Speaking of Japanese fashion...how excited are we for the barbican exhibition?

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Bringing together the work of avant-garde fashion designers from the 1980s to the present, this exhibition illustrates a uniquely Japanese aesthetic known as iki, displaying garments with the defining characteristics of minimalist lines, deconstructed detailing and a fusing of traditional and cutting-edge techniques. Curator Akiko Fukai, director of the Kyoto Costume Institute, has assembled garments from big names such as Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons, Yohji Yamamoto and Junya Watanabe, alongside radical up-and-comers including Fumito Ganryu and Mintdesigns   Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion 15 October 2010 - 6 February 2011 Barbican Art Gallery
Tickets: £8 online/£10 on the door Time: Open daily 11am-8pm (Tue and Wed until 6pm) Thu until 10pm subject to availability
Description  / Designers in the Exhibition Issey Miyake Rei Kawakubo Yohji Yamamoto Junya Watanabe Jun Takahashi Tao Kurihara Matohu mintdesigns Kosuke Tsumura minä perhonen Kenzo Takada Hiroki Ohya ZUCCA Naoki Takizawa (for Issey Miyake) Fumito Ganryu Anrealage Somarta Né-Net Sacai Mikio Sakabe Taro Horiuchi Akira Naka

hiyaaaaaa Yohji Yamamoto ( in nothern accent like janice from cornation street)

This season, Adidas and Yohji Yamamoto also leveraged high-definition digital video to power a cross-media campaign for their sportswear collaboration Y-3, photographed by Alasdair McLellan, styled by Nicola Formichetti, filmed by Theo Stanley and art directed by Doug Lloyd. Capturing the simplicity and grace of a classic team portrait and timed to coincide with the run up to this summer’s World Cup, the campaign features football legend Zinedine Zidane and lives cohesively and seamlessly across multiple media formats, from online video to print advertising.

Dont be so negative....its only fashion

Grace over GAGA ....anyday mate!

Im so tired of lady gaga these days...she is so tricked out!
I mean  of course at first i was excited for this seemingly 'avant garde' fusion of music,fashion and art performance...she was so cool .But then literally she is just so desperate for attention its getting ridiculous.

This was the picture that literally begun my hatred for the  media whore.
This mismatch of Vintage and Chanel ensemble is what the one trick pony decided to wear for ......her 16 year old sisters graduation.Which just proves there is not a moment the Madonna wannabe(but never gonna be) cant stop parading herself for attention....quite sad really!

She couldnt even let her sister have a day for herself...instead she decided to dress like a japanese moth like creature!....sigh

She isnt even original almost everything about her is manufactured.....she is gwen stefani, Madonna, Grace jones and Rosin Murphy  regurgitated.

Have a look for yourself......

To be honest, there was nowhere left for the 24-year-old pop star to go. To be dressed by the king of beige in one of his red carpet gowns was a daring move for a woman more used to shooting fireworks from her nipples, strapping herself into a jewelled gag for a performance at Carnegie Hall and meeting the Queen in a red Latex outfit at the Royal Variety Performance (as she curtsied, everything squeaked).
The problem for Lady Gaga is that nothing is shocking any more. Of course, she still tries, valiantly, to wear the unwearable.

Meaty: The original dress that Lady Gaga's shocking outfit was based on

Take that meat dress. According to its Argentinian-born (where else?) designer Franc Fernandez, it was a matambre dress.
The name means beef wrapped around a stuffing, which is one way of describing the woman who has sold 15 million albums, 51 million singles - and counting.
Lady Gaga is the biggest pop star on the planet. Not many of us can hum one of her insipid, nursery rhyme tunes, of course. But she is instantly recognisable. According to the fashion and music press, she is a style icon. She has just graced the cover of Vanity Fair, after all.
She is adventurous. She is a shameless exhibitionist. But I am here to tell you she is not remotely new or innovative. The only really new thing about Lady Gaga is her talent for self-promotion.

We love the Tribal trend!....Missoni ss2011...amazing!!!

Missoni:

Last seasons trend of Tribal is set to continue into next season if Missoni ss2011 is anything to go by. Again incorporating the geometric shapes and color print in true African  Kente  tradition. The collection saw Smocks and Kaftans on the catwalk. A line miniskirts came with matching mid driff revealing tops and apron fronted dresses tied at the back to give shape to what would otherwise be a shapeless robe. The collection looked rather boho meets tribal with a psychedelic twist and once again like with Katrantzou clashing prints are seen here. Although the clashing zig zag print is kind of Missonis’ thing. Unlike when we saw the ‘tribal’ before I feel it has matured and is a lot more authentic looking this time around something I commend Missoni for. Other designers take on the trend such as Stella McCartney and Gucci ,to me often seemed almost a diluted disservice to the bold and exciting real Kente prints made my African tribes. I  really like Missonis next season and re-establishes the brands ability to move forward yet still keep brand identity.The collection is very wearable and I feel the consumers that will buy the pieces will want to authenticate the look , so the accessories will sell well for Missoni as they have created a ‘Missoni girl’ for next season. A very unique and bold look

Clashing prints, maxi dresses, rich colored dyed fabrics, bat winged sleeves and kaftans are all trends from this collection

We love ......Mr .peal

Dita von teese  eat your heart out love.....its all about Mr.Peal!

Mr Pearl is the most extreme and extraordinary tight-lacer I have come across. His corsets are masterpieces in both construction and design - he has created so many but each one is a work of art. One that stands out for me is a mauve design which he made for Christian Lacroix - it is so simple but the expertise lies in the perfect lines and how the corset faultlessly hourglasses the body

Nipped-in waists, book-balancing straight backs and pneumatic busts - the corset is back in fashion, celebrating and accentuating the female form. As part of the current backlash against millennial minimalism, designers are enlisting the help of this most fundamental and spectacular piece of womenswear. At the heart of the revival is Brighton-based South African corsetier to the couturiers, Mr Pearl, who has been creating fantastical dresses of his own as well as building tightlace corsets for Thierry Mugler, Chloe, Jean Paul Gaultier, John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Christian Lacroix and Antonio Berardi, for over a decade.
It was Mr Pearl who laced Posh Spice into her wasp-waisted Vera Wang weding dress, created Mugler's more extreme and infamous metal biker corsets, and more recently tied Sophie Dahl into the ballet-shoe pink corset dress of Gaultier's spring/summer 2001 collection. But Mr Pearl is no ordinary fashion designer: for the last 11 years, this discreet, dedicated man has been literally living his work. As a result of eating, sleeping and working in a corset 24 hours a day (apart from in the bath), he has trained his waist to a staggeringly tiny 18 inches and modified the way he breathes and speaks.

DEAD BIRDS, RATS, SNAKES, LIPSTICK AND A MANOLO BLAHNIK HEEL...GALLERY UNVEILS A ‘GOTHIC' PORTRAIT OF ISABELLA BLOW

A cacophony of stuffed animals dramatically spot-lit onto a wall to form a portrait silhouette of the late fashion icon Isabella Blow has been acquired by the National Portrait Gallery. The unusual portrait made of 15 taxidermy animals (including birds, a rat and a snake), wood and fake moss, together with a heel from one of Blow's own Manolo Blahnik shoes and her trademark lipstick, is a vivid combination of sculpture, installation and light projection.
In the resulting silhouette of a head, Isabella Blow appears to be wearing one of the extraordinary hats designed for her by Phillip Treacy, which often featured taxidermy. The artists were fascinated by what they saw as Blow's gothic quality and chose to depict her head as though on a stake, incorporating a raven and the species of rat associated with the Black Death. 
The work has been donated to the Gallery by the estate of Isabella Blow, who died in 2007, and the artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster who created it from life in 2002. The result of their friendship with Isabella Blow, this is the only portrait by the artists of a person other than themselves. 
‘The portrait encourages us to reflect simultaneously on beauty and death,' says Rosie Broadley, Associate Curator of Contemporary Collections, National Portrait Gallery, London, ‘which embody Blow's own complex preoccupations.'