wellcome collection

For some reason i got many friends come to London for working , traveling or shopping from time to time ,i am a kind of unofficial tour guide for everyone ,booking tables , and shops opening hours are on the top of my head , er....... i also subscribe timeout , in case some good shows , gigs , sample sale ......... i enjoy it in a way , but sometime i do really out of idea , people want something very local from me , not talking about china town ,British museum or top shop , i guess friends from other country want to feel like a part-time local if i am around town . OK , guys  look , The Wellcome Collection is my number one museum /gallery . The wellcome collection , its say on their front page of their web "a free destination for the incurably curious ". so now u know it is free, and why it call wellcome collection , please read their web page . it is a place which offers visitors contemporary and historic exhibition and collection about health , humans , animals etc . It is something between an art exhibition  and a medical related show . They do a Friday night event all the time , last week  , along an exhibition call high society drug history and culture , a late event call HANDS . They do nails paint , palmistry, try out real prosthetics, meeting real surgery . try out their tools and try to sew fake wound together , a graphologist who analysing your handwriting , a palmist to read your palm, it is sooooooo fun i have to say , maybe like what the title of wellcome collection say "for the incurably curious ", i am curious in human being and body , i am never a quality to become a doctor in any way , even i was taught by a surgery to do a one hand knot , i was struggling . i am always proud of my sewing in fashion world , ok , you know what i should stay in the field i should belong to . The other things i like about the event about welcome collection are they do really try to relate art and medical and human body , late night event which call " SKIN " which do a online competition , the winner's drawing or pattern will be tattoo on a woman body , i think that is kind of crazy but i like it .

i didn' t take any picture in this HANDS event , i am enjoying myself , but do enclose the live tattoo thing from SKIN event .

can u see top right , that is a cafe ,
maybe next time they will do a surgery live !

too many fashion exhibition , too little fashion

went to see Future beauty 30 years of Japanese fashion in barbican 2 weeks ago , er ................ what can i say , i do adore all those tradition colour , craftsmanship , kimono and sushi in Japan , not so much hello kitty and Japanese fashion , right fashion to me is everything in life , but when we are talking about something what we wear on the body , ok i have to say many show pieces in fashion week are not that wearable, i can imagine you are shouting how about viktor and rolf ,castelbanjac or galliano ( no matter u like their design or not , they are just so well make and not colour blind ) , but to me they create a beauty of fantasy especially couture , to me that is a feast for the eye . i do imagine myself walking on the red carpet in couture but definitely not something i saw in barbican . right if you say they are ART , i agree everything can be art if will you want them to be .

 

i might need this in the pool

i don't want to attached to the celling , and definitely not children

i like this the best , dont mind trying this on 

this is for red carpet or Christmas ball ,
even not it is oh so inspirational !sure!


More fashion exhibition on V and A 


KENZO is doing a catwalk for the Friday late night event this month .
I would love to see this , but all ticket have gone . 
i do see KENZO show once in my life by Antonio Marras and 
got my hands on some vintage KENZO dress in a paris market . 
Accidentally my teacher Natalie Gibson from st martins got the same dress as me 
in another colour .Hers one brought  in the 70s mine one 4 years ago , 
which is a "vintage" , fashion call fashion cos it got a shelf time ,
it suppose to be out of fashion when it time up , don't know who
is the clever guy who invented " vintage " ,there for some classic 
outdated design can be save and respect , we all learn what goes 
and then back in like running a circle . In our era nothing is so "new" anymore !


also somerset house 


1: free exhibition - Matthew Williamson

Until 30 Jan 2011
Daily 10.00-18.00, Thurs 21.00
Courtyard Rooms

2: Dior illustrated : Rene Gruau and the line of beauty 
i really want to see the Dior one , i love Rene drawing , i even try 
to train myself to draw in that style when i was in school , 
of cause i am no Rene Gruau . hehehe.......

Until 9 Jan 2011
Daily 10.00-18.00, Thurs 21.00
Embankment Galleries

the master himself 



One more 


Design museum are having a fashion drawing exhibition as well 


03 November – 06 March 2011

Tell you more after my visit