Haha, Yet Another Blog

I never thought I would post again on this blog, but I see blog traffic increasing for this site. So, to all my old and new readers here's the link of where I post now - http://creativetimetable.blogspot.com/

I've Been A Bit Lazy...

..to upload two blogs. I think I like the other one better. The other one is titled The Know-It All and it's more of a diary than a blog (so you need an invite to read it). It still is about fashion, music, movies, music videos, art, architecture and things like that. I don't want everyone to see it only the people who have an interest in this blog or my ideology. 90 invites left, if you want one drop a comment and I'll add your email-id to the list, if you feel a bit sketchy about leaving a comment or if you have any further questions or recommendations feel free to email me at robbiedelon@gmail.com

Paint

This campaign from Paul Smith really makes me want to jump up and start painting. I always wanted to paint, and I've tried but it never comes out the way I want. Far from it actually. I asked someone what I should do to improve and the reply was something very obvious - paint. He meant practice painting over and over again until you can make it right. Now all I have to find some free time and give that a try.

Currently Playing - Spaceman - The Killers

Prada

Browsing through my archive issues of Another Man, my eyes landed on this campaign from Prada. I remember when I first got a glimpse of the shirts in this and I knew I had to have it. Click on the image to enlarge and see how beautiful that shirt really is.

Currently Playing - Let Your Fingers Do The Walking - Sort Sol

Carin Wester's Knits

Currently Playing - Kingdom - Dave Gahan

Roberto Piqueras's Fall 09 Collection...

..is so colourful and exciting. So cheerful and fresh. I want those shoes and the trousers from the 2nd last look.

Currently Playing - Coffee & Tv - Blur

Note

I won't be here for a few days. I'll be on a small vacation. More posts when I'm back. Enjoy your weekend.

McQueen

As many of you, who have read my blog know, I am a fan of tweaks and twists in classic tailoring. So on seeing this jacket from Alexander McQueen I was mad with envy because I could not have it.

Currently Playing - Zdarlight - Digitalism

Video Time

A tribute to Iggy Pop's song The Passenger.

More Talent From Antwerp

This time the talent comes from Yu Fukumoto (final year) for Show 08.

Currently Playing -Kleine Lichter - Wolke

Elegance

This look isn't a bit fashion forward, new or experimental but there won't be anyone that wouldn't want to look like this at least one stage of their lives. And the word to describe something like that is elegance.

Currently Playing - Another Day - Jamie Lidell

Replacements

After seeing this picture I set off on my online search for a replacement. I found these two but I still don't think it's as desirable as the one from Lacoste Red.

From Antonio Azzuolo's SS 09 collection.
Jil Sander's Bi-colour Blazer.

Currently Playing - Louie Louie - The Kingsmen

Susan Boyle

I saw a video that I must share with you, but the embedding is disabled so Click Here to view the video.

I promise you, that you will not be disappointed. One of the most inspirational videos I have seen all my life. Thank you for sharing this with me Miguel

Currently Playing - Amsterdam - Jacques Brel

a.a Autumn Winter 09

Feast your eyes on the Antonio Azzuolo's Autumn Winter collection, which surely I'm in love with and you will be too soon.

I have seen countless images of a belt being worn on top of a suit jacket or a blazer or a coat, but I have to admit I haven't seen one worn on top of a waistcoat. And well I rather like it.

Just a touch of fur and the coat is so beautiful. I'd feel like an aviator if I was wearing this and I might even be tempted to risk my life by trying to fly a plane (that's if I can find one). 


Notice two shirt collars? A nice and simple detail and you can spot the cuffs for both the shirts too.


The designers use of fur throughout the collection really has me excited because although I do not own any fur pieces I really want to. Haha, I know some of you will disagree and PETA might even report this blog as abuse but hey, I like fur.

Currently Playing - She's Lost Control - Joy Division

I'm In Love! Again!

In love with that photo and polo. I want that so badly. What a beautiful addition that would make to my wardrobe or anyones wardrobe for that matter. Especially here in the tropic where the sun never seems to stop shining.

Also I thought I would do what the dapper kid does and add the song I'm currently listening to. Haha, dapper kid hope you don't mind me copying your ideas. Oh and I listen to almost everything. If I'm listening to Sex Pistols one day the next day I might be listening to Jacques Brel. Haha, talk about contrasts.

Currently Playing - Ever Fallen In Love - Buzzcocks

Approaches To What?

Approaches To What? by Georges Perec.

From Another Man SS08 where the text was taken from - Species of Spaces and Other Pieces by Georges Perec

  What speaks to us, seemingly, is always the big event, the untoward, the extra-ordinary: the front-page splash, the banner headlines. Railway trains only begin to exist when they are derailed, and the more passengers that are killed, the more the trains exist. Aeroplanes achieve existence only when they are hijacked. The one and only destiny of motor-cars is to drive into plane trees. 52 weekends a year, 52 casualty lists: so many dead and all the better for the news media if the figures keep on going up! Behind the event there has to be a scandal, a fissure, a danger, as if life reveals itself only by way of the spectacular, as if what speaks, what is significant, is always abnormal: natural cataclysms or historical upheavals, social unrest, political scandals.

  In our haste to measure the historic, significant and revelatory, let’s not leave aside the essential: the truly intolerable, the truly inadmissible. What is scandalous isn’t the pit explosion, it’s working in coalmines. “Social problems” aren’t “a matter of concern” when there’s a strike, they are intolerable 24 hours out of 24, 365 days a year.

  Tidal waves, volcanic eruptions, tower-blocks that collapse, forest fires, tunnels that cave in, the Drugstore des ChampsElysees burns down. Awful! Terrible! Monstrous! Scandalous! But where’s the scandal? The true scandal? Has the newspaper told us anything except: not to worry, as you can see life exists, with its ups and its downs, things happen. 

  The daily papers talk of everything except the daily. The papers annoy me, they teach me nothing. What they recount doesn’t concern me, doesn’t ask me questions and doesn’t answer the questions I ask or would like to ask. 

  What’s really going on, what we’re experiencing, the rest, all the rest, where is it? How should we take account of, question, describe what happens every day and recurs every day: the banal, the quotidian, the obvious, the common, the ordinary, the infra-ordinary, the background noise, the habitual?

  To question the habitual. But that’s just it, we’re habituated to it. We don’t question it, it doesn’t question us, it doesn’t seem to pose a problem, we live it without thinking, as if it carried within it neither the questions nor answers, as if it weren’t the bearer of any information. This is no longer even conditioning, it’s anaesthesia. We sleep through our lives in a dreamless sleep. But where is our life? Where is our body? Where is our space? 

  How are we to speak of these “common things”, how to track them down rather, flush them out, wrest them from the dross in which they remain mired, how to give them a meaning, a tongue, to let them, finally, speak of what is, of what we are. 

  What’s needed perhaps is finally to found our own anthropology, one that will speak about us, will look in ourselves for what for so long we’ve been pillaging from others. Not the exotic any more, but the endotic.

 

  To question what seems so much a matter of course that we’ve forgotten its origins. To rediscover something of the astonishment that Jules Verne or his readers may have felt faced with an apparatus capable of reproducing and transporting sounds. For that astonishment existed, along with thousands of others, and it’s they which have moulded us. 

  What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To question that which seems to have ceased forever to astonish us. We live, true, we breathe, true; we walk, we open doors, we go down staircases, we sit at a table in order to eat, we lie down on a bed in order to sleep. How? Where? When? Why? 

  Describe your street. Describe another street. Compare. 

  Make an inventory of your pockets, of your bag. Ask yourself about the provenance, the use, what will become of each of the objects you take out. 

  Question your tea spoons. 

  What is there under your wallpaper? How many movements does it take to dial a phone number? 

  Why? 

  It matters little to me that these questions should be fragmentary, barely indicative of a method, at most of a project. It matters a lot to me that they should seem trivial and futile: that’s exactly what makes them just as essential, if not more so, as all the other questions by which we’ve tried in vain to lay hold on our truth. 

This Is ANTWERP!

Click on the pictures to enlarge.

Haha since I have been writing a lot of posts for sometime with lots to read I will keep this simple and let the pictures do the talking. All looks by Ek Thongprasert(final year) for Show 08.

Is Child Really The Father Of Man?

On one occasion the father found his son painting over his unfinished sketch of a pigeon. Observing the precision of his son's technique, Ruiz felt that the 13 year old Picasso had surpassed him, and vowed to give up painting. - This is about Pablo Picasso. When I first read this the famous quote by William Wordsworth came to mind - "Child is the father of man." Its amazing how much you can find just by going through the internet and I must confess little interesting things like this is enough to make me smile.

What Is Art?

I continuously think of new questions to ask myself and to the world around me and this time the question relates to art. What does the artist mean by his art? Haha, how easier it would have been if the artist wrote a paragraph on each artwork of his, describing his feelings and inspiration behind it. 

    

Here the paintings by Mark Rothko have me pondering over what it means. Maybe the yellow could symbolize light and the black could symbolize darkness. The first painting where there is more yellow is from 1954 and the second one where black and yellow are almost equal is from 1963. Yellow can also be associated with knowledge and black can be associated with ignorance. So when yellow was more it could symbolize either his own life or the life around him but as he progressed further into his life he could have felt more ignorance around him or depression in himself. Mark Rothko on February 1970 had commited suicide, so maybe it was his life that was being over powered by shadows and darkness. All this or maybe he just liked to play with colours.

Jean Baudrillard

Jean Baudrillard has been impressing me quite a lot lately with his take on the object value system and consumption.

He wrote that there are four ways of an object obtaining value. The four value-making processes are as follows:

1. The first is the functional value of an object; its instrumental purpose. A pen, for instance, writes; and a refrigerator cools. 
2. The second is the exchange value of an object; its economic value. One pen may be worth three pencils; and one refrigerator may be worth the salary earned by three months of work.
3. The third is the symbolic value of an object; a value that a subject assigns to an object in relation to another subject. A pen might symbolize a student's school graduation gift or a commencement speaker's gift; or a diamond may be a symbol of publicly declared marital love.
4. The last is the sign value of an object; its value within a system of objects. A particular pen may, whilst having no functional benefit, signify prestige relative to another pen; a diamond ring may have no function at all, but may suggest particular social values, such as taste or class.

Its something so simple, so logical. A pen is something we use everyday. But only by questioning it do we find answers and how many of us can truly say we are learned men without questioning the most basic of things? I find this genious. What do you think?

Spain

I really wish I had words to describe everything I saw. I sure can't describe what I'm seeing now. All I know is that its bending and modifying what is considered as a basic norm for tailoring. This is done by changing the way the clothes fit, look and feel. The following pictures are of looks from various spanish designers who have changed or modified basic pieces of tailoring as  I had mentioned in a previous post. Below each photo will be the designer's name and the basic object that has been changed.

Both the above looks are from Karlota LasPalas. The shirt in the first photo and the shorts in the second.
Josep Abril - the shirt but more specifically the collar.
Jan Iu Mes - again the shirt collar.
Davidelfin - The suit jacket.
Bohento - The suit jacket.
Ana Locking - The coat. 

All from their respective autumn winter 09 shows.

Also if any of you would like to help me to describe any of the looks in this post please do drop me an email at robbiedelon@gmail.com or drop a comment in the blog.

Paul Smith

I recently read an interview of Another Man with Paul Smith and there was one question and his reply for it that I liked a lot. So let me share that with you. 

A.M-What accessory could you not live without? 

P.S- Personally, I am very old fashioned so I use a pencil and paper a lot. I always have a notepad in my pocket. I enjoy a pencil and notebook a lot more than a computer because with a pencil you can very easily make a mistake and often through a mistake you can be set off on a different path. That's what I find exciting.

Romeo 'No Not The One From Shakespeare' Gigli

These four looks from Romeo Gigli's Spring 09 show caught my attention (yes, I have been going through archive collections haha). I didn't think much of the whole collection except I like the cheerful spirit of the designer, models and the collection. The lapel detail of the first and fourth looks, the mixture of stripes and plaid for the second look and the pocket detail and the high buttoning of the jacket for a one-button jacket in the third picture were what caught me.

The CSM Show

It makes you think. It makes you wonder and question your skills when you see a collection from students that is way better than what a few unworthy designers who are on the top have shown. But Central Saint Martins is no match for the skill at Antwerp haha. More on Antwerp coming soon.