BRIAN GERADTS »YOU SEE THE OVERALL OF WHAT WE ARE« MEN’S COLLECTION LOOKBOOK

© by Brian Geradts / Photography Valentina Vos / Grooming Vannessa Chan at House of Orange for Clinique / Models Arthur, Eelco at Skin Model Management
BRIAN GERADTS Website

CHRISTIAN L’ENFANT ROI »CAELUM« SPRING/SUMMER 2013 CAMPAIGN PREVIEW

© by Christian L’enfant Roi / Photography Mathieu Fortin / Model Nelson at Folio Montreal, Torben Rixen
»Inspired by the Scandaniavian water spirit the Fossegrim, S/S 2013 explores the myth behind this creature as well as it’s fresh water habitat. Portrayed as especially beautiful young men in various states of undress or wearing elegant clothing luring humans to drawn in lakes, streams, rivers and ponds.«
CHRISTIAN L’ENFANT ROI Website

THE AVANT/GARDE DIARIES PRESENT DIANE PERNET & BRUNO PIETERS »TO BE HONEST« BY JASON LAST

© by The Avant/Garde Diaries / Direction Jason Last / Filming, Editing Jason Last / Production Katharina Kowalewski / Music Bunnystripes
If you go to a fashion show in Paris, you will nearly always notice a woman in head-to-toe black, whose personal style alone sets her apart from the glitzy crowd. Her name is Diane Pernet. As the writer and founder of A Shaded View On Fashion Film Festival, Diane displays a signature passion for the things she loves most in life: good movies and real fashion. Diane created the festival years ago when the very first fashion videos were made, before they became the ›it‹ thing. ›We need new ideas for fashion and the way to show it,‹ she says. ›We have seen catwalks for years. It’s time to be more creative.‹ Pernet surrounds herself with myriad creative personalities, and one of them is fashion designer Bruno Pieters. The former Hugo Boss designer is not only one of the most handsome, peaceful, and centered people in fashion, but also a man of consciousness, integrity, and magic.
THE AVANT/GARDE DIARIES Website / on Facebook

IVANMAN SPRING/SUMMER 2013 MEN’S COLLECTION

© by IVANMAN / Photography Lukas Wolejko-Wolejszo / Styling Ivan Mandzukic / Model Yani Oceanic, Mati Stache / Assistance Zarah Eickelpoth / Make-Up Gita Kurdpoor / Location Clärchens Ballhaus
»WHAT CAN BE SHOWN, CANNOT BE SAID.« 
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The IVANMAN Spring/Summer 2013 collection was inspired by the works of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). Like his philosophy, the collection doesn’t aim a general social benefit, but aspires to intellectual and mental purity and clarity. Reality falls apart into things – things, that relate to each other. Each thing has a name in the language. These names obtain their significance only when standing together in a sentence. Sentences fall apart into names, like reality into things. The different segments of the collection, as well as the different segments of the looks receive their meaning only in combination, composition and interaction with each other.
 His philosophy, Wittgenstein says, leaves everything as it is. Just put everything out in front of you and do not conclude. Since everything lies open, there is nothing to declare.
In addition to the inspiration by his philosophical and theoretical work, Wittgensteins fascination for nature is partly reflected in the subdued color spectrum of the collection – it ranges from night-black, sand-beige and leaf-green up to the classic white.
IVANMAN Website / on Facebook

ANNE SOFIE MADSEN »SEDNA« AUTUMN/WINTER 2012/13 WOMEN’S COLLECTION LOOKBOOK

© by Anne Sofie Madsen
After an adventure with the mechanical ballerina and the graceful samurai in the S/S12 collection: Mononoke, Anne Sofie Madsen this time takes inspiration from Sedna; the half skeleton and half human Inuit goddess of the underworld. The horror of Sedna is a tragic story of a young woman who loses her life in the arctic cold and becomes a goddess with a wish for revenge.
The skeleton of Sedna is depicted in the work with techniques inspired by car vings in ivory from the Inuit tupilak figures. The human side of Sedna shows a more vivid figure expressed through the patterns and fringes covering the garments. Silhouettes inspired by Victorian menswear contribute to the atmosphere of the horrendous story. The collection is an expression of a tupilak coming to life in a novel of the late 19th century horror literature.
ANNE SOFIE MADSEN Website

WILLIAM RICHARD GREEN »HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS« SPRING/SUMMER 2013 MEN’S COLLECTION LOOKBOOK

© by William Richard Green / Photography Morgan O’Donovan / Model Rycardo at AMCK
WILLIAM RICHARD GREEN Website

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