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1.19.2010

make me korean

asian fashion (not to lump all asian countries into one, but for ease of categorization) is insane. the editorials are always so provocatively avant-garde, and the styling is some of the most creative in the industry. everything about their style is so no-holds-barred, pouring through their editorials always makes my own personal "uniform" feel lame.

i get asked if i'm asian often enough (apparently my black hair and pale skin completely defies my 50/50 irish/german background). perhaps i should just move to korea and adopt a highly fashionable asian alter ego.

publication source: vogue korea
photo source: trendland

1.18.2010

alice in wonderland via ms. leibovitz

you all know me. i find a new site i love, i scour through it and do multiple posts in a row featuring gems that i find. this is also from trendland, and it's an amazing editorial from vogue dec 03, shot by the lovely annie leibovitz, with natalia vodianova.

i love fairy tale editorials. it's the actor in me, i suppose. all of that glorious heightened costuming, and the clear, beginning-to-end storytelling. i can't waaaaaait to see tim burton's alice in wonderland.

also, movies that have unbelievable fashion that i've seen recently: "married life," and "a single man." the first is available as an instant play on netflix with rachel mcadams that is sensational and too gorgeous to look at. the second is, as i'm sure you all know, tom ford's new movie with colin firth and julianne moore. aside from the ending, which is christopher isherwood's (the author) fault, the film is impeccably gorgeous. almost to a fault, in that nowhere is every single person flawlessly put together at all times. except perhaps in paris.

and now, "alice in wonderland:"

fashion in the mirror

i found these images from a london art exhibit in the online mag, trendland magazine. they're stunning, and they represent part of a collection of images that showcase the behind the scenes of fashion editorial photography. i love the aged, vintage quality of some of the photos.

there's effort behind the effortless, indeed there is.

"Fashion in the Mirror or Self-Reflection in Fashion Photography, was an exhibition in London who undress international fashion photographers and question the creation of perfect beauty. Fashion in the Mirror is an overview of their self-examination and a rare look behind-the-scenes of fashion photography from the 1950s to the present day. Many of the shots capture the actual photographers at work…"

Finding both comedy and poetry in the set-up of the studio, the exhibiting photographers turn their cameras on the processes and paraphernalia of the fashion shoot.

Revealing the fashion industry’s secrets and undermining its glamorous illusions, the photographers in this exhibition create work that exposes this world from within.

The show features work from the 1940s to now by twenty-one top international names, including Richard Avedon, Terence Donovan, Nick Knight, Helmut Newton, Juergen Teller, Mario Testino and Jonathan de Villiers amongst others."

1.16.2010

service me with these, please

these shoes are sensational. i want them, i need them - i am in love with them. they're part of an editorial in self service magazine, with anja rubik. as amazing as the rest of the editorial is, these shoes are really just perfection.