'Visions Couture' Daphne Guinness.....

Iconic Daphne Guinness stars as the model and voice of 'Visions Couture' a collection of short surreal fashion films directed by Nick Knight... That are part of the unique interactive and abstract three-dimensional sculptures currently seen in windows of Paris' Le Printemps department store until 24 March 2012.

Transformed into a high fashion High-Priestess, Daphne features some of Spring/Summer 2012's finest from designers Gareth Pugh, Rick Owens, Junya Watanabe, Maison Martin Margiela, and Paco Rabanne... Including pieces from Guinness' own legendary wardrobe (I mean... who has a better closet then her???)

The films also feature Daphne Guinness sing and great narration (I find her voice to be enchanting!) of a quote from Dante's 'Inferno' against her beautiful operatic accompaniment... Always so eloquently spoken, I just love the way in which she delivery words! (I Wish I could have her read to me every night!)

"Day was departing, and the embrowned air released the animals that are on earth from their fatigues; and I the only one made myself ready to sustain the war, both of the way and likewise of the woe, which memory that errs not shall retrace. O Muses, O high genius, now assist me! O memory, that didst write down what I saw, here thy nobility shall be manifest! And I began....."

21st century fur.....

Fur in recent years has left the Upper East Side and invaded downtown, it owes much to Kopenhagen Fur and its Kopenhagen Studio design initiative. Collaborating with designers like Gareth Pugh, Rick Owens, and Gaspard Yurkievich (as well as luxury labels like Gucci and Louis Vuitton), Kopenhagen Studio has directly sourced some of the most luxurious animal pelts in the world.

From fox and chinchilla to mink and karakul—and placed them in the hands of fashion’s most forward-thinking artists. Nevermind the politics—Kopenhagen’s collaborators have reimagined fur as anything but old school, and not even necessarily for women. For Fall/Winter 2010, designers have produced ever-inventive takes on the fabric, like Soulland’s men’s baseball jacket with sheared mink sleeves, David Andersen’s sleeveless mink vest, and Haider Ackermann’s cocooning chinchilla fur jackets. Young designer Domingo Rodriguez-Baez showed a bias-cut mink coat inserted with reindeer leather panels, and for dudes, a slim and simple fur bomber. Anyway you wear it, Kopenhagen Studio is bringing fur into the 21st century.

King of Spades.....

I love this apathetic yet brilliant capturing of some of this season’s most new expressive pieces from the likes of Raf Simons and Rick Owens for The Amuser Magazine. Sharing the spotlight Joan Pedrola and Sindre Skoglund look amazing in the feature by photographer Dinah Hayt and styled by Matthieu Pabiot.