o grande mestre

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Ele já colocou um tornado na passarela, já iluminou vestidos com LED, já fez a roupa da modelo desaparecer completamente, diante de uma platéia atônita.

Seria Hussein Chalayan um mestre da prestidigitação? Apesar da sensação de estarmos diante de um ilusionista, o que rege o trabalho desse estilista é a technologia, usada sempre a serviço de conceitos consistentes, contundentes, inteligentes.

O tema do último desfile, que aconteceu em Paris na última quarta-feira, foi a evolução da humanidade. Para ver este vídeo antológico, é só clicar AQUI.

Leia, abaixo, a crítica de Sarah Mower, do Style.com

PARIS, February 27, 2008 – Something amazing took place at Hussein Chalayan’s show: Models broke out in smiles. Not stilted smiles they’d been ordered to wear, but the spontaneous human variety that indicates actual enjoyment. Suddenly you thought: Good Lord, there are people inside these girls! They are actually…living individuals!This was not the intended revelation of Chalayan’s collection, but as an accidental by-product, it made a serendipitous contribution to what he was saying. “Generally, I’m interested in how we are as human beings,” he said after the show. “I think of my work as a kind of life science.” Chalayan’s concept was an abstract story about the evolution of humanity, which was accompanied by an a cappella group who struck up an extraordinary vocal timpani simulating prelife space sounds, jungle noises, and folkloric and religious chants.

So was it the group that started to crack the models up? Or was it that naughty Coco Rocha, who advanced toward the photographers wearing a draped black dress that had a 3-D ape worked into it? An ape drape. After that, it was a case of every nation under a smile—not just the little-girl performers, but the from-everywhere audience, too. Never in a nasty way, though, because apart from the missing-link showpiece, the collection represented some of Chalayan’s most highly evolved designs for everyday living. Take the clothes away from the concept and you simply have intelligently cut asymmetrical dresses and all-in-ones with interesting gathers and soft drapes. Some came in prints of Stone Age flint ax heads, and others with straps made of special rough-cut Swarovski stones made to imitate, well, stones.

At the end, two girls came out in mechanical dresses that, in the darkness, sent out moving spots of light configured to symbolize the big-bang beginning of the universe. They were, as always in a good Chalayan show, astonishing and moving. But somehow, it was the sight of those normally dead-faced models coming to life that was really miraculous.
– Sarah Mower 

(foto: Marcio Madeira/Style.com)

formiguinhas

 Durante o SPFW, a Bienal vira um verdadeiro formigueiro fashion repleto de gente, cores, conceitos, marcas, formas, desejos, momentos.  Veja, aqui, mais um vídeo exclusivo, com a imagens do Chama Sabor Estúdio.

cinema de moda

O Moda Sem Frescura orgulhosamente apresenta:

O primeiro vídeo exclusivo produzido especialmente para o blog, pelo pessoal sangue-bom-e-ponta-firme do Chama Sabor Estúdio. Logo mais eu apresento a equipe, com detalhes, fotos e tudo o mais. Por hora, fiquem com essas imagens que traduzem com perfeição a atmosfera fashion que tomou conta do Pavilhão da Bienal.

domingueira

A parceria entre a cantora islandesa Björk e o diretor de cinema francês, Michael Godry, já rendeu clipes memoráveis como “Human Behavior” e “Isobel” e “Army of Me”.

Confira agora a última empreitada da dupla: o vídeo “Declare Independence”, lançado esta semana.

domingueira tropicalista

Não consegui ver o show da Cibelle que rolou há algumas semanas no Auditório Ibirapuera. Segundo me contaram não perdi muito, parece que a apresentação ficou bastante comprometida por performances “abravanistas” e problemas técnicos de som. Enfim, graças ao boletim semanal do Resfest, encontrei este vídeo bacana da Cibelle cantando de uma das minhas músicas favoritas: Green Grass do Tom Waits.

Green Grass (Tom Waits, Real Gone, 2004)

Lay your head where my heart used to be
Hold the earth above me
Lay down in the green grass
Remember when you loved me

Come closer don’t be shy
Stand beneath a rainy sky
The moon is over the rise
Think of me as a train goes by

Clear the thistles and brambles
Whistle ‘Didn’t He Ramble’
Now there’s a bubble of me
and it’s floating in thee

Stand in the shade of me
Things are now made of me
The weather vane will say:
It smells like rain today

God took the stars and he tossed ‘em
Can’t tell the birds from the blossoms
You’ll never be free of me
He’ll make a tree from me

Don’t say good bye to me
Describe the sky to me
And if the sky falls, mark my words
we’ll catch mocking birds

Lay your head where my heart used to be
Hold the earth above me
Lay down in the green grass
Remember when you loved me

super heroína

Quer alegrar este dia cinzento? Então assista ao vídeo Comic Strip, com Serge Gainsbourg e Brigitte Bardot: ambos na flor da idade, ele cantando uma canção ingênua e ela vestida à la Barbarella!

E quem é fã da atriz pode conferir o lançamento dessa caixa com cinco DVDs, à venda na Amazon.

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