Interact with Uniqlo Collection

http://www.uniqlo.com/collection

The link above will take you to beautiful new website for Uniqlo Collection. I have never seen a look book done in this way before. Amazing!

Jeremy Kost

Jeremy Kost is known on the New York circuit as "the Polaroid artist." While the digital wave continues to gather force in contemporary art, Kost creates art with his tried and true Polaroid cameras. Because famous persons, including Paris Hilton and Lindsey Lohan, embrace his creative methods, Kost has direct access to their relaxed environments. The artist exposes the reality of celebrities and the fashion and art elite in compelling, unstaged Polaroid photographs. 

Influenced by Andy Warhol, he also finds inspiration in underground scenes of the East Village and the Lower East Side. The artist responds spontaneously and directly to whatever this eclectic, gritty world presents him. Instead of relying on lighting, make-up, or styling, he seizes upon the integrity of the moment. Whether his shots convey the energy of a hedonistic smile, or the honest look of true exhaustion, Kost's art reveals the character of his subjects with uncompromising immediacy.

The Lady Who Fell To Earth

Tim Walker’s creative concept for Vogue UK titled “The Lady who fell to earth” is beautifully chic! This shoot showcases the ladylike style embodied by this otherworldly creature. With sets and props as equally important as the clothing, the overall composition is beautifully executed and captures the imagination. Many of the current silhouettes are strong, bold and of galactic proportions, relying heavily on fabric textures and key accessories that have a futuristic feel. 

ARM - Theatre Design

Ashton Raggatt McDougal (ARM) have designed a dynamic and original 1000-seat performance space and 150-seat Salon.

ARM architects completed the design for the Melbourne Theatre Company helping to transform the formerly derelict Southbank area of the city to the dynamic district it has now become. 

 The fusion of architectural and acoustic design throughout the development of Elisabeth Murdoch Hall produces a visually and aurally exciting hall.

There is a dramatic façade: 3D iridescent steel tubing folds and bends against black aluminium cladding – just as an actor brings performance to life against a dark backdrop. The most striking element inside the main theatre is the Word Wall – 70 quotes from different plays are illuminated when the stage is dark. The building also houses a full rehearsal hall that can be used as an event space or a smaller performance space, as well as a café and bar at the front of the house. - Andrew j Wiener

Paramount Bar by Tom Dixon

Renowned English interior designer Tom Dixon is behind Paramount, London's hottest new venue located on top of city landmark Centre Point tower. The bar's aesthetic is a blend 60s retro and futurism, articulated through the use of hard-edged materials like concrete and stone to create a kind of space-ship meets super-club. The star of course, is the spectacular view, which is only enhanced by Dixon's clean, modern interior. 

  “We have approached it with two principles in mind, first, the view is Paramount…keeping the lighting levels low and moody. Then we wanted to create something that feels that it has always been part of the building without being nostalgic. A tough, self imposed brief, but luckily the cycle fashion is on our side with brutalism and the radical system architecture of the late sixties being re-assesed”. The club interior, designed by Design Research Studio with Tom Dixon as Creative Director features furniture alongside vintage pieces chosen by Tom and Pierre Condou that reflect the modernism of the building.

 

Guy Bourdin

Guy Bourdin is considered to be one of the most daring and intriguing artists in the world of 20th century visual culture.  A singular artist with a unique perception of art, fashion, advertising and life, and a relentless search for perfection. He was responsible for the groundbreaking turning point in the world of image-making in the late 70s.

Guy Bourdin was a man with the aura of a visionary and fluid imagination, who worked in metaphors and explored contradictory realities, dialoguing with the sublime and irrational qualities with great intensity. Fascinated by his mentor Man Ray, the photographer Edward Weston and the surrealist painters René Magritte and Balthus, he spent the formative years in post war France, within a conservative social climate, taboos and censorship. He assimilated surrealism in its broader sense, especially its liberty of expression: he explored with great passion the meaning of desire as the authentic voice of one’s inner self, the search of beauty, life and death and sexuality as primary universal issues in everyone’s own existence. A creator with multiple sources of inspiration, yet artistically he developed a unique vision with the gaze of a maverick. Guy Bourdin was able to create fascinating images in terms of storytelling, compositions and colours, exploring the realms between the absurd and the sublime. He approached fashion photography with innovative pictorial explorations, made of cropping and juxtapositions, delivering ambiguous settings, suggestive narratives and surreal aesthetics, thus radically breaking conventions of commercial photography.

Fashion brand Nolita - No Anorexia

The Italian fashion brand Nolita that is a part of Flash and Partners group has campaign called No Anorexia. There appear a lot of ad billboards with the pictures of the naked young lady that suffers from anorexia.

The author of the campaign is famous Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani. The campaign is destined to young women who keep up with fashion and is called to draw public attention to such awful disease as anorexia. The statistics data are impressive: there are about two million people who suffers from anorexia and bulimia in Italy.

The ad billboards feature a 27 years old French woman named Isabella Caro who weighs a mere 31 kg (68 pounds.) She says that she has decided to show her body for people to know and to see how the disease impacts the body. By the way Isabella has suffered from anorexia for 15 years.

As for the photographer, 65 years old Oliviero Toscani is well known first of all by his scandalous ad campaigns for United Colors of Benetton. He admits that he has been interested in anorexia problems for a long period of time. He also says it is very important that today a company that works in fashion sphere has understood the importance of the problem and participates in this campaign.

The Nolita campaign received the backing of the Italian Ministry of Health. It is also worth mentioning the beginning of it has coincided with the opening of Fashion Week in Milano. The deadly skinny model's pictures are placed in all main Italian cities as well as in world mass media.