I went to the local recycle centre the other day and got a lovely set of blue and white cameos and white baubles to stick onto a hat I'm currently doing.
I also got a load of pure cotton both Rowan (white) and some stuff from demark (blue) and some that is a brand I've never heard of (also blue). About 30 balls in total for £2.00.
I'm thinking of re spinning the blue ones with some Jacob I have left over from the last lot of fleeces and some merino I have in bright mixed colours that or re spinning it with the dress netting I still haven't knit with . I'm also thinking of trying to dye the white Rowan.
Saturday, 27 June 2009
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Spectres: When Fashion Turns Back
Photographs from one of my favourite books
Spectres sets out to reveal the shadows and experiences that form a 'fashion memory' in contemporary dress. In showing the hidden, yet haunting, connections between recent fashion and its past, it uses pieces drawn from avant-garde designers, from the V&A fashion collection and from the archive at ModeMuseum in Antwerp.
Set up as a series of fairground attractions, Spectres invites the visitor into a labyrinth of associations: a shadow lantern throws silhouettes, enlarged maquettes look like games for grown-ups, rotating cogs make and break patterns.
In creating this experimental show, fashion curator Judith Clark invited fashion illustrator Ruben Toledo to provide the drawings, avant-garde jeweller Naomi Filmer to create mannequin prosthetics and fashion theorist Caroline Evans to lend quotations that evoke the complexity of dress today.
Elsa Shiaperelli The Skeleton Dress 1938
Dries Van Noten S/S 2000
Hamish Morrow SS 02
Hamish Morrow SS 02
Gaultier HC/S/S 04
Jurgi Persoons Lace Dress A/W 99/00
Doir spring/summer1959
McQueen A/W 01/02
Elsa Shiaparelli Circus Jacket detail 1937
Ann Demeulemeester autumn/winter 04/05 - A.F Vandevorst leather corset with saddle, khaki felt frock coat and pants A/W98/99
Yohji Yamamoto autumn/winter1991/92
Chanel HC by Largerfeld S/S 02
Gown detail silk polonaise late 1770's Dress coat and waistcoat, silk 1745
Dress with floral detail 1955/60
Installation Ruben Toledo
Installation Ruben Toledo
Installation Ruben Toledo
Installation Naomi Filmer
Installation Naomi Filmer
Installation Naomi Filmer
Geisha fashion photographs and Dream Garden
I found these lovely geisha photoshoots in the newspapers glossy last weekend. Impossible hairstyles but so fresh and summery. I also found these garden photographs that would go beautifully in ours
Sunday, 21 June 2009
Deer in the back Garden
We have quite few deer around the place and the little one that we put out hay for in the winter has started to come up o the back garden and munch on the grass outside the kitchen window.
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