Focus sur le photographe américain Steve McCurry qui propose la série « Omo Valley » en Ethiopie. Il réalise des portraits des africains en tenues traditionnelles, mais aussi des photos de moments de fête et de rites religieux. Sa série est à découvrir en images sur son portfolio et dans la suite de l’article.
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Laces are threaded through the uppers of these shoes by Japanese designers Nendo for Spanish shoe company Camper, creating patterns across the whole surface (+ slideshow).
Nendo set out to create a lighter, more water-resistant version of Camper‘s bestselling Peu Ideal shoe, which features a stretchy lace secured with a knot at each end.
“We lit upon the idea of working with Camper’s iconic stretchable shoelaces and knots,” explained Nendo.
Available in four colours, the Beetle uses elastic laces to perforate the shoe across the entire upper, tied in knots at three points to keep them in place.
“In our design, shoelaces interlaced across the shoe’s upper provide comfort and wearability, at the same time as they take on a starring role, bringing new function and visual style alike,” the designers added.
Making the shoes from a combination of nylon and polyurethane, Nendo has added further waterproofing and made the shoe lighter than the original.
The sole also features thermal insulation and is inscribed with the words “Human Energy”.
The studio plans to exhibit the shoes in Milan next month during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, which runs from 8 to 13 April. The shoes are also available on Camper’s website.
This isn’t the first time the two companies have collaborated together: last year Nendo designed the brand’s flagship New York store featuring more than a thousand ghostly white shoes protruding from the walls.
Camper has also worked with a number of other high-profile designers on its shoe line, including Jasper Morrison’s version of the Country Trainer and Spanish designer Jaime Hayon’s Together shoes that were inspired by English bespoke footwear.
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Models were suspended in vacuums between plastic sheeting during Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen‘s Autumn Winter 2014 show at Paris Fashion Week.
Iris van Herpen and Belgian artist Lawrence Malstaf created the installation in which models were held in midair between sheets of plastic.
“Models float in the air, embryonic, seemingly weightless and in a meditative suspended animation,” said Van Herpen.
Tubes extracted most of the air from the sheets to suck them tightly around the models, who posed in foetal or crouched positions wearing shimmering dresses.
The plastic sheets were hung in a line along the centre of the catwalk used to present Van Herpen’s ready to wear collection, titled Biopiracy.
The collection included 3D-printed garments created in collaboration with Austrian architect Julia Koerner, who previously helped design a dress for Van Herpen’s Voltage collection presented last year.
Van Herpen also worked with Dutch shoe brand United Nude to design crescent-shaped boots that were worn with the garments. Her show took place on Tuesday as part of Paris Fashion Week.
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Dutch shoe brand United Nude and fashion designer Iris van Herpen have collaborated to create crescent-shaped boots for her latest ready to wear collection shown at Paris Fashion Week.
For Van Herpen‘s Autumn Winter 2014 collection titled Biopiracy, the designer and United Nude worked together on two footwear designs.
The futuristic boots curve up and around the leg, encompassing the lower leg on both sides and looping behind the knee.
A long seam runs up the front of the upper before it opens at the top, while the back of the calf is left exposed.
Seven-inch-high heels cantilever from the back of the solid base, which continues the shape of the upper to the ground.
A peep-toe boot was also created in a similar style, but with a strap that wraps around the leg at ankle height instead of at the knee.
Black, cream and white leather was used for the designs, complimenting the colours of Van Herpen’s garments.
The Biopiracy collection was shown on Tuesday during Paris Fashion Week.
This is the ninth time United Nude and Van Herpen have worked together on footwear for her shows. “Working with Iris Van Herpen is each time a big challenge for us as she pushes boundaries with ideas for things that have never been done before,” said United Nude founder Rem D Koolhaas.
Last season they created 3D-printed shoes the resembled tree roots and the year before they added spikes made from semi-precious stones within the heels of platforms.
Dezeen interviewed Koolhaas last year, when he discussed United Nude’s “extreme theatre” shoe collaborations and talked about the future of 3D-printed footwear.
Here’s some information from Iris Van Herpen and United Nude:
United Nude make shoes with Iris Van Herpen for her Biopiracy collection
United Nude collaborates with Iris Van Herpen for shoes completing her collection for its 9th consecutive time. Nevertheless this is the first time that two instead of just one design graced the runway, in the form of the Biopiracy Boot and the Biopiracy peeptoe ankle Bootie, both on staggering 7 inch tall platform cantilevered heels.
The Biopiracy collection by Iris Van Herpen emerged from astonishment of companies’ patented human genes. As part of the show, Lawrence Malstaf created art installations, which developed the impression of models being weightless and breathless. In their half-sleep they seem bio-hacked, to slow down time and energy. Iris van Herpen and Lawrence Malstaf experiment with living objects, kinetic architecture and physical interaction through fashion in installation art.
A 3D printing collaboration with Julia Koerner and Materialise fuses the artisanal with the technical to create a kinetic dress which dances as it amplifies bodily movement. The Iris Van Herpen × United Nude Boot overrules the natural shape of the foot; this makes the graphically leather moulded boots futuristic sculptures extending the legs with a new silhouette into motion. Iris Van Herpen and United Nude is a match made in heaven from day one, as they are both not afraid of breaking boundaries by experimentation with design and technology.
Rem D Koolhaas: “Working with Iris Van Herpen is each time a big challenge for us as she pushes boundaries with ideas for things that have never been done before. Collaboration partners like Iris Van Herpen and Zaha Hadid give us way for our continuation in re-inventing shoes. United Nude was originally founded on this principle with our sculptural sandals just over ten years ago; breaking the rules of conventional ladies shoe-making, not for the sake if breaking them, but simply by not knowing them.”
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Pour Vanity Fair, le photographe américain Mark Seliger a fait de jolis portraits des célébrités présentes lors de la cérémonie des Oscars 2014. Après la cérémonie, Bill Murray, Samuel Lee Jackson, Naomi Watts, Judd Apatow et d’autres personnalités se sont réunis pour un shooting glamour.
Bill Murray.
Lupita Nyong’o.
Sienna Miller.
Zooey Deschanel.
Neil Patrick Harris.
Leslie Mann and Judd Apatow.
Naomi Watts.
Paul Rudd and Adam Scott.
Reese Witherspoon.
Sofia Vergara.
Diane Kruger and Joshua Jackson.
Conan O’Brien.
Allison Williams.
Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo.
Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeld.
Kerry Washington.
Lady Gaga, Nolan Funk and Donatella Versace.
Mindy Kaling and B.J. Novak.
Portia de Rossi and Ellen DeGeneres.
Samuel Lee Jackson.
Selena Gomez.
La société Huvr Tech a imaginé ce que serait une vraie planche Hoverboard tout droit sortie du film Retour vers le futur. La planche serait par exemple connectée à notre smartphone et à Bluebooth. Le concept est original mais la planche n’existe pas encore. Voici deux vidéos avec Tony Hawk ou Moby, testant la planche.
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Sports brand Adidas has created the world’s first football boot to have an upper knitted entirely from yarn (+ slideshow).
Adidas‘ limited-edition Samba Primeknit boot is said to offer the same levels of strength and stability as conventional boots, while using fewer materials and weighing less.
Using yarn means that the shoe doesn’t produce any waste material, making the Primeknit the company’s most sustainable football boot according to a press statement.
Football boots are traditionally made by stitching and laminating pieces together. However in this case, a single piece of yarn is knitted and attached to the sole of the shoe. By using just one textile layer, the upper material is reduced to a minimum – meaning the boot weighs just 165 grams.
“By producing the world’s first knitted football boot we have provided a brand new solution to the search for higher levels of comfort and flexibility,” said Markus Baumann, senior vice-president for global football at Adidas.
Developed over the course of two years, each piece of yarn is coated in a water-resistant polymer to ensure the boot doesn’t become waterlogged when wet.
Designers also created specific zones on the fabric to increase flexibility or stability depending on which part of the boot the yarn is located.
Although the technology has already been used in Adidas’ range of running shoes, plus Nike’s Flyknit footwear launched two years ago, the increased demands on the upper that playing football brings meant that further development of the material was required before it could be used for the sport.
“Primeknit is a technology that is right at the heart of Adidas innovation and we’re excited about introducing this development into football,” Baumann continued.
The colour – a mix of blue, orange, pink and lime green – is a reflection of the colour schemes currently used in Adidas’ Samba range, released ahead of the 2014 FIFA World Cup taking place in Brazil this summer.
The boot will be available from 17 March, with only 150 pairs due to go on sale.
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Giant sheepskins, crumpled metallic leather and plastic sheets adorned models at fashion designer Gareth Pugh‘s Autumn Winter 2014 show during Paris Fashion Week.
Pugh washed out the palette for his latest collection, predominantly using white furs and plastics to create garments with exaggerated silhouettes.
A huge key for winding up old-fashioned clockwork toys protruded from the back of a dress that zipped up at the front.
Fluffy outfits were accompanied by wide-brimmed hats with lengthened crowns to further distort the silhouette.
One top was formed from a transparent piece of plastic tied around the waist and continued up as a flat sheet to the eye line.
A range of garments were created in metallic leather, which was bunched up and crinkled to create texture and warp the reflections.
PVC was tied into halter necks, wrapped to form waistbands and scrunched into skirts, and then worn over cream dresses.
Coats also included a layer of see-through plastic over the top, which extended past the hems.
More tops were formed from overlapping squares of white plastic so they appeared pixellated.
Twisting trousers continued over the shoes, creating the illusion of longer legs.
Models’ hands were covered in chalk and all without hats wore cream hair nets.
The show took place yesterday as part of Paris Fashion Week, which continues until 5 March.
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Quatre ans seulement et incroyablement douée pour la mode. La petite Mayhem conçoit des robes avec sa maman à l’aide d’un seul matériau : le papier. L’artiste désigne ses robes avec sa maman et a déjà son site dédié à ces créations. Un reportage photo attendrissant d’un petite fille plein d’avenir a découvrir ci-dessous.
Dans le cadre d’un concours Fubiz et de la sortie du film The Grand Budapest Hotel, nous vous proposons une compilation des meilleures affiches alternatives des films de Wes Anderson. Des illustrateurs se sont amusés à remanier les affiches de Moonrise Kingdom, Fantastic Mr Fox, Rushmore, et bien d’autres encore.
Détails ci-dessous pour gagner l’un des 5 livres de The Wes Anderson Collection.
Moonrise Kingdom by Sam Larson.
The Royal Tenenbaums by Conception Studios.
Moonrise Kingdom by Brandon Schaefer.
Moonrise Kingdom by Forest Knauff.
Moonrise Kingdom by Forest Knauff.
Rushmore by Andres Lozano.
Fantastic Mr Fox by Andres Lozano.
The Life Aquatic by Andres Lozano.
Moonrise Kingdom by Authorial Minimalist Posters.
The Darjeeling Limited by British Indie.
Moonrise Kingdom by British Indie.
Fantastic Mr Fox by British Indie.
Rushmore by Christopher DeLorenzo.
The Life Aquatic by Ojasvi Mohanty.
The Grand Budapest Hotel by Peter Strain.
Moonrise Kingdom by Ibraheem Youssef.
Fantastic Mr Fox by LCArts Film Lounge.
Moonrise Kingdom by Matt Needle.
The Grand Budapest Hotel by Lou.
The Royal Tenenbaums by Lou.
The Darjeeling Limited by Lou.
// Détails du concours Fubiz avec Wes Anderson
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