Gareth Pugh’s 2010 collections have been profoundly softer and more accessible than the severe avant-garde drama on which he made his name. His A/W collection, especially—sleek, 30’s-inspired, very wearable—is a significant departure from past years, when extreme alien collections varied between the bird-like and the geometric. Imagine Darth Vader meets Lady Gaga. Pugh’s current collection [...]
I spent most of my morning enthralled by DIS Magazine, a year-old publication dedicated to deconstructing the norms of art, fashion and beauty. The magazine’s creators, Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, S. Adrian Massey III, Marco Roso, Patrik Sandberg, Nicholas Scholl and David Toro tend to take themselves a bit too seriously, but they introduce seriously [...]
Minjae Lee is a highly talented 21-year old, self-taught, South Korean artist. Lee captivates a raw, theatrical drama using markers, pens, crayons and acrylics to manifest a dark, dramatic fairytale using ethereal female portraits as his subjects. Lee’s art has a mysterious appeal that instantly draws you in and creates a sense if intimacy and sensuality that [...]
Once I have fallen in love with a piece of art, one of my favorite things to do is trace the inspiration behind it, especially across mediums—Friedrich Nietzsche’s influence on Otto Dix, William Faulkner and his best friend’s plantation records. Naturally, upon reading about designers’ inspiration for the Paris Couture collections, I searched for images [...]
The most common theme in this year’s fall couture shows was exaggerated shapes—sharp shoulders, ruffled hips, sky-high hats, plunging V’s, overstuffed skirts. Every runway rocked with severity or sumptuousness. Designers developed last year’s trends into more extreme, luxurious versions of shoulder pads, one-shouldered, underwear as outerwear and color-blocked body-con. Our 5 top looks… 1. Sculpted [...]
The world is full of nice, ordinary little people who live in nice, ordinary little houses on the ground. But didn’t you ever dream of a house up on a tree top? How about atop the largest museum in Manhattan? Big Bambú, an installation by twins Doug and Mike Starns, dominates the roof of the [...]
Shepard Fairey has a powerful and varied integration of design that covers all aspects of our visual popular culture from political art and fashion to street art and museum installations. Fairey works in a wide variety of media such as screen prints, stencils, stickers, illustrations, collages, and works on wood, metal and canvas. The core [...]
This weekend, check out Lush Life – a nine-part exhibition based on Richard Price’s iconic novel, Lush Life. Nine Lower East Side galleries have partnered with 50 artists to explore themes in each of the nine chapters of the book. The book captures the contradictions of the recently gentrified area and the exhibition builds on [...]