I had to make a costume on the weekend for a shoot on Wedesday. I was already booked for Monday and Tuesday so I knew that I had to have most of it finished on the weekend and if there were any ajustments I could work on it during the evening. I got the image late Friday afternoon and spent the weekend searching for fabrics and then I finally figured out how to make the perfect trim!

The character is Mama San from Red Steel a first person action game from Nintendo. This is a picture of the character, Mama San and the second images is of our super cool model. We really had the perfect team and Yvette Redmond did the make up and drew the amazing tatoo!

I rarely go the grocery store, they seem to have so much weird stuff…

Traveling quite a bit makes me want a familiar hug and here’s a way to get more then just a long distance hug! Yahoo!

"The Hug Shirt (F+R Hugs) is a shirt that allows people to exchange the
physical sensation of a hug over distance. Embedded in the shirt there
are sensors that feel the strength of the touch, the skin warmth and
the heartbeat rate of the sender and actuators that recreate the
sensation of touch, warmth and emotion of the hug to the shirt of the
distant loved one.

The System

The Hug Shirt is a Bluetooth accessory for Java enabled mobile
phones. Hug shirts don’t have any assigned phone number, all the data
goes from the sensors wirelessly to your mobile phone and your mobile
phone delivers the data stream to your loved one phone and seamlessly
is transmitted Bluetooth to the other person’s shirt (sounds complex
but the operation takes the same few seconds it would take to send an
SMS, or text message). You will be able to send hugs while you are on
the move, in the same way and to the same places you are able to make
phone calls (Rome to Tokyo, New York to Paris)."

 

"What is a conversation like between a handbag and a scarf?  How can
you mediate their conversation and when is your skirt allowed in on the
discussion?  As a woman is about to leave her house, her handbag may
solicit the weather forecast from the humidity sensor on its fellow smart
curtain.  It might deliver the news of an impending downpour by saying
"I think it might rain.  Go get your umbrella."  And after deliberating
with her coat pocket, the handbag may use ambient light to caution the
user if she’s forgotten her cell phone."

For more info contact:

Gauri
              Nanda, Media Lab MIT

•   Adrian Cable,
                Cambridge University

Times based clothes: clothes that can change form depending on location

http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_

I love these bags, Stori by Korean designer Myounghee
Zo. The bags have a beautifful and the most amazingly tactile, quality fabrics with
intricate details like laquered or carved handles and metal hardware and the occasional cat logo.

Another Health & Fitness shoot… I love using American Apparel, they have some great metallic leggings!

On my birthday we went to see October perform. It was quite a nice venue very cozy, big comfy couches, a great place for a date.

What is the best way to show a collection, is it still the runway
show, or the fashion video? Shows are fun, they create a buzz, lots of
excitement, lots of press and most shows are videoed. Of course they is
lots of waiting, of hours of preparation and lots of money that goes
intocreating a show. The fashion video is still relativley new but last
season we saw a few video’s like "Wendy Bird" on YouTube. It’s directed by Ellen Von Unwerth staring Kirstin Dunst and Autumn winter collection 06 by Erin Fetherston. Maybe we need to have both?

H&M fall/winter

35 pieces for women and 25
pieces for men by VIKTOR &
ROLF from November 9th at H&M in 24 markets worldwide. I’m quite curious to see this capsule
collection as I love their designs.

Link: COLLECTIONS - fashionoffice.org : trends in fashion - Europe . America . Asia.

Saw Some of my favourite people:

Sheryl May who had been quite busy showing her next collection at London Fashion Week
                                                                                                                And I met up with Jose Base, a super cool make up artist, also Canadian. He’s been quite busy with New York, Milan, London Fashion week and he’s off to Paris Fashion week. We’re going to try and squeeze in a shoot together in the next week or two.                                              

Went to Respiro to look at the cool shoes and they have some amazing necklaces that I’m dreaming about.

Doing a shoot in Brighton with a girl who organizes a Burlesque Ball!I found some great corsets and some wonderful mini top hats which I just love and of course I want one…but where would I wear it?