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Saturday, May 28, 2011

LILY AND TWIGGY

I wonder if this video, featuring Lily Donaldson, was inspired by the below Richard Avedon photograph of Twiggy....

Image VIA cosmopolitan.co.uk

This exquisite video is a unique blend of wearable fashion and dance. Short but terribly sweet...

As stated on the NOWNESS Website:

New York City Ballet principal Janie Taylor road tests Chloé’s dance-inspired spring/summer 2011 collection with choreographer and corps de ballet member Justin Peck in today’s short by director Bon Duke. Set to Philip Glass’s “String Quartet No. 3, 'Mishima': IV. 1962: Body Building," the impassioned routine was conceived by Peck in a bid to capture the multidimensional aspects of the performance on camera. “You always see ballet from the front,” he says. “Here was an opportunity to show it from the side, from the back, from every angle, and create a really unique viewing experience.”

MANNEQUIN: Fashion Modelling in the 1950s and 60s

A fashion exhibition will be running at Como Historic House and Garden between 1 April - 3 July 2011.

"Mannequin is the third in a popular and critically acclaimed series of fashion exhibitions staged by the National Trust at Como and part of the L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival Cultural Program.

Mannequin is about a generation of professional models, such as Janice Wakely and Diane Masters who were photographed by the leading image makers of the time - Helmut Newton and Athol Shmith. These collaborations gave Melbourne fashion its own distinctive and influential style......

.......The exhibition will delve into the vast archive of photographs, newspaper and magazine spreads and the fashion that inspired them, held in the private collections of well-known career models."