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Post Your Map :: We will regularly present a featured artist, writer or performer who is exploring questions of identity and personal narrative through their medium of expression.
The map is your representation. No rigid lines, no defined routes. You direct it on your own account.
Lumped together, Autumn/Winter 2010 is readily told by the cast of London Fashion Week: who to wear, what to wear, and how to wear it - but who’s doing the telling? Adjacent to the utra-high fashion set in West-Central London’s setting of LFW headquarters at Sommerset House is an opening for amateur and Do-It-Yourself status budding designers. The “Untold” is a collective for designers and creatives that have limited access to entering the competitive world of high-fashion. This is a story that’s universal for any aspring fashion designer, but the Untold collaboration focuses on designers with backgrounds that classify them as “underprivileged.” It may lean the story in one direction, but it also makes it more interesting.
This Is Worldtown had the opportunity to backstage at the Belle Sauvage show for their Autumn/Winter 2010 collection. Check out the slideshow for all the action, from start to finish.
Spotted via Africa is a Country: Die Antwoord - a trio from South Africa that happens to be the hipster obsession du jour, has previously been referred to as a “wild and savage rap group from the deep, dark, …
:: Dispatches from London Fashion Week ::
To see the Autumn/Winter 2010 collection from Jena.Theo come down the runway at London Fashion Week, it is difficult to believe that just half a year ago the duo behind the line, Jenny Holmes and Dimitris Theocharidis, were participating in their very first catwalk show as part of Fashion Fringe at Covent Garden.
:: Dispatches from London Fashion Week ::
During London Fashion Week, Somerset House is not the only place wear fashion mavens congregate.
Just a stones throw away from that iconic venue, at the Strand Hotel, an event is taking place bringing together lesser known and emerging, but in many ways, equally talented designers, under the banner ‘Fashion Mavericks’
:: Dispatches from London Fashion Week ::
Sometimes a sense of a shared history, and clues to who you are come in the unlikeliest of places. In this case, on a London Fashion Week catwalk.
At the Caroline Charles show to be exact.
This Is Worldtown captures the Hypernova’s coordinated black and white hypster chic outfits, as they keep the crowd going with their tunes from upcoming album ‘Through the Chaos’ & provocative banter.
For ‘Hypernova’, the fast rising indie rock band from Iran (Yeah, they are from Iran), politics is personal, it’s all about the music (and it’s good!) and as they navigate between the worlds of humble musicians, travelling artists and aspiring rockstars it makes for a familiar yet atypical experience.
For the characters inhabiting Amir Nizar Zuabi’s ‘I am Yusuf and This Is My Brother’, survival is paramount; but there is no redemption to be found in this haunting play.
