Outside Lands Festival at San Francisco

Summer is almost over. I already wear my boots and coats...and that is not funny at all.

London Fashion Week is happening now, I have just seen Burberry Prorsum  Spring-Summer 2012 catwalk and I love it but I have "une envie" (a craving) of a little crazy festival creation.

I think catwalks are amazing and most of the time inspire us but when you go to a festival and you see thousands of people sharing different cultures and styles...that become a huge exchange of creativity.

Welcome to Outside Lands Festival

The first day, on my way to the festival a stand was giving away a strange beverage, an orange can (if you read my previous post you should know what is the mean of orange colour) with a marihuana leaf ... marketing is everywhere. I drank it but no weird side effects, it didn't make me drunk, no extra excitement .... zero marihuana ... good marketing and bad product. 

In a festival you find real people wearing real sizes, not over makeuped and without any photoshop. It is the best catwalk for a cool style.
Of course when you go to California to a festival in a forest style park you will find obviously lots of hippies.

Colours, feathers, hats, animal prints, tattoos, dreadlocks .... no rules to be cool.

 A music festival is the best occasion to wear whatever you want without the feeling to be ridiculous. I found a rabbit, an indian, Jack Sparrow and Tarzan.

A music festival is one of the best "fashion" event to me.

Orange is not just a color it is a smile

ORANGE can be a fruit, a telecom company or most of the time a COLOR. 

The fruit gives us vitamin C and was discover by Albert Szent-Gyorgyi who won the nobel Price in 1937. Google decided to commemorate his 118th born anniversary with a funny logo. 

The telecom company gives us headache most of the time.

The COLOR was unfashionable for so long that we almost forgot it. Queens of catwalks were wearing black, grey, dark greens and purples. At the same time a huge worldwide credit crunch and recession arrived, many people lost their jobs, energy and became more and more apathetic. 

What to do in that situation??? Let's create things with a key color: ORANGE   

2011 is the end of an era of darkness and sad colors. It is time to change and get bright and warm influences. This color stimulates enthusiasm and creativity. Orange means vitality with endurance.

It is an open mind color which stimulates curiosity and with it comes the exploration of new things. 

Specialists say that wearing orange during times of stress or shock can help to balance our emotions. Orange helps depressed and spiritless people, it is our new psychologist and light on life.

It is a "social" color which represents happiness, sincerity and shows love to others.

Maybe all these reasons are the answer to my question; why are all designers and high street brands using that color?

From Clarks, Rayban, Louboutin, Ugg, Tory Burch, Nike, Burberry Prorsum, Hermes, Balenciaga, Versace, D&G...

Showbiz note: Beyonce decided to wear a beautiful orange Lanvin dress for the announcement of her first pregnancy. Is that a coincidence or a personal stylist decision? 

However bright colors don't shine forever...what is going to be the new orange next season? 

MoMA DESIGN STORE NEW YORK

MoMA

The Museum of Modern Art

Walking through Soho discovering new shops I found the best MoMA Design Store. 

You can always shop at the official MoMA located at 11 West 53 Street New York 10019 but if you prefer not to be rushed by visitors and tourists you have to go to 81 Spring St ( Crosby Street) New York 10012.  

Hip interior, everything in white, well placed and a sign that said "If you spend 50$ you get a free entrance to MoMA"... Let start browsing then...

Prato Umbrella Stand by Naoki Terada 2009
$35.00

Sparrow clips from Pititas Waiwiriya 2008
$15.00

   

Map Dinghy Drain Stopper
$10.00

  

Floppy Disk Sticky Notes 2010 by Burak Kaynak
$9.95

I expected an ultra expensive store where I could just look around and still dream thinking "when I will be rich...." then I realized that the products were surprisingly affordable with plenty of new gifts ideas. I continued to have a look and all of the products make me smile and some even laugh. I found many fun gadgits that I have never seen before....

Banana Bunker by Paul R.Stremple 2000
$10

There is as well a section of modern watches and jewelry. From conventional (silver or gold) and unconventional (plastic, rubber, woven metal) materials. I particularly loved that One-Layre Twist Ring inspired by cellular forms and generated by computer simulation. It is made of durable nylon plastic layered using a 3-D printing technique. Awesome !!! 

One-Layer Twist Ring 2009
$20.00

Unique products from inexpensive small gifts to jewelry and furniture. 

Project Notebooks 2007
$16.95

Rose Trivet by Anouk Jansen 2008
$25.00

All these creative and artistic books, furniture and home decor made me fell very inspired to find the perfect wedding and Christmas presents. I bought few indeed...and of course I got my free ticket to the Museum.

Biske Drip Tumblers  by Kinikazu Ito 2010

$26.00

  

Lumen Oil Lamp by Adam Frank 2005
$50.00

River Stones Bowl Riccardo Marzi, 2006

$185.00

Is a must-see for any visitor who wants to check out the unique products selected by MoMA. 


Of course you can always shop online at http://www.momastore.org/  and they have an International shipments section then welcome the rest of the world that is not USA.


Simple, creative, original and affordable..... I love it 

Lanvin : we know we want it !!!

We were all shocked by the new Lanvin video campaign. The first think I had was how the hell a luxurious brand like Lanvin witch I adore can be associated with a Pitbull song ?? A song that said “Rumba, ella quiere su rumba. Si es verdad que tu eres guapa, Yo te voy a poner a gozar, Tu tienes la boca grande dale ponte a jugar”  whitch means “Rumba she wants her rumba. Is true you are beautiful, I going to give you pleasure. You have a big mouth, come on start to play with it” 

We all know that fashion goes with sexy, luxury with glamour and sensuality but this is too much sexual and “vulgaire”.

Then I watched the video again and again and it becomes funny cause the models Raquel Zimmerman and Karen Elson doesn’t follow the choreography properly and that gives all the sense to this unconventional campaign. In a point I forget the music and I just fixed into the beautiful mousquetaires looks with sharp capes accessorizes with leather gloves, wide-brimmed headgear and metal-trimmed handbags. Black, flowers prints, colourful dresses, metal oversize necklaces…all glamorous looks with perfect hair done and awesome location….Welcome to Lanvin !!!

Best moment of the video when Albert Elbaz makes an appearance and becomes the start pushing the males models out of the way to take the center of the stage.

Bizare and weird mix but miraculously works very well because now....We know He want us, He knows We want him.

But who is Albert Elbaz  to make us feel all these emotions ??

He is a Moroccan born but grew up in Israel and emigrate to USA when he was 25 after finished his fashion studies. Geoffrey Beene gave him his first opportunity and then he was working for Guy Laroche and Yves Saint Lauren. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alber_Elbaz

I love this Chevalier of the French Legion d’Honneur because is a cleaver and emotional person who spoke on truth in the fashion industry at the 2011 Deloitte Ignite contemporary arts festival at Royal Opera House. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5BUFFpZC5s

“ You can buy bottox, you can buy a face you can buy teeth, boobs, ass, you can buy anything you want. The only thing you cannot buy is TALENT. You cannot buy a muscle. From muscle and I know trust me I hate to go to the gym. To get muscle is hard work, and is not coming overnight. Is a long progress day after day that you work in a gym to get a little bit of something. That's how it is to be a designer. You cannot just wake up one morning and say "I'm famous, let's be a designer!" You have to work DAMN HARD for that, to become one."

‘Yves Saint Laurent gave women power; Chanel liberated them, and so for a long time I asked myself “what is it that I bring to women – what is it that I do for them?” And then one day I got an SMS from a friend of mine in New York, and she said “Hi Alber, I am in the back of a taxi, going to the court, going to face my a**hole husband in a divorce case, and I’m wearingLanvin, and I feel so protected, I can face it better.” That was one of the biggest compliments I ever got in my life – I thought if I can make a dress in silk, and it weighs maybe 150 grams, and that can protect her in front of her a**hole husband - that thought made me very happy.’

My favorite interview is this one by Lynn Hirschberg for The New York Times. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J52OLKy1WPk