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Why Topshop?
Barbara Hulanicki: Because they asked!

As simple as that? Were you ever tempted to launch on your own?
Barbara Hulanicki: Yes! I hate production! I know too much about it and it’s a nightmare. It’s really much more fun this way. It’s just designing and they (Topshop) do all the work.

How did the collaboration work?
Barbara Hulanicki: I first met Charlotte Henson from Topshop because I had an illustration exhibition and she asked whether I’d like to collaborate. I just sent her a ton of drawings that they sifted through. They worked very much to see what was missing at Topshop, where there was a gap and looked at the things that were selling. So they worked from a really practical point of view.

Did you reference Biba in any way?
Barbara Hulanicki: Actually I was asked not to do anything that looked like Biba. I was like “Ok!” but I think I picked quite Biba-looking things in the end. There was a lot of Biba publicity at the time you see.

What do you think of the current state of Biba (having changed designers twice)
Barbara Hulanicki: It’s resting at the moment isn’t it? Somebody else will think they can recarnate it I suppose. They do every two or three years. Some business man comes along and thinks “Biba – a couture house!” but they get it all wrong.

Do you think the Biba legacy lives on in our shopping culture?
Barbara Hulanicki: Really, we came up at the time when there was nothing as far as (high street) fashion. We were the first mass producing company that did mass at really good prices. Prices for women that had jobs, lived in bedsits and had left home. There’s a very strong legacy that lives on at Topshop actually.

When we say mass production we automatically think of Primark.
Barbara Hulanicki: Yes, that’s mass mass. Some of it is incredible! Great shoes!

What pieces do you think will fly off the rails?
Barbara Hulanicki: Everyone seems to be going for the shoulder pads. When we started, shoulder pads were a bit off-centre and they were a bit frightened and now everyone’s straight for the shoulder pads.

Barbara Hulanicki for Topshop on sale in stores nationwide and online on Tuesday 28th April.

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The collection consisted of basket weaving and lots of pink, white and black woven dinner jackets, quilted tuxedos and a Rocky Balboa t-shirt added in for good measure. Backstage photography by Giovanni di Nunzio of Dazed Digital.

Fashion designers and architects each proffer aesthetic pleasure while satisfying fundamentally functional and practical needs for shelter and clothing. But the best of them elevate basic needs to the divine level of art. Nina Stotler’s applauded new collection of silver and gold hardware-inspired jewellery for her Von Kottwitz line might not have any more use-value than other decorative wardrobe details. But they brilliantly highlight the value of use.
For Stotler, the essentials of her line are derived from her remembrances of Berlin’s ravaged but stately and sleek architecture, which she saw as a child visiting her mother’s native country and the site where her parents met. Von Kottwitz, named after Stotler’s mother’s maiden name, was founded in 2004, four years after Stotler graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, where she studied sculpture and we met one another. Since then, she has worked as a trend-spotter with Peclers Paris trend network, and she currently serves as the Youth Culture Editor of Stylesight.com while also acting as an editor at Anthem magazine. Here we re-connect to talk about the inner mechanics of her industrial aeasthetic.

How has your thinking shifted from collection to collection?
Nina Stotler: I began with a much more baroque feeling, a feminine and vintage look based on found objects and embellishment. After working with burnished metals and classical signifiers like cameos, I moved on to a collection focused on oversized crystals and heavy metals called the Galaxy Collection. From there, I took the heavier, metallic aspects in a more functional direction with Industry, my latest work.
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It has been in the works for a long time but finally SHOWstudio has launched the Insensate; a two minute short film by Nick Knight and filmmaker Ruth Hogben which was filmed during the cover shoot for the October issue of Dazed.

A gothic fairyland was conjured up and taking center position is Gareth Pugh’s autumn winter 2008 collection. The film’s soundtrack has been specially devised by artist Matthew Stone.

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Trompe d’oeil is an effect that designers like to employ to look intelligent and to add a surrealist edge to what they are doing. However, little known label British label Insideout have made trompe d’oeil their calling card over the years and rather than using the effect as a one-off shock tactic, instead their garments have perseverance, precisely because they are so dedicated to their very specific printing technique. James Woolfin and Yvette White, who met whilst studying fashion textiles at Central Saint Martins have explored numerous details of clothes and have been transferring those details via lifelike monochromatic prints that look like distressed photocopies, on t-shirts, vests and dresses. The form and shape of garments is not meant to be the main focus as you immediately try to make out what is being depicted. A loose piece of thread hanging off a knit, sequins falling off, rips, worn out areas in fabric; these imperfections are made beautiful when printed.

Their S/S 09 collection is as always a continuation of those instantly recognisable details. Zippers are slashed all over a t-shirt. Loose knit mohair is replicated on a jumper that looks so lifelike, the fluffy threads look instantly touchable. A close-up shot of a trench coat results in a dress that makes you wish such a trench dress actually existed. Other textures such as enlarged sequins, deconstructed shirt layered over one another and snagged muslin are also replicated. insideout could probably play around with these textures with real McCoy fabrics but then how else would they keep people guessing at what they might replicate next.

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On Saturday night Another Magazine held a dinner to launch its new autumn issue, coinciding with the start of New York Fashion Week. For the venue, founder Jefferson Hack chose artist Dustin Yellin’s studio in Red Hook, and for the entertainment, modern dance troupe Stephen Petronio Company. Guests at the party, which was sponsored by Bamford, included Craig McDean, Leigh Lezark, Veruschka, and Mark Ronson.

Also in issue 15: Another Magazine embarks on a very special road trip with cover star Scarlett Johansson… takes a fantastic voyage through the archives of the most beautiful woman in the world, Veruschka…. and delves into the brilliant mind of Miuccia Prada via her art collection. Plus a brand new 30-page literary supplement.

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Frida Ringstrom is a Swedish designer who found the inspiration for her new line from stuff she ran over with her car, yeah we’re talking roadkill. Frida recently sat down with some folks over at Dazed Digital, and this is what she had to say about her new line.

“I became interested in the stiffness and all these crazy angles their dead bodies had,” says the 25-year-old, who designed an overall as a template for all the pieces in the collection, using the same pattern over and over again and moved it around to distort the arms, legs and back by sewing them in unusual directions. The whole collection is knitted, and Ringstrom worked with washed-out colours to get a used, pale feeling. “I make all the materials myself for the collection by using hand knitting machines and I sew it together by hand. I wanted the collection to have that handcrafted feel.”

Where are you based?
I’m studying at the Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm, although I’m originally from Gothenburg.
 
Why menswear?
At the moment I find men cooler to dress. I feel more free when I can’t use myself as a point of reference.
 
How would you describe your style?
Fun, weird and at the moment my work is a lot about simplification.
 
What inspired you to put teddy bears heads in the collection?
I don’t like the whole model/catwalk thing so I thought it would be fun to do something different.
 
What inspires you at the moment?
Paper artworks you did when you were a child, like snowflakes, cut-outs dolls and garlands.
 
Who are your favourite designers?
Oh, there are lots of people to admire, but at the moment Im more interested in what artists do. But Ive always been a fan of Patrik Söderstam and Henrik Vibskov.
 
Can you ever see yourself having your own label?
Yeah! But I’d prefer to start something with someone, I think it gets more interesting if you collaborate.
 
What are your plans for the future?
Finish school, get an apartment and work all over the world. And realize all these projects I have in my head.
 
Are you involved in any outside projects in other fields?
I’m doing an art project in collaboration with Hanna Lindblom, which is an ongoing project. Right now its about developing a method of making clothes in a new way and not work with traditional pattern cutting or draping.

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