So I'm gonna buy me some copic markers and draw, and finally paint that tote bag which I had since a year ago still unpainted. And buy cloth to make a cardigan or experimental shit with it.
I'm currently in love with this Icelandic menswear line:
FIELD DRESSING SRULI RECHT A/W 2012 Where the darkness divides
STORY – This is the third complete menswear line from Sruli Recht. “This collection was lost out on the hunt, chasing the goal to no end.” The collection in three words – tailored, pulsing, visceral.
MATERIALS
This season employs a global selection of wool, waxed cottons, leathers and silks, glass, timber and steel, complimented by Icelandic reindeer and horse skin.
I love the sheer primal and Nordic feel of his line, be it dolphin's leather to spider silk implanted into goat's milk ducts. The different textures and avant-garde accessories from glass slippers to plastic-bowl visors composes well with each other. Neanderthal you might say, preposterous even, but it does indeed harken the ancient view on sustainability, where every part of any flora and fauna is used to ensure survival, even though animals roam aplenty and humans survived in small pockets.
Take a cow. The meat is used for eating, milk for drinking. The bones, fashioned to products or weapons. The hide became leather for wear.
All these ideals are lost in the process of revolution. Yes, from the green revolution from nomads to agriculture to the metallic ages to industrial revolution with the invention of steam-driven machines and finally to the IT age we live in now. With consumerism and expansion comes the need to compromise past ideals. And the abundance of livestock currently people took for granted and lost the respect they had for animals. Livestock are disposable now when they are seen as friends and even compatriots in the past.
Animal activists might argue that the animals were tasked to do manual labour and some are raised to be eaten but I guess the difference between now and then is respect. The respect we have for animals.
Animals are taken to high regard in the past, most prominent in Ancient Egypt, where most of the Gods in the pantheon have the heads of animals; ibis for Thoth, crocodile for Sobek and cat for Bastet, just to name a few. A dead household cat will be mummified in Ancient Egypt and a funeral procession is deemed prudent for the cat, complete with mourners and all.
So why can't we go back to the days of "using every part of an animal/plant if possible"?
I guess it's due to the companies we have now. It's labourious to be a master of all trades, so most companies just stick to one trade or service.
If there's one thing I learned from MASINA, evolution not revolution.
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So lets turn back the pendulum and see. Hmm....
(1) I've spent like almost $50 spending on L4D this past month, to the extent of even playing before and after the day of examinations with a multitude of people like Elise, Francesca, Joseph, Kevin and Si Jia. But I guess we do deserve a good game after "long hours of studying" at OC Spins with Fran and Joey, constantly testing each other (Oh, what is the elements of Confidence? Oh what are the characteristics of PSB?) I dare say the tests have been a breeze (hao lian) but I think I should throw caution to the wind and not be so overconfident.
(2) Laneway was awesome as always but had a little tiff with Ievan because stupid bitch came late and I was chionging bookpub before that so I only had like three hours of sleep and Laneway is a whole day event so naturally I'm freakin' angsty.
(3) Parco next NEXT showcase of new designers 2012.
Ievan's being a bitch because he kept rushing me cb. Turns out he needs to collect a rice cooker from Harvey Norman nearby. I knew it there must be a reason why he agreed to come. But anyway, the showcase was good and talked to the designers and all and some are pretty promising and their press releases are so pretty (will upload pictures soon-ish).
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| Kae Hana's digital prints, inspired by flowers and skulls |
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| Saloni Rathor adds elements of Northeast Indian tribal art into her collection |
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| Lion Earl. A juxtaposition of architecture and organic beauty |
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| Didja know? That linen shirt is designed by yours truly |
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| She's so gorgeous omg |
Ended off the day with cupcakes and chicken rice (rant: I can't taste the Baileys in the Baileys cupcakes. And Starbuck's red velvet is richer but nonetheless it's still good. The chocolate's divine)
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