“A stellar girl, a radiant girl who clutches onto the moon and arrives in an unknown land, on unmarred ground, as immaculate as her white ensemble. Is this the end of reality, the beginning of a dream?” The new Vanessa Bruno fashion film directed by Stephanie Di Giusto starring Kate Bosworth.

Meet the new avant-garde revolutionaries of the high fashion set. There are not many designers that come around that cite 18th century philosophers as their main source of inspiration, but the duo behind the London based fashion house Maison Fin de Saison are not your typical designers. Calling them simply provocative or edgy might be a cop out and certainly an understatement. There is a definitive sense that the designers behind Maison Fin de Saison, which translates roughly to House, End of the Season, use their fashion house as a collective voice to experiment creatively with their deeply fascinating, beautifully contradictory beliefs and philosophies with roots in French 18th century romanticism and Eastern transcendentalism. Maison Fin de Saison in that regard is a hypothetically unsolvable Rubik’s cube of unending dualities that translate right down to the beautiful pieces they design. With applications of uncommon fabric pairings, unusual cuts, and studies in androgyny you could say that contrast is a part of the dogma of Maison Fin de Saison. What is that dogma exactly? Each new collection is presented with a black and white fashion film (see film after the jump) and even the brand itself is [SEE MORE...]

Spanish designer María Escoté presents her Winter 2012/2013 collection, entitled Shock, with a wonderfully strange fashion film directed by Nacho Naya and by starring actress Miriam Giovanelli, and Sugar Shack by Children of Darkness. See film after the jump. [SEE MORE....]

Enjoy Pas Un Autre? You can now purchase this new tee now available in the Pas Un Autre store.

Ephemeral Nature, a film by Gsus Lopez. Winner of the Grand Prix ASVOFF Barcelona 2012 for Best Film. See film after the jump. [Continue...]

Diane Pernet’s A Shaded View on Fashion Film (ASVOFF) Barcelona comes to a close today and the winners have been announced. Barrel of a Gun, by Jason Last, has won the Mobile Fashion Film prize. The film features models Mikhael Ayoub, Christoph Ribbe, & Mikey Wydra in Comme des Garçons. See film after the jump. [CONTINUE....]

Behind the scenes: Bee-hive hair-dos at Jean Paul Gaultier’s Spring/Summer 2012 haute-couture show yesterday for Paris Couture Week.

LONDON – A short fashion film for Aubin & Wills’ Spring 2012 collection, featuring Irina Lazareanu and Alex James