kanye west X george condo X m/m (paris)

I am pretty excited to see the final 10 contestants of this contest. Here is some info straight from the Mango Fashion Awards website:

4th Edition “el Botón”

MANGO FASHION AWARDS

After the success obtained in the last editions, “el Botón”-MANGO Fashion Awards, whose aim is encouraging and promoting the International projection of young fashion talents, is launching its 4th edition with the support of five international design schools of great prestige in Europe and the online platform Not Just a Label.

In the previous editions the jury of “el Botón” counted on two exceptional presidents, the renowned designers Valentino and Oscar de la Renta. On 20 October, the famous designer, Jean Paul Gaultier, the President of the Jury of the 3rd edition of the contest, announced the name of the absolute winner during the Final Ceremony held in the MNAC of Barcelona.

The new registration period for the 4th edition will commence on 15 February and designers will have until the 31 July to present their applications. In mid-November the jury, made up of representatives of MANGO and five prestigious international design schools will select the 10 finalists that will pass to the second step of the contest.

The Campaign

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In this campaign, MANGO has set the emerging talents a provocative challenge: “create your own revolution”, a call to arms inviting them to become real revolutionaries, with a chance to change fashion, shapes, colours and trends… The context of the spot and the graphic exude an air of ambiguity. They were created by the renowned director and photographer Eugenio Recuenco and star Andrej Pejic, one of the top new modelling talents on the global fashion scene.

Andrej Pejic, an exceptional model in highest demand among the greatest designers of the fashion world is in fact a man, and it is this ambiguity that has made him the poster boy of the major fashion labels and the world’s biggest publishing houses.

You know what’s crazy, not only is that model a guy, he looks like he hasn’t eaten anything in 5 years!!! Either way, fashion is exciting sometimes.

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Nice video by Thelma Magazine promoting the upcoming Spirit of the Black Dress Show in Australia.

Info about SOTBD show from their site:

“We are a group of independent recent graduates from different backgrounds committed to raising the profile of emerging fashion and increasing international appreciation for Australian design. We run an annual Fashion Photography Exhibition that showcases ten of Australia’s most innovative emerging designers.

Heading into our third year we are excited to be showcasing the talent and innovation shown by emerging sustainable fashion designers. We have now finalised out ten designers for 2011, selected by industry doyens: Janice Breen Burns – Fashion Editor, The Age, Katie Sommerville – Curator, Australian Fashion and Textiles National Gallery of Victoria, Romy Frydman – Founder, Style me Romy, Robert Buckingham – Director and Cultural Strategist, Mr Buckingham and JC Lloyd-Southwell d’Anvers and Dean Hewitt – Directors, Madam Virtue & Co. We are pleased to present:

Dan Jones

Leanne Dempsey

Alyana Eau & Priscilla Lim

Georgia McCorkill

Samantha Lilian Koval

Cristina Tridente

Alex Trimmer

Katherine Hamer

Clea Garrick & Nathan Price

Melina Hollway”

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M/M (Paris) release this press release a couple days ago. Direct from M/M (Paris):

“Last Fall, Kanye West asked M/M (Paris) to design the album packaging for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. West had commissioned George Condo to create a series of paintings featuring the characters who populate his musical fantasies.

During the creative process, M/M (Paris) created a series of hand drawn ornamented frames to adorn the powerful and iconic Condo paintings.

Playing with the many possibilities of combing the paintings and frames, M/M (Paris) and Kanye West wanted to find a luxurious expression of their creative efforts - and decided to use the most striking combinations and transform them into voluptuous silk scarves.

The results are now being released jointly by M/M (Paris) and Kanye West as a collection of five full color scarves made of 100% silk twill.

Each of the five scarves features one of the album covers painted by George Condo embedded in an intricate gold frame with hand drawn lettering by M/M (Paris).

The combination of this luxurious visula language over the traditional Twill de Soie is the ultimate celebration of the magically ornamented sounds of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

Each scarf is produced in a limited edition of 100 units. The first half edition is available through M/M (Paris)’s website, and at selected retailers.”

These will be available starting Monday, May 9th.

Behind the scenes of the process via Highsnobiety

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