Fashion Show Fairytale Light Projection. Franck Sorbier Haute Couture AW 2012.

Fashion designer Franck Sorbier put on more than a fashion show at Paris Fashion Week, he put on a narrative light show.

The French designer used light projection on the backdrops and upon a single white gowns to recount a French fairytale written in 1695 by Charles Perrault with his newest Autumn/Winter Haute Couture collection.



Donkey Skin (Peau d'Ane)is the story of a widowed king set on marrying his own daughter, who escapes his clutches by demanding a series of impossible gowns; the color of the sky, moon or sun.



Two dresses represented canvases for the high-tech presentation. An off the shoulder white ball gown and a sculptural black dress with the pointed headdress of the sorceress:



As the model clad in the white gown represented the Princess, images flashed on both the backdrop and the gown itself to tell the narrative of her desire to flee.



There's a happy ending, though. As she falls in love with a prince, a beating heart appears on a blood red gown:


..transforming into a white dress with butterflies fluttering up and away, into the blue skies and beyond:



“The collection is a bridge between the past, the present and what the future could be,” explained Franck, who had teamed up with the software giant Intel for the high-tech side of the project.

“It’s about how with a little imagination you can bring together two worlds that are diametrically opposed,” he said.

“And it is about how we can take haute couture into the future to ensure it survives.”



















The finale featured pieces from Franck Sorbier's past collections to serve as reminders that The nature of couture is timeless:








Thanks to hello magazine, reuters and the associated press for images and information

The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

Franck Sorbier

Pantone Gets Fleshed Out. Literally. Human Skin Matched To Pantone Colors.

Flying around the blogosphere, faster than news of The God Particle, is this eye-catching and colorful project. In an attempt to create a catalog of human skin tones, Brazilian artist and photographer Angelica Dass started an ongoing project called Humanae in which she matches a subject's flesh color to that of the Pantone Matching System.

Hey Girl Goes Hardcover. Ryan Gosling Memes Get Bound In A New Book.

If the words "Hey Girl" don't mean anything to you, you're either not a fan of The Gos (which cannot be possible), or you must be one of the few people who never visited the blog of Danielle Henderson.




What started as a silly way for blogger Danielle Henderson and her classmates to keep track of the feminist theorists they were studying in class quickly turned into an overnight sensation. Since its launch in October 2011, the Feminist Ryan Gosling blog has close to 30,000 followers and more than 3 million page views per month.




In this hilarious book, Feminist Ryan Gosling: Feminist Theory (as Imagined) from Your Favorite Sensitive Movie Dude, based on the wildly popular blog, the author pairs swoon-worthy photos of the steamy actor with sensitive feminist theories and plenty of sweet talk. Included are 120 full-color photos and captions throughout, with some of the best entries from the blog along with 70 to 80 percent brand-new material for the book.

Due out in August, you can pre-order the book from Amazon here

Hardcover: 128 pages
Publisher: Running Press (August 14, 2012)
Language: English