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Listed: Dec 28, 2011
TrashBagBlack ― Recently, I've been seeing a lot of this color blue. A class, royal, primary color, blue. Perhaps because everything has become so computerized and synthetic there has been an attraction to a purer hue, such as this one. This color also calls ...
Tags: The Sartorialist, Janis Maropoulos, Trend Spotting, Color, Trend Story, Planet Blue
TrashBagBlack ― 26 weeks ago
TrashBagBlack ― For class, we have to create a muse for a trend we wrote about a couple weeks back. I wrote about the youth participating in Destruction vs. Deconstruction and then went back and related it historically to the Punk & Grunge movement. Now, I'm...
Tags: Youth, Grunge, Modern, Deconstruction, Punk, Trend Forcasting
TrashBagBlack ― Majestic and impulsive imagery coming from one’s subconscious; surrealism. This feeling that I’ve been seeing has been a very inverted and visual sense of self. Inspired by Dali, Schiaparelli, and words of Breton and Cocteau images and personal...
Tags: Perspective, Trashbagblack, Collage, Philosophies, Subconcious, Photoshop
TrashBagBlack ― 29 weeks ago
TrashBagBlack ― This is me trying to define my boyfriend, Josh, as a consumer. A twenty year old from the beaches of LA living in the City. I chose him as a subject simply because I’ve always admired the way he sees form to follow function therefore always ...
Tags: Form Follows Function, Customer Analysis, Josh Stern, Designed Athleticism, Trends, Aesthetic
TrashBagBlack ― Yayoi Kusama, 83 year old Japanese artist was way ahead of her time during her youth in the 1960s but now, as society has progressed in visuals and thought, 2012 has been welcoming her with open arms. ∙ Kusama is famously known for her...
Tags: Dots, Japanese, Trend Story, Bill Cunningham, Marc Jacobs, Fashion
TrashBagBlack ― 32 weeks ago
TrashBagBlack ― The Punk movement in the 1970s and the Grunge movement (or Seattle Style) in the late 1980s-90s, give some historical context for my previous post Deconstruction vs. Destruction on today’s youth culture. All three of these movements derive from an...
Tags: Grunge, The Misfits, Collage, Photoshop, Curt Cobain, Illustrator
TrashBagBlack ― Prada’s Spring 2013 collection seems to perfectly embody right now. We see a great tolerance of others in today’s culture which is visually displayed in this collection by the heavy influence of Japanese culture on this Italian luxury brand with ...
Tags: Prada, Culture, Japanese Style, Milan Fashion Week, Fashion, Spring Summer
TrashBagBlack ― 33 weeks ago
TrashBagBlack ― deconstruction: (n) a method of critical analysis of philosophical and literary language that emphasizes the internal workings of language and conceptual systems, the relational quality of meaning, and the assumptions implicit in forms of ...
Tags: Illustrator, Banksy, Art, Destroy, Deconstruction, Collages
TrashBagBlack ― This past weekend I headed to Williamsburg, Brooklyn to the check out the Smorgasburg (The Brooklyn Food Flea) that happens every Saturday, where there's a tidal wave of trendiness. ∙ full outfits: ∙ These three girls had all very ...
Tags: Youth, Williamsburg, Photography, Brooklyn Flea Market, Ethnic, Details
TrashBagBlack ― 34 weeks ago
TrashBagBlack ― Burberry Prorsum just debuted their Spring 2013 collection in London a couple days ago and in doing so, completely reinvented their traditional trench coat, making you want to go buy the rainbow to match. The trench coat always being a traditional...
Tags: Spring 2013, London, Burberry, Ss13, Trench Coat, Burberry Prorsum
TrashBagBlack ― I'm going to start this off with how much I love Jeremy Scott, he's basically way more fun than everyone else. I truly have a soft spot for his outrageousness, sportiness and how the trends and the industry seem to not faze him. Last week Jeremy...
Tags: Ss13, Inspiration, Hip Hop, Jeremy Scott, Influences, Spring Summer
TrashBagBlack ― After a very fashion-filled week with Izzy from The Dandy Project, it's time to look back and see what designers have been on the same wavelength as far as inspirations, accessories, styling, and silhouette go. It was my first fashion week where I...
Tags: Sandals, Michael Kors, Karen Walker, Marc Jacobs, Womenswear, Spring Summer
TrashBagBlack ― 35 weeks ago
Not too long ago I posted about the amazing brunch experience I had at Five Points in ...
Every weekend my Chiara, Alli and I go to brunch, more often than not it’s our personal ...
A couple weeks ago I was sitting at home when I got a mass email from my Art History ...
Crock pot cooking is perfect for anyone on the go go go! Well here is a great dinner that ...
I was born curly and by the time I was a teenager I hated my hair so at 14 I got ...
A home-made mango and peach flavored frozen Greek yogurt topped with a quinoa and oat ...