BEAUTIFUL AGONY



A really inspiring collection from Reem Alasadi. She is from Iraq!, but studied in UK of course... Her collections are truly excuisite and distinctive. Not just beautiful but also eco conscious. (if there is still anybody outhere who things eco is boring, here's the prove of the contrary) The signature on all Reem’s clothes is artisanship - she turns discarded clothes to couture pieces, full of handcrafted details.
 as written on her webpage: 
Ream Alsadi has always been a trailblazer and a pioneer. A mapmaker and a pathfinder. The hallmark of an item by Reem is integrity and originality, she manages to put together the most surprising elements and somehow they always work. Mixing metaphors is Reem’s signature style,...
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She will present her new collection on ECOCHIC FASHION SHOW in Geneva in 2010.
 Included in this collaborative effort will be the launch of a Sustainable Design Exhibition and Competition, and a dramatic EcoChic Fashion Show featuring sustainable and ethical ready-to-wear and eco-couture created by fashion designers from around the globe. 

 
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STEAMPUNK



A few days ago, while I was doing a reasearch about victorian age for the new project I'm preparing, I "discovered"*  steampunk. (*like Christopher Columbus discover America although it has been there for centuries :)   
It's a  a sub-genre of fantasy and speculative fiction. It's like an alternative reality... a mixture of victorian age and the beginning of industrial revolution. Full of unusual machines, tools and extraordinary inventions.There are a lot of references in popular culture to it... so if you like it you shouldn't miss the movie from Jaunet and Caro: The city of Lost children. Full of unusual characters, machines, tools and extraordinary inventions.

with words of others:  
Wacko victorian fantasies.
K.W. Jeter & Michael Berry, 1987
 
Everything Jules Verne could have written.
Everything H.G. Wells should have written.
Everything A. Conan Doyle thought of but never published because it was too fantastic.

Frank Chadwick, 1988



 
 
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