Carol Christian Poell

[Peasant]

crushable dress, lift.

[savant]

I live in Auckland, New Zealand

Not too sure what fabric I need for suits. Any suggestions ? It can get very hot here during summer and very cold as well. Was looking at either WIM, WOW-EDGE or BUB-EDGE

The average daily temperature in Auckland during the summer is 23°C (74°F), while winter temperatures are on average 14°C (57°F).

Auckland is one of New Zealand sunniest regions with 2060 annual sunshine hours. The region is also very lush, with a mean annual rainfall of 1240mm.

http://www.tourism.net.nz/new-zealand/about-new-zealand/auckland-weather.html

[garbage_queen]

crushable dress, lift.

...I can not wait to touch that piece of leather!..

[eton97]

PS : Peasant your inbox is full

I live in Auckland, New Zealand

Not too sure what fabric I need for suits. Any suggestions ? It can get very hot here during summer and very cold as well. Was looking at either WIM, WOW-EDGE or BUB-EDGE

Definitely not wim. It's 100% wool
Bub-edge probably the best for new zealand heat.

[Peasant]

Yeah.. "best fabric" is completely subjective. Go for cotton (BUB) if it's hot where you live. Then again it depends on where you'll be wearing it. Cotton may be too casual and wrinkled for an office. WOW/WIM both wool. If you're going to special order you need to find out what's available first.

This is the wrong thread for this. Will try to clear up pm's when I figure out how.

[samlasamla]

I just purchased a couple of items in WOW. The labels both say 100% cotton (defect maybe?), but I'm not buying it. I tend to agreed with Peasant and eton97 -- this is some sort of wool. In my opinion, it actually looks and feels like a wool-mohair blend. The texture is extremely coarse, and it's a fresco weave, which is impossible with an all-cotton fabric.

[Faust]

rrrrickkooo, suaaaveeee

[theaddict]

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[StrAngeRy]

Bahahahahahhahaha

I am with you on this bahahahahahah

[Chant]

Repost

I see Carol's concepts as purely technical challenges not rooted in this world. It's not very interesting to me. He is a master tinkerer hermit, but he is not a conceptual designer like Chalayan, for example. I find realization of concepts that can relate to zeitgeist much more interesting.

Technicals skills are important for CCP and he always insists on the specific ones he has (traditionnal tailoring) and the importance of "das Sakko" in his work, but you're completely wrong about the hierarchy. Technic is second and always serves the transposition into the clothes of his reflexion about - to say it very briefly - what is a garment ?/what is a body ?/how do body and garment relate together ? Nothing technical there, but a reflexion that involves history of art, history of the human body representations and also some kind of qualitative mathematics.

And you're not right neither about the "Zeitgeist", even it's not really my cup of tea, since the way CCP creates, produces and sells is definitely an implicit critic of the mass consumption society and, of course, of the way most of the other fashion designers are working.
And please, noobs, don't ask me how such expensive clothes can be sign of critic of consumption society.

[drizzly]

i read through this thread and by the posts it seems that CCP items are mostly hand made, does that go for shoes as well? anyone know, i know it naive to think one person makes all that but does he have a small shop w/assistants?

[Pumpfish]

i know it naive to think one person makes all that but does he have a small shop w/assistants?

Big shop, but the assistants are tiny.


Like oompa-loompas.


Same colour too, cause they've been object dyed.

[surver]

i'm pretty sure that all these new people registering are on to something... it's that provoking people is a great way to get your post count up.

from what i've been seeing, i think twistedSADISTIC has a point... so, people, don't fall into the trap

[Darklands]

CCP

^ yeah joyce carries and extremely limited number of CCP items... i would say only a selection of about 10 different items... but i guess anyone that carries CCP carries it in limited quantities...

you have clearly never been to Darklands . . . or to Lift in Tokyo.

[Chant]

/\ Looks like something definitely went wrong there...
The message you're replying to has been posted 6 years ago.
At this time, Darklands didn't carry CCP, and didn't even exist...
Desperate need for advertisement ?