Fashion : Iris van Herpen

Here the promized post about the young Dutch designer Iris van Herpen exhibition in the Groninger Museum (in Groningen in The Netherlands). This was a real treat for me ! I had seen some of Iris her creations on the internet already and I was thrilled to see them in real life. They are even much more intriguing and spectacular in real than on pictures. The dresses were shown on fashion dolls and you could walk around them to see all sides, and to see all details close by, and this was great. Iris makes such intricate structures, that you have to follow the lines on the front over the sides to the back, to get the full picture. I made lots of pics, but most of them were very bad as I told you before (a too long exposure time for me to hold my camera stable enough). But I managed to edit some and so I hope you still can enjoy a bit of what I saw :)

Fashion : Azzedine Alaïa

I told you already that I have been to an exhibition in the Groninger Museum (in Groningen in The Netherlands) about the Tunisian fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa when we were visiting my family. It was fantastic. The dresses were shown on fashion dolls and you could walk around them to see all sides, and to see all details close by. And with Alaïa's dresses, this is quite important, because then you can see the innovative materials he uses and the seams that are almost invisible. He is combining leather, silk, organza, velvet (sometimes in a very real looking animal print), battist, knitted felted wool, lace, etc. I made lots of pics, but most of them were very bad :( It was pretty dark in the exhibition rooms and I was not allowed to use flashlight, so to get decent pics I had to have a long exposure time and with no tripod I cannot get my camera stable enough. But I bought the magazine of the museum, and scanned some of the pics so that you still can enjoy a bit of what I saw :)

Button Wednesday : The Button Venus Dress

It is Wednesday again, so it's BUTTON DAY on my blog !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


This Button Wednesday is about the fabulous button dress, Xiaopei "Jennifer" Wu made for the International Surface Design Association's Student Exhibition in Kansas City (2009), where she won the top design prize. Wu studied at the Fiber Science & Apparel Design program of Cornell University. Wu's "Button Dress" features an asymmetrical seamed bodice made from silk charmeuse and embellished with hand-sewn silk chiffon, buttons, beads and gems. On the skirt are 2000 shell buttons sewn on by hand. Wu spent more than 300 hours creating the dress.
"I wanted to make a piece, not to 'wow,' but to beckon the audience to come closer and look," said Wu. "I am about detail." She was inspired by the painting "The Birth of Venus" by Sandro Botticelli, which depicts the goddess Venus emerging from the sea as a woman.




Have you seen a lovely, beautiful, stunning, crazy button or button-related thingy, or did you make something with a button / buttons, or did you even make buttons yourself, blog about it on your blog on Wednesday, and give the link here in the comments so that everybody can enjoy it !!

Button Wednesday : Big Buttons in Fashion

It is Wednesday again, so it's BUTTON DAY on my blog !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



This Button Wednesday is inspired by this stunning creation from the Haute Couture collection of Dior for autumn/winter 2011/2012 (seen on gofeminin). It is a short pink jacket with green inside and a stunning big embroidered yellow button. Maybe I am going to try to make myself something like this :)

The next jackets have even larger buttons ! They are creations from Benjamin Cho's Fall 2007 collection. No need to say that I love them !!!


In any case, Dita van Teese seems to know this fashion trend very well wearing a black dress with extra large gold buttons.




Have you seen a lovely, beautiful, stunning, crazy button or button-related thingy, or did you make something with a button / buttons, or did you even make buttons yourself, blog about it on your blog on Wednesday, and give the link here in the comments so that everybody can enjoy it !!

Button Wednesday : Button Skirts

It is Wednesday again, so it's BUTTON DAY on my blog !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


This Button Wednesday is inspired by the last one which was about fashion designer Patrick Kelly. We are going to have a look at button skirts ! The first one is a skirt adorned with rows of buttons and is on display in the JHB International button collection in Denver. (pictures by meanfish2 on flickr)

The next skirt is very Patrick kelly-like; I love those big colorful buttons ! (picture by jmdinobilewd on flickr)

And macgirl_k made a great button skirt out of an old pair of jeans.


Amidalia made this lovely swirly skirt:


Spicyapplebum made this very sweet button flower skirt; she saw it in a magazine made with sequins, but she went for buttons !


More button flower skirts by PinkLizzy Sews and bliss24, respectively:



And tiboutoo shows us a skirt with buttons from WWII; so nothing new under the sun !



Have you seen a lovely, beautiful, stunning, crazy button or button-related thingy, or did you make something with a button / buttons, or did you even make buttons yourself, blog about it on your blog on Wednesday, and give the link here in the comments so that everybody can enjoy it !!