Rudimentary Perfection

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Check out this new project, UK’s first comprehensive Graffiti Exhibition featuring SheOne, Duncan Jago, Jaybo Monk, Matt W. Moore, Augustine Kofie, Nawer, Morten Andersen, Poesia, Derm, and Mark Lyken. Street Art is coming hard.. don’t miss it out!

Also check out their blog for more info, photos and to keep yourself updated on these!

—->http://rudimentaryperfection.blogspot.com/

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long live McQueen

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Recently I have started using Polyvore, so far I have 2 sets done, hurray for me! and I thought I’d do one of Alexander McQueen since soon I will be in the presence of his creations at the MET in New York City on his posthumous exhibition titled Savage Beauty. To me, Alexander McQueen was beyond a fashion designer, he was an artist, a genius. Throughout his collections he talked about religion, politics, history, romance and told so many stories, which evoked what we are as humans. He was intense and many people qualify his work as bizarre and disturbing, however who said that art is color rose all the time? I have a humongous blog post coming up on what is art to me, so watch out.

Street Art has an influence in Fashion.

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Prada is for sure highly influenced by street art, just notice, doesn’t that banana Spring 2011 “minimal baroque” print resemble to the humongous Blu Mural in Managua, Nicaragua from 2005? I’ll leave you with the thought. There

Street Art has definitely had a big influence in the fashion world over the last few years, with Vogue Paris collaborating with KAWS, a New York-based artist and designer of limited edition toys and clothing, creating a merge between fashion and graffiti, and simultaneously a fabulous editorial spread. The Graffi-Couture editorial is from Vogue Paris 2009 november edition featuring stunning Raquel Zimmerman. Anyhow the most outstanding part of this editorial has to be the KAWS graffitti.

Also my country is not very far behind, street art from artists like INSANO have served as backdrop for an Ad Campaign to a department store named Collins. The colors from the mural clearly serving as an inspiration to the styling of the shoot, with the colour blocking trend right in the bakery oven.

We are hoping for a bright future that would merge street art and fashion!!

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check BLU> www.blublu.org

check KAWS > www.kaws.com

check INSANO> www.insanostudio.com

Style is primarily a matter of instinct.

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Picture by. Scott Schuman

Recently i was looking through some old files from The Sartorialist. Scott’s blog contains an epic amount of pictures of people that have a unique style, but there was one picture that REALLY caught my attention out of all and I will never forget. It was a shot of a homeless man.

Scott said “I don’t usually shoot homeless people. I don’t find it romantic or appealing like a lot of street photographers, and if you asked homeless people they are probably not to happy about their situation either. That’s why I was surprised to be so drawn to taking a picture of this gentleman.

I was being interviewed for an article in British Vogue; and while we walked down Bowery back in April I barely stopped walking when I took the shot. Fiona Golfar, the writer, asked why I took the photo. At that moment I couldn’t really explain – but I just had a feeling about the power and grace of how he was sitting there. It wasn’t until later that night when I was working on the image that I realized why I had noticed this man.

Usually people in this man’s position have given up hope. Maybe this gentleman has too, I don’t know, but he hasn’t given up his sense of self or his sense of expressing something about himself to the world. This shot isn’t about fashion – but about someone who, while down on his luck, hasn’t lost his need to communicate and express himself through style.”

I was drawn too, to this picture. Very powerful shot that conveys a sense of hope and dignity, without losing style. As I was observing this picture, I noticed the blue  framed glasses matched with his boots and as well as the details on the gloves and the  socks. Those, being details that usually people don’t pay attention to, are what makes this shot as great as it is.  As the great Bill Blass once said “Style is primarily a matter of instinct.”