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BACKSTAGE, BEAUTY / June 23 2010 5:00 PM

Pina Ferlisi Named Creative Director of McQ

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Pina Ferlisi Named Creative Director of McQ

Pina Ferlisi on the Generra runway. Photo: JP Yim, WireImage

Alexander McQueen‘s more casual and affordable diffusion line, McQ, now has a new creative director after the death of McQueen in February.

According to Vogue UK, Pina Ferlisi, formerly the creative director of Generra, was tapped for the position and will report to Sarah Burton, the new creative director of the Alexander McQueen label.

Besides the hip contemporary brand Generra, whose creative directors are now husband-wife team Swaim and Christina Hutson of the defunct Obedient Sons and Daughters, 44-year-old Canadian Ferlisi has logged time as executive vice president of design at Gap from 2003 to 2006, where she is noted for revamping the brand.

Before that, she was creative director of Marc by Marc Jacobs from 1998 to 2001 and also held the same title at Coach.

One of Ferlisi’s first jobs was working alongside Marc Jacobs at Perry Ellis, where she stayed for three years and worked on the infamous “grunge collection” that got Jacobs booted from the company, reports The Guardian.

After Ferlisi declined to join Jacobs when he launched his eponymous label (“I’m more of a casual-clothes kind of person, so that wasn’t really me,” she said of her reasoning), she worked at Tommy Hilfiger before eventually teaming up with Jacobs again on the debut of his now uber-popular diffusion line.

Just what she’ll do with the 4-year-old McQ label, which hinges on “the essence and spirit of youth and subcultures. The concepts of anarchy, rebellion, and revolution,” we’ll have to wait and see.

In related news, read more about the McQueen label.

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Uncategorized / May 3 2010 11:16 PM

FIRST PHOTOS: Met Gala

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FIRST PHOTOS: Met Gala

FIRST PHOTOS: Met Gala

FIRST PHOTOS: Met Gala

Patrick Robinson co-chaired The Costume Institute Gala Benefit with Oprah Winfrey and Vogue Editor-In-Chief Anna Wintour. Here are the first photos from tonight’s event. Click through for all photos.

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BACKSTAGE, Mens / April 18 2010 2:33 AM

PAPA-PAPA-RAZZI!

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WOOHOO!!! Just back from my 3rd official fashion event so far!!! THIS IS SO EXCITING! I can’t believe all this is actually happening to me!

Anyways, tonights event was at Raffles City, entitled…

Your Style Unleashed

Experience Fashion Up Close And Personal This Season!

And quite literally… the fashion was UP CLOSE and personal this time round! Remember how in the previous post I
mentioned that Daniel Boey feels that fashion shows are passe… That
they’re becoming useless as designers and producers find new and
innovative ways to showcase their collections?

Well this time round, Daniel Boey did something about that! He was commissioned by Raffles City to re-conceptualise fashion shows and
figure out a new way to showcase the clothes of almost every label in
Raffles City! (which is mostly just fast fashion blahblingblongboom)

And so… instead of doing normal fashion shows, Daniel Boey decided to experiment with a new method of showcasing the clothes!
Fashion Busker! Or however you spell that word!

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Which meant that there was NO RUNWAY! Rather… the models would strut their stuff around the
ENTIRE shopping mall, posing here and there, making it look informal and
unrehearsed, working (selling) the clothes, while carrying signs with
the labels they were walking for written on them… and essentially just
making fashion more relatable to the public. (a.k.a bring the clothes
right up into their faces to look pretty so that they’ll be enticed to
buy them!) VERY VERY COMMERCIAL! I guess because this event largely
consisted of fast-fashion-labels.

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*They not only went to all the other floors!*

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*but even outside!*

And all this was of course punctuated with a few entertainment acts like
dancers, singers and magicians. HMM.

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*GOD I LOVE THE REMIX!*

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If it sounds like it was a circus… that’s because it was. For me at least.

Firstly, let me clear things up. I think that this event was innovative and definitely
achieved its goal. It was a fashion event not for the top couture
houses to impress industry professionals and high society… but rather a
commercial fashion event by fast-fashion-labels to bring the clothes to
the consumers (and to hopefully sell their stuff). And I think Daniel
Boey perfectly understood that. The average consumers of
fast-fashion-labels don’t necessarily have to sit down, look at every
minute little detail of the clothes and soak up every drop of the
collection. They don’t really care about the mood of the collection, or
the inspiration, or anything in detail really. Average consumers of
fast-fashion-labels just want things that are haute, that are trendy and
that are essentially all nice and pretty. All they need is a glimpse of
the clothes to see if they like it or not… They don’t need a bloody
catwalk show to persuade them! Rather, an event like this was perfect
for them! Really bringing the fashion out to the people… directly to
the consumers.

HOWEVER! Personally, I hated the event (though I have to thank Daniel for
inviting me and being so nice to me!). Having a “fashion busker” in the
middle of a crowded shopping mall during peak hour in tight spaces with
people pushing around, models strutting so fast and going everywhere
gets pretty disorientating! It was intense, insane and merciless! I mean
quite literally there was very very little time to take in everything
because…

  1. There were so many people moving around… you either got pushed or disturbed, or just distracted.
  2. The models were moving really fast. And while they may have stayed at a position for like 5 minutes, I still felt uncomfortable and
    confused because there was just so many things going on!
  3. Because the models were moving around so much… and there was no one centralised area to focus on, it got pretty crazy! MEANING! It was
    so hard to take pictures that I sort of became all paparazzi like and
    had to do funky stuff to get the pictures!
  4. I was DAZED&CONFUSED and thus can’t really remember any off the clothes to review. Besides all of them were fast-fashion thingums
    which you can probably see everywhere.

Also, I think I didn’t like it because personally I’m not that kind of average fast-fashion-label consumer who just wants to look
pretty and trendy and nice.

I’m definitely more the kind of guy who loves fashion as a whole, who doesn’t just want to look
good and pretty, but rather wants to have a conducive environment to
review a collection, to scrutinize every minute detail, to understand
the concept or themes or messages in the collections, to completely
immerse myself in that 15 minutes when a collection is shown to me!
*Pretends to be some fashion-reviewer person. Okay fine that didn’t
work.* TO CELEBRATE FASHION!

And that’s why I still think that fashion shows aren’t passe! Because
they’re still the only effectively way to truly appreciate fashion in
its finest forms for the people who truly love fashion and treat it with
utmost respect. Fashion shows are the platforms to channel the
concepts/messages/inspirations of collections to industry professionals
and buyers! Buyers who are also passionate about fashion and can see
beyond clothes just being clothes. Fashion shows are essentially, a
celebration of fashion! And I doubt anything can replace that. Not even
the internet! (Though many houses/designers are now starting to
broadcast their shows live, most of it is still buggy and laggy!)

Again, don’t get me wrong. I think Daniel did a great job with this event,
understanding the objective and concept perfectly, and executing it
exceptionally (except of course for those signboards with the brand
names on them which were in such bloody squiggly fonts that I couldn’t
read shit).

HOWEVER! It is the very nature of these kind of fashion events which I hate; Because they
are intrinsically commercial, and you guys know I hate commercialism, I
HATE THEM! They aren’t about treating fashion as an art form and
celebrating it… I doubt they are even about great clothes! It’s just
all about creating that image to entice the consumers to buy their
stuff; All in a gimmicky fashion of course, which most of the time is
executed through styling. And I think that’s why the fast-fashion label
clothes always look so great at these kind of events (heck sometimes
they even look as great as designer pieces!) BUT when you go into a
fast-fashion store like Topshop or Zara… you just get bored out of
your bloody wits because the clothes are so darn boring. It’s not the
pieces which are great… but it’s the styling which is insidious! It’s
like listening to Ke$ha you know? Her songs are really shitty when it
comes to depth or any real meaning at ALL! But it’s the annoyingly
hypnotic beats which bamboozle you… in a very VERY gimmicky fashion.
Like your body starts flailing and grinding on the dance floor when her
beat comes on… but you feel like crap because you know that her songs
are really superficial and dumb. (And that’s why I didn’t review the
clothes. Not that I had any chance to do so since everything was so
confuzzling anyways!)

OVERALL though! While I completely detest these kind of events now, I do enjoy
the fact that people like Daniel Boey and probably other runway
producers are exploring other ways to make fashion more accessible and
to bring fashion closer to the public. And I think that events like
these, “fashion buskers”, are great for commercial purposes… to sell
fast-fashion clothes to the average Joe and Jane.

But whether fashion shows are passe… I’m still a traditional biatch and
do believe that fashion shows remain the optimum platforms to showcase
serious, designer collections for serious, professional audiences who
truly love fashion and see beyond commercialism… or that clothes are
simply clothes. Because I don’t see any other platform which gives
fashion that much respect as an art form… and which allows us to
celebrate it in its finest forms!

THE CATWALK IS PERENNIAL BIATCHES!

Oh but the night didn’t end there! Daniel was so nice as to even take me BACKSTAGE! Ohmahgod! Which was really
unglam and gross… and I got to see the RAW-R side of fashion…

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Haha! DOG POO!!!

Okay fine maybe not. But they’re hairballs thingamajigs that the models literally STUCK onto their hair.
Yupp very very unglam.

(Cheap and crude remember? That’s what happens to these type of commercialised
events)

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I must say that going backstage was far better than the event itself! It opened my
eyes and let me see the other side of fashion.

SO THANK-A-YOU Daniel for being so nice to me and even taking me backstage…giving me tips and information.

Anyways people! Great experience tonight! And I’m going for another fashion show tomorrow hosted by Elle Singapore at Parco Marina
Bay around 3pm!

SO PSYCHED! This is totally insane! Still can’t believe it’s happening to me!

P.S

This post was actually meant for Friday, 17th April, but because the pictures took so long to upload I could only
finish it today.

And also Bobo has just created a youtube account for fashion videos! Do check it out! BoboBaroque

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BACKSTAGE / April 11 2010 3:36 AM

Fantasy Friday!

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HEYA PEEPZ! Yes I’m still on cloud nine because things have been going prettayyy well lately! We’re all still up here dancing to Imogen
Heap and trying to re-enact Lady Gaga’s Telephone music video! This time
round, I’m the one with the telephone-hair-wig and feeding everyone
honey-poison! RAWR!

Well anyways! God has been really kind to me lately, and given me freaking INSANELY AWESOME opportunities
in terms of my fashion endeavours! Like allowing me to get tickets to
fashion shows, just to oversleep and realise that I missed them! (LIKE
THE ASHLEY ISHAM ONE YESTERDAY!) And allowing me to get that feature in
Elle Singapore… *OH MY JABBERWOCKY! I STILL CAN’T BELIEVE IT!* Maybe
I’m actually in some drug-induced dream-like state, being kept
underground for cloning experiments by some secret organisation… and
they’re a really sadistic bunch of people who want to induce
fashion-dreams into me, so that I’ll believe all of it is really
happening… and then I suddenly wake up and WHAM! They slam a door in
my face and remind me that I’m fat. NOOOOOOOO!!! Well, since I’m already
delusional and prone to hallucinations in real life already, who cares
if this isn’t reality?

Anyways! Things have been going well! I’m really excited, and this is a really exciting time for my
blog as well! And I think I owe it to my readers! Thank-a-you all you
readers out there who actually gave my very humble blog, and this very
delusional 15 year old me, a shot! For reading and enduring all my
blabberings and jub-jub-jibberish! Really grateful for having an
audience, no matter how few you guys may be!

And so! To mark this momentous time for both the blog and me, I think I
should do a new section!

One that’s devoid of words. Or at least mostly. *No more than a few lines I promise!*

Hmm. How about…

FANTASY FRIDAY!

Where I will post pictures which inspire me, make me dream, and a few other distractions! Weeeee! Sounds
fantabulous!

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BACKSTAGE / March 23 2010 6:38 AM

Lurve Magazine: Challenging the Ideals of Art and Fashion

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Independent bi-annual magazine, Lurve exists as a visually striking piece of material putting an emphasis on emerging new talents in all creative fields. Editor Lyna Ahanda attempts to bridge the gaps between fashion, arts and music with beautifully varied content. Whilst exploring contemporary culture beyond the mainstream, they refuse to conform to the trends. With their upcoming third issue they explore the human body to allow the model to be more than a clotheshorse, featuring Terence Koh, Cecile Bortoletti and Carlotta Manaigo. We speak to Ahanda on how it all came about…

Dazed Digital: Why did you start Lurve Magazine?
Lyna Ahanda: I have always been a militant, but unfortunately I’ve picked up art instead of politics. Starting Lurve was about creating something that could change things. Bringing back fashion and art together.

DD: What does it offer readers that other bi-annual fashion magazines don’t?
Lyna Ahanda: A visual aesthetic that is not restricted to the trends, where models of differing colours are part of the system.

DD: What is your background, in Fashion/Journalism/Arts?
Lyna Ahanda: I have studied Art History in Paris, then English at la Sorbonne. I have a Masters degree in Journalism and Creative Writing. I have also contributed as journalist to a number of independent magazines, websites and newspapers.

DD: What’s the story behind the name?
Lyna Ahanda: Lurve comes from a conversation between Dianne Keaton and Woody Allen in “Annie Hall” as if lurve was a higher form of love.

“Do you love me? Love is too weak a word. I lerve you. You know, I lo-ove you. I luff you. There are two “f’s.” I have to invent… of course I love you.”

My idea was then to create a publication that will be less hermetic to the real world, a magazine that would be challenged by a wider cultural current and that will be able to show our love to fashion and even more.

DD: What is going in your next issue?
Lyna Ahanda: The theme of our third issue is ‘beyond the body proper’. We are trying to explore the concept of the body as an envelope allowing the model to be more than a simple way to display clothes. In a series of editorials with Terence Koh, Chadwick Tyler, Cecile Bortoletti and Carlotta Manaigo, the models are taking part in this sort of role play.

As a salute to Spring and an homage to Pina Bausch, models reinterpret Stravinsky’s ‘Le Sacré du Printemps’ (The Rite of Spring’) choreographed by Bausch, wearing pieces from Damir Doma’s Spring/Summer 2010 collection. The story was art directed by Begum Boré and photographed by Terence Koh. The Carlotta Manaigo story was inspired by Eadward Muybridge’s ‘human movement’ plates, and the shoot is a metaphor representing a birth, and blossoming new life. Whilst the Cecile Bortoletti cover story is her own take on Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies for A Self-Portrait.”

DD: How do you pick your content?
Lyna Ahanda: I have worked a lot with art director Begum Boré on this issue. We wanted to work around the theme of the body: body image, and the body’s limit but also plays with seasons as this is our Spring issue. We went from this idea of describing the body as a political and social weapon to something more poetic and pure, using different types of people, stranges and unique beauties.

(dazeddigital.com)

Beautifully stark images…….such symmetry! I love the concept of the magazine itself…….”forward thinking” is always appealing. Now if I can just get my hands on a copy!

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