Good Friday. Voxfrock’s gone all bedroombloggery with a trifecta of big pictures and breathy declarations of love and awesomeness just for you. Scroll down for a tricky new hair bug, a heartpumping campaign pushing definitions of beauty, and a bouncy stylist’s too-cool-for-school plunge into Bondi’s fashion traffic. (Mid form, quick scroll post: allow three minutes to read.)
LOVE!
We do! We leerrrv fashionistocrat Pip Edwards’s clip series Street Style by Visa Fashion First. Miss Edwards is ridiculously cool and, we suspect, was Visa’s first choice for this incisive little project because it takes one to know one. The Visa crew film her bouncing and chortling huskily around Sydney, engaging hand-picked locals in chats about their, like, you know, fabulousness.
It’s all so low-key and arctic-cool, Voxfrock also suspects Miss Edwards lassoos half a dozen of her nearest and dearest fellow fashionistocrats to frock up (or rather, frock down) and meet her at a chalked spot on that week’s target street.
However. Do we care her clips may be so brazenly staged? A resounding Nup.
Miss Edwards is a delight to watch and hear and her subjects – boot by jeans by top by frock by trim figure by fashionably mussed hair do – intriguing individuals, mustered or no. In this week’s clip (below) Miss Edwards explores the “relaxed and cruisey” mix of vintage and designer garments favored by the locals of Bondi Beach. She also prompts a list of their current favorite online shopping destinations which Voxfrock helpfully replicates here: Boohoo, Nastygirl, NeimanMarcus, Barneyswarehouse, ASOS, Greenwithenvy, Shopbop, Lagarconne, Sportsgirl and one other we didn’t quite catch.
You’re very welcome.
GORGEOUS!
Utterly, utterly. G-Star Raw’s new “Destroy to Construct” sequence of its ongoing “The Art of RAW” campaign is a revelation of sleek, modern feminine and masculine beauty.
Photographer John Rankin Waddell, known professionally as Rankin, cast the graceful, pillow-lipped and impossibly laid-back American ballerina Keenan Kampa , currently dancing with the Russian Mariinsky Ballet Company (main picture, top) with Sergio Pizzorno a lean, dark, cat-like songwriter and guitarist from the rock group Kasabian, to convey his convoluted brand message. (The gist of our drift is in the “how it was made” clip here:)
Voxfrock admits we are suckers for a static shot that freezes the subject in a pose impossible to hold more than a split second in reality. This is what drew us first to Rankin’s striking image set. The tension! The permanently pregnant pause! Mid-air all the better.
Rankin’s freezes are even more lovely for his arrestingly elegant models, Miss Keenan and Mr. Pizzorno, all languid limbs and soft, disinterested gazes. And, it doesn’t hurt that a key colour in this RAW Essentials collection is Mazarine, a deep blue that G-Star explains was inspired by denim’s fabric predecessor, Toile de Chine.
Voxfrock happily notes, if Mazarine skinny and leanleg jeans appear as sleek and optically slimming on beauties such as Miss Keenan and Mr. Pizzorno, the illusory potential for ordinary mortals such as our good selves is extremely intriguing.
From the G Star Raw 2013 The Art of RAW campaign. Kasabian guitarist and songwriter Sergio Pizzorno photographed by Rankin.
Gorgeous! Footnote:
In its final cuts, G-Star RAW’s signature motif, Skeleton Dog, is also digitally inserted, morphing into a dancing Miss Keenan in one and a violent guitar-smashing Mr. Pizzorno in another. Quite the spectacle. The collection itself, including skinny stretch 3301 Jeg jeans and oversized jackets for women, and dark indigo bowleg silhouette jeans with loose top and drop crotch in 3D denim for men, will be racked here late this month. Prices for jeans, denim jackets, overalls, shirting, anoraks, and military inspired jackets, range from $40 for underwear styles, to $670 for fully fashioned denim jacket are racking here later this month. www.g-star.com
AWESOME!
Voxfrock tries extra hard to spread the joy of our (unsponsored, unfettered) editorial around many products, events, concepts and services but occasionally, we do find ourselves banging on, day after week after month after…
And, so it is with Kevin Murphy. Through no fault here or in Mr. Murphy’s circuit, we find ourselves VERY IMPRESSED by yet another newsnip out of the Aussie entrepreneur’s global hair empire.
The NEON.BUG is new to his innovative “bug” range. It’s a little fist of wipe-on, wipe-off “hair shadow” that mimics the vivid streaks and coiffed blocks of colour recently sent down the Burberry, Proenza Schouler and Christopher Kane runways.
NEON.BUG did this.
Mr. Murphy’s bugs unnervingly mimic a game-show button or birth control device, but their effect – in the case of the NEON.BUG an intense, yellow-green neon colour applied easily to dry hair and washed out later – is as shocking or chic as you fancy. Awesome indeed.
The bug.
The range includes NEON.BUG, WHITE.BUG, COLOR.BUG and SHIMMER.BUG which sell for $24.95 each at key hair salons. www.kevinmurphy.com.au, 1800 104 204.
Compiled by Terry Carruthers, Candice Burke and one other, info@voxfrock.com.au, with Janice Breen Burns, jbb@voxfrock.com.au
