The Fabric of the Cosmos

 

Pixeldust Studios produced over 1,000 animations and visual effects that will be featured in the upcoming, four-part NOVA television series, The Fabric of the Cosmos. Based on the best-selling book by author Brian Greene (The Elegant Universe), The Fabric of the Cosmos will air on PBS for four consecutive Wednesdays, beginning Nov. 2. For Ricardo Andrade, Pixeldust Studios’ founder/executive creative director, The Fabric of the Cosmos presented a unique opportunity to imagine the mysteries of the universe in visually engaging and accessible ways. – – follow more Read

JAPAN: Harajuku Fashion & Art

Harajuku Fashion Walk “FUNtasy Halloween Night” Party Pictures. This year, the already-super-dressed-up-and-colorful Harajuku Fashion Walk crew threw a big bash called “FUNtasy Halloween Night” at club Milkyway in Shibuya. The event was supported by several popular Harajuku fashion brands, including Super Loves and Hyper Core. The quirky colorful J-rock band Broken Doll headlined the event. Other musical acts included Lancer>>Bee (whose singer is KERA model Ayumi Yamauchi) and Full House. The DJs for the night included ITARU (this guy has the most amazing two-tone hair you’ll ever see on a guy), Emuoka, and Asacho (the super-fun girls in the pumpkin costumes).- – lots more pics here
Coming to Los Angeles: SWEET STREETS: Art Exhibition Co-Curated by Spank!

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Fashion Photography Guide

This is a small tutorial of Fashion Photography. This is my first article on Indoor Photography, and I’ll write in my usual style of touching the technical aspects from a newbie’s perspective.In studio photography we have to work with props, we focus on light settings, if we don’t have a studio we create a soft box in the spare room in our home. We are so much involved in setting up these things that we completely forget about the concept. Today I have a fast-track guide on fashion photography about how to do it and what are the important elements you need to focus. Let’s begin! Don’t just walk into the studio with empty hands and mind. You should carry some inspirational material with you. There are loads of magazines and catalogues which provide this inspiration service. You should have them with you. In photography, you lose your creative touch sooner than you thought, so inspiration is a necessity. Before taking the shots, you should have a concept in mind that what do you want to achieve. – - continue Guide here.

Rural Sri Lanka Festival

The third annual Sri Lanka Design Festival (SLDF) scheduled for November, features a fascinating line-up of events including a series of fashion shows. Among these, one of the most inspirational and interesting fashion shows of the festival is the Island Craft fashion show: featuring handloom, batik and beeralu lace and other crafts from across the island, and highlights the creativity and skill of each artisan community through couture collections with contemporary design input from the Academy of Design (AOD). Currently, the handloom weaving artisans in Marthamunai – Ampara and Eruvil in Batticaloa are preparing newly designed textile collections for the Island Craft fashion show at the upcoming Sri Lanka Design Festival. In the North, another group of artisans are preparing for the show in Mulaittivu with the help of the Norwegian Embassy Cultural division where AOD has conducted a design and skill development programme for 20 women and introduced them to knitwear and this too is due to be showcased as part of the island craft fashion show at the festival. Batik artisans from the central province and beeralu lace makers from Dikwella, are also preparing special collections for the fashion show. The unique textile weaving industry in Divulapitiya-Gampaha, where the use of machine thread in the handlooms to create exquisite textiles is seen, is another fascinating segment of the show. – - Read more about this show

Our favorite celebs, models & fashion designers dress for Halloween!

Here’s Heidi Klum. The supermodel is officially THE Queen of Halloween, dressing up as a purple Avatar lady and multi-armed Hindu god, to name just two of her bonkers outfits. What WILL she come up with this year we wonder? - - view more Photos

Valentino: Florence Not Milan

VALENTINO will unveil its autumn – winter 2012-13 menswear collection for the first time at the Pitti Uomo show in Florence on January 11 – where the brand’s designers will be the event’s special guests. “We are very happy that Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, the Valentino creative directors, accepted our invitation,” Raffelle Napoleone, ceo of Pitti Immagine, said. “Their work combines a dynamic, contemporary spirit with the sartorial savoir-faire of a house that wrote a huge chapter in the history of fashion. Their visionary yet pragmatic approach combines tradition and innovation without interruptions: this is a feature that Pitti Immagine has always admired and looked for in fashion designers. The brand used to unveil its collection during Menswear Fashion Week in Milan, and more recently via a presentation in Paris, but this will be the label’s first catwalk show since spring/summer 2008 when it was still designed by Valentino himself. “We have been following their work since the first shows in Paris. In a very short time they have developed a secure, poetic and precise style. And now the time has come to offer them the Pitti stage to present the new vision of the Valentino Man with a dedicated fashion show”. “By so prominently featuring one of the icons of Made in Italy, Pitti Uomo continues its support for contemporary Italian fashions,” a statement for the event added. – - more

Andrej Pejic for 7th Man Magazine

The 4th issue of Seventh Man Magazine features a clean new re-design reflecting the issue’s theme of modern masculinity. Casting for this issue includes rising stars such as Andrej Pejic, RJ King and the Stenmark Twins, established faces like Ed Barber and Christopher Wetmore, and new faces including Bryant who flew in to London from college in the US just for the 7thMan shoot, and our cover model Jake who within 2 weeks of starting modeling had already shot the AW11 Oki-Ni campaign, walked for Christopher Shannon, Matthew Miller and others at London Fashion Week‘s Men’s Day, and shot several editorials including 7thMan’s Calvin Klein Collection feature. Photographers who have contributed to the issue include Kevin Amato, John-Paul Pietrus, Nicky Emmerson, Alastair Strong, Pelle Crepin, Damien Fry, Mikkel Russel Jensen, Paul Scala, Ben McDade, Matteo Zini Grant Thomas and Martien Mulder. Stylists Eilidh Greig and Rossana Passalaqcua have created main fashion stories, alongside the in-house 7thMan team. – - Read more

Some NEW Fashion Books as Gifts

“Vogue: The Covers” By Dodie Kazanjian, Abrams, 272 pp., $50
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The glitz and glamour of New York, Milan and Paris fashion weeks have faded away, but we found a few treats to help you get through until the models hit the runway in February. Cozy up with one of these books, and the next season of fabulous fashion will be here before you know it. Organized by decade, this book has more than 300 of the magazine’s most beautiful, sexy and stylish covers — and it lets you in on what happened behind the scenes. Since its first cover on Dec. 17, 1892, Vogue has held the fashion world’s attention with stunning illustrations and photographs from the likes of Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon and Annie Leibovitz. This collection lets you flip through the most striking covers and includes five ready-to-frame prints. – - View some more NEW fashion books available