London Alternative Fashion Week - Louise Crockett

The Circus, mixed with Victorian children's clothes provides the concept for this collection. The idea of comically misshapen clown suits giving fitting, out of proportion shapes. The carousel horse shpae carries throughout the collection, placed in peculiar places on the body.

London Alternative Fashion Week - Grace Maran

"The Thousandth Man" is a collection focussing on the functionality and decorative quality of male clothing within the area of sport, the military, antartic expolorers, tradesmen and the Masons. This young fashion stylist based in Edinburgh has very creative and imaginative methods. Functional Decoration or Decorative Function and the 'action' photographs show the 'story' and movement of each outfit with reversible hoods, removable/reversible panels and drawstrings, all contrasted with the decorative embroidery of either the skin (natural protection) pattern or the explorer's abstract map patterns.

London Alternative Fashion Week - Waltham Forest College

Always fashionable!
Using geometric shapes, squares and triangles to produce a collection of modern "little balck dresses". We like the classic long versions but again more the short ones.

London Alternative Fashion Week - Lu Firth

A tailor made collection of recycled materials.Texture and light fabric to tailor very voluptuous and feminine silhouette. Ingenious articles with this dress made from Tesco bags and this bag made out of tin lap!

London Alternative Fashion Week - Gillian Ramsay

Inspired by old photographs of her granddad in National Service in the 1950’s, this collection focuses on reworking classic garments. Using fully selvage denim, cashmere, silk jersey and leather to ensure a long lasting garment. The collection of this young fashion designer is unisex. It is tailored in a muted colour palette to design relaxed silhouette, to created and re-created mix-matches styles.

London Alternative Fashion Week - TRAIDremade

Retro fashion is back!
TRAID works to fight global poverty through its clothes recycling and environmental activities in the UK. TRAIDremade works exclusively with damaged second-hand clothing that would otherwise end up in landfill. Using techniques like printing, cutting and sewing, the damaged clothing is transformed into gorgeous one-offs. As well as reducing your fashion footprint, buying TRAIDremade is the antidote to the high street

London Alternative Fashion Week - Cristiane Chaves

A dynamic, sophisticated and technologic collection of minimalist pieces with geometric.

This young fashion designer is born in Brazil but based in Milan. TEMPORARY LABEL is the name of her own brand new label. The concept is quite original: all the garments have a water soluble label because she didn't want to sign them with any name. For her the most important thing is to install a relationship between the garment and who wears it, and only the impressions originated from this link should remain.

Thus Seacyborgs is the name of Temporary Label's first collection (Falls/Winter 2009-2010). The inspiration refers to a fictitious scenery of a ship disappeared in the past that finally came alongside at the Far East. People on board are sensual women that developed their own sense of future. The collection’s purpose is to induce viewers’ imaginary to a technological/human/marinehybridization, giving life to the SEACYBORGS.

London Alternative Fashion Week - Ucreative Rochester

Here are pieces of work from the University of Creative Art from Kent. Experimental textiles, deconstructed/reconstructed textiles and avant-garde design exploring themes of metamorphosis using sculptural and organic form

The market of creative and fine arts in Paris

Every saturday, Bastille is the place of meeting for creators, designers to expose their collections.

Creations in various fields are there: jewel, accessory, mode, painting, sculpture…

Among the exhibitors my two very favorites for their handmade and unique piece of art are:

Kilin and her round of hats
Eliz' Art and her jewellery trees

Kilin designer in hat

Kilin likes Doisneau, Paris and its bobo style and traveling…
It is through beautiful materials that this designer makes us travel while reinterpreting the cap gavroche, the beret bonnet or the borsalino…
Silk, tulle, velvet or flax to cap our heads of vibrant colors in winter like in summer with her new collection of stringcourses.

Eliz'art Nature reveals its jewels

This young designer specialised in the ethnic jewels takes her inspiration in nature. She is an expert in the art of mixing natural matters to polymeric paste in "trompe l'oeil" style: pigments, ribs, carving, patina… which perfectly imitate the wood even if you touch it!

A talent in art to deliver beauty by nature and to offer us its elements: collars, loops, pins, bracelets and rings…

J-3 Alternative Fashion Week in London

Alternative Fashion Week, it is the must for the avant-gardist mode in London. It offers the opportunity to discover the most original and creative collections .The concept is simple, just like the “Fashion Week” in Milan, Paris or New York… for already established labels, it aims to push on stage for a catwalk show about sixty young designers graduated from Mode schools, independent creative artists and designers who try to establish their mark, and to give them the chance to reveal us their talent.

And all this in music with jazz concerts every day!!!

"A moment in... time" a piece of art in knitting

"A moment in” is a collective with an original project which is the constitution of 9 collection capsules around the needs and tendencies for our today life. A moment in time is thus the first one presented. One can easily imagines a very tender winter wrapped in these generous sweeters made of cotton, silk, flax, cashmere or alpaca...
Forms are flexible according to desires and moods; it is so pleasant to change one's mind during the day…

U-NI-TY or the mixity of styles for men

U-NI-TY is a Franco-Italian mark created in 2004 which revisits the traditions of the Thirties to design with elegance a relaxed and casual male silhouettes. A beautiful exercise of styles mixing modernity and vintage, nonconformism and authenticity, humour and arrogance.
My favorite is this splendid wool waistcoat with architectural design.

M-Y: customisation of home furniture

Ingenious artist who recycles pieces of furniture given by their owners or who searches and finds potentious items in sales deposits. M-Y likes to listen to her inspiration for customising pieces of furniture and to give them a new life. Cupboard, table, office, chair, mirror… she cleans, arranges and gives again a patina and essence to aged, used and obsolete woods. She even sometimes goes up to the transformation. I let to you discover her work through these pictures….

This office table was about to end up in a bin!
After a dip cleaning and the restoration of the top, to give back beauty and majesty to this table, M-Y has chosen a pretty red acrylic colour to paint it and added some touch of gold brush to underline the sculptures.

This pub table with a new luxurious appearance: gold and black lacquer

Netza Boutique in Paris

Welcome to the upper district of Belleville area and its small Villette street to discover the very intimist workshop-shop Netza. It is during its various travells in Asia that Christy Guillemot takes her main sources of inspiration: historical traditions, ethnic coloured costumes, majestic universe of the tales...

Netza Collection

From her past experience as a wardrobe tailor for the opera of Bastille, her creations are today linked with this imaginary universe and legendary characters. Her collection is characterized by simple and structured shapes fitting in harmony with comfortable materials.

Wool, polar and cotton give body to her very authentic collection, sometime pastel, sometimes colourful.

An easy and relaxed style, very feminin with a touch of originality and simplicity… I am fan of this small tops (tee-shirt, tunic or dress) made of cotton nicely decorated with a flower pin!