Fashion Beat TV 2010 Highlights

Now that the New Year is about to get well underway with this season's major Fashion Weeks kicking off, the Berlinale Film Festival next month and many of the leading Art Galleries opening their first main exhibitions of the year, We decided to take a look back and showcase some of the Fashion Beat TV highlights of 2010. These include Roskilde Festival, Copenhagen Fashion Week, London Fashion Week, London Film Festival, the New York Art Scene and more. We'll be posting the vids on here, so check them out over the next days. Bring on 2011!

H&M Fashion Against Aids @ Roskilde Festival

Facehunter caught snapping during the Blogger Party @ Copenhagen Fashion Week w. FBtv Djs

Ghost Zine artists

We love New York

With Cannes- and London Film Festival-Winner, Janus Metz, director of "Armadillo"

FASHION: Blurring The Edges of Fashion & Art

Many of the new names to emerge on to the fashion scene this past year have displayed a strong visual inspiration from the art world. With painting, prints and composite looks they follow in the footsteps of designers such as Elsa Schiaperelli who was greatly inspired by the Surrealists.

One of the spearheads of the Art/Fashion movement in the UK is Scottish designer and graduate of the Edinburgh College of Art Iona Crawford who paints her Scottish rural surroundings, creating prints from them to use on her mix of linens and Scottish cashmere. Check her out here.

BFC NewGen Award-Winning, Dutch designer Michael Van Der Ham, who debuted at this year's September London Fashion Week, lists Any Warhol's composite dresses as a major source of inspiration. He is certainly one of the hottest-tipped new designers of the moment.  You can see more here.

Designs, from left, by Michael Van der Ham, Felicity Brown, Mary Katrantzou, Holly Fulton and Anthony Vaccarello. source: FT.com

FASHION: Tommy Hilfiger 25 And Still Rocking

During Tommy Hilfiger's first ever visit to Denmark in honor of his brand's recent 25th anniversary he commented on how his fashion sense and inspiration have gone hand-in-hand with music.

Lenny & Tommy

"The musicians inspire me and I wanted a cool, classic look that musicians would wear that the public would also wear."-Tommy Hilfiger.


Most famous was his 1999-collaboration with Lenny Kravitz for the Freedom Tour and use of the rock icon in his advertising campaign. "As an artist, he (Lenny Kravitz) represents the true essence of freedom - his individuality, self-expression and incredible style and vision are unrivaled. It is all of these elements that served as inspiration for my new fragrances and my last several collections."

In turn Lenny had this to say on Tommy's approach to fashion design, "Tommy Hilfiger always struck me as not being afraid to defy boundaries and attempt new things." "For me, freedom is the gift of free expression without bounds, and the art of being true to oneself."

 (sources: Denmark's Radio, All Business)

ART: Street Painting -New York Style

Everywhere you go, there is art. This is especially true around Mercer Street and surrounding areas. We bumped in to painter and film maker Ernest Rosenberg and talked about his inspirations, his favorite artists as well as what he is currently working, which includes a painted story involving celibacy and an AK-47! Check out the Live Stream Interview. For more on Ernest Rosenberg check out this interview with him from the New York Artist Series to discover more about his art as well as recent film work.

Ernest Rosenberg often sits and paints on 111 Mercer Street

ART: Conartists Art Collective

Brian Shevlin

Picking my way down a cramped stair to a basement, a whole world of original contemporary art, vintage fashion and new customization and print emerged before me. This was Conartists, a creative collective spanning fashion designers, painters, installations, music and graphic artists all working out of the same studio space and regularly putting on exhibitions and events. I had a chat with studio curator and multi-artist Brian Shevlin about what was currently happening on Ludlow Street's art scene. Check it out on our Live Stream.

At Conartists, they speak in color

Hand-drawn cap designs

STYLE SPOTTING: New York Street Trends

Vintage was definitely the key ingredient when Fashion Beat TV bumped in to this creative duo consisting of photography student Monnet Lucki, who attends Parsons School of Design and L.A. hair stylist Deandre Peoples. Both were wearing outfits consisting primarily of vintage clothes and accessories with Deandre mixing in some cool, zippered trousers he had gotten from a fashion show he had styled. Check out the Live Stream video interview where Monnet goes in to more detail about her sources of inspiration and mixing art with fashion in her photography as well as us taking a closer look at Deandre's outfit.

Deandre Peoples (left) & Monnet Lucki (right)

FASHION: Shopping NYC's Lower East Side

For some unusual, smaller and quirkier brands New York's Lower East Side is a great place to find designer boutiques stocking up on the latest New Yorker and International labels. We took a video tour through the garment racks at International Playground and checked out designs by Chromat Garments and Carlos Campos.

Chromat Garments are highly structural

Carlos Campos