Via bre-pettis.
TV feature on Patrik Ervell - an insight into his design philosophy and methods.
‘By season, I believe in progressing in incremental stages, in details, and in small refinements - menswear is all about those details’
‘Perfect Portraits’ by Joanne Pang
I know them; my dear family and friends.
Now I make a picture of them to remember and to savour.
But they are so close to me, too close, sometimes I cannot see.
A simple enough conceit, artfully executed.
Technical fabric? Check.
Peasant gentry tailoring? Check.
Early 90’s reference? Check.
I have subconsciously turned into an Ervell-o-phile.
“I don’t reference a look or a genre when I’m designing,” he explains. “The feeling you get from music I hope you also get from my clothes.”
The musical equivalent of Ervell’s collections is alt-rock with all of its connections to the underground, punk and college radio. “Somehow I always manage to use a Slowdive song in each show,” Ervell said after his spring outing, which included fabrics rust-stained with iron and copper oxide. “I always end up going to that early-’90s shoegazer period; it makes sense for me aesthetically, too.” (via The Nifty 50 | Patrik Ervell, Designer - T Magazine Blog - NYTimes.com)
Reblogged from Erin Nicole and the Internet.
“Technical peasant gentry and a dash of early 90’s New York.”
Camille O’Sullivan - A Good Man is Hard to Find (Tom Waits cover)
Here are my favourite tunes of the year. Not necessarily material released in 2009 (or the 00’s even), but songs that I came to discover and re-discover over the course of the year. I’ve provided youtube-friendly links for songs that I could find on youtube. This year I suppose was an unearthing of dark-romanticism, analogue synths, and ambient sound waves, all of which I suppose, found their way into the modest songs I tried to write, one way or another.
Thus without further ado, in no particular order:
1. Amadou & Mariam - Sabali (produced by Damon Albarn)
2. Zomby - Spliff Dub (Rustie remix)
4. Manic Street Preachers - Jackie Collins Existential Question Time
5. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - I Had A Dream, Joe
7. Tom Waits - You Can Never Hold Back Spring
8. Daniel Johnston - True Love Will Find You in the End
9. Nosaj Thing - Harrison Ford
11. Jim O’Rourke - Something Big (Burt Bacarach cover)
12. Dangermouse & Sparklehorse - Insane Lullaby (feat. James Mercer)
15. Tim Hecker - Dungeoneering
16. Jay-Z - Empire State of Mind (feat. Alicia Keys)
18. Yo La Tengo - If It’s True
19. David Byrne and Brian Eno - Strange Overtones
20. Guided by Voices - Game of Pricks
21. Beck - Guess I’m Doing Fine
or
22. The Walkmen - In the New Year
23. Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives
25. Keagen O’Brien - Los Angeles
Enjoy - peace out.