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Weapons of Mass Design or the Real Thing by Hermes?

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Rifles, rockets, bombs, electric chairs, and chainsaws + bling × haute couture: That's the recipe of Peter Gronquist's Weapons of Mass Designers --

Does anyone see a pattern here [gasmasks, weapons, ...]

It's the old trick of making an extremely violent film featuring some random war theme and calling it an anti-war manifesto.

So far so good... now, if you need a true, maybe non-fabulous revolution, you need -- at least -- one of these --

The Hermès Eurocopter

The helicopter's cockpit upholstered in black leather --

... and the redesigned landing gear --

The french fashion company Hermès recently teamed up with eurocopter, the world's third largest aerospace group to create l'helicoptre par hermès, a luxury helicopter.

No irony here.

Labels: art, haute+couture, hermes, louis+vuitton

Cut & Sew: The Difference between Haute Couture and Prêt-à-Porter

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I know that you know the difference. I also know that you know that one sells the other. But in the shop, it comes down to --

Haute Couture

Envision, design, cut, sew, repeat.

Prêt-à-Porter

Envision, design, cut, cut, cut, sew, sew, sew, sew, sew, refine, refine, repeat.

Cut...

... and sew.

Working on it...

Labels: couture, cut+and+sew, fashion, haute+couture, lyrois, making+of, pret+a+porter, preview

Envelope Bags 2000

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Printed and folded vinyl tarps --

From the diploma-collection, cut and presented on stage in 2000.

Some more pics from the archives --

• Golden knots on black
• Silver on white inside golden knots on black
• Close-up on silver on white
• Silver on white inside silver on white

Labels: 2000, fashion, haute+couture, lyrois, makrame, print, vinyl