Laced and Laser Cut

Didn’t necessarily mean to connect any of this with fashion but, it's just how I saw all this as a connection to what I was talking about before! :D So after seeing the nice motif cut works on the lanterns I remembered valentino’s spring 2012 and Louis Vuitton’s Spring Summer 2012 collections. The whole application of lacer cut techniques on these fabrics were cleverly plus beautifully done. So I had to share it! :D

Laser cut! Why not this spring summer? :)

Valentino Spring 2012- Loved the whole refined yet whimsical feel of the dresses.

Louis Vuitton Spring Summer 2012. Looked like a lantern itself! :D Beautiful!

Louis Vuitton Spring Summer 2012.

Louis Vuitton Spring Summer 2012. So ethereal!

Louis Vuitton Spring Summer 2012.

 Fashion icon Kate Moss in a lace and feathered dress accompanied with ladylike shoes and a plain cutesy hairband to match the ultra girly white dress, wrapped the show at Louis Vuitton’s SS12 runway.

Louis Vuitton Spring Summer 2012.

 Now I'm actually wondering what Louis vuitton's and Valentino's source of inspiration was for this spring summer 2012. :)

Here's another image of a lacer cut dress from Marchesa. I love the way it's folded and twisted around. :)

Marchesa Spring 2011

A Night of Light!

Off we were to the streets with the gang, on Vesak poya night to go in search of beautifully decorated streets in Colombo and it sure was extraordinarily put together this time I thought! :) The lighting, the lanterns, the pandols and the 3d projection mapping at the museum was just outstandingly beautiful! Oh and the neon lit toys :D Tee hee! For a moment it felt like I was in one of those Chinese lantern and Japanese Tanabata festivals.

The 2012 spirit of Vesak was sure intense! :)

 

Full moon :)

The reflection of  lights on water

The pics were taken during my first trip around Nawam mawatha but it was more beautiful when I made the next trip around the city but unfortunately I didn't have the cam with me then. So yeah! :(  However, I still thought these were amazing too. :)

The streets

The raining light

Lanterns

The lanterns were beautifully designed and intricately carved as always. I dunno if they were lacer cut or hand done..whatever it is, it looked really nice. This can actually be an inspiration for a good lacer cut collection with Sri Lankan motifs I thought! :) My next post would be on certain designers who have done fabulous collections for spring/summer 2012 which has lacer cut pieces that kind of resemble the carvings of these lanterns. :)

 

 

These are just some images of the lanterns we were able to capture but of course, there were nicer one's too. :)

Pandols

The multi coloured sparkling mini bulbs of massive pandols. Beautiful and always has a story to tell.

Special effects- I said pour me some light! :D

It was also fun blending with the massive crowd wearing neon coloured horns over our heads. It was crazy like!

The neon horns :D

Loved the candy colours of Beeda

Toy seller

Macro to Fashion

Surprisingly, it seemed like a part of London Fashion Week 2012 was also inspired by insects. What a coincidence! Read my previous post to see what I mean! :) Here are some images of Golan Frydman's designs for London Fashion Week 2012. He has tried to depict how insects transform themselves as a form of protection in his collection. One of the designs apparently took the idea of changing the cocoon into a butterfly too.

Groovy eh!?

 

Avant-guard to wearable

Here are some other images of some designs I found with an insect like appeal applied on to the garments as prints.

Alexander McQueen's 'Plato's Atlantis' Spring 2010 collection

Insects and Fashion photography

Model in form of a butterfly

Pretty insect jewellery pieces

 

Cute aren't they? :)

 

Macro photography

Observing little things in nature that is greater than it's life size, through macro photography is quite an interesting field I must say. Macro photography is usually known as taking close up shots of very small subjects. Now that my boyfriend too has created a huge interest in Macro photography I couldn’t resist but to share some of his awesome photographs of detailed insects you never knew that existed in your neighborhood that does not look creepy, but absolutely attractive on camera! I’m thinking macro and fashion now! :D The beautiful details, colour contrasts and textures of these insects actually inspire me! Now wouldn't these colours look gorgeous on a garment? :)

Speckle-eyed drone hoverfly

Dragon fly

The grass hopper that looked like a bead worked brooch

A closer look at the dragon fly anyone?

Water drops

Me love!

Flowers

I'm loving macro photography now! So will you once you see more of the images he has captured in the page below.

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