A Haunting

COME WHAT MAY

Vrag Mag #7

Photographer Michaela Knizova

" I am student of New Media in Kosice, Slovakia. I am working with photography, performance and video art. I am inspired by fairy tales, legends about saints or Gothic movies. Reality is not used in my art, I mystify real life sometimes, and I change it into romanticism and fiction.

I am not sure if I have a haunted story with happy or funny end. I used to be a sleepwalker and I do strange things. Once, I found the red thread unravelled all over my room. And sometimes I’m standing over the bed of a sleeping boy or girl and watching him/her sleep. People sleeping near me may have strange dreams. "

- Michaela Knizova

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This photoshoot is so haunting. The photography is so beautiful. The colours are amazing, the faded blurry lighting and effects of the photoshoot reflect her blurred memory of when she's sleeping. All this really sets the dream like scene; is this a fairy tale, or a nightmare?

you want some candy girl??

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One of my favourite photographers of a good few years now; viktor vautier. Just love the colours of this shoot, both the clothing and the background compliment each other so well. I'm not much of a colour person but the candy floss shades are so sweet

TOURIST?

Imagine a beach; beautiful tanned people, sun rays gleaming to the fullest, cocktails flowing.. a lost tourist rocking sunglasses on a string, maybe a bucket hat, and the classic Hawaiian shirt? YES these are the most obvious associations the Hawaiian shirt faces, but there's something about that Honolulu landscape pattern that I find so HOT. Yeah, yeah whatever we're mid way through the frosty Winter season, but I can DEFINITELY day dream about a far, far away hot destination.. and wearing a Hawaiian shirt. I don't know why but I just being reminded of this pattern. I'm so pleased that new (and very talented) CSM graduate designer Maarten Van Der Horst has the same vision as I do. Take a look at this hot hot SS12 collection based on non other than the Hawaiian shirt. Oh how I love it.

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BITE ME

If London is what you want, then London is what you'll get. Eary is what you can call the narrator of true street style fashion of the modern, contemporary days. But there's a difference. Because of her impeccable tailoring background, each item is bespoke and made by the designer herself; this is where her designs really excel.

  

Even though she specialises in menswear, this youthful designer has got me drooling all over her collections; the girls got talent. You see a lot of urban, street trends around these days, what with the flat peek hats, hoodies, trainers and so on, but I really think she has taken what people like and made it her own.

 More recently I've been looking at fashion & film for one of my projects,

so I thought I'd just include this one to look at for the AW 10 collection

 

I love the styling for this I LOVE FAKE mag photo shoot

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Photography- Jolijn Snijders

Styling- Oliver Arlt 

vanitas symbols

A couple of years ago I came across Ashkan Honarvar; a Netherlands based, Iran born artist, who produces some really interesting and visually appealing, yet sometimes questionable, mixed-media collages, combining illustration with photographic images (have a look at his work here). And a couple of days ago I came across some of his recent work which was published in  I Love You mag , which was an artistic collaboration with stylist Kathi Kauder and photographer Sabrina Theissen.
In the collage series, Ashkan Honarvar used Vanitas symbols "in a search for the equilibrium between life and death". The images are made up of different animal eyes, body parts and flowers; a very contrasting mix soft and harsh imagery to represent animal instincts.

we like girls

GIRLS.

Can't stop listening to this band since I've been introduced to them, and last night at Rescue Rooms here in Nottingham I was chuffed to see them play live. I can't justify in explaining just how good they were; definitely like them even more now.

The lead singer Christopher Owens just looked so cool; he's definately got that extra something about him. His style was amazing.

I wanna be in a their gang.

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don't you know, ACNE is cool

I don't know what it is about Acne that I just love.

Even though it's not exactely what you would find me wearing, but everything from women's to men's, to the pre-collection; it never fails to disappoint.

The minimalistic, cool urban style really seems to be attractive, reflecting the modern day woman in a busy city.

The new S|S 12 collection saw the Acne girl a bit more relaxed and playful, with influences of Marrakesh being bought over to the Swedish fashion house. Candy hues such as light pinks, sky blues, mellow beiges and eye-popping oranges were mixed inbetween the classic uniform greys, blacks and whites. Though don’t be fooled; these minimalist colours were decorated with strips of metallic’s and contrasting leathers, as well as childlike (but very western) star shaped cut outs scattering around from the tops, to the skirts. The shapes of the clothing were not disappointing either. I love dip hems, and these seemed to be the shape of choice on this particular catwalk, adding some nicely different geometric lines through out the collection, complimenting what Acne does best; oversized, beautiful clothing.

 Daniel Silver's Work

So, I was more than impressed when Acne did a collaboration with London- based artist Daniel Silver to come up with a number of prints for Acne’s latest capsule collection. I respect designers who aren’t scared to collaborate with a brand/ company/ person beyond the obvious, and Acne have presented an amazing example of a fantastically done collection with artistic references. I love the lookbook for this collection as well, great lighting and layout; the contrasting background colours work a treat against the colourful clothing. The geometric shapes of the models clothes are being reflected nicely in her surrounding. The cropped images also work well in the series of photos, adding to the quirkiness of the whole collection.

Acne | Daniel Silver Capsule Collection from Acne Studios on Vimeo.

this leather jacket is just AMAZING

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Not only does Acne have amazing clothing, but it also has a great new website platform

'Acne Paper' is also definately worth having a look at..

, its their online magazine and its content really works well with the whole brand image and what it stands for