Tomorrow is the big day! With only a week’s notice to prepare, we’ve been hauling ass to get things together for the larry. FW10 photo shoot tomorrow at Sugar Studios. Bienvenido Cruz is photographing, we have an amazing selection of menswear for our female model from Roden Gray, and the rest – well, you’ll just have to wait and see.
Here are some of the inspiration shots we referenced when planning the shoot…think fresh out of bed meets straight from the farm fields, with a menswear/utilitarian twist.
Yowza. Excited.
I’m off to the Yukon in a few short days to hole myself up in a cabin and knit the bulk of the next larry. collection, and attempting to stuff my brain with as much as I can before I surrender to the wilderness about Whitehorse. Japan Fashion Week just went down and, fantastically far out hair-do’s aside, there were lots of interesting design elements that registered on my radar:
I love this boy-scout scarf by Trove.
Intensely hot braided/knit scarf by In-Process by Hall/Ohara. It looks to be of varying widths, and for a split second could almost be mistaken for a very long hybrid of hair/yarn wrapped around her body.
Kamishima Chinami neck adornments. And see what I mean about the hair? I think I had at least one Barbie that ended up similarly coiffed after a botched haircut resulting from my imaginative experiments as a pre-teen hair stylist.
Somarta. Thrills with frills.
Gut’s Dynamite Cabarets. The hardware is a little country-western, which I don’t like all too much aesthetically but still have some latent appreciation for. And the fringe, oohhhh the fringe (positive inflection on the ‘oohhhh’). I know it’s like 3 seasons old but who the f cares.
Entoptic. I feel like I’ve done a gazillion sketches and visualizations of this type of loose weave, and began to experiment with this in the ‘Art of Giving‘ pieces I made for the Grace-Gallery charity show using re-purposed textiles from Our Social Fabric back in December 2009, but this is a brilliant execution of the type of look I am going for in my next endeavours with weaving.
First up Rag & Bone RTW 2010:
bulky knit layers, strung gloves around the neck – through the arm holes would have been much too childish.
belted scarf, yes.
i have been trying to solve this muff problem for a while. they’re great but you have to hold on to them, which is a drag. Rag & Bone does the muff necklace, brilliant.
On the topic of muffs, these wrist cuffs by Pringle of Scotland are in the same vein:
And lastly, Malandrino:
that purse is amazing. I am really onto the concept of doing yarn fringes in my upcoming collection.
so badass.
Working on a flurry of sketches for the upcoming LARRY. F/W10 collection, and today’s inspiration is courtesy of Maison Martin:
large leather belt
silk chiffon woven dress
bodysuit with leather “chaps” skirt
