Archives: June, 2008
Hisui
Japanese designer are always inspiring. They tend to think out of the box. Like HISUI collection on Japan Fashion Week Fall 08-09 in this picture. Hisui is an arty Japanese brand with Hiroko Ito as the designer. Its signatures are psychedelic, swirling graphic prints and geometric motifs. Hisui’s ingeniousness is a big hit and loved by [...]— Puti Karina Puar • June 29th, 2008
It isn’t Always About Sari
Indian fashion talk isn’t always have to be about sari and other colorful outfits those remind us of quaint Bollywood movies with the stars dancing under the trees. Forget those body moving scenes, and let’s take a look at some photos from some Indian fashion shows in 2008. Trivial thing. Don’t you notice that the models [...]— Puti Karina Puar • June 25th, 2008
Teresa Helbig, Inspired by Anime and Manga
Japanese anime and manga have always been a thing for fashion designer. Teresa Helbig is one of the inspired ones. She turned the armored Japanese warrior princesses vision of Aya Takano(, the manga artist) into clothings for her fall collection and showed them in Paris Fashion Week last February. The clothes gave the image of [...]— Puti Karina Puar • June 21st, 2008
Organic Fashion
Since global warming issue has become global hotness, everything goes (at least tries to) green and organic. Fashion does too. In various interesting ways. In Portland, Oregon, October 2007, there were thirty five independent designers showcased the eco-fashion clothes in the whole eco-friendly event, with eco-friendly styling products, bamboo runway, recycled fabric, paper, sustainable furniture, and [...]— Puti Karina Puar • June 15th, 2008
Yohji Yamamoto’s Hermes Bag
Talking about The Yamamotos, Yohji now :) Beside his Y-3 catwalk show in New York, and his fashion show in Beijing on April, Yohji Yamamoto, also collaborated with Hermes, creating a new signature bag for the French fashion house. This bag was firstly showed in Paris Fashion Week, together with his Fall 2008 collection. It features Yohji’s [...]— Puti Karina Puar • June 11th, 2008
Limi Yamamoto, Like Father, Like Daughter
Everyone knows Yohji Yamamoto, but not the fact that he’s got a daughter who wanted to play bass guitar in a rock band then ends up in Paris with her own label, Limi Feu. Limi Yamamoto presented reflection of new Japanese aesthetics as in Japanese women, with more common body types, none like usual model parade, [...]— Puti Karina Puar • June 8th, 2008
Hot Red Hot
The ‘it’ color at the moment there? What about Asia? (source: Elle)— Puti Karina Puar • June 3rd, 2008
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