Chanel: Paris-Bombay--Metiers d'art 2011/2012

Asher Levine Spring/Summer 2012 Part 1

Parke & Roenen Spring Menswear 2012: Part 5 Final Part

Alexander Mc Queen Fall Menswear 2011

"For all anyone knew, the guys might have been from Kentucky or Kazakhstan, but dressed in McQueen, they were rough trade for Oscar Wilde, or stiff-upper-lippers in a Powell and Pressburger celluloid classic from the second World War, or military cadets from the Napoleonic Wars. The genetic blessing of bone structure and Guido Palau's spic-and-span public schoolboy hair had something to do with the effect, but ultimately, it was Sarah Burton's clothes that enabled the models to communicate a sweep of English man style

Dirk Bikkembergs Fall 2011 Collection

My Last Fashion Visuals Assignment

Ok our last assignment was to make an actual garment inspired from something or someone in the 1960's.  Well kids my inspiration of course was none other than the Judy Garland Show on CBS 193-1964.  We had a $30.00 budget and we had to remake something from Goodwill.  Well mdel Angela Pino wears my COUTURE!!!  Fabulous, huh?  All of that Black Lace was added and the patterns to the wedding dress I found were dramatically altered.  Will post the mood board pics as soon As I get it back and not yet sure of my grade either but I just had to share.

Couture TO DIE FOR---kids it gets NO BETTER than this

Beijing-based couturier extraordinairie Guo Pei has been getting a little bit of press lately and with very good reason. Her designs are simply stunning beyond words. These are from her latest collection, titled "The Arabian 1002nd Night."

Cathy Horyn of the New York Times profiled her the other day:
"Four years ago, she began making collections that were on a scale that equaled, and in some cases surpassed, the technical feats of Paris couture — skirts of fantastic dimension, molded into bell shapes, or cones that rippled like the surface of a shell. Some dresses are inspired by children’s clothes, and on adults the proportions look extreme, an effect she heightens with ridiculously high platform sandals."

 "The clothes are also lavishly embellished. Next to her dresses, the most elaborate Paris stuff is a dim bulb — and growing weaker as European houses subtly cut back on handwork to meet rising labor costs. In China, it’s the reverse. Guo Pei says that when she went looking for people to do embroidery, in 1999, the only product in demand were the kind of slippers you’d find on Canal Street. Today she employs 300 people in a workroom two hours from Beijing. She had to train them, but it’s also true that her creative freedom is tethered to relatively cheap labor. One dress alone, made entirely of golden panels, took 50,000 hours to embroider."

So when asked what I would like to design (me, Charlie Dale) kids THIS IS IT!!!!  I would sell my soul to Satan himself to work with this creative and wonderful woman.  The clothes are beyond fashion it is ART---living, breathing, moving ART!