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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
Cut Price: Makeshift Geometry
by Le Fist
A doorway I came across today. Love the retro typeface, how the different blues contrast with each other, the colour of door and the yellow of the text. Also love the graphic quality the metal grid lends and the dynamic between the resulting rectilinear forms, the yellow dots and curviness of the typeface. Its almost as if the whole thing was plotted on graph paper_ Doesn’t that deep blue scream Yves Klein? Yves Klein: Blue Cup, 2006 And all those […]
Categories: Uncategorized • Tags: blue, colour studies, graphic design, london, photography, typography
Le Fist Bleu
by Le Fist
Last year’s Le Book arrived in a cardboard box that had this on it. Random, I know_
Categories: found objects, random • Tags: blue
Blue Sky Thinking 1
by Le Fist
The blue shirt I bought yesterday has got me feeling, well, blue. I love flying – one of my favourite things. It brings out the seven year old in me who saw the clouds from above for the first time and decided he wanted to be a pilot when he grew up. Well things have changed quite a bit since then but my love of flying hasn’t. I fly quite regularly and always have my camera at hand, photographing the […]
Categories: head in the clouds, tonal studies, travel • Tags: blue, colour studies, travel
+J – jil sander 4 uniqlo
by Le Fist
+J Jil Sander for Uniqlo Model_ Iselin Steiro Photographer_ David Sims Stylist_ Joe McKenna Went to the Uniqlo store this afternoon to check out the new collaboration with Jil Sander for spring-summer 2010: +J. The first thing I noticed was that it wasn’t the mad frenzy that usually follows these sort of launches: Kate Moss for Topshop, the H&M link-ups. It was, well, quite civilzed. I kind of liked that. Clearly displayed product. Light, airy store. You got the feeling that anyone […]
Categories: designer lustings, jil sander, love love love, uniqlo • Tags: blue, fashion, jil sander, shopping
