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ESMOD SAINTE CATHERINE 11

Events

Students of the ESMOD Berlin International University of Art for Fashion invite you to let your imaginations run wild at this years annual charity showcase Sainte Catherine. 160 outfits will be shown representing the philosophical side to this year’s theme, ‘Camouflage Survival‘.  The show, which will take place in the Nikolaisaal, Potsdam, will be the image of a modern day fairy-tale, showing ‘Camouflage Survival‘ in four different ways.

1st Year German BA: “High-tech Refugee”
The first years‘ interpretation of camouflage survival is focused on urban Camouflage, the outfits made from recycled materials or industrial overproduction, will symbolize the ‘modern refugee’.

1st Year English BA: “Metamorphosis”
With reference to Ovid‘s Metamorphosis the students will create outfits that signify the moment of transformation.

2nd Year: “Mimicry”
Inspired by the famous quote of Coco Chanel ‘There must be dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. The butterfly does not go to the market, and the caterpillar does not go to the ball,’ the second years’ interpret the theme while socially and critically analyzing the game of Mimicry.

3rd Year: “Doppelganger”
Doppelganger: Who are you? Who am I? What is the self-created alter ego? What is the real me? The third year challenges the distorted reality of our post digital identities and the escape to a surreal, abstract and warped world.

The proceeds and donations of the evening go towards the work of I-Magine e.V. who support the Amani community in Kenya financially as well as offer them ways to help themselves. All donations received will help to provide food, drinking water, medication and education and bring them a brighter future.

Where: Nikolaisaal, Wilhelm-Staab-Straße 10-11, 14467 Potsdam

When: Tuesday 20th of December 2011

Doors Open: 7:30 pm

Show: 8:30 pm



Tickets: 
ESMOD BERLIN, GÖRLITZER STR. 51, 10997 BERLIN
show@esmod.de
 ** 15 Euro donation

For further information please visit www.esmod.de and www.i-magine.org

Sainte Catherine “Camouflage Survival”
Die Studierenden der ESMOD Berlin Internationale Kunsthochschule für Mode laden Sie ein auf der diesjährigen Benefizveranstaltung Sainte Catherine  Ihrer Fantasie freien Lauf zu lassen. 160 Outfits veranschaulichen das diesjährige Thema „Camouflage Survival“ im philosophischen Sinn. Die Show, welche im Nikolaisaal der Stadt Potsdam stattfindet, verkörpert das Bild eines modernen Märchens wobei vier verschiedene Seiten der „Camouflage Survival“ dargestellt werden:

1. Jahr Deutsch BA: “Hightech Refugee“
Das erste Jahr beschäftigt sich mit urbaner Camouflage, und erstellt Outfits aus recycelten Materialien oder industriellen Überproduktionen, die den „modernen refugee“ symbolisieren.

  1. Jahr Englisch BA: “Metamorphosis”
In Anlehnung an Ovids Metamorphosis, werden die Studenten Kleidungsstücke entwerfen, die sich in dem Moment der Verwandlung befinden.

2.   Jahr: “Mimikry”
Inspiriert durch das berühmte Zitat von Coco Chanel  „Es sollte Kleider geben, die kriechen, und Kleider, die fliegen. Der Schmetterling geht nicht zum Markt und die Raupe nicht zum Ball“ interpretiert das 2. Jahr das Thema “Camouflage“ indem sie sich sozialkritisch mit dem Spiel der Mimikry auseinandersetzen.

3. Jahr: “Doppelgänger”
Doppelgänger: Wer bist du? Wer bin ich?  Was ist die selbstgeschaffene Fassade?  Was ist das reale Ich? Das 3. Jahr thematisiert die verschobene Realität unserer post-digitalen Identität und das Entfliehen in eine surreale, abstrakte und verzerrte Welt.

Die Einnahmen und Spenden des Abends gehen an I-Magine e.V., welche die Amani Gesellschaft in Kenia finanziell unterstützt und ihnen Möglichkeiten der Selbsthilfe gibt. Alle Einnahmen gehen direkt an die Organisation und fließen in die Finanzierung von Nahrung, Trinkwasser, Medikamente und Bildung.

Wo: Nikolaisaal, Wilhelm-Staab-Straße 10-11, 14467 Potsdam
Wann: Dienstag, den 20. Dezember 2011
Einlass: 19:30 Uhr 
Beginn: 20:30 Uhr
Tickets: ESMOD Berlin, Görlitzer Straße 51, 10997 Berlin
show@esmod.de**15 Euro Spende

Für weiter Informationen www.esmod.de und www.i-magine.org

LINDSEY THORNBURG

LINDSEY THORNBURG

Fashion

We fall in love with the autumn / winter collection 2011 from Lindsey Thornburg CLOAKS. Stunning prints, feminine textiles and cuts. Enjoy the truly beautiful Lookbook and the fashion movie! Photographer / director Olivia Malone and director/editor Crystal Moselle.

Lindsey Thornburg was raised in Aspen Colorado and went on to study philosophy in Santa Barbara. While attending design school in Los Angeles she began creating her first dress collection titled Fabric. Lindsey Thornburg moved to New York in 2003 and continued to devise dresses under this monkier.
Her collections has received accolades from such publication as New York Times Sunday Styles, Elle, Vogue China, Teen Vogue, Style.com, The Satorialist, V magazine, Dazed and Confused.

DANI SANCHIS

DANI SANCHIS

Culture

Hello Dani, please describe yourself to our readers in 5 words ?
Curious – Passionate – Myopic – Bearded – Alive!

What made you want to become a graphic designer& illustrator?
I’ve always been passionate about the printed image, photography, art, comics, typography… Like everybody I first look before reading, but I really spent many hours looking at them, reading the colours and lines and compositions. Some day I started to make my own designs and illustrations and after I thought it could be my work.

I have seen that you have done quite a few of film covers as well- do you have any film director where you would love to do his next movie cover?
I wish I had made ​​the posters of the films of Carlos Saura in the 60′s and 70′s. Also some dead directors like Luis Buñuel, Sam Peckinpah, John Ford, Fritz Lang, François Truffaut…
But for actual movie it would be an exciting project to design the poster.

Where do you take your inspiration from?
Music and lyrics have always been a great inspiration. Travelling, living, love, sadness. Art, people, books.

Did I get it right that many of your illustrations have a political/social statement as well?
Do they? I think not really, it is more about “feelings”.

5 things you cannot live without?
The sea, my dog, old books and magazines for making collages, music and jamón ibérico de bellota (exquisite ham).

What makes you happy?
Love and friends.

www.danisanchis.es
tardamucho.blogspot.com

Interview by Sigrun Guggenberger

PATTERNITY

PATTERNITY

Fashion

First of all Patternity is a really nice and inspiring blog. There is patterns everywhere – and patternity knows how to pick them. And the great thing is: they print endless expectional patterns on tights. We want that!

Patternity ist erstmals ein wirklich netter und inspirierender Blog. Muster gibts ja wirklich überall – und dafür hat Patternity ein wirklich gut geschultes Auge. Und das ganz tolle: Sie bedrucken Strumfhosen in unendlich vielen einzigartigen Mustern. Wir wollen haben!

web: www.patternity.co.uk

Text by Christine Guggenberger

Make-the-Girl-Dance

MAKE THE GIRL DANCE

Music

“Make The Girl Dance” – something you really should listen to. Yes, admittedly the band name is confusing – as it sounds more like a promising title rather than an artist duo. Anyhow the name stands for the best promise. Behind “Make the Girl Dance” there is the two Frenchmen Greg Kozo & Pierre Mathieu. And they have just released their debut album “Everything Is Gonna Be Okay In The End” on the Ministry Of Sound Germany/Warner! We think that´s just sublime and have put them on our playlist. And here you can listen to the latest single “Broken Toy Boy” – and now let´s dance!

“Make The Girl Dance” sollte man gehört haben. Ja zugegebenermassen, der Bandname ist verwirrend – klingt es doch nach einem verheissungsvollen Titel und weniger nach einem Duo. Auf jeden Fall steht der Name eigentlich für das beste Versprechen. Hinter “Make The Girl Dance” stecken die beiden Franzosen Greg Kozo & Pierre Mathieu. Und gerade lieferten sie ihr Debutalbum ”Everything Is Gonna Be Okay In The End” auf Ministry Of Sound Germany/Warner ab! Einfach grandios wie wir finden und haben es schon mal fix in unsere Playlist aufgenommen. Die aktuelle Single “Broken Toy Boy” gibts hier : (und jetzt mittanzen)

Text by Christine Guggenberger

Gloria-Marigo

GLORIA MARIGO

Photography

Gloria is a young and aspiring photographer from Italy. Principally she is shooting in digital, but she also loves working analog, especially Polaroid. Enjoy her beautiful and adorably work.

What  does photography mean to you?  I know it’s trite to say, but photography is everything for me. It is a great, great passion, that I hope someday will  become my job.

The perfect picture? For me a picture becomes perfect when magic meets simplicity.

The most important thing in life is? Happiness

web gloriamarigo.carbonmade.com

all images © GLORIA MARIGO

On Making Lists

On Making Lists

Culture

I make lists. Lots of them, all the time. Shopping lists (always containing the same four items: milk, bread, yoghurt, juice. Why do I need to write it down? I know what I’m getting), I make to-do-lists (they are my favourite kind of lists. I simply wouldn’t know what to do without them). Yes, I write these endless to-do-lists and then the trick is to try to eliminate things before they even make it to the lists.

My friend Mikkel says that a good to-do-list shouldn’t contain more than 7 items. There’s probably some good reason for this – there usually is a good reason to whatever Mikkel says. But my to-do-lists always contain at least 20 items. Why? Because I love lists. They give me a sense of accomplishing the goals that I set; there’s just nothing better than deleting things from the list and thinking “that’s that, now let’s move on to the next”. 6 months ago I got in touch with my cousin for the first time. Never having met her before but always known about her existence, I was curious to get to know this long-lost part of my family. But I had never expected what an important meeting this would turn out to be. I called her on the phone one afternoon, she sounded nervous, worried, but then she told me: “I’m very happy you’re calling, but I’m not very good at having people contacting me just like that. I have Asperger’s syndrome, you see …” she said, indicating that sometimes things happening suddenly and without her being prepared for them to happen, could cause certain discomfort for her. I know that feeling only too well.

We arranged for me to visit her a week later. I brought her a plant, a supermarket plant that I’d gotten on the way (going in to supermarkets still cause me some trouble, especially when I don’t know exactly what I’m getting; when I have no list to get me through the queue). The supermarket had a special offer – buying two plants instead of one would save me money, so naturally I bought two plants. But then I thought: Bringing two plants the first time you meet someone is silly, so I kept one for myself, and I liked the idea that the plants would somehow connect us. It would be our cousin-plants. “Please tell me about our grandfather,” I asked her. Our grandfather died before I was born, but my cousin being some 30 years older than me, had known him. “Well, what do you want to know exactly?” She asked. “Oh, I don’t know … I have this old collection of newspaper cut-outs that he left for my dad when he died and … I kind of always wondered why he did that. Like, why leave a bunch of newspaper cut-outs for your son?” My cousin started laughing. Her own father, my uncle, that unfortunately I never got to meet either, died a couple of years ago, and since his death my cousin had spent most of her free time cleaning up the archives of endless and endless piles of paper that he’d saved. “Well, I can tell you that I have thrown away my own newspaper collection already! I surely don’t want anybody to have to clean that up for me once I’m gone.” She said.  And I realized that I myself always read the newspaper with a pair of scissors in my hand …

When I left her place, my cousin said: “You’re nice. I’ll put you on my list of people I like.”
4 months later, I was supposed to visit her again, but unfortunately we never made it. She passed away, unexpectedly, in August. But every time I sit in my kitchen, making lists, I look at my cousin-plant in the window, and I know why making lists is a good thing.

Text by Mia Degner
Image by Christine

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Interview Daha Lee

Culture

Introduce us about yourself
My name is Daha Lee. I am 21years old from Korea.

How did you start graphic design?
When I was in high school, my sister used to use Photoshop to make her photos look better; I was really amazed with all the techniques that you can use from it. So I started to use and practice it and one day I thought that why not start draw with the Photoshop? Then ‘Dazed and Confused Korea’ contacted me after seeing my work. They started call my photoshop-practice-work as an ‘Art work’.

‘Graphic Design’, what does it mean to you?
One of the ways to express my thought. Some people said to me that my work makes others think and difficult to understand. But this is my work and I am sending my message through the work. It can be whatever I want.

Where do you get your inspiration from?
To be honest, it is hard to say where my inspiration is coming from. It can be from anywhere and everywhere. There’s no specific place or things. Sometimes it just pop-up from my mind or remembering things from the past. Those become the basic background of my works. Most of the time, I use the ingredients that I can find near me, but it turn out to be exactly how I wanted to express.

How do you work?
I am not that good at hand-drawings so I normally take pictures first. Sometimes it takes longer to take pictures than drawing. But I love it. Especially I like taking picture of my hands and use them a lot for the designs. Because I drew and used my hands a lot, some people recognise my hands!!

Describe us your daily routine
I am staying up until very late so I normally wake just before the lunch time. When I wake up around 11pm, I read emails first then start research for my designs. Then sometimes I listen to the music or meet my friends. I normally get ideas from my daily life.

What is your plan for next 5years?
I never studied Graphic design properly so I am planning to enrol a college to study. I would love to collaborate my work with other artists and exhibit the works.

Five, the most important things when you work
Purpose of the work, My own identity, ingredients, Audience.

Five things that you always carry around with you
Ipod, Notepad, iPhone, a book (something to read) and a cigarette.

Find out more on this interview. Visit  kimxlondon.tistory.com/21 

All Artworks ⓒDaha Lee

Interviewed and Translated by: Sohyung Kim from C-Heads Asia

Website: dominic-h.com 

 

hotography, Editing and Make Up by Ana Gely A.

“Imperfection” Ana Gely A.

CulturePhotography

The other day I was talking to my flatmate about human nature. Since there is so much injustice out there and things I want to change she was asking me if I think that humans are fundamentally more bad than good. I think everyone of us has both sides inside, good and bad, happy and sad, generous and greedy, black and white- and all sorts of other shades of that. And what sounds negative at first, such as anger f.e. can sometimes be good in order to change a situation. As humans we have to accept that we are like a big puzzle of feelings – and even though we can´t always control them we should try to act considerate towards others. Moreover I think we have to stop thinking that we have to only have good feelings all the time. There is nothing wrong with having moments and times where you just don´t feel like you want to hug the whole world. Probably that would be a good moment then to spend some nice time alone. Some days ago I stumbled over this image called „Imperfection” by Ana Gely A.- I couldn´t have found a more perfect picture to add to my thoughts…

Photography, Editing and Make Up by Ana Gely A.
Title: Imperfection
Model: Yasmin Ogbu

Text by Sigrun Guggenberger