RAFW 10 • Therese Rawsthorne • Romance was Born • Ksubi SS 10/11

I have been shirking the past few runway shows, thinking over time I will gradually post bits and bobs of some of the latest Spring and Summer collections in small doses, however I quickly came to the conclusion If I am not going to post it now, I never will - not the best of mentality I know, so I had skimmed through some of the RAFW Rosemary Australian Fashion Week collection's over the past few weeks and decided to post some of the collections present below at the RAFW.

Therese Rawsthorne SS10/11 Collection

What captured my inquiring mind and curiosity were the shoes in this collection by Tristian Blair with a silver bangle around the ankle infusing the extremely wearable pieces consisting of blazers with embellished cut leggings the palette inspired by the desert and dry textures, with hand knits, washed cottons and silks of nude, blood red and black.

// Sonny Vandevelde 

ROMANCE WAS BORN

Australian design duo Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales created the label Romance was Born 5 years ago after becoming friends studying fashion together at East Sydney Technical College. The SS10/11 dinosaur inspired theme mollified throughout all the quirky accessories, make-up and hair with the form of masks, bodices and colourful neck pieces. Pauly Bonomelli created the jewellery and accessories sculpted from crystallized Swarovski and metals. One of the highlights of this collection was the lucite-heeled print boots and heels, a collaboration with Terry Biviano and this year’s artist collaboration was with Kate Rhodes.

//Sonny Vandevelde

Themes - Nail Slut, Snake Guts, Volcano Girl, and Dino Slut

KSUBI SS10/11

The mischief of Ksubi helps bring a street trendy casual flavour and this collection brought some sexy mesh and panelled body suits and the funkdafied white denim shorts and cross-over pants and the usual combo of denim from Skinny's to straight, ripped, teared and painted and graffiti styled Tee's. 

// Marie Claire 

Those Tee's above would be perfect to hide my un-toned arms in the summer hahaha as well as complimenting any denim outfit. 

Summer 2010 Sacerdotalism

A SAGATHY OF SUMMER VOCABULARY

The season of summer is around the veer in officially a months time, I gotta feeling not quite like the black eyed peas cut its going to be a excizzorating multi ball of a summer, now having said that being slightly superstitious Summer could very well turn out to be a flop, but it's okay I will make do, if that happens. A little sunshine a cool drink, a family reunion and 20% of the items below goes along way. But the mondo 2 W's will also set the tone of my summer- World Cup + Wimbledon. I realise this post will mean bleach to all the fellow folks living currently in the Southern hemisphere as Summer does not visit at this time of year, my little aussie cousin in Melbourne, scolds me every-time for discussing the opposite factors of weather and season, because its dull to talk about the weather! leading me to think this post is pretty doltish, but I guess at the very least I've registered some of the items below I'm postdating for Summer. I knew I forgot to add something below that cloud and that was the Maxi dress! If you can you think of anything that's not in the list below, I'm sure there's plenty more. 

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2AM Han Hyo Joo Jambangee Campaign 2010

ACID WASH JEANS TEES SHIRTS

The above Shirts commemorating the 2010 upcoming World Cup, Jambangee, the Korean label has released specially designed T-shirts special edition for the world cup. In its striking Red colour. Once the World Cup is upon is, there's nothing better than adorning the World Cup team colours with mesh of acid colour jeans and some snazzy pair of trainers or sport wedges, lazing around watching the game in the sun with a drink in one hand, and the other arm preparing to be raised when a goal is scored. If your familiar with the Korean music industry the above boys are from the music group 2 AM, I could really easily mistake them as being professional apparel models...............  I'm slowly but surely starting to build up to the World Cup fever!

Snack on Paani Puri Clothing

If any of you have ever foraged into the Indian Subcontinent and have felt starving marving and encounter one of the street vendors out of many, you would most likely catch the popular street snack called Paani Puri, being cooked in alls its savoir-faire. I think there's no one in the Indian Subcontinent who wouldn't recognise a Panni Puri, when they see one! That is probably why at 5:30am Rish Oberoi was watching Batman The Dark Knight, but could only think to himself, "how amazing would Paani Puri be right now? "While sitting there in a daze, hoping to somehow find Paani Puri around his house, he began to think how funny, no, how CRAZY!! it would be if “The Joker” was eating Paani Puri! 

This thought stuck in his mind, and that very same day he went through his phone book to call anyone who could create this image. And EUREKA! He found her! Wait Wait, before we go on, her name is actually EUREKA! (this is the most serious part of the story and not a joke….). That’s how Paani Puri clothing line begun, simply a joke made into a reality.” I think that's what I'd call Carpe Diem. 

TEES Containing glimpses of PAANI PURI 

Stocking at SoBo(Hughes Rd) and Attic(Bandra) and via online

David Koma • Ikou Tschuss SS 10

DAVID KOMA SPRING SUMMER 10

From the moment on, when you take a glance at the collection above, you can instantly button down, that these pieces have been created by David Koma, with the look of an array of exaggerated curving, bold colours and silhouettes. David has captured the recognition and appreciation of many ever since his graduate collection at Saint Martins, showing a confident feminine demiurgic style, particularly for those who relish distinctive clothing.   

IKOU TSCHUSS SPRING SUMMER 10

Ikou-Tschüss is a Guya Marini and Carmen D'Apollonio collaboration, Guya and Carmen have been close friends for as long as they can remember, both Italians born and raised in Zurich. Since they feelthey have such a good time making the clothes, it is essential that the people who like them have a good time wearing the colourful word of IKOU TSCHUSS. Reading from their Bio, the two designers Guya and Carmen seem like a good jovial bunch and their clothes reflect that with a happy feel good vibe, perfect for the summer when the sun is shining. 

SACCHARIFEROUS of SQUARES

A cobweb of images I had cluttering on the Desktop- Feels like Spring Cleaning

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Ami Lungu -LÜ Collection • White Rabbit Express

AMI LUNGU

TRANSYLVANIA - BORN DESIGNER

        INVISIBLE CITIZEN HOODED TRENCH

My mouse has been playing up, not the pet kind but the one where I can whiz and click away page by page as I desire, I nearly missed the above collection by AMI LUNGU by using the track pad, lazy hands hey...the collection embraces origami pleats and digital prints, wood nipples plus a dash of cotton yellow and a usage of hexagon pyramid conglomeration of shapes.  Ami Lungu was accepted for an intern-ship at the Yves Saint Laurent fashion house in Paris, and Ami returned to Bucharest  in 2006 to set up her own label called LÜ, in Ami's own words LÜ peeps inside the human body and is thrilled by molecular universe. Most of this Spring Summer collection can be brought on-line, from her official website.....   

WHITE RABBIT EXPRESS

If you're anything like myself and like to acquire random of gadgets, clothes, accessories, shoes, and art or you name it from abroad where it's difficult to get your hands on these products, one of the Gargantuan destinations to buy from is Japan. Google translate and babblefish can only help a smidge when buying from Asia, if not versed with the language. Enter White Rabbit Express, Japan's personal buying service. Who can purchase almost any Japanese product on your behalf and ship it to you anywhere. I haven't used their services yet, but the boon to this service is, its not only restricted to clothes and accessories, and thus is open to all products. The revamped website is beneficially user friendly and certainly the smoothest and quickest way to get something you find listed on a Japanese online store that won’t ship internationally.

TRUE BLUE May 2010

HAIR RAISING TILTING MOJO 

The above ^ could have very well have been, my hair raising reaction to yesterdays supposedly historical day of which David Cameron was announced as the new Prime Minister of the U.K...BUT NOPE I have currently no faith in politics at all, if any of the main three candidates were announced as PM yesterday, I wouldn't raise an eyebrow, unless they announce soldiers will be returning in amass from Iraq and Afghanistan. I'll stick to a lighter note shall I.. how the hell does one get hair like the above?! Or on that note  the complimenting see through glassy necklace above.....using my beady eyes and poor long sighted vision, it would seem the necklace piece is from Alexis Bittar, who has an on-line abode. 

Muse: Zhang Xu Chao (Esee China) Editorial: True Blue Magazine: (France) Grazia Magazine, May 2010

Photographer: Brian Keith Stylist: Stephanie Brissay Hair: Sébastien Le Coroller

Makeup: Tatsu Yamanaka

//AsianModelsblog