David came to fashion via fine art after graduating from Chelsea college of Art in 1999. His recent collaborations include David David signature patterns splashed on classic cuts for fred perry’s ” Blank Canvas” project and an exclusive graphic set for show piece white dress in House of Holland’s A/W 07 collection.
David David matches traditional tailoring and sportswear inspired clothes with his trademark vivid print. David Saunders, aka David David.
The decadent minxes and modish harlequins that made an appearance at Miu Miu last night come from the pen of Swedish illustrator Liselotte Watkins. Miuccia Prada tells Style.com that for Miu Miu’s Spring 2008 collection she was thinking about “life as theater, and all the clichés of how people represent themselves in the world.”
Kirsten Dunst, Miu miu, Spring-summer-2008.
New York fashion week saw the premier of the Bernhard Willhelm and Nick Knight film showcasing Willhelm’s A/W 08 collection.
Click here to see the film ‘Men in Tights’ at Nick Knight’s site Showstudio
To coincide with London Fashion Week, Sundsbo is launching his inaugural exhibition in London’s Spring Studios. Saturated brings together 12 of Sundsbo’s iconic portraits. The selection of arresting otherworldy images highlights Sundsbo’s technical precision and eye for detail in creating innovative and experimental imagery.
Karen Elson - Numéro magazine
Saturated, by Solve Sundsbo @ Spring Studios, London NW5, from 8 February to 20 March
He was born in 1938 in New York City. Peter Beard kept diaries at an early age. He took his first pictures at twelve and photography quickly evolved into an extension of his diaries, as a way to preserve and remember vacations and favorite things. In 1957 he entered Yale University as a pre-medical student, but perceiving humans as the main disease soon switched to art history, studying under Vincent Scully, Joseph Albers, and Richard Lindner.
In addition to creating original artwork, Beard has befriended and collaborated on projects with many artists including Andy Warhol, Andrew Wyeth, Richard Lindner, Terry Southern, Truman Capote, and Francis Bacon.
Babette, aka Babette Pautier, is a young and talented emerging photographer born in France and based in London. A graduate of the Arts Deco school in Paris, she has already published her work in several magazines such as Double and Intersection.
While there are many photographers out there who position their work on the thin border between fashion and art, few do it with a talent that equals Babette’s.
Her style mixes elegantly the glamourous with the painterly, ranging from neon-pop flashiness to dreamlike shadowy portraits with a distinctive film still quality. Portraits aside, her pictures of urban sceneries and eerie landscapes all bear the mark of a vision steeped as much in gothic horror as in innocent daydreaming.
Oh, and did we mention, even her website is uber cool and she’s designed it herself with little outside help. Check it out for your selves.
_Prada Wallpaper for Beverly Hills and SoHo Epicenter stores . Mixed media, approx. 17 x 200 feet, 2007.
In Milan in September, the Prada runway show was a buzz with Miuccia filling the runway with silk-printed tunics, cropped flared trousers, and nymph and fairy prints. This print is the iconic print for the Spring season and is seen on their handbags, clothing, and even their shoe boxes.
Two artists were commissioned from Prada to do the illustrations for this season’s looks.
The one who did the illustration on this bag is the eloquent James Jean.
