http://www.danthescout.com/blog Wed, 17 Mar 2010 01:11:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The one true philosophy of clothes, by Simon Critchley "America is here or nowhere" - Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (1834) What is the human being? Twenty five centuries ago, Plato gave a lecture in the Academy in Athens where he defined the human being as an animal, a biped and featherless. He ... http://www.danthescout.com/blog/2010/03/the-one-true-philosophy-of-clothes/ Aanteni, a film for Rodarte. Directed by Todd Cole, featuring Guinevere Van Seenus. SS10. http://www.danthescout.com/blog/2010/03/aanteni-by-todd-cole/ Karlie Kloss walks in Yohji Yamamoto Fall Winter 2010. Read my review here. http://www.danthescout.com/blog/2010/03/a-painted-veil/ 'Untitled' by Ed Ruscha, 1986. 'Heavy Industry' by Ed Ruscha, 1962. 'Fear Not' by Ed Ruscha, 1991. www.edruscha.com http://www.danthescout.com/blog/2010/02/a-ghost-ship/ condolences and respect to the friends and family of the late Lee Alexander McQueen, a designer whose visionary work will live on through the ages. above, an image of his mentor and friend the late Isabella Blow, who walked in his Fall Winter 1994 show with his name written across her ... http://www.danthescout.com/blog/2010/02/mcqueens-queen/ A watercolour by New York jeweller Philip Crangi, in Nomenus Quarterly. http://www.danthescout.com/blog/2010/02/rorschach/ an excerpt from chapter 11: Maison Margiela, a sign of the time in 'Fashion Zeitgeist' by Barbara Vinken, 2005. http://www.danthescout.com/blog/2010/02/mannequin/ I was privileged to sit in and contribute to an interview between Riccardo Tisci and Maxime Büchi from Sang Bleu magazine in Paris last month, barely minutes after the Givenchy Fall Winter show for 2010 in La Sorbonne in Paris (to see my coverage of the show please click here). ... http://www.danthescout.com/blog/2010/02/riccardo-maxime-i/ Above: Cole Mohr in Dries Van Noten's Fall Winter 2010 presentation at the Palais Brongniart today in Paris. The models carried portable speakers in their right hands, carrying the soundtrack with them as they walked. In a show that fused together army surplus trousers with collegiate double breasted suiting and deconstructed, ... http://www.danthescout.com/blog/2010/01/dries-van-noten-ishow/ Happy New Year. 'There is light through the tunnel, not just at the end.' by Dan Thawley. Antwerp, December 2009. http://www.danthescout.com/blog/2010/01/there-is-light-through-the-tunnel-not-just-at-the-end/