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Fashion - Viktor and Rolf Fall 2010 Men collection

The Fall/Winter 2010 collection's inspiration without having it shown against the backdrop of ink-splatter pattern carpeting and a fellow (up-and-coming Berlin-based singer/songwriter Ben Hamilton) perched on a bar stool in the corner crooning a soulful 9 1/2-minute version of the Rolling Stones song "Paint It Black."

There were black-overdyed dress shirts that looked as if they'd been painted to within a few inches of the collar, black trompe l'oiel glitter splatters on pant legs and models who took to the catwalk in thick black eyeglass frames and black paint streaked across their faces.

But more importantly, the palette, which only strayed from the black and gray color story on a scarf here and a dress shirt there (midnight blue, naturally), helped showcase the collection's focus on layering and texture. There was a sleeveless ribbed knit sweater with a monochromatic checked silk pocket square stuffed in the breast pocket, a shiny, black quilted puffer vest under a black leather three-quarter-length coat, and multiple collars on tuxedos, shirts and sweaters that varied in fabrication but were of the same color -- black.

The designers denied that the melancholia of the collection was inspired by anything in particular.
"The color black has always been part of what we do," Snoeren said, pointing out the black V&R wax seal logo.
"And, to us, black has always been the color of cool."




"Paint it black" - Rolling stones
I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colors anymore I want them to turn black
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes

I see a line of cars and they're all painted black
With flowers and my love both never to come back
I see people turn their heads and quickly look away
Like a new born baby it just happens ev'ry day

I look inside myself and see my heart is black
I see my red door and it has been painted black
Maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts
It's not easy facin' up when your whole world is black

No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue
I could not foresee this thing happening to you

If I look hard enough into the settin' sun
My love will laugh with me before the mornin' comes

I see a red door and I want it painted into black
No colors anymore I want them to turn black
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes

Hmm, hmm, hmm,...

I wanna see it painted, painted black
Black as night, black as coal
I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky
I wanna see it painted, painted, painted, painted black
Yeah!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/alltherage/2010/01/viktor-rolf-monsieur-fallwinter-2010-mens-collection-runway-debut-paris-fashion-week-.html
http://nymag.com/fashion/fashionshows/2010/fall/main/europe/menrunway/viktorandrolf/#

Fashion - Black Magic

It wasn't supposed to last. After all, when Coco Chanel unveiled the little black dress in a 1926 issue of Vogue, critics sneered at everything from its cut to its color, with rival designer Elsa Schiaparelli going so far as to dismiss the design as "widow's weeds." And yet "women immediately started wearing it," says Pamela Golbin, 20th-century curator of the Louvre's Museum of Fashion and Textiles. "The simplicity allowed for copies at every level of the price market, which made it a very democratic dress." In the 80 years since, the little black dress has proved its versatility in incarnations ranging from the sheath to the cocktail dress, but no matter how it's worn, one basic truth remains. "It's something you can always throw on," says Scarlett Johansson, "and feel best-dressed."

THE ORIGINAL, 1926
Nicknamed "the Ford of Chanel" because its mass appeal rivaled that of the Model T, the first little black dress was made of knee-length crepe de chine.

JACQUELINE KENNEDY, 1961
The First Lady selected this sheath for a White House reception. "Black brings out the best of every woman's silhouette," Golbin says.

AUDREY HEPBURN, 1961
Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld says one of the keys to the little black dress's appeal is that "you can accessorize depending on the occasion," as Hepburn did by adding evening gloves and a wide-brimmed hat to her Hubert de Givenchy frock in Breakfast at Tiffany's.

CATHERINE DENEUVE, 1966
The little black dress goes mod, in this creation by Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche. "Its interpretations have been able to follow fashion through different times and epochs," Lagerfeld says.

SOFIA COPPOLA, 2006
Her first little black dress? "It was Chanel black leather and lace—I wore it to my prom!" recalls Coppola (at a screening for Marie Antoinette).

HALLE BERRY, 2005
"Today, the little black dress is like jeans," says Lagerfeld. "It is a wardrobe's essential element."

PRINCESS DIANA, 1994
"Even though it was born in Paris, the little black dress is an international garment," Lagerfeld says. Diana wore this Christina Stambolian take on the classic during a visit to the Serpentine Gallery.

from People magazine
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20059930,00.html

Music - Black Is The Color Of My True Loves Hair by Nina Simone

But Black is the colour of my true love's hair.
His face is like some rosy fair,
The prettiest face and the neatest hands,
I love the ground whereon he stands.

I love my love and well he knows,
I love the ground whereon he goes,
If you no more on earth I see,
I can't serve you as you have me.

The winter's passed and the leaves are green,
The time is passed that we have seen,
But still I hope the time will come
When you and I shall be as one.

I go to the Clyde for to mourn and weep,
But satisfied I never could sleep.
I'll write to you a few short lines,
I'll suffer death ten thousand times.

So fare you well, my own true love
The time has passed, but I wish you well.
But still I hope the time will come
When you and I will be as one.

I love my love and well he knows,
I love the ground whereon he goes.
The prettiest face, the neatest hands,
I love the ground whereon he stands.

Furniture - Nest chair

Title
Nest

Client
Tjep.

Description
Thanks to airplanes people are capable of traveling through the air like birds. We have launched a second revolution: thanks to Tak, people nowadays can also relax like birds! Tak is a large sofa made of fifty soft rubber branches twingled together, Tak can be expanded as the family grows just like a real birds nest. Tak was especially designed for the 2004 furniture fair in Milano.

Design team
Frank Tjepkema & Janneke Hooymans
http://www.tjep.com/

Project brief

Editorial - The noir issue

http://www.archive.fashion156.com/?issue=11

Editorial - Black in Black

© by The Ones2Watch
Photography Henrik Adamsen
Styling Sarah Paaschburg
Hair & Make-Up Monika Grensteen at Unique Look
Model Michael Winther at Scoop Models
Special thanks to Sune at Scoop Models

Sources:http://www.theones2watch.com/
http://coutequecoute.blogspot.com/

Fashion - Lanvin Pre-fall 2010 collection

Lanvin Pre-fall 2010 collection
Designer: Alber Elbaz
Models: Elsa Sylvan and Kamila Filipcikova
http://www.style.com