Coutorture

coutorture — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:11:28 -0700

Central Saint Martins BA 2009 Collections On Dazed Digital

Although most people think of the Central Saint Martins MA graduate show as the one to watch, it's worth arguing that the BA graduates are equally worthy of industry attention. While some BA grads might branch off immediately to form their own companies, others will continue on to become the shining stars of the MA program. This year, Dazed Digital took photos of the collections and interviewed the students participating in the show. Check out their coverage, right here.

coutorture — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:28:05 -0700

ASOS Goes Collab Mad With Louise Gray, Fred Flare And Markus Lupfer

This morning we caught up with Dazed Digital and learned about an economically sound collaboration happening across the pond. British e-retailer ASOS teamed up with stylist Richard Sloan on a range, called HIT, inspired by Fashion Week freebies. To kick things off Sloan enlisted the help of Louise Gray, Fred Flare and Markus Lupfer who each created goody-bag items for the collection. Gray created friendship brooches, of which there are only 100, while Fred Flare created neon packing tape and Markus Lupfur glow-in-the-dark underwear. Check them all out by clicking on the title link above.

Not Without A Fight: Dazed Teenage Takeover

coutorture — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:45:51 -0800

Magazines turning themselves into valuable artifacts, reeling in the long-form-with-nothing-to-lose identity they have been forced to embrace, are coming up with pretty clever ways to draw in new readership (and their loyal advertisers). One such example happens to be coming from Dazed, whose website, DazedDigital, is far from an 'online presence'--it is actually something the magazine has to, in a sense, live up to. For the January issue Britain's under 18s have been asked to design a cover which somehow illustrates what it means to be young and British today. Hedi Slimane happens to have shot all of the fashion for this issue over the course of three days and it is suggested, not required, that participants use Slimane's photographs as a starting point. This contest was borne from an overwhelming response to a writing contest on the same topic for the same issue... consider our interest piqued.