Stylist // Laura Whitehead
Model // Helen Marchant
Photographer // Laura Woolner
Tuesday 31 May 2011
Tuesday 24 May 2011
Sunday 22 May 2011
Maria Blaisse
Friday 13 May 2011
Cocooning Silhouette
LANVIN
STELLA MCCARTNEY
YVES SAINT LAURENT
This season the cocooning silhouette has been showcased in a lot of designers shows. I particularly like the cocoon shaped sleeve, as it resembles the modern architecture.
Cosmic Wonder - Paper Collection
The Center for COSMIC WONDER, was founded in 2007, and was designed to integrate all of these various activities. Besides functioning as a gallery space for art and concerts, it is a place where visitors can share the experience of an unusual space. Sheltered from the daily march of time, visitors here are free to drift along with the flow of sounds in the universe.
I looked at a collection called the Paper Collection, I liked how the simple silhouettes wrap around the body and how they are created from an everyday item such as paper. This is functional however not practical, but still something I can take into consideration.
Wednesday 11 May 2011
The Cocooning Sleeve
LANVIN
JILL SANDER
STELLA MCCARTNEY
This summer in Paris designers such as Lanvin, Jill Sander, Stella McCartney and Yves Saint Laurent all show cased simple silhouettes with beautiful cocooning silhouettes.
Kotaro Ide - The Shell House
The 'Shell House' by architect Kotaro Ide, is a sculptural shell-like structure which has been built in the woods of Karuizawa, located in the nagano prefecture of japan. The house is meant to function as a vacation home, which is able to withstand the humid summers and cold winters of the region. To accomplish this, ide opted not to use the typical wood structure of villas in the area because of their susceptibility to decay easily, instead, he used reinforced concrete to construct two elliptical shell forms which are supposed to represent a conch.
From it's profile, 'shell house' takes on a j-shape which is raised above the ground by 1400 mm resulting in the floating' masses, Ulin wood is used to create terraces around the home with a courtyard into the centre of the main living areas. The villa's simple aesthetic lends itself well to the traditional japanese landscape, creating a balance between the futuristic man-made structure and the environment which surrounds it.
I love how even though the building is made up of simple modern structures it still creates a warm, cocooning homely feel.
Atelier Hitoshi Abe
In designing tenant buildings for which the interiors will be determined afterwards, rather than defining the spaces, it is important that there is a wide spatial potential. For example, the freedom to build walls in any arrangement is more important than how the walls are actually arranged.The access routes to each space are thereby multiplied; other possibilities for grouping the spaces arise, enabling integrated usages or tenants that cover several floors. Additionally, the four variations in floor height and the flexibly organized mechanical services allow a variety of spatial choices. I really like the akward but functional shapes these buildings create.
Saturday 7 May 2011
Comme des Garcon-Unique Identity
Wear and Tear
Diane Arbus
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