Content vs. Style
Yesterday I clicked through some links on a post regarding first rumors about a police spy or even an Agent Provocateur among anti G8 demonstrators. On one TV report I saw the following and was quite confused:
The guy with the S******t logo on his back was delivered to the police as an exposed police spy
Maybe the style reminds a little bit of band logos that demonstrators could potentially have on their sweaters. However, the police research team apparently forgot to explore the content side of things.
Today I found a statement on NoSp where an eyewitness reports that one of his doubts regarding that guy appeared when he saw the band logo: “New Metal badges are absolutely not typical in the scene!” he claims.
Recent addition to my christmas wishlist
Charity t-shirts designed by Marc Jacobs
This is the last Winona posting. In this week.
Built By Wendy.
I just discovered this fashion brand called “Built by Wendy”. It was love at first sight and people who know me will definitely know why. “Built by Wendy” is the clothing line by Chicago based designer Wendy Mullin. Her style is reflected in a personal identification with family and culture through her memories and interest in the following themes such like her hometown, music, books & movies, sports, animals & nature.
Wendy learned how to sew from her mom and grandma. Later she studied by day and sewed by night, selling her handmade clothes to record stores in different cities. In 1992 she moved to New York where she opened little boutiques in the back of record stores where she worked. After gaining some publicity due to the popularity of her guitar straps, she began wholesaling her clothing collection worldwide and finally opened her first retail store in Little Italy in 1998. Unfortunately there is no store available in europe (just NYC, Brooklyn and L.A.) but there is a nice onlineshop where you can purchase most of the stuff.
But the best things are the available sewing patterns on which you can sew your own “Built by Wendy” collection. Great idea and time for me to set up my PFAFF sewing machine again!
Use e Getta. UEG.
I just stumbled across this website. It is about a fashion project called UEG. The project is the brainchild of polish duo Ania Kucznska (she is a fashion designer) and Michal Lojewski (he is a graphic designer) from warsaw. I have always had a crush on concepts that deal with momentariness and that is what UEG products do. Their garments are made of paper-like material called Tyvek (you can even machine wash them cold) and the designs printed on it are intended to fade, crack and gradually disappear.
The garments are all white and come in identical stylish cardboxes. They also offer nice ipod cases and bags.
They say about themself: “UEG is a project designed to play on the concept of consumption, using laguage of symbols and icons to remind the wearer of the inconsistency of today’s existence, how everything literally washes off of us. The name ‘Use e Getta’, in italian means ‘use and throw away.’ It is this premise of desirable objects designed to deteriorate that drives the whole project.”
I think i have to get a jacket soon. If you are living in berlin you can buy it here. There are also shops in tokyo, athens and warsaw.
A.P.C. Madras Collection.
One of my favourite fashion labels is A.P.C. from france. The A.P.C. style is minimalistic and classic with nice high quality fabrics for men and women. They just uploaded their new Madras collection, which is their highly limited special summer collection. Madras cotton—also known as the madras check or bleeding madras— is a textile, which combines a rainbow of small striped or plaid squares and is the basic fabric used in their collection. The yearly Madras collection is a collaboration between british designer Jessica Odgen and A.P.C.s Jean Touitou. Check out the website. If you are not lucky like me having an A.P.C. store just around the corner you can also order stuff online via their website.
