Fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld has signed a deal with Dubai Infinity Holdings to design limited edition homes. He is the first from a group of fashion designers who will create limited edition homes for the ambitious Isla Moda project. Zawya | Isla Moda
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Finally a great move by the developers. Right architect for the right job!
it is very interesting to see the renderings of the Isla Moda project to be architecturally oriented. i think we would agree that fashion & architecture have inspired each other with the other's vocabularies. i read a phrase that 'her garments can be more aptly described using architectural terminology', (skin + bones) and fashion terminologies have helped expanding modern architectural vocabularies in recent years and have generated new forms. aside from design aspect of the project, is it just me to find her engaging? it must be the intelligence on top of her demigoddess looks.
egoist, where did you see the renderings for the project?
i am not sure if i am being a cynic, sarcastic, hopeless, or defensive, but i hope lagerfeld consults an architect...
sameolddoctor, please let me fix the grammar. i meant to use a singular 'rendering' instead of a plural 'renderings'. i only found one image showing mid-air bird's eye view, which you probably saw as well. here is a link anyway because it has a better resolution than some of other images.
http://stylefrizz.com/200807/isla-moda-fashion-isla-bonita-dubai/
it would be interesting to see how mr. lagerfeld designs interior spaces/decorations, but it seems to me that this rendering provides with a good topic of discussion already. at first, it parallels the images of most of housing developments in dubai that i see, with postmodern cul-de-sac suburban housing typology if the scale were to be disregarded. on a closer examination however, mies, one of popular architects among fashion designers it seems, or bauhaus might be a source of his inspiration. i can't quite tell exactly because of the resolution, but the surface materials seem to suggest plenty of glass not to mention the horseshoe arrangement of buildings in the middle and so forth, about which i make an assumption that it is a manifestation of his respect for the profession, about which i am not deus-ex-machina-ed considering that mr. lagerfeld is a modernist and was born in hamburg. in that way, i agree with simples' comment, and it would be much more magical to see his sensibilities and vocabularies as a fashion designer translated into architecture.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/02/fashion/thursdaystyles/02lagerfeld.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&adxnnlx=1215943292-xo35DxdluFtVphzys/3%20gQ
dubai is so rad.
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