Author Archive: Annisah Ibrahim

Let’s face it—working out sucks. Although gym junkies and six pack toting twenty-somethings might argue otherwise, calorie burning exercises are activities best spent while baking a cake or walking to the shops.

Isolation and dehydration seep through Venice Beach boardwalks in a haunting music video for tech-noir aficionados HTRK. Directed by Nathan Corbin from Brooklyn-based band Excepter, the hypnotic film clip follows the struggle for survival of two alien beings decked out in monochrome and melancholy after crashing into the City of Angels.

Get lost in a stupendous pop orchestra. Drown in a lush harmony of claps and violins. Develop an infactuation for a voice locked in yearning, enveloped by the keys of a grand piano. Fall in love (again) with Feist.

Crane.tv takes us to fashion designer Jonathan Saunders’ sun drenched studio complete with silk-screened prints, flowy fabrics and resident canine. This London-based Scottish designer trained at the prestigious Central Saint Martins and was quickly hired by the late Alexander McQueen merely days after graduating.

Fashion label Band of Outsiders is unbashedly American in its design (which is a real good thing). It is young, contemporary and equally bold in its marketing, boasting endorsements by Rupert Grint and Tom Felton (also known as Ron Weasley and Draco Malfoy) as well as quintessential babes Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman and Dave Franco starring in its various video and polaroid-printed lookbooks.

Will streetstyle ever get old? No. The newest installment from Trendland and Australia’s own Sportsgirl (akin to London’s Topshop or America’s Forever 21) paints a pretty picture of well-dressed cuties stomping on New York concrete.

Dewy, golden cornfields set the stage for Dior Homme’s draped and dramatic silhouettes for Fall/Winter 2011. Channeling the mysterious and possibly paranormal side of suburbia, the campaign film features model Victor Nylander experiencing a violent possession by a demonic (but somewhat sartorial) scarecrow.

The word ‘Conatus’ conjures up distant moons and futuristic wanderlust, but its real definition floats a little closer to Earth. Meaning “the tendency of all things to persist in their own being”, perhaps 22-year old Zola Jesus referred to her own personal demons in naming her third and perhaps most anticipated album.

Annisah Ibrahim takes us back to when the Internet was once a cold and dark place, illuminated only by PING replies and animated GIFS.

Inspired by the 1930s equivalent to popping & locking, the commercial for Prada’s latest fragrance ‘Candy’ is a cheeky celebration of love, piano lessons and Lea Seydoux.