum, Beijing (2014); Kunsthalle Wien (2014); Kunsthalle St. Gallen (2014) (solo); Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (2013) (solo); Artists Space, New York (2013); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); Kunsthalle Zürich (2011); Kunsthalle Basel (2011); Museum Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2011); Kunsthaus Bregenz (2011); and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2010).

In early 2020, Kaspar’s first monograph Independence, covering works from 2009 to 2019, will be published by Kunsthalle Bern and Koenig Books. Tobias Kaspar’s practice includes several offsite projects that attempt to challenge and extend his own practice and the system he works in, these include Kaspar’s blockbuster The Street, which was staged 2016 inside the Cinecittà Film Studios Rome making use of Martin Scorsese’s crumbling outdoor studio street which was erected for the production of the film Gangs of New York (2002). Its documentation and continuation in form of a book — The Street Cards — was published in 2018 by Koenig Books. But also his own jeans line (since 2012), ballet costume designs for the choreographer Adam Linder, the publishing of the bi-annual publication series PROVENCE (since 2009). Since 2018 Tobias Kaspar co-runs the “tank to think through contemporary art” Longtang in Zurich, which host also his studio.

Link: Tobias Kaspar at Urs Meile

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APD 341 DENIM PROJECT

This was the final project for my advanced draping class. The purpose of this project was to design and make a denim look that could be sold in budget stores in 2020 but meets current denim trends.

My shift dress was inspired by the YSL Mondrian collection, but with a denim twist. I added the asymmetrical fringing to meet current streetwear denim trends.

[elliotrobertslawrence]

The weekend before the shoot I decided that as well as a garment made and designed for males to wear based on my themes, I wanted to make a dress for women in a 60s style. I designed the dress in collaboration with my girlfriend at her house using her sewing machine and mannequin, as she wanted to make a dress for a different independent project. For inspiration I looked for popular innovative dresses from the 60s that would work well along my Space Age / modern / futuristic aesthetic, eventually I came cross this recognisable dress from the house of Yves Saint Laurent, inspired by the minimalistic art work of Piet Mondrian. I wanted to use the box dress shape but tone down the use of colours to just a use of two colours, seen in a lot of the Space Age designed fashion examples I have prior. However, I still wanted a focus on white panelling as I think it would work well with a busier set design in relation to the fabrics I have already chosen for the wall and flooring.  

Utilising the panelling to a lesser extent and borrowing the high neck that had been used on my first and second garment I pinned the dress together before stitching. As well as borrowing aspects from my previous garment I also wanted to try out a new colour scheme so instead of using the same baby blue I went for a purple to go alongside the white. I chose purple and not any other colour as I wanted a cooler colour to contrast with the warm colours used in the set design. The high neck as well as the choice to add on sleeves to the dress were all decisions of mine designed to contrast against the original design that inspired the dress as I wanted some symbolism of innovation and evolution beyond that of just a standard 60s dress, with the sleeves contrasting the suit I had planned on shooting with, borrowing from specific gender expectations, replacing and swapping features intended for boys and girls.  

Piet Mondrian 

V&A

The inspiration to make this dress came from a visit to the V&A museum as I wanted to go and have a look for some stand out documented looks and clothing items from the 60s and early 70s, as well as looking at some of the more modern pieces symbolic of the modern generation. Whilst in the V&A I did come across some inspirational pieces that would definitely influence my set and shoot, specifically the use of Op-Art and the application of it to a dress. Looking at the way the garment had been used to create a use of the style of art made me think about the way in which I could use my own set design and emphasise it in some of the garments, this is what inspired me to make a dress quickly and use the 2 striped nature of the fabric I was using for a backdrop and apply it to a garment, again only using two stripes and two colours, sharing one colour with the material and the other contrasting, as I did not want the dress to be too similar to the set.

I had also noticed an early 70s pair of sunglasses, undoubtedly keeping a 60s influence of a Space Age variety. I found it interesting how one specific pair of sunglasses could have caught my attention as well as making me begin to think about my themes of Space Age design and Op-Art. It had been a while since I had discussed the use of small accessories to bulk up a specific theme and aesthetic and by utilising the Space Age 60s glasses I have in my possession I may be able to strengthen the look of the dress I made.

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Why Are Architects So Obsessed With Piet Mondrian?

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Why Are Architects So Obsessed With Piet Mondrian?

In the 1920s, Dutch-born artist Piet Mondrian began painting his iconic black grids populated with shifting planes of primary colors. By moving beyond references to the world around him, his simplified language of lines and rectangles known as Neo Plasticism explored the dynamics of movement through color and form alone. Though his red, yellow and blue color-blocked canvases were important elements of the De Stijl movement in the early 1900s, almost a century later Mondrian’s abstractions still inspire architects across the globe.

But, what is it about these spatial explorations that have captivated artists and designers for so long?

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Arguably the first instance of the architectural adoption of Mondrian’s explorations came in the form of a modest two-story home—architect Gerrit Rietveld’s first building—for the recently widowed Truus Schröder and her three children in Utrecht, Netherlands. Constructed between 1923 and 1924 the Schröder House saw the painter’s vivid planes and grids transformed into metal strips, expanses of wood, and lengths of tubular steel painted red, blue and yellow that frame the shifting planes of the roof, windows, and walls. The home’s inner walls were freed of their structural responsibility allowing the internal space to function as a flexible composition of floating planes.

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In 1926, painter and architect Theo van Doesburg—a contemporary of both Mondrian and Rietveld—was commissioned to design the Café L’Aubette. He conceived the interior renovations as an inhabitable De Stijl Painting—grids tilted at 45 degrees envelop the walls and ceiling of the “Ciné-Dancing” hall with vibrant hues of red, yellow, blue, and green occupying the irregular spaces between. Only two years later, Mies van der Rohe would seemingly transform Mondrian’s 1917 Composition in Colour A into the broad expanses of glass, marble, travertine, and steel defining the Barcelona Pavilion. 

Architectural interest in Mondrian’s work would wane in the years leading up to the second World War until post-war consumerism drove the development of George Nelson’s primary color-blocked StorageWall of 1945—bringing the artist’s work to the scale of home storage—while the vibrant aluminium panels in Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouvé and Sonia Delaunay’s Bookcase linked Neo Plasticism with domestic display.

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With the inauguration of Arts & Architecture’s Case Study House Program, design duo Charles and Ray Eames modified the artist’s black grids into prefabricated steel frames for the bold cladding wrapping the two volumes of their 1949 Case Study House #8. In designing a prototypical, prefabricated structure in response to the housing boom, Mondrian’s abstracted planes and grids naturally complimented industrial production and war-born techniques to bring domestic architecture to the masses. Similar bold primary colors accented the balconies of Le Corbusier’s brutalist utopia Unite d’Habitiation in 1952 and would eventually appear on the Pavilion Le Corbusier as color-blocked enamel paneling. Even fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent adapted Mondrian’s graphic grid into a sack dress in 1965.

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Mondrian’s lasting influence on architecture is still present today—from the Mondrian Hotel in LA and the Mondrian Residences in Muntinlupa, Philippines to the cladding of Richard Meier’s 1955 City Hall of the Hague Netherlands, which was repainted in early 2017 to celebrate De Stijl‘s centennial.

Whether employed alongside new manufacturing techniques or structural capacities, the language of Mondrian’s abstraction has fascinated architects in their exploration of new spatial types. The artist’s vision for the plasticity of the built world allowed him to interrogate the reductive idea of architecture as mass, instead considering it as a dynamic framework connected to the essential shapes and rhythms of human life.

See more interpretations of Mondrian’s work below.

La maison du parc 93500 Bobigny #mondrian #bauhaus #brutalism

172 Likes, 9 Comments – Ro © (@romainbourven) on Instagram: “La maison du parc 93500 Bobigny #mondrian #bauhaus #brutalism”

#mondrian

15 Likes, 2 Comments – Amy Snow (@viveutvitas) on Instagram: “#mondrian”

finally saw this irl last night❤️

76 Likes, 3 Comments – S▲LEM (@salemm___) on Instagram: “finally saw this irl last night❤️”

Jmenuje se to “Mondrian nemá prachy na nový plátno.” Začal jsem malovat, musel jsem zešílet. #selžeš #mondrian #artmaybe #redwhore #czechbitch #zlo #dejinyumeni

8 Likes, 1 Comments – Venca Zlø (@vencazlo) on Instagram: “Jmenuje se to “Mondrian nemá prachy na nový plátno.” Začal jsem malovat, musel jsem zešílet….”

Piet’s house. #picoftheday, #oneaday, #mondrian, #popart, #modern, #squares, #rectangles, #pietmondrian, #imitation, #flattery, #seattle, #washington, #pnw

48 Likes, 1 Comments – Chico Santana (@chicosantana206) on Instagram: “Piet’s house. #picoftheday, #oneaday, #mondrian, #popart, #modern, #squares, #rectangles,…”

#mondrian #brentwood #art #la #canvasartapp @kedcampbell

34 Likes, 4 Comments – Matt Melton (@mattymeltz) on Instagram: “#mondrian #brentwood #art #la #canvasartapp @kedcampbell”

#mondrian #brescia

52 Likes, 1 Comments – Flavia Buiarelli (@flauta38) on Instagram: “#mondrian #brescia”

How amazing is this Mondrian-inspired house boat? Came across it in Amsterdam, this should brighten up this freezing cold day. . . . #amsterdam #mondrian #destijl #houseboat #architecture #urbanism #mondriaan

57 Likes, 6 Comments – Pauline den Hartog Jager (@pdhj) on Instagram: “How amazing is this Mondrian-inspired house boat? Came across it in Amsterdam, this should brighten…”

Accostamento nuovo/vecchio. Edificio in via Cesare De Lollis, Roma (quartiere San Lorenzo). Per la serie #Mondrian regna a #sanlollo.

12 Likes, 1 Comments – M a r i l e n a L e t o (@_marileta) on Instagram: “Accostamento nuovo/vecchio. Edificio in via Cesare De Lollis, Roma (quartiere San Lorenzo). Per la…”

사각사각 . . . #몬드리안 #집 #빌링엔슈벤닝엔 #독일 #mondrian #house #germany #haus #villingenschwenningen #deutschland

29 Likes, 1 Comments – 안해원 (@softsunny214) on Instagram: “사각사각 . . . #몬드리안 #집 #빌링엔슈벤닝엔 #독일 #mondrian #house #germany #haus #villingenschwenningen #deutschland”

#mondrian #bari #cityphotography #architecture #colors

54 Likes, 2 Comments – @amrenna on Instagram: “#mondrian #bari #cityphotography #architecture #colors”

Love this Mondrian style bar. #mondrian #picoftheday #l4like #l4l #likeforlike #f4f #f4follow #holidays #capetown #streets

45 Likes, 1 Comments – Joseph Dubruque (@jodubruque) on Instagram: “Love this Mondrian style bar. #mondrian #picoftheday #l4like #l4l #likeforlike #f4f #f4follow…”

Dudziarska II, from ongoing documentary project on how the post-transformation Poland manifests itself in architecture and urbanism. The temporary social housing designed as a short-term harbour for people kicked out of council tenancy or other projects was built in the middle of nowhere, and in a manner that intentionally was considered as a motivating factor to get out of there as fast as possible. Instead, without much surprise, the Dudziarska blocks turned into a ghetto dubbed the worst address in Warsaw. In 2010, as a part of art intervention, blocks were painted with Malevich’s Black Square and Mondrian compositions, and during Warszawa w Budowie festival there was a special bus trip to the district to show it off. This action was generally perceived by the inhabitants as a safari-like. In 2017, the city authorities admitted the absolute failure of the Dudziarska project, and announced a gradual abandonment of the estate and its demolition or change of character. / #documentary #warsaw #dudziarska #warszawa #grochow #pragapoludnie #architecture #social #projects #newtopographics #mondrian #staybrokeshootfilm

390 Likes, 5 Comments – paweł starzec (@pestarzec) on Instagram: “Dudziarska II, from ongoing documentary project on how the post-transformation Poland manifests…”

#nonplace #underground #urban #photography #digitalphotography #contemporary #contemporaryphotography #yellow #blue #red #trainstation #minimalism #minimal #architecture #hamburg #mondrian #fubiz #minimalmag #fisheyelemag #fotografiska #myfeatureshoot #thisaintartschool #noicemag

145 Likes, 2 Comments – Ali Sahba (@dsahba) on Instagram: “#nonplace #underground #urban #photography #digitalphotography #contemporary…”

#detskykutik #mondrian

35 Likes, 5 Comments – @misovesely on Instagram: “#detskykutik #mondrian”

#mondrian #durrës #durres #albania #cityscape #citybreak #architecture

33 Likes, 3 Comments – Isídōra (@seltenabermanchmal) on Instagram: “#mondrian #durrës #durres #albania #cityscape #citybreak #architecture”

#citylife #citystreets #lorient #igersbretagne #morbihan #mondrianbuilding #mondrian #architecture #architecturelovers #architecturephotography

36 Likes, 1 Comments – Cath Foch (@cath.in_lorient) on Instagram: “#citylife #citystreets #lorient #igersbretagne #morbihan #mondrianbuilding #mondrian #architecture…”

How Mondrian Inspired #Architecture Around the World – #Arts http://ow.ly/558430ispjs #Mondrian #Grugliasco #Austin #Texas

6 Likes, 1 Comments – Juan Ramon Rodulfo Moya (@rodulfox) on Instagram: “How Mondrian Inspired #Architecture Around the World – #Arts http://ow.ly/558430ispjs #Mondrian…”

The retro-future of Auckland housing? The Paora apartments, Coates avenue. . #modernistarchitecture #mondrian #apartmentliving #housingcrisis #findinghome

82 Likes, 1 Comments – Angus McNaughton (@angus_mcnaughton) on Instagram: “The retro-future of Auckland housing? The Paora apartments, Coates avenue. . #modernistarchitecture…”

#capetownwithlove ❤️ #mondrian

83 Likes, 1 Comments – Flore Silberfeld (@floresilberfeld) on Instagram: “#capetownwithlove ❤️ #mondrian”

Still several sleeps away till the Hong Kong Art Basel, but really excited to be organising my itenerary while I’m there and exploring all the incredible architecture including this #Mondrian inspired building in Wan Chai. ▻  @iamdimitra ▻ #artist #melbourneartist #melbourneart #hongkong #hkartbasel #hongkongart #hongkongarchitecture #artinspired #travellingartist #artfair #hk #wanchai #nikosopelarioart

110 Likes, 4 Comments – Niko Sopelario (@nikosopelarioart) on Instagram: “Still several sleeps away till the Hong Kong Art Basel, but really excited to be organising my…”

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The story behind Michelle Obama’s dress in her official First Lady portrait

Former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama were immortalised today. Their official portraits, his painted by Kehinde Wylie and hers by Amy Sherald, were revealed inside the Smithsonian Museum this morning, and both were far from traditional. Mr. Obama is pictured seated in a chair surrounded by a heaping mass of vibrant flowers, while his wife is captured in a halter gown printed with geometric shapes. The dress was a bespoke creation from American designer Michelle Smith of the label Milly, based on a look from her spring 2017 collection. At today’s unveiling, Sherald spoke about how the dress reminded her of a quilt from Gee’s Bend—a quiet, all-black community in Alabama that became widely known for its craft. She also noted that the colours were reminiscent of Mondrian. But the actual thinking behind the dress was quite different, according to Smith, who worked on the project alongside Obama’s stylist Meredith Koop. Smith says it was meant to be “a dress that Mrs Obama could wear in her everyday life, as well as in this iconic portrait.” The designer adds, “It’s made of a stretch cotton poplin print in a clean, minimal, geometric print without a reference to anything past or nostalgic, which gives the dress a very forward-thinking sensibility—this is very Michelle Obama.”

Obama stood out as a First Lady because of her progressiveness and reliability, much of which was mirrored in the American labels she chose to wear, whether it was a reasonably priced cardigan from J.Crew or a floral skirt from Milly. Some within the fashion industry may have wondered why she didn’t choose a luxury label she worked with in the past, like Jason Wu or Michael Kors. However, it makes perfect sense that she would like to be remembered for her approachability and her effortless sartorial sensibilities. As Smith also points out, the gown was made in New York City, in the heart of the garment district.

MY MOST AMAZING #MILLYMOMENT FOR ALL TIME! I’m so honored that Former First Lady Michelle Obama is wearing a custom-made MILLY dress in her official portrait, painted by artist Amy Sherald @asherald . The portrait will hang in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. I would like to express my deepest, sincerest thanks and love to @michelleobama @asherald and @meredithkoop for including me in this incredible moment which will endure for generations to come. I’m so honored that I get to be a little part of what was such a ground-breaking and positive presidency. The beautiful Obama legacy will endure. #obamaportraits #milly @cfda #cfda

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“It’s up to Mrs. Obama to say why she chose this for the portrait, but I would say that it’s a very modern, emotional dress with a very womanly, very American spirit,” Smith says. “The dress also reveals her arms, which I believe is groundbreaking and very modern for a portrait of the First Lady.” She adds, “her portrait represents her perfectly—her intelligence, modernity, confidence, sensuality, and kindness. It’s a very open, honest, and beautiful portrayal of her.” Having worked with Obama over the years, Smith was ecstatic to be given the opportunity of designing the portrait gown. During the process, she also made one very big request: “I hope she runs for president! I begged her to do so in a handwritten note.”

This post originally appeared on Vogue.com

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10 Best Design Projects By Marcel Wanders

10 Best Design Projects By Marcel Wanders – Marcel Wanders. What can we say about a legend in the world of design? One of the world’s best interior designers, the worldwide renowned Marcel Wanders has made his mission to “create an environment of love, live with passion and make our most exciting dreams come true.” His work excites, provokes, and polarises, but never fails to surprise for its ingenuity, daring and singular quest to uplift the human spirit, and entertain. Best Design Projects invites you to take a look at the 10 best interior design projects by this top interior designer.

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In his designs, including residential projects, Marcel Wanders often mixes innovative materials and techniques with references to well-known historical styles and archetypes, so users can easily connect to the pieces, enjoying them for a long time and in doing so create sustainable surroundings.

1) Oh! project, 2017 (residential)

From the collaboration with Uribe & Schwarzkopf, residential marvel was created by Wanders&YOO. The Oh! project (2016) is a nature-inspired living space set in the exclusive urban neighbourhood of Gonzales Suarez in Ecuador. It encompasses two towers of 102 apartments. Divided into one, two and three bedroom typologies, the project includes extensive public, entertaining areas. These common areas include a spa, multi-purpose sports court, a fitness centre, a teen area and kids club, an outdoor cinema hidden in-between trees on the 21st floor, rooms for games or business, a sunset lounge, a communal terrace and yoga deck. The apartments in this project are executed in three different styles. The Fire Style uses contrasting patterns and surfaces to spark passion like fireworks. The Air Style creates serenity with soft colours and materials and natural light. Finally, the calming Earth Style utilises warm tones and woods, mosaics and stone. Infused with botanicals, Oh! offers a living experience inspired by local flora and fauna. Neighbours become friends as common living areas extend the residences with hand-tufted shaved carpets and hanging gardens. Designed for smarter living, Oh! creates community and a sense of belonging.

2) Taipei residence, 2015 (residential)

Lovingly conceived and richly designed, the Private Residence Taipei is filled with local-inspired elements that blend to offer an unmatched sense of place. Within each individually designed room, reliefs and bespoke furniture set an exquisite tone. In addition to the master bedroom suite, the floor plan includes two guest bedrooms, a dining and show kitchen, as well as an entertainment and study room. Black woven Jester textile walls dress the master bedroom with a royal flair, while nightstands with One Minute lamps and a free standing headboard divide the entire space. Colourful mosaics by Bisazza, luxurious furniture, thick red woven carpets in the study, and warm woods give the entire residence multiple moods and different atmospheres – from bright and glamourous to sensual and mysterious.

3) Amsterdam Residence, 2008 (Residential)

When it comes to residential projects, it’s not a house someone wants. By a house, you want a place to call home. And a house becomes a home when bespoke design touches and thoughtful organisation is applied throughout. In the Private Residence, Amsterdam (2008), details of typical Dutch typology create a monumental and refined feeling from one room to the next. Given the architecture space of merely 102m2 inside and a garden area of 100m2 outside, the overall concept allows for the garden and home to live in harmony. Strong interior design elements such as the semi-circular wall, the intricate wooden parquet flooring with different types of wood inlays and panelled ceiling of cast GRG with relief gives the main living area an iconic presence. Outside, the garden is designed with artificial topiaries, black and white marble tiles and ceramic wallflowers, creating a calming oasis within this exuberant experience.

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4) Casa Son Vida, 2009 (Residential)

This ultra-luxurious Mediterranean villa breathes sophistication. Located in Mallorca, Casa Son Vida (2009) is a state-of-the-art residence that introduces the modern to the classic and the present to the futuristic. With bold, juxtaposed and tactile surfaces, the high-design atmosphere throughout represents the shift toward sustainability as an expression of architecture and technology. Bespoke pieces from Marcel Wanders, Poliform, Cappellini, MOOOI, Baccarat and Bisazza fill the 850m2 residence giving it a deep sense of place. From its curved corners to its classic lines, a unique home emerges and reveals a playground for reliefs and spaces. Casa Son Vida is a house that inspires and redefines contemporary luxury living.

5) Villa Moda Bahrain, 2008 (Residential)

As the ultimate marketplace, the Villa Moda Bahrain (2008) pulses with the richness of overlapping cultures and showcases the artisanship, motifs and techniques of local craftsman. Set in a prime central location with views of the sea, this enchanting international souk hosts innovative and luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton, Hermes, Bottega Veneta, Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci and Fendi. Designed as a treasure trove, the 1050m2 retail space in Bahrain is laid out like a small ancient city and each building houses a specific department or brand. A long, narrow corridor leads to a dramatic space with a high-ceiling, giant black and white patterns on custom-made carpets, over-scale wallpaper and Bisazza mosaics. A modest black and white colour palette serves as the back drop for the luxurious, colourful items on display.

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6) IBEROSTAR Grand Hotel Portals Nous, 2017 (Hospitality)

The Iberostar Grand Portals Nous (2017) is an indulgent five-star hotel where guests are rejuvenated through pampered recreation. Nestled on a magnificent beach, this luxurious setting uses transparencies, whites and reflective surfaces to create a flow of openness. Emphasising craft and tactile design, the Mallorquin style is reinforced, inspiring guests with the scenery of Spain. From the lobby’s bouquet motif to the boundless luxury of the hotel’s 66 rooms, four penthouse suites and five themed suites, guests discover a recurrent theme of life. Outside are manicured gardens and a pool with a 30+ metre water cascade and bar. A secret garden offers clandestine seating areas, a daybed and a Tree of Life. An extensive gym, a spa featuring a steam room, sauna and treatment rooms complete this destination to fulfill your ultimate dreams.

7) Mondrian Doha, 2017 (Hospitality)

A wonderful story unfolds around every turn in this contemporary classic hotel, whose iconic building is designed by SWA architects. The Mondrian Doha in Qatar (2017) is a 5-star destination designed by Marcel Wanders and operated by the global hospitality company sbe, drawing on local knowledge and exhibiting innovative materials and techniques. Each space possesses its own identity, allowing guests to form a collection of stories woven with a main theme that runs throughout. Marcel Wanders’ signature style spans from the hotel’s lobby and restaurants to its royal penthouses, VIP units, suites, premium and standard rooms. Bespoke designs reflect local patterns, Arabic writing and historic souks. Giant columns with golden eggs, a ‘tree of life’ made of flowers, falcon video art, ornate stained glass and intricate mosaic tiling add to this most luxurious and holistic hotel experience.

8) Eden Hotel, 2015 (Hospitality)

As part of the Revolution Precrafted Properties collection, Eden (2015) is a luxurious precrafted home designed from a human perspective and built from the inside out. This peaceful sanctuary dispels the notion that prefabricated houses ought to be only practical and inexpensive. Eden is where families reconnect with others and create treasured memories, in a monumental setting. This inside microcosms becomes spacious through the amplified use of glass, and finds its only border in plants that serve as breathable boundaries. The extended roof over the terrace, connecting outside to inside, creates a limitless living area. The roof is sustained by two rows of hand-woven textile columns that cast shadows during the day and light up dramatically at night. The materials, colours and finishes of its Natural style create an authentic setting that offers a true sense of belonging.

9) Maison Decorté, 2017 (Retail)

Maison Decorté (2017) is located in the Ginza Six shopping complex in Tokyo, Japan and here, you are invited to take a journey to renew the mind, body and spirit. With a full range of Decorté cosmetics, facial and body treatments, this space an exclusive retail & spa experience.

Four themed environments, divided into three treatment rooms and a retail space, represent nature’s effect on female skin throughout. In the welcoming space, the first theme, rejuvenation, is designed to restore and inspire the body to fight gravity and spring forth life. The second room, offers the shield of a lush forest that diffuses the sun’s harmful rays, warming the skin without causing damage. In the third room, where crystals form and solidify, a woman’s skin is suspended in a perpetual state of purification. Finally, in the last of the treatment rooms, the skin is calmed and reborn in a dim and mysterious place. At Maison Decorté, connecting with nature holistically, guests emerge revitalised, refreshed and completely renewed.

10) Mandarina Duck Flagship Store, 2008 (Retail)

For the iconic luggage brand, Mandarina Duck, a living, breathing retail space was created. The Mandarina Duck (2008) store was completed for the purpose of introducing their Italian-made clothing and luggage lines. Beautifully designed, this location is anchored in the tale of Gulliver, perhaps the most legendary British traveller. Bright yellow, and without clothing, a seven metre tall figure stands connecting the two floors of the building. Supporting his presence is a two-story chromed breathing mirror wall and 40 other mannequins designed to breathe. Their subtle movements present the Mandarina Duck brand in the most realistic and humanised way. Inside, glass tables and shelves display items, while outside a constant stream of air-bubbles accentuate the living identity of the brand.

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Buildings Get the Mondrian Treatment in the Netherlands

Recognized as one of the modern masters of the Netherlands-based De Stijl movement, Piet Mondrian pioneered clean, abstract design hallmarked by a sharp, resonant grid of red, blue, and yellow blocks. The Mondrian image, iconic as they come in the modern art world, has now been replicated on a Dutch building in The Hague.

Imagined by Studio Vollaeszwart, aka Studio VZ, a design firm headed by Madje Vollaers and Pascal Zwart, the Mondrianized buildings are their latest urban project. The studio merges disciplines like architecture, sculpture, and couture fashion in their work, and their specialty is "dressing cities" in signature, culturally relevant designs. Their knack for transformative public art combines the curation of an exhibit with outdoor work that alters a cityscape.

Mondrian's signature Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Gray, and Blue, covers the stalwart City Hall building in The Hague. The city's cooperation with Studio VZ took into consideration Mondrian's history with the community. The Gemeente Museum, located in the city, has over 250 paintings from the abstract artist in its collection.

Madje Vollaers spoke with Creators about the overall process of making a typical "city dressing" into a reality. "The [Gemeente] museum checked all the designs before they went into production. We went in the city to investigate what beautiful buildings [were available] to dress. Not every building is suitable for city-dressing—the skin and the visibility are important."

In total, four building facades sport the signature Mondrian design. See a few views of Studio VZ's public-facing handiwork below:

See more work from Studio VZ, as well as more images from the Mondrian city dressing of The Hauge, here.

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Meet the Indian artist behind Chloé’s folklore-inspired collection

For her debut collection at Chloé, new creative director Natacha Ramsay-Levi chose to use Barcelona-based Indian artist, Rithika Merchant, to pay ode to painted dresses, drawing from Karl Lagerfeld’s work at Chloé. The resulting collection was an eclectic mix of delicately embroidered bodices, romantic paints on crisp cotton and python pieces, souvenirs from Chloé’s sartorial past.

1/11 Chloé spring/summer 2018

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Chloé spring/summer 2018

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Chloé spring/summer 2018

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Chloé spring/summer 2018

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Chloé spring/summer 2018

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Rithika Merchant'As Above, So Below'Divine BodhiMelancholicPositive GravitropismThe Minds Eye

Merchant is a Parson’s alumni who has showcased in various parts of the world including the United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada, Portugal, India, Singapore, Denmark and Spain. Her work has always been an exploration of myths across civilisations and their culmination in contemporary world. Botanical drawings, organic forms and symbolism form an integral part of her style, which added a subtle element of mysticism to Ramsay-Levi’s designs for spring/summer 2018, rendering every dress unique.

Alliances between artists and designers are not a new phenomenon. In the ’30s, Italian designer Elisa Schiaparelli and Salvador Dali collaborated to create iconic pieces like the ‘Lobster Dress’ and ‘Shoe Hat’. In the ’60s, Yves Saint Laurent was inspired by Piet Mondrian’s works to create simple, A-line silhouettes that captured the zeitgeist of changing times. This creative entwinement between art and fashion stands stronger than ever, giving artists prominence in pop culture. In recent years, designers like McQueen worked with Damien Hirst to create the seminal skull prints, Marc Jacobs (circa Louis Vuitton) collaborated with Yayoi Kusama to create polka-dots galore.

Vogue chats with Rithika Merchant about her recent project:

How did the collaboration come through? Totally by chance. Natacha came across my work while going through images on the internet. She really liked my work and said that it fit what she had in mind for the painted dresses. They sent me an email asking if I wanted to come on board for the collection. It was totally out of the blue for me and a very nice surprise! After a few email conversations and a Skype call, I had been briefed on the scope of the project and that was it. They invited me to come to the studio in Paris to work with them on the dresses, and so I spent about two weeks there working with Natacha and the rest of the team to place my drawings on the garments.

What is it like to work with Natacha and the Chloé team? I really liked working with Natacha, we got along well! Working with her was a great experience because she is very easy-going but she also knows exactly what she wants. She was very open to creative opinions and inputs from me but also had a clear vision for her team and the debut collection. This made it very simple for me to follow her feedback and work on them throughout the creative process.

How are artist-designer collaborations mutually beneficial? This is always a two-way process, however in my case, I perceive it as more visibility for me out of my sphere. Chloé is an established label and to be acknowledged through them widens my scope of visibility as an artist. These collaborations are mutually beneficial as they create an external outlet for artists to showcase their works outside of the art world, and it allows for fashion designers to become a part of the art world as more than just clothing. The spectacle that is created through such a collaboration bridges the minuscule gap that exists between art and fashion.

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