Snarkitecture

Snarkitecture is a collaborative practice operating in territories between the disciplines of art and architecture. Working within existing spaces or in collaboration with other artists and designers, the practice focuses on the investigation of structure, material and program and how these elements can be manipulated to serve new and imaginative purposes. Searching for sites within architecture with the possibility for confusion or misuse, Snarkitecture aims to make architecture perform the unexpected.Snarkitecture was established by Alex Mustonen and Daniel Arsham.

Silver Rings by Alice Florizelle

Saint-Petersburg based designer Alice Florizelle creates lovely silver rings using a lot of metaphors in a small sculpting forms. Check her collection below

Gareth Pugh Spring/Summer 2015 Collection

When it comes to showcasing Gareth Pugh fashion, I leave all the work behind and sit down to write this in a onebreathe. Hence the new Spring/Summer 2015 collection deeply reminds me the work of Leon Bakst but imagine he met Nosferatu or someone from the dark side of Pagan mythology, deep, dark and captivating. Gareth Pugh caused a stir for S/S 15 by eschewing his usual slot on the Paris Fashion Week schedule and kicking off New York Fashion Week with an immersive live experience, made in collaboration with Lexus. The event featured three short films that combined Pugh’s designs with performances by models, choreographed by Wayne McGregor. Filmmaker and artist Andrew Thomas Huang served as creative director. SHOWstudio is proud to exclusively release the films - Megalith, Chaos, and Ascension - alongside a gallery of images that show off Pugh's S/S 15 collection in detail.

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Paper Art by Asya Kozina

When paper sculpture become an obsession things turns to art. Welcome Asya Kozina from Saint Petersburg - artist who levels up the paper art to the fashion and sculptural level.

Denef Huvaj

Istanbul-based photographer Denef Huvaj experiments with all types of image capturing to captivate the viewer interest. Check her works on www.denefhuvaj.com

Aurora Fashion Week SS15

Earlier last month Designcollector dispatched fashion force in the middle of Saint-Petersburg Fashion Week - Aurora Fashion Week X. Talented photographer Sonya Mudvex came back with a decent review (hence on Russian) on what has happened on the catwalk.

9-18 октября в Санкт-Петербурге Международная Неделя моды AURORA FASHION WEEK Russia отметила свой X юбилейный сезон.

Международная Неделя моды AURORA FASHION WEEK Russia SS15 в этом сезоне была посвященна интеграции моды с самыми актуальными направлениями современной культуры: ART × FASHION, CINEMA × FASHION, FOOD × FASHION, MUSIC × FASHION.

Sonya Mudvex от лица Designcollector посетила дни подиумной программы и сделала современный модный отчет через актуальный Instagram.

DAY 1

Сhapurin

Один из самых популярных и актуальных российских модельеров. "Эта коллекция – про отдых, про счастье, про круизные лайнеры и яхты. Она для тех, кто умеет или только учится отдыхать" Игорь Чапурин

Off Strand: Pitchouguina, A-Line

Young designer fashion label based in London with nostalgic aesthetic.

ZDDZ London (UK)

ZDDZ London– молодая британская марка одежды с русскими корнями от выпускницы Central Saint Martins Даши Сельяновой

DAY 2

«Новые имена в дизайне 2014» от «Собака.ru»

Финалисты конкурса «Новые имена в дизайне», организованном журналом Собака.ru

Среди них — Ксения Герц с минималистичными платьями, молодой украинский авангардист Жан Грицфельдт, жизнерадостные коллекции Chooza, вещи с анатомическим кроем N. Legenda, интеллектуальный дизайн московских марок Leka, VikaJulia и Olga_Plеnkina и стритвэар от Materia.

Artem Shumov (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)

Артем Шумов представил мужскую коллекцию Artem Shumov FW 13-14. Концепция коллекции базируется на идее удобства и минимализма мужских ансамблей начала XX века.

Liza Odinokikh (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)

Liza Odinokikh – это достаточно молодой бренд женской одежды, который был создан в 2012 году. Дизайнер и глава бренда Лиза Одиноких.

DAY 3

Litkovskaya (Ukraine)

Лилия Литковская является одним из наиболее востребованных и популярных украинских дизайнеров, чей стиль критики мира моды относят к направлению интеллектуальной моды.

Arctic Explorer (Moscow, Russia)

Arctic Explorer – молодая, но очень успешная марка одежды московской it girl Ксенией Чилингаровой, которая, вдохновившись подвигами своего известного отца, полярника Артура Чилингарова, запустила собственную линию одежды.

Saint-Tokyo (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)

Saint-Tokyo – молодой бренд петербургского дизайнера Юрия Питенина, основной концепцией творчества которого является столкновение Европы и Азии.

Maison Kitsuné (France)

Maison Kitsuné – культовый французский streetwear бренд, основанный бывшим арт-директором Daft Punk Gildas Loaëc и японским дизайнером Masaya Kuroki как продолжение французского рекорд лейбла Kitsune, который специализируется на электронной музыке.

New from Mago Dovjenko

High profiled German illustrator Mago Dovjenko poured a huge amount of new works to his portfolio. Working on the edge of fashion and music he illustrates daily trends mixing all that styles in one epic cocktail. Mago still holds a record to be the youngest artist ever worked with high brands like Nike when he was 14 years old. Approach his works on magodovjenko.com

Dom Sebastian

Dom Sebastian is a 19 year old London based designer. I personally liked his glitchy "Holographic Melt Series" "It’s not very often that you find a fashion designer who branches out into other fields within the creative spectrum and conquers them all. Dom Sebastian is a master of graphic design, art and music as well as fashion design. Each artistic practice inspiring his bold and unique designs" - P I T C H Zine

Alexander Wang x H&M

Designcollector is being a bit fashionista these days visiting Aurora Fashion Week in St.Petersburg that we going to cover later. Meanwhile we extremely enjoyed the black tidal wave coming from Alexander Wang recent capsule collection for H&M "Tonight’s Alexander Wang x H&M show at the Armory on the Hudson, way uptown on 169th Street, began with a video. Isabeli Fontana did her best Keanu Reeves, performing Matrix-like stunts, while Joan Smalls played the daredevil on a snowboard. They had nothing, though, on the parkour guys who rappelled from the rafters to throw their bodies around on trampolines and show off their cores of steel. If you haven’t got the point by now of Wang’s collaboration with the Swedish fast-fashion giant (it’d be hard not to, what with the full-court press PR campaign), we’ll spell it out. Hard. Core. Sport. " via Style

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3D Steam Stretch by Issey Miyake

Yoshiyuki Miyamae, Issey Miyake Designer: "The theme of this collection is "windscape". Wind is wind, and the "scape" is kind of the landscape." Paris Fashion Week got a glimpse of some new innovative new fabric created by Issey Miyake for the Japanese fashion brand's wind-inspired spring/summer 2015 collection. A technique known as "3D Steam Stretch". Watch the mesmerising video below

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Neklesa

I am pretty hyped to present you the digital printed scarf created by our awesome interior design editor Anna Neklesa. Check her website and the video below

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"Cause you can't break me" The short commercial video for NEKLESA based on the concept of a pure feminine strength and inner power what leads us forward no matter what.

Digital printed scarf Size: 136x100 cm 100% silk Dry clean only Made in the UK

Concept Anna Neklesa, Paulina Cheese Director of photography Paulina Cheese Postproduction Anna Neklesa, Paulina Cheese Model Olga Parmenova Hair and make-up Nina Aleshina Original music by Vienna Ditto

Photo Manipulations by Joseph Alexander

LA-based photographer Joseph Alexander creates impressive images with a strong emphasis on photo manipulation and retouching. Joseph explores androgyny and intersexual themes - not only gender but also something more of an inter-species. He again uses negative space, simple composition and lots of colour. via

Kei Meguro

Kei Meguro was born and raised in Tokyo now live and work in New York. She has been drawing since her childhood and today she collaborates with clients like Chanel, Wallpaper Magazine, Nylon Magazine. That means never stop doing your childhood hobbies, maybe one day they will be your life.

Dressing The Screen identity

Bilingual Identity for a new international British Council exhibition Dressing the Screen: The Rise of Fashion Film. The work has been created by a Moscow-based trio of young designers Roma Lazarev, Kir Khachaturov and Vladislav Poliakov and recently won the Yellow Pencil at D&AD 2014 New Blood The basis of our concept is a well-known optical effect animating static images discovered in the early XIX century by a prominent English scientist Peter Mark Roger. Today it is mostly known as “motograph” or “scanimation”. This breakthrough played a significant role in the history of filmmaking. Inspired by the “motograph” effect and experimental photoworks by a great fashion photographer Erwin Blumenfeld, we created a special font and developed a system reflecting the high-fashion and moving image nature of the exhibition and reminding of the pioneering role that Great Britain played in the development of fashion film.

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'1984' Stealth Fashion for the Under-Surveillance Society

Our friends from The Affair concept tees store came up with a great idea of digital escapism in a modern society. Inspired by "1984" book and recent news headlines guys created a capsule collection of the post-digital era robes and enhanced it with UnPocket™ special sack made by stealth technology from a special police fabrique. Preorder 1984 collection on Kickstarter stay invisible and #GoDark.

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Ballpoint Pen Art by Ler Huang

Ler Huang is a highly talented artist from Taiwan who creates these experimental drawings with ballpoint pens. Her works mainly showcase fashion illustarions, and female models. Transitions in subjects and geometry usage in her compositions are very interesting. via

Greetings from California by Damien Vignaux

Greetings from California is a video postcard created by talented fashion and model photographer Damien Vignaux best known as Elroy. The film also includes backstage material of 4 photoshoots he had with great models : Steffie Cook, Brianna Olenslager, Sophia Mondi and Courteney McCullough. You can see more of the photo sets on Damien's Tumblr : elroyo.tumblr.com http://vimeo.com/103597061

Marble Surfboards by Alexander Wang x Haydenshapes

When fashion meets sport aesthetics there is a field for contemporary art. The latest Cage installation at Alexander Wang’s Soho flagship store features five marble print surfboards, exclusively created by Haydenshapes for this installation.

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Interactive Fashion by The Unseen

"The air is made up of many different components that are products of our environment, including pollution, moisture, and more. London-based artist Lauren Bowker and her material exploration studio THE UNSEEN have developed a form of ink that’s reactive to the different fluctuations in the wind as well as our own body. It’s demonstrated in a couture capsule collection entitled Air, which was designed for Swarovski and presented during London’s Fashion Week 2014." via

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Scarves by Slow Factory

This decade is definitely facing a juxtaposition of science and fashion, here is another great example of this trend. "We believe in creating timeless pieces with the world in mind. Our sustainable essentials are handcrafted and consciously made with craftspeople all around the world. Slow Factory is the link between our world and galaxies whose distance reaches places beyond our imagination. Today, we are here, and we are all inherently connected."