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RedBlue Event: Composing Fashion
London Fashion Week A/W 2003

RedBlue's ICA show Composing Fashion was an ambitious collaboration between desginers, artists and musicians. Multimedia artist Rob Davis provided the interactive visuals for collections by Christian Blanken and Tanya Ling with music by Thomas Lindner and Haris Ladopoulos. First up was Blanken's show Dice Girls, where randomly generated digits on the screens guided the models to different catwalk zones. This slightly eerie collection suggested violent glamour with early 70s style tan leather and big shades teamed with slashed skirts and stilettoes. The models moved like blank robots as they took up their designated positions.

Tanya Ling's Repro show was a more homely affair. Strange digital creatures, cloned from a naive character drawn by Ling, swam across the video screens. The clothes followed the current blocky future-retro trend but with softer, more glamorous lines harking back to 50s USA: think Audrey Hepburn meets Scooby Doo. A fantastic conical crimson fake fur coat stood out.

Next up we had two videos. Julian and Sophie showed a film of their bed-ridden anti-war demo (more here), backed with some Nothing Nothing/Julian And greatest hits footage which reminded us what they are capable of when they get out of bed. Anna-Nicole Ziesche's film 'States of Mind and Dress' was a video animation illustrating the theme of 'Inifinite Repititon'. Either the concepts of the film were beyond the audience or they got the message within the first few iterations - as the auditorium quickly emptied into the bar.



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