A few weeks I had the pleasure of a visit to Kino – a regular film night in Elevator Gallery in Hackney Wick. It’s a great venue for a cinema club really cheap entry – I think it was £3 – and cheap beers too which is always a bonus. I seriously need to get out and do more cultural escapades. Being stuck in the studio really limits your creativity.
I went to see The Holy Mountain, a cult film directed by Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky. It reminded me of Dante’s Divina Commedia which I studied for my degree in Italian. I watched the film with no context in which to place it but strong religious allegories run throughout and the inherent symbolism is the visual imagery was unavoidable. The characters in the film are on a similar journey of self-discovery to Dante as they climb the Holy Mountain to reach the Divine. It’s the kind of film you need to watch, study, then watch again which I will be doing once I’ve studied up and contextualised. I’m not going to go into great detail on the plot – Wikipedia that one yourself but it’s worth mentioning that Marilyn Manson, Santigold and MGMT have all shot videos inspired by scenes from The Holy Mountain.
Back to fashion…..so many religious, cult references – not to mention nudity – around at the moment. This film provides a seventies slant on the looks we’ve seen which are more about the dark arts. Seventies is trending strong already in commercial fashion with bell bottoms and stacked heels making their way back.
All in all, it’s a fantastically surreal film, simulatneously beautiful and arresting, wouldn’t advise watching it on a full stomach. There’s so much inspiration for graphics and fashion.
As some of you know, bitchingandjunkfood.com is no longer headed-up by just me Marion, it’s now Kath too. Kath and I were both doing the own labels and increasingly crossing over so it made sense to join forces and build BITCHY together.
MAX VOLUME PLEASE…
Two Weeks label came about this AW10 in order to represent both our design aesthetics, my background in jewellery/accessories and Kath’s in clothing design. We’re loving menswear just as much as womens and both our own styles are kind of sporty(occasionally slutty but our remade label serves that purpose well) so we decided to do a Unisex collection – we also just wanted a pair of tracksuit bottoms we could throw on and still look cool(guess it’s a bit lifestyle).
Right, I know it’s fashion week and I should be writing about same but I’m not. We will but probably not till it’s over and we have a chance to sit back and digest what we really dig and what we don’t. I am having a video obsession since we shot our first fashion video last weekend and as you probably already know I’m really interested in it’s capabilities as a medium to communicate fashion. We’re excited about what we’ve done for AW10 and we’re going to push it as far as possible for SS11- brain already ticking over.
I’ve started this post maybe seven times now because I struggle to put into words the giddy excitement myself and Kath felt when we layed eyes on THE DRESS. I guess that’s where my grasp of language falls short becuase this dress deserves a high-brow blog post that I, unfortunately, am insufficiently eloquent to write so dress I’m sorry but I will give it my best shot, go easy on me and don’t look down on my humble ramblings.
