Hussein Chalayan S/S 09 Paris

[imarti]

this is really really great. It is nice seeing someone finally pushing the boundries and making something truly 'avant gard'. pure love

[callianthus]

Originally Posted by purechris

Inspired by Rosenthal?????

photo from: http://www.unicahome.com/p35416/rose...rosenthal.html

It definitely seems like it! But I do love these!

[feather]

Love it all! Chalayan never disappoints me

[LagerfeldBoy]

omfg those dresses at the end are so effing cool!

[Whitelinen]

I think that to start with I look for different things in fashion. I am not a big fan of modern art either, thus art in modern fashion doesn't really move me. "Innovative" in fashion doesn't make me interested, it is the traditional "beauty" I am after.

That said, I have liked Chalayan's pieces such as the transforming dresses or the "furniture into clothing" - I found it fascinating. But when that is taken away, I really don't find clothing that interests me. His highly conceptual pieces get me going, but his clothing just seems like it there as props.

This collection is no exception - I spot one little jacket that seems well-tailored, but other than that the clothes themselves seem boring. However, I do like the Rosenthal dresses (although to me they look more like swimming suits)... I wonder what material they are made of? How are they constructed?

[travolta]

^ here you go


PARIS, October 1, 2008
By Sarah Mower

It takes an incredible designer to probe the live anxieties of this scary moment and yet still come up with a wearable fashion collection, and that person is Hussein Chalayan. His show literally ended with a crash: the live smashing of dozens of wine glasses lined up along a pseudo-bar inset in the back of the set. While that happened, the stage was occupied by a circle of girls standing on a revolving dais, wearing molded-latex dresses that appeared to be frozen in aerodynamic motion. Each dress was hand-painted with images of crushed cars.

"It's about the speed in our lives and how it can only result in a crash," Chalayan explained, adding that the prints, which included number plates, car handles, and fenders, were "taken from pictures of car graves." The extraordinary talent Chalayan has is his ability to project something emotionally and politically pertinent onto his runway without making it oppressively doom-laden. In this case, he ramped up the curiosity subtly. What was going on with those apparently airbrushed car-paint prints on those short, bonded-jersey minidresses? When other versions came out in printed chiffon, swirling with dark gray prints, they were all very beautiful—but were they also something to do with clouds of car exhaust fumes?

The clever part was that theoretical theatrics never got the better of the clothes. Among the more conceptual pieces there were clear passages of young, fluttery, blue-and-white striped T-shirt dresses, and a superchic one-shouldered black dress. In effect, it was a collection in which Chalayan demonstrated that he's reached the stage of maturity where his ability to articulate significant symbolism only enhances, rather than obscures, the excitement of his abilities as a fashion designer.

from style.com

[BettyCooper]

its animated but static.... very interesting

[ysljunkie]

whoa!

[FogUponLA]

video?? anyone got a video??

[4n98]

incredible.....

I think he is one of the few designers whose designing can evoke our thinking and imagining.

[FogUponLA]

hq's anyone?

[BerlinRocks]

inspiration ?

Inoshi by Takashi Murakami
palaisdetokyo.com

[kahlilg]

^wow. very cool.

[gius]

here u go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwOfXuXT9OA

for me it's his use of transparency was what swept me off my feet
different from the rest of the trend, some as floating accents only
and others in a silicone perhaps
and also yes the white latex dresses

[FogUponLA]

!!! KARMA


Such a beautifully complicated runway. I love the hair and the music, they make the collection even more interesting and spectacular.


does anyone have hq's of this??