Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Tatterdemalion

Walked home from Beacon's/pizza eating/wandering around Brooklyn and took a few shots of our day's fashuns. Oh and tatterdemalion is my favorite word ever. It means dressed in rags. Best description of our collage-esque dressing I would say.





Mattie had a DIY Comme des Garcons-ish top paired with her Risto skirt and a thrifted necklace    





I'm wearing an Ashish top and vintage dress with my House of Matching Colours sash 

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Punk Might Be Dead But I Can Still Wear A Sweater

If you couldn't tell from my pushing of young knitwear designers (ahem Eckhaus Latta ahem Degen) I'm kind of into knits.  I love gothy cob-web affects and the disheveled drama (Mattie's rodarte sweater I mean....).  Violent gashes and slits in knits allow a weird revealing of the body yet provide me enough material to hide in.  Sweaters don't take themselves too seriously.  They're messy, idiosyncratic, and playful.  They're approved by grandmas and punks.  Plus they're comfy as fuck.

Picture of Ryan Lo's studio from Love

I've been thinking about Ryan Lo since I saw his work on Style Bubble some moons ago.  His work has that 99 cent store ornateness that is my everything when it comes to fashun, art, and junk. From a distance his clothes look like the crocheted booties and toilet paper accessories my great grandma made when I was a kid but he doesn't use yarn he uses a tulle material.  The kind that you'd use for a tutu.  

Photos from his Spring 2013 Collection in i-D (All the hip Brit mags are into it apparently):


AMAZING photos from Weaver's Study Course: Ideas and Techniques by Else Regensteiner posted by une collecte:

(Can I just wear this on my face at all times please. I think it captures my "inner world" or something)

I've been obsessing over this Kansai Yamamato knit jumpsuit from 1971:
 I can just imagine walking around NYC in this freaking people out...that's my idea of fun.

These photos from Punk's Dead by Simon Barker are pretty much my life inspiration:




Some pics of me wearing this strange/ugly/gorge sweater I found at Beacon's:
Excuse the awkward model face. I don't know who that is.
Vintage sweater and bag from Beacon's Closet and House of Matching Colours Dress

Vivienne is just serving dream fall vibes here.  I never get tired of this pic.

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Please excuse Goo's current state

We are currently in the thrall of a re-design/overhaul which will have Goo looking like a Kool Thing in no time at all.

i should gash should i kiss you



volcano pants from beacons, alexander wang dress (cringing as i type those words), vintage necklace my dad got me in prague, Margiela booties

I've literally been wearing some permutation of this outfit for days on end. It's kind of a departure from my summer looks into what I'm feeling for fall (LOLBLOG WARNING: This is a ~*fall vibes*~ post)-- basically stormy moody hues, ornateness, body-obliterating layers, with tinges of tripped-out dreamprints here & there. I'm also experiencing this inexplicable impulse to huddle myself inside Persian rugs & other heavily woven textiles. Idk, you guys. 

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Invocation of My Demon Brother. 1969, Kenneth Anger.

Romeo and Juliet (1968) 



Cocteau Twins
Head Over Heels cover art

Miki Berenyi of Lush

maisie cousins


maison martin margiela 2012


      
Ruslan and LudmilaAleksandr Ptushko, 1972

S/S 1992. Women’s show. Backstage.
Photography: Barbara Katz






cindy sherman x comme des garcons 

Le Triomphe de l'Amour avec entourage de fleurs (17th cent.) 
Daniel Seghers
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This is an outtake from a little photoshoot thing I did with Amanda a few weeks back. I thought it was in line with the mood of the other photos. All photos of me are taken by Amanda in the Goobitat. 

(sorry the photo credits are patchy-- please alert me if you have any sources for these photos!)

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Future Children: Eckhaus Latta S/S 2013



It looked like a gang of high schoolers hanging out in their parents’ basement. At the Eckhaus Latta S/S 2013 Presentation at Milk Studios this Friday, models laid on air mattresses while drinking canned “Eckhaus Latta” drinks and fiddled with their phones taking selfies and tweeting. The props were all common objects: cinder blocks, rugs, a treadmill, even the materials Zoe Latta and Mike Eckhaus used for the garments were reminiscent of hardware store or hospital gear and yet nothing about the collection or the set was at all obvious. It reminded me very much of being a kid and discovering all this adult stuff. Things that are familiar but you’re not really sure what their purpose is so you just kind of work them into your own fantasy. It’s all about exploring your surroundings and playing. It seemed decidedly unhip (there were crocs involved after all) but was very relatable to the young twenty somethings like myself who thrift at Beacon’s Closet and church sales and try to piece together a “look” for ourselves from other peoples refuse. For me that’s the fun part about fashion. And those outfits tend to allow people to be their most idiosyncratic, honest, casually gender-bending, and free. I imagine all Eckhaus Latta clothes being worn by a weird NYC tatterdemalion tribe of youths. 








 




In their S/S 2013 collection Mike and Zoe once again created challenging shapes and textures and seemed to strive for dysfunctionality not functionality (see the cutouts in the underarms of jackets). And in many ways I feel like they are more pleased with confusing audiences and fashion folks. They enjoy having an odd back and forth with the people viewing their work, they’re looking for interaction. Mike and Zoe also have a quirky affection towards and sense of humor about the fashion industry, as in their ode to Michael Kors in their MK bondage top. Which could or could not have gotten them in trouble. But they are fearless and young and I’m convinced are made from the tears of hippies or healing crystals or some preteen’s braces, you know magical stuff.


What beautiful people (this photo from FashionIndie/all others by me)


You can still pick up Eckhaus Latta at Opening Ceremony or Maryam Nassir Zadeh. Or if you’re looking for some beautiful bedding/curtains check out Prince Ruth (a textile design company curated by Zoe Latta) at Urban Outfitters.

-Amanda