I am an history of art student at the Courtauld Institute in London (therefore I’m based at Somerset House), although I was born in Geneva, Switzerland. I did a fashion styling course at Central Saint Martins and NABA this summer (2010). I write regularly for 160grams magazine. My goal and the main purpose of my articles lays in a different way of seeing fashion – a comparative way, a creative way, an iconographic way through relations with many other art fields.
You can find all my older posts here.
Read my articles here and here. My e-mail is isa@160grams.com
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Read the articles of my fashion styling friends and myself here.
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Favorite designers? It changes quite frequently, and usually I prefer to find them each season. But still, I have an admiration for Haider Ackermann right now, and I can’t forget Alexander McQueen heritage, the grandeur of Valentino, the eighties-ness of Thierry Mugler. A few seasons ago I would have said Riccardo Tisci. My Italian hopes are (at the moment) Albino and Gabriele Colangelo. I miss the times of Alessandra Facchinetti and Olivier Theyskens. I love grey – and red. And day-glo.
My fashion hero is probably Stephen Sprouse. My favorite fashion photographer is Miles Aldridge (but I would love to be set designer for Tim Walker – or work as a scenographer for opera or theatre); my favorite directors are John Cassavetes, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Pierre Melville – Dario Argento and Pedro Almodovar too. I love James Turrell, El Lissitzky, Yves Klein, Wassily Kandinsky, Piero Manzoni, Alberto Burri, Kasimir Malevich, Giorgio Morandi, Lucio Fontana, Edvard Munch
- but also Füssli, Raffaello, Michelangelo, El Greco, Tiziano, Goya, Turner…
My dream would have been to live the Eighties.
I would love to be Alexandre de Betak’s assistant. Fashion styling is funny; but set design is my real passion.
p.s.: Arachne by Velazquez is a painting that I discovered thanks to John Berger: he told me it is for him an allegory of fashion work – a background…
Thank you on your help!
It’s good to get to know you better. I lived in the 80s in Berlin and I thought it was a pretty depressing, emotionally cold time. But maybe that was just me looking through teenage eyes…
Looking forward to meeting you in London some time, Isy!
Perfect description, Isy.
Aïe aïe aïe j’adore ta présentation, tellement Velvet quoi ,)