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On Friday 15 February b Clothing and Carola Euler showed their AW08 collections at Sketch during LFW.

Boyish but sophisticated. Obvious yet discreet. Fresh yet formal:

Carola Euler’s Luxury collection is a work of contrasts. Taking casual sportswear, white hip hop attire and consumerist culture as her starting points, she spars sartorial contradictions against one another and blends them as one.

Her trademark laser eye for detail defines itself in the cut-out on a shirt with a pleated underlay and the push-buttoned dress shirt cuff on a sleeve, but is combined with this season’s take on a new money, white trash interpretation on how to dress up.

‘I was inspired by the idea of what a 16-year-old boy would buy if he suddenly came into lots of money,’ says Euler. ‘That kind of naive approach to luxury dressing.’

This manifests itself in pristine, crisp ice white shirts combined with black combat shorts festooned in pockets, suits with nylon shorts and slick silhouettes worn with sporty sneakers, all with a flash of gold jewellery.

New smart and new sport, a new vision of masculine attire.


STEPHEN DOIG

‘Translations of Three for b’

Thursday 11 – Wednesday 31 October 2007

b STORE is delighted to invite conceptual designer JO COPE to join them to celebrate FRIEZE ART FAIR

Exploring the visual translation of the ‘Holy Trinity’, she often uses biblical text as an unlikely tool to create visual fashion metaphors.  She has created work in areas such as: moving image, performance, installation, product, garment and photographic image.

Her window installations for b Store will include a surreal display of suspended ‘Multiple Collars’, ‘Self Extension Bags’ which have the unique ability to transform into three separate states and ‘Three piece suit’ one visual form which breaks down to exist as three separate entities.   Her ‘Non Collar’ is a unisex jewellery piece cut to finish at the point at which a traditional suit jacket begins, creating an illusionary formality and conformity.

Each product offers the consumer a wearable/useable avant-garde accessory which can be engaged with on multiple levels.  Cope’s accessory pieces encourage the wearer to engage in their concept while being fully wearable pieces.

She says: “My objective is to present new ways for people to see and think about fashion and b store is a great environment to do this.”

There will be the opportunity to purchase one off and limited edition accessory pieces during the installation period, many of which can be put together in your own unique way by combining and experimenting.

A collabaration of work between Stylist Thom Murphy and designer Siv Stoldal based loosely around Heavens gate.
Water and bridges graced the smoke filled room giving it an earie feel as bodies where only picked up by sight when the smoke cleared at brief intervals.
The event took place at the b store on Monday 17/09/07 from 12:30 through until 14:30  and was part of a 3 piece instillation with the other 2 parts being shown at sketch on Conduit street (10 seconds around the corner).
Siv dressed the whole outside of the 4 storey building with around 500 rain macs which where making gestures in wind and a short film was showing the ss/08collection in the main screening room. 

Hanne Barr, Animus
B Store, 24a Savile Row, London W1S 3PR
20th August – 8th September 2007

“Mythology is a rendition of forms through which the formless Form of forms can be known.  An inferior object is presented as the representation, or habitation, of a superior.  The love or attachment felt for the inferior is a function actually of one’s potential establishment in the superior.”
Joseph Campbell, Primitive Mythology

Animus explores the idea of a spurious ancient mythology; an order at the beginnings of human experience emerging from imagined pre-historical accounts for the phenomena of the universe – nature, death and dreaming. Floating in an inky black nothingness prior to any cosmogonical theory, nightmarish souls, terrible yet innocent, inhabit a realm that exists before time and before matter.

The sculptures and prints in this exhibition document these fictitious forms; the beings of an apocryphal mythology existing outside the reality of their imaginary inferiors. The relics which these beings inspire occupy a different stratum, removed from the crypto-anthropological observer of this imagined cult of a dark and ancient subconscious.

The make-up of made-up:  the image of the animus, both silent and observing, appears in a space between the frame and total darkness, where form is given to the intangible and the tangible is given form.

Hanne Barr is a London-based artist and illustrator. She trained at Central Saint Martins School of Art graduating in 2001.


For more information see her website www.hannebarr.co.uk or contact her by email at info@hannebarr.co.uk.