Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Christopher Bailey Introduces Burberry 121 Regent Street, London

Sunday, September 30, 2012


THE BURBERRY FLAGSHIPSTORE THAT MAKES APPLE STORES LOOK LIKE VICTORIAN

In one of my earlier posts. In my post I’ve written about multi sensory experience high end fashion stores. In a world where the average person sees 3,000 advertisements a day, the only way to stand out is by delivering a multi-sensory experience customers won’t forget. Creating, engaging experiences by using music, video and digital signage, messaging, scent, and audio/visual systems to personify and enhance brands to create lasting connections that encourage customer loyalty.

As on 26 April 2012 starts Burberry with BURBERRY WORLD LIVE, Burberry worlds of British Heritage, Fashion, Music and Weather to celebrate the opening of the Burberry Taiwan flagship store at Taipei 101.

The online community Burberry created as a digitally elevated audiovisual shopping experience, connecting consumers with not only their products, but integrating music and video as well to engage and entertain.”


Last week on Thursday 28-09-12 Burberry opened a new flagship store on London's Regent Street, packed with technological goodies and huge video walls that magically interact with you when you walk up to them. One of the biggest projects ever undertaken by the fashion house, the huge store on Europe's premiere shopping street includes "immersive audiovisual experiences" from nearly 500 speakers and 100 screens that "closely engage customers through emotive brand content including disruptive digital takeovers, such as rain showers synchronised across all screens and speakers at selected moments throughout the day".

Surprising new shopping trends and unexpected gender twists are pushing big name luxury brands to new heights. A new breed of big spenders is out in full force, where men shop like ladies and women spend like men. Beyond the role reversal there’s a new group of shoppers with a spending habit that’s setting the luxury world on fire. 


Thursday, September 6, 2012


EXCLUSIVE BALENCIAGA RESORT 2013 VIDEO

Nicolas Ghesquière may have been thinking ballet when he designed his Resort 2013 collection for Balenciaga,A surprise discovery of costumes that Cristobal Balenciaga made for a ballet performance of Ravel'sBoléro in the 1930's inspired Nicolas Ghesquière's new pre-collection. Not just the fluidity but also the color palette: baby blue, baby pink, and a barely-there shade of yellow he called bergamot.
But when it came time to create a video for the season, his mind had turned to opera.
It’s worth a watch, as gorgeous as the Steven Meisel-shot clip premiering online on sept.6th.










Sunday, August 26, 2012


FASHION FETISH

Browsing through the newst/ latest fashion films. I always take a look at showstudio SHOWstudio - the home of fashion films.


Between March 22 and June 1th of this year, SHOWstudio decided to offer an EXHIBITION made up of exclusively women artists looking at sex and nudity - examining a woman's version of a woman and asking how it differs from a man’s.

Titled provocatively - and philosophically – SELLING SEX it examines the 'self-other' relationship by featuring all female artists and examining their unique relationships to sex and the female nude. As it is a well known fact that the majority of images we consume are created by men. Only 8% of the work exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art is created by women, that the Tate’s female holdings amount to a meagre 15%, and that the statistics are similarly bleak in commercial galleries, it's a pretty shocking state of affairs. What's more, this imbalance doesn't only exist in fine art. In FASHION major campaigns are predominantly shot by top male photographers. And it's in film, where women hold only 33% of all speaking roles and only 7% of all directors in Hollywood are women.  And there remain only three industries in which women earn more money than men - pornography, prostitution and modeling. What does that tell us? 

Alongside the 2012 SHOWstudio Shop exhibition Selling Sex, SHOWstudio launches a unique project under the provocative title Fashion Fetish. Created entirely by women working in fashion - including Ruth Hogben, Daphne Guinness, Liberty Ross, Rei Nadel, Asia Argento, Aimee Mullins and Dasha Zhukova of Garage magazine - these fashion films, performances and multi-media pieces make a comment on the fusion of fashion with fetish, a contentious and provocative subject. One piece will be released each week for the duration of the Selling Sex exhibition, and beyond.

If, historically speaking, a fetish is a manufactured object which has magical powers, or one that people are irrationally devoted to, fashion is a veritable fetish-factory of 'It' shoes, 'Now' bags, and garments that magically propose to make your life indefinably better. On a less abstract level, fashion has been obsessed with sexual fetishism for centuries. The subtle constraint of the corset, the snugly-gloved hand, a shiny boot of leather - all staples of the well-dressed man or woman, and equally the well-equipped Sado-Masochist. At the turn of the twentieth century, the Pandora's Box of fashion fetish was blown apart - from Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren's proposal of 'rubberwear for the office' in their seminal London boutique SEX, to Gianni Versace's sanitised 'Bondage Chic' of 1992, to the power of John Galliano's 'Sado-Maso' haute couture collection for Christian Dior in 2000, designers articulated the sexual peccadilloes of a select few across the international catwalks. It's fetish as fashion.

Coinciding with the display of her 'Armour for Prostitutes' in SHOWstudio's 'Selling Sex' exhibition, latex doyenne, Japanese-born Atsuko Kudo provides a lesson in dressing for pleasure. Slowly enveloping a nude model in layers of rubbery fabric live on camera, Kudo offers a unique, and subversively fetishistic, exploration of the dialogue between clothing and empowerment.

I like the way she wants to show how latex can look and what it can do to as many people as possible. As she talks about superwoman. I like the complete picture which is more like Catwoman then Superwoman to me. As I still can remember the Movie Batman and Catwoman. And Michelle Pfeiffer as catwoman, dressed in the most tighter then tight catsuit made of latex. Which also happens to be also the first time not to have any resembles of cheap outfits made by latex. And more fashion related the cover the `Magazin the FACE Phoebe Philo (now headdesigner of Celine, just to know for the few not knowing) wearing sunglasses by Sophia Kokosalaki a model of Catwoman.
As this movie is quite long and pretty slow, it might be the subject, I don’t know, but it kept me watching it, till the end…




More videos from SHOWstudio (playlist)

Tuesday, July 3, 2012


2012 London Olympics, 1 ticket USA Team Volleyball (VO030A) SOLD

I have 1 ticket to sell, I put it on ebay as a listed items, starting today, for the London 2012 Olympics Men’s Volleyball (VO030), Category A

Date: August 6, 2012 20.00-23.30
Venue: Earls Court, Row 8, Seat 278

Events scheduled at the session include:

20:00 - 21:30
Men's Preliminary Pool B USA v TUN
22:00 - 23:30
Men's Preliminary Pool B BRA v GER
The ticket comes with an all-day London travelcard as well.

I have the ticket in hand and are ready to ship. I am not a broker.

International shipping costs track, trace and secured 30 us Dollars

National Shipping costs 6.75 euro, track-trace and secured 13.50

I will only accept PayPal as the method of shipment.

No returns accepted

http://my.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MyEbayBeta&CurrentPage=MyeBayNextSelling&ssPageName=STRK:ME:LNLK:MESEX 



 

Monday, June 18, 2012