Caged Birds

Yes, those are real birds in Macy's??? 

a bed of flowers

upside down flowers

real or fake???

Macy's fake yet super cute topiary 

More butterflies!!!

This time hanging from the ceiling!! 

Passengers??

Is that flowers???

That's one big Balloon

Hell Yeah!!!!!!!

Oh my!!

Butterflies on the lighting fixtures.  Surreal 

Macy's Flower Show

Today I went to Macy's to see the annual Flower show.  It's always a great way to usher in spring.  The theme this year was a hot air balloon that seemed to be travel the flower skies.  A bit strange thinking of a runaway hot air balloon.  Also, butterflies were another focal point of the show.  This picture is a plant wall. I really liked the color composition.  More pics as they come from the show. 

Ladt Gaga dress pt 2

a better view 

Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga Grammy Dress in Armani 5th Ave store. 

commerce st part 2

A nice close up of the wall 

Commerce Street

Found this on a quite stroll of the west village

inspiration

just some images I found that I really like.........

Eyewear from the beginning to the future

This exhibit is at Grand Central Terminal.  It's really small but very informative history of eyeglasses in Italy.  I was surprised to find out that Venice was the epicenter for manufacturing glasses.  Also, the evolution of the eyeglass from the nose spectacles to present day design.  The sunglasses on view were pretty interesting in regards to design and that most were handcrafted.  It drove home the point of  great Italian design and craftsmanship.  

Museum time: the Met

These are some old pics from a trip to the MET not to long ago

I really love this piece because the artist cast glass human bones and then wrapped them in tourniquets. Each piece is a different bone and none are organized in any particular order. 

I love the color combinations in this painting/ collage.  The positioning of each color and block is not random but is placed with intention.  Enjoy!!

more pics from the Rodarte exhibit

some more pics from the rodarte exhibit

I'm totally in love with the last pic. I love the top it reminds of ribs and love that its made out of leather.  

not to mention they had this great bolero/ macramae in the exhibit and saw it at Bergdorf's it was $12,000 crazy!!!!!!!

Movie Madness

Lately, I've had a lot of time in my hands and have been able to catch up on a lot of movies.  It's been great but also inspiring.  Below are a list of movies that I watched:

Couples Retreat
From Hell- (be on the look out for a future collection)
Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs (trippy children's movie)
Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton's version- be on the look out for a future collection)
Ghost World
Life Aquatic
Sherlock Holmes (be on the look out for a future collection)
Seven

Quicktake: Rodarte

This weekend I hiked up to the Cooper Hewitt to check out Quicktake: Rodarte.  First, of all they are my favorite American Designers.  I enjoy their take on fashion and what women.  I always enjoy going to the Copper Hewitt and taking the time to wander around the bell epoch mansion, which makes it an exciting place to view art and design exhibits.  It was a small selection of looks from the past few runway collections.  There was a common theme of layering, decay, and destruction. It was a great to see the garments up close (not that I can't go to Barney's, Bergdorf's, or Opening Ceremony to see the clothes up and personal).  No pictures were allowed which bummed me out, but I have some videos below that shows the making of the exhibit and an interview with Rodarte. 


Rodarte Interview
Rodarte video

Friday Mixtapes

A friend of mine (thanks Karl) turned me onto this site.  It's great music thats in a mix tape format and it's on fridays!!

check out the website and take a listen: http://fridaymixtape.com/

The Final Collection

On Tuesday March 9th, a simple presentation of the Alexander McQueen's final collection. For me it was bittersweet the clothing were technical perfection yet the contrast of the ethereal prints spoke volumes.  The small 16 piece collection was about the contrast of stiff silhouettes and fabrications and soft fluid chiffon and renaissance prints.  The prints had religious meaning, which was evident in Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights and angels.  The angel's wings were poignantly engineered on the back of the garments.  The collection was a fusion of 21st century technology and haute couture techniques.  It was an ultimate McQueen collection.  It had showmanship and craft melded into one.  Genius.  I was in tears by the final look, it was a hand painted feather garment.  It's with great sadness to know he is longer with us.  I was so inspired by McQueen.  I loved everything he did.  The collection was his Requiem that he orchestrated so masterfully.


pics from nytimes.com

Haider Ackerman

yesterday I was on Style.com and checking out the collections from Paris.  I checked out Haider Ackerman and fell in love.  His work with leather and suede are amazing in how he is able to drape with it and tailoring. He combines the avant-gard with the wearable with a subtle ease that I think a lot of women would want to wear him.  I know I do. Check out some of my favorite pics from the show.

robots are taking over

walked by the Paul Smith store the other day and to my surprise they had the cutest window display....robots. but they weren't just any robots they were refurbished objects.  I felt really inspired by the display and want to create a collection using vintage and used clothing (something I was experimenting with at Parons)....if you get a chance stop by and check out the window and the store, which is great

Bleedding Glacier

 just found this on the web and wanted to share...check the link out to see  the pic

Antarctic Glacier Has Five-story Blood-red Waterfall of Primodial Ooze

GOOD Blog > Patrick James on February 24, 2010 at 5:00 am PST

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There is a five-story, blood-red waterfall pouring slowly from the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valley. Its back story, at Atlas Obscura, is simply remarkable:

Roughly 2 million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath it a small body of water which contained an ancient community of microbes. Trapped below a thick layer of ice, they have remained there ever since, isolated inside a natural time capsule. Evolving independently of the rest of the living world, these microbes exist without heat, light, or oxygen, and are essentially the definition of "primordial ooze." The trapped lake has very high salinity and is rich in iron, which gives the waterfall its red color. A fissure in the glacier allows the subglacial lake to flow out, forming the falls without contaminating the ecosystem within.

One takeaway here is that life possible in extreme conditions. That said, in the absence of ideal conditions, life can evolve without begetting plants or birds or cuddly mammals or sentient beings who write blogs on the internet; it just begets a glob of ooze.

Via Buzzfeed.

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costae

what do you think of the word: costae


it's latin for ribs 

Down the rabbit hole.......

I'm counting down the days to Alice in Wonderland!!! It's one of my favorite books.  I'm hoping this version is a bit darker then Disney's cartoon version.  I always felt there was a sinister side to the novel, but it could be due to playing the video game Alice.
The images of test shoots are so awe inspiring and got me thinking and wanted to base a collection on them, but figured to see the movie to get a more complete picture of Burton's landscape of wonderland.

I have more to say on all the designer collaborations with the movie so be on the lookout.

Man Ray

Last week I headed uptown to the Jewish museum to see the Man Ray exhibit.  First, of all it's free on saturdays, which is Awesome!! Security on the other hand is tighter than the MET, which is strange since it's a smaller museum.  Anyway, the exhibit was quite extensive and I learned a lot about a Man Ray I did not know.  I always associated him with Dada and photography, with a slight bent for surrealism.  I feel his early work is where he is finding his true calling as an artist.  He tried to fit in with his peers but his work is just an exercise in mimic. Once he finds himself with the camera and silver gelatin as a medium it is pure perfection.  For free the exhibit is worth it, if I had to pay it would just be ok.  They had some of his most famous works, but failed in comparison to MoMa and their Dada exhibit.

my favorite hide away

Last Friday, I went to the Met (not the opera).  They had great but small exhibit on the art of the photo collage during the Victorian era.  What made it a interesting and great exhibit is that you were able to see the beginnings of graphic design and layout.  Also, a majority of the works were created by women.  Some illustrated family trees, political/social causes, and creative whimsy (like the Alice in Wonderland illustrations).  Below are some of my favorite images:

the Parsons years- creations