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Revival of Schiaparelli

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2008-02-13 19:21:15 by Crying Diamonds in the Fashion Spot
...surrealist themes have popped up in his collections o www.wikipedia.org On the front of Time magazine Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) was famous for Surrealist designs Inventing the colour 'shocking pink Being the first to use the human figure for a perfume bottle Being the first to use shoulderpads in fashion (no Schiaparelli, no 80's...
 
Tags: schiaparelli, fashion, dress, legendary fashion house, skeleton dress, column dress, elsa schiaparelli, influential fashion designers, giles deacon
 
 
 
 
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Surreal: Accessories that are "an elegant joke"

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2008-03-15 20:29:00 by eFashionHouse in Loft 102
...surrealistic mirror up against its iconography. Today, young designers are continuing the tradition by dissecting accessory classics and patching them together again in extraordinary hybrids and ironic caricatures We like an elegant joke, not a cheap disposable gimmick," said David Percival, one half of the London label A'N'D, whose most...
 
Tags: fashion, fashion equivalent, fashion world, accessories, parody fashion, earrings, tiny diamond earrings, all-important fashion pack, mutant accessories
 
 
 
 
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Need a makeover? Try these fine art paintings!

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2008-01-12 20:54:00 by ShopBrands in Blog Sites - Shopping Network - Shopbrands.Blogspot
...surrealist dessert landscape. Set against a mat of milk and york wood this piece has a 1" black frame with a beaded edge Add color to your home with the imagery and texture of Indian folk art. This exotic animal is surrounded by scrolls of flowers and vines brought out by the cream and cabernet mat. A 1" black beaded edge frame completes...
 
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Artist Elena Willis's Cloudy Classroom

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2008-01-22 17:00:13 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...surrealist photographic technique. Not one to lean on Photoshop's user-friendly effects, Willis combines the results of two separate studio sessions here one with the boy, and another with the super-eerie black smoke. Her work currently is up as part of a group exhibition of contemporary Canadian art at Sohos Eli Klein Fine Art. Rachel Wolff
 
Tags: elena williss aberfan, contemporary canadian art, super-eerie black smoke, surrealist photographic technique, willis combines, studio sessions, image courtesy, coal waste, nearby school
 
 
 
 
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Wednesday Name Brand Pronunciation: Elsa Schiaparelli

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2008-01-23 16:17:08 by Editor in BrideZilla
Elsa Schiaparelli Pronunciation: el-suh sha-pah-relli That girl, she's scandalous. Parisian designer Elsa Schiaparelli was a true original. Though her couture house closed down after World War II, the mark she made on the fashion world remains. Her avant-garde approach to fashion opened eyes and minds in her 1920s and '30s heyday, leading...
 
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NEW YORK FASHION WEEK: BUCKLER COLLECTION FALL/WINTER 2008/2009 MENSWEAR RUNWAY REVIEW

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2008-01-28 14:48:38 by Haute Concept in Haute Concept-The Menswear Fashion and Style Magazine & Blog
...surrealist collection playing on the labels Englishman in New York aesthetic What Andrew Buckler originally started as a denim brand has morphed in a full cult collection mixing British and American sense. The Royal College of Art trained, independent designer sneered at proper etiquette with this Fall/Winter collection which featured the...
 
Tags: buckler, buckler collection, runway review, york, runway, fashion, fashion week, andrew buckler, fallwinter collection
 
 
 
 
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i-D March 2008 : Raquel Zimmermann by Emma Summerton

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2008-02-06 12:05:22 by mikel in the Fashion Spot
...surrealist collection of toadstool heeled shoes and naughty nymph pyjama suits. Set your imagination free with surreal prints at Commes Des Garcons, Marc Jacobs and Viktor & Rolf. Get down with nature at Dries Van Noten and Balenciaga. Drool over the Richard Princes handbags for Louis Vuitton, or inject a bit of cartoon couture into your...
 
Tags: york art girls, girls, i-d, art, supermodel, 17-year-old supermodel, alastair mckimm, alastair mckimm i-dandy, art capitals
 
 
 
 
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Audrey Kawasaki - Mayoi Michi

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2008-02-15 06:13:25 by Nick Younes in Format Magazine: Urban Art + Fashion
...surrealist artist in LA has got it going. Her new original works on wood and canvas drew a huge diverse crowd to her Mayoi Michi solo gallery show this past Saturday for the opening. Working on wood is Audreys signature style, and most of her works including her exclusive Lacey print sold out fast. This show runs through March 1st down in...
 
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Michel Gondry on Be Kind Rewind and How He'd Fix Back to the Future

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2008-02-21 13:45:11 by Editor in Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
...surrealist Michel Gondry returns to theaters this week with Be Kind Rewind , starring Jack Black as a junkyard worker forced to reshoot well-known blockbusters from scratch after accidentally erasing the VHS tapes at his local video store. Gondry spoke with Vulture about the making of the film as well as his next wacky project skinheads!...
 
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