Rare
by Le Fist
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: colour studies, flowers, pink
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Torn
by Le Fist
Reading Renzo Rosso‘s, founder of the Diesel brand, interview in last week’s the Observer Fashion Special got me thinking about designer denim. In particular, the pre-aged, pre-ripped type. Rosso waxes lyrical about how he kickstarted the destroyed denim trend over 30 years ago. He “made holes, imperfections, variations, idiosyncrasies that suggested history, character, past lives.” Natch. Over 30 years of really terrible denim ensued. You know, the kind with bleached track marks over the back leg that ladies of a […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: blue, colour studies, designer denim, diesel jeans, g-star raw, meswear
Textures 1
by Le Fist
It’s the stuff that surrounds you. As you’ve probably worked out by now, I’m always snap, snap snapping away at the most random things. I’ve probably got the biggest photo library of blurry, out of focus – bad, if you’re being unkind – photographs known to man. Ah, well, keeps me happy and you just never know when a Rothko-esque shot of the wall next to Mr.Patel’s corner shop will come in handy. By the way, I wonder who the […]
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Towards the light
by Le Fist
Northern Italy. I’ve always liked the view of this square through the portico. It’s really hard to photograph but I’ll keep trying. It’s even more special at night time when the Duomo is lit up. It almost feels like a stage set. The way the curve of the arch is echoed on the pebbled walkway gives a nice symmetry. Italians seem to love their rucksacks, or “zaino” as they refer to them. The kids all have these fondant-fancy coloured ones […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: architecture, italy
The Most Beautiful Trousers In The World
by Le Fist
How does that old Fred Buscaglione song go? I Found My Love In Portofino? Well I found mine just outside Napoli, near Pompeii. The most exquisitely detailed, perfectly cut pair of trousers. A testimony to the skills of the Southern Italian sarto. They just don’t make ‘em like they used to…
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: italy, mensw, tailoring
Bleached Out: Comme des Garçons Evergreen Jacket
by Le Fist
I saw a friend the other day and he was wearing his black DB Comme jacket with the bleached collar, lapels and cuffs from the Homme Plus Evergreen line – I was green with envy, for sure. Its such a beautiful piece – the semi-stuctured cut, the way the bleaching process created a tie die effect on the lining, the nubbly peaked lapels…There is so much packed into one piece. That’s the beauty of Comme. The timing couldn’t have been […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: comme des garcons, menswear
First Love: Rei Kawakubo, A Retrospective of Sorts…
by Le Fist
I desperately want this _ Rei Kawakubo and Comme des Garçons: Deyan Sudjic 1990 I first came across this in the library during my first year at university. It seems strange now, and it wasn’t even that long ago, to imagine trawling through dusty books and Dewey codes. Google is incredibly useful but nothing can beat the excitement of happening on a great book after hours of fruitless searching in dank, sneeze-inducing aisles – its like its been sat there, […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: comme des garcons, fashion critique, rei kawakubo
Domestic Bliss: marigold yellow, ivy, chintz
by Le Fist
Came across some old photographs whilst packing. The ones here are photographs of the house I shared with two friends while we were at university. Very quaint. A lot of chintz. But a lot of fond memories. Like our eccentric neighbour, the middle-aged music teacher, who used to water the flowers in his speedo-style briefs. The combination of sagging, liver-spotted flesh and water fanning out from crotch level was funny-disturbing… Or the hedgehog that decided to set up home in […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: colour studies, photography
cardboard union jack
by Le Fist
Moved flat today. Last night, amidst the stress of packing – way, way too many books, CDs and culinary accoutrements – I created an accidental Union Jack, the result of fastidious box-taping. It made me smile.
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: random
Mark Making: Hans Hartung (1904-1989)
by Le Fist
Clarissa Cestari’s work, from the previous post, reminds me of the late Hans Hartung, one of my heroes. The day I own a Hartung sketch will be one of the happiest in my life. I first came across the work of Hartung many years ago as an art student. There was a retrospective of his work at the Tate Britain – this was way before the Tate Modern existed. I actually prefer Tate Britain. I loved the way you could […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: art, black and white, hans hartung, illustration
Mean Streaks: Clarissa Cestari
by Le Fist
The Creative Process Clarissa Cestari’s large canvasses are instantly engaging – magnified, curvilinear brush strokes of apparently thick, luscious paint. The broad, sensual streaks are at once familiar and suggestive. I like how she quietly subverts tradition and turns the rules of painting upside down. Paint and the process of painting are both subject matter and muse. Brazilian Cestari defies easy categorisation. This is abstract art in one sense yet the paintings are large scale reproductions of projections of real […]
Categories: love love love, Uncategorized • Tags: art, clarissa Cestari
Hardcore: KarlHeinz Weinberger
by Le Fist
Well ‘ard! Something going on here. Not sure what it all means yet but rugged and tough somehow seem appealing again_
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: black and white, denim, elvis, grey, photography
Cardboard City: Bursa, Turkey [2009]
by Le Fist
A few shots from a factory visit. Thought this warning sign was quite funny. Part Skeletor, part Hannibal Lector/ Jason from Hallowe’en. The unfolded cardboard box as sofa was a cunning idea, positioned outside the canteen. Oh, those Turks, as Eartha Kitt would say.
Categories: chic recycling, cut 'n' paste • Tags: design, furniture, slogans
The Sandpit: Sam O’Hare [2010]
by Le Fist
Double take_ A friend sent me the link to Sam O’hare’s short film, The Sandpit. At first I thought I was viewing an incredibly realised model reproduction of New York. And then the penny dropped. This was New York – real, pulsing, alive. 35,000 photographic stills were taken to create the film which records the events of a day in the city from a bird’s eye view. A labour of love if there ever was one. There’s something about the […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: film, new york, photography, sam o'hare, thomas demand
Bespoke Sounds Paris: Listen To The Future
by Le Fist
A fashion show is a delicate balance of many parts that come together for one fleeting moment. A memorable show is about the clothes, of course, and much more: the casting, the venue, lighting, production and, perhaps most importantly, The Music. Poor music selection can throw everything off balance. It can be distracting, jar the designer’s message and make the models walk funny. Not a good look. This is where Bespoke Sounds come in. Show music production has been monopolised […]
Categories: love love love, paris, Uncategorized • Tags: music, paris
zee lazy blogger…
by Le Fist
oops, been gone a wee while. soz, darlings. back soon, mama’s got to bring home the bacon first. LFN PS Miss Mower’s dig at the “Twiterati” in her Comme des Garcons review on style.com is très drôle. Now, now, claws back in, girls…
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: fashion critique, iPhones at dawn
Tweet me, baby, one more time: The Digital Cacophony
by Le Fist
The most interesting developments this show season happened not on the catwalks. Yes, Miuccia Prada made us pause for thought with her sizeist polemic and Raf Simmons’ Jil Sander collection left some confused about what sort of working women wore tailored romper suits. But all that’s just a mere distraction from the matter at hand – Fashion Broadcasting. Munch: The Scream Information overload or a democratic putting across of one’s opinion? This is the season where live streaming went a […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: fashion critique
