Date: November 21st, 2011
Cat: daily 

VOTE FOR SELAHDOR

Please help me make it into the top 100 designers! Lookk.com is having a competition. The top 100 designers on their site will be presented to a panel of judges, including the infamous Susie Bubble. Grand prize? Production and distribution of my own capsule collection.

It’s very easy. I just need less than 5 minutes of your time.

a. Click the link: http://www.lookk.com/selahdor/springsummer-2012

b. Find your favorite look from the upcoming Spring/Summer 2012 collection. When you hover over the main image, a ♥ appears.

c. Click the little ♥ that appears next to any of the garments that make up that look.

d. Follow directions, and log in through your Facebook account.

e. You will receive a link in your e-mail to activate and verify your account. CLICK THIS LINK. VOTES DO NOT COUNT UNLESS YOU ACTIVATE.

Now you’re a supporter! Tell your friends! Voting closes on November 30th. I just need to make it into the top 100 and stay there. Thank you!

*hitting the Facebook ‘like’ button does not count as a vote. You MUST click at least one ♥ to become a supporter.

Date: November 19th, 2010
Cat: art  fashion 

Brilliant!

Shooting from britta thie on Vimeo.

Check out more of Britta Thie’s work at http://www.brittathie.tv/.

Date: October 6th, 2010
Cat: fashion 

Alexander McQueen Spring 2011

If you don’t already know, Sarah Burton was Lee McQueen’s first assistant for 15 years. She was handed the daunting task of taking over the house after his suicide this past spring. I took a peek at what she did for the Resort 2011 collection, and decided to wait and see how she did with Spring 2011 before I formed conclusions about her capabilities, especially after all my anxieties about the future of the brand.

This entire collection is quite lovely. It’s funny, I imagine after working so closely with someone for so long, a strange connection must form. She’s channeling him and his process in these looks. Right down to how and from where he draws his inspiration. Lee McQueen loved to search the past, and I don’t mean fashions between 1900 and 2000. He went further, and would reintroduce proportions and shapes from the Middles Ages, the Renaissance, etc. All of it driven toward one central idea, theme, and mood.

Burton has done just that. There are English folk symbols throughout this collection. All of them representative of harvesting and renewal. The runway itself played a part: simple, bare wooden boards with shoots of green grass growing between the cracks. All of McQueen’s signature cuts and shapes are here, but some of them have been reworked and softened. The first three looks featured McQueen’s signature tailcoats. Apparently they were made of 10 layers of hand-frayed white silk! They were soft, feminine, and totally wearable. Gone were the sharp, exaggerated shoulders. Burton had slashed them away to reveal the skin of the shoulders.

The craftsmanship still astounds me. Some of these pieces…I just find myself staring and wondering, “How was this even made? How is this even POSSIBLE?” And then you have the usual McQueen showstoppers, some of which felt too much like costumes. Lee would pull this off, all this Romanticism and excess and it was genius. It was beautiful. I don’t know. Something about a cornhusk dress with little grains of corn or wheat on the shoes? A little too literal. Distill it.

She’s done well. I felt like crying or something after I went through all the pictures and watched the video clips. Burton’s managed to find her voice in all of this. She’s a woman, and it’s reflected in the work. It’s interesting. She’s working with all of his cuts from the last 15 years, in the same manner he would have. In his voice and with his seamstresses. She’s working with a wonderful palette. I envy her.

p.s. The hair design and shoes? LOVE!

All images courtesy of Vogue.com. The new site is wonderful. You should check out that horrid dress with the cornhusk heels.

Date: September 29th, 2010
Cat: daily 
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The Dark Night of the Soul

Check out this hysterical animated short from Michael Mouris. It’s about the fashion evolution of Courtney Love and is featured on Women’s Wear Daily. My friend Cara Elizabeth (from the SS10 lookbook video) is also in it.

Date: September 22nd, 2010
Cat: pay attention 

Autumn/Winter 2010 Presentation at Styleweek Providence 2010

So here’s the video from the A/W 2010 presentation at Styleweek Providence 2010. I wish we had been able to edit some detail shots into this video. Oh well! I hope you like it!

Date: September 22nd, 2010
Cat: pay attention 

Behind the Scenes: F/W 2009 Lookbook

These should have gone up AGES ago, but I didn’t even know they existed! Many thanks to Brit Rock who assisted on the shoot, and took these shots,  for those 2-3 days.


Date: September 22nd, 2010
Cat: music 

Obsessed: We No Speak Americano ft. Cleary and Harding

Ok. I know it’s been nothing but music videos on here lately, but they just keep popping up!

Date: September 13th, 2010
Cat: music 

Obsessed: Crave You

I’ve always wanted to dance around my front yard with a smoke machine.

Date: September 10th, 2010
Cat: music 

Obsessed: XXXO

I DIED the first time I saw M.I.A.’s video for her latest single “XXXO” off of her new album “Maya”.  Weeks later, I still can’t get over it. It’s been stuck in my head all day. I actually just went out and bought the album today. Anyway, the references in this video are soooo GOOD! And there are so many of them. My personal favorite? The very end. Just watch it all the way through to see what I’m going on about.

Date: August 24th, 2010
Cat: David's Bridal 
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David’s Bridal: the mini muslin

So here are some crappy pictures I took with the webcam on my computer. If you haven’t heard from my Twitter account, my REALLY wonderful and BEAUTIFUL digital SLR was DESTROYED by a renegade wave on the beach in Waikiki a few months ago.

Here it is on a shelf in my studio to give you an idea of the actual size of the dressform. I like to work on a smaller scale with complex patterns. It saves a lot of time and money.

The back changed completely when I started to drape the peplums. I also decided to lower it a little in the final version.

Another image of the dressform with nothing on it next to a larger dressform.

The final dress is much softer. This muslin was just made to figure out the shapes and draping of those peplums, and to see what I could do with the bodice. More pics to come!

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