The world needs fantasy

WEEK13 - DAY 4

1. Soundtrack of the day

Lady Gaga - Bad romance

2. People to meet

Alexander McQueen

3. Places to go

Maldives

4. Question of the day

5. Inspiration

Plato’s Atlantis, Alexander McQueen - video and the collection

Studio Nick Knight

Savile Row - here - and Central Saint Martins - here - were important in S. M. path.

Isabella Blow - here - and Philip Treacy - here


Steve McQueen: “The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality
today.” 

The horn of plenty - Runway show with the mountain of garbage in the middle of the stage, when his models wore big/red lipstick?

Moodboards tips. Visual information about a mood, about textures, lines, people, objects, landscapes or animals...

“Behind the scene” into some designers Fall 2010 moodboards. If moodboards interest you, here are a few tips to get started.

McQueen’s Armadillo shoes? Those Lady Gaga wore in her Bad Romance video. And guess what? We found a how-to for us to make it ourselves!

McQueen’s Savage beauty exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum
in NYC.

And here is another McQueen video that shows his rebellious and  uncompromising nature.

“An absorbing, astounding walk through the extraordinary convolutions of his
mind, and the technical virtuosity could summon up in order to turn his ideas
and thoughts into reality,” said Hilary Alexander.

“A button-pushing marvel: ethereal and gross, graceful and utterly manipulative, and poised on a line where fashion turns into something else,” - Holland Cotter.

One last quote!
“I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists. I have to force people to look at things.” Alexander McQueen


6. Homework


Today, you will document the making of your “dress”. Make a how-to, a “pattern” for others to use. Create a world, a context, a language for it to come alive. You need to make your classmates copy, paste and save your how-to onto their own computers. Some of them might even print it out, or in the best of cases, share it with others. And for them to do so, you better make them feel and want how it would be to make and wear your very own creation! This is the way we share knowledge today. Go ahead and make us fall into your dream!

7. Extras