Le Mario de Poje: art

nedjelja, 13. veljače 2011.

Aware: Art Fashion Identity

For the last couple of weeks I am catching up with puting up my posts, as you know I am a Procteroid and my day job took most of my energy during last couple of weeks. But this is something I definitely wanted to share with you. During my stay in London I went to visit the exibition "Aware: Art Fashion Identity" at the Royal Academy of Arts.

I was most impressed with Hussein Chalayan's ‘Son’ of Sonzai Suru, 2010 who cooperated London College of Fashion students on instaling this construction. I choose to write about this as it connects my key interests - fashion & technology. Sitting by this installation was at the first glance creepy due to "ghosty" movement of the dress and how real the ninjas looked.

You can watch this creation's instalation process video here.

In this installation Chalayan uses Bunraku theatre, a traditional form of Japanese puppet theatre, to examine the manipulative element of the fashion industry. The beauty of the dress is evident, but the controlling figures around it invite us to consider how our perception of the value of fashion is managed by its presentation. The piece demonstrates Chalayan’s ease in bringing together different cultures and creative disciplines.

I also loved the Yoko Ono's video performance piece where people were invited to one by one cut a piece of her clothing of of her.

Yoko Ono first performed this piece in Japan in 1964. She sits motionless on a stage while the public are invited to cut her clothing. Closely in tune with the second-wave feminist movement that began in the 1960s, the work explores women’s emancipation from constraints on their identity represented by clothing and encourages respect for the female body. Ultimately, it also suggests the value of nakedness as an expression of identity in its purest form.

Lastly, I apsolutely loved the Susie MacMurray Widow feminine but up close aggresive widow dress made of leather and needles.

The elegance and feminine beauty of this dress is seductive, but on closer examination the aggression of its form becomes clear. Pins have strong associations with female craft, as well as connotations of pain. The leather replaces traditional dress fabric and represents skin, which is both sensitive and protective. Based on the human (and in this case female) reaction to grief, the work articulates the isolation that such an experience can bring about, how such extreme emotion can cause someone to repel the empathy or intimacy of others.

"I saw that nothing was permanent.

You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it. "

Yoko Ono

subota, 22. svibnja 2010.

Fix #2 - rehab needed

Hi lovelies,

So, today I did a floral socks on brown heel sandals, gray jeans and blush pink flowy sheer blouse and a short brown leather jacket combined with "no time for a make up" and "in the bus made braid" and huge glasses to hide that I haven't slept night before. Now, let me tell you why this was so wrong.

First, "no make up" face hidden with huge Prada's - MISTAKE cause there was no sun & I had to meet people who I probably scared when I took them off.

Second, floral socks with brown sandal heels, fabulously fashionable one would say! MISTAKE - cause it was raining and I was PMSing. I came home feeling fat & made a croissant to make me feel even fatter. Than I spoke with a super cute guy who convinced me I am cute and that we must meet for a coffee soon and than I kinda forgot all of the mistakes above.

Ok fabies, with no further due, here is your next FSF(fabulous shoe fix). I know, it gets more bizarre as we go, I guess I am really missing McQueen, he is probably designing wings for MJ right now up there...

Enjoy!