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If you are around Bethnal Green tonight pop by the Arae Exhibition opening party at 10 Gales.
Music, and plenty for your eyes!

Exhibition runs from March 18 to March 21
10 Gales
Arch 10 Gales Gardens
Bethnal Green
E2 0EJ

Art by:
Christian Alegria – Christian graduated with an MA in Photography from the London College of Communications and has exhibited in a number of different galleries both in London and abroad. Christian’s fashion work has been published in art-fashion magazines such as Slashstroke

Sara Bro-Jorgensen: Sara is studying for a Masters in
Womenswear/Knitwear at the Royal college of Art. Prior to coming to London, Sara spent a year in Paris interning for Adam Jones, followed by a project in Berlin at Boessert-Schorn.
With a background in photography, Sara is influenced by 2d images and often manipulates photos to use as the basis for patterns in her clothing design.
Black and white photography is reflected in the multiple tonal qualities of her knitted pieces and the fabrics that go from heavy black hand knit to fine sheer silk tulle.

Chafik Cheriet –Born in Burgundy,France Chafik Cheriet lives and works in London and is graduate of Studio Berçot, Paris. He has worked for Christian Lacroix, Lucien pellat-Finet and Vivienne westwood.
He is greatly influenced by such as Fassbinder, Dulac and Noé. Along with Duchamp, Sherman, Murakami and Yinka shonibare.
Chafik works across media and genres where his main interest lies with objects and tools being taken out of their familiar contexts. Whilst striving for the result to be a naive yet complex way of implying marriage between fashion and art.

Kate Cox – Kate Cox is a London based photographer who has shot for major publications including Nylon, Flux, ponytail and Testmag as well as lookbooks for designers such Elliot Atkinson

Cherry Hurren – Cherry is a textile artist and fashion illustrator and has a background in fashion promotion and imaging. Her signature fashion Cherry Dolls have been exhibited in Harvey Nichols and in the Graduate Fashion Week in Earl’s Court in 2009

Jack Furnival – Jack is a self-taught artist from Scotland. His interests lie in nudity and voyeurism. He is particularly inspired by people who expose their naked bodies and perform explicit acts on the adult [social-networking] websites. He believes that these people/headless bodies are incredibly vulnerable to self-adoration, attention and entertainment, and is truly fascinated by the plethora of positions people like to display themselves
or convey their personalities

Louise Langkilde Larsen – A Danish native, Louise graduated with a MA in Womenswear at the Royal College of Art in 2009. She had done work experience with Costume National in Milan and Richard Nicoll in London. She is influenced by the narrative and playful fashion scene and her work captures an elegance that is colourful and feminine. Her graduate collection was selected by vogue.com as one of the 21 best graduate collections 2009,
number 7

Tian Wang – A fashion designer currently working and living in London. Founder of the eponymous fashion and accessories brand, she works in a wide variety of medium from textile to Womenswear. Graduate of the London College of Fashion, Tian has received an award for Outstanding Achievement.

Momocreatura (Momoko Tamura) – Momoko studied fine arts and jewellery making in Japan and graduated with a MA in Jewellery Design at Central St. Martins in 2009. She was selected by Janice Blackburn to display her unique pieces in the `Small Show, Huge Talent’ exhibition at Sotheby’s in London and currently showing her work in an exhibition at Selfridges until 7th of March 2010; ‘Museum of Small Things’ organised by POCKO and Kit Grover.

Momoko is inspired by fairy tales, folk tales, and ancient mythologies. She combines her Japanese aesthetic and European culture to create her uncany fantasy world.

Music by Sobameshi & Porno (Yuki and Kohhei from Bo Ningen)
Monica Yam
DJ Tata Fernandez
Ennio

Opening today at Transition Gallery in Hackney, London, we recommend you to check the Tamsynettes, a series by artist Tamsyn Challenger.

“Tamsyn Challenger broadly concerns herself with the steady march of time upon the body; on her own, on those whom she loves, male and female, and on the desperate ravages inflicted on a woman’s form by the warping of beauty into an ideology, where the natural becomes perverse.
As a documentarian she has born witness to gender violence and the subsequent lives no longer in extant. Inevitably, this colours a palette and she has recently been utilising body parts, actual along with representational, as a visceral reminder of mortality to a detached audience.

Conceptually led, her work toys with the forces of modern popular culture as blind-siding. The nipping and tucking of whatever is at hand to under-pin an image and the passivity of watching to create identity often moves Challenger to reunite fairytale such as The Snow Queen and Snow White with their gruesome roots.

Living up to her name Challenger wants to challenge the viewer to resist the all-pervading post-modern ethic whilst by her own admission being the most post-modern woman she knows.
At Transition Challenger will introduce The Tamsynettes. Forever versions of herself for you to play with.”

Tamsyn Challenger trained at Winchester School of Art and KIAD. She has worked as a collaborative artist with the Magdalena Festival in Barcelona and with Triangle theatre. Her work has been exhibited in the Truman Brewery and Candid Arts in London. She has also produced documentary work for the BBC, ‘My Male Muse’ receiving Radio 4′s ‘Pick of the Year’ accolade. For the past five years she has undertaken a conceptual installation based in portraiture that comes to fruition in November 2010 in Shoreditch Town Hall. This work includes collaborating with over 150 different artists and is a project she conceived of in Mexico that focuses on the murdered women of Juarez

Transition Gallery
Unit 25a Regent Studios
8 Andrews Road
London E8 4QN
www.transitiongallery.co.uk
info@transitiongallery.co.uk
07941 208566 / 020 7254 4202

Presented during the Fall-Winter fashion week in London then Paris, THE BODYLINE, is an exclusive collection of bodysuits. Luxurious materials such as silk, cashmere combined with a modernist design are what makes those bodysuits so desirable. Those garments are embracing, enhancing the female shape thanks to a very appealing graphic structure, this season inspired by photographer and muse Lee Miller.
Whether seen as a long awaited basic or a statement piece for the forthcoming seasons those bodysuits answer our grandest fashion desire! Watch this space.

“Until now there has been no existing line of bodysuits that move beyond the most basic form or apply modern fashion sensibility to their design. BODYLINE has redefined the bodysuit through a new approach to its aesthetic and function by employing angular cuts that focus on the creation of graphic yet feminine body shapes. BODYLINE combines modernist design with the use of classic Italian and British fabrics to create unique pieces that can be considered as both statement piece or an essential basic.
BODYLINE is a brand that exists to redefine the bodysuit through a new approach to its aesthetic and function. Using angular cuts that focus on the creation of graphic yet feminine body shapes, the bodyline offers a reinvented contemporary bodysuit. The focus is on coupling modern design and technology with classic fabrics such as cashmere, silks and cottons in order to create unique garments that can be considered as both statement piece or an essential basic.

The Collection A/W 10-11 Duality
The first collection will feature 16 different Bodysuits inspired by photographer and muse Lee Miller. It is the duality of modern women embodied by Lee Miller that sets the tone for this collection. Duality in the form of opposing yet co-existing ideas that translate from life to garment; Sophisticated and comfortable, Seductive and Assertive, Modern and Timeless.
BODYLINE bodysuits redefine and reshape the female body using geometric and linear tailoring to enhance and accentuate women’s natural shapes. In particular emphasizing and creating the optical illusion of smaller waistlines, longer more slender bodies by adding structure and shape to the bodysuit, through the use of shoulder pads, revealing cuts and the use of transparencies. The linear cuts, low backs connote seduction, whilst the embellishment, sleeve details and use of crystals ensure the element of sophistication.

Countervailing the bold designs is the subdued colour palette, an elegant selection of indigo blue, grey,caramel and black. A colour range perfectly suited for integration into any winter wardrobe. The fabrics are imported from Italy and the UK and are chosen specifically for their tactile quality in order to add a dimension of comfort to the bodysuit so that it becomes a second skin. This seasons bottom has a 1950s style cut for comfort and double length clips to cater to different body lengths. The range introduces the signature BODYLINE sleeve that stops midway at the elbow line to lengthen the arm, as well as more traditional sleeveless and long sleeved pieces.
BODYLINE retails between £90 and £300. Future collections will feature guest collaborations to develop special limited editions.

The Creation of Bodyline
The BODYLINE was created in 2009 by London based stylist Raquel Franco and established Barcelona designer Laura Figueras.
Raquel Franco has worked internationally as a fashion stylist since 2004, regularly working with high profile fashion stylists and editors for magazines such as The Gentlewoman, Fantastic Man, Vogue, V magazine, i-D, showstudio.com and Numero. Her styling research led her to discover that there were no existing lines of bodysuits that moved beyond basic forms or applied modern fashion sensibility to their design. Raquel and Laura recognized in one other a shared passion, the bodysuit as it was a recurring signature piece in Laura’s “Bambi by Laura” collections. As well as having established her own label, Laura Figueras has also collaborated on special projects and designed for Top Shop, Roxy Heart, and Absolut Label. Her work has been featured in editorial shoots for magazines such as W, Purple and I-D.”

www.thebodyline.net

Goodies at discounted prices to purchase from the Shoreditch shop of Ally Capellino, designer of men’s and women’s leather bags, belts and accessories.

Ally Capellino
9 Calvert avenue E2 7JP
www.allycapellino.co.uk

The Alexander McQueen sale has opened… on www.alexandermcqueen.com

Browsing through ideas and potential christmas goodies, we came accross the most puzzling and therefore original high luxury accessory, “Cute at the table”… a Tach creation exclusively available from Tach shops in London and Russia, where the brand comes from.

Tach’s Cute At The Table comes bejewelled with diamonds, solid gold, platinum or simply stainless steel. The design can be chosen from a wide selection or can be bespoke.
Still, its streamlined shape left us wondering what it is: a luxury usb key, a lighter, a cigarette roller… perhaps a whistle? Imagination was buzzing full mode. The lovely PR lady came to help us solve the mystery. The enigmatic device unfolds to provide a hook, to hold your bag to the edge of a table…
Now your favourite bag will be kept from hanging dangerously from the back of your chair or resting on the floor, leaving it away from potential damages. Ingenious and stylish. For the bag lover who loves diamonds (a girl’s best friend, especially the one with an arm candy)

www.tachukltd.com

Swanfield is introducing the lovely and talented womenswear designer Nicola de Main to the swans’ nest…
A party will be held at Swanfield Pop-Up for the preview of her SS10 Collection next Tuesday eve from 6 – 9pm, giving the opportunity to place personal orders and selling some of her wears at sample sale prices.

Also offering a 15% discount to the mailinglist memebers on Cecilia Hammarborg, Joux Joux le Shoe & Mine for one night only…

Come and visit the lovely team at Swanfield at
1.2 Kingly Court ( off Carnaby St )
Click here for map

Come to the Emma Cook Christmas sample sale at her studio in London.
The sale will take place on:
Friday December 4, from 5pm to 8pm
Saturday December 5, from 10am to 6pm

UP TO 90% OFF RETAIL PRICES !

Prices starting at £10 !
Lookout for “special” archive pieces for sale !

Cash and cheques only, no cards.
Emma Cook
SHACKLEWELL STUDIOS
18-24 SHACKLEWELL LANE,
LONDON E8 2EZ

Get ready for Christmas and come to the Handwritten (the label of Ghost founder Tanya Sarne)  sample sale in West London
Great discounts over 3 days!
Friday December 4, Saturday December 5 and Sunday December 6 from 11am to 7pm

1-3 Middle Row
London
W10 5AT

The Hentsch Man pop-up shop is now open!!!

Visit the store to discover a selection of Feiyue sneakers, which are available alongside other carefully chosen labels such as The Hill-Side, a New York based tie and pochette maker, great Parisian-based hat-maker La Cerise sur le Chapeau, traditional Venetian velvet slippers Furlane and some leather weekender bags especially made by a fantastic Argentinian manufacturer.

The shop will be open until December 23, from 10am to 7pm, Monday to Saturday.

Hentsch Man Pop-Up Shop
Unit 15, Princes Arcade
(which runs between 190-196 Piccadilly and 36-40 Jermyn Street London W1)