The swinging sixties.  Channeling the modern Edie Sedgwick, Miuccia Prada displayed provocation with class for Miu Miu Fall 2010.  Sexy ultra micro mini dresses with tulip shapes, high collars came down with striking thin bows on sheaths, and a color palette of black, nude, purple, and tangerine went down the runway.  The narrow, short silhouette made an erogenous zone of twiggy legs elongated by square-toed pumps.  The linear, Edie Sedgwick, pre-hippie sixties have been popping up with increasing frequency as the Fall season comes to a close. This collection put Prada squarely in the center of things, but, as usual, with her signature perverse twist.

This Topshop dress is by no means a carbon copy of Alexander McQueen’s, but it is very clear that the people at Topshop were moved—just as much as the rest of the fashion world was—by the late designer’s “Plato’s Atlantis” collection.

So they made a dress “inspired” by the one McQueen sent down his SS10 runway on Amanda Laine’s back.

You can “channel your Space Age supermodel in the baroque print dress,” but the zany print is not nearly as offensive as the fact that Topshop went ahead with production after Alexander McQueen’s passing. Pretty tasteless, no?

Here’s a sneak peak at what is to come with timo! wallets now being sold at Urban Outfitters. One of the highlights includes a special collaboration celebrating the woman’s bust with a series of 3D boob wallets among other creative designs. Purchase them here at the Urban Outfitters site available now!

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Embroidery takes on a new form with the work of Maurizio Anzeri, an Italian artist known for working with hair in sculpture. Taking old discarded family photographs, Anzeri uses synthetic hair to create a suggestive, beautiful representation of human emotion, bodily boundaries and new expression. What makes him interesting is that he is revitalizing the stories of the photographs themselves and producing a heightened sense of emotion from the original print. Anzeri was one of 30 artists in 2008 to be considered for the Sovereign European Artist Award, and his artwork is available in the Saatchi Online gallery. He has also collaborated on a piece commissioned by Alexander McQueen. Here’s a look at some of his work.

Victor Demarchelier’s first solo New York show, “Creating Images,” opens today at Clic Gallery, featuring 20 pieces taken over the past few years. Demarchelier, son of Patrick Demarchelier, describes the mostly black-and-white collection as “very personal”

Vanessa’s adventure to the Margiela exhibit in Munich, Germany provided us with further inspiration and a push to think outside the box for the SS10 Mens and Womens collections….

*above is an oversized “BIG MOMMA” dress form used to create and drape Margiela’s signature oversized tops and calculatedly misshapen garments…

*above are all of the office keys to the Maison Martin Margiela atelier….stronghold of cataclysmic creativity  since the 1980s…

above is an unexpected square seamed button-down shirt…

The silhouette on the left is elegant and striking. This Giorgio Armani dress can be worn inside-out and still be white-hot means that it is well-made and brilliantly crafted. We love the interior structure of the dress on the right and the exterior drape on the left.

An intimate dialogue exists between an artist’s masterpiece and the viewer.

I’m currently obsessed with language and vocabulary. They’re works of art in themselves with history and inspiration. Timo and Alan are finding their voices as debutante designers as they prepare tirelessly for Fashion Week. Using the right words can make all the difference…especially with body language.

scripturient
adj. - having violent desire to write. scripturiency, n.

shake
n. - unit of time equal to a hundred-millionth of a second, used in describing nuclear processes.

suaviation
n. - a love kiss

stasivalence
n. - ability to have sexual intercourse only while standing

TeenVogue’s adorable Andrew Bevan, wearing Moschino and Timo Weiland, and model Dree Hemingway, wearing Alexander Wang, on the red carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Intitute Gala on May 4th, 2009