New Trend to Fill Your Post Christmas Shopping

(Eugenie Dalland showing her easy-chic styling of the tailored look, jacket by May Kosaka)

Each year as the fashion seasons come and go, so to the trends that explode onto the front stage with astonishing power. A teacher of mine best described a trend as something that appears absurd in the beginning but slowly takes hold as the days past; something you first see in disbelief and refuse to believe you would ever wear, but slowly creeps into your world until you wake up one morning and all of a sudden, you are one of the masses. Everyone has fallen trap to it, hell…a few days ago I caught myself wearing leggings with an over sized shirt just short enough to make the leggings function as pants, something I vowed never to do (and will still fight even myself on). This season is no different with styles emerging that leave everyone wonder….how WOULD I wear that?

The newer trends that are emerging range everywhere from vibrant fluorescent prints (ala Prada), dark leather bondage (ala Givenchy masks…in fact I saw this one on a blog’s gift guide…go figure…give the gift of gags for Christmas…), and lots of structure with a little bit of a harder edge (this strong suiting and tailored looks ala Celine). So, with Christmas past, and shopping for yourself back to the guilt free zone, how will you be bringing these out-there trends into your wardrobe for the New Year? Myself…I think I’ll try a little bit of all of them!

Text by Corinna Fabre

THE MAN BEHIND THE SCULPTURE

The man behind the sculpture, Anthony Gormley is again in residence at The White Cube Gallery, London. His exhibition 'Test Sites' consists of a series of nine (Title to be confirmed) cast iron sculptures and a prodigious installation 'Breathing Room ///'.

It is the 15 interconnecting photio-luminscent 'space frames' which invites the viewer to explore. In the blackhued room of the lower ground floor the lucid structural is interrefered with only by the darker shadows of the audience moving throughout the structure. It is alluring to say the least, disturbed only by the unsettling intense bursts of light that interrupt the complete darkness. But this is part of the game. 'Breathing Room ///' is all about the principles of light and time and Gormleys hope is to invite te audience to interact with the structure and then unexpectedly jolt their experience of quiet meditation to acute inquiry.

The White Cube plays host to 'Test Sites' like a long lost friend, whilst the ground floors iron cast sculptures are nice demonstrations of how, 'time acts on Objects and how objects act on us', downstairs was always going to be the crowd pleaser and that in all its luminosity it is.

Anthony Gormleys TEST SITES runs until the 10th of July 2010, at the White Cube, Masons Yard, LondonWhite Cube is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm.