Thom Browne Autumn/Winter 2012-2013 Menswear Paris

Nails, Broad Shoulders, Sharply tailored suits with highlighted prints, including Tartans and Argyle 3-legged suits, full faced masks, football socks, like most critics would describe it "A monstrous' success and we fully agree

Julius Autum Spring Collection 2012 Paris Fashion Week

Designer Tatsuro Horikawa played around with the clothing to give an  optical illusion that made the cloths come across or appear to be in three dimensions.

Bernhard-Willhelm Autumn / Winter Collection 2012

Crazy Mix of colours, The shoe accessory was probably the best part of the show. 

Pictures: Shaka Maidoh / ACF

Juun.J Autumn / Winter 2012

Inflated manly silhouettes mixed with a blackish colour palette, more looks included tailored wool jackets fitted at the waist with contrast colossal shoulders and brown silk funnel-neck trenchcoat with unrestricting, curved shoulders

Pictures: Shaka Maidoh / ACF

20 Years of Dazed & Confused Magazine @ Somerset House

Making It Up As We Go Along

4 Nov - 29 Jan, 10.00-18.00
Terrace Rooms
Free Admission

Dazed & Confused has been a go-to reference for style and culture since its explosive launch in London in 1991 by Jefferson Hack and renowned photographer Rankin. Quickly developing into a notoriously creative platform for new artists, musicians, designers, and filmmakers, and being widely known for its irreverent attitude, Dazed & Confused represented a new wave in the British press, bringing together figures from an assortment of fields and eras to produce extraordinary interviews and original artwork exclusively for the magazine.

Curated by Jefferson Hack and Emma Reeves in collaboration with Somerset House, this multi-layered exhibition immortalises the magazine’s most infamous visual stories, featuring legendary photoshoots, iconic covers, controversial editorial content and artwork from influential photographers, designers, and artists.

Work featured includes ground-breaking photography by Rankin, Nick Knight, David Sims and Terry Richardson, specially commissioned projects by artists Jake & Dinos Chapman, Damien Hirst and Sam Taylor-Wood, cutting edge fashion pages by stylists Katie Grand, Katy England, Alister Mackie and Nicola Formichetti, and specially selected designs by fashion giants Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood and Gareth Pugh.

This exhibition coincides with an anniversary book published by Rizzoli.

Signed copies of  20 Years of Dazed & Confused Magazine - Making It Up As We Go Along available now in our Rizzoli Bookshop, signed by Jefferson Hack and Rankin. 

http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/ 

And The Favourite Fashion Show LFW AW 11 Goes To....

Our favourite off schedule fashion show this year.. 

A child of the jago was founded in 2007 by Simon "Barnzley" Armitage and Joseph Corre. As long standing friends they have for many years been making clothing for them selves as individuals using end of line luxury wools cashmeres and cottons. after many years of dressing up and showing off to each other they decided to open a store in the east end within walking distance of the local tailors shops. A Child Of The Jago is a child of the street. The destitute and illegitimate progeny of a hopelessly rundown environment.

In the case of Joseph Corre and Simon “Barnzley” Armitage, the street is Great Eastern and the physical environment is a former Victorian slum in East London where the alley wise hero of Arthur Morrison’s book, A Child of the Jago takes place. But the spiritual environment that has catalyzed Corre and Armitage’s enterprise is an even more threatening and sprawling slum, that of the creatively impoverished and commercially corrupt homogeny represented by the menswear status quo.

Corre and Armitage are acutely aware that the world their new child is entering will offer it no sympathy and give it no quarter. A Child of the Jago isn’t being raised to expect a warm welcome. It’s being brought up to cause trouble while it contrives to raises the bar.