Miroike aw 07/08 favourites

These are my favourites of Miroike's aw 07/08 collection. You should definitely take a closer look at their current shoe collection ♥

Their spring 08 collection isn't bad either. modabot was at their presentation at beck's fashion (horrible website, sorry!) experience temporary store during Berlin Fashion Week. You can view all pictures here.



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documenta 12 - so what?

"With over 500 works from all over the world the exhibition is regarded as one of the most important exhibitions of contemporary art and draws attention from all over the world. Sadly however the British art critics don’t like this year’s exhibition. "The worst art show ever" was the headline in the Telegraph from Richard Dorment. "Freelance curator Roger Buergel and his art historian wife Ruth Noack," Dorment wrote, "have managed to stage the single worst art exhibition I have ever seen anywhere, ever."
Heavyweight Guardian critic Adrian Searle was equally scathing describing it as "100 days of ineptitude." Searle did admit to liking some works though he called the custom-built Pavilion "ghastly". [...]"

That's not the only upsetting thing I've heard about it. Well I'll be there in three weeks.
The only thing I can say about it so far is that the first magazine on "modernity" is horrible. Couldn't stand reading it. Far too overtheoratical. Booooooring!!!

So please enjoy this video. Has nothing to do with documenta, but takes place in kassel, there's a cute skateboarder in it ♥ and the music is nice...



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look of the day

Agathe aka style bytes really rocks (literally) in this pictures (well, actually she always rocks ♥). Althought this outfit is one I myself would never wear like that (except for the latex like pants - well you all know my love for black shiny fabrics...) it's a combination I really like. Her pink heels are killer, the harley davidson shirt is simply brilliant. Very well done Ms. Bjørnsdatter (soon to change!).

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reader's mail

... not yet!

I love getting emails like that (concerning that post). They really chear me up. Thank you ♥
By the way, does anyone want to offer me a really nice well paid job? I would appreciate that... Just write me an email ;-)

"just read about your phase/crisis. don't get too worked up over it. your doubts about painting are understandable & have been around since modernism's beginning. I'm not particularly a close reader of arthur c.danto, but I think he once stated that there will no longer be any great art movements but there still will be some great art. proof of that is in your recent discovey of danilo buccella. those are really cool paintings - and a figurative artist besides! ( "the figure in art is dead" how old is that one?!) maybe it doesn't have a matter. look at all the horrible nonsense going on in the world right now. is painting that bad of a thing?

I've been an artist my whole life. I'm not successful at it & 90% of the time I even doubt if I'm any good. but I'm still glad I am. perhaps painting is dying but I don't think it will be an easy death. it has survived photography, film, tv & is still hanging on in the digital age. I don't know if there will always be painting. but think about it, painting/art was one of the first things people ever did. think of how great those first artists were, who decorated those caves in france & spain, or the beautiful rock paintings in australia. that alone still inspires me.

don't let theory get you down. continue to do what your doing - finding & looking at art not only in it's plastic forms, but in people & fashion as well. its all good.

sincerely, GFD"

Painting will always be there, that's for sure and be it only because of tradition. I don't know...

Jennine wrote something nice aswell:

"[...] i know what you mean about paintings, especially if you develop a taste for conceptual art, performance, video, sculpture... etc. paintings at times can seem rather illustrative.

but lately i've been seeing some clever work, like my friend bill rhea, who does traditional type paintings of san francisco, has begun taking it to a more allegorical level with a twist. i find that satisfies my need to get heady around art."

I like that "need to get heady around art". My needs aren't satisfied too often. I probably want too much ;-(

fashion = art = fashion

Fashion isn't art - I would say. At least not automatically, but that doesn't mean it can't be. There are a lot of examples to proove the art ability of certain fashion designs (guess we would have to define what art is first!?). But what is it, that makes fashion arty? Is it the not wearability? The pushing-it-to-the-edges use of certain fabrics - like wool in the case of Sandra Backlund - the hardcore knitter?

modabot did an interview with her just after she'd won the fashion category of this year's Hyères Festival International de Mode et Photographie:

"What attracted you about knitwear design? I guess I have found the ultimate way to express myself through my heavy wool collage knitting. I am very inspired by almost every traditional handicraft technique. It is the real thing and everything that the fashion industry of today is not. Very consuming in terms of time and money and a real trial to one´s psychical and physical strength. All the levels of skills you have to pass before you can even think about starting to improvise. For me it is the absolute challenge. [...]

Could you tell us a little about your collection “Ink Blot Test”?
When I start on a new collection I always take off from a diffuse idea. Then I begin to experiment with different handicraft techniques and materials to find a couple of concrete bricks to develope into garments. One thing leads to another and in the end the collection is like a three dimensional mind map. This time the starting point was the idea of the ink blot test, you know when you take a blank page, spill some black ink and water, fold it in the middle and then unfold to discover what chance gave you. Like a symmetrical accident. [...]

What/Who are your artistic inspirations?
I always work with the human body as an inspiration when creating a garment. I am really fascinated by all the ways you can highlight, distort and transform the natural silhouette of the body with clothes and accessories. [...]"

Read the whole interview here



I was very happy to be able to see Sandra Backlund's designs in real life at this years Ideal Fashion show during Berlin Fashion week. Although we had seats, we could hardly see the show. Well we saw all the models coming out of the dressing rooms, but couldn't for example see the shoes, which was very bad. Fortunately modabot with a much better view took some nice pictures. You can see them here.

Another interview - moving pictures this time ;-)...



Oh I love Sandra Backlund. She definitely is one of my favourite upcoming designers ♥

Walk it out

Is there somebody out there who is willing to sponsor me some dancing classes? Oh how I miss it...
Thanks to slight fever.

Danilo Buccella

Since I finished my art theory studies - and especially Clement Greenberg's modernism theory - I really have a problem with painting. What actually is it supposed to be? I somehow can't find a matter in it anymore. This definitely is just a phase/crisis (?), but I'm living it right through at the moment. But nevertheless I still love a lot of contemporary paintings and be it just for the sake of aesthetics.



At scope art fair basel this year, I dicovered the work of Danilo Buccella via Vanina Holasek Gallery from New York.



I'm totally blown away by the Tim Burton like ghostly femmes, very stylish, fragile and deep. I can't stop looking at those pictures and they are even better in real, I tend to be soaked up into them, dreamlike... oh they are so poetic, undescribable...





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