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Thierry Prévost und Alexandre Liot at the Trunkshow Agent Provocateur at Galeries Lafayette, Berlin, 03.12.2009
Agentur: MEA brand building GmbH
Fotograf: Boris Trenkel
Harry Hamlin and Optical Connection's Dwayne Smith at Oliver Peoples Trunk Show at Optical Connection in Bel Air.
Shoe designer, Donald J. Pliner, makes his annual stop at Main & Taylor Shoe Salon. He shares the Donald J. Pliner and Lisa Pliner Signature Collection for Spring, Summer, and Fall.
Archie and Diane Chinnis have built what many believe to be the premiere ladies shoe boutique in the Triangle. They carry a full line of shoes and boots by many of the top designers including a vast assortment by such well-known designers as Donald Pliner and Stuart Weitzman. In addition, their handbag and accessory offerings are absolutely exquisite.
Nora Rochlitzer, Trunkshow Agent Provocateur, Galeries Lafayette Berlin, 03.12.2009
Agentur: MEA brand building GmbH
Fotograf: Boris Trenkel
Kelly Wallis
Go!
CTA tickets, letterpress wood type, found suitcase collage
2009
AND GO FAST.
Brown line, red line, and sometimes pink. A short, eight-month stay in Chicago is equal to about $1,000 in transit fare. Long nights led to running to the statuion just in time to realize you’ve missed the last train out of Belmont. Walking two miles in the snow isn’t fun. Pick up your bags, take a cab. Another $12. Everyone is always moving in this city. Eyes always open, even when napping in the morning commute.
As we move in and out, weaving back and forth through the tiny and croweded streets of Chicago, the luggage we carry gets worn. Body, slow down, brain, keep moving.
I saved every transit ticket, every 30 Day Pass, every One Day “Fun” Pass. I took busses not knowing where they lead. I just knew I had to go in that direction. I rode trains into places I should not have been at times when the only people who ride them are those who think they are two.
We are still going, always moving, faster. We are luggage opening and closing, packed until it barely closes, until it’s falling apart.
Optical Connections' Dwayne Smith models many pairs of Oliver Peoples at Optical Connection's Oliver Peoples Trunk Show.
Jessica Vogel
Iowa
Oil on cotton skirt & found suitcase
2009
The inspiration for most of my work comes from my love of textures and the tactile abilities of various mediums. I like using the sense of touch or relating to it, to harness memories and emotions that are personal and fundamental. Memories of loss, feelings of loneliness, and pure frivolity are three of my favorite themes to work into my concepts. I find that the human condition often combines dark emotions with surprisingly light and comical ways in which to express them. For the Trunk Show, I felt that the connotations of travel and memory went well with my work dealing with found and neglected clothing. We often leave or lose possessions, like clothing, while traveling. What we wear on our travels can also absorb the memory of an event or place, the same way a song or a smell can transport you back in time. I wanted to use the suitcase (trunk) as a frame and focus of that memory.
In order to harness the human connection that clothes possess I manipulate them into hard sculptural objects that are then enhance with oil paint. By painting on these garments I transform them out of reality, they become lush cartoon-like and fantastical. The suspended movement and emptiness of the cloths, however, give a more doleful and weighted feeling. I use a lot of color and I think “colorfulness and brightness” can be more than aesthetically pleasing. Color can be disturbing and intriguing and I like exploring those possibilities.
one of the samples i knit for Knitting MochiMochi by Anna Hrachovec :)
godspeed, little pocket protectors! they're off to spread the cute!