INTERVIEW / 

'THE CONFESSIONS OF STEVE MCQUEEN' ON NOWNESS

THIS REALLY NEEDS TO BE LONGER..

PORTISHEAD / MACHINE GUN.

THERE IS NO OTHER PLACE.  NO ONE ELSE I FACE.

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just found this..

possibly my favourite show from the autumn/winter '10 season

kimsooja /

a needle woman (delhi), 1999

PRADA "FIRST SPRING" vs. CHANEL PARIS-SHANGHAI "A FANTASY"

brilliant fashion film in my opinion.  though i might just be saying that because i'm still reeling from the disaster that is Chanel Paris-Shanghai.  china is portrayed as both very traditional but also very modern and a surreal place of any possibilities.  the 'foreign travelers' are just as exoticised as their environment, and chinese models/actors are used to play chinese people.  well of course that would be the case anyway, but not for Karl's film where european models are clearly in yellowface.  yes why don't we get the video up:

this is only the second part (the rest can be viewed on the youtube user's channel or in full on www.chanel-paris-shanghai.com).  1.25 - 1.32 is just pure orientalism.  2.40 - 2.45 = LOL.


the same inspiration in both cases but one is internally generated, the other externally.  different executions and the results speak for themselves.

LUKE WORRALL // METAL MAGAZINE no18

CHANEL PARIS SHANGHAI

beautiful collection, amazingly made - you only need to watch the other 10 videos to see how much hard work went into each garment, but there's something more interesting going on here

chinoiserie is being sold back to China.

HEDI SLIMANE // OSCAR NILSSON

DUANE!!!

DOWN THE LINE

HAPPY SUNDAY

THE FITTING :: RAF SIMONS SS10

SIREN

We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or grand moments that signify.

Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson