RACHEL JAMES - S/S 2016

RACHEL JAMES

 MENSWEAR

SLICK LUNATIC

SS 2016

A very successful second collection for Rachel James.

She has developed a strong visual line playing with volume and contrasting that to a very clean and male traditional menswear profile. Rachel has established herself as a knitwear expert with interesting pieces throughout.

She presents a well established language where the surface of the clothing is covered in prints, micro embroidery or surprising expressive gestural painterly work created by the designer herself directly on the fabric.

Her development also shows in this editorial image work where she collaborates with stylist Madeleine Ostlie and model Leo Topalov-Supa. The photography is by Jake Green.

A pleasure to have worked with this brand at its moment of birth and witnessed such a strong vocabulary in development.

PRO PORTIO - PALAZZO FORTUNY - May/November 2015

PRO PORTIO

PALAZZO FORTUNY

MAY to NOVEMBER 2015
(6th May 2015)

Its always a great pleasure to experience the Palazzo Fortuny whenever in Venice.

 For the occasion of the 56th International Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, the Palazzo put together an exhibition that became immediately memorable. We still think back to it, the ideas it produced and the great sensory experience that it was.

Curated by AxelVerroordt (Axel and May Verroordt Foundation) and Daniela Ferretti, it was created as a platform for a historical and current visual context to the knowledge of proportion and sacred geometry that informed human endeavour and is now somehow lost.

The works exhibited by diverse cultural producers were situated across all floors of the Palazzo and placed to reflect different aspects of human interaction to proportion.

The embodiment by humans of Proportional Features was expressed upon entering by a group of architectural pavilions, made out of organic materials, and designed by Axel Verroordt, Tatsou Miki and Jorgen Hempel.

Gigantic photographs of Medieval cathedrals by Markus Brunetti.

The encounter of works alongside the architectural features of the Palazzo Fortuny enriches all exhibitions presented there.

Artist Nanushka Jackson looks at works while curator Martin Rasmussen takes a moment to rest by the side of a giant and vibrant Ellsworth Kelly.

The 'Piano Mobile" of the Palazzo acts like an epicentre of the exhibition. A demanding visual spectacle full of architectural models and plans. A variety of Minimalist works and works by ZERO artists, alongside Old Master architectural capriccios.

Artist Nanushka Jackson and curator Martin Rasmussen exploring works.

On the fourth floor the wabi aesthetics remind us of the acceptance of transcience and imperfection and the curators have chosen works that start a discourse about the proportions of the cosmos, intergalactic spaces and meditation and silence.

The experience of the exhibition allows for the development of a new exploration about how humans locate themselves within the proportions of the order of things.

Curators Ulia Rabko and Martin Rasmussen and artist Nanushka Jackson earn a proportionately comfortable rest after this last wabi-sabi moment.

APARTMENT 2 - ATOMISED SOCIETY

APARTMENT PROJECTS
APARTMENT 2

ATOMISED SOCIETY
CURATED BY MARTIN RASMUSSEN

A.S. – Atomised Society

"Memories are passed through unknown dimensions and are no longer something of the past. Rather, they become redefined equivalents in the present. In this way, memories are restructured like dreams, or, in a more concrete way, like collages. Remembered pleasures can become pain, or painful occurrences can become pleasurable." (Dwoskin, Stephen, 1993, HAHA! La Solution Imaginaire published by The Smith, p.x introduction) 

For their edition of Apartment, A.S. – Atomised Society, (Alexander Hidalgo and Monika Oechsler), present a new series of collages in various media. 

A.S.' interventions are particularly performative and, be it in a park, publication or flat, highlight positions of humanity. This specific intervention for Apartment seems to reflect an interest in memory and its visual operations. 

The collaboration's work puts forward how memory, more than in the past, plays the part of creating the present.
"The only conclusion he could draw was that without points of reference, a man melts away." ― (Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles).

Cocktails by Sandra Pusterhofer and Benedict Goodwin – Cosmonaut & Le Fizz

Photographs by Lewis Ronald

18 April, 2015
Artist: A.S. – Atomised Society 

(Monika Oechsler / Alexander Hidalgo)

Host: Martin Rasmussen

London, NW5

RACHEL JAMES - LAUNCH A/W 2015

RACHEL JAMES

MENSWEAR

GRANNY FLOWER

LAUNCH COLLECTION A/W 2015

Had the pleasure of consulting on the launch of Rachel James Menswear after her successful Westminster University Fashion Degree.

 A relaxed fit for men with an interesting and radiant use of print and textured knitwear.

Basic men's fashion items, transformed through clever usage of cut, creating surprising volume and fit. The line of the clothing, while always relaxed and masculine, sometimes reminded me of Cristobal Balenciaga.

Here items from the collection are modeled by Gabriele Ambrosi de Magistris Verzier.