Vote For Craft Spirits Documentary, Distillation BC

 

 Here's a nice little documentary project on the craft spirits scene, called Distillation BC, that you should vote for so they can win production funds. Even though that lemon twist looks suspiciously like it's in the shape of houndstooth.

http://www.storyhive.com/project/show/id/77

THE MATHEMATICS OF HOUNDSTOOTH

Photo Credits: Fractal Pied de Poule shirt by Marina Toeters and Loe Feijs, photo Brian Smeulders, model Stephanie Samson.

Intriguing new developments in the world of houndstooth! Loe Feijs, a professor in the Department of Industrial Design at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, has been working hard at quantifying the mathematic principles that go into various houndstooth weaves.
His earlier research involved the analysis of classic Pied de Poule patterns via "tessellation theory, compact Processing programs and compass Logo" (don't ask me what any of that means). His diligent mathematical efforts have come to inspire a series of fashion project collaborations between Professor Feijs and Marina Toeters, including the one above which incorporates a recursive algorithm to produce a repeating houndstooth fractal-like pattern which is then is apparently laser-cut into the fabric. They will be presenting a number of their fashion innovations at the annual Bridges Conference and Joint Mathematics Meeting in the Netherlands, July 27-31, 2013.
 Below is a link to the online Bridges Math Art Gallery where you can see more of Professor Feijs and Marina Toeters projects, including an incredibly beautiful skirt which uses OLEDs to responds to the heartbeats of the wearer:

http://gallery.bridgesmathart.org/exhibitions/2013-bridges-conference/feijs

I'm curious to find out how this project is received at the conference so I'll post a follow up some time in the near future!

Amenta Loves Houndstooth

It's like hounstooth has its own propaganda machine! It just keeps coming and no one can do anything about it!!!

MY NEMESIS RETURNS

Elle Canada is shoving houndstooth back in our faces with a 2012 fall trends issue. Houndstooth never really went away. It just bid its time festering on the back of ipad cases and purses. Now it looks set to take over the fashion landscape once again. Shame!

Thanks to N for the for the heads up! Always looking out for me!

NEIL BARRETT EMBARRASSES

One of my heroes peppered his 2012 Spring/Summer collection in houndstooth. Thanks for ruining christmas.

Gareth Puke

I'm continually frustrated by the accolades Gareth Pugh receives for his work. Not because I find his fashion particularly bad (although it is damn unwearable) but because of his insistence on the black and white check in a smashed mirror look. It is houndstooth through the looking glass and its time has come... and gone. It's like piecing together scraps from the floor of the dressing rooms of an Alice in Wonderland set that have first been eaten and passed by chickens. If you need that much black and white in your life... go play Go.

McQueen Fish Lure

I wish there was more fashion in fishing.

Houndstooth Photobomb

Once you become aware of it the houndstooth dress in the background pops out like a dart in the eye. Thanks once again to K. at Vélo Vogue for pointing out this shot from Bart's photostream. Burn Paris Burn!

Feininger's Houndstooth

Feininger's houndstooth cigarette. Burn skirt burn!

Houndstooth Bicycle Bell

Houndstooth, the bell tolls for thee. Ding. Ding.