DESIGNER SCOUTS RUNWAY SHOW SPRING/SUMMER 2013

© by Designer Scouts / Photography Katja Hentschel
The DESIGNER SCOUTS project opened its 9th fashion event and once again presented outstanding emerging design talents on the runway during Berlin Fashion Week. After several fashion shows, presentations, exhibitions, fashion films and swap markets in the past three years the DESIGNER SCOUTS project was back this season with a program of runway shows in an exciting off-site venue at the gallery quarter at Heidestraße bringing the talent of young designers into the limelight of Berlin Fashion Week.


The evening program started with a group show of three designers: Avant-garde designer Franziska Michael presented her Spring/Summer 2013 womenswear collection with lush, purple, botanic prints contrasted by heavy knits in moss. Her highlight look was a stunning lavender lace dress. Accessory label Marc Andersen chose a very unconventional form of presentation. Their graphical scarf collection titled »Hiroshima Mon Amour« was showcased by two ballet dancers who performed during a video projection of stylized atomic mushrooms. Young designer Emilia Tikka presented her sculptural collection »External Body« in an atmospheric runway performance. Last year her outstanding work has been chosen for the Talent issue of Vogue Italy and the Vogue Talent event.


In the second part of the event the EDGED showroom curated the award-winning label Studio Laend Phuengkit who showed their Spring/Summer 2013 menswear collection »Silent city of« on the runway. Combining contemporary urban style with traditional Asian elements is the signature of the young designer behind the label.


With 4 amazing collections, a great runway space and more then 300 excited guests the DESIGNER SCOUTS event was a great success and once again a proved that Berlin is a unique place for fashion and thriving hub for talents from all over the world. Next on the agenda is the SKYY VODKA SWAP MARKET that will take place on August 24, 2012 at the HBC. For the third time in a row the DESIGNER SCOUTS will be hosting this event and will curate a line-up of designers from Germany that will donate pieces from their collections for the benefit of the HIV charity Berliner Aids-Hilfe e.V. At the market fashion enthusiasts will get the chance to swap high quality vintage clothes and designer pieces for a good cause.


DESIGNER SCOUTS Website

RENE GURSKOV »LUCKY« SPRING/SUMMER 2013 MEN’S COLLECTION

© by Rene Gurskov / Photography Kasper Harup-Hansen / Styling Marie W. (FoxJump Mgmt) / Model Rene Daniel (1st Option CPH / Specimen NY) / Graphics Ron Wan
The »Lucky« collection Spring/Summer 2013 dedicated to that special moment described in the Donna Summer classic »Lucky«:
LUCKY COMES EASY
LUCKY’S NOT SHY
AND IF YOU’RE LUCKY
YOU’LL GO FOR A RIDE,
FOR A RIDE
Some people tell me it’s about a one night stand! Anyway sometimes there are moments where you get lucky – you meet the right boy/girl – the clothes are right and the music is high and above it all there is the disco ball rotating! For S/S13 we want to dress guys – both the cool and the cute – for that night. He is wearing red lace/latex tracksuits or metal glitzy disco sweats with floral short shorts. Another night draped lace on a sailor’s tee-shirt with army boxers with half a skirt. Some might call it feminine – I call it modern. Get lucky tonight – catch that moment.
DONNA SUMMER (1948-2012) – in loving memory.
RENE GURSKOV Website

»M TO M OF M/M (PARIS)« CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF WORKS BY M/M (PARIS) / RELEASE: OCTOBER 2012

© by M/M (Paris) / Editing Emily King / Foreword Hans Ulrich Obrist / Design Graphic Thought Facility
Michaël Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak originally established M/M (Paris) as a graphic design studio in 1992. Their close associations with the music, fashion and art worlds have led to their becoming one of the most distinctive and acclaimed creative voices of their generation, within graphic design and beyond.
Published to mark their twentieth anniversary, this is the definitive monograph. It records hundreds of their mind-blowing projects, each represented in illustrations and photographs and arranged alphabetically from ‘M’ to ‘M’. While print, drawing, photography and an unconventional approach to typography lie at the heart of M/M’s work, they have also produced films, objects or interiors. ‘Our work is about expressing the idea of a dialogue. We transfer elements from fashion to music to art and back again, and keep using different mediums,’ they explain. Each work they produce is unique, but certain elements recur and reverberate — leitmotifs that draw their output, despite its range, into a unified whole.
The monograph features collaborations with the finest from a spectrum of creative worlds, including fashion works with the likes of Balenciaga, Calvin Klein, Stella McCartney, Marc Jacobs and Yohji Yamamoto; music works with Benjamin Biolay, Björk, Kanye West and Madonna; magazines such as Vogue Paris, Arena Homme+ or Interview; art projects and exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern and Guggenheim Museum.
Interviews with some of their closest collaborators — such as Björk, Nicolas Ghesquière, Pierre Huyghe, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Sarah Morris or Glenn O’Brien, as well as Amzalag and Augustyniak themselves, tell M/M’s story. These texts reveal their areas of interest, define their position both within graphic design and beyond and shed new light on the duo’s creative process. Internationally renowned art curator Hans Ulrich Obrist contributes a preface, while contemporary artist Philippe Parreno offers an essay about their joint projects.
These multiple conversations and recollections of shared experiences paint an overview of the evolution of the creative world since the early 90s. This ambitious monograph is a rare document and unparalleled insight into the work and minds of Europe’s most thoughtful and influential image-makers.
M to M of M/M (Paris)
Paperback, with plastic dust jacket
Over 1.000 illustrations all in colour
35 x 26 cm, 528pages
£42.00 — October 2012
English version published by Thames & Hudson
Version française publiee par les Editions de la Martiniere
M/M (PARIS) Website

»THE MOST PART OF YOU« A FILM BY JASON LAST & JAIME RUBIANO FOR GARAGE MAGAZINE

© by Garage / Film Jaime Rubiano, Jason Last / Model Antonia Wesseloh at Elite / Styling Sabrina Marshall, Jaime Rubiano / Hair David Martinez at Sybille Kleber / Make-Up Morgane Martini at Artlist / Production Brachfeld Paris / Fashion Miu Miu, Nina Ricci, Prada, Sonia Rykiel, Delfina Delettrez, Fendi, Falke, Marc Jacobs, Loewe, Celine, Vintage Montana, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga by Nicolas Ghesquière, Vintage Christian Dior, Paule Ka, Rings by Delfina Delettrez, Jil Sander, Earrings by Prada and Yves Saint Laurent.
»Exclusively for GARAGE Online, Jaime Rubiano and Jason Last have created this mysteriously eerie but exquisite film. Featuring the beautiful Antonia Wesseloh and styled by Sabrina Marshall, the film includes excerpts written and narrated by Sarah Steinberg from her »The Most Part of You«; giving the film its title. The piece works on the idea of what constitutes fashion film and explores themes of ennui, beauty and listlessness.
GARAGE MAGAZINE Website

EASTPAK x WOOD WOOD »DESERTION« SPRING/SUMMER 2012 COLLECTION LOOKBOOK SHOT BY SACHA MARIC

© by Eastpak/Wood Wood / Photography Sacha Maric / Art Direction Brian SS Jensen / Styling Sebastián Machado / Make-Up Rikke Dengsø Jensen / Models Arthur Olecki at Select, Katrine Skovengaard at Scoop
EASTPAK Website
WOOD WOOD Website

RAD HOURANI FOR JOYCE HONGKONG / CELEBRATING 5 YEARS OF UNISEX WITH A 15 LOOKS LIMITED EDITION COLLECTION

© by RAD HOURANI
For Hong Kong based Store JOYCE, Rad Hourani chose 10 Unisex pieces that come in 3 colors. This limited edition ready to wear collection in red, gray and black is the essence of Rad’s signature designs, including one silver print, one transformable jacket and one transformable vest. The 15 looks reflect a unisex comfort in a slick and energetic silhouette in celebration of the 5 years of unisex. Available now exclusively at JOYCE Hong Kong.
JOYCE HONGKONG Website
RAD HOURANI Website

COME FOR BREAKFAST AUTUMN/WINTER 2012/13 MEN’S COLLECTION LOOKBOOK

© by Come For Breakfast / Photography Giorgio Codazzi / Styling Enrico Maria Volontè
COME FOR BREAKFAST Website

»ONCE YOU COME CLOSE« A FILM BY JONAS LINDSTRÖM FOR COSTUME NATIONAL

© by Costume National / Direction Jonas Lindström
»Once you come close« is the new short film – and last project – born from the collaboration between photographer/videomaker Jonas Lindström and Costume National. Starring a boy and set in the surroundings of a big, hectic city, Lindström’s film is a journey through the concept of one’s perception of him/herself and the world. A voice-over accompanies the protagonist, speaking an intimate poetic monologue, unclear if it is revealing the boy’s own emotions or just citing someone else’s. Sound and surrounding and noise play along with the boy, interacting with his moves and thoughts on an abstract, somehow dreamlike level. This work comes as the final stage of Lindström’s creative project, as a sum and evolution of the previous photographic contributes, where, through the lenses of his camera, he looked into the relationship between fashion, beauty and the idea of perfection.
COSTUME NATIONAL Website