KM & M | video.

I've been looking into videos a lot lately. Here are some lovely pieces taken from iDEAL (a really good blog). Both videos are very different, but both have the exact feel that I am always looking for - a sense of a place, cities and lifes, a beautiful harmony, puzzles and hints, curiosity, a story that someone has begun to tell but left for you to finish.

Kiko Mizuhara by René Habermacher for L'UOMO VOGUE.

Maria by Mara Desipris.

P.S. I recommend watching these without sound.

AnOther and Lina Scheynius | creative block?

I really admire Lina Scheynius work, really. I always thought she was brilliant. So, that is why I am so puzzled. I mean, what the hell is going on here? Both series were shot for AnOther magazine: Kiko Mizuhara for the latest issue of the magazine and Mariacarla Boscono for the Spring 2009 one. So... yeh, basically, I think I will refrain from further comments.

Gareth Pugh | Fashion.

Just to top up the post below... with the best thing that ever happened to English Fashion. I have no intention of giving any detailed descriptions. There is just no need.

Future Beauty | Fashion.

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion is the first exhibition in Europe to comprehensively survey avant-garde Japanese fashion, from the early 1980s to the present.

Now. I am quite late with this post, but I was away from London for almost two months, therefore you have to give me a credit. So, now I am back and I'm trying to catch up on all the events and exhibitions and generally anything interesting that was/is happening in this gloomy city.

Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion exhibition really got me well excited since I love Japanese fashion. Why? The answer might seem a bit odd, but nevertheless, I have to say it. For me, it has a 'brain'. It is not only aesthetically but also 'mentally pleasing'. I really think that Japanese designers are quite unique and I guess the key to that uniqueness is the ability to treat clothes as an independent being, to make it dimensional (almost architectural) rather than decorative and what's more to have that rare gift of understanding the simplicity and how beautiful it can be. I can go on talking about it for ages, but this may turn it into a very long post that won't make much sense, so let's just leave it at this.

To the business. I was mostly impressed with Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo' early work. As well as Issey Miyake's 132 5, which is really quite brilliant. Below are the images that might give you some sort of idea or taste of the exhibition, although for those who live in London - please, just go and see it.

Koji Tatsuno A/W 93-94 Golden Brown Nylon Dress

Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garcons (from 1990s)

Issey Miyake's 132 5. More here.

There was a lot of work from few young designers displayed at the exhibitions, which I found really quite inventive and interesting. My only thought was that you really have to try hard to take it one step further and try even harder to make sure you don't take it one step too far. I hope I am making myself clear here.

Below is a short film edited by Julian Roberts inspired by the various pieces and images displayed at the exhibition.

Tokyo.

Are you ready to have your brain slightly shaken? Personally, I cannot wait.