I'm very bummed to have missed Ann's show this season, her shows are always very inspiring, and the music is always great. Anyways, I do think it looks great. I love the use of red, (red is one of the few colours I use) and the feathers, they are so beautiful, it seems she is quite taken with birds of late. The collection does feel quite cut down somehow, no boys in this one, and it feels like less outfits than before. Very quiet contrasted with the very strong and hard colours and textures... There are some amazing things in there, though. Strong, hard, quietly fragile.
I did this mini gig last week, as part of a Music meets Art meets Design project, I played a couple of my songs alongside Marie Kristiansen 's projected images. Thanks to Aleks and Ottar from Gerilja for helping me out!! Theres a couple of vids from it here on my Myspace. Check back for more music and news soon!
I went to see my friends Gerilja at the Oslo ByLarm festival on Saturday, and it was fucking brilliant. I had never seen them live before, so I was very excited to discover how explosive and well they played. Gerilja won in 2008 The Zoom Urort (untouched) prize, and their music, described in their own words as rockfunktrashpsychedelic, is RAD. Their new EP, Pink Slush Twilight, is out soon, and I have a copy of it which I will be writing about later! Check out their Myspace page, and make sure to see them live sometime. The sound in the video below is shit...
The Fam Irvoll shows are always a joy to attend, they make everyone smile and forget about the drabness of the world for a while. Opening the show was a mini gig by Norwegian band Yoga Fire, followed by the film by Marie Kristiansen, I hadn't seen it yet! Then came the house of fun; I found this collection to be Fam's best to date, all the outfits were strong. Fam is a very celebrated designer in Norway, she has appealed to a lot of people and media with her fun world. She has won three prizes this year, earlier she won designer of the year at Costume awards, (voted by the public), Naaloyet The peoples choice, and best of all in my oppinion was the Innovation prize, gaining her 150.000NOK for developing her business, which she wants to expand to childrenswear, something I think will do very well. The childrenswear outfits she showed during the show were fun, wearable and the girls looked so sweet. I'm so proud of you, Fam!!! Well deserved.
When the machine-guitar starts to playing
We're watching the shooting stars
We're under love's blue sky
On the New Electric Ride
Carmen Hillestad Music.
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