Freddie Mercury

Queen - Radio Ga Ga

Spray-on clothing

Marco Brambilla

Found this video of Marco Brambilla over at Information Farm... Wow!! Marco Brambilla also created Kanye's Power video. Check out more stuff on him below:

Information Farm: Marco Brambilla: "The 88 created a behind the scenes look at Kanye West’s Power by Marco Brambilla which shows a continuous camera move with extreme slow mo..."

Last day of London Fashion week and it is reported that the British Fashion industry contributes to £21bn to the UK economy

British fashion industry now worth nearly £21bn a year, according to research by UK Fashion Industry and British Fashion Council. This includes wholesale and retail manufacturing and fashion week events.

Sources and Images: Guardian.co.uk, Mary Katrantzou, Mark Fast, Christopher Kane,Vivienne Westwood, London Fashion Week, BoF

Tribute to late Designer Alexander McQueen at St. Paul Cathedral in London

British Fashion

I always like Business of Fashion's point of view on things and here is another article that I really enjoyed by Imran Amed the Founder and Editor of The Business of Fashion:

LONDON, United Kingdom — As the fashion industry continues its march into the digital age, London — always known for its raw creativity and emerging talent — can now add digital innovation to that list.

This is no overnight story. To the contrary, it’s taken ten years for fashion players here to plant seeds which are only beginning to bear fruit now, as fashion’s digital tsunami really begins to take hold.

The British capital, after all, is home to revolutionary fashion website SHOWStudio, e-commerce pioneer Net-a-Porter, and online hub of youth culture Dazed Digital — all of which were founded many years ago. These seminal businesses have created a foundational and fertile seedbed for other digital businesses and attracted and developed digital talent that has gone on to shape and inspire other online companies here including mywardrobe.com, Fashionair and farfetch.com. And, while American Vogue is in the midst of setting up its website now, British Vogue has had its own website for fifteen years.

London-based mega-brand Burberry, widely considered to be the most innovative fashion company in the digital space, was one of the first to stream its catwalk show live on the Internet last season. Having decided to show in London again this time around, Burberry is not content with resting on its digital laurels. A few weeks ago, the iconic British brand announced its plans to stream its show in 3D to a host of cities around the world, from Dubai and Tokyo to Paris and New York, creating the world’s first truly global fashion show.

But it’s not just big brands and websites that a digital capital make. The East End of London is a hotbed of fashion creativity and digital innovation. Emerging fashion creatives like Ruth Hogben, digital art directors like Jaime Perlman, and independent film production studios like Pundersons Gardens, have been working with independent designers like Gareth Pugh and Richard Nicoll to show the fashion world what is possible when creativity meets digital technology.

And, the British Fashion Council is the first of the major organising bodies in fashion to fully embrace digital technology, having set up its own digital schedule for fashion films and live-streams of selected on-schedule shows, accompanied by live commentary using curated tweets from fashion insiders and fans alike via Starworks Conversations.

As for the designers themselves, they are going digital too. Following in the footsteps of that giant of fashion whose shadow is looming over this London fashion week, designers like Mary Katrantzou and Erdem Moralioglu are using digital techniques to create out-of-this world prints, which have become defining, technology-based signatures of their work.

As Naomi Attwoods said in her review of Katrantzou’s A/W 2010 collection shown on Saturday, “Katrantzou’s strength is her eye for a print. The digital technology that has revolutionised and regenerated the trend for colourful, printed clothes gives designers so many possibilities but with Miss Katrantzou’s pieces, the source material is clearly visible and this sets her apart.”

And so, as London Fashion Week hits full tilt on Monday and Tuesday, the city seems poised to leapfrog Milan, Paris and New York as the definitive digital fashion capital, furthering the nascent comeback of London Fashion Week after years of struggling in the shadow of its fashion capital brethren.

Fave September Vogue images

THE VMA'S and Gaga experience

Sunday I got to attend the VMA's, wasn't sure if I could take a camera, so these shots are from my phone. Not the best, but I had a great time, sitting in the front row, Gaga was behind at the end. Got to see her in her Alexander McQueen up close!!! So close when she walked by me I got to feel the dress.

Grrrrrrr!!!!!

lanvin & h&m

Band-Aids by Cynthia Rowley

I like when Designers think outside the box

Fashionstake-Yesterday was also the birth of this new fashion website.

Learn more about it by going on Business of Fashion www.businessoffashion.com

Happy Bday Rachel!

Yesterday was Rachel's bday!

Peace is Never out of Style!

Today is September 1st, which means I have 20 days until the 21st, and my pledge towards Peace was to make people aware of this site and Jeremy Gilley who started it. Please check out his site and have some fun with your pledge.