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Thursday, 18 August 2011

Supermarket of style by Angelo Figus

In 2004, Angelo Figus created this Supermarket of Style, with which he pinpointed fashion trends for 2006. His intention was to demonstrate a strong vision of a world in which everything was knitted. Figus creating knitted versions of various status symbols, ranging from knitted Hermès, Vuitton and Chanel handbags to Louboutin shoes and Burberry trench coats, even including Rietveld and Le Corbusier chairs and vegetables, fruits and flowers, all made of knitted fabric. In this supermarket full of knitted icons, you could literally live and eat from knitwear.
This was part of the exhibition Unravel. Knitwear in Fashion.

knitted Rietveld chair

The exhibition is closed since few days but still it's worth to share this beautiful collection by Niels Peeraer.

Each year the MoMu Fashion Museum presents a MoMu Award to a MA student at the Fashion Department of the Royal Academy in Antwerp. This award, to be presented during the jury proclamation in June, gives a single student the opportunity to present his or her collection in an exhibition at the MoMu Gallery. The MoMu Award is for a student whose course of study at the Royal Academy has been exceptionally motivating and whose work stands out in unique visual language. The recipient of the 2011 MoMu Award is Niels Peeraer. He presents his graduate collection Guess technology isn’t ready for pancake teleportation, consisting of couture-like tweed silhouettes, handmade leather armour, accessories and clothes, Japanese wooden sandals, all in candy-coloured pastels.

Niels Peeraer: The collection is about a boy who has an imaginary boyfriend. Everyday, he prepares himself to get married. This, together with the love for his armour, videogames and his grandmother’s couture jackets, shapes his cute wardrobe. As the basis for my collection, I chose this diary entry from my main character, the silhouettes, graphic work and scenography for the MoMu gallery are based on this passage: “I’m confused, I’m sitting here on the sofa, the heart my boyfriend drew on the mirror is still there, my heart in a rice cooker. I think I’ll marry him again at lunch. My cat is sleeping but it’s already been 4 days. Well, I have to go to the supermarket anyway. Guess technology isn’t ready for pancake teleportation”.
http://www.momu.be/

Future fashion stars at Antwerp show 2011

Here is the overview of show 2011 from Artesis (Royal Academy of Arts Antwerp). Seen on Friday June 17.
There where lot of nice collections in the third year, such as Manon Kündig, Mathias Weber, Wali Mohammed Barrech, and You Wie Ng. In the second year memorable was the collection of Felix Boehm, Cameron Foden, Yong Soon Kwon and Edmond Ooi Kee Seong (who's work is on the 2011 poster).
There where lot of crazy shoes, theatrical collections, and though the show really takes too long it was really worth it.

More about the masters:
http://brankopopovic.blogspot.com/2011/06/antwerp-show-2011-class-of-2011.html

http://www.antwerp-fashion.be

Antwerp show of 2011 is a very long show, 4 hours of fashion of talented students. Lot of theatrical collections and bombastic stuff but at the end there are just few that really made an lasting impression. One of this is the collection BLOWJOB by 3rd year student Manon Kündig.