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Hats in the Royal Wedding, part II

..... continues with London milliner Philip Treacy whose hats were made for an A-list of guests.

29^th of April 2011

For the Royal Wedding today Philip Treacy has designed hats for:

HRH Duchess of Cornwall

HRH Princess Beatrice of York (Ensemble by Valentino Couture, gloves by Cornelia James)

HRH Princess Eugenie of York (ensemble by Vivienne Westwood)

Mrs. Victoria Beckham

Mr. David Beckham

Ms. Tara Palmer Tomkinson (ensemble by Deborah Milner, shoes by Nicholas Kirkwood)

HRH Princess Michael of Kent

Ms. Zara Phillips (ensemble by Paul Costelloe)

Lady Gabriella Windsor

The Dowager Duchess of Devonshire

HRH Queen Anna-Marie of Greece

HRH Princess Marie Chantal of Greece

HRH Princess Mathilde of Belgium

Ambassador Angelopoulos

Ms. Kitty Spencer

The Duchess of Westminster (ensemble by Bruce Oldfield)

Ms. Isabella Calthorpe

Lady Frederick Windsor

Mrs. Galen Weston

Ms. Otavia Kent (gloves by Cornelia James)

Ms. Eliza Spencer

Ms. Emilia Spencer

Ms. Laura Parker Bowles

Ms. Anneke Taylor

Ms. Karen Gordon

Ms.Laura Bechtolscheimer (ensemble by Bruce Oldfield)

Ms. Georgia Coleridge

Ms. Arabella Musgrave

The Marquess of Cholmondeley (gloves by Cornelia James)

Ms. Mima Lopez

Ms. Julia Ogilvy

Ms. Alfiya Kuanysheva

Ms. Calli Palmer

Ms. Katie Robyns (ensemble by Bruce Oldfield)

Ms. Rosie Wild

Ms. Alison Murray Wells

A look at Philip Treacy's recent creations

Courtesy Philip Treacy

Team Uncool Loves: WORK IT's new T-Shirt range

UK based party organisers and bloggers WORK IT have come up with a super new T-SHIRT desisgn with the words HOMIE, LOVER, FRIEND printed on the front, really love it. I originally noticed it on Another Magazines picks of the week and needed to feature it.

CT 2011

The Postcard Art of Gilbert & George

Gilbert (1943) and George (1942), both art students, met in 1967 at St Martin's School of Art in London (now Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design). In 1969, they created their first "singing and living sculptures," making themselves both subjects and objects of their works in a perfect fusion of their art and their everyday life. Gilbert & George then start to appear as "living sculptures" in museums and galleries. The pair are perhaps best know for their large scale photo works. The Pictures dating from 1971 are the first grid-arrangements, which would henceforth become their formal signature. In 1980, their iconography becomes more complex containing endless levels of meanings from symbolic and allegorical to the most unbridled eroticism, to the religious, political and personal.
Since 1972, Gilbert & George have used postcards widely in their art, those dating from the Edwardian period or the First World War until the more modern, mass-produced ones for the tourist trade.

In the Urethra Postcard Pictures, the two artists describe the modern urban world, by tackling subjects in a simple and direct way, like nationalism, patriotism, sexuality, but also the city in which they live and work, London along with its touristic and sexual attractions ....
They created 564 pictures in total, 76 of which are currently on view at Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery-Paris from February 17 to March 19, 2011.

Urethra Postcard Pictures

Bulldog Jack, 2009

Flag Bear, 2009

Tulips, 2009

Mr. Churchill & HM, 2009

Saluting, 2009

Three Bears, 2009

English Massage, 2009

Bridge & Ensign, 2009

Bridge & Pink, 2009

Shadow, 2009

Wheel Hall Bus, 2009

Courtesy Gallery Thaddaeus Ropac-Paris

teamuncoolfashion likes "Future Beauty" at The Barbican

Contrary to popular belief, clothes are not practical and dress is not necessary. Thomas Carlyle’s Professor Teufelsdröckh told us in the mid-nineteenth century that ‘The first purpose of clothes was not warmth or decency, but ornament… among wild people we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes’, and he found resonance with a certain supercilious feline in Meji Japan, Natsume Sōseki’s nameless narrator in his novel I Am a Cat who mused that ‘human history is not the history of flesh and bone and blood, but a mere chronicle of costumes’.

Opening next month at The Barbican in London is Future Beauty, a major survey of avant-garde Japanese fashion from the last 30 years, curated by fashion historian and Kyoto Costume Institute Director, Akiko Fukai. Organised around four themes – blackness and shadows; flatness and form; tradition and innovation; street style and popular culture – the exhibition will explore the unique sensibilities of Japanese fashion since the early 1980s when Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons and Yohji Yamamoto proposed a radically new fashion aesthetic.

Emerging from Japan’s post-war economic and industrial boom, Miyake, Kawakubo and Yamamoto emphasized playfulness, textile innovation, sculptural volume and freedom of movement – defying the bright, body-conscious glamour of the lycra-loving early eighties and often referring back to Japan’s rich visual heritage. Their works will be presented alongside their successors including Comme des Garçons protégé Junya Watanabe, as well as Jun Takahashi of UnderCover, Final Home by Kosuke Tsmura, Tao Kurihara, Matohu, Akira Naka and mintdesigns…

VIA

Woolmark Campaign

Something fun and cute .....
Horn sheep in the streets of London to promote a campaign for wool..... The campaign kicked off last week with a series of events. Besides the yellow sheep spotted outside Selfridges, more sheep were in town. Savile Row, London posh street, famous for it's bespoke tailoring was closed to traffic for the day on Monday October 11 in order to host Savile Row Field Day. To launch the campaign, a flock of Horn sheep were allowed to graze on specially laid turf along the road.
Here come the sheep ......

Not to forget the dog ....

and the video, sheep on Savile Row

This picture is not related to the Woolmark Campaign. It's an advertisement for Ugg, the Australian brand, a great pic !!!

Woolmark Campaign

Images courtesy Savile Row Field Day

CreativeReview

Belly of the Whale by Robin Friend

Young British photographer Robin Friend spent most of his childhood in Australia before returning to England in 1997. This experience of growing up and living between two different countries has affected his perception and relationship with places. "I was trying to connect with primeval urges" he says of his series Belly of the Whale, which he has been slowly compiling over the last three years. In this series, we see a torn shipwreck at the foot of cliffs, and then a mist around the wreck, a reminder of the destruction of Caspar David Friedrich's The Sea of Ice. Tensions between nostalgic and nihilistic views towards nature are constantly present in Friend's work.

I also want to show the viewer what is possible, out there. I try to make images that will haunt, stay with the

viewer something that is extremely difficult in a world saturated by images.-- Robin Friend

Belly of the Whale, a series of haunting images, when beauty meets decay.

They have swallowed me up and spat me out changing the way I see forever.

Images from West Country series

Images courtesy Robin Friend

Belly of the Whale is currently showing at Selfridges, London.

October 8 - November 7, 2010

Viktor Wynd's Little Shop of Horrors

If you are looking for the weirdest thing to buy, The Last Tuesday Society is the shop for you.... Located in London, the store is the most bizarre place. There, you can buy stuffed bats, human skulls, butterflies collection, an elephant foot and much more.... The owner, Viktor Wynd, is continuously searching for new and odd pieces for his shop: plant, grass, animal remains in the forrest, pebbles on the beach, minerals.

" The shop is supposed to be a recreation of a Wunderkammer; a cabinet of wonders like Peter the Great or Rudolph II had. So you have the alligator on the ceiling and all the strange wonders of like,"says Viktor Wynd.

Viktor Wynd