Carol Christian Poell

[theetruscan]

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[quote user="Diego"]You guys just made me remember Salzburg, I love that city.[/quote]

Salzburg is a wonderful city. Linz, not so much.

[Fuuma]

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[quote user="philip nod"]


so i guess its not that far from amstetten

[/quote]

In Austria nothing is very far....but yeah, I checked after reading the news and it's a Northern city so not that far from Linz and Vienna.

My 1000th post on SZ was about Austrian cities, yeah!!

[philip nod]

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congrats fuuma

and it was alluding to some of the most disturbing shit that has gone on in hundreds of years...

[Fuuma]

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[quote user="philip nod"]

congrats fuuma

and it was alluding to some of the most disturbing shit that has gone on in hundreds of years...

[/quote]

They had something similar last year, no? Although this time twistedlove, rape, incest and entrapment were successfully combined in arather slimy mess.

[ddohnggo]

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from an '03 article on men's tailoring from the new yorker

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/07/28/030728crat_atlarge?currentPage=4

"The bespoke tradition is an esoteric cult, and the tailors of
Anderson?s calibre who practice it resemble the Spanish or French curés
who, for a tiny congregation of devotees, still say the Latin Mass. But
two avant-garde designers?a Belgian who works in Paris and an Austrian
in Milan?revere the ideal of artisanal tailoring without subscribing to
the dogma of impeccability. The Belgian is Martin Margiela. He is
partly a folklorist, salvaging the stories that old clothes have to
tell, and partly a mad botanist who scavenges for vintage pieces, rips
them apart, then splices their cuttings into a radically strange though
pleasing new garment, like a vest with a fly closing made from an
inverted trouser top. These unsettling hybrids have their own formal
integrity?they aren?t merely clever sleights of hand. In fashion as in
science, mutation, rather than invention, seems to define modernity.

The Austrian, Carol Christian Poell, is an emaciated man of
thirty-six with the stark features and eerie radiance of an El Greco.
He studied tailoring in Vienna, where his parents are in the garment
business, then learned about textile fabrication in Italy?not, he told
me, to lay the technical groundwork for a commercial career in fashion
but because he wanted the skills necessary to transcend one. Working
entirely by hand, he and a small company of artisans make their limited
collections (he can?t afford to show them every year) in a loft whose
size and openness are unusual for Milan?the backdrops for La Scala were
once painted on its floor. The collective has lately been experimenting
with new materials: crocheted rubber; a pigskin with the strength and
lightness ?of a good garbage bag?; and a special gaffer?s tape they use
instead of thread or ribbon both to seam and to embellish garments.

The invitation to Poell?s show was a salmon-colored factory time
card stamped with an hour?seven in the evening?and an address that
puzzled my driver: ?Alzaia Naviglio Grande Under Bridge Viale Cassala.?
The Naviglio Grande is the largest of the natural canals that flow
through and beneath the industrial neighborhood where Poell has his
studio, and which is the oldest part of the city. By the time we found
the spot, the sun looked like a melon. A youthful crowd had assembled
along the iron railing that protects the steep embankment. There was no
evidence of a runway. There were no assistants in black, no security
personnel talking into headsets, no publicist with a seating
chart?indeed, no seating. The water, which was pale green and
surprisingly clear, though flecked with wisps of straw, reflected a
skyful of Tintoretto clouds. ?Dov?è la sfilata?? people were asking?where?s the show?

Then, to universal amazement, we beheld?drifting lazily down the
canal?two red boots, a white shirt, a pair of dark trousers. They were
followed by a boy dressed in a thick vest of what looked like
russet-colored steel wool. He lay supine and motionless, his limbs
outstretched, his perfectly calm face framed by the swirling mass of
his hair. There were sixteen of his fellow-volunteers to come. Though
the clothes were soggy and a little blurred, one read them?as the
current turned the page?like the hand-colored images in some mildewed
yet marvellous old book. Poell?s idea was so poetic that the magical
buoyancy of bodies and clothes (kept from sinking by an invisible
flotation device) leapt the banks and infected the audience with a fit
of joy. It didn?t matter, I thought, what the collection looked like on
a hanger or in a shop, because the show had performed a feat that is
rare enough in theatre or art and practically unheard of in fashion. It
surprised a group of people with an emotion they hadn?t been expecting
to feel. That is how a child experiences a sensual revelation, and how
it is transformed into a memory of being happy. ?Everybody follows
fashion,? Poell told me later. ?But change goes against the stream.?"

also, remember how dope FW 07 was? ;)

[philip nod]

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the whole 07 year was unbelieveable

[Faust]

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Third time that article is being posted [66] The secretive designer needs to get a new interview, really.

[xadam]

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sato showed me two magazine interviews with ccp... in japanese. i was begging him to translate them and post em up.

[Alive]

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http://carolchristianpoell.mak.at/keyissues

don't know if this has been posted or not...many information and videos aboutccp

[Johnny]

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I'd quite like a password for the collections section. Can I get one please.

[philip nod]

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you and everyone else

the password has been my holy grail for some time

[Fuuma]

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Karl Lagerfeld said he bought a lot of Poell according to the CCP website; can you imagine him wearing that stuff?

[Faust]

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[quote user="Fuuma"]Karl Lagerfeld said he bought a lot of Poell according to the CCP website; can you imagine him wearing that stuff?[/quote]

totally. he's already a frankenstein's monster - some overlock stitching is right up his alley.

[Fuuma]

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Haha, yeah I'd actually love a pic, dunno if that exists.

[buratino]

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i've missed the pissed boots(Poell's busy with upcomming promotions). if someone know, where it's possible to get them. ready to buy much beer to force the process ;) size 7 or 8 would be great(i've picked up also gray boots & was surprised size 8 is o'k for me as far as with last seasons i was 6-7)

if someone know if A have a light-gray belt with a bigger buckle in size 46