Fashion as design/art

So according to Matt Raymond's somewhat confidently named 'Trend Forecaster's Handbook', fashion as design art is set to get big, bigger than it already is (who can forget Chalayan's skirt-cum-table architecture/apparel hybrid), the cornerstone of our future one could say. Take McQueen's S/S 2010 collection of deconstructionist footwear (in the sense of "something" having more than one interpretation). It's straight to the museum or a 'deconstructed' ankle for you my dear (in the 'pre-lude to reconstructive surgery' sense).

Case in point: Marloes ten Bhömer. His shoes are selling as both as footwear and artefacts, in equal measure. Not sure what my thoughts are on these....admirable use of recyclable materials and all....but the opaque tight in the last shot, really? Semi-geriatric, semi-ikea.... not so sure. Guess that's why you pop 'em on the mantlepiece instead.

http://www.thefuturelaboratory.com/about-us/the-team/martin-raymond/

http://www.virtualshoemuseum.com/vsm/index.php

sick tings on ebay this week

Nueva Rock

I say 'New Rock' and what do you think? Fifteen year old Camden days spent lounging by the canal, sweet n sour chicken in one hand and atticus tshirt in the other? Hours spent laughing at pubescent semi-goths with their Emily Strange hoodies and stripy knee high socks? (To be fair I didn't look much better....pink netting hoodies on a chubby frame with pigtails and combat trousers were not a peng look). A haggard, festering old punk who would do awful things to you in an alley behind the Good Mixer after one too many snakebites? I digress.

An ebay-enabled trip down memory lane this morning revealed quite a different story....granted the PVC-clad orthopedic look still reigns supreme.....but a handful (a teen-size handful mind) of their offerings are actually half decent, and even appropriate, for the average post-emo joe.

Those Spaniards know how to construct a sick ankle boot: check out the metal heel of offering number one, the 'snouty' toe on number two and the slip-rings on number three. As a friend scoffed at me on a recent night out, "oh, did you step in a bit of Camden on the way here?" Yes, yes i fucking did, and it felt good.

J

Polly Morgan

i think her work is beautiful. although the morbidity shocked me at first, as well as the brutal angle at which some of the carcasses had been positioned (the pigeon in particular), i think her work is actually rather empowering. all of these animals would have rotted or been preyed upon if she'd left them as roadkill, and the way in which she has displayed them emphasizes the beauty and fragility of animals that we overlook and disregard every day as common, un-extraordinary or pests. morgan's work raises awareness and i love it. over two grand for a dead bird though? think i'll stick to KFC.

anemone