CRAZY DESIGNER BEATS TRADITIONAL FASHION #3 (KONRAD PAROL)

“The third position of crazy and eccentric fashion designer according to Early Dopester version”

Those coat is not like another coat you’ve seen, nor classical trench coat. This couture pieces made by a black cotton, lurex, foam, neoprene, mesh, plexiglass, soft calf leather with a cloak-hood.

Konrad Patrol made this looks for autumn winter 2011 collection called Les Marcenaires, more conscious and mature collection which focuses on the subject of rebels and outsiders, that consist of thirty-eight looks. You can also find other looks that very strong and also unique from the images above.

This crazy and eccentric fashion designer is an emerging and upcoming menswear designers that makes the world of fashion shocking with his dark aesthetic, rebel, mysterious, and also twisted touch of fragility.

“I believe in the rule, the man comes first, the idea comes second. It is important for me that one gets dressed and not dressed up. The outfit should always suit the situation. Everything is for the people, you need to know how to find a middle ground which is not easy, but search for it, brings us closer to the final result. All this makes the end result even more exciting and prey.” Metrovelvet in their interview with Konrad  Parol.

He believe that the main thing is the man, the idea comes second to make mysterious, darkness, and style into something high fashion for menswear.

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THIS IS THE SECRET LIVES OF THE AMAZING COSPLAYER

"This the real cosplayers do when they are at home, enjoying time.." 

Yes.. from the images above we call it cosplay. Well, basically Indonesian people have strong association between cosplay to somekind of manga or anime character. But actually.. not only that. Cosplay is not only associated with all of those things. According to Urban Dictionary, cosplay (costume play) is when someone dressing up and pretending to be a fictional character.  And usually they adopt sci-fi, comic book, or anime character.

But that’s not the thing we’re going to talk about, Photographer Klaus Pichler finds unique thing fascinating cross cultural phenomenon. He is been spent almost two years tracking down costumed enthusiast in his series Just the Two of Us, that’s LARPers, cosplayers, Krampusers, and even furries are asked to get their permission to photograph, in their domestic dwellings. Isnt it amazing?

In an Interview with Co.Design Pichler said “Almost every costume is meant to take part in action, be it a game, a parade, a duel or anything else, if you take the action and surroundings off every costume and depict them in relatively calm poses in their apartments, the whole thing gets and absurd touch. I loved playing with this idea” Don’t you agree? You will find cosplay is just normal thing in street or maybe somekind of parade. But once, when you choose to expose it at their home. Its really absurd, unique, but also amazing. This is a really brilliant idea.

But actually that doesn’t mean Pichler looks down on his subjects. He wants to create an earnest portrait of his subject, using the environment as a means to unmask a masked character.

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MONEY IS MATERIAL

"Making a collage with hundreds or even thousand of $1 bills"

Mark Wagner, a collage artist need to broke down his material first to made up those eccentric and controversial work. Capitalist think he is a capitalist. Yes, he is looking for society attention to his work, and then came up idea with $1 bills.

Mark Wagner was born in the rural Midwest at the tail end of thirteen children. Since leaving the sandbox at the age of fourteen, he has continued his creative career in the fields of writing, collage, and bookmaking. Have you ever think about this before? This is freakinly amazing. Collage itself is an art, made by sticking various material and an assemblage of different forms. Mark thoroughly cut one to one pieces of the dollar and group it by name. After all material gather, he can easily take one-to-one pieces he need, to make those collage.

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IT’S A BULB LAMP + ELETRIC SOCKET

 “If you need to charge you phone near you and you still want the lamp turned on”

 Well.. Its called Plug Lamp. Isn’t it cool? Its only creating a lamp but with an electric socket on it.  But actually it’s not only, it’s a brilliant idea that comes from the simplest needs. The Plug Lamp has a bulbous shape and a base in molded and powder coated aluminium, here the plug socket is displayed centrally, making it a decorative detail.

The light itself is concealed by an opal glass shade and the lamp is dimmable.

 By integrating the socket in the lamp it also takes away that annoying process of searching for a socket or having to unplug something in order to access an electrical point. This is what Indonesian designer to think like, all the brilliant idea, doesn't mean comes up with all of those complexities. The simplest one is better.

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YOUR SLEEP (EVERYWHERE) COMPANION

"Didn't get enough sleep? why dont you just buy this awesome pillow!"

Well... Its called Ostrich Pillow. Ostrich pillow company are a range of trendy, multi-functional sleep accessories. Designed to tackle global sleep deficiencies, Ostrich Pillow Family allows anyone to create a little private space within a public one and resting on the go. This product is well made by Studio Banana Things's craftmanship. 

Ostrich Pillow raise fund in Kickstarter.com in only 72 hours. The team receive a whopping 376% funding and have commenced manufacturing of Ostrich Pillow Light. With this eccentric pillow, power napping in the middle of the day will be a lot easier.

Are you really going to think to make such product like this? Its really creative and innovative. And I hope the young generation of Indonesia is going to make things like this too, innit?

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DOES IT POSSIBLE TO HAVE AN INVISIBLE CHAIR?

"The story of affinity chairs, vanish.. vanish.. vanish!"

This is what i like the most, the combination of light and transparent glass make it simply beautiful. The affinity chair explores our relationship with light and spaces. When alone, the chair will merge into background where you put it on. Its just like chameleon, mimicry. But when you approach, the light will turn on, the chair wakes, becoming transparent, revealing hidden depths and creating an almost infinite space beneath. Isn't it impossible? This is terribly crazy.

If you're home really got messed by a lot of your property, this one is a way out to manipulate the space. Talk about the designer, Ben Alun Jones. He said that the technology itself as an artistic medium to challenge existing perceptions. His material that he is using is very unconventional. LED's, ultrasonic sensors, programmed circuit boards, and other custom built thing. Yeah, then you think, is it a chair or some kind of computerization. And the result is.... very new, challenging, and anything but robotic. I want it so much!

Ben, used to worked in engineering and military surveillance before moving into the more benign world of interactive digital art, then he brings analytical and experimental approach to all of his work. And because of that, allows him to play with awesome technology to create new things, means,  expression, and challenge perceptions or create new ways of seing.

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EVEN A CHAIR ALSO NEED A HOODIE

"Turn your chair into a hoodie with these quick change slipcovers. Call it the zuckerbergification of your living room"

If you need time to focus, and no interruption. This is going to be a great idea! its the new prêt-a-porter collection of Chair Wear, from their favorites initial 'Haute Couture Collection' extended with new colours and models. All on their new label chair wear, crafted in Europe.

The essence of Bernotat&Co's work is to ponder the poetry of normalcy; to tease the rules and discover exceptions; to heighten the contrast between the mundane and surprising. Within these vagaries of perception, the final result will ultimately become an inspiring and practical product. 



Anke Bernotat's challenge is to recombine old, forgotten solutions with nowadays needs to create surprising and useful objects. Aspects of everyday
life - whether they be story-telling, science and technology or nature - can be found in her work. 
These manifest themselves in products for her design categories of living, working and public space. 

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