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 Techno Textiles 2: Revolutionary Fabrics for Fashion and DesignThis book builds on the first edition's theme of technologically- innovative textiles, with a focus on explaining the textiles and showing their applications in architecture, design, fashion and art.Many of the materials covered have origins in military, space or heavy industry (a shirt, for instance, made partially with metal alloys that "remember" their original shape has roots in the European space program), but have been transformed by engineers, designers, architects and artists into improved (or just different) versions of objects traditionally made with plastic or natural fabric, i.e. three-dimensional embroidery, used for a vascular prosthesis; ceramic-based fabrics that conduct very little heat and make ideal fuel filters and swimwear; and woven polypropylene, as used in architectural applications. Examples are presented in a thoughtful layout that includes hundreds of bright photographs. more Techno Textiles 2: Revolutionary Fabrics for Fashion and Design design directory Techno Textiles 2: Revolutionary Fabrics for Fashion and Design > Textile Design Books added by Levent OZLER |
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 Sandals with Socks: a Fashion Trend of the Young HipEver since our middle-school science teacher wore Birkenstocks with sport socks, we've considered the sandals-and-socks combination to be one of fashion's biggest sins.But after watching Anna Sui, John Galliano and Rei Kawakubo send models down their catwalks wearing anklets with open heels, our position began to wobble. Then Hermès and Givenchy picked up on Balenciaga's fall tights-and-sandals concept. And a bevy of stylish celebrities -- including Julianne Moore and Jessica Alba -- started turning up on red carpets in open heels with opaque tights ... and, then, well, we had to admit: It looked pretty good. And that's where things got sticky. more www.new... (397) added by Senay GOKCEN |
 Paris Fashion Week: Cut Out the ConventionalThe Paris prêt-à-porter week that ended yesterday was the season of the shape-shifters and the scissor wizards; designers such as Stefano Pilati at Yves Saint Laurent, John Galliano, Marc Jacobs at Louis Vuitton and Nicolas Ghesquière at Balenciaga who cut, sliced and carved with surgical precision as they created new silhouettes for autumn/winter 2008/09.Themes or exotic inspirations were incidental and, if mentioned at all, were certainly secondary to evolving the shape of things to come. The secret lay in the ability to start from scratch and conceive the pattern that would be the template for the new silhouette. more www.tel... (165) added by Senay GOKCEN |
 British Designers Light Up Paris Fashion WeekAfter the relatively sedate shows and commercial clothes that came down the runways during the fall 2008 collections here, it was left up to a couple of Brits to put the fantasy back into Paris fashion week.Designers Alexander McQueen and John Galliano each presented over-the-top shows that were not only spectacular theatre but starred some extraordinarily beautiful clothes that provided a jolt the jaded fashion crowd needed from the lull of the week's lack of runway theatrics. On Friday night, Alexander McQueen presented a fantastical collection based on a fairy tale - The Girl Who Lived In The Tree. If that tale doesn't seem familiar from your Mother Goose days, never mind, it seems to be a concoction of this genius designer. more www.the... (130) added by Senay GOKCEN |
 Born Romantics: Nina Ricci, Alexander McQueen, John GallianoWith sweeping historicism and an embrace of nature, the final days of the autumn/winter 2008 season took a gentle turn, as though graphic modernism and shiny, metallic futurism were being rejected by born romantics.At Nina Ricci, Sunday's collection was tinged with the autumnal melancholy of golden leaves turning from saffron to ochre. It was a show about those gentle fall colorings, delicately treated - even thought the designer Olivier Theyskens said backstage: "I wasn't thinking so much about nature but about finding things in the attic." The shades of the fall season were glorious: teal blue and bois de rose among russet tones. But the clothes were infinitely more constrained and repetitive, with the daywear based on a snug jacket and pants with a jodhpur curve. more www.iht... (211) added by Senay GOKCEN |
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