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Tuesday 22 November 2011
Thursday 29 September 2011
Thursday 18 August 2011
Big Apple Circus Dreams Big!
It's been awhile since my last post, due to a very demanding work schedule with costume fittings during the day and competing with the 11 Chinese Shandong Acrobats for highly coveted internet access by night. My obsessive twitter following has become my only link to the outside world, which somehow in my mind has become a distant memory of "reality"... although the fashion industry it was in ways equally out of this world as the circus.
Here at the Big Apple Circus are currently working with an amazing French Canadian team, Barbe & Doucet, on the costumes for this seasons show Dream Big. There has been lots of discussion about trying something new, with many BAC returning staff commenting on how different this show will be than anything they've ever done before. I've been coming to this show every year ever since I can remember, and so far I agree. So far I also agree with the team that this change is an exciting one.
The talented Andre Barbe has created an array of dazzling costumes representing figments of a child's imagination from mad scientist company members, acrobats as sparkles and energy, a Mardi Gras doll hand balancer, trapeze artists swathed in ribbons and trimmings, and so much more. The collection has a very surreal yet futuristic vibe. Embedded in the bright, macaroon inspired color scheme lies a very subtle darkness in some of the deeper colors, stripes, and flapper styles which hints at a feeling reminiscent of the subconscious intellect and unbridled imagination associated with Surrealism of the late 1910's and early 1920's. In contrast to last seasons costumes, this reference gives the costuming a very real element which I feel modernizes the show, to connect with today's audiences. Well balanced with the deeper feelings are unabashedly bright colors, sparkles, and a sense of fun essential to circus costuming. Finishing the effect are quirky, sci-fi details such as propeller hoods, big round goggles, a Lady Gaga-esque turbin with long ponytail, and sturdy black rubber gloves... and the inherent bounciness and whimsicality of over-sized foam ribbons, gears, stuffed wings, and a giant horse heads. With all this in store the costuming is sure to excite and inspire!
Dream Big opens September 22, 2011 in Dulles, Virginia. Dream Big opens in Manhattan, New York October 20, 2011. I will post pictures once the show opens and I'm no longer sworn to secrecy! Hope you can come see us!
Here at the Big Apple Circus are currently working with an amazing French Canadian team, Barbe & Doucet, on the costumes for this seasons show Dream Big. There has been lots of discussion about trying something new, with many BAC returning staff commenting on how different this show will be than anything they've ever done before. I've been coming to this show every year ever since I can remember, and so far I agree. So far I also agree with the team that this change is an exciting one.
The talented Andre Barbe has created an array of dazzling costumes representing figments of a child's imagination from mad scientist company members, acrobats as sparkles and energy, a Mardi Gras doll hand balancer, trapeze artists swathed in ribbons and trimmings, and so much more. The collection has a very surreal yet futuristic vibe. Embedded in the bright, macaroon inspired color scheme lies a very subtle darkness in some of the deeper colors, stripes, and flapper styles which hints at a feeling reminiscent of the subconscious intellect and unbridled imagination associated with Surrealism of the late 1910's and early 1920's. In contrast to last seasons costumes, this reference gives the costuming a very real element which I feel modernizes the show, to connect with today's audiences. Well balanced with the deeper feelings are unabashedly bright colors, sparkles, and a sense of fun essential to circus costuming. Finishing the effect are quirky, sci-fi details such as propeller hoods, big round goggles, a Lady Gaga-esque turbin with long ponytail, and sturdy black rubber gloves... and the inherent bounciness and whimsicality of over-sized foam ribbons, gears, stuffed wings, and a giant horse heads. With all this in store the costuming is sure to excite and inspire!
Dream Big opens September 22, 2011 in Dulles, Virginia. Dream Big opens in Manhattan, New York October 20, 2011. I will post pictures once the show opens and I'm no longer sworn to secrecy! Hope you can come see us!
Sunday 24 July 2011
Beautiful Medusas
This was our "Beautiful Medusas" beauty story, shot in studio in London. With ancient Greece in mind I wanted to keep it simple, bringing mainly gauzy, neutral colored fabrics which could be paired easily with jewelry to create an image of unobstructed, effortless beauty. I knew our makeup artist Alice Oliver did beautiful, edgy makeup with current colors, which wouldn't need a lot of fuss with the styling to accentuate. Here are our results.
Photography: Mayfly London
Fashion Editor: Julie Michael
Hair Stylist: Roxy
Makeup Artist: Alice Oliver
Model: Hannah Berry with Leni's Model Management
Photography: Mayfly London
Fashion Editor: Julie Michael
Hair Stylist: Roxy
Makeup Artist: Alice Oliver
Model: Hannah Berry with Leni's Model Management
Tuesday 19 July 2011
Karl Lagerfeld is great.
Karl Lagerfeld is fashion industry GIANT and extraordinarily talented designer. He always looks fierce, confident, and professional, and though we never see him smile it is possible he may have a sense of humor...
Love him!
I wish he would write a survival guide, I would buy it.
Love him!
I wish he would write a survival guide, I would buy it.
Style Quack... not to be taken too seriously
Style quack is a blog about fashion and style from the perspective of a fashion designer getting carried on all sorts of ridiculous, nonsensical adventures in the world of human clothing, adornment, and behavior. The only thing that remains consistent in this weird and wild world is my continual fascination with how fashion and style remain serious and ridiculous at the same time.
I love fashion. I respect the rules, the people who make them, those who follow them, and the people who ignore them. From futuristic fashion bloggers, celebrity stylists and multinational business directors who write the rulebooks and rock our world as we see it, all the way down to the scum of society, the misfits, the ghettofabulous, the old lady working a cat sweater, or the foreigner who just looks a bit off (which has been me on numerous occasions)... style is extraordinary and anyone who makes a statement with what they wear should be commended.
Quick background: I was educated and trained as a fashion designer. Upon graduating college I started in London on an internship for a fashion designer, and all seemed to be going to plan. I somehow veered off course and ended up working for stylists on band tour wardrobe, and later photo shoots and commercials. Once I strayed as far as weekly gossip papers and lad mags, I thought it couldn't get any weirder. Then I moved back to America and started working in the wardrobe department of a circus, which is where I work now. My parents were circus performers back in the day, so I sort of figured I'd end up there myself eventually. This time I'm fairly confident my job couldn't get any weirder... But who knows what the future holds!
This blog will include some of my professional work, which as I go along seems to get more and more... interesting?... as well as some random reads or pictures of crazy people on the street I find from town to town, in between projects.
Enjoy!
I love fashion. I respect the rules, the people who make them, those who follow them, and the people who ignore them. From futuristic fashion bloggers, celebrity stylists and multinational business directors who write the rulebooks and rock our world as we see it, all the way down to the scum of society, the misfits, the ghettofabulous, the old lady working a cat sweater, or the foreigner who just looks a bit off (which has been me on numerous occasions)... style is extraordinary and anyone who makes a statement with what they wear should be commended.
Quick background: I was educated and trained as a fashion designer. Upon graduating college I started in London on an internship for a fashion designer, and all seemed to be going to plan. I somehow veered off course and ended up working for stylists on band tour wardrobe, and later photo shoots and commercials. Once I strayed as far as weekly gossip papers and lad mags, I thought it couldn't get any weirder. Then I moved back to America and started working in the wardrobe department of a circus, which is where I work now. My parents were circus performers back in the day, so I sort of figured I'd end up there myself eventually. This time I'm fairly confident my job couldn't get any weirder... But who knows what the future holds!
This blog will include some of my professional work, which as I go along seems to get more and more... interesting?... as well as some random reads or pictures of crazy people on the street I find from town to town, in between projects.
Enjoy!
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