Craig Green Windmills - AW18 Campaign

Craig Green AW18 Campaign
Photography Dan Tobin Smith
Styling Robbie Spencer

Following the flaming sculptures of Spring/Summer 2018, British designer Craig Green has unveiled the campaign images for his Fall/Winter 2018 collection.
This season’s campaign features 13 meters high 'windmill' constructions erected on a cliff’s edge. Windmills as a poetic metaphor of the past that meets the future, instruments of yesterday that thanks to wind energy have become tomorrow.

“I have always thought that windmills are interesting – something that existed in the past as a vital industrial machine powered by nature, a kind of very early use of sustainable energy-powered production,” Craig Green.

Craig Green for Moncler Genius SS 2019

The Craig Green Spring/Summer 2019 collaboration with Moncler was presented during Milan Fashion Week.

The Moncler Genius Project

Craig Green

The Moncler Genius project was conceived by Remo Ruffini to serve as a platform for exceptional minds and was officially unveiled at opening of Milan Fashion Week.
The collaborative project will be staged in the new Moncler Genius building in Milan, which features eight cells — each one home to one of the seven collections that Moncler will launch over the next few months with special drops.
Taking on a curatorial approach, the project invites different designers to take the Moncler identity to new places, which the brand believes will strengthen its uniqueness.

List of cells, participants and their corresponding “theme”:

1. Moncler Pierpaolo Piccioli (pure essence)
2. Moncler 1952 (pop trademark)
3. Moncler Grenoble (playful flair)
4. Moncler Simone Rocha (pragmatic femininity)
5. Moncler Graig Green (dress as habitat)
6. Moncler Noir Kei Ninomiya (wearable geometry)
7. Moncler Fragment Hiroshi Fujiwara (subcultural subtleness)
8. Moncler Palm Angels (going viral)

All images courtesy of Moncler.

Moncler Pierpaolo Piccioli

Hiroshi Fujiwara

Simone Rocha

Kei Ninomiya

Moncler 1952

Moncler Grenoble

Moncler Palm Angels

Craig Green AW 2017 Campaign

Craig Green's AW17 Campaign explores the power of combined effort

Shot by Dan Tobin Smith, and styled by Robbie Spencer, Green's AW17 Campaign features garments from his collection 'Fear of the Sea'. Inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci's iconic Vetruvian Man and the majestic arms of Hindu deities, the campaign explores the power – both emotional and physical – of combined effort. The five part photo series depicts its subjects combining their individual strength to take on the unknown powerfully and fearlessly.

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Craig Green - Spring 2018

Craig Green - spring 2018 collection at London Fashion Week
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Craig Green - Fall Winter 2017

The long year of fashion awaits ahead for 2017 with a kick of with London Fashion Week Men’s Among the designers who already set the mood with beauty is Craig Green, expressing the sublime clash of fear and fearlessness.
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Utopian Bodies – Fashion Looks Forward

Liljevalchs konsthall 25 September – 7 February 2016 

Liljevalchs konsthall’s new extraordinary exhibition "Utopian Bodies – Fashion Looks Forward maps out imaginable futures for the adorned body. How can fashion be harnessed to create a better future? How does fashion relate to the human body, to us as individuals and groups, and the world around us?

Presenting fashion’s possibilities and highlighting human creativity, the exhibition aims to inspire visitors to search for their good place, their vision of the future. Arranged over eleven galleries - Sustainability, Change, Technology, Craft & form, Craft & Colour, Resistance & society, Resistance & beauty, Solidarity, Memory, Gender Identity and Love - the exhibition presents a snapshot of what is possible today and where we can be in the future.
The exhibition, which consists of over 200 objects, images and videos, invites visitors to embark on a captivating journey between different worlds. The individually designed galleries are inspired by various utopian ideas – some realized and others not. But above all, they highlight the social promise of technology and creativity.

Some of the highlights include a Dior couture ensemble with a detailed floral pattern from the spring/ summer collection 2013, representing the new direction of the legendary house under Raf Simons’ creative leadership; Viktor & Rolf’s look from Van Gogh Girl couture spring/summer 2015 collection, as well as their iconic “Hana Bedtime Story” ensemble from 2005; Hussein Chalayan’s ground-breaking table skirt (Afterwords 2000) and moulded plastic dress (Inertia 2009); Walter Van Beirendonck’s Stop Racism headdress from Crossed Crocodiles autumn/winter 2014; Issey Miyake’s innovative King & Queen installation from the spring/summer 1999 A-POC collection which was already then made with zero-waste; and Jólan van der Wiel’s and Iris Van Herpen’s magnetic and 3D-printed shoes.
This show also includes several garments from one of the world’s largest private collections of Alexander McQueen, Prada’s sparkling rainbow look from spring/summer 2014 and a look from Rick Owen’s autumn/winter 2015 collection that caused a media stir due to the strategically cut holes revealing the models’ genitals.

LVMH Prize 2015 Shortlist

LVMH announces names of the 26 candidates for their prize

Here are the names of twenty-six designers shortlisted designer for the second annual LVMH Prize, an award set up in 2014 that grants a young fashion designer €300,000 and a year of mentorship from executives at the luxury conglomerate.

British designer Thomas Tait, winner of LVMH 2014 prize will showed his Autumn/Winter 2015 ready-to-wear collection at London Fashion Week.

The shortlist in full:
Devon Halfnight Leflufy (Antwerp)
Agi & Sam (London)
Andrea Jiapei Li (New York)
Anton Belinskiy (Kiev)
Arthur Arbesser (Milan)
Astrid Andersen (Copenhagen)
Baja East (New York)
Coperni (Paris)
Craig Green (London)
Faustine Steinmetz (London)
Huishan Zhang (London)
Jacquemus (Paris)
Jourden (Hong Kong)
Koche (Paris)
Marques Almeida (London)
Nabil Nayal (London)
Nasir Mazhar (London)
Off White (Chicago)
Orley (New York)
Ryan Lo (London)
Ryan Roche (Hurley, NY)
Sankuanz (China)
Vetements (Paris)
WrittenAfterwards (Japan)
Xiao Li (London)
XimonLee (New York)

Ai WeiWei x Dover Street Market x V Magazine

Ai WeiWei x Dover Street Market x V MAGAZINE 

"Children of the Comme"  

For the new issue of V magazine, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei subjected an array of Dover Street Market's emerging designer pieces to an onslaught of colorful paint, then photographed the results. The participants included Ganryu, Noir Kei Ninomiya, 1205, Craig Green, Gosha Rubchinskiy, Hood By Air, Jacquemus, KTZ, Lee Roach, Melitta Baumeister, Phoebe English, Proper Gang, Shaun Samson and Sibling.

Photography: Ai Wei Wei/Courtesy of V Magazine

Paint-splattered mannequins lined up on the staircase of Dover Street Market, forming an exhibition of garments by emerging designers floor that were turned into installation art by the Chinese activist-artist Ai Wei Wei.

Craig Green Fall Winter 2014

Emerging British menswear designer Craig Green presented his Fall/Winter 2014 collection at MAN during London Collections: Men.

MAN is the joint initiative between Topman and Fashion East (the non-profit organisation established by Lulu Kennedy MBE and the Old Truman Brewery in 2000). MAN spearheaded London Fashion Week’s menswear schedule in 2005 and proudly champions emerging menswear talent. Designers are selected by a panel of buyers, stylists and journalists including Nicola Formichetti, Charlie Porter and Tim Blanks. Each season these young designers receive a bursary, catwalk show-production, PR support and expert advice to help them launch their labels.

ARRRGH! Monsters in Fashion in Utrecht

Pierre-Antoinne Vettorello

ARRRGH! Monsters in Fashion is the first international fashion exhibition on character design.
I have been following ARRRGH! online ever since the exhibition in Paris and I finally got the chance to visit this exhibition in Utrecht. ARRRGH! Monsters in Fashion at Centraal Museum is open until 19 Januari 2014, hurry up and you also will fall in love with these cute monsters.

ARRRGH! had its first presentation in at the Benaki Museum in Athens and then moved to La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris, in Spring 2013.

ARRRGH! displays more than 70 designs of 40 established and emerging designers.
These include Rick Owens, Issey Miyake, Bernhard Willhelm, Walter van Beirendonck, Viktor & Rolf, Bas Kosters, Bart Hess, Charlie Le Mindu, Maison Martin Margiela, Motwary Mastory, Pierre-Antoine Vettorello, Manon Kündig, Heyniek, Mads Dinesen, Craig Green and more.
Monstrous creations, atypical shapes, extreme volumes, covered faces and masks are transforming the human body into hybrid creatures with supernatural forms.

Centraal Museum Utrecht added
L’Hiver de l’Amour from 1994, early work by Viktor & Rolf.
Dutch designers Bart Hess and Bas Kosters both created new designs, specifically for this exhibition, commissioned by Centraal Museum. In addition, two outfits of the up-and-coming British designer Craig Green from his Autumn/Winter 2013 collection where acquired by Centraal Museum, completing the fantastic exhibit list.

The exhibition ARRRGH! Monsters in Fashion is curated by and based on the research of ATOPOS Contemporary Visual Culture, a curatorial and artistic collective in Greece, founded in 2003. ATOPOS cvc noticed that since the 1990s monstrous characters had been appearing on the catwalks of different designers and researched this phenomenon for three years. The outcome of this research was compiled in the book Not a Toy, Fashioning Radical Characters, which was published in 2011 by Pictoplasma Publishing, Berlin. This is how ARRRGH! was born.

http://centraalmuseum.nl

HURRAY! MoBA13

Hurray! to HURRAY! exhibition with wonderful selection of emerging talents.
To mark the 60th anniversary of ArtEZ’s Fashion Department, Lidewij Edelkoort has invited 60 students from Europe’s best fashion schools to take the pulse of emerging design talent.

- ArtEZ (Arnhem): curated by Lenn Cox will
- Polimoda (Florence): curated by Linda Loppa
- Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp): curated by Walter van Beirendonck
- Central Saint Martins (London): curated by Louise Wilson
- Royal College of Art (London): curated by Iain Webb

Lidewij Edelkoort has selected ten additional students from AMFI (Amsterdam), HKU (Utrecht) and KABK (Den Haag).

http://moba.nu

The Creative Kitchen, curated by Lidewij Edelkoort

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Central Saint Martins MA show 2012

Timur Kim

Central Saint Martins Ma show delivers amazing talents each year. Here is a selection of 2012 collections. One of my favorites is the collection by Craig Green (see previous post). But here are more stunning collections from Timur Kim, Luke Brooks,  Sabina Bryntesson, Yifang Wan, Yong Kyun Shin, Yulia Kondranina, Estefania Cortes Harker, Kenji Kawasumi and Petra Metzger.

Craig Green

My favorite Central Saint Martins MA 2012 collection is by Craig Green.
http://craig-green.com