Hussein Chalayan

Clever couture: Josh Goot from catwalk to high street

source: Irish Independent

 Ireland These have been seen everywhere in one form or another from the delicate dip-dyes at Burberry and merging water-colours at Celine to the hard-edged, futuristic style prints shown at McQueen and Hussein Chalayan. Goot created a happy compromise by ...

Published Fri, May 1

Where Barnum meets Balenciaga

source: nationalpost.com

 Canada They were part of his Artisanal Collection, in which he repurposes and recycles discarded objects into couture. English designer Hussein Chalayan is notorious for creating clothes without cloth: garments of paper or glass fibre or LED lights and lasers ...

Published Sat, Mar 7

Where Barnum meets Balenciaga

source: Financial Post

 Canada They were part of his Artisanal Collection, in which he repurposes and recycles discarded objects into couture. English designer Hussein Chalayan is notorious for creating clothes without cloth: garments of paper or glass fibre or LED lights and lasers ...

Published Fri, Mar 6

Clever Couture: Christopher Bailey from catwalk to high street

source: Irish Independent

 Ireland Maverick designer, Hussein Chalayan took the idea of a car crash as the starting point for his futuristic collection which was full of moulded-latex dresses and airbrush prints. Burberry Prorsum’s Christopher Bailey was influenced by a rain-sodden ...

Published Fri, Feb 27

Fashion fuses with conceptual art

source: thenational.ae

 United Arab Emirates - It features the bizarre moulded latex “car crash couture” dresses that Hussein Chalayan showed in his spring/summer 2009 pret-a-porter show. ...

Published Mon, Jan 26

Hussein Chalaya and Kristin Baker

source: Boing Boing

Earlier, I posted about artist Kristin Baker's paintings inspired by auto racing. My wife Kelly Sparks had turned me on to Baker a few months ago. But Kelly, a fashion designer, was reminded of the paintings again when she saw Hussein Chalaya's spring 2009 ready-to-wear collection. The abs...

Published Fri, Oct 10

Pneumatic fashion by Ying Gao

source: talk2myshirt

Haute couture designer Hussein Chalayan presented a version of animated dresses in his 2006 fashion show using tiny electrical motors. Ying Gao’s air based design is lightweight and simpler in construction which could help to make it ...

Published Wed, Oct 1

Hussein Chalayan Launches Footwear! Couture Shows Rage On

source: New York Magazine

Hussein Chalayan will introduce shoes for fall '09. Joy! [British Vogue]. • Hilary Alexander said Giorgio Armani's couture collection was "everything the well-dressed and well-heeled wealthy woman of today could conceivably want in her ...

Published Tue, Jul 1