Must see before 27 January: 'Story Telling' - an exhibition of fashion photographer Tim Walker - photo installations and a selection of the extraordinary props and models on show! Admission: FREE @ Somerset House London

Visiting Tim Walkers exhibition 'Story Telling' feels like you entered a child’s storybook with lots of surreal pictures of Humpty Dumpty, The Giant Doll, Monty Python, James and the Giant Peach, or Swan Lake. Photographer Tim Walker (UK, 1970) turns fashion shoots for high-end magazines into fairy tails and stories or, in his own words, "daydreams into photographs". Looking at the images you assume that digital manipulation is king, but not at all. Analogue skilled, he never uses Photoshop. In stead he makes dreams come true with life-sized props, theatrical installations in the country side, smoke, light effects, dramatic settings. The image is just there, in front of the lens. To make you believe no computers are used, his famous props are on display too, here at the Somerset House in London, like the giant bisque porcelain doll that accompanied model Lindsey Wixon for a shoot in 2011 for Vogue Italy, a Spitfire flying into a room used for British Vogue in 2009, burned bowler heads, bowties and bisected spectacles for Vanity Fairs Monty Python portraits in the same year, giant skeletons, snails hanging on the walls, hairy insects playing instruments....what a delightful representation of the work of a giant story teller in the field of luxury fashion photography.

Go see this free (!) exhibition in the East Wing Galleries of Londons Somerset House (WC2R 1LA). 
More info: http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/visual-arts/tim-walker-story-teller. 

WinterSALON/2013 Amsterdam is on its way, opening 19 January 2013 at 11am hosted by the initiators of SALON/ Gijs Stork and Manon Schaap, and the designers

SALON/2013: "The world is a project and process, not a product"

"Let SALON/ guide you through the developments of ideas, materials, techniques and objects that creates  cultural heritage and metier." 
For the 13th time SALON/ cordially invites you to join their route of art in Amsterdam, running from 19 January until 17 February 2013. 
By bearing in mind that 'The world is a project and process, not a product', the dialogue between the creative disciplines continues. This unique approach on presenting design allows the visitor an experience of het processes of the creative disciplines, from fashion design to art installations. When it’s a sketch, a prototype, a thought, a form or an investigation, SALON/ works as the connection. Established artists as well as young talents are demonstrating unique installations at special locations in the city center of Amsterdam. 

As SALON/ couldn’t be more proud of its last edition in Istanbul last November, they will present a few of the participants of SALON/Istanbul, including some highlights of the SALON/Workshop in Turkey with designers Mattijs van Bergen, Desiree Hammen, Borre Akkersdijk and more. 

Opening route winterSALON/2013

Saturday 19th of January 2013

11.00 - 12.00 Amsterdam Museum by Christine de Baan (DutchDFA) with Hot Choco & Gluhwein!
12.00- 12.30 Options
12.30- 13.00 Ons Lieve Heer op Solder
13.00- 13.30 Josephine Colsen & JC Herman
13.30 - 14.00 Magazijn
14.00 - 14.30 Droog
14.30 - 15.00 Willet Holthuysen Museum
15.00 - 15.30 Geelvinck-Hinlopen Museum
15.30 - 16.00 Grachtenhuis
17.00 - 19.00 Van Ravenstijn Galerie

PARTICIPANTS of WinterSALON/2013

With each edition of SALON/ new participants are presented. The participating artists and designers this 13th edition are: Borre Akkersdijk & Friso Dijkstra, Arnhemse Stockdagen, Karin Arink, Basak Belen, Mattijs van Bergen, Mimi Berlin, Blommers / Schumm, Reinier Bosch & Caroline Wilcke, The Boyscouts (Daisy Kroon, Martine Viergever, Charlotte Kan and Zelda Beauchampet), Frank Bruggeman & Eric Roelen, Deniz Buga, Martin Butler, Cobbenhagen Hendriksen, Collectie Arnhem, Josephine Colsen, Elspeth Diederix, Pauline van Dongen, Cornelia Edwards, Adrian Esparza, Thomas Eurlings, Marleen Folkerts, Irene Fortuyn, FredfarrowBrittavelontan, Elsien Gringhuis, Desiree Hammen, Koen Hauser, J.C.Herman, Sjaak Hullekes, Marcha Hüskes, Marie-José Jongerius, Jan Willem Kaldenbach, Jeroen Kooijmans, Aaltje Kramer, Klaas Kuiken & Dieter Volkers, Ben Landau, Joris Landman, MaryMe-JimmyPaul, NATA RYZH, NOMAN, Antoine Peters, Petrovsky & Ramone, Ahmet Polat, Clifford Portier, Louise te Poele, Jan Rothuizen, Siba Sahabi, Viviane Sassen, Allan Vos, Femke de Vries, VROONLAND & VAANDRAGER, Sara Vrugt, Sander Wassink, Frido van der Weij, Marga Weimans, Winkeldochters, Hyun Yeu, YOUASME MEASYOU and others.

WinterSALON/2013 is realized in collaboration with all participating designers, artists and unique locations. For further information and updates please go to www.salon1.org.  

Couture dress by Marga Weimans hanging in VASA Woodcarving workplace in Karakoy @ SALON/istanbul NOV'12

Image of the 'Moslima's' series by Vivian Sassen X Martine Stig @ SALON/istanbul Nov'12 

Lamps and bowls of Reinier Bosch X Carolina Wilcke @ SALON/Istanbul Nov'12

JUST FOR THE GUYS: 2nd edition of London's Fashion Week for Men LC:M has started - 3 days of Britain's best progressive tailoring for todays youth tribes and dapper men

For the second time the British Fashion Council hosts London's Fashion Week for Men, called LC:M (London Collections: Men) at the The Hospital Club in lovely Covent Garden area.

Three full days and evenings of menswear design events and parties. LC:M is representing a more promising list than it's debut event in June last year with Alexander McQueen and Tom Ford showing a renewed focus on menswear as well as Vivienne Westwood, Burberry, JW Anderson, E Tautz, Hardy Amies, and Jonathan Saunders. But there’s more, like the designer galleries at The Hospital Club where an edited selection of London’s most innovative and diverse menswear brands is showcased, encompassing both ready-to-wear and accessories collections like Sibling, Baartmans and Siegel, Christopher Raeburn, and Matthew Miller. On Tuesday evening Anna Dello Russo, Jo Levin, Matt Hobbs & Nicky Carter are hosting 'the fashion & art party' as Sir Paul Smith, Tinie Tempah & Dylan Jones host a private dinner to celebrate LC:M. 

The three-day-long schedule will strengthen London's reputation as a hub of leading menswear design talent. Watch the video below where the members of the Menswear Committee tell us why they think British menswear - especially it's tailoring - is important and what makes it unique, e.g. "Womanswear seems to be more inventive, but at last men are catching up." - that's to be seen the coming days.