Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2012. Show all posts
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Milan fashion week Prada Spring Summer 2012
Milan fashion week Prada Spring Summer 2012
Milan fashion week: Prada Spring/Summer 2012
Miuccia Pradas SS/12 show was a spectacular success. Observer fashion editor Jo Jones takes us a little closer to the Italian designers latest creations and offers a backstage glimpse at what went on behind the scenes at Pradas Milan Fashion Week show (All photography by Jo Jones)
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| The Chevy car details were peppered on to skirts and the back of jackets |
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| The running order takes shape |
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| Models await their moment on the runway |
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| A car dress backstage |
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| Feminine, light and very pretty |
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| Loved the non-water swimsuits. More for posing than swimming |
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| Styrofoam cartoon cars dotted the runway |
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| Round shouldered car coats with pleated backs |
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| The car design popped up everywhere |
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Sunday, April 9, 2017
Milan Fashion Week 2012 Fruit veg and micro trends
Milan Fashion Week 2012 Fruit veg and micro trends
Milan Fashion Week 2012: Fruit, veg and micro-trends
Say hello to a new wave of fruity dresses and vegetable motifs at Milan Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2012. Yep, this MFW was all about groceries, as Dolce & Gabbana and Moschino went big on apple cart prints. Plus, Versus, Bottega Veneta and Missoni rock the catwalk. Captions by Simon Chilvers and Jess Cartner-Morley and photograph by Getty Images and Reuters
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| Bottega Veneta Spring/Summer 2012: Bottega Veneta didnt explicitly follow a Fifties outline but after Jil Sander and Prada it was, to me, the best show of the week – immaculate, fabulously grown up, and a riot of gorgeous rich colours. Jess Cartner-Morley |
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| il Sander Spring/Summer 2012 womens collection: Raf Simons has yet another smash hit collection on his hands at Jil Sander. This time a modern spin on the 1950s – it featured delightful netted veil hats by Stephen Jones. Simon Chilvers |
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| A model walks the runway during the Jil Sander fashion show as part of Milan Fashion Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2012 |
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| Emilio Pucci womens Spring-Summer 2012: Pucci, under the tenure of designer Peter Dundas has become all about a haute hippie – its a look popular with A-listers like Kylie and most recently Gwyneth Paltrow at the Emmys. For next season he added a gypsy flavour into the mix with long patterned skirts and mid-drift peasant-like tops. Simon Chilvers |
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| Moschino Cheap & Chic Spring Summer 2012: It started with fruit – Prada bananas, Stella citrus. Now fashion has gone veg. Moschino and Dolce are united behind this Milanese trend.Simon Chilvers |
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| A model walks the runway at the Moschino Cheap & Chic Spring Summer 2012 fashion show |
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| Marni Spring-Summer 2012 ready-to-wear collection: Marni jewellery has always been popular so its only right that the label are part of the Swinging-Earrings-Are-The-New-Handbags trend coming through from Milan. Simon Chilvers |
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| Marni Spring-Summer 2012 ready-to-wear collection: Pastel + 1950s vibe + dangling earrings = a Marni triple trend ticking catwalk equation. Simon Chilvers |
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| Missoni Spring/Summer 2012: Missoni are known for clashing patterns and busy knits – this look is their take on summer. Part hippie, part siren. Note: mid-drifts are a (worrying) micro trend. Simon Chilvers |
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| Missoni Spring/Summer 2012: Fringearama at Missoni. Simon Chilvers |
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| Versus Spring/Summer 2011: Christopher Kane designs Versus – you can tell. This is a sexy spin on a sports couture theme in pastels. Pastels, btw, are massive for next season. Simon Chilvers |
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| Versus Spring/Summer |
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| Dolce & Gabbana Spring-Summer 2012 ready-to-wear collection: Spicy at Dolce where the vegetable/food theme ran from aubergine prints to pasta shaped earrings. Imagine the high-street copying these with gusto. Simon Chilvers |
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| Dolce & Gabbana Spring/Summer 2012: If wasp-waisted, full-skirted, looking-hot-at-the-vegetable-market-while-demurely-ignoring-wolf-whistles dresses are your thing then Dolce & Gabbana are happy to oblige; and we can all look forward to allotment chic hitting the high street, as those splashy aubergine prints make their way down the fashion food chain. Jess Cartner-Morley |
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| Dolce & Gabbana Spring/Summer 2012: Aside from veg at Dolce, there were jewels. Obviously. Heavily embellished surfaces were also big in London. Basically, next spring your dress should rattle or rustle or make some sort of (expensive) noise. Simon Chilvers |
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| Models display creations as part of Dolce & Gabbana Spring-Summer 2012 ready-to-wear collection |
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Saturday, April 1, 2017
Monday, March 27, 2017
Memo to republicans dont bother voting in 2012 Your vote only increases the chance of your party winning by 0 0001
Memo to republicans dont bother voting in 2012 Your vote only increases the chance of your party winning by 0 0001
EPA CO2 regulations would reduce global temps by only 0.0037C. Unless all the other countries cut emissions too its pointless.
This is also the reason why I never vote.
Think about it - it takes me an hour to get to the nearest polling station and another hour to get back again, costing me both time and fuel. Considering that money and effort makes a contribution to the tea party of just 0.0001% of the vote, whats the point?
Republicans will also be wise enough not to bother voting for the same reason. Democrats are of course too stupid to understand statistics and theyll flock to the polls thinking their 0.0001% will make any difference.
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Monday, January 23, 2017
Moebius 8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012
Moebius 8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud. I had stared at my Heavy Metal issue with Arzach in it till it wilted to pieces. "The Long Tomorrow" started to yield more of the city, around corners that he didnt show, and I knew those streets were fantastical at every turn. I studied how thick the line weights were on that story versus the ones on "The Airtight Garage." I was obsessed as Ive never been obsessed and will not be again since.
I met him when my friend Sylvain Despretz introduced me to him in the early 90s during a Comic-con. We had a sushi lunch. I think I ate. I didnt say anything coherent but succeeded in sounding like every bit of fan boy that I was. The next times I meet him again I could not know (nor was it important) if he recognized me.
I worked on doing character designs for an animated Airtight Garage project being produced in Russia. The designs they did had tried to replicate the complicated hatching of a Moebius drawing. No good for animation and a dead give away that the production they hired did not know what they were doing. I did a pass on the main characters, did turns and some head shots. Preliminary stuff, things I learned from Stephan Martiniere who had mentored me when we worked on a DIC t.v. show.
As payment Jean Marc Lofficier gestured me to a flat file, "Go pick one." I didnt quite understand what our agreement was as I stood there. Money was not going to be exchanged--? Oh, I get it! Opening the flat file I see all sizes of art and comic book pages (bandes dessinée, real big). I gawk as I touch each gingerly. Overload. I tried for an hour. I came to about a handful that I cant remember now. But I chose finally. A page from the Incal.
More than the privilege of owning the piece and having worked on a Moebius project no matter how obscure and doomed, I am honored to have met him and somehow intersected with a great artist and visionary. One who cannot be replaced and will not happen on to this plane again.
You will be missed.
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Image was drawn at Catos Ale House with the crayons they provide patrons. Mostly to kids of families dining there. Drawn in the dark on their graffiti etched table on common bond paper. Post color in Photoshop.
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