Thursday, September 15, 2011
PANTONE Fashion Color Report Fall
From dexigner.com
Giant Ferris Wheel
TopFashion has been covering the story of how Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and his brother Doug want to dump ten years of planning and the results of an international competition to rebuild the portlands for a megamall, a monorail and a giant ferris wheel. It is a local story with a larger lesson: What happens when a militant anti transit/pro-car, anti-urban/pro-sprawl government tries to overturn every green move of the last decade.
Today Eric Miller of the Cities Centre, Richard Florida of the Martin Prosperity Institute, Richard Sommer of the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Paul Bedford, former Chief Planner, and 148 other planners, urbanists, designers and academics shot back with a devastating letter where they write:
"we are extremely concerned that recent proposals to radically alter plans and development control for the Lower Don Landsare ill-conceived, reckless, and, if adopted, will result in irrevocable harm to the City."Anyone who cares about process, about urbanism and about building cities will be impressed with this carefully crafted shot across the bows.
Newspaper Dress - Made of "Financial Times"
Gary Harvey’s first collection showcased nine of his stunning dresses at the Estethica exhibition at the London Fashion Week (Feb 07). The collection creates a dramatic display designed to change people’s perception of second-hand clothing and create fashion with a conscience. Gary uses material he finds in places like secondhand clothing stores to avoid waste, he says of good quality second hand clothing, people "wear it one or two times then discard it because it's suddenly deemed aesthetically unimportant and out of date when there's years of life left in the garment." His collection "was a comment about thinking about the real cost of the garment that you buy, about that cost being natural resources, exploitation of labour, the biodegradable nature of garments."
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| Newspaper dress, made from 30 copies of the 'Financial Times' |
The 2011 Trend Report
The 2011 Trend Report is now available at http://topfashionlifestyle.blogspot.com/, and to celebrate, we are releasing our annual video 2011 trend forecast so that you can see all of the hottest consumer trends for 2011 in fashion, design, pop culture, eco, tech and advertising. Enjoy!
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