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Dream To Seam – Ralph Rucci

charles — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 18:47:15 +0000

This is the first episode in a series we’ve started to produce for modaCYCLE, extended interviews called Dream To Seam.

Dream To Seam – Ralph Rucci from modaCYCLE on Vimeo.

Dream To Seam is an interview series from modaCYCLE. This episode features top American fashion designer Ralph Rucci.

style is easy to see, grace is more rare than gold

charles — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:14:00 +0000

I was wandering around Soho last night with my friend Echo, and we stopped outside an apparently popular nightlife corner (Spring and Renwick Streets) where there are several bars clustered together. I like watching people. How they communicate, interact, represent themselves, it’s all fascinating. I was really surprised how obviously bad most of the clubwear outfits looked. Granted, this seemed to be a college and Wall Street wannabe crowd, but you ought to be at least able to get one piece of an outfit right.

Choice questions for the girls came to mind…

“Sweetheart, are you color blind?”
“You’ve got money for cosmopolitans, but not a mirror?”
“Did you loot that during a blackout?”

A few had put in some effort and they really stood out, especially when they walked to the bar across the street and nearly tripped every other step clomping along in their expensive high heels, looking more like they were wearing ski boots than anything in the range of a Jimmy Choo.

One of my first thoughts as we had approached this corner was “hey, look, cute girls hanging out on the sidewalk” (they were in line for the door), but after hanging around for a few minutes my somewhat jaded fashion photographer sensibilities kicked in full force and all I saw was sad confused people.

Compositing is everything.

charles — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 04:58:00 +0000

I learned to value layering effects when I was into computer animation in the mid-90′s. The concepts of good compositing translate to fashion photography and many other art forms.

Complex things tend to look more special.

If it looks like it took a long time to do by hand, that’s less common now than it used to be, so there is value assumed. Add considered detail to make things look expensive. Just don’t over-do it.