One more time: Marios @ Milan Fashion Week!

Oh how I wish I could hang with Marios and crew in person. Marios is too good a label not to mention over and over. Plus they have a collection presentation in Milan this season! (Maybe next year loves!) This will definitely be a great installation as Roy is a wicked awesome creative director with sheer and sharp focus. I am also adding this dog scarf to my wish list. For the past week or so I have been dealing with both house and family matters and the usual daily grind. Fear not, I am in good spirits. This weekend I might baricade until I blueprint this awesome art project/ documentary. Oh yea, and I am starting on the remodeling of the blog. Check back on the blog proper weekly as there will be new things added weekly to the site! But I digress... Marios is doing big things in Japan but decided to showcase their scarves are incredible. I have half a mind to make a purchase next month. But there is so much at MLT that I want in my closet. If you are in Milan you should stop by their collection but make sure to tell them I sent you!

http://www.marioslefttanker.com
http://www.marios.eu

Life is beautiful, let's share a little. 

Joy D

Take Care Garments: a MARIOS project

What wonder and practicality must go into creating a collection that is both wearable and functional. Marios is a design duo that investigates functional themes through their clothing every season. This season it is Softwear vs Hardwear, being the nerd I am I had to find out more about the collection. A lot of the materials looked to be of light vinyls, cotton, and jeans. Simple,yes. Executed in a way I would want to wear everyday and then some. The Take Care Garments Projects speaks to me on several levels: I must admit on a purely aesthetic level. There is a certain comedy related to this collection of garments.

All photos courtesy of MLT.

What do you think of sustainable and practical clothing?

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Joy D.

Fashion Film Friday: Andrea Crews

I like Herman Dune and love the craziness of Andrea Crews, who I will be interviewing next month! 

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Joy D.

The Horiba sisters: an interview

Let's start way back, like a couple of years ago. When first discovering Marios Left Tanker/ Duomo Showroom it was thrilling! It's webshop that features only a handful of designers such as Daniel Palillo and February. Now let's fast forward, I get up the courage to talk to Roy of MLT about some of the designers. I was most drawn to Blank and I was excited, I must admit, when no one had talked about them on the blogosphere. But also, I was a little shocked. The Horiba sisters have a strong vision of what they want in a garment and I looked over their lookbooks twice over. Roy agreed to let me interview them and here are the inspiring results....

1.Could you describe the concept of Blank? BLANK is a fashion brand made by the Horiba sisters (Miyoko and Kayoko). BLANK feature theme is 'starting from white and exploring the possibility's of white color'. Aiming at a personal manufacturing of clothes and the urge to make everyday life pleasant. Using the technique of printing photographs and in there own unique way suggest "trompe l'oeil" art (technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion).

2. What is important to you when making a garment? The graphics and shape to be according to the season concept.i do also care much about fabrics quality and the way the prints will look and feel. 

3. Have you always known you would be a designer? No not always. 

4. Did you have other jobs/careers in mind? I would really like to work in product design or industrial design area. 

5. What do you draw on as an artist to create your pieces? The concept and the way to express it in the collection.  

6. What inspiration did you have for the newest collection? The new Spring Summer 2011 inspiration comes from "Marcel Ayme" (The Walker through Walls) as well as art and short story from his book. And from the Japanese Manga the wall man by "Daijiro Moroboshi".  

7. Where would you like to take your work? Would you prefer to keep it in Japan? 

We currently work with a couple of shops world wide (Pixie Market) in NY but mainly in Asia i will be grate to work with more shops around the world. 

8. What do you like to do in your spare time? 

Watch movies mainly Japanese Animations and read Manga lately i watch Ganime is a kind of Animation movie with out much movement just changing still images and writing.

9. What do you think of fashion blogs? I like blogs in general, fashion blogs, and the Internet makes everything faster. I remember a couple of years back everyone was kind of hiding the collections until the last moment. I feel that fashion blogs have made everything more open and personal then the normal web page.

10. Are there any fun and exciting things happening for BLANK? I just hear that after a 3 years rest there is a good chance to Resurrect the collaboration line BLANK+MARIOS with the Italian brand MARIOS we always had fun and very good feed backs on this projects.

*Please be sure to check out Duomo showrooms blog: http://www.marioslefttanker.blogspot.com/

Life is beautiful, let's share a little. 

Joy D.