The Interior Design Show is coming up. I had such a great time with Paul Baik who took some beautiful pictures. You can see our adventures at The Interior Design Show in 2009.
For 12 years, IDS10 has offered the finest, latest and most innovative in international and Canadian design
products. With a cutting-edge line up of 300+ exhibitors and design features, this year’s show runs January 21-24, 2010 at its NEW downtown location, the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Also new this year, IDS10 is part of the inaugural, TORONTO INTERNATIONAL DESIGN FESTIVAL/TIDF
presented by RADO and AUDI which runs January 20 – 24, 2010. TIDF, created by IDS and Merchandise Mart
Properties Inc. Canada/MMPI Canada, is an annual citywide showplace of design. With partners such as AGO,
DX/Design Exchange and IDS, this five-day festival will celebrate Toronto as a major design destination.
Watch the following video to get an idea of what to expect this year.
I love that IDS2010 is at the Metro Convention Centre this year. Mostly because I work right across the road from it. I always look forward to seeing the products and designs. I’m really looking forward to hearing Award-winning Spanish artist/designer Jaime Hayón.
Fashematics is the brilliant website by Jonathan Zawada. It a blog that combines math and fashion. I’m so in love with it. Jonathan created an amazing zine recently and I immediately ordered it.
This book was published to commemorate the 50th fashematics equation created for Zawada’s fashematics.com blog. Jonathan created this zine of his favourite looks from the Spring/Summer 2010 runway shows, reinterpreting the models as part of either a horde of zombies or an army of robots. It is a flip-flop zine that reads inwards from both covers beginning with either a Zombie Karl Lagerfeld or Android Lagerfeld sticker. Features clothes by Prada, Bernhard Willhelm, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, Chanel and more…
$16 (AUD) for international shipping. BUY IT HERE!
I’m loving the robots more than the zombies but it’s all a lot of fun.
Posted by geekigirl on September 15th, 2009
Posted in Category: Art, Ask a Geek, Fashion
Sometimes readers ask me questions. If they are of value to all my readers I post them online. If you have a question, please feel free to submit it using the contact form. I’ll definitely do my best to answer it.
I want – I got reader Martin wrote:
Hello,
I have been searching Google for the 1926 Vogue magazines and ended up here!
Looking for a picture copy (on the web) of the 1926 Vogue Late May [George W Plank]- as listed on ebay.co.uk.
If its too much hassle – please ignore.
Kind regards,
Martin
(I guess I must be geeky)
Hi Martin, it’s no trouble at all. I tried to email you but it was returned undelivered. The only Vogue May 1926 copy I have is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/geekigirl/1291501242/in/set-72157601797860309/
However, you might want to check around the collections found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gatochy/256837935/
Posted by geekigirl on September 15th, 2009
Posted in Category: Art, India
Some of my most prize possessions from India were the paintings I bought at Dilli Haat, a market in the heart of Delhi. This experience of buying artwork was interesting because I got to talk to the artist who was from Udaipur. He sat me and a coworker down in his tent. Most merchants in the market would have chairs for customers to sit down at. We poured over his prolific works of art each one more beautiful then the next.
This is my favourite piece. The richness of the blues just sucked me in. This scan can never replicate just how detailed and beautiful his work is.
This is the piece that was painted on old government paper. On the reverse side is a some Hindi writing. I have no idea what it says.
I got these elephant silk paintings for my brother and mother.
From September 26, 2009 to January 3, 2010, the Art Gallery of Ontario will host an exhibition that proves glamour never goes out of style. Edward Steichen: In High Fashion, the Condé Nast Years, 1923 –1937 presents 200 beautifully preserved gelatin silver prints from the Vogue and Vanity Fair Condé Nast Archive and brings them to Canada for the first time.
Edward Steichen’s black-and-white fashion and celebrity images defined glamour in the 1920s and ‘30s, and they still do today. As the chief photographer for Vogue and Vanity Fair, Steichen filled the pages of Condé Nast’s flagship magazines with brilliant and unforgettable images — transforming fashion into high art as he photographed the collections of leading houses such as Poiret, Chanel, Lanvin, Grès and Schiaparelli. He immortalized hundreds of luminaries, from writers and artists to politicians and actors — including George Bernard Shaw, Noel Coward, Martha Graham, Amelia Earhart, Charlie Chaplin, Gary Cooper and Joan Crawford.
Accompanying the exhibition is a 288-page publication, Edward Steichen: In High Fashion, the Condé Nast Years, 1923 –1937, by William A. Ewing and Todd Brandow (Minneapolis: FEP Editions, 2008) – with essays by Musée de l´Elysée director William A. Ewing and curator Nathalie Herschdorfer, ICP curator Carol Squiers, and Kunsthaus Zurich curator Tobia Bezzola. Softcover retails for $70 at shopAGO.
