Last week the students from the Slade School of Fine Arts took a temporary 'residence' at Heal's Tottenham Court Road to celebrate the store 200th anniversary. Great stuff, coz I always love art (though I'm doing a highly hardcore engineering) and I love seeing artists at work. So when Heal's did it at their window display, what a great pleasure to watch those uber talented guys pitching their skill to great use.
With 18 various works like wood carving, weavings, poster paintings and etc... etc.. the one that I like is the work by Kristen Schaffer where she drape this Kartell Louis Ghost Chair with a sheet of dried acrylic paint and create a so-called 3D art installation. One word. Superb. Like seeing Alexander McQueen work in the previous ShowStudio: Fashion Revolution exhibit at Somerset House. And 3D seem to be the biggest buzzword nowadays (even Burberry is falling for that and gonna stream their next show in 3D). Another one is something like paint being splashed on the window pane by Nina Rodin. Amazing, coz there are layers and layers and layers of colors painted during the 'marathon' of that 7 days of residency.
And talking about paint splash, I just wonder whether fashion world too is inclined to succumbed into that trap. From the highstreet to designer, splashed paint are seen on the tees, shoes and accessories. Like this Alexander McQueen plimsols, as if a kid has just splattered his paintbrush on it. And McQueen also did it on a normal leather lace-up too. At River Island the other day, I saw this tee with manic paint artwork which look very funky. Great to wear at Glasto though. And quite similar thing I got on my H&M's Fashion for AIDS tee last year, with the skull motif designed by Tokio Hotel (by whom the frontman, Bill Kaulitz opened DSquared2 FW10 show in Milan last January). Fun. Funky. Love it.
And oh. I got a skinny tie at Topman which I think quite fun with this splashed paint - black on base white which look very edgy. It's on sale at £3 (but I paid £2, with student discount of course), so what's not to like! :)
Alexander McQueen plimsols @ Matches Fashion
Paint artwork tee @ River Island
My Tokio Hotel skull tee from H&M
The splattered black paint-on-white skinny tie
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