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| Lenzing Color Trends: Sustainable Future Posted: 22 Aug 2009 11:51 AM PDT  The Lenzing Group is an international fiber producing company with its headquarters in Lenzing, Austria. The following report is the Lenzing color trend analysis for autumn/winter 2010/11:Sustainable Future The crucial need of co-existing between nature and urban landscapes is reflected in the color pallets and the stories from where they come: urban concrete and formal darks meet nature's mid-tones and bright shades. Eco-fashion, lo-fi, laboratory-grown fabrics, food fashion, fusing product and garment, beetroot-dying, victimless leather, bone ivory, up-cycling and all the other experiments concentrating on environment issues, are so important; some ideas will eventually end up as valid solutions to problems we fight with, some are indispensable because of the discussion they raise. Solutions are imperative to solve the paradox of the fashion industry obsessed by the nonstop change and the vital demand of sustainability. The focus has moved from pure aspect to content, with everything this brings along in terms of questions. Finishing and added functions are areas still to be explored and bringing in new, complex and fascinating elements. Craft techniques are reinterpreted and completed by using the newest technology. Warmth, comfort, caring, reassuring, thoughtfulness are terminologies to have in mind when developing fabrics for the autumn and winter of 2010/11. Photo, text, and slideshow published with permission.           |
| The Shockheaded Peter Project by Christian Westphal Posted: 22 Aug 2009 09:42 AM PDT  Heinrich Hoffmann (1809-1894) was a German physician and psychiatrist who wrote poetry and satirical comedy under nearly eight pen names.His most memorable work was an illustrated collection of children's verses entitled Der Struwwelpeter—that is, Shockheaded Peter, which can also translate as Slovenly Peter. Danish designer Christian Westphal writes how he "looked at the old book from 1844," which drew him into the world of "boogiemen, monsters, and angry adults." As he compared the images with ones similar to the Victorian world of theatrical illusion, Christian was inspired to create a spring/summer 2010 that would be depicted by "decadent and unusual elegance." The Shockheaded Peter Project Collection is designed to play on our fears of every creak in the night. Like the trap doors and secret entrances in the imaginative mind of a little child, the collection contains several levels of multi-dimensional surprises. Androgynous in direction, crisp in color, poetic in construction, and geometric in cuts—the collection modernizes our concept of menswear with luxurious fabrics that give men a look, which is strong enough to conquer the biggest of any fear. The collection will be presented by Christian at the Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo this October. Photo top left s/s 2010 collection Copyright Christian Westphal. Slideshow s/s 2010 collection Copyright Christian Westphal.    |
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