Diane, A Shaded View on Fashion

GEORGETTE KONING AIWF DAY 5 ADO LES SCENTS BY HYUN YEU

Above: backstage rehearsel at the Korean designer Hyun Yeu who showed his label Ado Les Scents - A/W 2010-201. "Adolescents in the rain" is Yeu's second menswear collection.

Yeu graduated at the Amsterdam Rietveld Academy in 2008. A year later he won the Frans Molenaar prize with a womenswearcollection. In July he's going to present womenswear again. His menswear is on sale at Kabinet in Amsterdam, Herenstraat 13. www.hyunyeu.com 

 

Hyun Yeu with model.

Songzio photos by Sonny Vandevelde

  

  

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GEORGETTE KONING ON ONTFRONT AIFW DAY 4

Photo's Peter Stigter

GEORGETTE KONING ON LIFU HSIAO AIFW DAY 4

Étranger by Lifu Hsiao
Lifu Hsiao (Taiwan, 1980) graduated at the fashion master Fashion Institute Arnhem in 2008. After gaining working experience at Veronique Branquinho in 2009, Hsiao is now launching his own womens label Étranger. With his label, he strives to help women reaching “humanity and emotions” through his designs. Lifu Hsiao works and lives in Amsterdam. Photo's Peter Stigter.

 

GEORGETTE KONING AIFW DAY 4 RIETVELD ACADEMY TEXTILES

Live knitting.Ea Polman.
Second year Rietveld Academy students - department: textile - were working this afternoon at a special knitting project. Above: pictures of the Rietveld textile department archives (since 1930).

Sarah Smit.

GEORGETTE KONING ON GLUEJEANS AT DROOG GALLERY AMSTERDAM

Gluejeans is made by G+N. The jeans is not stitched but glued at the seams. www.gluejeans.com
It's exclusively on sale at Droog. Staalstraat 7 Amsterdam.

Leather glued coat.

SR.MARCELO HORACIO MAQUIEIRA REPORTS ON Étranger A/W20101 – LIFU HSIAO

So many sensations were on board: the garments, the music and the place. From I want you (Madonna) to Without you (Harry Nilsson) including Glenn Gould: J.S.Bach & Golberg Variations. Étranger was presented under one of Amsterdam’s most elegant bridges at the Singel canal, the city border in the middle ages. Built in 1480, the Jan Roodenpoorts tower was demolished in 1829; today its outlines are marked on the road surface over the bridge.

And then Hsiao’s collection was sharply defined: clean lines and sometimes an egg shape making you dream and almost pray.

Very raw and sexy, but at the same time enough decency evaporated during the show.There was a religious breeze evoking one of the designer’s fascinations, the way the Amish treat their wardrobe. Oblique shoulders topping A shape silhouettes, all a bit -holy and rustic as he said.

Colors: yellow, blue, brown. And the strong black and white in pure shapes, all very dignified.

My favorites: a grey herringbone wool dress, and the broken piano keys decorating those feminine proposals.

With Étranger, Lifu Hsiao proved his role as debutant last Friday night during the AmsterdamFashion Week. A handwriting to keep tracking.

Images via Mark Groeneveld

 

Today in Madame Figaro

My portrait by Miguel Villalobos who also created the Diane trophy next to me.

Walter Van Beirendonck photos by Sonny Vandevelde

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Final Selection Day for the Festival d'Hyeres

Dries Van Noten, President of this year's jury 

 

Malcolm McClaren, composer/artist  and Pascale Mussard, Hermes 

Dear Shaded Viewers,

The jury for the 25th edition of the festival d'Hyeres met today in the Dries Van Noten showroom. Dries Van Noten is this year's president. The jury consists of Michele Bocchese, Miles, Maria Cornejo, Laura Incardona, Olivier Lalanne, Sarah Mower, Nancy Rhode, Sally Singer, Charlotte Stockdale, and Malcolm McClaren , Pascale Mussard.

Olivier Lalanne, Vogue Homme RdC and Charlotte Stockdale, stylist and consultant

 

Michele Bocchese, Miles

If you made the final selection I imagine that you will be notified next week.

Later,

Diane