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Avalon, a shoot by photographers Philippe and Csar Yard and stylist Jodie Barnes, looks at fashion as material science and shows how talented designers can make beautiful fashion of unlikely raw materials. It's our favorite spread from the Spring/Summer 2008 issue of 032c and here we present a couple of the photographs.

Clothes-pins, wood

Sacking, felt, paper, cork
(Editors note: Over the next several days, we will be featuring a few choice excerpts from the Spring/Summer 2008 issue of 032c.)
This season German fashion designer Kostas Murkudis collaborated on a fun little side project. Working with a prestigious Italian silk manufacturer known for supplying YSL and Jil Sander, Murkudis sourced a wonderful silk that comes in 142 colors. Murkudis further washed and pressed the silks to give them a very soft, wearable feel. The silks were then turned into modern, bright summer dresses, made in dozens of cheery colors.

The dresses are exclusively available at Project No. 8 (pictured) in New York and Andreas Murkudis in Berlin.
032c looks at 20 years of Martin Margiela via, what else, magazine covers and cut outs.

Spring 1993, Line 11

Fall 1999, Line 10

Spring 2000, Line 1

Fall 2003, Line 10

Spring 2007, Line 0
(Editors note: Over the next several days, we will be featuring a few choice excerpts from the Spring/Summer 2008 issue of 032c.)
White Capri is a new Berlin based accessories label, whose first collection is inspired by a movie set in London, directed by a Jewish American director. Woody Allen is the director, Match Point is the movie, and White Capri has designed quite a beautiful collection of bags and jewelry that are urban and proper at the same time.






The collection is naturally available online for sale and shipping around the world. Welcome to the global fashion village.
After seeing every possible permutation of stripes, dots and plaid (oh god the plaid) designers for Spring 2008 have turned to the humble flower print for a splash of color and creativity. But naturally, the designers we're drawn to have taken the print and add their own twist to it. Which is to say, this is not your grandmother's flower print.

Tsumori Chisato ($972.8-)

Eley Kishimoto ($130)

Carin Wester ($252)
