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Showing posts with label fashion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fashion. Show all posts
Thursday, 24 March 2016
Monday, 8 February 2016
Friday, 24 April 2015
Saturday, 11 October 2014
Illustrating Vielma
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Tuesday, 30 September 2014
Roxy Marine
FINAL PAINTING #30 in a month long of daily paintings for: #PaintingSeptember #Paintseptember.
It was further adapted (see below) and became a textile design for a young female sportswear line: Roxy—celebrating the pacific ocean and marine life.
If chosen, it could be shown at a Quicksilver & Otis (Art & Design College, Los Angeles) fashion show in 2015.
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Friday, 25 April 2014
The Look of Less
"I'd like my name taken off your mailing list - I didn't order the catalogue."
"Are you a client of ours?"
"No"
"What's the number above the name and address printed on the magazine?"
"There isn't one."
"Not a six cijfer one?"
"No"
I spell out my name and address and there is a concentrated silence as my details are entered.
"OK. I've put your details in the system for removal from our mailing list. It will take six weeks, so you may get one more before it stops completely."
I mentioned that it too would be filed in the re-cycling and how an unwanted catalogue is a waste of resources and environmentally unfriendly.
"So, how did you get my details in the first place?"
"Probably from one of our sister companies."
A snippet from this morning's conversation with a mail-order company, requesting they take my name off their mailing list. Not only had I not requested a copy of their catalogue, they had managed to produce 133 pages printed in full colour, of a really unappealing line of clothes and one I can only describe as: Oh Dear.
Even the models in the magazine found it hard to pull off the experience as a good one. The clothes were definitely not ones they would choose to wear in their free time and that could be seen by their forced smiles and on occasion, gritted teeth. The smile of one particular model, in a taupe pleated t-shirt - from a series of cream, turquoise, purple and screaming coral - looked like the Joker from Batman. Another in a 'flattering' paisley-look blouse had the subdued expression of someone obviously running through her 'to do' list of the day. Turn the page and an attractive twenty-something has been put in a characterless tartan on one page and an unfashionable crochet the other, thereby ageing her considerably. The list goes on: unstylish, bad design, technicolour sick pattern, cheap curtain material.
Who designs this stuff?
The thing that really gets my goat is not just the fact that my details are being bandied around, but the purchase of my address allows the darn catalogue to be posted through my letterbox. The fact that I have a sticker on it, especially for mail like this saying: 'no unsolicited mail,' then becomes worthless.
For the inconvenience there is no apology. I then have to waste my time and money to cancel what I didn't order in the first place. It's addition, means I have to add it to my already bulging bag of unwanted paper for re-cycle, which I find irritating too. The explanation that my details came to them from 'one of our sister companies,' is not only unacceptable, but I don't find very sisterly behaviour!
Of course I realise that these days business is done in any way possible, but sending me a catalogue that I am not going to look at and which is destined for immediate re-cycle, is not only a waste of resources it is environmentally unfriendly.
Then we have the fact that it takes six weeks to implement my wish, during which I may receive yet another undesired catalogue. It's mind boggling in an age of computers how backward some things remain. It's not rocket science to remove a name from a list! Are they are hoping that a second example may seduce me into making an order? Well, dream on!
Who's the company, I hear you ask? With a little edit on the possessive adjective to avoid liable, but without diminishing its amusement value, they're called: 'My Look for Less' - hmmm, I think that says it all.
Friday, 25 January 2013
Sea Me Now
Take a look at a surprising collaboration for a fashion shoot - The majestic and imposing forms of the sea's largest fish, the shark whale alongside the mermaid-like mannequins.
By including the shark whale, photographers Shawn Heinrichs and Kristian Schmidt aim to raise awareness about the environment and conservation.
Via: DesignTaxi
Thursday, 10 January 2013
No Noise
It is 1909, & the retail store Selfridges had the original idea to create a Silence Room where busy shoppers could "retire from the whirl of bargains and the build up of energy" ...
Fast forward to 2013, and they are doing it again as part of their No Noise initiative.
Supported by a selection of recognizable brands, products and fashion items, which have been de-branded in order to emphasize quiet, in an increasingly noisy world where we are continually bombarded by information and over stimulated by advertising.
Via: DesignTaxi
Sunday, 25 December 2011
Thursday, 8 December 2011
Bow Berlin
Love this! - Funky jewellery and leather fashion boutique.
Saturday, 15 October 2011
Attracted to the Dark Side
Fashion by Itamar Zechoval: gentleman's boutique: Dandy of the Grotesque.
Courtesy of The Cool Hunter
Saturday, 8 October 2011
London Fashion Week 2011 - Collection by Christopher Raeburn
Another illustration for Amelia's Magazine & London Fashion Week 2011, this time for the new collection by fashion designer Christopher Raeburn.
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Friday, 7 October 2011
London Fashion Week 2011 - Collection by Tata Naka
Illustration for Amelia's Magazine plus article about the new collection by fashion designer Tata Naka, for London Fashion Week 2011.
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Saturday, 25 June 2011
Graduate Fashion Week, London 2011 - Meg Cornwall
Illustration of an outfit from Meg Cornwall's collection for the Womenswear Print, at the Graduate Fashion Week, Gala Awards in London, GFW 2011
First published in Amelia's Magazine June 2011
First published in Amelia's Magazine June 2011
Thursday, 16 June 2011
Thursday, 9 June 2011
Central Saint Martins London - BA Fashion Graduate Show 2011
Central Saint Martins, London: BA Fashion Graduate Show 2011 Review - Menswear. First published in Amelia's Magazine June 2010.
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Saturday, 4 June 2011
Joanna Klimas - Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week Poland - Lodz - 2011
Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week Poland A/W 2011 in Łódź: Joanna Klimas. First published in Amelia's Magazine 31 May 2011.
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Friday, 3 June 2011
A Vision in Yellow - Agata Koschmieder Lodz - PFW
Also caught my eye - this yellow dress - designed by up and coming Polish fashion design talent, Agata Koschmieder Lodz.
Fashion Philosophy Fashion Week, Poland, May 2011.
Monday, 7 March 2011
London Fashion Week - Lako Bukia
I enjoyed illustrating the clothes from the Lako Bukia show at London Fashion Week and for this experimenting with two different digital styles.
For the article on the show, written by Amelia Gregory - visit Amelia's Magazine
First published in Amelia's Magazine, March 2011
Thursday, 3 March 2011
London Fashion Week - Estethica
An illustration
for jewellery designed by Kumvana Gomani from the ethical
fashion showroom Estethica, during London Fashion Week.
Featuring Little Glass Clementine, Goodone, Joanna Cave, North Circular, Ciel,
MaxJenny, Lu Flux, Tara St James, and Kumvana Gomani.
First published March 2011 in Amelia's Magazine
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