SEOUL FASHION WEEK FW15: STREET FASHION DAY 4 PART 3
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Seen: Bacon Ice Cream
Who: Yoshiyuki Okuyama / website / instagram
Where: 3rd floor of PARCO Museum, Shibuya / tokyoartbeat
When: Jan. 22 - Feb. 7, 2016 10am-9pm, (500 yen entry fee)
Okuyama, a young photographer in Tokyo, has erupted in the fashion scene scoring not just the cover of the January 2016 issue Ginza magazine, but the next 80 pages after it. His colorful and often surreal photos are linked by a sense of boisterous energy that’s woven into the pictures along with youthful curiosity, a clever sense of beauty, and genuine fun. This description also works as an explanation as to why he’s one of the hottest fashion photographers in Tokyo.
Also worth noting- Okuyama shoots everything on 35mm film- namely Fujifilm disposables and a Contax T3- these small and unpretentious little cameras provide the fitting look for the fresh punchy vibrancy his subject matter is electrified by. Interestingly, Ginza magazine and Fujifilm got together for some special edition disposable cameras wrapped in his photos.
The exhibition, Bacon Ice Cream (which apparently, is a real thing), has Parco levels of production and whimsy- large inkjet prints, some under acrylic with others hung simply on the wall, are spaced loosely throughout the venue. Every image is ready to be tumbled- each picture is worth thousands of notes on aesthetic all over tumblr. Halfway through the show visitors must enter a refrigerator door and head down a narrow, blue-lit, hallway to enter the next section of the gallery. Once all has been seen and done, near the exit one will find some Okuyama merch- t-shirts, camera straps, sticker sets, inkjet prints, iphone cases, and of course, copies of the photobook that accompanies the show. Parco Museum has smartly allowed photography in the venue- with the majority of young visitors already plugged into social networks, their hashtagging is obviously going to help attendance.
Bacon Ice Cream is a good time and worth the 500 yen entry fee- it’s up until February 7th, 2016.
This is, hands down, the most amazing coat I’ve seen so far!
Spotted at London Fashion Week
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Helter Skelter (2012) stunning Japanese horror film set in the world of beauty and fashion, Directed by famous photographer Mika Ninagawa.
They went full-scale and extravagant for the first Raf Simons’ Dior fashion show on July 2, 2012. Le Monde reports that 22 species of flowers were used, among which were roses, delphiniums, orchids.
The rationale behind the tapestries of flowers is simply that Christian Dior loved flowers. It’s reportedly an attempt at transposing the Granville family garden onto the catwalk.
[TW: suicide, depression, self harm, abuse]
Happy Birthday, Daul! Today Daul would have turned 25.
She was an international South Korean fashion model, Painter, Poet, and blogger who committed suicide at the age of 20 in 2009.
Kim was a keen painter and on 10 August 2007 she held a solo exhibition of her artwork in Seoul.
Kim was discovered hanging in her apartment on 19 November 2009 at the age of 20. The Paris prosecutor’s office ruled her death as suicide. Kim had suffered from depression, abuse from her boyfriend, and frustration for a long time, and had voiced her frustrations in her own weblog and in her paintings. She left violent posts of self angst related to self-mutilation and suicide, had posted “I am going to smash my face… My life as Daul was so miserable and lonely. Please join my loneliness in another world. I love you all. Daul.” She had also described suffering from insomnia and had admitted that she self harmed. In October 2009 during New York Fashion Week she left a post on her blog describing herself as “mad depressed and overworked.” She became the ninth South Korean celebrity to commit suicide in 2009. Daul’s last post included a song titled “I Go Deep” by Jim Rivers. The post was titled “Say Hi to Forever” and under, Kim wrote “best track forever.”
She was one of the most interesting people in the fashion industry. Love you and miss you.
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