A bespoke season of film dedicated to Marc Jacobs at ACMI

Drag queens, porn stars, washed-up rock stars, A-list fashion personnel and D-list celebrities - Marc Jacobs has a coterie of followers that hang onto him tightly, despite his insistence that he’s not cool. The designer who brought grunge to the catwalk is celebrating 25 years in the fashion biz, and continues to successfully operate mostly on intuition, Moxie soft drink and a dose of self-induced terror.

To applaud the man behind the superbrand ACMI has hooked up with Melbourne Spring Fashion Week 2009 to weave together Marc Jacobs on Film,  dedicated to the designer’s career, creations and collaborations. The season kicks off with the Australian premiere of Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton. Director Loïc Prigent turns his camera lens towards the designer extraordinaire and Creative Director of luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton just in time for the birth of the handbag to beat all handbags – made up entirely of earlier Vuitton handbags!

The four screenings of this film will be introduced by festival guest Bryanboy who came to notoriety for his cybermusings on all things fashion. The internationally-adored superblogger is here to brag about the ‘BB Bag’ created in his honour for the Fall 2008-09 Collection by Marc Jacobs.

Saturday 29 August – Sunday 6 September 2009
Full $13 Concession $10
3 Session Package: Full $30 Concession $24

Full film program at ACMI.

Dare to wear tights with printed veins?

These printed tights were imagined and made by Studio m + o (Olivier Gonnet and Marion Dubois, a French designers duo behind the brand “Les Queues de Sardines”). And even so, fashionable or not, could you wear tights with printed bugs on? Or tights with printed veins on? Where’s the limit between accessory and main fashion statement?

Source: Stylefrizz

A Stitch In Time – The History Of Frocking Up – Comedy @ Trades

Got some fashion skeletons in your closet? A Stitch In Time – The History Of Frocking Up is a sartorially satirical look at the crimes hidden in all of our wardrobes, from satin to sequins, lame to lamé this show is a must for
the fashion tragics amongst us all.

It is time to put on your finery as Miss Kat and Miss Jane take you on an adornment adventure about frocks, furious frills and flares. This spectacular spectacle is  From inventions to invasions, pop music and economic crashes plunging lower than Pammy’s neckline, this show will take a peek into how it impacted what people chose to wear on their sleeves (or just perhaps how to wear their sleeves).

Finding the funnier moments and ghosts of fashion past, A Stitch In Time will take you on a vibrant and entertaining exploration of what drove hemlines up and back down again; and whether the clothes maketh the man (or woman) and what made the man make the clothes.

To book: http://www.comedyattrades.com.au/program_guide/show_133/

Runs April 1st – 12th, 2009

The Fox and the Crow at Guildford Lane Gallery

At the end of February, Guildford Lane Gallery will feature three artists who place meticulous craftsmanship, aestheticism and a hint of fantasy, at the heart of their work. From February 25 to March 8 2009 first time collaborators Nicole Collins, Amina McPhee and Rhiannon Smith will present The Fox and the Crow, an installation that follows their exploration into the evolution of garment design. Using traditional techniques in unexpected ways, this exhibition entitled The Fox and the Crow moves in a strange, poetic fantasy-world.

The Fox and the Crow, specifically designed for Guildford Lane Gallery, is infused with sculptural characteristics that transform garments into fascinating installation pieces. Inspiration first came to being through Aesop’s fable The Fox and the Crow and the inherent characteristics of animals and creatures of fantasy. These fables display inherent idealistic notions and have a large back-catalogue of visual representation, which have been translated into three-dimensional, garment inspired objects.

Moving well beyond fashion, style and adornment, this constructed realm will include visuals from Chris Cork, James Harmsworth, Dimitri Kalagas and Michael Watson. The visual imagery creates a narrative to support the garments, mixed with a sense of the surreal and absurd, promising to deliver an exhibition of wonder and delight.

WHEN:
Exhibition runs February 25 - 8 March 2009
Opens Thursday, February 26 from 6:00pm
12 - 9 Wed to Fri, 12 - 5 Sat & Sun

WHERE:
Guildford Lane Gallery
20 - 24 Guildford Lane
Melbourne 3000

ADMISSION IS FREE