Photography by Tim Barber

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Tim Barber is a well known photographer from the US. He shot many celebrities for editorial purposes, such as Wilem Dafoe or Alex Kapranos. Besides his work as a photographer he’s also into design and art curation for a website he founded in 2005 called Tinyvices. Discover a selection of his clichés in the article & more to see on his portfolio.

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Photography by Philip-Lorca diCorcia

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Philip-Lorca diCorcia is a 60 years old American photographer. Whether it’s about true moments or conceptual instants, his pictures capture whatever is worth keeping, noting or being looked at later. The limit between concepts & documentary is so thin you’ll love the work. Discover more of his work on the Thecollectiveshift‘s website.

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Atton Conrad

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Atton Conrad O’murchadha is a London based advertising and art photographer. “I love technology, I have used photoshop for over a decade, but there is a certain quality I want to create that is unobtainable by the usual route alone”. Unique results created by unique methodology. Conrad continues to work on commercial team projects, using all forms of lighting, and developing his personal fine art and video projects available on attonconrad.com

Fashion attack by Tara Dougans

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A second fashion attack by Tara Dougans mimicking and reworking men fashion haute-coutre in illustrative way, now made after Paris Fashion Week. "Originally concepted as an 'animated editorial', the project kicked off shortly after Paris Fashion Week Menswear in January. Inspired by the Burmese proverb 'beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting', the idea was to juxtapose the subtle stoicism of menswear imagery with a cheeky animated wink. Having previously worked almost exclusive with pencil, the aim was to create a multisensory experience without losing the feel of handcraftsmanship."

http://vimeo.com/44189505

Menswear F/W 2012: An Animated Editorial Illustration and Direction by Tara Dougans Original Score by Johnston Sheard

View full series on Tara's Behance

Alexander McQueen goes GIF-tastic

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GIF animation experiences the second revival and goes through amazing cinemagraphic strictly to experimental fashion films. One of the first to experiment with it comes Alexander McQueen fashion house that continually strives to reinvent and transform its’ image. Check this campaign film featuring the Alexander McQueen Autumn/Winter 2012 Collection, directed by David Sims and featuring Suvi Koponen.

Bye-bye our self-proclaimed trend "fidget noir", hello eyes killing Post-GIF.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5wXXJpQyxg&feature=player_embedded

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Lorena Prain illustration

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Lorena Prain - illustrator based in Madrid works in recognizable manner mixing fashion related illustration with puberty female portraiture what emphasize the fault world of fashion.

"I'm more drawn to the feminine world than the masculine, it's easier for me to express myself through that language"

she says for Dazed Digital in objective interview.

Hard Graft

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This is a rare type of post when we feature craftsmen but Hard Graft wins a full attention. The masters of premium italian leather and wool felt knows how to keep all you gadgets and other urban nomad things all together with a modern twist.

Hard Graft is a perfectionist duo - monie.ka and James based in London, UK. They do design and produce sleek objects of desire in Italian workshop called "The Brothers". Stitch to stitch, button to button their products are a real aesthetic heritage available for purchase and delivery right now (pity they don't deliver with DHL or UPS to Russia, and that is a real torment for us).

Iryna Gorelikova fashion graduation

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Designcollector is a place for revealing upcoming artist and cares more when it comes to cover new stars from Russian-speaking community. This time we want to feature fresh fashion graduate from Ravensbourne, London; London College Of Fashion - Iryna Gorelikova. Born in Sebastopol, Ukraine, Iryna first completed same university as me in Saint-Petersburg (SUTD). Worth to mention some coincidence that another university fellow and quite famous London fashion designer David Koma was in jury for Iryna. Clap-clap-clap.

Iryna Gorelikova collection, Ravensbourne 2012

Reflecting today’s time, worldwide crises, natural disasters, the rapid growthof social media is the evidence that the world is transforming into new forms of reality.

A dissertation written, with the lead question ‘What is Innovation in Fashion Today? Rei Kawakubo’s phenomenon’, visited lectures in Economics at LSE and Alan Moor’s ‘No straight Lines: making sense of our non-linear world’ talk, were found as primary sources for the main concept for the final collection. The study shows that the world changes from linear to nonlinear existence and one of the most successful business companies today, due to a crisis condition, the Lego Group, with its flagship product, Lego constructor. Lego consists of colourful interlocking plastic bricks and various other parts. After this case study a ‘LEGO concept’ has been found. The main colour of the collection is black and represents our current linear world in combination with other bright colours, like colourful Lego bricks, that are hidden inside of garments (lining) represent the ‘non-linear world’. The use of special metal buttons that by their shape are very similar to Lego bricks, which give to garments a feeling of bricks of clothes that can be assembled and connected in many ways. Anything constructed can be taken apart again. For instance, a dress can be deconstructed into a skirt and a jumpsuit, and so on.

A classical school of pattern making appears in the heart of each look which during the process of FMP development transforms and reflects today’s shapes and silhouettes. Main techniques and features used for building the collection are hand sewing, felting, mixed texture of black fabrics; hats and rings as accessorises.

Autumn/Winter Avant-garde /Concept womenswear Collection is based on, luxury production, expensive fabrics: different types of wool, cashmere; textured, thickness.

RAVENSBOURNE 2012 LIVE: Gala Fashion Show Skip to 36:00 for Iryna Gorelikova collection

http://vimeo.com/44096504