The Sense Of Presence

Tim Hamilton Spring/Summer 2011 vs. Michaël Borremans

Surreal portraits of women. Dissolving into the circumfluent space. Only hold in reality by form and texture that remains touchable but not always visible. Their humanity sustained by hues of earth, skin and dust.
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The Spell

Hernández-Cornet Spring/Summer 2011

The ancient myth of fox spirits. Transforming into the outer appearance of a beautiful young woman. Seducing the beholder. Their surroundings continuously shifting. Reflected through garments of displacement and a distorted reality. Nothing is what it seems.
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Manipulation

Asger Juel Larsen Spring/Summer 2011

Protective garments that reflect the intensity and bravery of craftsmanship. Intense hues of red and orange that evoke the notion of bursting fire. Cropped and sleeveless tops that expose the wearer's masculinity, strength and sex. Shiny, crispy and studded.
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Presentation and live installation from today at Machine A, London.

Pulsation

Ioannis Dimitrousis Fall/Winter 2010

Concentrating on the simplicity of crochet and its inherent structure, Ioannis Dimitrousis retrieves his strenght this season. Most successfully when giving the garment a basic shape and allowing the vivid 3D surface to speak for itself.
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Image credits Dimitris Theocharis

Contrarious Conditions

JULIAANDBEN Spring/Summer 2011

Picturing an extraterrestrial travel. Facing landscapes absorbed by human action and manipulated into contradictory extremes. The desert and the ice. The inhuman confronted with garments of purity, instinctiveness and craftsmanship.
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Digitally Remastered

Laitinen Spring/Summer 2011

Jackets and waistcoats with detachable kilts. Washed raindeer leather pants with side lacings. Digitally printed shirts with a double layered hem. And finally, the reintroduction of the sarong, loosely knot around the waist. With these offerings, Anna and Tuomas Laitinen continue in transforming their signature into reworked concepts of manhood.
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Image credits Chris Vidal

Digitalis

Spastor Spring/Summer 2005

I remember a time when I first discovered Spastor. Attracted by the rough charme of the name itself but also by the collection's inherent Raf spirit, deconstruction of formal wear and obsession with youth culture.
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Image credits Marcelo Krasilcic

Reclaim

Tim Hamilton Fall/Winter 2010

A proclamation of reduction and form. Dedicated to the purest definitions of feminine and masculine. Subtly shifting this fine line and creating a focused image of women. Architectural and statuesque.
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Image credits Sybille Walter

Cognitive Dissonance

Laitinen Fall/Winter 2010

Fringed skirts. Printed velvet. There is something very delicate about the appearance, the feel and the sound of these superficially descriptive words. Semantic pairings that I want to wear.
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Image credits

A Mockumentary

Hernández Cornet Spring/Summer 2010

Raw edged frills, unbleached toile cotton, printed crinkle effects. A design exercise that incorporates mock-ups and mishappenings as an undeniable and necessary part of the actual result. The word final does not exist. Instead, it recreates itself through garments that resemble unfinished sentences, accompanied by a light and apparitional question mark, dangerously wafting in the air.
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