Travel
The Istanbul EDITION Launch
On May 4th, 2011 The Istanbul EDITION opened its doors to host a spectacular party in Istanbul to celebrate the European debut of the new luxury lifestyle brand EDITION. An international cast of VIP guests including the likes of Diane Kruger, Joshua Kruger, Julia Restoin Roitfeld, Robert Konjic and Edie Campbell, Richard Nicoll, Kinder Aggugini, Bella Freud, Baillie Walsh, Jerry Stafford, Dan MacMillan and Sasha Volkova, travelled to Istanbul to experience the exceptional new hotel during a three day exclusive preview.
The Istanbul EDITION - an all-suite hotel designed by Gabellini Sheppard, assimilates exceptional design, innovation and service with outstanding, one-of-a-kind food, beverage and entertainment offerings all under one roof.
www.editionhotels.com
Fashion
Replay VIP Party Cannes
On May 18th 2011, Replay celebrated the Cannes Film Festival for the second consecutive year featuring an exclusive live performance by Jamiroquai and a music set by New York-based DJ Julio Santo Domingo at the Hotel Martinez.
The event benefited Artists for Peace and Justice, which supports children and their families in Haiti, founded in 2009 by Oscar winning film director Paul Haggis. APJ is building the first free high school for 3000 children in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Art
Recollection Quartett
For the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin, MoMu, the Fashion Museum in Antwerp and Mercedes-Benz, invited Belgian art director Frederik Heyman and 4 fashion designers with exceptional signatures and outspoke styles—Bernhard Willhelm, Peter Pilotto, Henrik Vibskov and Mikio Sakabe—to create 4 installations.
Recollection Quartett
Mercedes-Benz Young Classics
Revisited by Frederik Heyman
19/01/2011–23/01/2011
Bühnenservice – Stiftung Oper in Berlin
Zinnowitzer Straße, Ecke Nordbahnhof
10155 Berlin
www.recollection-quartett.com
Art
The Art of
George Quaintance
The flamboyant life and forbidden art of George Quaintance.
Gloria, 1953, Private collection
Manolo, 1952, Private collection
George Quaintance was an artist ahead of his time, a man who forged several successful careers, yet never enjoyed mainstream fame. Had he been born a few decades later, we might know him today as a multi-tasking celebrity stylist, as a coach on Dancing with the Stars, or perhaps as the fine artist he aspired to be.
Shore Leave, 1952, Private collection
Spartan Soldiers Bathing, 1956, EroticArtCollection.com
But Quaintance, who died in 1957, lived and worked during an era when homosexuality was repressed, when his joyful paintings and physique photos could not depict a penis. In an era before Stonewall, the sexual revolution, gay rights and the AIDS crisis, Quaintance and his high-camp erotic art existed in a demi-monde of borderline legality.
Sunset, 1953, Private collection
Half a century on, the masculine fantasy world created by Quaintance, populated by Latin lovers, lusty cowboys and chiseled ranch hands, retains its seductive allure. His highly prized paintings—numbering just 55—rarely come to auction, instead selling privately for undisclosed sums. As the preeminent 'male physique' artist of the 1940s and early '50s, his work for Physique Pictorial, Demi-Gods and Body Beautiful inspired a generation of artists like Tom of Finland, Harry Bush, Etienne, and other, lesser stars in their constellation.
TASCHEN's Quaintance traces his remarkable life story and reintroduces his colorful, kitschy and culturally resonant paintings—works that made George Quaintance the most popular and successful physique artist of his time, and one of its most intriguing figures.
The Art of George Quaintance
Reed Massengill, Dian Hanson
Hardcover, 29 x 39.5 cm (11.4 x 15.6 in.), 168 pages
€ 74.99
ISBN: 978-3-8365-0732-5
Multilingual Edition: English, French, German
www.taschen.com
Fashion
ra Christmas markets
Antwerp's über-cool designer boutique ra is hosting the second edition of its Christmas market with gift stalls winding through the ground floor space.
Opening event and press day:
Saturday, November 27th
(markets from November 26th – December 24th, 2010)
ra
Kloosterstraat 13
2000 Antwerp
Belgium
www.ra13.be
Fashion
Bally Berlin
Bally celebrates the opening of its Berlin store at Kurfürstendamm 52 with a special event on November 3rd, held in conjunction with Zoo Magazine.
The Berlin store opened in September 2010, occupying 142sqm, and highlights Bally’s principle of creating appealing spaces that evoke a sense of luxurious ease by using a natural palette contrasted against light and dark surfaces.
The exclusive opening event on Wednesday November 3rd, will showcase Bally’s men’s and women’s Fall/Winter 2010 collection. Highlights include the Central Saint Martins women’s shoe collection designed by students from the prestigious London college, and Bally’s new Scribe Made-To-Order service which launched in September.
A surprising mix of music will be provided by Berlin-based DJ/producer Adam Port and the event will be co-hosted by Zoo Magazine.
Bally Berlin
Kurfürstendamm 52
10719 Berlin
Fashion
Kris Van Assche
& Misericordia
Third season of the creative and poetic collaboration between KRISVANASSCHE and the Peruvian brand Misericordia.
Starting from this November, 6 models of t-shirts with beautiful and striking prints from the designer Aurelyen will be available on Misericordia’s Online Store. “KRISVANASSCHE sewn by La Cabaña de Alta Costura Misericordia” stamped inside the t-shirts as always.
Fashion
Charity AIDS t-shirt
[Quote on t-shirt] There is more action to be done to fight AIDS than to wear this t-shirt but it’s a good start.
The charity AIDS t-shirt has been present in all Maison Martin Margiela collections since Fall/Winter 1994/1995. Each t-shirt is produced in a different colour with contrasted text every season and bears the above-mentioned text in English.
A percentage of the sales is donated to AIDES, a French organisation dedicated to fight the HIV virus and take care of patients living with HIV/AIDS.
Further to the seasonal English version, the Maison has decided to have a yearly edition every time in a different language for the World AIDS Day, starting with Japanese. Created in Paris, sold around the world, worn touching the heart, this limited edition charity AIDS t-shirt will be exclusively available in all Maison Martin Margiela stores.
www.maisonmartinmargiela.com
Fashion
OUT NOW!
Zoo Magazine NO.28, 2010
Cover image: Daiane Conterato by Laetitia Negre
Out now... Zoo Magazine NO.28, 2010. Our Fall issue includes exclusive shoots and interviews with the likes of Die Antwoord, Koudlam, Marina and the Diamonds, Terence Koh, Phenomenon, Jennifer Ulrich, and John Varvatos. Brazilian supermodel Daiane Conterato graces the cover, and showcases this season's key couture looks in a breathtakingly beautiful, 24-page shoot by Laetitia Negre.
For an exclusive preview, click here.
Fashion
Welding Man
A thick metal door opens. 50 degrees. Steam, machines, muscles and sweat. Their bodies are tense. Their skin covered in dust and oil. When they breathe, they inhale sparks of fire.
Asger Juel Larsen SS2011
Photography: Andras Ridovics
Styling: Emily Eisen
For his Spring/Summer 2011 collection Asger Juel Larsen chose an extreme view on high temperatures. Set between 1930’s war- ship boiler rooms and a none-time specific factory spirit, his protagonist is a heavy duty welding mechanic.
Presentation and live installation from September 17th-22nd, 2010, 11:00-19:00 hrs all days during London Fashion Week at Machine-A, 60 Berwick St. Soho W1F 8SU.
www.machine-a.com
www.asgerjuellarsen.com
Fashion
Shuffle and Cut
Dutch designer Anne de Grijff loves to experiment: “I see clothing as being part of a line, a line I like to rearrange and disrupt [until] unexpected gradations and forms emerge.” Her fall collection pairs quirky pieces with wearable basics, all in sombre black and grey. Innovative pleats and folds add volume to fine leather, stretch jersey, pure wool, and washed silk.
The dark, mysterious aesthetic that runs through the collection was photographed by Sandor Lubbe, who collaborated with De Grijff on her Fall/Winter 2010-2011 campaign. The designer said she was inspired to call on Lubbe after viewing an exhibition of his photography at Steltman Galleries in Amsterdam.
The collection is available at Het Kabinet in Amsterdam, Arnhem Coming Soon, Cobra in Den Bosch, and Nen Xavier in Rotterdam.
Click here for Anne de Grijff's FW10-11 fashion film, shot by Petrovsky & Ramone.
www.annedegrijff.com
Fashion
(PRODUCT)RED
Converse (PRODUCT)RED is a collection of Chuck Taylor All Star shoes done and the product of a collaboration with Parra, Giovanni Estevez, Aaron Martin and Cody Hudson. Continuing the Converse (PRODUCT)RED goal of using art to change the world, each artist was asked to use their unique art and style to create a special shoe that with the sale of each shoe, 10% of the net wholesale price will go to The Global Fund to help fight AIDS in Africa.
Fashion
Most Creative Collection at Mittelmoda
During the Mittelmoda Fashion Award 2010, Dutch fashion designer Pauline van Dongen received the award for ‘most creative collection’. The award, a cash price of € 2.500,00 was offered by Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana.
Pauline recently graduated from the Fashion Institute Arnhem. Her womenswear collection ‘Morphogenesis’ stood out because of it's minimalistic and clean look and her experimental approach. Tactility, texture and no-frills modernity are the essence of her work.
Fashion
Lanvin
US flagship store
Lanvin opens its US flagship store on New York City’s Madison Avenue.
Lanvin has announced the opening of its United States flagship store on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Under the creative direction of Alber Elbaz, Lanvin further expands its stateside presence with the inauguration of its third boutique, to occupy the first three floors of a five-story, 6,875 square foot landmark townhouse on Madison Avenue and 68th Street.
The 3,550 square foot boutique carries the women's ready-to-wear and accessory collections, while also showcasing its Blanche, 22 Faubourg, Tailoring and Denim capsules. Punctuated amongst these temptations are more whimsical gift items, such as umbrellas, stationary, playing cards, music boxes and hand painted porcelain dolls.
Lanvin
815 Madison Avenue,
between 68th & 69th Streets
New York, NY 10065
U.S.A.
Tel. +1 646 439 0381
6 days a week, Monday - Saturday
10:00 am – 6:00 pm
www.lanvin.com
Fashion
Stonewashing
Lee’s Fall/Winter 2010 collection shows the iconic denim brand reaching to the future by embracing its heritage.
For FW10, Lee brings originality to stonewashing by offering jeans that have been laundered for 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 60 minutes, 90 minutes, two hours (and more!). The scale of the stonewash treatments, with the jeans varying in shades from lightly dusted to elegantly wasted, will be conveyed via hangtags in the garments, giving the clientele a glimpse of the “process." You’ll look on stonewashing with fresh eyes, and the technique has been applied to five pocket jeans, Rider jackets, denim shirts and even t-shirts.
Art
Defeated Architecture
Fashion
ITS#NINE
The Confederation of Fantastic Voyagers has announced its winners. International Talent Support, a platform created and developed by EVE in collaboration with Diesel and YKK, was able to strike over 400 guests once again. ITS#NINE celebrated this year's most amazing young creativity on July 16th and 17th, 2010, searched out by ITS all over the world.
Michael Kampe
Michael Kampe, student at the Fashion Department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, won the Diesel Award and departed heading for unknown space with this special recognition of his talent.
Art
Fashion
Bally and Central Saint Martins
Bally announces in-store arrival of the women’s shoe collection designed by students from London’s prestigious Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.
Charles Youssef
In 2009, Bally tasked 15 students from Saint Martins College to submit women’s shoes designs. Challenged to create designs with high editorial value and a strong luxury feel while maintaining Bally’s heritage of exquisite craftsmanship, five students were eventually selected to have their work developed at Bally’s workshops in Italy and Switzerland.
Estefania Cortes
William Hendry
In September, Bally will celebrate the in-store arrival worldwide of this innovative collection in conjunction with Vogue Fashion’s Night Out. The collection will be available from September through bally.com and in these Bally stores: Beijing Shing Kong Place, Berlin, Beverly Hills, Hong Kong IFC, London, Milan, New York City, Paris, Singapore Ion, Vienna
and Zurich.
www.bally.com
Fashion
ellesse
by Wood Wood
Backed by a rich tradition of sportswear and street styles, ellesse will combine forces with Danish design duo Wood Wood this summer for an exclusive special collection. From July, the ellesse by Wood Wood collection will be available from select outlets around the world – including the three Wood Wood stores.
As part of their research for the collection, the two Wood Wood designers delved deep into ellesse history and then spruced up their finds with trademark Wood Wood accents and details. Their strongest influence: the brand’s ties to the sport of tennis, juxtaposed with their own Scandinavian streetstyle roots and 1980s casual culture in Britain.
“Although ellesse and Wood Wood are two completely different brands, there are obvi- ous style overlaps between both labels,” explains one of the Wood Wood designers. “We feel a strong affinity to ellesse – an indispensible precondition for such a cooperation.”
www.ellesse.com
www.woodwood.dk
Art
The Traveller
In 150 days around the world, from Paris to New York to Shanghai to Bombay and then to Düsseldorf.
Louis Vuitton has commissioned, Düsseldorf based artist, Hans-Peter Feldmann to create an art-installation, during 150 days, on the hoarding, of the upcoming store, on the Königsallee.
Hans-Peter Feldmann decided to create a wooden sculpture in form of a man that will be displayed in a 4m by 4m glass-window, framing the constant movement of the piece and evoking, for the spectators, a feeling of travelling. By changing the backgrounds, ‘The Traveller’ will travel around the world, in 150 days, and visit on its journey five vibrant cities: Paris, New York, Shanghai, Mumbai and Düsseldorf.
Fashion
Glamour and Chess
G-Star’s Fall/Winter 2010 advertising campaign, shot by celebrated photographer Anton Corbijn, combines the intelligence of Norwegian chess prodigy, Magnus Carlsen, with the beauty of model and actress, Liv Tyler.
Already the world chess number one and described as a ‘Mozart of chess,’ Carlsen has the potential to become a similar level of icon. Becoming a Grandmaster at the age of 13 years and 148 days, Magnus is the youngest player in history to achieve the number one rank and his uncompromising approach to the game mirrors G-Star’s own hardcore design philosophy.
Hollywood actress Tyler perfectly embodies the modern G-Star woman’s combination of toughness with controlled sensuality. Her striking looks and assured, independent style have made her a globally recognized model and fashion icon. Liv returns for her second G-Star campaign, having previously presented the elegant Low-T capsule-collection.
Fashion
Alice in Wonderland
Versace has launched its new FW2010 Eyewear collection, inspired by the Alice in Wonderland SS2010 womenswear collection.
Fashion
Calvin Klein Event Berlin
Calvin Klein, Inc. hosted multi-brand event in Berlin at the start of Spring 2011 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin.
Special guests Diane Kruger, Lara Stone, Kellan Lutz, and Zoe Saldana, the new face of Calvin Klein Underwear in attendance; featured Installation by German J. Mayer H. Architects unveiled.
The large-scale, invitation-only event was held at Die Munze, a historic industrial building, and one of the oldest and most important former mints in Germany. This impressive landmark was transformed for the evening into a unique fashion experience that featured over 60 models from around the world. The event featured the latest offerings from the Calvin Klein Collection, ck Calvin Klein, Calvin Klein Jeans, and Calvin Klein Underwear brands, along with a special preview of the company's latest fragrance introduction, Calvin Klein Beauty.
Several of Calvin Klein's current global advertising talent were in attendance, including: actress Diane Kruger, face of the recently announced new fragrance, Calvin Klein Beauty, set to debut in Fall 2010; model Lara Stone, who will be featured in the Calvin Klein Collection, ck Calvin Klein, and Calvin Klein Jeans Fall 2010 campaigns; Twillight's Kellan Lutz, one of the four men featured in the current Calvin Klein X Underwear global advertising campaign; and, actress Zoe Saldana, who was announced as the new face of women's Calvin Klein Underwear at a press conference earlier that day.
Fashion
Replay Event B&BB
On the occasion of Bread & Butter in Berlin, Replay invited guests for a few nice hours at the Silver Wings Club on the evening of July 7th. The Italian denim label offered everything for a successful get-together – a table full of goodies, great music and a relaxed atmosphere.
It stands to reason that many known faces could not pass out on an event like this, therefore, actor Max von Thun, actress Lavinia Wilson and model Luca Gadjus mingled among the guests. The musical highlight, the live performance of the American singer/songwriter Robert Francis, best known for his hit Junebug, rounded the evening off.
Keep an eye out for our Fall issue (due for release in September), featuring an exclusive interview and shoot with Robert Francis!
Fashion
sak for Converse
“I wanted to bring together the history of Florence and Converse’s legacy,” says Ryusaku Hiruma, designer and founder of sak.
Hiruma’s story is unique. Born in Japan, he has been pursuing age-old Italian craftsmanship in Florence, Italy for nearly a decade. Choosing to immerse himself in the historical home where Renaissance and industrial design have converged for centuries, Hiruma’s unique and modern sensibility blends with his unmistakable skill and artistry to create four amazing styles for Converse.
Creating coveted versions of Converse’s most recognizable styles, Hiruma carefully replicates the silhouette of the Chuck Taylor All Star, Jack Purcell and One Star shoes using old-world construction techniques.
After launching the Chuck Taylor All Star edition in March, the collection continues with the One Star and Jack Purcell dropping in July 2010.
www.converse.de
Fashion
Bottega Veneta
FW2010/2011
Bottega Veneta announces the latest in its series of one-of-a-kind creative collaborations, this one with renowned artist Robert Longo. The occasion is the brand’s Fall-Winter 2010/2011 advertising campaign, produced in New York this past March.
The Fall-Winter 2010/2011 season is centered on the silhouette and characterized by contrasts of structure and fluidity, stillness and movement, and masculine and feminine. The palette is dark and rich, illuminated by flashes of moody iridescence. Both the men’s and women’s collections touch on questions of strength and power, exploring ways of dressing that express a multifaceted individuality.
www.bottegaveneta.com
Music
Boys & Girls
When Jean Paul Gaultier meets Martin Solveig...
Martin Solveig and Jean Paul Gaultier
An encounter, an unprecedented collaboration between the two artists: “Boys & Girls”, Martin Solveig’s latest hit single, was released this summer. The new single is a “girl-boy” dialogue between Martin Solveig and Martina, the electro-pop singer from Dragonette.
Designed like a musical, the song’s video is very fashion-oriented and, of course, quirky. Jean Paul Gaultier opened up his maison de couture and cast himself as guest star in the role of guardian of the temple.
Martine and Martin Solveig in the video of "Boys & Girls"
A free, exclusive download of “Boys & Girls” by Martin Solveig featuring Dragonette is available from now on the Ma Dame website.
www.jeanpaulgaultier.com
www.martinsolveig.com
Fashion
Li Xiaofeng
for Lacoste
Lacoste commissions Chinese artist Li Xiaofeng to create ‘porcelain polo’ for its 2010 Holiday Collector’s Series.
For its 2010 Holiday Collector’s Series, Lacoste commissioned Chinese artist Li Xiaofeng to re-imagine the iconic Lacoste L.12.12 polo shirt as an original work of art and then to create an exclusive print that will be used in a complementary limited edition of polos for men and women.
Porcelain Polo sculpture
Lacoste challenged Li Xiaofeng to create two different polos for the 2010 Holiday Collector’s Series. For both, he had to adapt his work methods slightly. For the limited edition printed polo, he chose blue and white shards with lotus and children designs from the Kangxi Period (1662 - 1772 AD) of the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911 AD).
Porcelain Polo print
The printed Porcelain Polo is limited to 20,000 pieces for both men and women and comes packaged in a silk pouch stamped with the red seal Li Xiaofeng Lacoste logo above.
Fashion
Mad Season
Our annual Summer issue is out now!
Zoo Magazine NO.27, 2010, includes cutting-edge shoots with supermodels Lily Cole (by Bryan Adams), Olga Sherer (by Philip Gay) and Hannah Holman (by Dancian). This issue also features exclusive interviews with the likes of Danish designer Asger Juel Larsen, Russian designer Gosha Rubchinskiy, Berlin DJ Adam Port, German artist Thomas Schütte, and more...
Click here for an exclusive preview!
Fashion
BAPESTA!!
This month, BAPE will be hosting BAPESTA!! Pro-Wrestling tournament in Tokyo, with some of Japans top pro wrestlers. NIGO (A Bathing Ape Producer) has collaborated with manga artist YUDETAMAGO to create a new wrestling costume and character “APEGON”.
To celebrate the event BAPE have also produced two special edition T-Shirts featuring famous Japanese cartoon wrestling superhero KINNIKUMAN, matched against BABY MILO. These special edition T-Shirts will be available at the event and at BAPE STORE London.
BAPE Store London
4 Upper James Street
London W1F 9DG
United Kingdom
www.bape.com
Fashion
Bid and support DAA!
The exhibition UltraMegaLore at the Fashion Museum Hasselt walks slowly to its end. Sponsor Piper- Heidsieck, the Fashion Museum Hasselt and curator Hannelore Knuts still have a little extra in store to finish: Piper-Heidsieck has donated an exclusive ‘Le Rituel Box Set’ (Piper-Heidsieck and Christian Louboutin) to Hannelore to be sold by auction for charity and Hannelore, as spokesperson of Designers Against AIDS, has chosen DAA as her charity.
You can now make a bid on this exclusive box, knowing that this it’s not only a collector's item you’re buying but you also further support the HIV/Aids awareness campaign. So start bidding on www.designersagainstaids.com - the starting bid is 350 €. Before you place your bid, please register so they can contact you should you place the winning bid.
The end result of the auction will be announced on June 5th at the closing party of UltraMegaLore at Muziekodroom Hasselt.
Fashion
True Blue
Legend Jean Paul Gaultier remixes vintage sculptural lingerie with Levi's jeans and jackets on the Paris catwalk. After their S/S 2010 menswear partnership, Jean Paul Gaultier and Levi's collaborate on key silhouettes from the S/S 2010 womenswear collection, to hit selected stores in May 2010.
Talk about the re-emergence of the lingerie as outerwear trend and the sculptural glory of that Jean Paul Gaultier’s pink satin conical bra comes back to mind. A seminal ‘90s moment in the history of fashion, it cemented the fashion-forward reputation of the Queen of Pop and troubled the dreams of many.
A lifelong Levi's jeans wearer and a denim fan, Jean Paul Gaultier remixed iconic Levi's designs with vintage lingerie constructions in his S/S 2010 womenswear collection on show in Paris this March, creating silhouettes which are rigorously structured in design, lovingly crafted and free in spirit. On the catwalk, dark denim turned into a mini-midi juxtaposition skirt and workwear-inspired dungarees – part modern Rosie the Riveter and part boudoir – with conical bra tops, reinforced and lined with flesh tone bias tape reminiscent of old school corsetry.
Fashion
Missoni debuts on thecorner.com
April 2010, Missoni opens its first mini-store online on thecorner.com, the virtual space that presents a selection of artisans and cutting-edge brands for men and women through dedicated mini-stores.
The new Missoni mini-store will showcase a selection of the Spring/Summer 2010 collection, as well as Missoni Mare, the beachwear collection. This season features a timeless new silhouette, characterized by super-slim forms that can be body- hugging or flowing: sensual, feminine, ruffled and draped, they are often layered and veiled with sheer duster coats. The concept of the new Missoni Spring/Summer 2010 collection is perfectly defined by Paul Valery: "One needs be as light as a swallow, not as a feather." In celebration of the launch on thecorner.com, Angela Missoni (Creative Director of the brand) reveals insights into the world of Missoni in an exclusive video-interview with thecorner.com. Missoni’s philosophy is timeless: explore your emotions and be comfortable in what you wear.
www.thecorner.com
www.missoni.com
Fashion
The Brazil Black Pack
The major inspiration for the Spring Summer 10 Nike Sportswear collection is football—the beautiful game. The summer’s tournament in South Africa means 2010 is a momentous year for the sport around the globe, transcending sport to create cultural excitement.
Similarly, when Nike Football designers presented the on-pitch kits to the Nike Sportswear design team, the designs and innovations “knocked our socks off," said Nike Sportswear Apparel Design Director Jarrett Reynolds (Nike Sportswear Design Director).
The Brazil kit, in particular commanded attention and inspired the idea for the Nike Sportswear Brazil Black Pack. It comprises an all black version of the Brazilian national team jersey, crafted from the same fabric developed from recycled plastic bottles as the on-pitch performance shirts the players will wear. The centre piece jersey is accompanied by five iconic Nike Sportswear apparel styles: N98 Track Jacket; NSW M65 packable jacket; Loopwheeler AW77 hoodie and crew; Nike Sportswear Windrunner.
The Nike Sportswear Brazil Black Pack is available at selected retailers worldwide, including Concrete in Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
Fashion
Nike Sportswear Remixes a Classic
First introduced in 1975 as a predecessor to the Cross Trainer, the Nike All Court has since proven itself to be an all-around shoe. First released with a canvas upper in white and light blue, this original version of the All Court has become a sport classic by way of various courts of play. It's a basketball shoe, a tennis shoe, a squash shoe, a handball and racquetball shoe that has ultimately been taken by the street to become a lifestyle shoe.
The simple and timeless look of the All Court has attracted such design partners as Hiroshi Fujiwara and A.P.C., who chose to reinterpret the All Court to only later become two of the most coveted collaboration projects released last year. Revered for its simple and classic silhouette. The All Court's true spirit is rooted in sport but is also timelessly sophisticated in look.
For this spring, the Nike design team takes on the All Court for a third time by offering the mid cut style. Presented in three colors; purple, green, and brown, the All Court's polished panache leather is embossed with the perforated outline Swoosh Design. The iconic rubber toe-cap and longwearing, non-marking, natural colored rubber outsole give this shoe its modern versatility. The monotone laces add a simple finish to the clean lines.
Released on February 20th, the All Court Leather Mid is available at select Nike Sportswear retailers worldwide.
www.nikesportswear.com
Fashion
Gone Fishing
Reflecting the fun and energetic atmosphere the warm months promise to bring with them, Onitsuka Tiger turns to the active life of fishing for its Tsuri Spring-Summer 2010 collection. Tsuri is Japanese for fishing and the collection of fresh, fun and highly functional styles draws on this age-old sport for its strong graphics, colour and detailing.
Traditional Japanese fisherman’s suits and the gradient stripe pattern of the tuna fish are the inspiration behind the collection’s Katsuo stripes and checks, while a palette of navy, white, and yellow reflects the sport’s nautical backdrop.
The practical elements of fishing gear are significant characteristics behind the silhouettes, contours and detailing. Raglan sleeves, constructed collars, smocking, and pockets in a variety of shapes, sizes and positions play an integral part in fusing fun with functionality. While the nautical colour palette of the footwear collection complements the apparel collection effortlessly for that perfect finishing touch.
New this season, the CARRACK is a cross between the classic deck-shoe and a leather sneaker.
www.onitsukatiger.com
Fashion
Jasmine Di Milo
SS2010
“Say It With your Mouth Shut”
is the Spring/Summer 2010
Smouldering hot collection
That finds beauty in
The flowers of death,
The lily,
The dealings of passion and scorn,
And the quiet power of suggestion.
Playing with erotic blood reds,
Pitch black,
Sensual sage green,
Concealer flesh tones,
The lovers and flip book muse prints consummate the end of the season’s story.
Art
A3 Animals
German architect Michael Schoner, who is based in Amsterdam, recently announced his new fashion and design project A3 Animals. The A3 Animals are DIY paper masks, which, for little money, you can download as pdf file, print out and duplicate on your office machine as often as you want.
Once printed out, all you need to do is fold them and fix them with ordinary office materials such as staples and rubber bands. The print is a rasterized Xerox style pattern, which plays with geometry in its folded and unfolded state. Worn, the masks become an extension to the body or a sculpture on your head. They have no holes for the eyes to see through.
Schoner wants to set focus on the geometric shape you wear on your head, or as he says 'caught in the inside space of the animal and vulnerable to the outside, a paper-shaman connecting to that animal, eventually the masks stay behind.' After a short lifespan these "authentic native office artifacts" decay in the trash can.
all pictures by Anika Schwarzlose and Jonas Lund at Schwarzlund
www.schwarzlund.com
www.michaelschoner.de
Fashion
Galliano Men
A new line, and new generation - "It's not just the girls that want to party, and be able to pepper their wardrobe with urban essentials, the boys want this option too and to have those pieces in denim, leather and something that has that quirky signature Galliano identity. They want high fashion but not the high fashion prices, so I wanted to create a collection that could inspire as much as bridge that gap," John Galliano says.
The debut boy’s collection which was presented in Milan January 18th, captures the attitude and essence of Galliano’s wild side and is inspired by the anarchy of the London rock scene. The Rock muse of the moment, gets his own look and is recast with urban attitude. Distressed jeans are over-dyed in bold colours of ochre and burgundy, and doused with bleach in curling barbwire designs as Military parkas are worn with baggy pants, grandfather shirts and layered with vintage Henleys and blazers too scruffy to impress the parents!
"I was inspired by memories of my twenty-year old self, I was fashion obsessed yet starved of the choice in clothes. We used to take our vintage market finds and pull them apart and recombine them to create our own mixed-up signature looks. Creativity and expression was the force behind this way of dressing, and we have re-harnessed this energy to work the collection in an individual way and dress our contemporary young man."
"Now it’s the Pixies, Daisys, Ashs and a new generation of It kids; but the desire, hunger and originality in dress is there. Galliano’s second line is a younger rebel sibling not an after thought – so this season make sure you get to know this new character and collection," says Galliano about his Looks. Distressed denim and sweat is spliced into new mixes of mixed collaged clothes. Crumpled and carefree, and deceptively inventive with overprinted graphics, comfortable easy shapes, washed leathers, sweats and denims make it look like you haven’t tried too hard.
www.johngalliano.com
Music
RAW Rhythm
Festival
The first edition of the RAW Rhythm Festival at the Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam ended on Sunday morning the 2nd of August at 4 am. On Friday the 31st of July and Saturday the 1st of August, the audience (almost 10,000 people) enjoyed a blend of groundbreaking music. Hiphop, dance and reggae, a good atmosphere and positive feedback from the visitors make the organization look back at the festival with great pride. The RAW Rhythm Festival is back at its former location in the heart of Amsterdam.
Highlights of the festival line-up included Dizzee Rascal, Alice Russell, Zwart Licht, Ryan Leslie, Roni Size, Lunice and Chuckie and Lil Jon.
The RAW Rhythm Festival is an initiative of MTV in collaboration with G-Star Raw. RAW Rhythm Festival replaces Drum Rhythm Festival after a 7-year absence.
Chuckie and Lil Jon
Ryan Leslie
Dizzee Rascal
www.rawrhythmfestival.com
www.g-star.com
Art
RIVOLTA
Now showing at Francesco Pantaleone Arte Contemporanea, Palermo:
Adalberto Abbate
RIVOLTA
February 12th until March 31st, 2010
Francesco Pantaleone
Arte Contemporanea
Via Garraffello 25
90133 Palermo
Italy
www.fpac.it
Art
Haphazard Clothing
Design duo Starstyling impresses at Beck's Gold Urban Experiences in Munich
If the artists of Beck's Gold Urban Experiences workspace in Munich were rated from various aspects such as their creativity, within relation to the subject of “urban customization” and their interaction with the audience, the Berlin based design duo Starstyling would probably be ahead at any point. Kai Seifried, one half of the label, not simply designed haphazard clothing, he and his assistant produced a beautiful coloured rag rug.
After all, the Becks Gold Urban Experiences are about urban lifestyle and customization. And just like the patchwork of Starstyling, a big city is also a composition of nothing but individuals. In terms of creativity, the designers therefore scored 100 points. Even the visitors were able to benefit from the artists’ output. Matching the theme, they had the possibility to get their personal clothes customized in order to leave the venue with an individual and all unique design-piece. But the most impressive matter about Starstyling was Kai himself. His one-man show not only sweetened the customizing process on ground, but also entertained the audience and participants alike and ensured a tasty, memorable day in Munich.
Fashion
BOSS Black
Fall/Winter 10-11
On the evening of January 21, 2010, BOSS Black hosted the presentation of its Fall/Winter Collection for 2010 in the glamorous setting of Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof.
Some 1,000 invitees – buyers, international press people and celebrities including Oscar winner Hilary Swank, American actors Matt Dillon and Aaron Eckart, and the top model/actress Devon Aoki - attended the show held in the former Hamburger Bahnhof train station that now houses a prestigious museum.
There were 35 international top models presenting the looks for Fall/Winter 2010, among them Katrin Thormann, Iris Strubegger, Shaun de Wet, and the faces of the current BOSS Black campaign, Toni Garrn and Lars Burmeister.
Following the show, guests were escorted to a night club specially set up for the after event. Black-in-black seating ensembles with bouquets, a wall showing video animations and a dance floor comprised of LED monitors evoked an exclusive club atmosphere.
Art
Making Future Histories
Having started out in 2007 as a one-off contest lasting two years, the tearaway success of Lee’s photo story formula created the desire to launch a Second Edition, which kicked off this spring. Make History Second Edition promises to be more than just an encore. It will again feature real stories in people’s own images and words and will bring Lee’s users together as a worldwide community. Thanks to the enthusiasm, the quality and quantity of the works submitted over the past two years, it will be made into a yearly event.
From now on, Make History will thus have a €25,000 prize on offer for the winning picture story, each year, to be handed out in May 2010 for the second edition.
The website makehistory.eu has been made over to render it more interactive than before: new features, a new graphic interface and crossover functions with social networks, all designed to support the vital sense of community born out of the First Edition.
Make History Exhibition
until December 3rd, 2009
Hotel Arena
's-Gravesandestraat 51
1092 AA Amsterdam
The Netherlands
www.hotelarena.nl
Fashion
Fashion
Donates to Haiti
If you haven't already donated to Haiti earthquake disaster efforts, take a look at these heartwarming efforts by some of our fashion friends.
This Haitian relief b-side RIGHTS necklace was designed by Ken Leung and Dana Chin in the wake of the horrific earthquake in Haiti as a way for them to take part in the relief efforts as they say.
As living in New York is a daily reminder to them of being an immigrant, they say "in a sense we are all Haitian’s right now." Therefore the text on the necklace symbolizes the date of the passing of the Immigration and nationality Act of 1965 that abolished national origin quotas. This Public Law (PUB.L.) abolished the national-origin quotas that had been in place in the United States since the Immigration Act of 1924.
Order the RIGHTS necklace (with $30 from each purchase going to the Red Cross) online through Ken & Dana Design for $85.
This Solid Gold Rags "Save Haiti" t-shirt was specially made to raise money for the relief efforts for the victims of Haiti's recent catastrophic earthquake. 100% of proceeds go to Haiti's relief efforts.
t-shirt, $100, available at Solid Gold Rags.
Fashion
Bottega Veneta Men's Fall-Winter 2010/11
For Fall 2010, Bottega Veneta presented in Milan today a collection characterized by assertive elegance and rebel flair. Unconventional pairings and audacious accessories add a provocative edge to clothes of superlative refinement.
The palette is dark, deep, and extravagantly nuanced, marked by subtle gradations of black, carbon gray, ink blue, bottle green, and peat brown. Pattern is equally enigmatic, ranging from shadow stripes and ghosted windowpanes to oblique, over-dyed prints. Fabrics span the spectrum from formal to sporty and from traditional to technologically advanced.
There are more than just clothes to consider this fall. A scarf, a bolo tie, distinctive socks, a ring of antique sterling silver – each element adds shade and detail to a narrative of personal style. A soft, ultra-lightweight calfskin bag serves as a luxurious and functional signature. And in a season in which accessories are important, shoes are defining. Fall shoes include motorcycle-inspired boots and polished-punk “creepers” of glossy leather and crocodile.
“In this collection we wanted to address the different ways men visualize themselves,” says Creative Director Tomas Maier. “Bottega Veneta’s goal is always to expand the vocabulary of men’s wear, to add individuality and expression. So there is sophistication, but also playfulness, bravado, eccentricity, rebelliousness – it all depends on how it’s put together.”
Art
Absolut Art Award
Through its frequent collaborations with cutting-edge artists, designers and photographers, Absolut Vodka is a proud supporter of the arts. This year, in the tradition of the company’s 30 years of creative collaborations, Absolut Vodka decided to fund a yearly award of Euro 15.000 to an international young artist exploring creativity through the integration of art forms. As head of the Absolut Art Award jury, Daniel Birnbaum will award the first-ever winner in a ceremony at Lydmar Hotel in Stockholm.
“Keren Cytter is awarded the first-ever Absolut Art Award for her outstanding cross-pollination of art forms. Cytter’s works take her beyond the traditional art forms, while exploring the intersection between theater, performance, film and installation art. Her artistry involves investigative narratives which reason with both our subconscious and our quest for good storytelling,” says Daniel Birnbaum, head of the Absolut Art Award jury.
Keren Cytter, born 1977 in Israel, now lives in Berlin. Her work has brought a lot of critical acclaim when shown at galleries and museums around Europe. The prize provides the artist, in addition to the cash award, with the chance for a collaboration or an underwritten work with the Absolut Company in the upcoming year.
Keren Cytter
“Andy Warhol was the first artist to collaborate with Absolut Vodka. Since then hundreds of artists have helped us in the building of our brand, for which we are forever grateful. Absolut and art have walked hand in hand for many years, and the Absolut Art Award expresses our long term commitment to creativity,” says Anna Malmhake, Vice President Global Marketing at The Absolut Company.
Fashion
Nan Goldin
for Bottega Veneta
Fine art and documentary photographer Nan Goldin shot the Bottega Veneta Spring-Summer 2010 campaign on Staten Island, in New York City, in October of 2009.
The Spring-Summer 2010 collection is an exploration of individuality. Serene and simple, it features a spare palette of white, ivory, cream, and straw. Touches of egg yolk yellow, Delft blue, orchid, and fever red animate the accessories and a few noteworthy dresses. In this collection, the sensibility of the woman is paramount. Her pale clothes serve as a canvas that’s blank until she completes it. It is the individual – the shape of her body, her movements, and her choice of shoes, bag, and jewelry – that determines the final look.
www.bottegaveneta.com
Fashion
Hilfiger Denim &
Wasteyourself
Tommy Hilfiger announces the launch of two limited-edition t-shirts for its Spring/Summer 2010 Hilfiger Denim collection. Collaborating exclusively with Wasteyourself—a U.K. based design studio—Hilfiger Denim has commissioned two original artworks for the men and women limited-edition t-shirts. The t-shirts are available in Tommy Hilfiger retail and wholesale stores across Europe in January 2010.
“I am excited that Dan Lowe and Norman Hayes' incredible vision will be included in our Hilfiger Denim Collection,” said Tommy Hilfiger. “I really admire their unique design approach and think it is a great fit for us.”
For the t-shirts, Wasteyourself has designed artwork inspired by iconic American imagery. The t-shirt for men features the design studio’s interpretation of iconic America, and uses Uncle Sam—a national personification of the United States—in its design. Their artwork comically combines imagery of the all-American figure that is Uncle Same with illustrations of Apple Pie and Hot Dogs to produce unique graphics that match Hilfiger Denim’s edgy looks. For women, the t-shirt features the infamous American eagle, equally designed in a quirky and eclectic fashion. Both artworks for men and women are printed on white t-shirts and come with complementary bags, designed in a Calico plain-woven cotton fabric.
www.hilfigerdenim.com
Fashion
Giles is Just
Around the Corner
Christmas celebrated with uniqueness and luxury hand made products: a selection of items and accessories in limited edition from international brands characterize Christmas 2009 at thecorner.com, the virtual space showcasing “mini-stores” from artisans and cutting-edge brands. The highlight of this special selection is a capsule collection exclusively created for thecorner.com by one of the most acclaimed British designers of the moment: Giles Deacon.
Pixie Geldof wearing the Pixie Dress
designed by Giles Deacon
The capsule collection is composed of three exclusive items: a bustier dress made in lurex, a patterned skirt and a top. The theme that inspires these garments is a distinctive flower decoration: the detail of the flower petal is repeated over the textiles and used as a decorative element to embellish shoulders and gowns. Fabrics and print motifs have been created and designed by Giles exclusively for Christmas on thecorner.com. "I am really excited to be offering the Pixie dress in this exclusive fabric and colour for thecorner.com, which will prove to be a truly innovative online retailer experience," declared Giles Deacon.
Art
Zoo Magazine
at Gagosian Gallery
Zoo Magazine is proud to be displayed beautifully at the recently opened Gagosian Gallery store in New York.
International art powerhouse Gagosian Gallery has recently opened its first retail venue at 988 Madison Avenue, NYC. This unique store features all Gagosian publications as well as artist limited editions by John Currin, Tom Friedman, Ellen Gallagher, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Marc Newson, Richard Prince, Anselm Reyle, Ed Ruscha, Tom Sachs, and Franz West, among others. The selection of magazines has been broadened, and now also includes Zoo Magazine.
Gagosian Gallery store
988 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10075
U.S.A.
www.gagosian.com
Fashion
How To Wear
a Cozy
DKNY launches "How To Wear a Cozy" iPhone application
"To me, the Cozy is the modern scarf you can wear day to evening -- only it's even more versatile. It can be the new jacket, the new sweater, the new wrap. You personalize it according to your mood. It can be wrapped around the body every which way, or it can be worn like a scarf, with one or both sides hanging loose. The Cozy becomes the quintessential piece in your wardrobe because there are so many ways of wearing it." (Donna Karan)
DKNY wants you to maximize the ways you wear your Cozy, introducing the DKNY Cozy iPhone App, your own personal fashion stylist, that goes wherever you go. With one tap of the App and a twist of the Cozy your look can be transformed to take you anywhere at any time. The iPhone App was designed in partnership with Atimi Software Inc. and was strictly developed as a tool to show DKNY Cozy enthusiasts step by step visual directions on how to get the most out of this quintessential wrap. The Cozy can be tied more than a dozen ways and it will never look the same.
Fashion
Navyboot in
the City
Success stories often begin with a simple idea. Navyboot was no different. Bruno Bencivenga – founder and CEO of Navyboot created in 1991 a classic, comfortable shoe for everyday and all situations. The designers at Navyboot soon began to transfer the concept to other products. These days, it’s a premium brand specialized in shoes, bags and leather accessories, catering to both women and men.
Navyboot currently has over 50 stores in Switzerland, and has started to expand the brand internationally since 2008. Following store openings in Frankfurt, Düsseldorf and Munich Airport, November 2009 saw the launch of its first Berlin boutique, situated in a prominent downtown location. The VIP event was attended by a string of A-listers, including US moviestar Daryl Hannah, Katja Flint, Simone Thomalla, Natalia Wörner, Clemens Schick, Anatole Taubman, Martin Krug and Verena Kehrt.
Navyboot’s current Fall/Winter 2009/10 campaign is shot by fellow Swiss man Michel Comte, appointed by the brand to boost its international flair.
All images: Michel Comte meets Navyboot
www.navyboot.ch
Fashion
Mr. McQ
McQ embraces developments in fashion communication with a new, innovative website, incorporating the rise of blog culture and underground journalism. Juxtaposed with a slow-motion video backdrop of the A/W09 campaign shoot, the updated page has evolved, displaying more than just lookbook and campaign imagery.
The McQ Diary provides an exclusive written and visual medium for a selection of talented figures, each possessing a distinct ‘McQ’ voice. Sourcing globally for stylists, writers, musicians and artists, the Diary pools like-minded individuals from around the world into a collective ‘McQ’ thought process. Contributors include Dazed & Confused's Anna Trevelyan and Vogue Homme Japan’s Emi Kameoka, amongst others.
In keeping with the increasingly open nature of the fashion industry, the Diary also vocalises the McQ Studio, comprising the thoughts, ideas and musings of the house design team. The development of the McQ website also marks the launch of the brand’s Facebook page, which will be used to announce upcoming events and news, as well as exclusive information for Facebook fans.
All pictures: McQ Spring/Summer 2010
www.m-c-q.com
Fashion
G-Star Raw
Turns 20
Denim brand G-Star Raw chose to celebrate its 20th anniversary in Tokyo over the weekend with three exciting events open to the general public: an unveiling of the exclusive 'RAW 20' collection at a G-Star 'pop-up' store in Harajuku; a signing session in Shibuya's G-Star store by industrial designer Marc Newson; and the G-Star RAW Night 'GOLD' event at Le Baron de Paris, in Tokyo.
For a limited period of only five days G-Star Raw operated a 'pop-up' retail store in Harajuku. Designed to cause a stir then disappear, the 'pop-up' concept mixes a short-lived, guerilla-style retail store with an art happening.The store presents special edition pieces from the 'RAW 20' Collection, featuring T-shirts, sweats, pants and accessories that celebrate G-Star's twenty years in business and which are not available through normal retail channels. All sales proceeds are to be donated via the GSRD Foundation (G-Star Raw Denim Foundation) to two children's aid projects via the Net4Kids Aid Foundation.
The 'pop-up' store also features a Reading Gallery that showcases denim craftsmanship and an infotainment concept that comments on the high speed, short attention-span, accelerated culture we all now live in. Each highlights G-Star's continuing belief in the artistic fusion of disparate ideas and elements.
Marc Newson
Additionally, attendees also had the opportunity to see the Spring/Summer 2010 'G-Star by Marc Newson Limited Edition Collection' that Newson recently launched at 10 Corso Como during Milan Fashion Week. This collection features Marc's modern interpretation of four classic styled jackets and two T-Shirts; taking the traditional utilitarian fabrics associated with each style and replacing them with premium materials to present a creative fusion of street-wear silhouettes and couture-level fabrics.
SS 2010 G-Star by Marc Newson Limited Edition Collection
The 20th anniversary celebrations peaked with the G-Star Tokyo Raw Night 'GOLD' at Le Baron de Paris, on the evening of October 30th. Attendees were treated to a festive celebration of the power of music, design and art, curated by Sato Toshihiro and 20 icons from the Tokyo 'GOLD' era.
Fashion
Versace in Rio de Janeiro
Donatella Versace backstage with P. Diddy, Dirty Money and Isabeli Fontana
Donatella Versace celebrated Fashion Rocks this weekend in Rio de Janiero Brazil. Kicking off her stay on Friday evening, Donatella Versace hosted, together with Vogue Brazil, the Governor and Mayor of Rio, a charity 'Fashion Rocks Rio Solidario dinner' in honor of photographer Mario Testino's new book – Mario De Janeiro Testino. The Versace co-hosted charity dinner, held at Rio's Copacobana Palace, benefits the Brazilian Children's organization, 'Rio Solidario', and attracted many international and Brazilian VIPS from the worlds of fashion, music, art, politics and society.
Donatella Versace, Riccardo Tisci, Guest and Mario Testino
The main 'Oi Rio Fashion Rocks' event was on Saturday, bringing the best of fashion and music on stage. Held at the glamorous Jockey Club of Rio de Janeiro, Donatella Versace joined the Fashion Rocks' line-up, (sponsored by Oi - Brazil's biggest telecommunications company) with other international fashion brands such as Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs and Givenchy as well as four important Brazilian designers Lenny, Alexandre Herchcovitch, André Lima, and Lino Vilaventura.
Donatella Versace on stage
Versace opened Fashion Rocks with a fashion show capsule of the latest men and women's FW 0910 collections, accompanied by international acclaimed music artist P.Diddy. They were then followed by paired fashion designers and musical acts that included: Mariah Carey, Grace Jones, Ciara, Estelle, Stop Play Moon (Brazilian group) and Lino Vilaventura (Brazilian Group).
Versace also dressed Brazilian model actress and host of Rio's Oi Fashion Rocks, Fernanda Lima for the evening.
P. Diddy and Donatella Versace
on stage
www.versace.com
Fashion
True Blue
Jean Paul Gaultier remixes vintage sculptural linerie with Levi's® jeans and jackets on the Paris catwalk
After their SS 2010 Menswear partnership, Jean Paul Gaultier and Levi's® collaborate on key silhouettes from the SS 2010 Womenswear collection to hit selected stores in May 2010.
Talk about the re-emergence of the lingerie as outerwear trend and the sculptural glory of that Jean Paul Gaultier’s pink satin conical bra comes back to mind. A seminal ‘90s moment in the history of fashion, it cemented the fashion-forward reputation of the Queen of Pop and troubled the dreams of many.
A lifelong Levi's® jeans wearer and a denim fan, Jean Paul Gaultier remixed iconic Levi's® designs with vintage lingerie constructions in his S/S 2010 Womenswear collection on show in Paris on Saturday, creating silhouettes which are rigorously structured in design, lovingly crafted and free in spirit.
On the catwalk, dark denim turned into a mini-midi juxtaposition skirt and workwear- inspired dungarees – part modern Rosie the Riveter and part boudoir - with conical bra tops, reinforced and lined with flesh tone bias tape reminiscent of old school corsetry.
www.jeanpaulgaultier.com
www.eu.levi.com
Fashion
Rock Spirit,
Industrial Soul
John Richmond unveils his first boutique in France: a 1300 m2 Flagship Store located in the heart of Paris.
The opening of this imposing flagship store in Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore is part of a strategic plan for market expansion, organized by Saverio Moschillo who runs the brand together with John Richmond himself. This brand new store in Paris will join ones that already exist in Milan, Capri, Porto Cervo and Kiev. The Paris store introduces the brand’s new philosophy, express through new architecture, exquisite art installations, futuristic layouts and effective merchandising.
John Richmond worked in collaboration with french architect Christophe Pillet to create a new, exclusive vision of luxury, by using noble materials and unique details such as black smoked glass plates and chrome steel hangers. The distinctive tattoo design, sprayed on mirrors or inlayed on the floor in precious marbles, creates a continuous visual connection embodying the designer’s famous rock spirit and unveiling the industrial soul by being displayed in an unusual, high tech setting.
John Richmond
Rue de Fabourg Saint Honore 62
Paris, France
www.johnrichmond.com
Fashion
Just Be Causse
French glove-maker Causse opens it's e-boutique internet site
Founded in 1892, Causse makes its gloves from scratch in the workshops of its factory in Millau, Aveyron, France. Manufactured according to traditional methods, the gloves are hand-cut in the most luxurious lamb, peccary, python, ostrich and crocodile skins.
Causse has been working in collaboration for many years with French luxury goods manufacturers, including Chanel, Hermes and Louis Vuitton, whose gloves are manufactured in the Causse workshops. In 2006, Causse was awarded the "Living Heritage Company" label by the French government for its remarkable, rare know-how handed down through many generations. The company is now the last which still makes its gloves in the former French glove capital of Millau.
Worn today by Karl Lagerfeld, Madonna and Kylie Minogue, Causse gloves can be found in Tokyo, New York, London, Moscow and in its Paris boutique, designed by architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte, at 12 rue de Castiglione. Since September 2009, it has been possible for customers to have a selection of the company's most emblematic models delivered directly to their homes, thanks to the brand-new e-boutique internet site:
www.causse-gantier.fr
Art
The Fringe Projects
1-10
New York City release of The Fringe Book.
The Fringe Projects 1-10
Vibskov & Emenius book release
Friday 17 September
6pm-9pm
LaViolaBank Gallery
179 East Broadway
New York, NY 10002
U.S.A.
New pancakes and old techno will be served
www.vibskovemenius.com
www.henrikvibskov.com
www.andreasemenius.com
Art
Homeland
American artist Larry Sultan’s photography collection, Homeland, is soon to be seen in an exhibition in Andreas Murkudis in Berlin. The exhibition includes large-scale works from Sultan’s new series of staged photographs taken in everyday, suburban landscapes. The artist’s 13-piece portfolio will also be on display in order to supplement the larger prints and provide a more complete perspective on the Homeland collection.
Larry Sultan, Antioch Creek, 2008.
Courtesy Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
For his latest body of work, Larry Sultan hired Mexican day laborers as actors and subjects in his photographs, which he staged on the outskirts of Southern Californian suburbs. He found these illegal laborers outside a nearby strip mall where hundreds of men wait day by day to be picked up for hourly work. Sultan directed the men’s actions and gestures, drawing from his own memories of home life as well as his interpretation of the laborers’ individual experiences as exiles. The photographs romanticize the terrain of the suburbs and charge the activities of day laborers, which are rather mundane in nature, with metaphorical meaning: carrying food to a potluck, stringing lights on a tree, rowing a boat on a river.
Larry Sultan, Meander, Corte Madera, 2006. Courtesy Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
For the artist, the settings of the photographs are deeply reminiscent of the terrain he sought out as a child: empty fields behind malls and scruffy borderlands of the LA river that ran behind his parents’ house in the San Fernando Valley. The artist describes it as follows: “In my own past, these places represented a small and vanishing patch of paradise that existed just outside of the boundaries of property and ownership; a free zone that eased my (adolescent) uncertainty and provided a safe place away from the judgments of others.“
Larry Sultan - Homeland
September 24th – October 31st 2009
Andreas Murkudis
Münzstrasse 21
10178 Berlin
Fashion
Blue Bell
Pop Up Store
Relaunched for Fall/Winter 2009/10, Wrangler's premium brand Blue Bell has opened its first-ever store. The boutique pop-up shop - at 47 Lamb’s Conduit Street, Bloomsbury, London - will be open from September 4 through to October 10. Lamb’s Conduit Street is one of the hippest streets in London, crammed with cool British brands and gourmet places to eat and drink.
The boutique Blue Bell shop carries the complete Fall/Winter 2009/10 collection. The store has a simple arrangement, with the products lined up in curvaceous display cases. This is the first season for Blue Bell under a new design directive: to mix the beautiful fabrics and delicious details of Wrangler’s heritage with the contemporary fits and striking styling of modern fashion.
Adam Kakembo, marketing director of Wrangler Europe, said: “We have been longing to open a store for Blue Bell ever since the first design meeting. We are thrilled to present Blue Bell to the press and public, to show what Wrangler is capable of in quality and design. Blue Bell sits at the pinnacle of Wrangler products. It is a new thing in jeanswear: a blend of quality denim heritage and modern styling flair.”
www.bluebelljeans.com
Fashion
Rebel-Rebel
Marjan Pejoski delves deeper for AW2009. The juxtaposition of underwear-outerwear is explored through the intricacy of beaded laces, crystal embellishments and fabric manipulation giving the collection a rebellious, couture feel. Key pieces are the delicate lace separates, exquisite crystal encrusted leather jackets, signature high end knits and cracking footwear and accessories.
Fashion
Medieval Knights
Asger Juel Larsen is on his way to Milan. He is among the 26 finalist in the international Mittel Moda fashion award. This summer he graduated his BA in FDT Menswear from University of the Arts - London College of Fashion, where his final year collection was credited as the best in the class.
"My collection is created from a thorough and exciting research into the historical era of the medieval knights and one of my main focuses has been experimenting with and developing untraditional materials".
The collection got picked for the yearly press-show at London College of Fashion and aroused an enormous interest from the media.
www.asgerjuellarsen.blogspot.com
Fashion
Sweet & Sexy
Online fashion resource F.TAPE featured an interview with photographer Mariano Vivanco. He describes his "Sweet & Sexy" shoot for Zoo Magazine as the turning point in his career.
F.TAPE: You have played an instrumental role in the re-introduction of the masculine model and the male body as the object of desire. When did you personally notice a change in mainstream advertising and what do you think the future holds?
Mariano Vivanco: Cool, thank you! Well it is quite simple, we look at advertising to be inspired, to try to relate and emulate to someone, and to be turned on in a naughty way. Also it is about beauty, maybe I am an old painter re-incarnated but that is what makes sense to me. Arriving in London 10 years ago meant I had to change my perception of the male form. Here the trendy models are usually thinner than the NY models I used to work with.
Eventually a commission came in from a German magazine called Zoo. I had been meeting lots of models, which I found had very healthy bodies and some of them had rugby style legs… I did not even think twice about it. I made an editorial about Rugby boys and called it “Sweet and Sexy” – the boys were only wearing either tops or pants… That was my personal turning point.
"Sweet & Sexy"
Zoo Magazine No 6, 2005
Photography: Mariano Vivanco
Fashion Editor: Teddy Czopp
Fashion
All Stars
and Plaids
Converse showcases Fall 2009 Woolrich collaboration.
Converse launches its Fall 2009 footwear collection featuring a new collaboration with Woolrich. A brand new collection, Converse’s iconic and original footwear combines perfectly with the classic fabrics and patterns derived from Woolrich’s traditional custom designed woollens that date back to the early 1800s. Distinctly original American brands, the collaboration with Woolrich is a showcase of Converse originality combined with patterns and designs that have stood the test of time.
An exciting new venture with Woolrich, Converse debuts a few of the original plaids, patterns and fabrics that made Woolrich the original outdoor clothing company. Warm, cozy fabrics with origins in durability and utility, Converse incorporates the functionality and comfort of Woolrich into stylish, original footwear.
Fashion
Replay
SS2010
On Sunday July 26th, Dutch ex-model and TV-host Renate Verbaan opened the Replay show. In the presence of the complete Replay management team, the SS2010 collection by new creative director Gigi Vezzola was showed.
For the Spring/Summer of 2010, Replay looks back to the past and selects the best fashion choices of each decade. Replay mixes classic with sportive and local with international while keeping denim the essential part. This leads to a stylish collection with strong contrasts: from the 1980s to ethno chic.
www.replay.it
Catwalk images by Peter Stigter
Fashion
The House of Fun
Let your imagination run rabid with the new Diesel campaign – it’s got something for all the family and more. Fun, fun, fun (and obscure penis jokes) is back in fashion with the ALL-NEW ALL-COLOUR big, bright, brazen, bold, bonkers and beautiful Diesel Fall/Winter 2009 campaign.
In these voyeuristic, taboo-humping, iconoclastic spasms of a world mashed up by media, we follow many ridiculous “some-might-say-but-they-would-be-wrong” insane subplots conjured up by the mad scientist of the advertising game (the Diesel Creative Team).
Of course the models are beautiful: impotence-busting young women and sultry, slutty, teddy bear friend boys. Never have so many models so engagingly made love to no one, shared intimate moments with giant toy-bears, or been virulently attacked by feather dusters.
The campaign, shot by Jason Nocito and styled by Avena Gallagher, yielded no less than 23,000 photos during a thrilling six-day shoot (which used more than 3,000 Diesel items).
www.diesel.com
Fashion
Nike and
Lance Armstrong unite
Over twenty renowned artists have donated their time and creativity to express the LIVESTRONG message and raise funds for the Lance Armstrong Foundation, which is committed to inspiring and empowering people affected by cancer.
STAGES is more than an event. It is a unique celebration of human potential inspired by Lance and dedicated to the fight against cancer. It unites the worlds of art, philanthropy and sport by commissioning some of the most renowned figures in art to produce work inspired by Lance and his fight against cancer. The exhibition opens at the Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris before traveling to the United States this fall. All work is available for purchase with proceeds directly benefiting the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
Join the fight. Help others live strong.
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin
76 rue de Turenne & 10 impasse Saint-Claude
75003 Paris
France
July 17, 2009 – August 8, 2009
Gallery hours: Tue – Sat, 11am – 7pm
Image Credit: “Vital to the Core” 2009 by Ed Ruscha © Ed Ruscha, courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gallery
Fashion
Wrangler launches
Blue Bell website
Fall/Winter 2009 sees a newly updated Wrangler website, which also showcases the much anticipated relaunch of the Blue Bell collection.
www.bluebelljeans.com
The relaunch of Blue Bell collection is presented through a unique interactive short film directed by Filip Nilsson & Andreas Nilsson (Moby, The Knife).
Client: Wrangler Europe
Agency: Kokokaka
Production Company: Kokokaka
Directors: Andreas Nilsson & Filip Nilsson
DoP: Carl Nilsson
Fashion
The Genesis
of a Dress
On July 2nd 2009 during Berlin Fashion Week Wunderkind opened an exhibition in its Berlin boutique at Gendarmenmarkt.
Rather than presenting the new collection Fall/ Winter 2009 in a classic runway form, Wolfgang Joop decided to create an installation showing the creative process of the collection from the first idea to the final dress. Wunderkind opens itself to the consumer, allowing a rare view on the work process behind runway presentations and photos of glossy fashion magazines.
A 10 m long table presents first sketches and illustrations by the designer, mood boards, textile swatches and inspirations influencing the designer’s work.
Four large linear walls were built in the boutique space to break with the existing loft like space and acting as a gallery backdrop. These walls carry wallpapers with prints of the fall/winter collection fabrics as well as the original photographs by photo artist Gregor Toerzs, whose motifs were used as prints on dresses and coats of the fall collection.
54 exceptional pieces from the collection were draped on mannequins including first models in tuile, the 'blueprints' of the collection, so that the first draft confronts the final creation in real form.
The installation will last through July and August 2009.
www.wunderkind.com
Fashion
Fashion
Replay
Creative retail projects
2009 looks set to be a year full of exciting projects for Replay’s Retail arm. Fashion Box, the group behind the iconic denim label, is in fact planning a series of highly original initiatives for its mono-brand stores, all based on the concept of RE-PLAY and the prefix “RE-“, indicating repetition.
With this in mind, “re-elaboration” and “re-making” will be at the centre of 220 mono-brand Replay stores: interior design details and various artistic and cultural initiatives will be brought to life by the philosophy of “reinventing things”, transforming ordinary objects into extraordinary things, looking at the world in close up, through new eyes, promoted by a company whose vision goes way beyond apparel in its desire to represent an authentic lifestyle and adopt a perspective which reflects this historic moment in time.
During Bread & Butter Berlin fair two interesting initiatives will take place in the Berliner Replay Stores. Denim will turn into artist canvas and the result will be a limited edition artwork to wear or to keep forever. After Berlin launch the Re-denim project will move to Paris Rue Etienne Marcel from the 3rd to the 5th of September and then it will reach to Barcelona Paseo De Gracia flagship Store.
Replay Store, Neue Schonhauser Strasse 3-5, 10178 Berlin.
www.replay.it
Fashion
Wrangler Campaign
wins 'Grand Prix'
Wrangler has won the prestigious Press Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Lions advertising festival. The internationally-renowned prize was awarded for Wrangler’s arresting We Are Animals campaign, created by Paris agency Fred & Farid. The striking campaign of 11 print images brings to life the idea of primal urges, the animal buried within us all. The iconic photographs portray young people as animals in the wild.
Giorgio Presca, president of VF Jeanswear International, said: “We are delighted to win this incredibly prestigious advertising award. The We Are Animals campaign shows the Wrangler brand at its most dynamic – out in the wild, living life to the extreme. We have raised the bar. This is a real spur to give Wrangler the wonderful advertising it deserves.”
www.eu.wrangler.com
Fashion
Evisu
accessory line
The 75th Pitti Immagine Uomo in Florence was the setting for luxury denim brand Evisu to launch its first accessory line. Iconic bag label Mandarina Duck is appointed to design, produce and distribute the whole range. Together with the collections women-, men-, kid’s apparel, shoes and Swiss made watches Evisu now offers a well balanced collection. The Evisu bags and accessories collection translates the unique culture and philosophy of Evisu into detailed, colourful and funny carryall, ready to explore every aspect of getting around the globe whether it is for business or leisure.
The true icon of this collection is the Denim line. Contrast stitching paired with denim and leather has the unmistakingly Evisu signature. The collection will also be showed at Bread and Butter and Dutch Modefabriek in July.
www.evisu.com
Art
World Without Women
Upon invitation of gallerist Ron Mandos, Ruud van der Peijl and Silvia B. will collaborate to create an exposition in which the diverse and often disputed notion of masculinity will take the central theme. Ruud van der Peijl’s photographic series ‘World Without Women’ and the sculpture series ‘Les plus Beaux’ by Silvia B. present sometimes poetic, sometimes shockingly confrontational alternative perceptions of male self-perception, both young and old.
'Bubba' by Ruud van der Peijl
Tough, imposing, macho and charming, all stereotypes of male beauty and behaviour are addressed in this collaborative installation from Ruud van der Peijl and Silvia B.
Photographing models aged between 2 and 73 years, Ruud van der Peijl removes ‘masks’ such as clothing and accessories to draw out alternative identities with the use of make-up and a minimal amount of styling. All forms of image manipulation to render reality more beautiful as used in advertising and fashion photography are done away with so that the feminine, vulnerable and marked expressions of these models are painfully exposed.
By contrast Silvia B. adorns her boyish sculptures with an eclectic mix of unusual but distinctly recognisable garments, accessories and styling. Despite their party contrary approach, both artists uncover an aspect of boyish behavior, machismo, dandyism and everyday masculinity that grate with our everyday stereotyped view.
'David' by Ruud van der Peijl
'Jona' by Ruud van der Peijl
Ruud van der Peijl & Silvia B.
World Without Women & Les Plus Beaux
Gallery Ron Mandos
Prinsengracht 282
1016 HJ Amsterdam
the Netherlands
05.09.09 – 10.10.09
Art
100 Girls
On Polaroid
During this year's Berlin Fashion Week, Alexander Gnädinger presented "100 Girls on Polaroid", a series of portraits he took over the course of 15 trips – with just a Polaroid camera as equipment.
With the support of adidas, the project also turned into a book that was launched at the opening of the exhibition at No74 in Berlin. The project's title is a tribute to Tina Berning's book "100 girls on cheap paper" and the friendship between Alexander Gnädinger and the illustrator.
The polaroids show something that is hard to find in times of digital photography: unaltered reality. To Alexander Gnädinger, the extreme use of programms like photoshop has an enormous influence on how we perceive beauty, and ultimately on our self-perception. It inspired him to look for authentic beauty around the world and capture it on film. The unmanipulated result focuses on the models' personality and charisma alone – seemingly embracing imperfection but all the while honoring originality. The photographer captured the 100 girls how they naturally see themselves and how they want to be seen – what you see is what you get. His work might therefore bring an answer to our ever growing wish for individuality.
www.no74-berlin.com
www.100girlsonpolaroid.com
www.alexander-gnaedinger.com
Fashion
'We can
change lives'
Neil Barrett
Neil Barrett, in collaboration with Oxfam International and Ucodep, has created a special limited edition T-shirt in both men's and women's versions, it is a true evocation of Oxfams’s philosophy: working together for change. The T-shirt is available exclusively on www.thecorner.com, whose proceeds will be donated to both humanitarian organizations.
Both organizations have always sought the involvement of key figures from the entertainment and artistic fields, in the effort to find new solutions to their ongoing efforts.
www.thecorner.com
Fashion
Belvedere Vodka brings you
Belvedere IX
Belvedere IX (pronounced One-X) is the new luxury spirit from Belvedere that brings the best in vodka quality and innovation to the nightclub scene. ‘With the introduction of Belvedere IX, we have created a new style of vodka. With its distinctive packaging and taste specifically developed to capture the excitement of the night,’ says Charles Gibb, President Millennium - The Vodka and Rum Division of Moet Hennessy.
With the release of IX, Belvedere continues to assert its Luxury Reborn message with powerful references to contemporary culture, as shown in the creation of the packaging. The design is the result of a collaboration with graffiti artist Andre Saraiva, who conceived a new personality to inhabit the Belvedere Palace, Mr IX.
The launchparty took place on May 26, 2009 in Michelberger Hotel in Berlin with music by Kavinsky, Shir Khan and Hugo Kapablanca.
www.belvedereix.com
Fashion
7 For All Mankind
Boutique Paris
7 For All Mankind has chosen Paris to open its first European boutique. The 70 square meter flagship store is to be located in the prestigious Rue Saint Honoré, and the complete range of 7 For All Mankind collections for men, women, children, denim, sportswear and accessories will be available here.
On the occasion of this inauguration, a special denim edition “7 For All Mankind Loves Paris” will be launched. Only 200 pairs of these jeans have been produced and they will be sold exclusively at the boutique. The jeans have the classic squiggle on the back pockets and on the label, instead of the usual 7, there is a splendid Eiffel Tower, in rhinestone for women and embroidered for men.
The 7 For All Mankind boutique will be open daily from 10:00 to 19:00.
Rue Saint Honoré 223
Paris, France
www.7forallmankind.com
Fashion
Adidas Consortium
Kiosk at No74
The second drop of the 3Way Consortium project from Adidas Originals brings together 4 of North America’s most respected sneaker retailers and boutiques to tell their own stories on 5 iconic models from adidas.
Following the basic idea of the Consortium “3Way” concept, a lovely and cheerful wooden shack in the backyard garden of No74 created a perfect backdrop for the very reduced and iconic execution of the presented Consortium sneakers. With its truly unique spirit of an ever evolving patchwork city, Berlin is continuously mixing old and new, style and trash, past and future. The ‘Consortium Pop-Up Kiosk’ at No74 is taking a clear reference to the cities unmatchable and alive spirit.
From now on, the complete collection of all 5 Consortium sneakers will be available at the No74.
Torstrasse 74
10119 Berlin
Germany
www.no74-berlin.com
Art
Sako Kojima's
Stockholm Syndrome
Sako Kojima announces that her solo exhibition will be held at Art Fair Tokyo 2009 @TOKIA.
“I’ve been interested in one of the human emotions, love/affection. When we feel affection toward a subject, it is sometimes accompanied by a destructive impulse. Even if not an extreme sadist, us human’s hold such feelings to no small extent. For example, for the sake of it’s cuteness, I sometimes feel like eating my hamster. Perhaps when you see children or even a cute dog, their sweetness may urge you to hold them firmly, or caress them hardly," says Sako Kojima.
Kojima will exhibit a group of works expressing this complex emotion of human love. Her aim is to indicate fundamental human demand, especially of those victims of complex love. They have some form of needs towards being captured or being hurt. Therefore, she adopted the title “Stockholm Syndrome."
Kojima's works are a combination of two kinds. One, a soft looking animal using several materials, and the other, an icy and stinging object made of metal. With the use of an elevate iron rack and some materials from her antique collection, she creates three-dimensional works of which unique and pathetic.
“Stockholm Syndrome”
Art Fair Tokyo 2009 @TOKIA
Friday, April 3 - Sunday, April 5, 2009
Venue II: TOKYO BLDG. TOKIA. GALLERIA
YAMAMOTO GENDAI Booth No. T24
www.artfairtokyo.com
www.sakokojima.com
Fashion
Magazyn
by hand
The collection of by hand is a selection of objects and accessories, handmade by craftsmen. Simple forms and shapes make each piece an individual creation with soul. No two are the same, they all have there own unique appearance made from natural materials such as wood, leather or cotton. Hand made to last a life time.
Magazyn
Huidevetterstraat 38-40
Nieuwe gaanderij 23
2000 Antwerp
Belgium
www.magazyn.be
Fashion
Penkov
Berlin based designer Bernadett Penkov return to London for the third season with her new Spring/Summer 09 collection to be shown at Londen Fashion Week.
Masculinity and femininity are Bernadett Penkov’s favourite themes and this season her innovative designs in ultra-soft fabrics and sophisticated cuts are combined with traditional porcelain craftsmanship for series of designs that integrate hard white porcelain accessories into decorative body armour.
Dresses are made from airy chiffon, white, blue, beige, silver and black silk detailed with vintage lace and sequin. Flowing feminine layers create lightness and delicacy; accentuating the body and yet very casual, the all black ensemble of blazer and wide legged trousers pay tribute to the 40’s and irresistible Marlene Dietrich look.
‘I create clean and sophisticated fashion with a statement and attention to detail’ says Penkov, describing the essentials of her designs.
www.penkovberlin.com
Fashion
Manish Arora
for Swatch
Manish Arora joins Swatch for signature collection in spring summer 2009.
The Indian fashion designer Manish Arora combines high-contrast colours and intriguing shapes with Bollywood sparkle, pop culture, humour and sheer joie de vivre to create an exuberant collection of fashionable accessories for the wrist - all in the spirit of Swatch! The Manish Arora Collection includes Swatch Irony, Skin, Puzzle Motion and Original Gent models.
www.swatch.com
www.manisharora.ws
Fashion
Maarten Baas
for Costume National
Hosted by Creative Director Ennio Capasa in occasion of the Milan Furniture Fair, Dutch artist Maarten Baas designs a Limited Edition T-shirt for Costume National.
Only 100 pieces of the tee featuring little men, who stand next to the graphics of “Clay Furniture” and the “Sculpt Cupboard”, both part of the Furniture From the Fringe Of Reality exhibit, have been produced and are available exclusively on www.costumenational.com.
design by Maarten Baas
drawings by Suzanne van der Aa
Fashion
Les Ateliers Ruby
& MMM
For the third edition of the short "Signature" program by Ateliers Ruby, Jérôme Coste wanted to venture into the world of the off-beat and re-interpretation, which are the founding principles of Maison Martin Margiela.
In the midst of celebrating its 20th birthday, Maison Martin Margiela became highly enthusiastic about the project to transform the Ruby helmet. Martin Margiela and his colleagues at 163 rue Saint-Maur took the program title literally and each one placed his signature on the helmet to create a collective work.
The carbon shell is varnished then covered with broad lines of paint with a "meudon white" effect, the pure but imperfect whites that are the "Maison's" universal hallmark. The whole team's involvement can then be discovered with eyes closed: all the members have engraved their name or initials into the layer of white paint.
www.ateliersruby.com
Fashion
Monki Girl
Monki is an entity derived from mixtures of old chemicals, forgotten in the ruins of old fabric factories in the city of oil and steel. Monki is also a store concept and women's clothes brand. Unique illustrated prints on clothes, packaging and stationaries continuously tell stories from the world of the Monki.
The experiences of the litte black Monkis are the source of inspiration for the homonymus girl brand, that offers affordable attitude clothing in more than 20 shops in Sweden. The first Shop in Denmark will open its doors on May 1st and invite to a magic world, the City of Oil and Steel.
www.monkigirl.com
Fashion
Infusion de Fleur d’Oranger
The enigma of the Orange Blossom, the pretty white flower that appears next to the orange fruit, is unmasked in Prada’s multi-dimensional new scent for women. Infusion de Fleur d’Oranger is the debut fragrance in the Ephemeral Infusion Collection, a family of yearly, limited edition fragrances derived from Prada’s Exclusive Scent range, launched in 2003.
Following its exploration of scents based on natural ingredients, Prada takes the artisan tradition of infusion from classic perfumery and re-imagines it for a modern age; a sensorial refuge in a world of over-stimulated senses. Under the creative direction and inspiration of Miuccia Prada, Infusion de Fleur d’Oranger was developed by perfumer Daniela Andrier.
Infusion de Fleur d’Oranger is an eau de parfum for women.
It is available in the following formats:
Eau de Parfum Spray 50ml, 100ml and 200ml
Eau de Parfum Splash 400ml
www.prada.com
Music
Róisín Murphy in Zoo Magazine No. 20
POP PRINCESS
Róisín Murphy
by David Hellqvist/photography Glen Erler
The video for ‘Movie Star,’ Róisín Murphy’s latest high-powering single, perfectly sums up the former Moloko singer. It features the cast from the ultra cool, but now defunct east London nightclub Boombox, and shows its founder Richard Mortimer with friends, dressed up to their teeth re-enacting a normal Tuesday night of debauchery and hedonism in a Soho hot spot. The video is full of excessive makeup, designer clothing and flash photography, not to mention a lobster dry humping. Humorous, over the top, but oh so infectious, it shows Murphy’s love for all things glamorous.
So her Zoo Magazine shoot should have come as a bit of a shock. Shot in a community center somewhere in north London, next to peeling council estates and with no other background music than bird song, there was none of the usual Viktor & Rolf threads, scandalous poses or flamboyant makeup. It was just Róisín Murphy, naturally stripped down, exposing the person behind the performer extraordinaire shield. But Murphy says she enjoyed it, calling the photo shoot “meditating, introspective and quieting.” Of course, she had the guidance of photographer Glen Erler, but just like in her musical career, Murphy is a skilled chameleon, professionally adjusting to any situation.
READ THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW IN ZOO MAGAZINE NO. 20, TO BE RELEASED THIS MONTH.
Róisín Murphy - Movie Star VIDEO
Fashion
Knit Wit
The bright and cheerful designers behind the brand Cooperative Designs are Annalisa Dunn and Dorothee Hagemann. They met when they were working on their MA at Central Saint Martins in London, where they discovered in each other a similar design aesthetic.
“We hope our design aesthetic is quite intelligent and conceptual, but also light-hearted and fun. When people wear our bright pieces, they seem to be uplifted and excited,” says Dunn. “I think we were really excited about our first catwalk show, so the collection was quite celebratory and upbeat. I hope this makes the wearer feel this too. When I first knitted a scarf I tried to put feelings of love and happiness into it. Then whenever I wore it, I felt comforted and safe. It was two meters long and changed color every 20 centimeters! Whenever anyone was sad they had to wear the scarf and they felt better. Because it was so long we managed to get about three people at once uplifted! I still try to have this attitude when I make things.”
Spring/Summer 09 marks the third collection for Cooperative Designs, whose initial interest in fashion came from grandmothers who loved to knit. “I believe craft and fashion are passed on like that,” says Dunn.
The collection is available at Browns Focus (London), Styler Store (Rome) and online with brittique.com.
www.cooperative-designs.com
Fashion
P!nk for PETA
For the first time ever, Pink and Ricky Gervais have teamed up: In a provocative new ad campaign for PETA, the pair provide the voices for computer-generated animals who make their edgy case that exotic skins and fur belong on their original owners.
In the 30-second TV spot, the Grammy-winning singer and top funnyman "appear," respectively, as a skinned alligator and a rabbit who has had his coat stolen and demand their skins back from a couple retrieving a bag and a jacket from a coat check. As the alligator (Pink) says, no matter what someone pays for clothing and accessories made from animals, it's the animals who have "paid a lot more!"
www.peta.org.uk
Travel
The Factory Hotel
The Factory Hotel is an eclectic mix of buildings located at what was once the site of the Germania Brewery in Muenster, Germany. In addition to sprucing up the old brewery buildings and grounds, architect Andreas Deilmann introduced a brand-new, modern wing and transformed the entire area into a vibrant new lifestyle and entertainment
quarter for travelers and locals alike.
The main brewery building overlooks a lake and is surrounded by restaurants, clubs and shops. The 128 guestrooms and 16 suites are all housed in the new
wing, set slightly apart from the bustle of campus life so that guests are
assured a quiet night’s sleep but are never too far from the action.
The Factory Hotel brings together seemingly contradictory elements into a unified whole: club meets landmark-protected building, industrial elements meet cozy comfort, urban life meets calm retreat – at the Factory Hotel, diverse elements are fused together to provide guests and visitors with a truly unique hotel experience.
Opening December 2008
The Factory Hotel
Germania Brewery 5
48159 Muenster
Germany
www.designhotels.com
Fashion
Eley Kishimoto
for Eastpak SS09
This SS09 Eastpak unveils its latest designer collaboration with the ‘patrons of print’ the London based design house Eley Kishimoto. Eastpak has become well known for its innovative creative pairings and for hosting a wide range of prints and colourways in its own collections so, partnering with this world class design house is a perfect match. Eley Kishimoto create enticing prints that truly set trends across the globe. As well as running their eponymous label, Mark Eley and Wakako Kishimoto are also the Creative Directors for Cacharel.
For this collaboration, the iconic Eley Kishimoto Flash print has been used in three colourways (blue, red, black) across three of Eastpaks classic and most popular styles (Padded Pak’r, Delegate, The One), resulting in nine unique products. Each product will be made in a limited edition run of 1000 units that will be individually numbered and signature labelled.
www.eastpak.com
Fashion
Standard Supply
For the Spring Summer 09 season, Marc by Marc Jacobs launches the Standard Supply Overlay collection, reworking the iconic Standard Supply group in a new fabrication.
The very soft, feminine floral print, as featured in the ready to wear collection, is interpreted in a very utilitarian way - Adopting a unique technique, the floral print fabric is overlaid with a frosted finish rubber quality material. Contrasting with the romantic softness of the floral print, the shapes and the rubber material bring a more functional and tough feel to the collection.
Available in Stormy Grey Multi or Bamboo Tan Multi, starting from April 2009.
www.marcjacobs.com
Fashion
Les Hommes on thecorner.com
Les Hommes arrives on the Web on thecorner.com, the new virtual “department store” launched by YOOX Group featuring the latest collections from cutting-edge international designers and a selection of hard to find Italian brands – many of them appearing online for the first time.
Les Hommes debuts online with its first virtual shop stocked with a wide selection of suits, coats, jackets, shirts and accessories: a custom-made “corner” that reaches a larger fashion-savvy audience and provides a unique way of connecting to the fans of the Belgian brand. In March the S/S 2009 collection will be available online: inspired by frequent and long trips throughout the Far East and a shared passion for Quentin Tarantino’s visionary stories, the two designers of Les Hommes mix modernity and traditional culture this season, creating a collection that exudes contemporaneity.
www.thecorner.com
Fashion
V for Victory
Victory is pure Nike – the challenge before success and the steps it takes to achieve it. Victory doesn’t come easily. In order to win, you need to rebel against failure, raise your standards and overcome obstacles. With the help of over 25 of the world’s best young footballers and athletes, including Didier Drogba, Rafael Nadal and Cesc Fabregas, Nike has created a campaign that captures an irreverent attitude channeled through the universally recognized V sign.
To celebrate this attitude, Nike has remixed the classic Eugene Track Jacket, one of the brand’s most iconic pieces of apparel.
Celebrated British photographer, Rankin, shot two separate but supporting concepts over four photoshoots in Madrid, Milan and London.
www.nikesportswear.com
Fashion
Emotion in Motion
New silhouettes and visual impact using plain colours fabrics. Color explosion. The most colourful show ever, if this is possible at all. Forms flow from textures and vibrant colors combination, creating new graphic effects. Fluid volatile forms thanks to light sheer fabrics. Unusual combinations are a constant feature. Bright print graphics in jacquards are mixed with new volume fabrics. Playing with different materials and textures is key, while individual shine appliqués over the garments add kinetic iridescent sparkles. A sincere homage to everyday wonders that nature gives: Lady Dragonfly, Plume Twins, Love Essence, Spider Duo, Waterfall... Poetic, sinuous silhouetes wanting to reinvent feminity: colorful, volatile and fluid. At the end of the day, so Custo Barcelona.
www.custo-barcelona.com
Fashion
LegEnd
LegEnd: a new line of jeans in response to the premium trend, a link between past and future to live in the present. This line, exclusively denim, revolves around 4 constructions, which have marked the past 30 years of the "Jeanovation“ established by Marithé + François Girbaud. This jean is the "LegEnd“ of the future.
Marithé and François Girbaud have created a signature fly, free up the hands, invent the Stone Wash, the Baggy look, and while the ball is rolling, the X Pocket along with all the historical innovative techniques for shapes, construction and treatment of fabrics. These changes brought a new contribution to the evolution of the silhouette and what would be known as the emerging Street Culture, forever changing the behavior of our peers. As recognized "Orijeanators“, it is only right that they establish the legend of tomorrow.
These jeans do not bear their signature, it is present as proof. In memory of the signature tag, which has been theirs for the past 35 years, Marithé and François Girbaud appear for the first time on a label and sign this jean indirectly and without announcing it.
The line will be available starting in June in selected stores.
www.girbaud.com
Fashion
Stella McCartney Opens in Paris
Stella McCartney opened her first store in Paris, located in the heart of the Jardins du Palais Royal at 114-121 Galerie de Valois in December 2008. The store reflects an intimate, personal and architectural atmosphere to house the Stella McCartney collections. Simple material combinations, sculpturally contrasted with a unique play on spacing, have been used in Stella’s signature style combination of sharpness and femininity.
Eight windows facing out onto the Palais Royal arcade and tree-lined square create an inviting entrance and a daybed in fabric and brass providing focus to this richly decorated space. Oval brass sculptures creating a rainfall backdrop are used to display accessories. The two-pile depth dark colored carpet and glossy marble floor accentuate the sense of luxury.
The 150 square meter wall space is covered in sweeping curved maple veneer with lacquer tray inserts and pull out shelves. The two large dressing rooms are clad in rich, hand decorated fabric, embellished with crystals and bronze handmade hooks.
Stella McCartney Store
114-121 Galerie de Valois
Jardins du Palais Royal
Paris 75001
Tel: +33 (0) 1 47 03 03 80
www.stellamccartney.com
Fashion
Relaxed Purity
Sisley's new collection for spring/summer aims straight for the heart. It plays on sensations and emotions; it alludes to places, situations and times, but without labouring the point. It seems to suggest that an outfit is the visible side of what we are, of what we want to show of ourselves. A calling card we choose each day that says exactly who we are.
www.sisley.com
Fashion
COS S/S 2009
COS continues to develop a high quality design aesthetic that is fashionable but wearable and that pays homage to iconic pieces from the feminine and masculine wardrobe while questioning their function and form.
For spring/summer, the white shirt, the little black dress, the pencil skirt, the polo, the perfect blazer, pair of trousers or the coat that will transform a look; through draping, volume and architecture but that never appears over-worked are all part of the story.
The focus is on natural qualities and pure materials: paper crisp poplins, stiff Italian silks, washed cottons and linens woven with metallic thread, spongy, knitted jacquards and more fine-gauge weaves designed to be layered, one over the other.
www.cosstores.com
Fashion
BOSS Black and HUGO SS09
The BOSS Black Men and Woman’s Collection for summer 2009 focuses on clean cuts, surprising details and luxurious materials. “The New Perfectionists” is the name of the game: a theme in which simple touches make every piece extra-special.
Surprising details, precision cuts and an exciting game of shape and proportion: Bruno Pieters’ first HUGO collection presented a winning mix of modernity and classic elements. His second collection for the Spring/Summer season 2009 picks up where the premiere left off – and was inspired by the German aviation legend Elly Beinhorn, who made headlines with her exploits in the 1930s.
www.hugoboss.com
Fashion
Styling Around the World
The web’s most exclusive fashion corner features new styles thanks to a new project: “Styling Around the World”. Each season thecorner.com’s "shop windows" will present products through the eyes of some of the most well-known stylists from different fashion capitals around the world.
thecorner.com users can compare different styles and get suggestions for personalizing their look while mixing items by top designers and enjoying photo shoots created by true style professionals from Milan to London, from Tokyo to Berlin, from Los Angeles to New York.
The first leg of the journey is Tokyo and the protagonist will be the Japanese stylist Tsuyoshi Noguchi, who will realize a shooting through an extraordinary selection of brand chosen on thecorner.com.
www.thecorner.com
Fashion
Security Control
The new D&G Time and D&G Jewels ad was born from the creative idea of Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, with the art direction of Mario Testino.
The film is shot in Paris, in Charles de Gaulle Airport. The French international hub represents the perfect setting to emphasize the unmistakable and glamorous style of D&G Time and D&G Jewels.
The desire to own and wear Time and Jewels is the theme of the story. The attachment to the D&G style is so strong that the young couple starring in the ad try to elude the conventional airport safety measures so that they can avoid parting with their D&G Time and D&G Jewels.
The D&G Time and D&G Jewels ad will be aired on all the main global television channels until Christmas 2008.
To watch the ad, click here.
Fashion
HURRAY! Bas Kosters Webshop Online
The web shop of Dutch fashion designer Bas Kosters is finally online and offers clothing for men and women, several art pieces, the latest accessories and of course the famous Bas Kosters dolls. Because of its extensive stock the web shop is the ultimate medium to present all the Bas Kosters Studio products and can also supply customers abroad. “Even though we sell through high end stores in Amsterdam and Tokyo, with this web shop we can finally give a total overview of our entire assortment.”
Every so often several new pieces are added to the webshop which are developed off-season. Also unique limited edition pieces and vintage re-edits are for sale. The prices vary from 17,50 to 1000,- euros: from the more accessible items such as T-shirts, sweats and brooches to exclusive hand painted pieces and dolls. One off the new articles created for the web shop is the Bas Kosters Studio Illustrations Magazine with a selection of well-known but also never-seen-before illustrations of designer Bas Kosters presented in a mini-magazine with a vintage look.
shop.baskosters.com
Fashion
Quinny by Henrik Vibskov U.S. Launch
Taking its stylish diversity to the next level, Europe’s leading brand in innovative strollers celebrated the U.S. launch of its Limited Edition: ‘Quinny by Henrik Vibskov’ on Wednesday, November 19 in New York.
Internationally renowned Danish fashion designer, musical artist and film maker Henrik Vibskov designed this exclusive collection with the boundless imagination of children in mind. This unusual collaboration resulted in a line that’s daring, exciting and totally fun!
The ‘Quinny by Henrik Vibskov’ collection will be available in January 2009 at a very select number of leading fashion retailers worldwide, including Seven New York, SPRMRKT (Amsterdam) and Henrik Vibskov’s multi-brand store in Copenhagen.
Joseph Quartana from Seven New York had this to say: “As you know I’m completely NOT into anything ‘baby’, but my heart absolutely melted when I saw this exhibition in Copenhagen over the summer and I felt that I simply had to share this with New York and all the soon to be mom’s out there. I mean, who would not want to push their toddler around in a space-pod buggy. Plus Quinny's quality is second to none, so you can rest assured the buggies are ultra safe.”
www.quinnydesign.com
Fashion
The Winner Takes It All…
Monique van Heist is the undisputed winner of the Mercedes-Benz Dutch Fashion Awards 2008, which was presented Friday November 7th 2008 for the second time to the Dutch fashion designer most likely to succeed internationally. The international jury awarded the main award unanimously to Monique van Heist for her innovative interpretation of fashion. She convinced the jury by her personality and her consistency of work – through which she offers the fashion world a strong alternative. The designer “involves the core identity of the people in the Netherlands,” said honourable member of the jury Christine Ellis. The jury described Monique’s work as sincere, honest and a source of inspiration.
Apart from the main award of 25,000 euro, the winner also received the Dutch Fashion Incubator Award: products and services of great value to upcoming fashion talent in the development of their own label – thanks to the Bijenkorf, Lectra and the Fair Wear Foundation. The media jury was unanimous as well in her judgement and chose Monique van Heist also as the winner of the Dutch Fashion Media Award, an award made possible by Club Brillant. Van Heist is given the possibility to develop her own eyewear collection with the support of a well known eyewear designer and also received 5,000 euro to invest into the development in her label.
The Dutch Fashion Icon Homme & Femme Awards were awarded to fashion consultant Carlo Wijnands and fashion editor Aynouk Tan. All awards were designed and produced by the Dutch design atelier Ted Noten.
www.dutchfashionawards.com
Fashion
Line 12
Maison Martin Margiela creates its first collection of fine Jewellery, bearing the number 12, completing the various Maison Martin Margiela’s lines.
The collection is the result of the creative collaboration between Maison Martin Margiela and the Damiani Group, one of the most renowned Italian jewellery manufacturers worldwide. Since 1924, Damiani has perpetuated the knowledge of the Italian fine jewellery tradition, combining craftmen’s work expertise, high quality materials, exclusive design and innovative technology.
The collection of 14 items will be available from November 2008 only in Maison Martin Margiela shops as well as in an exclusive selection of fashion retailers throughout the world.
www.maisonmartinmargiela.com
Fashion
G-Star at NYFW
Proud to offer its Spring/Summer 2009 runway show to the UN Millennium Campaign to raise awareness for the necessity of ending extreme poverty by 2015, G-Star Raw once again left the audience stunned and silent. A marvelous show of 64 looks introduced a light weight Spring/Summer range, inspired by premium sports resulting in comfortable shapes and clean and classic silhouettes. The collection, shown at Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan tonight, offered signature “Raw White looks” in a bright and fresh color palette, with detailed piping in ivory, dark navy and summer grey, matching G-Star’s iconic touch of raw denim.
Immediately following the show, at the same venue, New York celebrated its first Raw Night, episode of the global G-Star Raw Nights series, launched in Tokyo earlier this year. On behalf of the UN Millennium Campaign, Alan and Heather made a personal call to action specific to the commitments made by world leaders to achieve the MDGS by 2015. For that purpose, an interactive platform was staged in the UN Millennium Campaign Gallery, inviting the party crowd which included Ryan Adams, Tyson Beckford, Damon Dash, Josh Lucas, Eric Mabius, Danny Masterson, Róisín Murphy, Matthew Settle, Mena Suvari, Q-Tip and Zoe Saldana to send their personal digital messages of support for the MDGS to their respective Heads of State.
www.g-star.com
Fashion
Gucci opens in Munich
Gucci opens its first directly operated store in Munich, Germany. The store will be located in a beautiful building at the entrance of the prestigious Maximilianstrasse and will boast the new Frida I design, conceived by Gucci’s Creative Director Frida Giannini.
Giannini’s concept, which employs light and transparency to spectacular effects, is a grand departure from codified retail spaces and paves the way for Gucci’s 21st century modern look. Historic Gucci materials such as dark rosewood and marble remain lynchpins in the store’s aesthetic, while an array of new materials such as ribbed glass, warm polished gold, smoked mirror and smoked glass, recall the elegance and richness of the Art Deco era and also afford the interior incredible warmth and a striking graphic quality.
The store is composed of a selling space of almost 6,400 square feet spread over one story. It will house men’s and women’s collections of ready-to-wear, handbags, shoes, watches, sunglasses, jewellery, small leather goods and gifting items.
The Gucci Munich store will open to the public on November 3rd 2008.
www.gucci.com
Fashion
Explosion of Styles
THECORNER.COM, the online “department store” launched by YOOX Group featuring the latest men’s collections from cutting-edge international designers, is updating its look with new brands and photo spreads put together by some of the most renowned international stylists.
Fall/Winter ‘08 at THECORNER.COM will also see the arrival of Maison Martin Margiela, which has chosen THECORNER.COM for its first virtual shop in shop in Europe and in Japan, personalized with great attention, following the traditional Maison identity. Simplicity and graphic purity help to build the mood of this virtual space.
The online “department store” will also showcase other “corners” dedicated to international designers such as Raf Simons, Marc Jacobs, Victor & Rolf, Helmut Lang, Kris Van Assche, Corto Moltedo, Bernhard Willhelm, Veronique Branquinho, Adam Kimmel, Rick Owens and Coming Soon as well as Italian niche brands like Santacroce and Premiata, just to name a few.
www.thecorner.com
Fashion
Candy Box
A candy box for the opening of the new Kenzo George V boutique in Paris.
Kenzo is celebrating the opening of its new 500m flagship store on the Avenue George V, a few steps from the Champs Elysées, with an array of coloured sweets.
Candy Box by Kenzo is a very limited series of evening bags sold exclusively in the new George V boutique to celebrate its opening.
Metallic contours which recall the structure of the building at 49-51 Avenue George V gives the bag a very futuristic design.
Available in the colours of the Défilé Fall/Winter 2008/2009 Collection by Antonio Marras, the candy box comes with two elasticised wrist holds in two different colours, to change according to ones humour and… the party!
ADDRESS
Boutique KENZO
49-51 avenue George V
75008 Paris
France
T: +33 14 723 3349
Kenzo Défilé AW 2008 VIDEO
Fashion
Well-Heeled
Jimmy Choo unveils its Autumn/Winter 2008 advertising campaign shot by New York based fashion photographer Terry Richardson, renowned for his wildly vivacious work, and featuring dynamic beauty, American supermodel, Angela Lindvall. The images encapsulate the thrill and glamour of the new collection, worn by a woman who lives the life she dares. The gilt and marble splendour of the newly renovated Plaza Hotel on Central Park in New York, provides the setting for the campaign. It takes the shape of a montage of ‘moments,’ as seen unfolding in the course of one night.
The campaign will launch in August books in America and the United Kingdom. Additionally, it will run during the season throughout Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
www.jimmychoo.com
Art
Valentino Garavani. Una grande storia italiana, Art Edition
Think Valentino: think luxury. Think elegance. Think red carpet. Fashion’s most beloved upholder of refined decadence and the most exciting couturier in business is known around the globe simply by his first name.
This luxurious limited-edition publication renders homage to Valentino’s illustrious career via a copious selection of images from his archives, including drawings, magazine shoots, advertisements, portraits of Valentino, and documentary photographs; presented chronologically, the visual material is accompanied by a vast array of newspaper and magazine articles about Valentino throughout the years. Text also includes Vanity Fair writer Matt Tyrnauer’s interviews with twenty of Valentino’s closest collaborators and friends as well as an appreciation of Valentino by International Herald Tribune’s fashion writer Suzy Menkes. All of these elements add up to an in-depth look at the man, his lifestyle, and his genius—a book more comprehensive and stunning than one could hardly dare to dream of. After all, what could be a more fitting tribute to the work of Valentino than a book as beautiful and luxurious as one of his gowns?
Valentino Garavani. Una grande storia italiana, Art Edition
Chitolina, Armando (ED)
Tyrnauer, Matt / Menkes, Suzy / Miscellaneous
Hardcover + Box + 4 signed prints 33 x 44 cm, 738 pages, € 3000.00
www.taschen.com
Music
Philips GoGear
With its latest range of GoGear audio and video players Philips sets a new standard in sound quality on the go. The Philips-patented FullSound technology puts the liveliness and natural dynamics back to MP3 music. Consumers experience the same sound quality as in their living room. The stylish premium model of the range, the GoGear SA52, comes also with high-class in ear headphones which support the great sound experience of these portable audio and video players.
One of the main criticisms made by portable MP3 player users today is poor sound quality playback from MP3 formatted music. The latest generation of Philips GoGear products incorporates the new and unique and Philips patented FullSound technology which raises the bar for MP3 sound quality playback.
Philips has used its expertize in music reproduction and the latest Digital Sound Processor (DSP) technology to create FullSound, which analyzes the music signal and enriches it by dynamically enhancing the frequency spectrum and density. FullSound restores the emotion and warmth to music that MP3 takes away – achieved by faithfully restoring sonic detail to compressed MP3 music. Performing 10 million operations per second, the signal is reprocessed before it is sent to the speakers, without adding unwanted noise or distortion for naturally clean, warm and powerful sonics.
www.philips.com
Fashion
Burberry Advertising Campaign Autumn/Winter 2008/09
The new Burberry advertising campaign for autumn/winter 2008/09 has been unveiled recently. It’s a series of black and white images shot in Kensington Gardens, by Mario Testino. The campaign features model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and British actor Sam Riley, who made his acting debut as Joy Division singer Ian Curtis in Control. Riley is also the lead singer of British punk rock band 10,000 Things.
www.burberry.com
Fashion
Diesel Black Gold
Cinema
Moët & Scarlett
Moët & Chandon has announced a new international advertising campaign shot by British photographer Tim Walker, featuring Scarlett Johansson. Revisiting Moët & Chandon’s original advertising campaign that introduced Scarlett Johansson as the brand’s first celebrity ambassador, Walker’s new photographs bring to life the rich heritage and savoir-faire of the world’s leading champagne.
Accordingly, the campaign was shot in the impressive residence built by Jean-Rémy’s Moët between 1805-1817 on the Moët & Chandon Estate in Epernay, France.
www.moet.com
Fashion
Meltin'Pot
Style Me Up Project
Meltin'Pot saw the relaunch of its online store at the same time as the International creative incentive Style Me Up Project in which 12 international bloggers show off their stylistic universe through the brand's clothes and their fashion tips for the season ahead.
Following the successful first editions featuring Japan based duo, tokyodandy.com and Italian blogger Erica Baldi of blueisinfashionthisyear.com, Meltin'Pot now teamed up with M.I.T Me by Mayte de la Iglesia, showcasing her three interpretations of the Meltin'Pot Spring/Summer 2011 season.
Ex model and infamous Spanish journalist Mayte de la Iglesia is one of the most important bloggers in Spain. With the help of illustrator Rosa del Toro, she put together a list of ten styling tips for a joyful spring and tells us how and when to wear a pair of Meltin'Pot's.
www.mitmebymayte.blogspot.com
www.meltinpot.com
Art
Swedish Fashion
Goes Berlin
Camilla Åkrans - Colors
Swedes love Berlin and Germans love Swedish fashion. That’s why the Swedish Institute Stockholm presents an exciting and interesting line-up of four fashion events during Berlin Fashion Week entitled ‘Swedish Fashion Goes Berlin.' With Fashion! Fashion Photography by Camilla Åkrans at the Gallery Swedish Photography in Berlin-Mitte, photographs by Camilla Åkrans, one of the leading Swedish fashion photographers, will be on display.
Nakkna by Gösta Reiland
When the darkness falls, the gallery’s courtyard will be enlightened by a small fashion film festival showing cutting-edge fashion video works from and about Ann-Sofie Back, Fashion Tale Magazine, Nakkna and more artists. On January, 21st an inspiring and exciting fashion lecture will be held at the Felleshus of the Nordic Embassies Berlin. The last event will be a group show of the three designers Camilla Norrback, Diana Orving and Ida Sjöstedt in the tent at Bebelplatz.
www.swedishphotography.org
Fashion
Givenchy SS2011
New SS 2011 Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci advertising campaign images.
Photographers: Mert Alas
& Marcus Piggott
Models: Daphne Groeneveld
and Stephen Thompson (as seen on images)
Mariacarla Boscono / Natasha Poly
Iris Strubegger / Saskia De Brauw
Pablo Otero / Jonathan Marquez
www.givenchy.com
Art
Colecssion
Collecssion is about collecting and obsession.
In her exhibition at ra, Sayaka Yamamoto will present her three latest, never-before-seen brooch collections featuring her interpretations of nature and the world of plant collectors. Though inspired by nature, none of the works contains actual plant parts. Each collection offers a different point of view and explores various approaches in form and material.
Expo: August 27th – September 21st, 2010
Vernissage on Friday, August 27th, 2010 at 18:00 hrs.
ra
Kloosterstraat 13
2000 Antwerp
Belgium
www.ra13.be
Fashion
theo by James
theo by James is a series of eyewear with no equivalent. The 2 models, designed by Belgian designer James Van Vossel, are genuine eye-catchers. The designer was given carte blanche and was therefore able to give free rein to his creativity. “Always coloring inside the lines is not really necessary at all,” says theo CEO Wim Somers.
Art
Egyptian Hip Hop
Fashion
Hogan
by Karl Lagerfeld
For Spring/Summer 2011, Karl Lagerfeld has designed a capsule collection for Hogan.
The partnership between a master of creation and Hogan confers strong energy to the season's trends. Six pieces: a sophisticated sneaker, a cowboy boot, a clutch bag, a messenger, a trench coat and a jacket.
Excited by this special project, the designer even inspired the film director. An extreme perfectionist, Karl Lagerfeld wanted to go one step further and decided to stage this collection in a short-film entitled, La Lettre. Set in a Parisian urban scene, passion is the whole epicentre of the movie. Alongside Baptiste Giabiconi, top model Magdalena Frackowiak illustrates the Hogan by Karl Lagerfeld woman: frank, daring, proud, impetuous.
www.hoganworld.com
Fashion
Rodarte for
Dutch National Ballet
The American fashion brand Rodarte has designed the costumes for the world premiere which French choreographer Benjamin Millepied (1977) is creating for the Dutch National Ballet. The world premiere by Millepied, one of the most striking young choreographers today, is part of the programme Strong Voices by the Dutch National Ballet, which runs from Friday October 15th until Friday November 5th, 2010 in theatres in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Heerlen and Arnhem.
www.het-ballet.nl
www.rodarte.net
Fashion
AKTION direct
After launching their guerilla store, AKTION I (December 2009) in Antwerp followed by their second, AKTION II (July 2010) in Knokke, A.F. Vandevorst now prepares to open up AKTION III in Ghent to coincided with the on-line launch of AKTION direkt. AKTION remains a Belgium based concept, A.F. Vandevorst have decided to spread their spirit by creating AKTION direkt.
AKTION direkt, A.F. Vandevorst's online store will launch Thursday, September 16th, 2010.
shop.afvandevorst.be
Fashion
Chanel loves SoHo
Chanel announces the opening of the completely transformed Chanel boutique in SoHo at 139 Spring Street.
The artistic, downtown spirit of SoHo was the inspiration behind the redesigned space, interpreted by longtime Chanel collaborator, architect Peter Marino. The airy, open space has increased 25% in square footage to 4170 square feet. The boutique will carry a full collection of ready-to-wear, accessories, shoes, sunglasses and fragrance and beauty, chosen to reflect the spirit of the legendary neighborhood.
Continuing the brand’s longstanding commitment to the arts and the inspiration of the artistic spirit of SoHo, works of art by Peter Belyi, Alan Rath, Gregor Hildebrandt and Robert Greene were specially commissioned to highlight the space.
www.chanel.com
Fashion
COTEetCIEL
COTEetCIEL, the Paris based label of lifestyle bags and accessories presents its new range of innovative products.
The functional design, the aesthetic approach and the fabric choice, make COTEetCIEL products appeal to both a savvy, creative clientele, as well as to fashion devotees worldwide.
Among the new products are a roomy, yet easy accessible laptop Tote Bag, a Traveller bag that offers space for a laptop, office tools, documents and a small wardrobe, and the Tablet Diver Sleeve, designed to fit the new Apple iPad. The new recycled polyester fabric comes in shades of grey, black, and blue-black melanges.
Fashion
adidas SLVR
This Fall/Winter two famous faces enter the world of adidas SLVR. Brazilian football star Kaká and Slovakian tennis player Daniela Hantuchová appear in the seasonal communication campaign, highlighting the collection’s sport versatility and streamlined aesthetic as well as presenting the collection’s perfect balance between street and fashion, for active and stylish individuals.
The collection is available right now in stand alone adidas SLVR stores in New York and Bangkok as well as the adidas Brand and Performance Centers in Paris, Berlin, Moscow and Beijing, No74 in Berlin and Isetan in Tokyo. For the first time, the adidas SLVR collection will be available at exclusive boutiques such as Aspecto in UK as well as select locations of Macy’s Department Store in the US and at Harvey Nichols in HongKong. adidas SLVR is also available online via the the SLVR e-stores in Europe and in the USA.
Fashion
Forever Young
Bangkok-born menswear & accessories designer Ek Thongprasert presented his SS2011 collection, entitled Forever Young, during the 29th edition of the Amsterdam tradeshow modefabriek.
Thongprasert showcased his collection – inspired by Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray – at cutting edge; modefabriek's platform for up-and-coming, avant-garde designers.
Catwalk images: © RVDA
Art
Botulism
Lazarides galleries announce 'Botulism', the first solo exhibition of Brooklyn’s infamous collagist Bäst at the Rathbone Gallery.
Botulism at Rathbone Gallery, 20th August 2010 - 30th September 2010
Fashion
Woolrich
F/W2010-2011
Broomberg and Chanarin interpret Woolrich John Rich & Bros advertising campaign FW10-11.
The Woolrich FW 10 image continues and has been interpreted by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin aka Chopped Liver, a well-known creative duo in the contemporary photography scene.
Art
Schauraum4
Eva Baales @ <Schauraum4>
July 15th - 18th, 2010
FH Dortmund
Fachbereich Design
Max-Ophüls-Platz 2
44139 Dortmund
Germany
www.schau-raum.net
Fashion
MMM
Line « Artisanal »
FW2010-2011
The ‘Artisanal’ line is focusing on materials. The scarcity of variation of materials and colours keeps the attention on the silhouette and the garment. Trompe l’œil effects alternate with renewed volumes. Atelier techniques, craftsmanship methods and reinterpreting traditional savoir-faire create unexpected pieces where reality is not exactly what it seems. Hence, an intimate presentation in the atelier of the Maison, where all the garments have been given life.
www.maisonmartinmargiela.com
Fashion
Wunderkind 24h Collection
The Wunderkind 24h collection reflects Wolfgang Joop's idea of an all-time availability, the flexibility to be
dressed right wherever you are.
This collection results from the high design and manufacture process that the Wunderkind atelier has applied since its foundation. No compromise in quality. A look back in the brand's history, a selection of iconic pieces, timeless, put together and brought to new life.
Available starting July 2010 in Wunderkind boutiques in Berlin, Kampen/Sylt, London and selected retailers worldwide.
www.wunderkind.com
Fashion
Flatliners
On Thursday evening, July 15th, Marije de Haan (graduate at Royal Academy of Art The Hague) has won the 'G-Star RAW Talent Award' during LICHTING 2010.
A majority of the fashion A-listers in the audience and the international jury voted for De Haan's Flatliners collection. The designer was awarded with the 'G-Star RAW Talent Award,' handed out by Remco de Nijs, collection stylist at G-Star. The award consists of a cash prize of 10,000 euro and the opportunity to join the G-Star RAW styling team backstage during the G-Star RAW runway show at New York Fashion Week on September 14th.
The concept of ‘Lichting’ is simple: the best academy graduates of one year in 1 central catwalk show. In the audience are the 700 most important people for the next step in their careers: fashion journalists and influential stylists, ready to spot the next big thing; CEO’s and design managers on the look-out for talent; and the all-important players-behind-the-scenes, all eager to see what the nation’s academies have brought forth this year.
www.lichting10.nl
www.marijedehaan.com
Fashion
Some dream...
On Thursday, July 15th, INDIVIDUALS presented its new SS2011 collection entitled Some dream of running away to the circus during Amsterdam International Fashion Week.
Art
As it May Be
The Kahmann Gallery proudly presents: Maura Sullivan - As it May Be.
A little girl stands in the forest, listening to the sound of the wind in the trees. Why? Is she waiting for her father to come home? Did her sister call her there?
As it May Be is a solo-exhibition with photographs from the New York-based artist, Maura Sullivan (*1971). Sullivan makes short movies in a single photograph. You can search for the meaning, the words and the tension, to try to exlain the story. But not searching for a deeper meaning will still leave you with beautiful, well-styled photography. The images reveal enough to drwa you in and withould enough to make you curious.
Maura Sullivan started her artistic career exploring writing and drawing and furthered her studies in photography at the International School of Photography in New York City. She is also a freelance art director for film and print. All of these elements combined create exciting unexpected compostions and results in wonderful pieces of art.
Sullivan prefers the hands-on approach of working in the darkroom, were she can draw with light. The silver gelatin prints are printed on fiber matte paper. Each of her prints has a painterly quality revealing subtle details of film grain as well as great depth and contrast. Her work is part of the permanent collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and widely exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions in New York, Connecticut, Oregon, Washington, Texas, Poland and Turkey.
May 25 – July 17, 2010
Kahmann Gallery
Lindengracht 35
Amsterdam
Tel.: +31 (0)20 5158589
www.kahmanngallery.com
Art
Space for Fantasy
From March 25th to May 22nd, 2010, the Space for Fantasy exhibition brings together common energies and attitudes between visual arts, fashion and design through the worlds of five contemporary creatives: fashion designers Henrik Vibskov and Manish Arora, industrial designer Vincent Olinet as well as artists Jerzy Seymor and Thomas Lélu. Created by the artisitc director Audrey Mascina, Space for Fantasy invites the visitor to discover the artist’s works to whom imagination is a part of reality.
La Galerie des Galeries
1er étage Galeries Lafayette
29 bis rue de la Chaussée d’Antin (entrée du vernissage)
40 bd Haussmann
Paris
Tel: +33 (0) 142 82 81 98
www.galerieslafayette.com
Fashion
BANG
Marc Jacobs BANG
The new fragrance for men
‘The word Bang came to me, and I liked that it was a sound and also that it felt like it was finished, done, end of story... kind of complete!’ - Marc Jacobs
The fragrance will appear exclusively in Bloomingdale's and in Marc Jacobs' official shops in July and will be available worldwide from September 2010.
Model: Marc Jacobs
Photographer: Juergen Teller
Grooming: Sarah Sibia @ See Management
www.marcjacobs.com
Art
Anja Séance Privée
www.hedislimane.com/fashiondiary
Fashion
Feet of Innovation
FEIT DIRECT Shoes
© sneakerfreaker.com
Tull Price is always looking down—not at his own feet, but at everyone else’s. The founder of shoe brand FEIT is constantly checking out the competition. The Australian perfectionist is on a mission to produce “the finest high quality sneakers in the world” with a minimum of waste. FEIT’s shoe-trainer hybrids are crafted from natural leathers and use no artificial dyes. The number of pairs produced per style is limited to what can be made from their initial order of materials. The company employs no middlemen, which means customers can consult with FEIT directly.
www.feitdirect.com
Art
The Panda People and Other Works
Henrik Vibskov proudly presents his second venture into the publishing world, with the release of The Panda People and Other Works. Carefully crafted, using Japanese Binding techniques, this 52-page, limited edition offers a glimpse into the graphic universe of Vibskov‘s Panda People, sharing inspiration with, and offering insight into Vibskov‘s other media, including his graphic works.
The Panda People and Other Works
published by Jap Sam Books Holland
Graphic design by Henrik Vibskov and Alastair Wiper
50 Pages
21 x 29,7 cm
Edition of 750
Hardcover
€ 27
Buy it online @ www.the-v-store.com
Fashion
Steinbeisser
Steinbeisser interior
Steinbeisser is a temporary concept store staging and promoting creative minds in fashion, design and jewellery. The nomadic nature of the project relates, depending to the shops' spot, local artists, creatives from Portugal and International designers. A traveling project connecting independent designers globally.
Where is my gum pin, plastic, silver, by Hartog&Henneman in Steinbeisser (ongoing series)
Landscapes necklace, cardboard, silver, by Joana Mota Capitao in Steinbeisser (ongoing series)
Shoes, pony fur, leather, by Blaak in Steinbeisser (limited edition)
Steinbeisser Concept Store
- until July 31st, 2010
Blankeneser Hauptstrasse 140
Hamburg
Germany
www.steinbeisser.in
steinbeisser-in.blogspot.com
Fashion
Wrangler wins at Cannes Lions
Wrangler wins five awards at Cannes Lions Festival.
At Cannes “Press Lions,” Red, Wrangler's Spring/Summer 2010 campaign, won Gold Prize in Photography.
At Cannes “Cyber Lions,” Wrangler Blue Bell won:
- Gold Prize for Websites & Micro sites in the Clothing & Accessories category
- Gold for Craft – Interface & Navigation
- Silver for Craft – Best Use of Video
- Bronze for Craft – Best Music/Sound Design
Fashion
For Safety Reasons
Cora Isabel David's master students collection “For Safety Reasons” is an aesthetic approach to the mental, psychological and corporal implicatio of the recent economy crisis. It outlines an ambience of the crisis focussing thereby mainly on expressions of an increased protection requirement, of inner seclusion and cocooning.
“For Safety Reasons” finds abstract translations for linguistic terms like „acquisitiveness“, „contortion“ and „saving measure“. The demand of mobile belongings is answered by big pockets and seemingly fully filled liners which are abstractions of proverbs such as „to line or skin ones pockets“. Other figures of speech such as „to get on over ones head“ or „to tighten ones belt“ are distributed as transformations across the collection and can be discovered within details.
Art
ITS#NINE
It was supposed to become an online event, and the farewell to the city that hosted it for eight years seemed certain... Instead, ITS announces a new journey: on 16 and 17 July 2010 the striking setting of the city of Trieste in North-East Italy will welcome ITS#NINE - International Talent Support.
ITS - a project created & developed by the agency EVE - is among the most important international platforms discover and support young talents. It is a network of professionals, opinion leaders, international press, students and teachers coming from all over the world to share and evaluate the highest expressions of creativity in the fields of fashion design, accessories design and photography. Each field has its own dedicated competition: ITS#FASHION, ITS#ACCESSORIES and ITS#PHOTO.
The mission has not changed: ITS will support the new generations of talents, selected by a qualified jury at the end of April 2010, through cash prizes, special projects, dedicated window displays, magazine features, internships abroad and work opportunities.
If you want to get on board and experience this unmissable journey, remember that the enrolment deadline is 25 March 2010 (go to www.itsweb.org for all the details). At the end of April 2010 two prestigious juries - one for fashion & accessories design and one for photography - will select the finalists for the three fields, the "voyagers" of creativity who will fly to Trieste on 16 and 17 July 2010 to prove their talent and compete for the ITS#NINE prizes.
Fashion
Prada in Cannes
On May 10, 2010, Prada opened its first store in Cannes on the “Croisette,” one of the most striking and emblematic promenades of the Côte d'Azur.
The space, which faces the Palais des Festivals, is designed by architect Roberto Baciocchi and spans over two floors covering a total surface area of 350 square metres. The store houses both women’s and men’s Prada collections of ready-to-wear, bags, accessories, footwear, perfume and eyewear.
Prada Flagship Store
Hôtel Majestic Barrière
10 Boulevard de la Croisette
06400 Cannes
France
Fashion
Replay
Flagship Store Milan
The Flagship Replay Store recently opened on Corso Vittorio Emanuele, covering 800 square metres right in the city centre, just a few metres from the Duomo. Located in an area with an intertwining relationship between history, architecture and contemporary style, the space has been designed according to the new Replay concept: focusing on emotions and the rediscovered connection with nature.
The new concept, which has already been tried and tested in Florence’s Piazza Duomo Replay Store, will be even more evident in Milan. The driving principles are the same, but the specific techniques complement the context, letting the space speak for itself: the project is all about seeking emotions, and is the result of a shared vision between the Studio 10 design team and Fashion Box.
The new Replay Store is an exciting space, born of the awareness of a common need to be amazed once more, to set up a regenerating venue in the city. Here nature and its fragile balance reclaim a space which has been altered by human intervention, thus allowing a mental and physical break in the urban environment.
Key to the design are a green wall, water wall, wooden wall and metal wall. To access the store you cross a hanging garden on a suspended walkway, so upon entering visitors are surrounded by monumental eleven-metre high walls of plants and a waterfall.
The new space will have its official opening on April 15th, during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile (International Furniture Exhibition of Milan), with a special installation by the art group El Ultimo Grito, organized in conjunction with the Fondazione Claudio Buziol.
www.replay.it
Fashion
Clare Tough
At not even 30 Clare Tough already is a phenomenon with a style, vision and experience that are unique in the fashion world. Her own label presents not only her signature knits but also leather, woven's and soft tailoring. After graduating with a BA in Textile Design from Chelsea College of Art in 2000 and receiving the Royal Society of Arts Student Design Award Masters Medal, she completed the Fashion MA at Central St Martins. Clare Tough has shown at London Fashion Week and in dedicated showrooms in Milan and Paris since AW2006. With each collection she explored the boundaries of knitwear, often discovering new techniques in the process. These allow her to realise her signature look by incorporating different yarns and textures within the one garment - the contemporary patchwork.
For her SS2010 Collection vintage embroideries, from the markets of Porte de Clignancourt in Paris, where de major source of inspiration, influencing the colours, textures and patterns used. Some of the embroideries were originally intended as purses and have fantastical geometric shapes that are echoed in the knitwear, fabric and recreations of the beading motifs on the garments.
Clare also embarks on a thorough exploration of transparency and layering in this collection. A jacket of horizontal crocheted chains is lined with transparent tulle. Silk and georgette are combined to a double-layered waistcoat with raw edge finishing. Elsewhere silk fabric and jersey are panelled together with hand crochet. Showing a continued commitment to discovering new techniques and unashamedly mixing hand stitching with machine knitwear. Cotton lace and tulle pieces make the geometric patterns most evident. The cotton knits incorporate pretty lace stitch pieces, creating transparency and texture. They come in a soft color palette of white, black, light grey and powder pink as dresses, cardigans and light sweaters.
Finally no Clare Tough collection would be complete without her signature, her popular patchwork knits. For SS10 they have been produced in even lighter versions and reworked in white, oyster, pewter and black. Likewise the capsule collection of underwear in vintage shapes and colors is continued. Currently, Clare Tough is sold at Stores like Browns- London, Julianne NY, Montaigne Market- Paris, Gio Moretti- Milano, Helmut Eder- Kitzbühel, Lorenz Bach- Gstaad, Drake Store- Lausanne & Geneva to name a few.
www.claretough.co.uk
Fashion
Amy Winehouse
for Fred Perry
Fred Perry and music go back a long way. Through the decades the iconic laurel logo has been closely associated with leading musicians and has become a badge of honour for mods, beatniks, rude boys, suede heads, punks and just about every music-led subculture from ska to hip hop. Following in the footsteps of legends like Paul Weller, Terry Hall and Damon Albarn comes the inimitable Amy Winehouse, as rich a musical talent as to have emerged from Britain this millennium. Instantly recognisable for her sense of style as much as her dark-stained soul vocals, gritty lyrics and biting wit, Winehouse is a one woman cultural phenomenon.
A long-time Fred Perry fan and aficionado, Amy has now collaborated with the brand on her own 17 piece Fred Perry apparel and accessories collection. It’s Amy all over – sharp, clever, sexy, lots of attitude – but stays true to the Perry aesthetic and unrivalled heritage. Classic pieces are given the full Winehouse treatment and still remain instantly recognisable. A girly twinset has Fifties sex siren written all over it, gingham goes from homely to hot, pencil skirts become dangerously short, Capri pants find a punk-inspired edge, a mini bowling shirtdress flaunts in equal measure. Colours are predominantly black and pink. Collars are most definitely raised and ready for action. And yet for every tomboy twist there’s a deeply feminine twirl.
The Amy Winehouse collection pushes Fred Perry womenswear to a new space on the fashion stage, one that confronts expectations and stretches conventional views of the brand. It’s an uncompromising look that wears its heart on its sleeve. A collection that could only have been designed by an extraordinary musician.
www.fredperry.com
www.amywinehouse.com
Fashion
Zoo loves:
Raf Simons SS2010
For further information and news go to Raf Simons' new, exclusively updated website.
Fashion
Death to Moby Dick!
SCHAAF by Miriam Schaaf is a new fashion label from Munich, Germany, which is still developing but aiming high. Clean structures and lines define Schaaf’s collections, at the same time boasting eccentricity. The former design assistant at Ute Ploier calls it ‘poetic fashion design.’ Even though SCHAAF was initiated as a menswear label, its feminine look and feel makes it wearable for both sexes.
The Spring/Summer 2010 collection, entitled Death to Moby Dick!, is based on Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick or The Whale and describes the interpersonal relationships on the novel’s whaleship Pequod. Fictional main character –and only survivor– Ishmael and his memories were the inspiration for the collection.
The collection is all about non-colors, to symbolize Ishmael’s flashbacks and combines the typical attributes of the novel’s characters in its fabrics and style. A dark captain’s coat is combined with a dotted silk scarf or a crisp white shirt with a mystic fringe vest...
Its title stands for the crew’s battle call and makes their death seem even more cynical after all.
A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that. - H. Melville, Moby-Dick
SCHAAF is available at JULIAANDBEN (Berlin) and Harvest (Munich).
www.miriamschaaf.com
Fashion
Margreeth Olsthoorn Opens MGH3S
On February 4th, the fabolous Margreeth Olsthoorn, owner of the shops MGHO and MGH2O on the Witte de Withstraat in Rotterdam, opened her third shop: MGH3S! This Rotterdam fashion shop, located in the same street as the other shops, is a shop-in-shop with clothing and accessories by the Swedish brand ACNE. The collaboration between Margreeth Olsthoorn and ACNE has been a very fruitful one from the start, so its success has lead to the opening of this unique store. Next to ACNE, MGH3S presents other Scandinavian brands such as Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair, Soulland, POP CPH and Wood Wood.
Just like the two other shops, MGH3S stands out with its special designed interior by Dutch designer Richard Hutten. The design principles of Richard Hutten suit the avantgardistic and minimalist collections that are selected by Margreeth Olsthoorn.
During the opening new mannequins for all three shops were presented. These new mannequins were part of the main exposition SHAPE of the Arnhem Mode Biennale 2009. Very touched by their beauty, during her visit to the Arnhem Mode Biennale, Margreet Olsthoorn decided to give the mannequins a second life in her shops window displays.
The almost-real looking mannequins will be wearing clothing and accessories by avant-garde labels such as ACNE, Martin Margiela, Raf Simons, Comme of the Garçons, Henrik Vibskov, Bless, Hussein Chalayan, Vandervorst and many others. The unique appearances of these dolls fit perfectly with the avant-garde and nonconformist style of Margreeth Olstoorn.
MGH3S
Witte de Withstraat 48A
Rotterdam
The Netherlands
www.margreetholsthoorn.nl
Fashion
Maison Martin Margiela – Line 0 « Artisanal »
Since its beginnings in 1988, Maison Martin Margiela has been gathering garments, accessories, used and sometimes new objects across the globe. That these garments and objects may be given a second life whilst respecting and maintaining the traces of the passage of time and use remains one of the keystones of the creative expression of the Maison in its Line 0.
Each garment is reworked entirely by hand in the atelier of the Maison in Paris. The complexity and specificity of each step of such a creative process of transformation naturally limits the quantity of garments produced. This Season's « Artisanal » line has been thought as a collection, with a theme going through the 11 silhouettes.
The individuality of the materials used to create each garment ensures that each is as unique as that which was used to create it. The labels number 0, is sewn, embossed or stamped depending on the material used to create the garment or accessory.
The format of presentation inspired by Haute-Couture Golden Age while Volumes and fabrics are manipulated in a Cabaret spirit. The collection transcends several periods of time, borrowing & recycling eveningwear from the 1940s, 50s and 70s and cocktail wear from the 1980s.
Hybrid silhouettes – the result of garment-morphing – play on feminine vs masculine, tailoring vs “flou”, corsets vs fluidity. Slowly the collection reveals the deconstructed and reconstructed contour of the silhouette. Lines are suggested by frameworks and the structure becomes a garment while the garment becomes like an accessory.
www.maisonmartinmargiela.com
Art
Michael Kirkham
British artist Michael Kirkham (*1977 Blackpool) presents four new paintings in his latest solo at Galerie Aschenbach en Hofland. Trained at De Ateliers in Amsterdam, Kirkham lives and works in Berlin. In 2006, Kirkham’s work was featured in a solo exhibition in the Gemeentemuseum The Hague, which was accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue.
His work often features characters engaged in explicit sexual acts or rather apathetic figures striking provocative poses. The subject matter is displayed in all its rawness, with neither mercy nor compromise. Kirkham’s paintings could be considered the painterly equivalent of the books by French author Houellebeque. Houellebeque highlights the excesses of liberal western society and portrays both love and lust as utterly banal. In the work of Michael Kirkham, sexual desire and surrendering to the appetites of the flesh is a mechanism that makes viewers feel uncomfortable. Nonetheless, Kirkham’s consistent and loving execution, his sincerity and all but cynical attitude forces viewers to look at his uncompromising scenes.
Michael Kirkham completed his formal training at the Glasgow School of Art and Ateliers in Amsterdam. After graduating, he lived and worked in Brussels for three years before moving to Berlin in 2002. His work is represented in the collections of Gemeentemuseum The Hague, the Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem and the Scheringa Museum in Spanbroek. In 2009 Kirkham took part in the exhibition Diana + Actaeon, Der Verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit in het Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf.
Michael Kirkham
March 6 - April 20, 2010
ASCHENBACH & HOFLAND GALLERIES
Bilderdijkstraat 165-c
1053 KP Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: +31(0)204121772
www.gerhardhofland.com
Art
Jim Rakete:
Familiar Strangers
Hilaneh von Kories Gallery in Hamburg proudly presents Familiar Strangers, an exhibit with black and white images by photographer Jim Rakete.
German Photographer Jim Rakete started out taking pictures at rock concerts, theater rehearsals and movie sets as a student in Berlin, became a professional photographer for newspapers, magazines and even album covers for the music industry in the late 60ies. He is mainly known for his work with Bands such as Nina Hagen Band, Interzone, Spliff, Nena, Die Aerzte and many more.
The work showing at Familiar Strangers is like most of Jim Rakete's work preferredly in black and white. The Picutres he took with an old large format Linhof plate camera, working with natural light only, long shutter speeds and without make-up or photoshop are showing individuals all over Germany who left an imprint on the country.
1/8 of a Second - Familiar Strangers, also published as a photobook by Schirmer/Mosel, shows faces, we seem to know because we see them on television and in magazines every day. But they look different, due to the amount of concentration a large format camera demands. This will be one of the last projects on such a scale since film manufacturers might shutter their production facilities any day.
Part of the exhibit are images of Wim Wenders, Peter Stein, Moritz Bleibtreu, Jenny Holzer, Helmut Schmidt, Christoph Waltz and Natalie Portman. In addition a series of portraits will be shown which was produced in collaboration with Filmfoerderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, a government film funding entity. This segment includes, among others, photographs and personal statements of actors Hannelore Hoger, Martina Gedeck and Kostja Ullmann, who support the movie industry in Northern Germany.
Familiar Strangers
March 12th to May 6th, 2010
Galerie Hilaneh von Kories
Stresemannstr. 384a
22761 Hamburg
Germany
Tel: + 49 40 42 32 01 12
Art
MMM ‘20’
The Exhibition
in London
This summer, Somerset House hosts Maison Martin Margiela ’20’ The Exhibition. Conceived in close collaboration with Maison Martin Margiela and curated by the Mode Museum, Antwerp, this exciting show makes its London debut where it will be specially reconfigured for the Embankment Galleries at Somerset House, following critical acclaim at the MoMu, Antwerp and Haus der Kunst, Munich last year.
Dates: 3 June – 5 September, 2010
Opening hours: daily from 10.00 to 18.00
Location: Embankment Galleries, Somerset House
Address: Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom
Art
Michael Stipe pour
Maison Martin Margiela
© Julien Oppenheim
Michael Stipe has used various means of expression of his creativity in sculpture. A major part of his work is a reflection on the obsolete technology of modern times: how fast it evolves, devices that once were pioneering and innovative quickly becoming outmoded and archaic. The microcassette that he has created for Maison Martin Margiela is in the continuity of this work, and marks his first foray in working with sterling silver.
© Thomas Dozol
"We are extremely proud and honored that our work and world have inspired such a great artist as Michael. We are very excited about this collaboration and are confident that it is to become an exceptional one-of-a-kind piece of Art." (Maison Martin Margiela, November 2009)
“The pure joy of creating in conjunction with Maison Martin Margiela was a great experience for me. They are the epitome of style and embody the spirit of the 21st century like few others.”
(Michael Stipe, November 2009)
Michael Stipe © Thomas Dozol
The microcassette can not be defined as either a piece of jewelry or an art object. It’s both and neither at the same time. It can be worn or displayed in any way the wearer & owner desires. The 925 sterling silver microcassette is presented in a handmade notebook, with die-cut pages to hold it. A black ribbon is attached to the cassette resembling the tape and also serves as a page marker. The notebook comes in a paper envelope closed by a leather string that can also be used to wear the microcassette.Each copy of the notebook is numbered and signed by Michael. There are 199 pieces to the edition. No further edition will be done, making this object a very unique and precious item for collectors, fans and whoever will be inspired by it.
© Julien Oppenheim
Michael Stipe has worked in various mediums throughout his life, music being the most prominent; as the singer of R.E.M. Stipe also has two film production companies, and has produced or executive produced over 20 feature films, including the Oscar nominated Being John Malkovich. An avid photographer, Stipe's photographs have been printed in dozens of international magazines and art journals. From 2005 to present Michael has focused on creating sculpture. This sterling silver microcassette marks his first official collaboration with Maison Martin Margiela.
Art
C O L O U R
Pastel Cats © Tim Walker
courtesy Michael Hoppen Contemporary C-type print, 20 x 30 inches
How do you describe colour? Even the dictionary definition of it is poetic: "That aspect of things that is caused by differing qualities of the light reflected or emitted by them, definable interms of the observer or of the light." And; "a substance, such as a dye, pigment, or paint,that imparts a hue." And; "a reddening of the face; a blush." The scientific words to objectify it are beautiful too: hyperchromatism, wavelength, luminance, iridescence and purity.
James Dean's Last Stop, Lost Hills, CA, 2008 © Ofer Wolberger
courtesy Michael Hoppen Contemporary
C-type print, 40 x 50 inches
Since 1861 and the first permanent colour print by James Clerk Maxwell, photographers have been able to define their subjects in a more immediate and creative way using colour- stripping it out, intensifying or limiting it.
Presented at the Michael Hoppen Gallery are a group of dynamic artist photographers whose works, in this case, is defined by their use of colour. Used either to enhance reality, to confuse reality or for pure aesthetic pleasure, the works are consistently vibrant and full of life. Artists include Nobuyoshi Araki, Alex Prager, Tim Walker, Ofer Wolberger, Valerie Belin and Guy Bourdin.
Untitled 2007 # 3 © Valerie Belin
courtesy Michael Hoppen Contemporary Di-bonded Fuji crystal archive print
25.11.09 - 09.01.10
Michael Hopen Contemporary
3 Jubilee Place
London SW3 3TD
United Kingdom
Fashion
EA7 and
Emporio Armani
x Reebok
Giorgio Armani S.p.A. and Reebok International Ltd. have announced a global alliance to create a special collection, combining active style with sport and technology – the EA7 and Emporio Armani labels, with their sporty and sexy lines, team up with Reebok’s innovation and technologies, resulting in the ultimate activewear concept.
The collection is infused with Reebok’s sporting DNA and its unique fitness and training heritage, within the contemporary vision of one of the world’s leading fashion designers. The first ever EA7/Reebok and Emporio Armani/Reebok collections were presented at Milan Fashion Week, within the Emporio Armani menswear show on January, 16th 2010.
Distribution will be limited to Emporio Armani boutiques, select Reebok concept stores and preferred retailers worldwide, starting from July 2010.
www.emporioarmani.com
www.reebok.com
Fashion
Tilda Swinton for Pringle of Scotland
Tilda Swinton - the actress who is known for her individual sense of style - will be the face of both the label's menswear and womenswear collections for its spring/summer 2010 campaign.
Shot at key Scottish landmarks and nature spots by photographer Ryan McGinley, the campaign will be accompanied by a short film of Swinton, and print images from the shoot will be on show during London Fashion Week in September.
The collaboration marks the start of a series of projects in which Pringle of Scotland is working to promote Scottish talent in the domains of visual arts, design and architecture. Swinton and McGinley, as ambassadors for this, worked on the concept for the campaign together.
Fashion
Wrangler sees "Red"
Just in time for Berlin's Bread & Butter 2010 Wrangler unveils its new advertising for Spring/Summer 2010: “Red”. Powerfully raw and visceral, the new print campaign celebrates man’s most primal urges. Men and women are captured in the heat of the moment, saturated in red water or caught in a fury of red dust.
The full campaign developed by Fred & Farid Paris, and by Jeff Burton can be found on-line at www.weareanimals.com.
Fashion
Ways To Say Black
Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci made with CRYSTALLIZED™ - Swarovski Elements, Photography Mark Pillai
In an extraordinary collaboration with the design glitterati of the fashion world, CRYSTALLIZED™ is thrilled to unveil a one-off, touring exhibition of the iconic Little Black Dress. Timed to coincide with January’s haute couture season, the initiative will see this fashion classic reborn amid a shower of CRYSTALLIZED™ - Swarovski Elements at the hands of the greatest established and emerging creative talents worldwide. After launching in Paris during couture week, on the 27th January, the dazzling collection of one-of-a-kind show pieces will go on public display at the hotel Pozzo di Borgo, 51 rue de l’université, 7th arrondissement on 28 January. The exhibition will then travel to Beijing and will culminate in a grand fund-raising finale in New York City in autumn 2010.
Among the stellar names commissioned by CRYSTALLIZEDTM - Swarovski Elements to create exquisitely crafted, crystal-embellished updates on the Little Black Dress are established designers Sonia Rykiel and Riccardo Tisci for Givenchy (France); Valentino, Giorgio Armani and Missoni (Italy); Donna Karan and Diane von Furstenberg (USA); and Vivienne Westwood (UK). CRYSTALLIZEDTM is also delighted to welcome exciting, upcoming designers Gaspard Yurkievich (France) and Phillip Lim (USA) to the project.
www.crystallized.com
Fashion
Comme des Garçons
& The Beatles
Comme des Garçons and Apple Corps Ltd (The Beatles' multimedia corporation) have created a collection consisting of ten bags divided into two groups. One is embossed polyurethane material, in black and white and the other is a printed pvc material. The graphic designed by Rei Kawakubo is a delightful mix of apples and polka dots, the symbol of Comme des Garçons. No real leather is used anywhere in the collection, according to Apple policy. There are also four shirts and t-shirts.
Styles are now available at Dover Street Market in London.
Dover Street Market
17-18 Dover Street
London W1S 4LT
United Kingdom
Tel +44 (0)20 7518 0680
www.doverstreetmarket.com
Art
Something Old, Something Blue, Something Borrowed...
The innovative art event Something New will amaze Chicago on November 11th
Something New invites artists and non-artists to produce and organize their art pieces within the 24 hour period and within the city limits of Chicago. When it comes to the work, there are no limits: whatever can be considered to be art, can be part of the event!
Art work from Something New, London, November 2006
Something New does not focus so much on showing the art alone; it should be understood as an event which is there to stimulate the production of art. Even though it is important for the audience to enjoy the event, the most important part is the participants to create their art and have fun with it. The goal of the organizers is to involve experienced and commercial artists, but also people who have not produced art ever before. The more diverse the better!
Art work from Something New, London, November 2006
The first edition of Something New first place in London, in November 2006, and was organized by Nic Roope and Nikola Tosic. The Chicago edition is organized by Tosic again, together with Sarah Weis.
Those wanting to participate in the event can simply email the organizers with a short description of the art work, as well as information on where and when the work will be showed exactly. For more information see www.somethingnew.info
Art
Fashion
Monochrome
and Poetic
Feathered gloves by Causse & Lemarié
Since 2008, Causse has launched a series of collaborations under the name "Causse Atelier" with fashion houses and designers whose prestigious know-how is expressed through traditional hand- made methods carried out in their workshops. For its third such collaboration, after the bejewelled gloves created with the Italian designer Delfina Delettrez Fendi in Rome and the embroidered gloves made with the house of Lesage in Paris, Causse has just released a glove case made by the luggage-maker Pinel & Pinel in Paris.
For its latest collaboration, Causse has formed a partnership with the famous House of Lemarié to produce a glove decorated with feathers. This object of veritable haut couture has been hand-made in two versions using Lemarié's prestigious know-how: black gloves decorated with white feathers, monochrome and poetic...
This model is available only to order from the Causse boutique
12, rue de Castiglione
Paris, France
www.causse-gantier.fr
Fashion
Victoria Beckham
Eyewear & Denim
Partnering with Cutler & Gross – the foremost pioneers of fashion sunglasses and famous for their handmade finishes and quality of production – the new sunglasses range from Victoria Beckham offers a collection that in it’s timelessness and modernity is the perfect reflection of the progression of her brand.
This progression can also be seen in the SS10 denim collection; Victoria Beckham denim, formerly known as dVb, moves toward a sharper silhouette for Spring/Summer 2010. New, simple hardware and back pockets feature in a collection that sees the evolution of the popular legging and super skinny in new woven and denim fabrications for an ultra modern look.
Clean cigarette styles and a return to the true, slim fitting skinny jean make up the core collection. Alongside this core collection is a range of fashion leggings; coloured leggings in candy brights with contrast back zip detail, blocked and side panel leggings in mink and midnight with black contrasting fabrics with a deep v back yoke running through this story. To compliment this body con silhouette Victoria also introduces a Vintage collection. Set to become a weekend staple, it includes the love-worn hand repaired jean, the relaxed ease of the boyfriend style alongside distressed denim jackets, gilet, shorts and skirts.
Fashion
D&G Time Spot
Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana’s creativity is the foundation of the new D&G Time commercial, whose artistic direction has been entrusted to Cyrill Guyot. A luxurious period apartment in Paris is the set for a malicious mademoiselle who abandons herself to provocative games, ending in an upper-class ménage a trois. The risqué situation is interrupted by her rigorous mother, shocked at the sight of such an impudent display. Produced by Bandits, the D&G Time commercial will be aired by all the main television networks in the world, starting with November.
Creative Direction Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana
Director Cyril Guyot
Location 10 Luglio 2009 - Map Studio, Grosrouvre - Paris
Production Bandits, Frédéric Blamont
Stylist Zakia Kadri
Makeup Artist Houda Remita
Hair Stylist Karin Bigler
Models Teresa Dilger @ Elite, Johan Johansson @ Marylin, Alexandre
Gaillot @ Marylin, Olivia Dutron @ Profil (mother)
Soundtrack “Perfume” The Sparks
www.dandgcommercial.com
Art
Confusion of
the Senses
© Mazen Saggar
Over the course of its programme, the Espace Louis Vuitton has explored the theme of travel in its multiple facets, offering its visitors the opportunity to discover the diversity of contemporary art from all over the globe. For its 10th exhibition, the Espace Louis Vuitton is investigating an unprecedented aspect of travel – the inner journey. This exhibition, entitled "Confusion of the Senses", is an invitation to immerse in ourselves, to listen to our body and our senses to gain a better understanding of ourselves, and also to better grasp the complexity of the world that surrounds us. It represents an experience to be lived and felt, which overturns our perception and our certainties.
Didier Faustino © Mazen Saggar
Combining abstraction and an approach sensitive to reality, the installations by Renaud Auguste- Dormeuil, Celeste Boursier Mougenot, Veronique Joumard and Laurent Saksik invite us to lose ourselves in order to better find ourselves, while their plastic approach creates the distortion necessary to reveal the invisible and grasp the indiscernible. More directly linked to the body, its dysfunctions and its internal 'mechanics', the work by Berdaguer & Pejus allows us to experience a new version of their Traumatheque. Last but not least, Laurent Grasso presents an original series of paintings that questions our relationship to space and time, as well as providing a proofreading of his own work.
"Orange", Véronique Joumard, 2003.
Courtesy Galerie Serge Le Borgne, Paris. © Adagp, Paris 2009
'Confusion of the Senses' -Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton
September 18th 2009 - January 10th 2010
60, Rue de Bassano
101, Avenue des Champs-Elysees
75008 Paris
www.louisvuitton.com/espaceculturel/
Fashion
Monki Tales
“Once upon a time, an unexpected chemical reaction in an old weavery released a batch of plump black Monkis into the sky. Soaring high from the still smouldering chimney, the tiny creatures floated into the illusory universe known as the Monki World.”
The Monki story is a wild mix of amazing adventures of butterflies, windmills, willows, sails and mysterious chemicals. With the combination of fashion, graphic and storedesign, Monki follows a comprehensive and unique creative concept, in which the little black monkies take a central part as the source of inspiration.
This unusual design follows through from the homepage, to the stores, to the smallest detail in the Monki collection, which can be described as a flirt between expressive Tokyo streetstyle and the fresh Scandinavian fashion sense. The young label offers affordable clothing for girls, who want to express their individualism, independancy and fantasy. With unique collaborations between national and international designers and exciting events, they want to create gloomy but sweet Monki stories.
After already having 26 stores in Scandinavian countries, the first store in Germany will be the 515 m2 flagshipstore in Hamburg, opening this November. So put on your rollerskates and get ready for the story that is waiting to be told in Hamburg!
To experience more of the collection, visit www.monkiworld.de
Monki Flagshipstore
Mönckebergstraße 22
Hamburg, Germany
Art
Replay Loves Arts
An open air exhibition of works by emerging artists, on the facade of the Museum of 18th Century Venice.
As part of the Imprenditori Illuminati “near Venezia” project, the restoration of the facade of Ca' Rezzonico, which houses the Museum of 18th Century Venice, continues with the support and funding of Fashion Box, the company behind the Replay, Replay&Sons and We Are Replay brands.
Replay has for some time been actively involved in the promotion of art both through its own initiatives and those of the Venice-based Fondazione Claudio Buziol founded in 2006 to provide crucial support for young people to be able to achieve their ambitions, by helping them to develop their creative skills and artistic expression, and also by offering their work greater exposure.
The “Replay loves Arts” project and the Open Air exhibition are part of this movement. Rather than using the huge billboard which covers the facade of Ca' Rezzonico during restoration work as an advertising space, it will host and provide publicity every month to the work of a different young, emerging artist. Each artist will be selected by the Fondazione Claudio Buziol through the Gallery on its website www.fondazioneclaudiobuziol.org in order to build an enormous open air contemporary art exhibition.The artist's work, as well as being reproduced on the billboard, will be exhibited in its original form inside the Museum.
www.replay.it
Fashion
Les Chaussures
de 'Monsieur'
Viktor & Rolf launch their first shoe collection for 'Monsieur' for fall 2009
Viktor & Rolf seek to reinterpret the male shoe. Inspired by the fine tailoring and sartorial wit of the British gentleman, both the trainers and formal shoes have been redefined. The traditional formal shoe creates the basis of the Autumn/Winter 2009 collection. The collection dismisses convention with minor yet canny alterations. A metallic shine reminiscent of the iridescent glow of the beetle shell highlights a classic lace-up and loafer to a stunning effect of brushed painted patent leather. A seemingly anonymous formal black lace-up is twisted with a blue crepe rubber sole. Chic boots and derbies have a subtle contrasting piping.
Just as the trainer has moved from the sports arena to popular culture, Viktor & Rolf extend this dynamic ascent combining the properties of the brogue with the street style of the sports shoe. Intact are the defining rubber sole and high-top aspect of the trainer. However, the brown leather upper evokes the essence of the brogue with its perforated patterning and wingtip detail. Inspired by the puffer jacket, the quilted trainer suggests comfort and protection. Available in blue or mandarin this urban trainer comes in a new high-tech nylon.
This first collection of shoes captures the essence of Viktor & Rolf’s view on menswear: a unique mix of relaxed and elegance.
Fashion
Haltbar SS2010
On Thursday October 1st, German label Haltbar presented its SS2010 collection during Paris Fashion Week.
The German word 'haltbar' translates as 'durable, solid, lasting,' which perfectly describes both their project as well as the spirit of their work. Haltbar cooperates with small family- and handicraft businesses in order to use and preserve existing infrastructure, knowledge and heritage. In return, Haltbar provides new ideas, visions and a modern eye on traditional products.
Haltbar only produces clothing and uses items that:
are of solid and high quality material and manufacturing,
are handmade or include handmade elements,
are able to deal well with fading or wearing out of materials,
are up to date, yet timeless,
will hopefully become favorite basics.
Fashion
OUT NOW!
Zoo Magazine No 24
Eliza Cummings by Philip Gay
Our Fall issue is OUT NOW! Including exclusive shoots and interviews with Renée Zellweger, Florian Bartholomäi, Tim Hamilton, Jun Takahashi, Patrick Wolf and more...
For a preview: click here.
Fashion
Denim Galore
United Colors of Benetton has prepared an “all denim” winter for us.
A vast assortment of jeans, for her and him, displayed on a specially created denim wall. A full array of fits: skinny, straight from the ‘80s; low crotch for the bolder types; carrot cut for fashionistas; classic five-pockets for those who prefer tradition.
Years of experience in this sector enables Benetton to create special effects for each model of jeans. The old Gênes twill finds new vitality through super-distressing, surgically-precise rips and “whiskers” for a realistic creased effect. Other distinctive details include studs, contrast-colour topstitching, rhinestone appliqués.
In a nutshell, a wide choice of jeans that will be available in selected United Colors of Benetton stores.
www.benetton.com
Fashion
A Bathing Ape
Store Launch
Iconic and much acclaimed Japanese street-wear brand, A Bathing Ape moves back to Soho following their temporary 6 months residence at 'Nowhere', Dover Street Market.
A Bathing Ape has grown into an international success story. After sixteen years, the label fits neatly into the tried-and-true business model of most international fashion and luxury brands. The success of the cult street wear phenomenon rests on a loyal fan base and an obsessive following. It is not unfamiliar to see long lines of customers forming outside own branded stores, waiting through the night to secure limited edition pieces.
The new London store commissioned by BAPE Founder Nigo, has been designed by Masamichi Katayama founder of interior design firm Wonderwall, who has extensively built a wide range of pursuits around the world in design including architectural direction, and product design. Wonderwall have collaborated with BAPE throughout the years on the brands various stores throughout the world. The New York, London & L.A. Stores are the only retail environments outside of Asia.
A Bathing Ape
4 Upper James Street
London W1
United Kingdom
Tel +44 (207) 434 2541
www.bape.com
Art
Era of Electricity
Avant-garde meets avant-garde. The New York-based limited-edition fashion and art publication Visionaire draws inspiration for its 57th issue from the unique two-seater smart fortwo. "Visionaire2010" is the first plug-in electric issue of the publication. 52 internationally renowned curators and art collectors were recruited to select 365 works of art, making this issue, in the form of an electronic daily calendar, a ground-breaking compendium of contemporary art. The cooperation with Visionaire was motivated by the launch of the second generation of the smart fortwo electric drive.
Visionaire 2010 in collaboration with smart © Visionaire, 2009.
Image on screen: Francesco Vezzoli; Gala Picasso (detail).
The 52 guest curators for “Visionaire2010” include artists like John Baldessari, internationally renowned museum curators like Klaus Biesenbach (MoMA) or Christine Marcel (Centre George Pompidou), contemporary art collectors like Pharrell Williams, Mario Testino or the architect Zaha Hadid as well as actors Natalie Portman and Tilda Swinton. Fashion designers Raf Simons and Marc Jacobs and Dr. Renate Wiehager, head of the Daimler art collection, are also participating.
www.smart.com
www.visionaireworld.com
Fashion
9 Countries,
9 Men, 1 Winner
Calvin Klein Underwear recently announced plans to launch the new men’s Calvin Klein Underwear steel fashion range. The new line will debut in August 2009 coinciding with the launch of the Calvin Klein Underwear male model competition, “9 Countries, 9 Men, 1 Winner.” To celebrate the new Calvin Klein Underwear steel product offering, the brand will launch a pan-European model search to find one man from each of the nine countries who embodies the attributes of the new line. From the nine finalists, one winner will be chosen by public vote and will receive a one-year top male modelling contract with Select Model Management, as well a luxury trip for two to South Africa.
To enter the competition, contestants can either apply through an in-store casting at participating stores across Europe, or they can submit photographs of themselves wearing Calvin Klein Underwear to the competition website (www.9countries9men.com). All photo submissions will be judged by a prestigious panel of judges including current Calvin Klein model and actor Jamie Dornan, key executives from Select Model Management, key members of the media and executives from Calvin Klein, Inc. The judges will select one finalist from each of the nine countries, who will be announced in February 2010. The nine finalists will then compete in the grand final in April 2010, when one winner chosen by public vote on the competition website.
Jamie Dornan by Steven Klein
for Calvin Klein Underwear 2009
www.cku.com
www.calvinkleininc.com/underwear
Fashion
Flawless Cuts
Anne-Sophie Hotot graduated in 2008 from London College of Fashion. Since moving to London, she has worked for a number of established designers including Ozwald Boateng, Ghulam Sakina, Allegra Hicks and Richard Nicoll whom she continues to work for.
Anne-Sophie's debut (AW2009) encapsulates a Parisian chic, a nod to her heritage, united with a modern, clean elegance. Russian aristocracy and Millitary uniform infuse her capsule collection of contemporary womenswear.
With her fresh flawless cuts and innovative tailoring, it is no surprise that she caught the attention of designer Richard Nicoll, whom she continues to work with after graduating from London College of Fashion.
Anne-Sophie's work strongly reflects her interest in sculpture. Her designs are based on architectural lines and her innovative tailoring translates into clean, sharp yet feminine silhouettes. Wool, leather and cotton are used alongside silk chiffon and organza creating unusual and interesting combinations of fabrics.
Fashion
Iris van Herpen
& Nanine Linning
Fashion designer Iris van Herpen and choreographer Nanine Linning enter a two-year international collaboration. Linning invited Van Herpen to design 23 costumes for two of her new dance productions.
The first production, Synthetic Twin, commissioned by Tanztheater Osnabrück (Germany), where Linning is appointed as Artistic Director, will premiere on the 28th of November 2009 and run ten times in Osnabrück. In the fall of 2010, Synthetic Twin will continue to tour throughout the Netherlands.
The second production of their collaboration will be Endless Song of Silence. Endless Song of Silence, commissioned by Linning’s own dance company based in Amsterdam, www.naninelinning.nl, will premiere in January 2010 and will be presented in 23 theaters throughout the Netherlands.
Art
L'art pour L'art
Wolfgang Joop opens his new exhibition of fashion drawings: an overview of 4 decades of illustrations.
Black Beauty - Red Dress
2000 / 2009 - 140 x 100 cm
Limited Edition, Circulation: 100, signed
The multi-talented Wolfgang Joop, currently the owner of Wunderkind, had clear role models: the ice-cold beauty of Tamara de Lempicka’s paintings that reflect the 1930s and their ideals of beauty and the expressive, slightly heinous drawings by Egon Schiele. Both artists followed their own paths against the current of society, not submitting themselves to the tastes of the times and therefore creating an individual visual world concentrated on peoples and their bodies.
Little White Fox - Big Black Dress
2000 / 2009 - 140 x 99 cm
Limited Edition, Circulation: 100, signed
For Wolfgang Joop, art and fashion are most impressive when the objects have the spark of an old master, whom he studied extensively, and possess “an aura of unintentionalness; or the intention to be completely self-satisfied.” The French call this l’art pour l’art. Wolfgang Joop’s sketches are art for art’s sake. “My sketches should look as though they emerged effortlessly. They explain my sense of time, my concept of beauty, with the most minimalist and yet self-assuredly effective means.”
Sunflower Dress
1994 / 2009 - 140 x 98.7 cm
Limited Edition, Circulation: 100, signed
Black Men´s Fashion - Back from N.Y.
2000 / 2009 - 140 x 100 cm
Limited Edition, Circulation: 100, signed
Wolfgang Joop- Illustrationen aus 4 Jahrzehnten
LUMAS Berlin - Hackesche Höfe
19/09/2009 – 06/10/2009
Rosenthaler Straße 40/41, 10178 Berlin
LUMAS München
19/09/2009 – 27/10/2009
Brienner Straße 3, 80333 München
www.lumas.de
www.wunderkind.de
Fashion
SuperTrash
SS2010
On Friday July 24th, SuperTrash showed its SS2010 collection during Amsterdam International Fashion Week. The audience included SuperTrash fan Janice Dickinson, who flew in especially from the US. The collection features three themes: Animal Jungle, Blossom and Caleidoscope, all conveying an international glamorous feeling.
Dutch entrepeneur Olcay Gulsen is the owner of fashion label SuperTrash, founded in LA in 2001. Gulsen met socialite and founder Ava Rily Ann in 2002 and the two were determined to make SuperTrash a global success. At the end of 2008, Gulsen decided to fully take charge of the young and sexy, but sophisticated label. SuperTrash is now being sold in 16 countries worldwide and has 800 points of sale; 300 of them in the Netherlands. July 2009 sees the first shop concept Walk in Wardrobe being introduced in all de Bijenkorf department stores. Besides that, SuperTrash has updated its website with a community, blog and webshop. SuperTrash also launched its first magazine during Amsterdam International Fashion Week 2009.
www.supertrash.eu
Fashion
Versace in the
Dubai Mall
The Versace Group announces the opening of its new flagship Versace boutique in the Dubai Mall on Fashion Avenue in Dubai City, UAE. This impressive boutique covers a retail area of over 600 square metres and is to date the Maison’s largest in the Middle East. The boutique holds a striking retail atmosphere that mirrors the glamour and Atelier Italian craftsmanship that make up Versace’s DNA.
The architectural details echo the new stylistic and visual concepts for the most recent important Versace flagship boutiques worldwide. With a focus on purity and details, the store features contemporary unexpected combinations and materials such as black granite floors, white leather paneled walls and matte white ceilings. The cabinetry and fixtures are accented with polished stainless steel, glass, and white and black lacquer detail throughout the space. The centrally placed crystal curtain drop chandelier creates a centrepiece effect and the interplay of lights completes this glamorous shopping atmosphere.
The boutique features the latest Versace ready to wear collections for men and women, a full range of men’s and women’s accessories including the most current selection of bags, shoes, belts, eyewear, and Versace Watches and Jewellery, as well a large selection of the Versace Home collection.
www.versace.com
Fashion
Givenchy &
Antony and the Johnsons Tour
Antony Hegarty, singer and leader of the group, has chosen French Haute Couture house Givenchy for his Paris show. An outfit from Givenchy Haute Couture by Riccardo Tisci has been created for him.
“I was so excited by this collaboration. I have so much respect for Antony and his incredible universe. What he does goes so far beyond just music. For me he is a true artist, a mixture of Klaus Nomi and Edith Piaf... an iconic voice of the 21st century.” - Riccardo Tisci
“Working with Riccardo and his team at Givenchy has been such a wonderful experience. They have all been so warm and generous during the collaboration. A big theme in my work recently has been my relationship with the natural world, and I have even been feeling a bit feral recently! so when Riccardo proposed to make a jacket in the likeness of a wild cat I jumped at the chance. It was an amazing opportunity to watch the outfit progress from a sketch and a concept into such a remarkably constructed piece. The craftsmanship and delicate attention to detail is completely astounding. I'm honored to wear such a pristinely executed costume." - Antony Hegarty
www.antonyandthejohnsons.com
www.givenchy.com
Fashion
Darklands Berlin
Existentialist’s Fashion Heart in Berlin
by Jan Joswig
If there is one undisputable proof for Berlin becoming a fashion capital, it’s the extraordinary black hole of fashion right in the heart of the city: Darklands. A tiny, unobtrusive, naked white shop with black clothes neatly displayed. But what kind of clothes: only the most fearless avantgarde men’s collections by Damir Doma, Boris Bidjan Saberi, Julius or Carol Christian Poell, all this deconstructed clothes for the modern existential nomad.
And it’s the only place that offers you Jun Takahashis brand Undercover within the next 500 miles. Undercover, the brand that was the special guest at this summers Pitti Uomo in florence, is chosen by shop owner Campbell McDougall, because "he is one designer that makes me wish I still bought women's wear, because his is truly astounding." Thus is the spirit of Darklands, truly astounding.
www.darklandsberlin.com
Fashion
Mazooka Hero:
Michael Jackson
The young Berlin streetwear label Mazooka stands for distinctive graphics that not only work in the context of textiles, but also represent part of a creative process. The label was founded by graphics designer Hanno Bäucker in 2002. Mazooka collections uniquely feature characteristic graphics and curves that stretch the clothing’s front as well as its back. The conventional disconnection of front and back is broken up, embracing the three dimensional shape of human bodies. Characteristic for the Mazooka collections is that almost all models are customizable to represent a unique style as to color and motif and the positioning of the graphical elements. This enables every piece of clothing to be unique and distinctive.
Sweater AA Women - Michael Jackson, part of the Heroes-Collection.
Price: € 55,00
Buy online at: www.shop.mazooka.de
Music
Exotica
Mariya Ocher announces Exotica: The Queens and the Rebels of Berlin's Underground Nightlife, a multimedia event at Arthouse Tacheles, on Thursday, April 23rd. Here you'll find the essential and best kept secrets of the city, the cyber punk old-fashioned spirits in the machines, troubadours of past decades, retro, futurism and decadence. Multi-media perversions, an odd clash of past and future, set in the heart of Berlin's underground, the industrial legendary art complex Tacheles.
The menu: 1970's minimal electronics, 1950's cork screwed rocknroll, 1980's horror, living statues, moving paintings and lots of cabaretish acts and theatrical videos. With Jemek Jemowit, Sister Chain & Brother John, Mary and The Baby Cheeses, Lala by and Chuckamuck dj sets: A journey through 20's century's flipside of popular culture (Cindy Wonderful, Juan of a kind, DJ Ass and .nn.).
Exotica: The Queens and the Rebels of Berlin's Underground Nightlife
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Arthouse Tacheles
Oranienburgerstr. 54-56a
10117 Berlin
Germany
Starts at 17:00 hrs
www.tacheles.de
myspace.com/thequeensandtherebels
Fashion
Jhon AG:
SPY vs. SPY
Kuzu & Aki, the team that has turned the Tokyo fashion world on its head in an unprecedented performance with its uniquely cynical style, give birth to a completely new brand by forming a union of leading branding professionals!
Breaking the mold of all the staid old rules of an apparel industry adrift in a sea of stormy market conditions, the brand Jhon AG launched its intelligence operations in a secret début on the second night of the Milano Men’s Collection, on the 21st of June, 2009.
Jhon AG is a revolutionary brand, based on a new invented business system with the ambition to refresh the market and gain visibility and awareness focusing on unique style and new technology fabrics to create items for a contemporary consumer interested in travel, play, business and sports.
Fashion
Wrangler Blue Bell
Blue Bell is as beautiful a range of denim clothing as you’re ever likely to find. The collection is influenced by vintage jeans and archive Wrangler designs, but it is also inspired by how we wear denim today. Blue Bell is modern and forward-thinking. Fall/Winter 2009 sees a newly updated Wrangler Jeans site, which also showcases the much anticipated relaunch of the Blue Bell collection.
www.bluebelljeans.com
Fashion
Obama Tennis Shoes
Luxury designer Cesare Paciotti pays homage to his US fans with the creation of his newest must-have sneaker for the Spring/Summer 2010 Collection. The “Obama Tennis Shoe” which was inspired by the charismatic and elegant US President Barack Obama is a clean shoe, designed in buttery soft white nappa leather with one single decorative accent - a hand-painted USA flag. This thoughtful dedication to the President would be a perfectly polished addition to his leisure wardrobe.
Fashion
Stefanel's jumpsuits
and organic cotton
Stefanel during the last few years has experimented and offered to the market an item that today can be considered, like the knitwear, an identification for the brand: the “overall”. Stefanel has interpreted the overall in many ways, offering for the Spring Summer collection 2009 different models, and carrying this item to become a “must have” for every women who follow the fashion trends and a best seller from the sales point of view.
Stefanel, in order to propose quality and fashionable products, is focusing on bio-fashion by realizing a new line of top and t-shirts with the organic cotton for the spring/summer collection 2009/2010. Environmentally compatible and ecosustainable, the organic cotton is the result of an organic farming that is made without using fertilizers, pesticides and defoliants. It is organized in a crop rotation in order to respect the natural cycle and the global warming prevention.
www.stefanel.com
Music
1000 Robota
A few short and crazy months after the release of their first EP “Hamburg brennt”, 1000 Robota are back with their first full length release: “Du nicht er nicht sie nicht” (“Not You Not Him Not Her”). Although these kids sing in their native German, the band has already played sold out solo gigs in London clubs, had a feature in Zoo Magazine, a write-up in the NME and loads of praise from everyone including bands like the Klaxons and The Horrors. And that’s not to mention the frenzy they’ve created in their homeland, Germany.
Hm. Weird. What is it about these guys that makes them special even to an English crowd who don’t understand a word of what they’re singing/shouting about? Maybe it’s the almost primal energy that comes from the band’s recordings and especially live shows which speak of the anger, frustration, dreams and ideals that are universally understood by everyone who’s ever been young and restless.
Anton Spielmann (18, guitar and vocals), Sebastian Muxfeldt (17, bass) and Jonas Hinnerkort (18, drums and vocals) had been playing mindless band battles in and around their hometown Hamburg’s St. Pauli district when they got picked up by the folks at tapete records, one of Germany’s premier independent record labels, in 2007. Since then, everything went berserk. Taking time off from an already punishing live schedule, “Du nicht er nicht sie nicht” was recorded mostly live at Clouds Hill Studios in Hamburg in the space of 10 days, in between school and still more live gigs. The album is loud, aggressive and alarmingly direct. The 10 songs are unlike anything heard in Indie-land at this point. Simply no one sounds like them.
www.1000robota.de
Fashion
Arnhem Fashion Biennale
Magazine
In cooperation with Elsevier Magazine the biggest fashion event in the world Arnhem Mode Biënnale has published a unique fashion magazine focusing on fashion designers and the Fashion Biennale theme SHAPE.
The magazine, released with three different covers, features interviews with the most trend-setting fashion designers in the world including the Rodarte sisters from the US and avant-garde designer Rick Owens. Furthermore Proenza Schouler, Raf Simons (designer for Jil Sander), Klavers van Engelen and revolutionary designer of man's fashion Thom Browne discuss the role of shape in fashion.
The Arnhem Mode Biennale, taking place from 6 June to 6 July in the town centre of Arnhem, The Netherlands.
www.elsevier.nl/amb
www.arnhemmodebiennale.com
Fashion
Dirk Bikkembergs
first sport couture sunglasses
White slopes, sandy beaches, city streets and sunny plains will all have one thing in common this summer: a pair of sunglasses labelled Dirk Bikkembergs Sport Couture. One pair, among many others. From Capetown to Tromsø, from San Francisco to Sydney, this pair will stand out with bravura for its streamlined design, highly advanced technical features and top quality materials fused to the body and mind of its special wearer.
The limited edition sunglasses will be made exclusively available from the Dirk Bikkembergs Flagship Store (Via Manzoni 47, Milan).
www.bikkembergs.com
Art
Norwegian Summer
Galerie Gabriel Rolt will present Norwegian Summer, a group exhibition with new works by four young Norwegian artists: Kristin Nordhøy, Ane Mette Hol, Toril Johannessen and Stian Eide Kluge. Each has a scientist-like rigor and complexity in the research and development of a work. Their practices combine a highly conceptual and theoretical process with an emotional, human involvement, which frequently relies on a high level of craftsmanship.
These artists are intrigued and inquisitive – about their lives, histories, surroundings. Their works stray between the realms of art, science and personal biography, making visual interpretations of ideas, resolutions, concepts that are often abstract and intangible. For both the viewer and the artist, these works carry an awe and wonder at the process and content.
From July 4th to August 22nd, 2009
Galerie Gabriel Rolt
Elandsgracht 34
1016 TW Amsterdam
The Netherlands
www.gabrielrolt.com
Art
The Gospel
In conjunction with ING, the Zuiderzee Museum will present new work by Studio Job. It was presented in Milan, during Salone del Mobile in April 2009, under the name The Gospel. This work consists of two large sculptures in lean glass and rosewood, depicting iconic and biblical scenes, as well as an enormous rusty cast-iron service. Together these objects form the graphic and dimensional starting point for an exclusive 12-piece, hand-made service (a collectors item) and an industrially produced service, which can be ordered by the public at large. Dutch porcelein manufacturer Royal Tichelaar Makkum will produce both services. ING, the Zuiderzee Museum and Studio Job wish to bring the general public art that not only has a museological aspect but also touches on everyday aspects.
From medio May 2009:
Zuiderzee Museum
Wierdijk 12-22
1601 LA Enkhuizen
The Netherlands
www.zuiderzeemuseum.nl
Fashion
Gucci for Home
Gucci announces it’s support for Home, the unique cinematic environmental film directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, produced by Luc Besson and funded by Gucci parent company the PPR Group.
In honor of the film, Gucci creative director Frida Giannini has designed a special, limited edition T-shirt, which will be sold in select Gucci stores worldwide. Extending the message of sustainability, Giannini designed the T-shirt using 100% organic cotton and natural dyes in recyclable packaging. The design features the official Home logo in which Giannini has integrated the iconic Gucci “GG” symbol. On sale from May 25 the T-shirt will be available in both men’s and women’s sizes priced at Euro 140, with all profits donated to Goodplanet.org, a non-profit association created by Yann Arthus-Bertrand in 2005.
Home will receive a unique multi-platform release on June 5th (World Environment Day) in cinemas, on television, on DVD and on the internet in 14 different languages and in over 87 countries around the world.
www.home-2009.com
www.gucci.com
Art
Umfeld
Iekeliene Stange, a known face of fashion, has recently caught the eye of the media with her photography. Having documented the goings on backstage at fashions hows for several years, Iekeliene is noted for her against the grain approach. Now she will be exhibiting some of her most personal work in London together with her friend and the one who introduced her into the fashion industry, Dutch artist Victor de Bie.
Together they will provide an insight into their everyday lives through colorful paintings, drawings and polaroids, featuring family, friends and themselves in surreal environments.
UMFELD
an exhibition by top model Iekeliene Stange and Dutch artist Victor de Bie
April 1st to April 4th, 2009
Location:
The Horse Hospital
30 Colonnade
London WC1N 1JD
United Kingdom
www.thehorsehospital.com
www.victordebie.com
Art
Anyone but me, Anywhere but here
The project "Anyone but me, Anywhere but here" has been built on the relationship and the sometimes disloyal exchange between past and present and shows the fascination for objects, the propensity towards reason and connections as well as the motivation to always create new situations and change the natural order of things.
Starting from a missing scene in Antonioni's film "The Eclipse", Olivia Mihaltianu, visual artist, and Olah Gyarfas, the designer of cutting-edge label Rozalb de Mura are revealing a private world, a laboratory of life-style and holiday culture.
Anyone but me, Anywhere but here
until 9th of November 2008
Contemporary Art Gallery of the
National Brukenthal Museum
6, Tribunei Street
Sibiu, Romania
www.brukenthalmuseum.ro
Art
Whispering Waters
The Groninger Museum will present new work by the artist Daniëlle Kwaaitaal (Bussum, 1964) in the ‘Green Room’ from March 14th to May 31st, 2009. Whispering Waters (2009) consists of a series of underwater photographs made by Kwaaitaal in conjunction with fashion designer Mada van Gaans.
In Danielle Kwaaitaal’s work the significance of being a woman plays a major role. She is fascinated by ‘the ideal of beauty’ in a human as well as an artistic sense. In her new work she seeks to join in with the world of fashion with a view to bringing ‘beauty’ into the limelight as a social issue.
Daniëlle Kwaaitaal has asked fashion designer Mada van Gaans to design a number of ‘underwater dresses’ especially for this exhibition.
www.daniellekwaaitaal.nl
www.groningermuseum.nl
Art
6+. Antwerp Fashion
In cooperation with the MoMu - Fashion Museum Province of Antwerp, Tokyo Opera City Cultural Foundation is organising the exhibition ‘6+. Antwerp Fashion’ in the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery.
‘6+. Antwerp Fashion’ originally took place from January till June 2007 at ‘De Loketten’ in Brussels and was initiated by the MoMu - Fashion Museum Province of Antwerp and the Flemish Parliament. From 11 April through 28 June, this exhibition travels to Japan, where it will be officially opened on April 10th, 2009.
6+, referring to ‘The Six of Antwerp’, describes the international success story of Antwerp fashion. ‘The Six’ - Ann Demeulemeester, Dries Van Noten, Walter Van Beirendonck, Dirk Van Saene, Dirk Bikkembergs and Marina Yee - have been well-known in the world of fashion since the beginning of the 80s.
6+. Antwerp Fashion
Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery
3-20-2 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
163-1403 Japan
www.momu.be
www.operacity.jp/ag
Fashion
My Delerium
by Linda Valkeman
Chaos can be beautiful, beautifully structured. Linda Valkeman’s chaotic personality inspires her and forces her to create structure, create beauty, create fabrics and above all create new shapes.
The clothes are based on classic shapes and patterns that went astray, but eventually found the right track back. The normal and abnormal go hand in hand, as well as the old and the new. A consistent patchwork of contradictive ideas is presented.
The huge range of fabrics, mostly created by herself, underline the chaos: pages from a scrapbook, the feathers from her grandpa’s farm, high tech nylon, pieces of wood, old-fashioned knits and plastics.
In this collection ‘My delirium’ found it’s right direction.
Photography: Marc Deurloo
www.lindavalkeman.nl
Art
Bending the Cosmos
Over the past few years, Terry Rodgers has emerged as one of America’s most talented and controversial contemporary painters. His large-scale hyper-realistic grandes machines have prompted critics to wonder at the real scope of his endeavour. Some have criticized it as mere kitsch, others have praised it as one of the most remarkable exponents of today’s return to figuration. None of them, however, dismiss it. One would be at pain to overlook Rodgers’ sweeping success in as much as his craftsmanship forces admiration upon any of those who dare to look at it. Rodgers has exhibited worldwide and his work is part of the most prominent collections on both sides of the Atlantic. It is one of the most emblematic attempts at capturing the spirit of these special times.
The compositions develop as Rodgers creates collages of individual photographs taken in his studio or on location. These are then transposed to the canvas with oil paint. The creation process literally embodies the impossibility of a true encounter, which constitutes the core theme of Rodgers’ paintings. The only significant gaze is ours. As though through the keyhole of a prohibited room, we get a glimpse of these disenchanted celebrations. Nobody pays attention. We have become voyeurs in a world where blindness has become a function of looking.
Bending the Cosmos (Solo Show)
28th February - 28th March, 2009
TORCH Gallery
Lauriergracht 94
1016 Amsterdam
The Netherlands
www.torchgallery.com
www.terryrodgers.com
Fashion
Botanik
Berlin-based label Design Studio presents its Spring/Summer 2009 collection, called BOTANIK. Designer Svenja Specht enjoyed the Botanic Garden in Berlin last summer and got very impressed and excited by the diversity of plants. She wanted to remember all this wonderful and bizarre creations of nature. Specht will definitely go there again this summer...
Photography: Claudia Grassl
www.realitystudio.de
Art
Freudenthal / Verhagen S/S 1989-2009
Dopolavoro Golab announces the opening of the exhibition Freudenthal / Verhagen S/S 1989-2009 on Tuesday March 3rd.
Carmen Freudenthal (1965, Utrecht) and Elle Verhagen (1962, Gemert) both studied at the internationally renowned Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy in Amsterdam, graduating respectively as photographer and fashion designer. They have been working as a photographic team since 1989, and are one of the most creative, inspiring artistic couples working in the the Netherlands at the moment. Their collaboration with fashion designers, performers and other artists has resulted in a extensive body of work, over the last twenty years, which still feel as fresh, vibrant and exciting today as when it was initially made.
Dopolavoro
Via Morimondo 2/7
20143 Milano
Italy
From March 3rd to April 18th, 2009
www.dopolavorogolab.com
www.freudenthalverhagen.com
Fashion
Furla's
New Generation
Until now, Italy has not exactly been known for nurturing young fashion talent. In the Bel Paese, in fact, the old generation was historically reluctant to pass the baton to the new guard. Of late, however, things have slowly started to change. The number of initiatives promoting up-and-coming creators grows, fueled by magazines and manufacturers alike.
Famed accessories brand Furla is one of the strongest leaders of this new course with its Talent Hub project. Founded in Bologna by Aldo Furlanetto in 1927, Furla is one of the longest-standing fashion houses in Italy. Currently headed by the third generation of Furlanettos, it’s a place where they really know a thing or two about generational rotation.
Talent Hub started in 2007 as a center of development and promotion for new talents. The initiative encourages emerging designers, chosen on a seasonal basis, by combining their vision and creative strength with the structure of the company and its worldwide market, which extends from Europe and America to the distant shores of Japan. Furla, in fact, encourages the chosen wunderkinds by giving them the rare opportunity to create and sign their own collections under the Furla label.
For spring-summer 2009, that privilege goes to Maricò, Courtney Crawford and Nicole Brundage - all former finalists of the Who’s on Next Vogue Italia contest. The kaleidoscopic offer runs the gamut from Maricò’s printed bags with an African-urban twist to Crawford’s chic Parisian footwear to Brundage’s East Meets West ode to geometry. Crammed with talent and invention, with the unavoidable plus of top-notch Italian quality, this one-shot collection will surely get style-savvy customers hungry for more. Long live Furla, then. And long live the next generation!
www.furla.com
Fashion
Y-3 at adidas Brand Centre Paris
Beginning this month, Y-3’s S/S 2009 collection is available at the adidas Brand Centre on Avenue des Champs Elysées. The 200 square meter Y-3 space is located on the first floor of the new adidas Brand Center, next to the recently launched adidas SLVR Label, the adidas by Stella McCartney collection and adidas Porsche Design Sport.
The Brand Centre is adidas’ largest concept store in Europe with a total floor space of 3,600 square meters. For the first time in Europe, all categories and brands of adidas clothing, footwear and accessories can be found under one roof.
www.adidas.com
www.y-3.com
Fashion
Dior Homme
Blow Sunglasses
In a limited edition of 500, these futuristic wraparound sunglasses were a defining feature of the Spring 2009 show. In colored resin - black/orange/blue/pink. This collector's item will bow exclusively in Dior boutiques from April 2009.
www.diorhomme.com
Fashion
K-Swiss x United Nude
Started in 2003 by Rem D. Koolhaas and Galahad Clark, United Nude has triggered people’s imaginations and created a global audience of design.
For spring 2009, United Nude has taken on the iconic K-Swiss Classic with a limited edition women’s collection debuting at the WSA Show in Las Vegas.
Signature to both United Nude and K-Swiss is the shoe’s sophistication, elegance and innovation. The new collection is the perfect match of these two brands and demonstrates how sport and style can creatively coexist.
www.k-swiss.de
Fashion
Legion of Honour
French designer Marie-Thérèse Bachellerie (Marithé of M+F Girbaud) was given the order of “The legion of honour” and “The order of arts and literature” on Friday, 13th February 2009. The order of “The Legion of honour” is the highest decoration in France.
In 1960 Marithé met François Girbaud, two completely different personalities. Together they create highly innovative and modern jeans made with new technologies and revolutionary treatments. In 1986 the label Marithé + François Girbaud is founded.
www.girbaud.com
Fashion
Sunlight
This striking sandal is all about taking a stand! Its tangy colors offer a perfect contrast to its black lacquer sole, while its 10-centimetres heel plunges down onto a “geisha” platform for an overall bold look.
Hermès designer Pierre Hardy was thinking of architecture and Art Déco style when he created "Sunlight" - he's showing his ideas in shiny colors and brillant patent leather. The high-heel sandals are available in two multi-color variations and four uni-colors. Other "Sunlights" will be available in alligator and snake leather.
www.hermes.com
Fashion
An Epic Space
The new Sisley campaign for spring/summer 2009 leaves the ordered atmosphere of the photo studio and ventures out into the wide-open spaces of the South African desert.
Seen, for the third season, through the lens of Camilla Akrans, the campaign centres around a few concrete elements: the bodies, a gilded frame, the sand. Everything else is non-material and variable: the light, the sky, the space. At the heart of it all, the Sisley's styles play the starring role.
www.sisley.com
Art
Maison Martin Margiela's Suite
For the second year running, the Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine is welcoming the magazine ELLE Décoration to revive the former apartment of Jacques Carlu, architect of the palais Chaillot in the 1930s. After Christian Lacroix, the Cité and ELLE Décoration have given carte blanche to Maison Martin Margiela for the interior work on this exceptional 220 m2 apartment located opposite the Eiffel tower that overlooks all of Paris from its terrace. The intervention of Maison Martin Margiela in the suite goes beyond simple decoration, it seeks to revive the place, in space and time.
The ELLE Décoration Suite by Maison Martin Margiela is open to the public until the end of October 2009. Visits on Saturdays and Sundays from 2pm to 5pm.
www.maisonmartinmargiela.com
Fashion
Diva tasting
The new Fornarina Spring/Summer 2009 advertising campaign illustrates overwhelmingly feminine images in which Lindsay Lohan, the Hollywood celebrity testimonial of the brand, is the main protagonist.
Young, beautiful, eclectic, with great talent and a great personality, Lindsay Lohan immediately appeared as one of the few in the show-biz able to represent the glamorous style of Fornarina.
The unmistakable personality of Fornarina, the fascination of Lindsay Lohan and the intense light of Los Angeles that overflows the Stahl House, one of the most exclusive locations in Hollywood, have rendered it possible to have an extraordinary photographic campaign that expresses in the most absolute way, the DNA of the brand.
www.fornarina.com
Fashion
Prada Womenswear S/S 2009
There is a kinetic urgency, a surge of energy and a heightened sexuality breaking through the surface of the new campaign images photographed by Steven Meisel for Prada womenswear. Inspired by ancient stone bas-reliefs, a line-up of models appears pushing and pulling themselves into position. They are connected as if in a dance, an unexplained ritual or performance that informs these compositions inspired by these intensely powerful, mythological relief compositions. The crumpled, elemental texture of the collection clashes against their glistening, almost sculptural looking skin. Classical objects of female adornment like gold, python print, bows and bras, are reinterpreted throughout the collection with contemporary treatments and technological inventions.
www.prada.com
Travel
Aire de Bardenas
In the southernmost part of Navarre, Spain, lies the four-star hotel Aire de Bardenas. The architecture, interior spaces and landscape design, seek to bring the visitor close to the rural and austere character of the surroundings by providing simple, generous and silent spaces.
Through an ordered plantation of white-flower cherry trees, you’ll find the entrance of the hotel’s main body which houses the common areas – reception, main hall, meeting room, bar and restaurant– and 10 rooms with private patios, each with a fruit tree. The rest of the rooms are freestanding pavilions with large projecting windows overlooking the open landscape.
Hotel Aire de Bardenas
Carretera de Ejea NA-125. Km.1,5
31500 Tudela
Navarra, Spain.
www.airedebardenas.com
Art
Metal Postcard-Mittageisen
For the group exhibition Metal Postcard – Mittageisen 17 artists were asked to contribute a work that is assembled or reflects the means of montage. The work could be executed in any medium, including video, installation, animation, printing, drawing, sculpture, painting, and photography. The title of the show is taken from the song of the same name by the punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees which was released as a single in 1979 and was written in dedication to John Heartfield (1891 - 1968). The song Metal Postcard refers to Heartfield’s photomontage Hurrah, die Butter ist alle (1934). The photomontage, published as the cover page for the Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung, shows a National Socialist family eating iron: bicycle handlebars, axes, weights. With it, Heartfield was reacting parodistically to a quote from Hermann Göring: “Iron has always made an empire strong, butter and schmalz have at best made a people fat.”
December 6th 2008 - January 23rd 2009
SEPTEMBER
Charlottenstraße 1
10969 Berlin
www.september-berlin.com
Fashion
G-Star SS09 Campaign
Having built a distinctive visual identity over twenty years, G-Star now takes the next step with a campaign curated by photographer, designer and filmmaker, Anton Corbijn.
For the Spring/Summer 2009 campaign, models have been replaced by actors Toby Kebbell and Alexandra Maria Lara. Both came to G-Star’s attention thanks to their performances in the award-winning movie Control and will front the new advertisements. The British born Toby made his initial breakthrough in Dead Man’s Shoes and is now receiving rave reviews for his performance in Guy Ritchie’s Rock’n’Rolla. The Romanian-born and Berlin-based Alexandra came to prominence with her performance in the Oscar nominated 2004 film, Untergang (Downfall), followed by her leading role in Francis Ford Coppola’s Youth Without Youth and will next be seen in the Oscar contender The Reader.
www.g-star.com
Art
Something To Declare
Galerie Orel Art shows Something To Declare by English artist Rupert Shrive. The exhibition explores the visible and invisible evolution of the creative process, taking us on a journey through the strata between an idea's inception and its eventual manifestation. With fractured primordial cosmic eggs hatching fragmented portrait heads, Shrive establishes poignant dialogues not just between the natural and the artificial, order and chaos, but also between accepted tenets of contemporary beauty and their cultural interpretation.
His recent works, based primarily on his technique of creation and destruction, now explore the third part of the cycle: the renaissance. If the theme of the resurrection is at the core of his work, the new pieces, like the chrysalises represented, discover their independence and, with it, a new identity.
7th of November – 20th of December 2008
Galerie Orel Art
40, rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
www.orelart.com
Fashion
Burberry re-opens in London
Burberry just re-opened its renovated Knightsbridge store in London, a 11,000 square foot store, located on Brompton Road. The store showcases men’s and women’s ready-to-wear from the Burberry Prorsum and Burberry London collections as well as sport and childrenswear collections. A full assortment of accessories including bags, jewellery and shoe collections are also available in the store. The store re-opens with the new store design concept developed by Burberry Creative Director Christopher Bailey and is the first Burberry store in the UK to re-open with the new distinctly British aesthetic, which embodies the energy and attitude of the brand.
BURBERRY
2 Brompton Road
Knightsbridge
London SW1
www.burberry.com
Fashion
Closed Bike
The newest design piece of Closed is a bike – the second Closed-Bike! The whole design of this bike is inspired by the spirit, style and fashion of the 70s and thus harmonises perfectly with the upcoming Autumn/Winter collection.
After the success of the Closed City Bike Gordon Giers, owner of the company has this time developed a track-bike which is even simpler in concerns of design and mainly characterised by retro-inspired details like the Brooks racing-bike leather saddle, which guarantees a painless ride. Moreover the bike has got a special CroMo frame and a Flip-Flop rear hub, which allows freewheel drive as well as "Starrantrieb" – which means that the pedals keep on moving, even though one stops pushing. All these special details give the bike its unique value and the designer a good reason to be proud of his limited edition collector’s piece.
There are 100 pieces available in black and blue on shop.closed.com (from March onwards).
www.closed.com
Fashion
The House of Viktor & Rolf
‘The House of Viktor & Rolf’, the largest extensive exhibition ever presented in The Netherlands by the famous designer duo, opened at the Centraal Museum on the 25th of November. The exhibition offers all visitors the unique opportunity to experience an exclusive Viktor & Rolf fashion event. This retrospect draws attention to spectacular highlights from the Viktor & Rolf collection over the past fifteen years. During this period, the influential duo wowed the fashion world with their heady mix of cool irony and surreal beauty. Following a successful stint at the Barbican Art Gallery in London, the exhibition now moves to the Centraal Museum in Utrecht. The Centraal Museum places an integral focus on current fashion.
The House of Viktor & Rolf
25 November 2008 to 8 February 2009
Centraal Museum Utrecht
the Netherlands
www.centraalmuseum.nl
www.viktor-rolf.com
Fashion
CoSTUME NATIONAL SS09
Ennio Capasa, designer:
“This collection is a play of opposites between structure and deconstruction. I have used the poetic essence and the technique of virtual architecture and 3D graphic design to underline volumes and silhouettes, to highlight the body and the basic elements in the construction of the garments. Using colours, matching ironed and creased fabrics, flat and three dimensional surfaces, I have accentuated cuts, pleats and the fullness of dresses and gowns. I have airbrushed dark and light prints as skies reflected in glass buildings.”
www.costumenational.com
Art
A Little Piece of Mind
A Little Piece of Mind is a project created and curated by Design and Branding Studio–Marque. Across three studio locations- Glasgow, London and New York- one of the constant objectives of Marque is to bring and develop a dedicated craft in design. Often this has meant commissioning specialized craft practitioners and artisans. Or wherever possible, collaborating with those in the creative arts who share and express this type of approach.
Over the past 6 months, for the Little Piece of Mind project, the studios have identified, commissioned and briefed several of the leading local exponents of Quilting to create a series of Contemporary Quilts. In Spring 09, after this process is completed, the quilts will be exhibited, firstly in London, then in New York and Glasgow. The exhibitions will culminate in the quilts being auctioned. The sales proceeds will be donated equally between two charities who are committed to confronting and preventing homelessness, in each of the three cities in which Marque live and work: Shelter in London and Glasgow and The Bowery Mission in New York City.
Some of the people who have already supported the project and sent in works include; Rankin, Daisy and Poppy De Villeneuve, Bill Amberg, DJ Producer Howie B, Boudicca, Nell Bell Design, Damien Poulain, Tom Dixon, tailor Timothy Everest and Brit artist Gavin Turk.
www.alittlepieceofmind.org
Fashion
Filippa K opens in USA
Filippa K recently opened the first U.S. store in San Francisco, California. Located in the heart of city at 66 Kearny Street, the new store location will be the 42nd Filippa K store to open worldwide.
Designed by Bjorn Aaro of Aaro Arkitekter, Filippa K’s San Francisco location is the first new concept store inspired by the brand’s standards of artistic minimalism and dedication to architecture. Adjacent to Maiden Lane, one of the city’s most stylish shopping district areas, the majestic 2,000 square foot space transforms a former bank with lofty ceilings into a relaxing, calm atmosphere that exudes a warm sense of understated style.
The store will carry a full range of women’s and men’s fashion, shoes, handbags, and accessories from Filippa K – a brand known for its distinct Scandinavian design style that combines simplistic urban elegance with high fashion.
Filippa K
66 Kearny Street
San Francisco
California
www.filippa-k.com
Fashion
Limited edition Wood Wood shoe from Converse
As part of Converse’s inspiring creative 1HUND(RED) Artists’ footwear collaboration with PRODUCT (RED), the brand pays homage to its heritage as an optimistic rebel with the unveiling of a future icon: The limited edition Wood Wood Chuck Taylor All Star® hi-top.
Known as Artist 26 throughout the unique project, Wood Wood’s shoe features premium suede leather upper in powder purple as well as monochromatic matching laces and coordinating rubber soles. Wood appears on both the Left and Right shoe’s tongue upper while each shoe has perforation detail that reveals a hidden constellation pattern.
Available from specialty retailers globally including the stand alone Converse Store on Carnaby St, Dover St Market, Good Hood and Microzine within the UK, as well as Colette in Paris, Concrete in Amsterdam, UK style in Moscow, and OAK in New York City, Wood Wood’s premium shoe design is the latest offering from Converse’s innovative 1HUND(RED) Artists footwear collection. 10% of the net wholesale price of the Converse 1HUND(RED) Artists footwear collection goes to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (Geneva, Switzerland). For more information about the Wood Wood shoe and the Converse 1HUND(RED) Artists collection visit www.converse.com.
Art
Christophe Chemin: Dasein
“In 2005, I started to draw the blind. I call them ‘blind’ even if they aren’t, really. They have empty gazes. As a child, ancient Egyptian statues, with their blank expressions, fascinated me as the painting used to depict their eyes had disappeared over time.”
Multidisciplinary artist Christophe Chemin lives and works in Berlin. For his first solo exhibition in Paris, entitled “Dasein,” Chemin is presenting a new series of large drawings in colored pencils, strongly influenced by the work of Pierre Klossowski. These outsized drawings, measuring 150 by 250 cm, extremely large for this media, represent ethereal figures in pale tones. Dogs, as well as children and men with empty, white expressions populate his obsessions.
Exhibition from October 10th – November 8th 2008
Galerie Jeanroch Dard
13 rue des Arquebusiers
75003 Paris
www.jeanrochdard.com
Fashion
A Stage of Light and Shadow
A red-haired woman, a man with an enigmatic expression, a distant, dazzling light, a flight of descending stairs. These are the features on the stage Sisley treads to tell of its collection for next autumn/winter.
It does so through the lens of Camilla Akrans, the Swedish photographer who shoots her second Sisley advertising campaign in her unmistakeable style of sobriety and grace, passion and reserve, culture and creativity.
The campaign starts in August 2008 and will appear on hoardings, in fashion magazines, in collector’s catalogues and PoS materials.
www.sisley.com
Fashion
Victims
Is there another way of looking at tragedy? Can two people – seemingly destined to be enemies – share a common hope? Colors 74 – Victims is a symbolic gesture which attempts to unite where there is only division, to make peace where the only urge is to fight.
Thirty Tibetan monks have agreed to dedicate their prayers to the victims of the earthquake that recently terrorized the Sichuan province of China. From Italy to India, the U.S. to Germany, Colors visited them and showed them pictures of turmoil, hope, the invincible force of nature and the indomitable spirit of those who manage to carry on with their lives.
Colors 74 – Victims. On sale this August and available in seven languages – Tibetan, Chinese, English, Italian, French, Spanish or German – enclosed in graphic reproductions of the traditional Tibetan prayer flags, symbols of harmony and protection against danger and evil.
www.benetton.com
Art
The Kiss of Wine
Who blew the first kiss: Dom Pérignon or Sylvie Fleury? Whoever it was, the glamorous encounter between Sylvie Fleury and Dom Pérignon has now been sealed by a kiss, giving birth to a limited edition for Dom Pérignon.
The “Stolen kisses” giftbox, edited in 999 copies, contains two elegant large glasses, numbered and signed by Sylvie Fleury, and a bottle of Dom Pérignon Rosé Vintage 1998. By imprinting a pair of lips on elegant wine glasses, Sylvie Fleury has found a new way of expressing through art the essence of the legendary wine whose creation has been associated with Pierre Pérignon since 1668.
“Dom Pérignon is my favourite champagne,” she declares with a certain mischievious glint in her eye. With its powers of seduction and vivacious sensuality, the kiss sets life ablaze, like the eternal youth of the Rosé itself.
www.domperignon.com
Art
Fashion in the Mirror
The international photographers in this exhibition undress the theatre of fashion and question the creation of perfect beauty. Fashion in the Mirror is an overview of their self-examination and a rare look behind-the-scenes of fashion photography from the 1950s to the present day.
Finding both comedy and poetry in the set-up of the studio, the exhibiting photographers turn their cameras on the processes and paraphernalia of the fashion shoot. Photographers become mirrored in their own work and, as viewpoints are inverted and gazes misdirected, cameras stare back out at us expectantly.
Revealing the fashion industry’s secrets and undermining its glamorous illusions, the photographers in this exhibition create work that exposes this world from within.
The exhibition will feature work by leading international photographers such as Mario Testino, Richard Avedon, Nick Knight, Juergen Teller, Steven Klein, Steven Meisel, Helmut Newton and Irving Penn.
Fashion in the Mirror
Self-Reflection in Fashion Photography
until 14 September 08
The Photographers' Gallery
8 Great Newport Street
London
www.photonet.org.uk
Fashion
Maison Martin Margiela Artisanal
Since its beginnings in 1988, Maison Martin Margiela has found garments, accessories and second-hand- or at times new items – to transform them into clothes. This creative, skilled process is shown to advantage by changing focus and transforming the raw materials.
Each garment is totally unique and produced in very small quantities.
The label, numbered 0, is sewn, embossed or stamped according to the material or composition of the garment.
These garments or items are available exclusively in certain Maison Martin Margiela shops worldwide (rue de Montpensier and rue de Grenelle in Paris, London, Milan, New York, Los Angeles, Ebisu, Omotesando in Tokyo and Osaka).
Fashion
G-Star Raw Nights
www.g-star.com
VIDEO - Woodkid
The French multidisciplinary artist Yoann Lemoine just released the self-directed video for his musical debut Iron under his moniker Woodkid. Taking the internet by storm, the visually stunning masterpiece features supermodel Agyness Deyn in a raw and epic, black and white scenery.
The song is part of Woodkid's first EP Iron and now available via iTunes.
www.woodkid.com
Fashion
Chanel & Colette
From March 1st to 10th, Chanel and Colette will blend their creative talent to open a pop-up store at 336-340 Rue Saint-Honoré. Stretching over 200 sqm, the boutique is set in the industrial surroundings of a former garage turned into a living display space.
This spontaneous and eclectic installation will combine fashion, visual arts and musical performances. On each day another event is going on: Colette invited artists to customize Chanel bags, DJ’s will spin and various artists will perform.
www.chanel.com
www.colette.fr
Fashion
Prada SS2011
Luxurious neon stoles, giant sombreros wrapped in electric stripes and bold banana prints come to life on some of the world's best models: Mariacarla Boscono, Tati Cotliar and Kinga Rajzak alongside Prada's new discovery Arizona Muse.
These vibrant and playful fashion images - inspired in spirit by the legendary jazz age entertainer Josephine Baker - are shot by fashion legend and long-term Prada collaborator Steven Meisel.
www.prada.com
Art
What Do You Want Me to Do?
Photo duo Zuza Krajewska & Bartek Wieczorek bring their decadent 'trash aesthetic' to Berlin as part of the Photomonth series.
What Do You Want Me to Do?
- Bryce Draper (excerpts)
Curators: Adam Mazur and Aneta Panek
Vernissage: September 15th, 19:00 hrs
The show opens on September 16th and runs through November 30th, 2010
Polnisches Institut Berlin
Burgstrasse 27
10178 Berlin
Germany
www.berlin.polnischekultur.de
Art
The Traveller Shanghai
Hans-Peter Feldmann's collaboration with Louis Vuitton continues. This time Shanghai was the place and inspiration for his art-installation.
His next destinations are Mumbai and Düsseldorf.
Fashion
Melissa
and Circenses
Melissa's creation team has dove into history and circus references. The Fall/Winter 2010-2011 collection features nostalgic memories from childhood with the mythic and mystery surrounding artists and their performances. The Cirque Melissas (see image) were created with velvet textures, chromed details, cameos and tones which remind us this magic universe of old performances.
Fashion
The Inner Scar
Cerruti SS2011 film presentation by Will Davidson starring Malgosia Bela (a Cerruti campaign model from ten years ago).
Displayed 4 times on 16 screens, the film takes its inspiration from a scene of La Cicatrice Intérieure (The Inner Scar) by Philippe Garrel (1970), especially from a scene featuring Nico wandering in an infinite sand desert with no visual boundaries.
The collection goes back to the Cerruti heritage,alluding to both masculinity (tailoring) and feminity (draped pieces). The collection focuses on potent detail, optical chevron stripe (conceived from an image of a suit by Adrian from 1944) and earthy fabrics such as linen and raffia tailoring mixed with drape that nod to the Cerruti’s heritage mix of masculinity and feminity.
Watch the Cerruti SS2011 film here.
Fashion
The Nothing
Billionaire Boys Club announce the launch of 'The Nothing' shoe for FW10. Following the successful collaboration between Ice Cream and Reebok with the 'Boardflip' which sold out on its releases in 2005, The Nothing follows suit for BBC. The Nothing, already worn by Pharrell, will be released in October in a variety of colors including teal, yellow, red, grey, brown and black.
www.bbcicecream.com
Fashion
Run
In October 2010, Nike and Jun Takahashi, founder and head designer of Japan’s coveted clothing label Undercover, will release the first Nike x Undercover Gyakusou performance running collection. The design partnership fuses cutting edge Nike running innovations and design with the functionality of Takahashi’s Undercover—whose dedication to a less-but-better design philosophy mirrors Nike founder Bill Bowerman's passion for the athletic benefits of minimalism. It amplifies levels of technical precision and intuitive function, delivering a unique and modern perspective on running by runners.
The Gyakusou performance running collection will be available October 2010 at selected retailers globally.
Fashion
Bullet Proof Artist
From September 3rd to October 24th, 2010, Kunsteyssen (Alkmaar, NL) stages an exhibition of the project Bullet Proof Artist. For this project, visual artist Jonas Staal collaborated with fashion designers KARSSENBERG/GREIDANUS. The presentation examines the relation between art, democracy and safety.
The project’s starting point is formed by a small collection of tailored garments made from bullet proof material. KARSSENBERG/GREIDANUS designed and made these garments for Jonas Staal’s stay as an artist-in-residence in Johannesburg (South-Africa) in July and August of this year. In the exhibition in Kunsteyssen, the bullet proof garments are presented next to a photographic impression of the artist’s visit to Johannesburg. A compilation of video-material, that demonstrate the use of safety-material completes the exhibition.
www.karssenberg-greidanus.com
www.jonasstaal.nl
Fashion
Line 8
Maison Martin Margiela and Cutler and Gross group have decided to join forces through a license for the first time in their respective history.
Line 8 – eyewear collection - was naturally born with ‘Incognito’: one-lens sunglasses for both eyes in the shape of a horizontal stripe crossing the face. With ‘8’, the Maison offers a new context for eyewear through a simple yet radical expression.
The first collection is made of two lines:
'anatomic' – an enlarged rounded shape enveloping the face to protect the full visual field.
'wrong size' – a geometric play on lenses seemingly ill-fitting the frame.
www.cutlerandgross.com
www.maisonmartinmargiela.com
Fashion
The Flexible Body
Soft summer lights filters through the glass roof of the Grand Palais. It is 8 pm and Karl Lagerfeld is launching his presentation of the Fall-Winter 2010-2011 Haute Couture collection he has created for Chanel.
A Golden Lion of Venice, standing 12 meters high, serves as a décor to the collection. The lion was inspired by the profusion of curios which still can be seen inside Coco Chanel's apartment on Rue Cambon in Paris, and reminds us that she was born a Leo, a fire and sun sigh of the zodiac par excellence.
Art
The Wild One
Sisley, the Italian fashion brand of the Benetton Group, announces an exhibition and auction of motorcycle jackets specially customized by leading fine artists, benefiting the Andy Warhol Museum. The project is curated by Glenn O’Brien and to be launched at Milan Fashion Week.
Jane Dickson
Tom Sachs
Nate Lowman
Fashion
Mademoiselle Danger
Inspired by the favorite lipstick color of one of the designers in the Marc by Marc Jacobs design studio, this print is featured on a selection of Fall/Winter 2010-2011 accessories, called the Mademoiselle Danger group.
Available in two color combinations, either white on black, or red on army red, the Mlle Danger print appears on one of Marc by Marc Jacobs’ signature materials 'Pretty Nylon' and brings freshness and originality to your wardrobe for fall. In stores now.
Art
Still Life
Michael James O’Brien began a still life project parallel to his portrait work, inspired by Flemish still life painting from the 17th century. In his early work used a combination of 'symbolic' objects with everyday pieces-many he found on the street. More recently he began to choose other, less painterly situations. His book Still life, that has been published this year shows a combination of commisioned and exhibition work.
Fashion
Bally FW2010-2011
Bally introduces the Fall/Winter 2010 campaign, captured by renowned photographer Craig McDean, under the art direction of MD70. The location of Thermes of Val, Switzerland, was chosen for its pure and clean lines and contrasted with the rugged backdrop of the Swiss Alps; it reflects the luxurious and sophisticated look that Bally represents. The campaign features Anna Maria Jagodinska and male model Mattias Bergh.
Fashion
Costume National presents E=
Ennio Capasa and OVS industry present EEQUAL, a project of “democratic fashion” where design and creativity merge creating fashion products for man and woman.
The Spring/Summer 2011 collection will be available at the OVS industry stores.
www.oviesse.com
www.costumenational.com
Fashion
22 Ways To Say Black
Gianfranco Ferré
Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci
Swarovski Elements has commissioned 22 of fashion’s most notable known names and talented newcomers to design one-of-a-kind little black dresses for the initiative 22 Ways To Say Black. On September 20, 2010 at the acclaimed gallery, Phillips de Pury & Company in New York City, under the high-patronage of Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the one-of-a-kind dresses will be auctioned off by Simon de Pury, with 100% of the proceeds to benefit the American Cancer Society and La ligue nationale contre le cancer in France.
Jean Paul Gaultier
Gaspard Yurkievich
Throughout New York Fashion Week, beginning September 7 through September 20, visitors to the New York Meatpacking District outpost of Phillips de Pury & Company can preview these unique pieces which will be on display prior to the auction on the evening of the September 20. After the auction there will be an exclusive cocktail hosted by Nadja Swarovski, vice president of global communications.
www.swarovski-elements.com
Fashion
Request for Landing
On Saturday evening, July 17th, Dutch designer Conny Groenewegen presented her SS2011 collection during Amsterdam International Fashion Week. The presentation was held on the lawn next to the 'Westergas' area and could best be described as an audiovisual experience extraordinaire. Groenewegen brought conceptual fashion at its best.
Conny Groenewegen is known for the attention to the skin of the garment using digital techniques combined with traditional crafts. The shapes are soft and feminine, graphic and light with a strong personal quality.
Conny Groenewegen's SS2011 collection, Request for Landing, originates from the Dutch habit to shape and cultivate the flat rectangle and cut down hierarchy. In this way nudes, yellows and black are combined in soft knits with cut open leathers.
Images © Team Peter Stigter
YouTube - Conny Groenewegen Spring Summer 2011 show 'REQUEST FOR LANDING'
Art
STROKE.02
STROKE.02
The world's first Urban Art and New Contemporary Art Expo
STROKE.02
May 27th – May 30th, 2010
Sederanger 3 (Tucherpark)
80538 Munich
Germany
Updates regarding the participants and the program can be found under www.stroke02.com
Art
ITS#NINE
The Finalists
After last July’s magical edition, ITS, International Talent Support, was supposed to translate into a different, smaller event and definitively say goodbye to Trieste, the city that hosted it for eight years, but thanks to the support of Diesel and Renzo Rosso’s personal involvement, the city will keep supporting the contest that raises the curtain of its ninth edition once again in Trieste next July.
The ITS#NINE edition is going to play around the creative theme of A Confederation of Fantastic Voyagers: a bunch of valorous pioneers whose mission is to go where no man has gone before. ‘The fashion journey’ will start on Friday, July 16th and will continue till Saturday, July 17th with an event that will reach its top with the awards ceremony for the winners of the three competitions: ITS#FASHION, ITS#ACCESSORIES and ITS#PHOTO.
Michael Kampe
Among other well-known personalities of the fashion scene, Bruno Collin, the recently appointed artistic director of Diesel, and designer duo Viktor & Rolf will be part of the fashion jury. The DIESEL FASHION AWARD will grant a cash prize of € 25,000 and a 6-month internship within the Diesel Creative Team at its Headquarters in Italy to discover all the secrets of working in an innovative and international fashion company, enjoying the opportunity of creating with a cosmopolitan group of over 40 designers.
Yong Kyun Shin
Sarah Williams
ITS#NINE Fashion Finalists
Michael Kampe - German
Hogeschool Antwerpen, Belgium
Niels Peeraer - Belgian
Hogeschool Antwerpen, Belgium
Nir Goeta - Israeli
Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Israel
Juho Song - South Korean
Polimoda - International Institute for Fashion Design and Marketing, Italy
Takashi Nishiyama - Japanese
Coconogacco, Japan
Yong Kyun Shin - South Korean
Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, United Kingdom
Martina Spetlova - Czech
Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, United Kingdom
Astrid Andersen - Danish
Royal College of Art, United Kingdom
Sara Bro-Jorgensen - Danish
Royal College of Art, United Kingdom
Courtney McWilliams - British
Royal College of Art, United Kingdom
Hanna ter Meulen - Dutch
Royal College of Art, United Kingdom
Sideral(es) - Italian
Fashion Designer
Si Kim
ITS#NINE Accessories Finalists
Heyoung Yun - South Korean
Polimoda - International Institute for Fashion Design and Marketing, Italy
Tomoko Tokuda - Japanese
Designer
Kirsty Ward - British
Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, United Kingdom
Rob Goodwin - British
London College of Fashion, United Kingdom
Si Kim - South Korean
London College of Fashion, United Kingdom
Yu Wen Lu - Taiwanese
London College of Fashion, United Kingdom
Keeley Smith - British
London College of Fashion, United Kingdom
Sarah Wiliams - British
London College of Fashion, United Kingdom
Zara Gorman - British
Royal College of Art, United Kingdom
Emma Yeo - British
Designer
Kirsty Ward
Art
Arising from the Ashes
"We hope for better things; it will arise from the ashes," was the motto adopted by the city of Detroit, after it was ravaged by the great fire of 1805. American photographer Andrew Moore distils the spirit of this message in his haunting large-scale images of decay and renewal. From Cuba to Russia to Detroit, Moore seeks out disused, wrecked buildings and captures the moment that nature stakes her claim on their ravaged grandeur. 15 of Moore's works will go on display at Galerie Alex Daniels/Reflex in Amsterdam, from April 10th to June 7th, 2010. It is the first time the photographer has exhibited in the Netherlands.
Andrew Moore - Making History
April 10th - June 7th, 2010
Galerie Alex Daniels
Reflex Amsterdam
Weteringschans 83
1017 RZ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
www.reflex-art.nl
Fashion
Kurt Cobain in Kenya
For her Lala Berlin Spring/Summer Collection 2011 Leyla Piedayesh's focus is on the topic Dynamic of the Surface. The collection which consists of ready-to-wear, knitwear and "Atelier Lala Berlin" by Leyla Piedayesh is all about contrast and movement . Leyla drew inspiration from a fictitious scene: a bus, five groupies and Kurt Cobain on Tour in Kenya, plenty of rock'n'roll and an exceptional itinerary.
For the first time the collection includes fitted pieces like bodycon dresses and stretch pants which form the body, paired with knitted jacquard formed by the body. Wide coats and soft-falling, partly printed silk kaftans with kimono sleeves ensure that each outfit combines a variety of silhouettes. Intricate necklines and decorative, graphic seams are additional eyecatchers that highlight the uptown-girl look.
Brocade versions complement Lala's signature cotton and silk fabrics like crêpe de Chine, crêpe georgette or chiffon. The use of metal and carbon fibers give the fabrics an exquisite, shiny and almost sculpted look that reinforces the contrast with the matte finishes. This innovative approach to fabric finishing and selection further extends the wide range of creative material mixes that Lala Berlin is known for.
In cooperation with shoe manufacturer Unützer - a traditional company renowned for high-quality workmanship from Venice - Lala Berlin designed four minimalist-architectural shoe models. Contrasting materials like shiny steel and plastic as well as various kinds of leather in a smooth and/or matte finish are creatively used in manufacturing the sandals, loafers and wingtip shoes.
www.lalaberlin.com
Music
Bass Culture
Bass was definitely the place at the Red Bull Music Academy London Edition this year. Forerunners of yesteryear and pioneers of tomorrow passed through the academy corridors, both with the same ideas - spiritual awakening through bass cone shaking.
Aba Shanti-I © Dan Wilton,
Red Bull Photofiles
Original east London low-end warrior Aba Shanti-I joined the Red Bull Music Academy on the couch and in the radio studio to discuss roots and culture, while Hyperdub helmsman Kode9 pushed things forward with his distinctive skank and copious chapters on sonic warfare.
Modeselektor © Dan Wilton,
Red Bull Photofiles
Berlin's Modeselektor caused tidal waves in the rave with the thick end of their sonic wedge, and gave a live workshop demonstration, while the sound system event, the historical Culture Clash at the round house, saw Soul II Soul, Metalheadz, DMZ and Trojan Sound System battle it out for the bass crown.
More highlights from the academy can be found at the main website, the radio site, and the RBMA YouTube channel.
www.redbullmusicacademy.com
www.redbullmusicacademyradio.com
www.youtube.com/redbullmusicacademy
Art
Vehicles
© Guy Gormley
Vehicles, a show by young London photographers, Guy Gormley and Tim Smyth opens at the new contemporary photography gallery SON Gallery, in Peckham, South London, on March 25th. The photographs both look at the presence of cars and any characteristics unique to this object on which we project our human perceptions.
© Guy Gormley
Gormley has consistently and voraciously taken photographs. It is this ever-increasing visual archive that Gormley now thrives, his acute eye discovering the patterns and pertinences to which his lenses are consistently drawn. Often uninhabited, his imagery is nonetheless full of character; engaging with a backdrop dialogue between the utopian and dystopian.
© Tim Smyth
Engaging with environmental issues and the documentary rhetoric, Smyth's work on the other hand is distinctive for its considered attention to detail, often taking advantage of large format cameras. His way of working produced gripping abstract visualisations of industrial and consumer waste.
© Tim Smyth
This chaotic imagery is meant to serve as a criticism of our dependence on such machines. The wreck is all that remains of an accident that may have resulted in injury or death.
Guy Gormley and Tim Smyth
Vehicles
March 25th – April 11th, 2010
SON Gallery
Unit 9C
Copeland Industrial Park
133 Copeland Road
Peckham
SE15 3SN
United Kingdom
www.songallery.co.uk
Fashion
Alex Daw for Diesel
Alex Daw: live performance art in Diesel Store Berlin Mitte
July 7th to 9th, 2010
SMART is watching, STUPID takes part. BE STUPID!
Diesel Store
Neue Schönhauser Str. 21
Berlin Mitte
Germany
www.diesel.com
alexdaw.blogspot.com
Fashion
Blumarine Cocca Bag
Hot off the runway comes the the latest addition to the family of Blumarine accessories: the Cocca bag. Styled as a luxury maxi tote, the bag comes in nappa or suede, pony with zebra print or laminate. It has double handles with nautical knots and side fringes embellished with crystals and studs embroidered by hand. The base which is narrower in relation to the main part of the bag adds to its characteristic ruched effect.
Production time: 4 hours
Crystals on the side fringes: 26
Studs: 104
Sizes: small – medium – large
Colors: black, brown, dove, white, beige, grey
Available from boutiques worldwide from August 2010.
www.blumarine.com
Music
Free The Noise
John Varvatos Star USA, SPIN Earth and Island Records select 12 Finalists for
“FREE THE NOISE” A Global Online Search for the Next Great Rock n’ Roll Band.
This week, John Varvatos, along with the contest’s selection committee, narrowed their worldwide search to 12 finalists. These finalists are:
Galeej Gurus, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Howlers, Santiago, Chile
New Holland, Cape Town, South Africa
Oh No Not Stereo, Los Angeles, CA, United States
RadioGram, Tel Aviv, Israel
Reckless Sons, New York, NY, United States
Roxum, Leicester, United Kingdom
Scrambled Eggs, Beirut, Lebanon
TAB the Band, Duxbury, MA, United States
The Bangkok Five, Los Angeles, CA, United States
The Crash Moderns, New York, NY, United States
The Fast Romantics, Calgary, AB, Canada
This battle of the bands continues as John Varvatos and his panel of special guest judges including Perry Farrell, Mick Rock, Doug Brod, L. A. Reid and others, join him in choosing three finalists. On September 15th the top three bands will perform live at 315 Bowery, the former home of CBGB’s, and a winner will be chosen.
Fashion
New Marni boutiques in China
Marni announces the openings of its new flagship boutiques in the Hangzhou and Shenzhen China’s MIXC shopping malls.
Hangzhou
Clean and simple, architectural language, materials and colour palettes emphasise the minimalist luxury of the space. Polished concrete and high gloss lacquer form the backdrop while pure steel, translucent fibreglass, natural leather and warm light create layers of texture and depth. Tones of warm grey dominate the interior of the 155 square meter boutique. Carefully composed suspended mannequins appear to float elegantly presenting the collection while flanking the glass façade entrance. Signature stainless steel rails undulate down each side of the boutique, hugging the walls as they pinch inwards enhancing the sense of perspective. Inset with backlit fibreglass accessory display boxes, the rear wall provides a strong focal point while the seamless concrete floor anchors the shop seeming to grow lightly skyward. A warm white glow throughout the space, a Barrisol light diffuses a slightly surreal air.
Shenzhen
A giant picture window opens to a minimalist, 108 square meter shop putting the Marni collection centre stage. The boutique’s entrance is flanked by natural fibreglass mannequins appearing to float as suspended from the ceiling. Signature Marni boutique design details, the mirror-polished stainless steel display tables morph into rails curving down either side of the store. The store’s perimeter is panelled in glossy lacquer inset with backlit fibreglass display boxes showcasing the accessories collection, and soft leather stools and plush carpet create a special focal point in the shoe area. Hard cold steel and lacquer are offset by natural teak flooring and the warm glow of Barrisol ceiling light. These elements combine with translucent fibreglass and natural leather creating layers of depth and texture.
Fashion
FRANZ 24k
Limited Edition
To celebrate the global success of model FRANZ, the metal aviator sunglasses stemming from the collaboration with German avant-garde fashion designer Bernhard Willhelm, MYKITA presents the FRANZ 24k. The FRANZ 24k limited edition is equipped with flash mirrored golden sun lenses coated in 24-karat gold, produced by Christian Dalloz Sunoptics.
Fashion
Versace Unique
Versace, in collaboration with ModeLabs Group, announces the launch of Versace Unique, the first luxury touchscreen and full-featured multimedia creation that will be sold through the most important exclusive watch and fine jewellery networks and Versace flagship boutiques worldwide from early June 2010.
Versace Unique unites all essential functions for professional and personal use, crafted from the finest materials, hand-assembled in France and built to the uncompromising standards of all the Versace products.
The face is constructed from pure high-tech ceramic or handmade lacquers delicately framed with an 18K yellow gold finish or 316L grade stainless steel inlay. The back is wrapped in the finest handcrafted leather, embossed with the Medusa head. The Versace Unique sapphire crystal screen is the largest single piece of this high-tech material ever produced for consumers. Impossible to scratch, smooth and receptive, it provides an ideal conductivity and precision control of the touchphone interface.
Fashion
Remember Now
"Remember Now" is a short film written and directed by Karl Lagerfeld as a prelude to the CHANEL 2010-2011 Cruise collection presented in Saint Tropez on Tuesday May 11th 2010, with Pascal Greggory and Elisa Sednaoui in the lead roles and supported by friends of the House.
www.chanel.com
CHANEL - Remember Now
Fashion
Acne Studio Antwerp
Last Thursday, March 25, 2010, Marjan Eggers, owner of famous fashion store Louis in Antwerp openend the first Acne Studio.
Studio n. (pl. -os) 1 A studio is a room where an artist, photographer or sculptor works. 2 A place where performers practice and exercise, and movies are made or produced. 3 it is a place where musicals and sound recordings can be made, and a room from which television or radio programs are recorded and broadcasted. Above all it is a place for inspiration and creativity.
Artists and especially their studios have been the source to inspiration and the starting point for the creative work with the Acne Studio concept. With the ambition to create a studio that will bring more energy to their garments and at the same time create a more sophisticated shopping experience. The idea of creating a studio instead of an ordinary fashion store is based upon the facts that ACNE is a creative collective and that Acne wants to share this spirit with their costumers. In the studio the products itself are the most important objects, all furniture is designed to fill a special purpose and to solve the needs for merchandising. The concept speaks about creativity, lust, passion, poetry, eclecticism, pop art and a lot about Studio.
Acne Studio
Lombardenvest 42
2000 Antwerp
Belgium
www.acnestudios.com
Fashion
Butterflies by theo
The romantic image of an adventurer from the 19th to 20th century, an explorer, was what Tim Van Steenbergen had in the back of his mind designing the new sunglasses collection for theo. Thinking of rugged landscapes, long boat trips, microscopes, boxes of archives, tents, tropical helmets, butterfly boxes, African masks, and stuffed animals he modeled the series. The butterfly symbolizing the discovery of new worlds, in all their forms, the series is made up of 6 acetate pairs of glasses, each given the Latin name of a butterfly.
Tim Van Steenbergen creates modern shapes with an authentic look through the use of materials such as wood, horn, tortoise-shell, (semi) precious stones, minerals and mother-of-pearl.Although the spectacles are 100% acetate, they still perfectly reproduce a natural feeling. Each model is available in 8 color variations. Emerald green, marine blue, horn brown, mother-of-pearl and old pink, just to mention a few. Certain colors are also combined in surprising combinations such as old pink with mother-of-pearl, a grey tortoise-shell frame in combination with emerald green or electric blue with denim blue.
The first theo collection by Tim Van Steenbergen called American Oldtimers was launched during Silmo 2008 and after such an agreeable cooperation, the decision to continue the collaboration for a second season was easy. Tim Van Steenbergen is a former graduate from Antwerp Fashion Academy who designs his own ready-to-wear collections and costumes for various theatre and opera productions. Furthermore he was appointed as the artistic director of the Belgian label Chine in 2008.
The Butterfly collection is available at theo optician and selected Tim Van Steenbergen sales outlets.
www.theo.be
Fashion
BOSS Store
Frankfurt
On Wednesday evening, March 10th, 2010, Hugo Boss celebrated the opening of their ninth flagship store. The BOSS Store in Frankfurt is located close to city’s stock market and in one of the best neighborhoods. Here, Hugo Boss will present collections and accessories of their BOSS Black, BOSS Selection, BOSS Green and BOSS Orange lines.
Highlight of the evening was the window installation: an interactive catwalk, showing the latest collections with a spring spirit.
BOSS Store
Börsenstraße 1
Frankfurt
Germany
www.hugoboss.com
Art
Kristen
In this rare artistic collaboration, the photographer Miles Aldridge invited contemporary painter Chantal Joffe to explore the theme of ‘the artist and model’. The resulting works in colour and black and white photographs, ink and pencil drawings and paintings in watercolour and oils create a fascinatingly obsessive and emotional study of one woman: the model Kristen McMenamy.
Aldridge is well known for high-gloss, high-drama images of women captured in pop colours. His work featured in the recent “Weird Beauty” Exhibition at The International Centre of Photography in New York, while his two solo shows in London and New York in 2009 were heralded in international publications ranging from The New York Times to ArtReview.
For this latest project Aldridge set out to create a study of one woman scrutinised by various media – the mechanical precision of the camera versus the painter’s expressive brushstrokes. “I wanted a frictio between the textures of painting, pencil and photography. I was excited by how that could look on a gallery wall,” says Aldridge. He immediately thought of London based artist Chantal Joffe. “She uses paint properly and gives you that gory, painterly texture that I love – drippy, splattered and quite violent.” In contrast to Aldridge’s vision of women, Joffe’s portraits offer an emotional, deeply human response to her subjects.
Kristen. As Seen by Miles Aldridge and Chantal Joffe
March 13th until June 7th, 2010
Galerie Alex Daniëls - Reflex Amsterdam
Weteringschans 79 A
1017 RX Amsterdam
The Netherlands
www.reflexamsterdam.com
Fashion
Sven Hoppe
German student Sven Hoppe wins London College of Fashion MA Catwalk Show.
On January 28th, stars of the fashion industry and beyond were out in force to support this years MA Fashion Design and Technology graduates who showcased their collections in the Raphael Gallery at the V&A.
Presented by Chairman of the British Fashion Council Harold Tillman the winner of Collection of the Year was German born designer Sven Hoppe from Berlin whose menswear collection was described by the judging panel (who included Leathersellers' Designers is Residence Zowie Broach of B O U D I C C A) as outstanding both in design and technical ability. His inspirational ideas of capturing the thoughts and feelings of a new generation of German’s coming to terms with the horrors of the holocaust lie behind this incredibly stylish collection.
Fashion
Levi’s x
Opening Ceremony
Celebrated American icons Opening Ceremony and the Levi’s brand recently announced a new partnership marrying Levi's pioneering spirit with Opening Ceremony’s unique, creative design aesthetic. Beginning this spring 2010, Opening Ceremony and the Levi’s brand will introduce new seasonal co-branded
collections rooted in classic Levi’s styles and updated with progressive fabrics, washes, details and twists.
The spring 2010 collection celebrates the craftsmanship, detail and ease of the ever-popular Levi’s cords. The collection takes a modern twist on the iconic Levi's 505 jean by updating it in buttery-soft corduroy in a rainbow of colors including teal, fuchsia, lavender, olive, curry, navy, optical white and beige.
Featuring a fit reminiscent of the 1980’s slim leg 505 jean, these unisex cords offer a new and interesting reinterpretation of a favorite Levi’s vintage fit. Other “new classic” corduroy pieces featured in the collection include unisex cut-off shorts, a unisex button-down shirt and Levi’s trucker jackets in silhouettes for both men and women.
Inspiration for the first Levi’s x Opening Ceremony collection and color story comes from the habitual spring migration of New Yorkers to the scenic upstate countryside. As spring road trips in New York call for well-worn corduroy pants, layered tops and fitted cord jackets in saturated pastels, while colorful cord cut-offs are perfect for summertime escapes.
Levi’s x Opening Ceremony will launch in Opening Ceremony retail stores in New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo next month.
www.eu.levi.com
www.openingceremony.us
Fashion
MR. NILS
Fall/Winter 2010
Watch out for the debut collection of MR. NILS by Lars Nilsson, which will be bringing a new personal touch to menswear next winter!
Motivated by a desire to create the clothes he and other men might like to wear, MR. NILS is the distillation of the menswear style that Lars has long developed in his mind.
The MR. NILS man is someone who, like Lars Nilsson, appreciates great clothing, being driven by an attention to detail, an eye for craft and quality, and a love of subtle luxury. A creative urban preppy with a love of the great outdoors, the MR. NILS man favors stylish outerwear that seamlessly straddles the impositions of city life and the lure of an active lifestyle.
The collection is shaped by Lars’ own development as a designer – fine materials and flawless craftsmanship provide the design aesthetic of his native Sweden. Lightness in materials and a focus on proportion and cut add a youthful injection to grown up clothes that are created to perform and last.
Produced entirely in Italy the collection is the sum of the best in traditional skills and technological advancement as it still alludes to the creator’s origins through the clean lines and unfussy functionality, using eco-friendly Swedish curly lamb as a soft, tactile accent.
Fashion
Anglomania & Lee Autumn-Winter 2010/11 by Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood previewed the Anglomania & Lee denim collection at Milan Fashion Week and Hong Kong Fashion Week to an audience of international press and buyers this month. The menswear pieces was seen on Milan’s catwalk on the 17th of January followed by Hong Kong on the 20th where both menswear and womenswear pieces were presented.
Seen for the first time on catwalk, the collection comprises of 4 styles of jeans for men and 5 styles for women, complemented by denim shirts and printed tee-shirts.
The line takes as its main inspiration the Vivienne Westwood archive with references to her seminal punk and pirate collections of the 1970's and 80's but also to the dynamic cuts she has since developed throughout her career. These designs have been reinterpreted using Lee's extensive knowhow in the field of jeans.
The Anglomania by Vivienne Westwood for Lee collection will be distributed through Vivienne Westwood stores as well as through a selected number of retailers world-wide and shall be available in July 2010.
www.viviennewestwood.co.uk
www.eu.lee.com
Fashion
Andreas Murkudis Opens Online Shop
End of 2009 ANDREAS MURKUDIS Berlin opened the first online shop. www.andreasmurkudis.net features the same diversity as the ANDREAS MURKUDIS stores. Visitors find an interesting composition of products and objects with distinctive and surprising designs.
The range of products on offer includes fashion, perfumes, cosmetics, design objects, furniture, luggage, art, glass and porcelain items, brandies and liqueurs, jewellery, books and art volumes, rugs, cutlery and even bed and table linen. Each individual product has exceptional character and lasting quality.
“The ANDREAS MURKUDIS online shop is our first opportunity to offer our clients in Germany and abroad the products in our stores directly via the Internet. The collections we offer, and the way the collections are assembled, are truly unique,” says Andreas Murkudis.
Art
Oscar
Improvisation 1
CPH Project
A film by Hedi Slimane
Oscar in Copenhagen
Improvisation 1
www.hedislimane.com
Art
Sandor Lubbe: Photos
Sandor Lubbe
Foto's (Photos)
Exposition from November 14th until December 24th, 2009
Steltman Galleries
Prinsengracht 799
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 20 6228683
www.steltman.com
www.sandorlubbe.com
Fashion
Y-3
S/S 2010 Campaign
On January 20th, Y-3 launched its new Spring/Summer 2010 campaign as well as provided a first preview to its upcoming Autumn / Winter 2010-11 collection. The collection will be shown in its entirety on February 14th during New York Fashion Week.
In addition to showcasing the Autumn / Winter men’s looks, Y-3 unveiled its latest communication campaign for the Spring / Summer 2010 season. In attendance at the event was world soccer star, Zinedine Zidane who is featured in the campaign along with Yohji Yamamoto. The campaign celebrates an icon of sports heritage: the team portrait. The result is a set of imagery fitting for a collection inspired by the national soccer federations sponsored by adidas and the power and movement of the soccer net.
Photographed by Alasdair McLellan, styled by Nicola Formichetti, filmed by Theo Stanley and art directed by Doug Lloyd, of Lloyd & Co., the campaign will debut in March and April issues of global lifestyle titles.
www.y-3.com
Fashion
Dover Street Market SS10 Season
"I want to create a kind of market where various creators from various fields gather together and encounter each other in an ongoing atmosphere of beautiful chaos: the mixing up and coming together of different kindred souls who all share a strong personal vision," says Rai Kawakubo about the concept and direction of Londons famous fashion store Dover Street Market. "We hope to make DSM more and more interesting. I enjoy seeing all the customers coming to DSM dressed in their strong, good looking and individual way. I would like for DSM to be the place where fashion becomes fascinating."
Truly fascinating is this seasons re-opening of the DSM with new exciting designers, spaces and installations including a brand new Comme des Garçons Shirt Space designed by Rei Kawakubo, a newly designed shoe space by Michael Howells, a Lanvin "Scarecrow" space designed especially for DSM by Alber Elbaz as well as Nicholas Kirkwood Geometry redefined by Nicholas Kirkwood. Michael Costiff presents his latest incarnation, "Cameroon Condominium" in his ever changing World Archive, as Stephen Jones presents Not only a hat for every occasion, but one for every country... and last but not least a new space created by Anne Valerie Hash.
Dover Street Market
17-18 Dover Street
London W1S 4LT
United Kingdom
www.doverstreetmarket.com
Music
John Varvatos
Free the Noise
John Varvatos announces the first John Varvatos, USA ‘Free the Noise’ battle of the bands contest. The competition is a global online search for the next great rock n’ roll band and will be hosted on SPINearth.tv. The winning band will receive a development deal with Island Records and be featured in the next John Varvatos USA international advertising campaign, as well as featured on SPIN Earth.
The competition kicked off April 21, 2009 and entries will be accepted through July 31, 2009. ‘Music is the heart and soul of this brand. I’m excited to be able to partner with SPIN Earth and Island Records to go global with this opportunity to discover rising talent in today’s music community. Hosting this contest on the internet allows bands from all four corners of the globe to participate.’ Said John Varvatos.
For more information and contest rules, please visit:
Spinearth.tv/freethenoise
Fashion
SHOWstudio Exhibition
From January 19th to 23rd 2010 the Galerie für Moderne Fotografie presents, with Fashion Week Berlin as a backdrop, a special exhibition curated by Sissel Tolas of the most recent collaboration between Gareth Pugh and Nick Knight with SHOWstudio.
A video, in which Gareth Pugh works on the dress that is displayed in the exhibition, offers a look into the otherwise private moments of the designer and his work. Following the SHOWstudio manifesto, the entire creative process is documented in the exhibition; from conception, to fabrication during a live event in the studio, to the finished product.
Alongside the angelskin dress are three one-of-a-kind, signed prints by Sølve Sundsbø, which portray Gareth Pugh. They further reveal the world of the young, groundbreaking artist.
SHOWstudio.com doesn't just collaborate with influential and established personalities like John Galliano, Kate Moss, Maison Martin Margiela, Comme des Garçons and Alexander McQueen, it also offers young, up-and-coming talents like Rodarte, Louis Goldin and Marios Schwab a global platform.
Galerie für moderne Fotografie
Schröderstrasse 13
10115 Berlin
Germany
Tel +49 30 275 81 033
Fashion
Introducing Foujita
For Spring/Summer 2010 Jil Sander explores a new creative territory; a combination of visual arts and fashion design inspiring a new aesthetic prospective. The paintings of Japanese artist Foujita - notably “Combat” and “Grande Composition” - serve as inspiration for the men’s ready-to-wear collection, their lightness as a driving force in redefining a graceful yet masculine physicality.
Foujita’s use of color, the diffused sense of freedom, the natural dynamism of the figures and the sharpness of his line suggest a figurative exploration of the human body. Printed t-shirts, tank tops, cardigans and knits feature details of Foujita’s artwork, as do shirts and trousers. Cotton-gauze scarves as well as cotton totes with natural-tanned leather handles also serve as canvases for Foujita’s portraits.
The Jil Sander Foujita Collection will be available in worldwide Jil Sander Stores and selected retailers starting from February 2010. A special packaging bearing the artist’s signature will underline Jil Sander’s tribute to his artistic expression. For Spring 2010, a retrospective of Foujita’s works is planned to be exhibited in France.
www.jilsander.com
Fashion
Brillant Troublant
It is no secret, for those who know how to appreciate luxury with a distinctive face, that the House of Delvaux is continuing to come up with surprising variations on the iconic model from 1958, the Brillant bag. In 2010 too these connoisseurs were well served.
Following the Brillant in transparent vinyl - Noces d’Or -, issued last year to mark the bag’s fiftieth anniversary, there is now the Brillant handbag in dark vinyl: Brillant Troublant. A finish of striking originality. While the classic lines are eminently respected, the material used lends this stylish version a modern, even slightly futuristic air. Ultimately contemporary and yet so timeless.
A youthful version clearly needs a refreshing price. Bags in this limited edition are available from 11 January 2010 in all Delvaux shops and through the e-Shop at 295 euros. In this way, another public is also given the chance to become acquainted with the quality and beauty that Delvaux offers its customers.
www.delvaux.com
Art
Life Through a Lens
The exhibition “Annie Leibovitz – A Photographer's Life 1990-2005” at Kunst Haus Wien (Austria) offers an unusual glimpse of the oeuvre of one of the best-known portrait photographers of our time. In addition to her portraits of famous personages, which have long since become icons of photographic art, the more than 150 works on display include photographs from Leibovitz' private life that have never been exhibited before. The result is a unique chronology, a composite of family album, diary and assignment work.
Self-portrait with daughters Susan, Sarah and Samuelle, 2006, Photograph © Annie Leibovitz
Courtesy of Newsweek
The photographer sees her work, which has been displayed in numerous museums throughout the world, as a unified whole: “I don’t have two lives,” Leibovitz says. “This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it.” The exhibition can be read both as a very personal, even intimate chronology of one of the most celebrated photographers of our time and as the story of her development from a fashion and music photographer to an artist. Leibovitz herself says: “I have no single favourite photograph. What means the most to me is my work as a whole.“
Kunst Haus Wien
Untere Weißgerberstraße 13
1030 Wien, Austria
www.kunsthauswien.com
Art
Mini Karl
K Karl Lagerfeld announces the upcoming collaboration with the Japanese inspired brand tokidoki on an exclusive limited edition miniature Karl Lagerfeld character. Karl Lagerfeld, who is known to always have his fingers on the pulse of modern pop culture and likes Japanese inspired art, says: “I am very flattered that I became a tokidoki. I always loved them and I am very happy to be one of them!”
K Karl Lagerfeld, the designer’s namesake denim based collection, launched in Fall 2007, combines premium denims with sleek and sophisticated silhouettes across a full men’s and women’s collection that offers key classics and must have inspirational pieces. Tokidoki, which means “sometimes” in Japanese, was born in 2005 from the imagination of Italian artist Simone Legno. The brand produces vinyl toys, apparel, footwear and accessories including purses and jewelry, all part of the Japanese inspired world of Simone.
A limited edition of 1000 pieces will be available to purchase worldwide through selected K Karl Lagerfeld retailers as well as in the tokidoki flagship stores in New York, Milan and Los Angeles. Each figure will include an individually numbered certificate of authenticity. Mini Karl will launch exclusively at Colette in October, and will hit stores world-wide pre Christmas.
www.karllagerfeld.com
www.tokidoki.it
Fashion
Supah Kawai!
migh-T by Kumiko Watari
for Project White T-Shirt
“migh-T by Kumiko Watari” will be taking part in Project White T-Shirt in Los Angeles next week, an exhibition curated by Triple-Major to support Designers Against Aids. The exhibition features the work of 31 designers from 13 countries who have transformed and redefined the white t-shirt as we have understood it for so many decades. Kumiko has created a gigantic Gnome T-Shirt influenced by her SS10 collection Gnomes and Gardens and has donated this t-shirt to the exhibition.
migh-T by Kumio Watari SS 2010
The inspiration of gnomes comes from the concept that they enjoy their lives surrounded by lots of beautiful spring and summer flowers but on the other hand, there are some things which put them in danger, such as rose thorns and big cats. Kumiko created the T shirt to reflect that if a gnome were bigger than a human, we could experience their world – resulting in the oversized shirt with the unique migh-T
design and print work.
migh-T by Kumio Watari SS 2010
www.kumikowatari.com
www.projectwhitetshirt.com
Fashion
Tongue-in-cheek Animal Print
The “New Q Printed” collection for Resort 09: a new take on the animal print by Marc by Marc Jacobs
the Pixie bag
For Resort 09, Marc by Marc Jacobs interprets one of the season's foremost trends - the animal print - in their characteristically unconventional, tongue-in-cheek way. Both the ready to wear and accessories collection feature this exclusive motif called the New Printed Q which exists in two color themes: strawberry or cork.
the Lil Riz shoulder bag
For the accessories collection, the print is used on nylon, allover-printed leather and on canvas. All the accessories highlight the playful and contrasting color combinations. Several styles are available, from the cute Pixie purse to the large and functional Mabel shopping bag.
the Derby strap bag
www.marcjacobs.com
Fashion
Strenesse launches
Online Shop
Strenesse has now launched its new Online Shop and completely revamped website. The agency Werbewelt was responsible for the design and implementation of the shop.
Strenesse Gabriele Strehle FW09
Now a single click of the mouse is all you need to plunge into the new online world of Strenesse. At www.strenesse.com, the brand's new online flagship-store is open to its customers around the clock. Just in time for the winter season, the Fall/Winter 2009 collections for men and women plus accessories are available online, only a mouse-click away. Strenesse.com reflects the brand's unique and distinctive style, creating a whole new shopping and communication experience.
Strenesse Blue FW09
In the Online Shop, Strenesse customers can find out about the latest fashion trends and news of the brand, and also have the unique opportunity to peek behind the scenes at international runway shows and lookbook shoots. And as a special highlight, Gabriele and Viktoria Strehle reveal exclusive shopping tips and recommend their favorite fashion outfits, presenting their personal favorites from the new season's collection. The "Shop the Campaign" area shows complete outfits from the current collection plus all product information.
Strenesse Blue FW09
The Online Shop is divided into categories to enable customers to find the products they want quickly and easily. Website and integrated online store combine to form a digital lifestyle magazine with an editorial background to capture customers' attention. Shoppers from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Benelux countries can order online in the shop; medium-term plans provide for the Europe-wide expansion of shop operations. And as a pre-Christmas gift for all customers, to celebrate the launch of the online shop all purchases will be sent post-free until the end of November.
Fashion
Louis Vuitton:
Special Orders
for Red Cross
Louis Vuitton organises an auction of seven Special Orders created by masters of savoir-faire at Sotheby’s, London, in benefit of the Red Cross
Louis Vuitton thus pays tribute to the 150th anniversary of the Red Cross by creating seven limited-edition Special Orders, made in the Asnières workshop that this year celebrates a century and a half of savoir-faire, tradition and innovation. Louis Vuitton offered six masters of savoir-faire the opportunity to create a unique special order that embodies their exceptional expertise in their respective professions.
The six personalities are: the chef Ferran Adrià, the artist Damien Hirst, the photographer Annie Leibovitz, the musician and composer Gustavo Santaolalla, the designer Marc Jacobs, Patrick-Louis Vuitton, the head of Louis Vuitton’s Special Orders department and a member of the fifth generation of the Vuitton family. To commemorate the event, Louis Vuitton has crafted a limited-edition Red Cross medical trunk.
Academy Award Winner Gustavo Santaolalla's Ronroco case
“We are very proud to collaborate with the Red Cross on such an iconic occasion and to offer our support to this exceptional association which for the past 150 years has played a major role in the fight against the instability of this world”, says Yves Carcelle, Chairman & CEO of Louis Vuitton.
Ferran Adria's travel case
The proceeds from the auction will be donated to the Nigerien Red Cross Fighting Malnutrition Programme. This programme aims to contribute to the reduction of acute malnutrition and mortality of the most vulnerable population, including expectant and new mothers as well as young children under five.
Patrick-Louis Vuitton’s Special Order and Watercolour Case
www.louisvuitton.com
www.icrc.org
www.sothebys.com
Art
Ironic Imagery
Photograher Peter Langer releases his new book: On Line
Berlin photographer Peter Langer has captured the everyday into personal, ironic imagery with documentary-style accuracy over the last decade. Inspired by the phenomenon of time, he demonstrates how fleeting moments can become lasting impressions when recorded through the eye of the lens. On Line presents a comprehensive visual diary with 366 pictures documenting the year 2008. Winner of the Lead Awards 2009 for Architecture and Still Life Photography, Langer’s work is regularly published in German Zeit magazine and included in renowned publications on fashion and architecture.
Fashion
Le Carré Hermès
Hermès launches a new book to celebrate the history of the scarf.
Book cover “Le Carré Hermès”
Each Hermès scarf tells a story: this volume is their anthology. Created as an artist’s book, it transposes the scarves instead of merely picturing them. It magnifies their charm while preserving their ethereal grace. It narrates, through images and text, the existence of the now mythical silk twill “carre”. The iconography, playful and poetic in turn, varies between full pages, cut-outs, transparencies and various visual effects, guiding the reader through a richly coloured, perfectly drawn narrative world. According to Pierre-Alexis Dumas, Artistic Director at Hermès, Josè Alvarez “observes Hermès’s scarves like a lovesick aesthete. By dedicating this atypical book to them, he has realised a very old dream and made an impossible project a reality. This is neither a historical monograph about the scarves nor a catalogue raisonnè of their two thousand or so designs - why pin butterflies that were made to fly?”
Hermès, Collection Autumn/ Winter 2009
A multitude of themes, styles and inspirations are expressed in a single language: the scarf. Horses, sea, travel, cultures, nature, music... all are evoked with simplicity, harmony and sensual lavishness. Behind each theme a tale waits to be told...
Fashion
Spijkers & Spijkers
Spring/Summer
10
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars” (Oscar Wilde)
The twinsisters Spijkers in their own designs, SS10
Referencing the hallowed words of Oscar Wilde, Spijkers en Spijkers looked at the stars this season and created a whimsical collection based on celestial bodies, slumbering dreams and effervescent hope. “Pandora’s box” the Greek Myth and the classic German 1929 movie that carries the same title is the inspiration for the SS2010 collection of Spijkers en Spijkers. The 1920’s icon Louise Brooks in her role as Lulu embodies a modern translation of the mythical character Pandora and became the Muse for this collection.
Music
Diesel:U:Music
Workshop, recordings world tour. Sign up now! www.dieselumusic.com
Mannheim: from May 7th to May 9th Party Line Up: Circlesquare, Bullmeister, Steady work by dear friends (DJ).
Leipzig: from May 14th to May 16th Party Line Up: Munk (DJ) / Gomma, Peter Invasion (DJ) / Riotvan, Ingrid Mére/Leipzig.
Hannover: from June 4th to June 6th Party Line Up: WHO MADE WHO, DLK (DJ) / VICE Magazine/Berlin.
Fashion
Four Floors
of Fashion
Tommy Hilfiger Group opened its global flagship store located at 681 Fifth Avenue in New York this week. The store is the largest Tommy Hilfiger retail store worldwide, joining an elite mix of upscale retailers on one of the most prestigious shopping avenues in the world.
“We are pleased to finally open a global anchor in our brand’s hometown,” said Fred Gehring, CEO of Tommy Hilfiger Group. “This opening is an important and tactical move in our efforts to further elevate the brand in both the international community and the U.S.”
“As an iconic thoroughfare, Fifth Avenue is the perfect home for all of our collections,” said Tommy Hilfiger. “I’m very excited to open our global flagship in the city where I first started the company over 20 years ago. The Fifth Avenue flagship represents the mix of aspirational yet affordable - the foundation and heritage of our brand philosophy.”
Inspired by modern meets traditional, and based on 20th century architecture, the 22,000 square foot freestanding store is designed by the Tommy Hilfiger creative team in partnership with Callison Architects. Taking creative cues from McKim, Mead, and White, the store’s interior features a dramatic, modern centralized staircase that doubles as a viewing platform for a revolving art installation and ascends a total of four levels.
Fashion
White Objects
The Russian dolls
Maison Martin Margiela has created a style concept with its collections that was rapidly visible through the environment of the brand. Beyond the approach and conception of its collections, the unique identity of the Maison was clearly recognizable in the spaces it occupies, with signature elements like the use of whites, cotton fabrics, ‘trompe l’oeil’, diversion, mix of styles and époque, and hints of humor creating a unique atmosphere and ambiance.
The empty souvenir giant snowball
In the midst of the development of the architectural care for its ‘professional’ spaces, the Maison created a small collection of objects & publications named ‘Line 13’, started in 1999. On the occasion of Salone Del Mobile in Milan, Maison Martin Margiela presented the “white objects” collection of line 13 within its installation ‘Mat, Satiné, Brillant.’
The bottle lamp
These objects will be available in the Maison Martin Margiela stores worldwide and a selection of fashion multi-brand stores in October 2009. The collection of the “white objects” is part of the global project of interior design and architecture that Maison Martin Margiela is developing for the near future.
www.maisonmartinmargiela.com
The feather pen
Fashion
Jalou
by Dolce & Gabbana
Jalou by Dolce & Gabbana is a special limited edition clamshell handset, exuding style and substance both inside and out. The Dolce & Gabbana branded style statement has a beautifully facet cut jewel form and is only 73mm long – shorter than your favorite lipstick, it is easy to slip into the tiniest clutch or jacket pocket and is full of essential features.
Jalou by Dolce & Gabbana comes complete with exclusive packaging and accessories – three silky rose satin bags to either protect the phone, store the charger, or to even carry jewellery. But that’s not all – it also comes with a special Dolce & Gabbana branded headset with gold accents to keep you connected in style.
Even the content is special on Jalou by Dolce & Gabbana. Exclusive photography and video clips from Dolce & Gabbana’s women’s Autumn/Winter 2010 runway show, with sneak peek footage from all the backstage action, will be pre-loaded on the handset. There is also a variety of stylish themes and wallpapers, as well as a Dolce & Gabbana blog that sends the latest trends, news and gossip directly to the mobile phone via an RSS feed.
www.dolcegabbana.com
www.sonyericsson.com/jalou
Fashion
Movers and Shakers
The new Berlin-based luxury label VONROSEN presents its first clothing line for women and men. David von Rosen, the founder and owner, uses only the finest cashmere and the most exclusive silks to produce luxurious outerwear in the tradition of the best Italian and German craftmanship. VONROSEN is urban and simple-classical - it is a label for "movers and shakers" and a testament to the modern age. Exclusivity is an integral component of its uniqueness, while the clarity of its line and form is an expression of supreme quality. The brand VONROSEN and its customers are bound together in a mutual acknowledgement of quality. VONROSEN's designs cater to the needs of cosmopolitan, fashion-conscious urbanites and emphasize their individualistic, creative and contemporary lifestyle.
Fashion
Hannelore Knuts -
Model Against Aids
Belgian topmodel Hannelore Knuts is the new spokesperson for Designers/Models against Aids.
Hannelore Knuts by Inez van Lamsweerde (W Magazine)
Hannelore Knuts does countless runway shows for all the big name fashion designers such as Yves Saint
Laurent, Givenchy, Dries Van Noten, Louis Vuitton, Alexander McQueen, Jean Paul Gaultier, Hermès and Balenciaga. Knuts has been photographed by Steven Meisel, Daniel Jackson, Terry Richardson and Dutch Dream Duo Inez van Lamsweerde/Vinoodh Matadin and did consults for designers such as Azzedine Alaia and Haider Ackerman. She is also a talented photographer herself and is now curating her first exhibition that will open in spring 2010. Hannelore Knuts is very motivated to help Models/Designers against Aids to spread their prevention message and to stimulate young models to join MAA, with the same goal: have fun, but keep it safe!
Hannelore Knuts @ Marc Jacobs Fall 09
Fashion
Super Store Berlin
Super Store Berlin is about to bring back street style credibility to the city where individuals can shop. Look, dance, chat, have a coffee, or just wonder around looking for a treasure in our selection of 80's vintage and new designer labels by ROBOTSUNITED and RAT DEXTRINO. David, Yam and Asta want to give you the pleasure to razzmattazzz all the way to the cosmic forces. Feeling PYT and funky fresh.
Super Store Berlin
men's & women's vintage
Almstadtstrasse 43 (Ecke Schendelgasse)
Berlin - Mitte
Germany
Monday - Saturday 12 - 8pm
www.myspace.com/superstoreberlin
Fashion
Fashion
FIRMA
Gropius Bag
Paying homage to Walter Gropius, FIRMA developed an exclusive multifunctional leather bag for the 90th anniversary of Bauhaus.
For the ninetieth anniversary of the Bauhaus – the origin of modern architecture, design and art – the designers of FIRMA decided to do something extraordinary to mark this event: The GROPIUS BAG, which is named after the founder of the art academy in Weimar, is functional and aesthetically unique. By opening the side zippers, it can be increased to double or triple its original size. From a small laptop bag or briefcase it can quickly be transformed into a weekender.
“The pioneers of the Bauhaus movement are our heroes, because their designs are both - radical avant-garde and timeless classics - at the same time. We simply do not understand why the demand of a piece of clothing is lower than that of a chair.” Say the designers Daniela Biesenbach and Carl Tillessen.
For the anniversary, a Bauhaus retrospective will take place from July to October 2009 in the domain of the Bauhaus under the name “Bauhaus Model”. During this exhibition the shop of the Bauhaus archive will present the exclusively designed GROPIUS BAG alongside other design icons such as the Wagenfeld-Leuchte and the vases of Alvar Aalto.
Photography Martin Mai
Art Work: Jutta Drewes
Fashion
LICHTING 2009
Ann Boogaerts wins ‘G-Star Raw Talent of the Year Award’
On July 23rd 2009, Flemish Ann Boogaerts won the ‘G-Star Raw Talent of the Year Award’ during LICHTING 2009. In a dazzling show, 14 ‘best graduates’ of 7 prominent Dutch fashion academies showed their 5 best looks. A selection of key players from the fashion industry cast their vote to decide upon who will become the Dutch fashion talent of 2009. Besides the 10,000 euro prize, Boogaerts won an internship in New York during the G-Star show on September 15th.
Flemish winner Ann Boogaerts showcased a collection with bright colors and conceptual shapes based on the Belgian queen Fabiola. Embroideries were added on the back, the waist and on socks. Boogaerts is an ArtEZ (Arnhem) graduate.
LICHTING is an initiative of the Amsterdam International Fashion Week, HTNK fashion recruitment & consultancy, Premsela – Dutch platform for Design and Fashion and G-Star Raw. LICHTING was founded in 2007 to bring young talent and the fashion industry together and it has grown to be the most important prize for young Dutch fashion talent. The concept of LICHTING is simple: the biggest talents of the 7 Dutch fashion academies create one big runway show and the 4 organizers all work together to provide the winner a great start of a promising career.
The international panel of prominent fashion professionals consisted of professor Wendy Dagworthy (former designer, co-founder of the London Fashion Week and head of the School of Fashion and Textiles at London’s Royal College of Art), Garance Doré (illustratrator, writer and photographer for Elle, Vogue, The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian and Le Monde, initiator of the influential fashion blog www.garancedore.fr Susanna Lau (a.k.a. the influential fashion blogger Susie Bubble at Style Bubble stylebubble.typepad.com and online editor for Dazed Digital of Dazed & Confused) and Lucas Ossendrijver (Menswear designer Lanvin).
www.lichting09.nl
www.premsela.org
www.htnk.nl
www.g-star.com
Fashion
Acne Studio Amsterdam
“Amsterdam is an inspirational city and to be part of that and have a dialogue with the people who appreciate the most interesting architecture, design and art is so important for me.” - Jonny Johansson on opening in Amsterdam
The Acne Studio Amsterdam’s design aim was to create a legible Acne world encompassing all of the classic studio elements in the historic nine streets of Amsterdam. The Studio is a combination of very important Acne elements – for example the specifically designed diamond flooring and classic Acne sculptural forms. All furniture and fittings are handmade and bespokely designed, including morphing lamps and racks, metal framed windows as well as a one of Acne denim wall. The store is a split level space with reflective surfaces and hosts the men’s and women’s collection, as well as the denim and pop concepts. The Studio itself speaks about luxury, vintage and European architecture. This will be Acne's first studio in the Benelux area. Other studios have been created in Oslo, Bergen, Stockholm, Paris, Hamburg, Copenhagen and New York.
Acne Studio Amsterdam
Oude Spiegelstraat 8
1016 KJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
www.acnestudios.com
Fashion
adidas SLVR
Unlimited Tee
adidas SLVR key item ‘one piece tee’ is being updated for A/W 09 in an unlimited edition: The one piece tee 'Unlimited Edition'.
The one piece tee 'Unlimited Edition' is cut randomly out of one large panel of fabric. The fabric sheet has a large ‘This is an unlimited Edition’ graphic print, which creates various typographic designs. The cotton tee is made of a minimal stitching around the body, has a single cut neck line, is short sleeved and is available in white and medium grey heather.
The one piece tee 'Unlimited Edition' is available as of know at a price point of € 59,90. Available at No74 in Berlin, in stand alone stores in Paris, New York, Bangkok and in adidas Brand Centres in Paris and Beijing, as well as in Sport Performance Centre stores in Moscow and Berlin.
www.shop.adidas.com/SLVR
Fashion
JOOP!
Limited Python Edition
Premium designer brand JOOP! launches a new Limited Python Edition. It is a unique and very limited edition with a clutch and pumps, made out of real snake leather in mystic shimmering "Dark Irisé." The clutch with handmade metallic applications, handprinted silk lining and removable shoulder belt retails at € 1190. The pumps with plateau heel covered by snake leather and a hight of 10,5 cm cost € 499.
The Limited Edition will be only available in the JOOP! flagship stores as of mid July 2009.
www.joop.com
Fashion
Madonna
for Louis Vuitton
Following the success of Louis Vuitton’s Spring/Summer 2009 fashion campaign starring Madonna and photographed by Steven Meisel, artistic director Marc Jacobs was keen to repeat the experience for Fall/Winter, but equally determined to produce something entirely different.
Shot in a New York studio, the Fall/Winter 2009-2010 campaign thus features Madonna in a series of sophisticated portraits reminiscent of the golden age of Hollywood. Inspired by the photographs of Man Ray, who perfected the technique of solarisation, and nodding to the lush colours and sumptuous draperies of paintings of Tamara de Lempicka, the images have a softer, more intimate quality than the previous campaign, while losing nothing of its power to arrest. The advertising campaign will break in the August 2009 issues of magazines worldwide.
www.louisvuitton.com
Art
Between Voyeurism
and Exhibitionism
THE PASSENGERS III, 32 x 23,5 cm, Ink and Gouache on paper, 2009
Gallery Hanahou is celebrating the release of Tina Berning’s new edition of her sold out classic book '100 girls on cheap paper’. At the same time the gallery is presenting the second solo show of the renowned artist in New York: 'The Passengers’. 'This body of works has its origins in Tina Berning's 2009 solo exhibition in Munich titled 'The Listeners.' The works from that show have grown and evolved as they travel to New York, becoming 'The Passengers'.
Vine Street, 32 x 24 cm, Gouache and Ink on Paper, 2009
With 'The Passengers’ Tina Berning continues to explore the relationships between conditioned aesthetics and supposed subjective ambition in the canon of contemporary visuals. The drawings formulate the artist's own images of the human body, its inadequacy and its fundamental relation to self-determination. Tina Berning releases figures out of their heteronomous, medial contexts and shifts them into an interplay between voyeurism and exhibitionism. She uses her paintings and drawings as carriers to extricate subjects from the contemporary alienated incapacitation.
Sandman, 93 x 62 cm, Goache and China Ink on Paper (Record Sleeves), 2009
THE PASSENGERS at GALLERY HANAHOU
September 11th to October 9th, 2009
611 Broadway, Suite 730
New York City, USA
www.tinaberning.de
www.galleryhanahou.com
Art
Bawdy, Audacious and Facetious
"I Like The Tee Shirt But I Will Get The Painting"
32-year-old Dutch illustrator and designer Parra has decorated the Amsterdam underground with his playful, bizarre graphics that span a broad range of themes, from introspective to audacious, facetious to bawdy. His work is instantly recognizable - a palette of bright, highly saturated primaries and pastels; vibrant hand-drawn text decorating, narrarating and commenting on a fantastical world of
bird-headed men and women, sensual and voluptuous.
"I Like The Tee Shirt But I Will Get The Painting"
August 28th 2009 - October 10th 2009
Pool Gallery
Tucholskystr.38
10117 Berlin, Germany
Fashion
Zoo Magazine
No 23, 2009:
STARDUST
Out NOW... Zoo Magazine No 23, 2009: STARDUST. Summer issue, including George Barnett, Anna Friel, Udo Kier, Michael Kirkham, Todd Lynn, John Varvatos and more. Click here for an exclusive preview.
Cover image:
Devon Aoki by Aneta Bartos
dress Stella McCartney
Art
When I Was Little
''While recently visiting my Ma' in Queens I came across some of my old sketch books and earlier work. I decided to put together a collection of drawings selected from 1998-2009 entitled "When I Was Little".
"Neon Orange Red" 2001. 215 x 135mm.
Pen on paper.
Gio Black Peter (born Giovanni Paolo Andrade Guevara, Guatemala City) is a New York-based multimedia artist and musician. At the age of 5, Black Peter illegally emigrated with his family to the United States and moved to New York City. In 2006, he formed his music band Black Peter Group. He has exhibited his artwork and performed in New York, London,Tokyo, Paris, Berlin and Milan.
Black Peter’s artwork, music and videos often incorporate his experience while living as an outsider in the United States. In addition to his solo project, he collaboraties with artists Slava Mogutin & Brian Kenny as part of the artist group Sputnik 3.
"Gangly?" 2001. 255 x 175 mm.
Mixed media on paper.
"Limp wrist" 2009. 200 x 230 mm.
Pen on paper.
"Squirrel" 2008. 22cm x 28.5cm.
Mixed media on cardboard and aluminum.
Gio Black Peter "When I Was Little" at Werkstattgalerie
Eisenacher Strasse 6
Berlin, Germany
20-08-2009 - 07-09-2009
gioblackpeter.blogspot.com
www.werkstattgalerie.org
Fashion
D&G
Online Boutique
D&G launches dandgstore.com, its first online boutique starting on June 23rd.
It reflects the spirit of D&G boutiques, whose style strongly emerges and can be experienced with a click, and is also reachable through the website www.dolcegabbana.com.
The online store will make it possible to buy all D&G Apparel and Accessories collection, both men’s and women’s, with the addition of D&G Beachwear, D&G Underwear, D&G Eyewear, D&G Time and D&G jewels, and will be available from Europe, United States and Japan, for a total of 31 countries.
www.dandgstore.com
Music
G-Star 3301 Records - Volume 1
Every significant moment of our lives has a unique sound. A sonic signature that instantly takes us back, kick-starts the memory banks and adrenaline blasts the heart. Because music is life. Music is emotion. It’s music that drives us. Music that makes us feel good. Now it’s time to let others listen in.
3301 Records is a Raw Experiment that presents G-Star's passion for music to a wider, international audience and adds a distinctive sound to the G-Star brand. This mish-mash, fusion of pop and rock, electro and disco classics introduces new, emerging talents, like Hypnotic Brass Ensemble and Saul Williams; and presents well-known, established artists, such as Al Green and Lou Reed in surprising ways, mixing the raw with the unexpected.
www.g-star.com
Fashion
Think Positive
Replay Footwear
In a tough market environment Replay footwear conceived (beside the istitutional collection) a new sneakers proposal aimed to the younger consumer (Basque, Luxor and Think Positive basque-the first FMS SHOE). It is to promote an ethic product price wise, appealing in shape, colours and style.
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Hyves
MySpace
Fashion
Hello Fashion
by Monique van Heist
Hello Fashion is a continuous collection of ‘moniquevanheist’ classics by which she challenges the fashion system. Monique van Heist is a Dutch fashion designer, triple winner of the Mercedes-Benz Dutch Fashion Awards 2008. Hello Fashion is permanently available and new products will only be added, not distracted from the collection. Next to garments and accessories, the collection consists of lifestyle products like furniture, make-up advice and even recipes. Hello Fashion cuts across the fashion system’s usual cycle by presenting new products at any given time.
Hello Fashion comes with a loose-leaf catalogue. Included now, are the first 22 products of Hello Fashion. Keep the folder… because with each new product launch, a supplement will be released and the catalogue will grow.
www.moniquevanheist.com
Fashion
Hugo Boss
Online Store
From now on, the Hugo Boss Online Store will also be available to customers in the Netherlands. Following the opening of the first-ever Hugo Boss Online Store in the United Kingdom last year, the rollout is now under way in other key European markets.
It offers a comprehensive array of products from the BOSS Black, BOSS Orange, BOSS Green and BOSS Kidswear lines, complemented by a rich range of accessories. The HUGO collection will also become available online at the start of sales for the Fall/Winter 2009 season.
The Dutch Hugo Boss Online Store can be accessed directly at www.hugoboss-store.nl.
www.hugoboss.com
Fashion
Lady Dior
Marion Cotillard dressed in the new Dior Spring Summer 09 collection is photographed by Peter Lindbergh on top of the most iconic and romantic landmark in the world: the Eiffel Tower.
With its own intricate pattern and design, just like the Lady Dior handbag itself, it is the perfect backdrop for Lady Dior, Paris.
www.ladydior.com
Fashion
Monki Store
Copenhagen
The first Monki Girl Shop in Denmark opened its doors on May 1st and invites to a magic world.
The collection is digging the veins of youth culture, the look is inspired by Japanese and European street style. The Monki label is affordable clothing made for people wanting to express who they are through what they wear. Smart indie characters such as Enid and Rebecca in Ghost World, with their unwilling attitude to fit in the crowd, the frustrated Lisbon sisters in The Virgin Suicides, who are struggling with the issues of growing up - they are all blueprints for the Monki feeling.
The shop in Copenhagen‘s Købmagergade shows the mysterious post-apocalyptic City of Oil and Steel, that is a mysterious place, warm, dark, and biohazardous; filled with dismantled skyscraper parts, strange vegetation, neon, asphalt, and intensely powerful machinery. The Monki shops excite and energize people, such as the collection. There is always a little shock and sense of surprise, when getting in touch with them.
Monki Girl
Købmagergade 3
1150 Copenhagen
Denmark
www.monkigirl.com
Photography: Alastair Wiper
Fashion
House of
Causse Gantier
Like many of the inhabitants of Millau, three brothers Paul, Jules and Henri worked cutting our gloves when they decided to found their own glove factory in 1892. The House of Causse was born.
The Causse’s gloves Spring/Summer 09 are chic and glamour with models using blows, rivets... They are short or long always with luxury skins.
In September is the launch of the online shop of Causse, you will find sport, casual, special models of gloves for both men and women.
www.causse-gantier.com
Art
The Home and the World
Hermès presents the works of two acclaimed Indian photographers Raghubir Singh and Dayanita Singh. With over 55 rare photographs on display, The Home and the World reveals the social complexity, modern contradiction, and natural magnificence of the country of India through the lens of two photographers of two very different artistic visions. The images offer a profoundly personal and intimate voice describing their perception and recognition of an evolving country.
Located on the second floor of Hermès at Berlin Friedrichstrasse 171, The Home and the World will be open to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Monday through Saturdays.
"The Home and the World"
Mezzanine at Hermès
From 22nd October – November 2008
10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Mondays through Saturdays
Friedrichstrasse 171
Berlin
www.hermes.com
Fashion
100 Years
Fred Perry
2009 marks the centenary of the birth of Frederick John Perry and in celebration of Fred’s 100th the brand has developed a collection of classic Fred Perry shirts that feature a unique design detail, an enlarged 16 leaf laurel with the centenary embroidery placed underneath. The palette references classic Fred Perry colorways white with leaf tipping, black with champagne tipping, 1964 sky with navy tipping and red with white tipping.
www.fredperry.com
Fashion
Les Colognes
Hermès
With the Colognes collector, Hermès expands a territory of olfactory expression distinguished by simple refinement and authentic responses, and inaugurated back in 1979 with a first eau de Cologne later named Eau d’orange verte. Generous figurative expressionist of immediate pleasure, the Hermès Colognes offer a series of olfactory snapshots steered by the raw material. As perceived by in-house perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena, Hermès establishes its own interpretation of the Cologne style, resulting from the give and take between artistic sensibilities and skilled craftsmanship.
Constructed around Eau d'orange verte and two new creations from Jean-Claude Ellena, perfumer to the House, the Hermès Colognes collection now offers three different fragrances. All three composed on the basis of raw material and a color which refer back to his sources of inspiration, they form a new and still evolving collection.
www.hermes.com
Fashion
Miss Dior
Chérie L’Eau
From 1947 to today, from Miss Dior to Miss Dior Chérie L'Eau, the fragrance has exhibited the same high Couture standards and the same attention to perfect detail. The bow, in white or black silk on the original Miss Dior bottle, depending on the concentration, was cast in metal in a daringly modern spirit for the 2005 Miss Dior Chérie bottle. It reappears, frosted and transparent, on the neck of Miss Dior Chérie L'Eau in 2009. Just like the reinterpretations of Christian Dior's New Look, the Miss Dior Chérie bow has kept pace with the times, changing and growing lighter.
The Essence of L'Eau by François Demachy: "Miss Dior Chérie L'Eau is not a complicated perfume. I find this idea of simplicity appealing. The formula is simple, it evaporates onto the skin simply and it is a perfume of perceptive simplicity. It immediately states what it is: fresh, sparkling, floral and tender."
www.beauty.dior.com
Fashion
Styling
in London
After Tokyo, thecorner.com goes on with its journey around fashion capitals. City after City the windows of thecorner.com have been personalized by the most famous stylists around the world. In this way users can compare different styles and get suggestions for personalizing their look, while mixing items by top designers and enjoying photo shoots created by true style professionals from Milan to London, from Tokyo to Berlin, from Los Angeles to New York.
The first leg of the journey has been Tokyo with the worldwide famous Japanese stylist Tsuyoshi Noguchi. Now the second stop is London and the protagonist is the renowned Nicola Formichetti, Creative director of Dazed & Confused and Fashion director of Vogue Hommes Japan.
For thecorner.com exclusively Nicola has chosen a young photography talent: Brett Lloyd, emerging name in the London scene who has already shot for magazines such i-D and Dazed. The model featuring the shoot is the young fashion icon Jethro Cave, son of musician Nick Cave, already shot by Hedi Slimane and chosen to catwalk during the last Paris Fashion Week.
www.thecorner.com
Fashion
Marina Chain
The marina chain, a famous Gucci symbol adorning accessories and jewellery, is now celebrated with a new collection of stylish timepieces whose design features the highly iconic anchor chain sign.
With its rounded links, this unmistakable signature punctuates the smooth bracelet, embracing the oval case and finishing with a clasp shaped like a leather belt buckle. The marina chain motif was inspired in the 1960s by the world of yachting, another favourite pastime of the Florentine clientele of Guccio Gucci.
The Marina Chain watch, introduced at the 2009 Gucci Women’s Cruise fashion show, is available in two sizes and a rich choice of materials: steel, 18kt yellow gold, or a combination of the two for a striking contrast between the reflections of the two metals.
www.gucci.com
Fashion
Designers
Against AIDS
Designers Against AIDS present their new videoclip, featuring New York performer André J, famous from his French Vogue cover shot by Bruce Weber and his happy personality and one of their loudest & proudest supporters. Ninette Murk, founder/director DAA, says: "We sincerely hope that people who see this will realize that safe sex is still essential, but also that using a condom when neccessary is cool and the right thing to do!"
www.designersagainstaids.com
Credits for the videoclip:
Starring André Johnson
Directed by Jozef Deville
and Javier Barcala
Production assistant: Mark Douglas
Make up/Hair stylist: Vasko Todorof
Fashion
Death Becomes Her
You couldn’t hope for a better pedigree. Delfina Delettrez Fendi, the tawny-haired, 20-year-old heiress, has Parisian jeweler Bernard Delettrez as a father, Italian designer Silvia Fendi as a mother, and Karl Lagerfeld as a mentor. With hours of training in her father’s workshop under her belt, along with internships at Chanel, Delettrez may be the envy of many an aspiring designer.
Unsurprising, her jewelry line, Delfina Delettrez, debuted to acclaim at Paris’s Colette boutique in 2007. Surprisingly, though, it was preoccupied with maudlin, creepy iconography. Surely a privileged heiress should be inspired more by hearts and flowers?
Delettrez’s jewelry features gem-encrusted skulls, bones and insects threaded on to strings of pearls and embedded in chunky rings. She works with organic and artificial materials such as wood, glass, ceramics and precious metals to subvert the gothic shapes with color and sparkle. This season, Delettrez’s enamel spiders cling to the arms of a limited-edition collection of Alain Mikli sunglasses.
Delettrez’s bizarre, beautiful and esoteric designs have generated a following quite different from the disciples of the Fendi zucca. She clearly shares the self-possessed style of her foremothers, while confronting her fear to create the fabulous.
www.delfinadelettrez.com
Art
Role Models
From March 5 to May 7, 2009, Hilaneh von Kories Gallery in Hamburg will present “Rolmodellen“ (“Role Models“), an exhibit with images by Schilte & Portielje. The Dutch couple creates a universe of black and white pictures with solitary and sometimes distant looking figures in the center. Their likenesses could easily be interpreted as the result of a process used in the days of analogue photography. But these bodies, mainly women with peculiar contorted, idiosyncratic extremities and elaborate Haute-Couture style clothes, actually reveal something else. They are willfully and artfully constructed.
ROLMODELLEN (“Role Models“)
Painting × Photography
March 5 to May 7, 2009
Galerie Hilaneh von Kories
Stresemannstr. 384a (in the courtyard)
22761 Hamburg-Altona
Germany
www.galeriehilanehvonkories.de
Fashion
G-Star
by Marc Newson
Limited Collection
G-Star Raw debuted their G-Star by Marc Newson Limited collection; an exclusive run of nine special edition pieces, unveiled in a gallery-style presentation at Colette, as part of Paris Fashion Week. The G-Star by Marc Newson Limited collection brings luxury to the street, presenting urban influenced designs executed in premium materials and crafted to the highest quality.
Only 100 pieces of each style will be made available worldwide through eighteen exclusively selected retailers, including Colette in Paris, 10 Corso Como in Milan, Seoul and Tokyo, Moss in New York and Moss and Maxfield in Los Angeles. The pieces will range in price from 1,000 to 4,000 Euro and will be available from 15 July 2009.
www.g-star.com
Fashion
Paul Smith Shakespeare print T-shirts
For Spring Summer 2009, Paul Smith Jeans announces a collection of limited edition printed t-shirts, featuring the classic Shakespearian characters of Yorick, Oberon and Mercutio. Whilst staying true to their basic essence, the characters have been reworked to the modern day setting.
Yorick, the Court Jester, has been transformed into a free spirited entertainer whereas Oberon has been distorted into a madman. Mercutio’s youth and wit has been emphasized, creating a modern day ‘boy next door’ image.
The organic cotton t-shirts will be packaged in a re-usable fabric bag, adorned with the Paul Smith ‘Never Assume’ coat of arms, within which there will be a collectable original screen print of the twisted Shakespearian character.
www.paulsmith.co.uk
Fashion
The New Jackie Bag
Gucci announces the launch of the New Jackie bag, a fresh and modern reinterpretation of the House’s most iconic handbag design, “The Jackie.” Creative Director Frida Giannini, who first debuted the New Jackie on the Spring/ Summer 2009 Gucci runway, has swiftly ushered this classic Gucci style into present day relevance.
A stalwart of the Gucci archives, the Jackie bag holds a very special place within the Italian fashion house's storied past. First created in the1950s, the model became the preferred accessory for Jacqueline Onassis, who was photographed toting numerous versions throughout the 1960s.
www.gucci.com
Fashion
adidas SLVR Store Opening New York
adidas opened its first adidas SLVR store during New York Fashion Week. Located in Soho, the 250 square meter space reflects the values of the adidas SLVR brand, including simplicity, transparency and functionality.
adidas SLVR is the pure fashion label within the adidas Sport Style division which includes Y-3 and adidas Originals. The collection consists of strong basic pieces in simple black and white with accents provided in maroon, orange and shades of blue. The items are affordable, attainable and ultimately wearable, providing classic staples for anyone’s individual wardrobe. Materials include sustainable organic cotton, water resistant nylon and coated natural canvas in comfortable and light weight executions, perfect for the upcoming Spring/Summer 2009 season.
The adidas SLVR collection consists of men’s & women’s apparel, footwear and accessories and will hit retail with three roll-outs, starting February 2009.
www.adidas.com/slvr
Fashion
Cat Power for Levi's
Levi's choice easily fell on Chan Marshall, a.k.a. Cat Power, for their forthcoming SS 2009 campaign. The American singer-songwriter was on set with German-born photographer Katja Rahwles and maverick London-based fashion stylist Sarah Richardson. As for the collaboration, the American artiste says: “ It seemed very natural to me, as I have worn Levi's jeans all my life”.
Levi’s Red Tab Jeans draw inspiration from the free spirited mood of the 1970s, with a collection of beautifully sun-faded, jeans and casual clothing with a lived-in vintage flavor which perfectly catch the mood of a hazy summer.
Cat Power’s career started in 1995, and her fame as an indie icon has been growing steadily through collaborations with artists from Dave Grohl to Yoko Ono and Faithless. Known for her stripped down, intimistic music, gravelly voice, and individual style. No stranger to the fashion world, in 2006 she performed a duet with model karen elson on an English cover of Serge Gainsbourg’s “Je t’aime…moi non plus”. In the same year, she was approached by Karl Lagerfeld outside the Mercer Hotel in NYC, becoming somewhat of a muse for the mercurial designer. He later famously proclaimed “J’adore Cat Power!”.
www.eu.levi.com
www.catpowermusic.com
Fashion
Pamela Anderson fronts Westwood
Collaborating with photographer Juergen Teller for the fourth season running, Vivienne Westwood has chosen the actress and legendary glamour model Pamela Anderson to star in her Spring-Summer 2009 advertising campaign.
Pamela Anderson has been wearing Westwood for years but they had never actually met. The relationship with Vivienne first began with an appearance at the Red Label Spring-Summer 2009 show at London Fashion Week in September 2008. Pamela was dressed in a gold lurex dress from the Autumn-Winter 2008 Gold Label collection. At a meeting backstage after the show, Vivienne thought Pamela looked stunning in her clothes. When thinking of casting her next campaign, she immediately thought of Pamela and called her to ask if she would be interested. Pamela agreed on the spot.
Featuring Vivienne, Pamela and Andreas Kronthaler, Vivienne’s husband and creative partner, the Spring-Summer 2009 advertising campaign was shot in and around Pamela’s trailer in Malibu. Modelling fashion from Gold, Red, Anglomania and MAN label as well as the accessories range, the result is an arresting group of images full of the humour that characterises Juergen and Vivienne Westwood’s collaborations.
www.viviennewestwood.com
Fashion
Bottega Veneta S/S 2009 Campaign
Renowned photographer Larry Sultan has photographed Bottega Veneta's new Spring-Summer 2009 advertising campaign.
The Bottega Veneta Spring-Summer 2009 collection conveys a quiet, unorthodox glamour. Gentle volumes made from extraordinary materials fit and flow in clothes as effortless to wear as they are technically complex. The palette is warm and subd