Shoes Shoes Amazing Shoes

Most of us girls have a real weakness for shoes, especially nice pair of beautiful heels! We don’t know what it is about a pair of vertiginous heels but they’re something we all love to indulge in. If you have the same weakness, and so happened to be in London, you would be excited to hear that there's a Christian Louboutin Retrospective coming to The Design Museum from the 1^st May to the 9^th July. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/41343376] Celebrating 20 years since his first shop opened in Paris, the exhibition reveals the inspiration, artistry, craftsmanship and theatricality behind his signature red-soled footwear. Adorning the feet of the world’s most famous and glamorous women, Louboutin designs for every woman’s “inner showgirl” and believes that a successful shoe is one that preserves and accentuates nudity, leaving the foot as the object of desire: “Designing shoes is a magicians work – a shoe should be visible but sometimes needs to be invisible.” Remember to get the very beautiful book that’s been created especially for the exhibition if you stop by.

比利時安特衛普 vintage 亂遊記（一）BY CF

First article about Antwerp and their vintage fashion by Carol Forest on her column at Queeneco....it's being written after her trip to Belgium and France for hand picking vintage for CAROLE FORÊT VINTAGE.  Enjoy the read! >> Shop at CAROLE FORÊT VINTAGE

比利時安特衛普 vintage 亂遊記（一）

到巴黎應邀好友婚禮。滿腦子想著，既然已遠洋法國，不如襯機到倫近走訪幾天，不 去，便太浪費，天打雷劈。Amsterdam 危險怱近? Luxembourg, Champagne?不久前又到過。不如就到 Belgium 的Antwerp （安特衛普）來一個 vintage 亂遊記。   如果你認識安特衛普，我猜一定因為其Fashion。但除了安特衛普六君子‘The Antwerp Six ’  還有Martin Margiela, Haider Ackermann 以外, 這個地方上原來給我們提供還有太多。

最愛Vintage 走過了不同小店，最愛的始終是“古著”vintage二手店。其實，二手服裝交易誕生于文藝復興時期，是在資源條件的限制下，提高服裝的使用率；而資產階級通過“慈善捐贈”的方式，將“舊衣”再次推向市場。我個人認為這才是真正Eco Friendly Fashion。

Vintage 窮與富 在香港, 這些年來, 即使潮人, 也不算太沉迷Vintage。也許我們還是不太開放，介意曾被用過。 這一兩年, 大勢鼓趨下, 我發現多了人喜歡Vintage, 實令人震奮。   在英國與日本，販賣“古著”服裝店擺脫了窮酸氣，吸引了富家公子前來淘貨。除了 貪戀其陳舊的氣息，服裝的歷史維度也一併添加了進來，左右審美。殊不知John Galliano和Alexander McQueen均是倫敦vintage名店Rellik的常客。 而Martin Margiela的服裝在表象上，也於“舊”字中體現一種“不完美的完美”，即便是那些批量生產的成衣，面料也均經過“做舊”的處理。  

Martin Margiela用Vintage手套; 假人模特身上是用廢棄材料而制成的時裝

Vintage 對現代設計的影響 《國際先驅導報》在描述Martin Margiela最早的設計—1989春夏系列時稱“服裝上印染著紋身圖樣，背心均是由破損的針織衫制成，靴子的腳尖分叉，套頭衫由軍用襪子重新組裝而 成，還有一些服裝則是由干洗服裝的塑料袋制成。這些均是早年的Margiela對回收品物化的標志。   如果說二手服裝市場在不經意間，將富人與賤民聯系到了一起；那Martin Margiela選取“賤民”服裝為素材的舉動，則讓服裝逆流回了富人這邊。   安特衛普 Vintage 我喜歡收藏 vintage, 安特衛普有著意想不到多而高質量的vintage，不獨愛vintage 的也會enjoy而體驗到antwerp 自古至今的fashion sense 由來。   買古著好似大海撈針，想買件啱心水又啱身，難也；要買到兩件襯絕雙輝映，更難。 在下一篇文章中，我會介紹如何買古著及三個在安特衛普我最喜歡的古董商店。 Stay Tune!

這家Foxhole是我最喜歡的vintage 店其中之一。他們賣的都是高品質和時尚的古著

天開始黒，晚飯後，便回Sir Plantin Antwerp Hotel。 在這個Lobby Lounge花了一個寧靜的夜晚，上網尋找明天到哪裡去。雖然這酒店離巿中心十分鐘taxi ride，但我很喜歡這家，一來stylish 而價錢實惠  ，一晚只收109 歐元(旺季)。如不想太揮霍或住上好幾天，這家是我極力推介。

Restaurant: Bel Mondo Dageraadplaats 12 Antwerpen, 2018 03 293 77 96 Hotel: Sir Plantin Hotel Antwerpen Plantin en Moretuslei 136-140, 2018, Antwerpen (from Euro 79-119 per night)

WHAT’S KARL UP TO

Besides he is going to marry his 20 years old pretty boy whom probably will dress in long white wedding gown dress, and designing the wine bottle label for Chanel’s Château Rauzan-Ségla, check out what’s Karl Lagerfeld is up to here, today he is an editor in chief:

“Quoi de Neuf (what’sup) Guide” 2012

Carole Foret just went to Brussels, Brugge (a small Medieval Town in Belgium), Paris and London to source for vintage pieces! Besides sourcing, she build a "LITTLE WHATSUP PHOTO GUIDE" /"QUOI DE NEUF PHOTO GUIDE" Click below or go http://www.facebook.com/CarolForest !!  The guide basically skip most of the main touristy spots that you would have visited anyway.   Go there but do go to these little treasure for ultimate pleasure~ Make sure you read the caption of Do + Don't do.  Enjoy the tour!

JAPAN VINTAGE ILLUSTRATION

Milk Magazine from HK recently features beautiful vintage illustration by an renowned Japanese illustrator Kazuo Hozumi, here is some to share,

« CARTE BLANCHE » DANCE(S)

We love and spot new comer.  Today is about dance.  Today, we discovered and would like to share with you Dance(s) by James Bort.

“I wanted to make a small tribute to the dance, all dance forms, like a musical score played severalinstruments. The idea is to bring together seven dancers and so many worlds, countries, styles, ages and personalities. ”James Bort.

The dancers were selected after a large cast launched September 19 on social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram …) to amateur and professional dancers of all disciplines.

The video was shot in early October at the Beaux Arts in Paris.  Beautifully shot with the Red Epic Cam.

GRANDPA GOT MOVES

Time makes things even cooler sometimes.

NEW FUN ON STAGE

We love the new way of performing, from Beyonce’s BillBoard Music Awards to Kagemu in Paris.

Museum = Playground

What to do in New York this winter?  Too many! but checking out the Carsten Höller Experience exhibition at the New Museum should definitely be on your list.  The show gathers together a number of the artist’s signature works in an arrangement that transforms the viewer’s experience of time and space.

Over the past twenty years,  the German born artist Höller has created a world that is equal parts laboratory and test site, exploring such themes as childhood, safety, love, the future, and doubt. Höller left his early career as a scientist in 1993 to devote himself exclusively to art making, and his work is often reminiscent of research experiments. His pieces are designed to explore the limits of human sensorial perception and logic through carefully controlled participatory experiences, inspiring doubt and uncertainty about the world around them.

Anyone been to the massive slides Höller installed in London’s Tate Modern?  We did, and  I guess it’s never an ordinary art exhibition.  Go ride the enormous slide around the building, it’s fun and you can get flash of other works through the glass panel.

Other highlights include a massive mirrored carousel, an aquarium that you can stick your head into to see the fish, and the ominously named Giant Psycho Tank, which is a sensory deprivation pool. Each is designed to install particular feelings in the viewer. Take the lobby which has been transformed into an Alice in Wonderland inspired garden full of giant mushrooms as well as the brightly coloured alligators dotted around the building.

Höller turns exhibition into a playground and we love that Höller’s out of the box work.  Sometimes, art and life can be less serious to be serious.

Vintage VERSACE X Fantastic Man

The past week, VERSACE X H&M launched at H&M.   The gentleman style journal - Fantastic Man  recently showing three vintage VERSACE publications from their archive.  It’s Monday today and we are here to share it, constitute a start of week of amazing amazingness.

Blow is the cover of the premiere (and perhaps only) issue of VERSACE: The Magazine,  Autumn & Winter 2002, edited and published by Ms. DONATELLA VERSACE herself:

menswear looks from GIANNI’s Les sans-cravate, the French pocket version of the 1995 coffee-table book Men Without Ties: