Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Lucy McRae is a visual artist and body architect most famous for collaborating with Dutch artist Bart Hess to produce Lucyandbart, a project that explores futuristic human forms that could result from plastic surgery and evolution. Using the body as a canvas, Lucyandbart create grotesque sculptures that directly attack vanities typical in both men and [...]
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Over the summer, SHOWstudio invited artists to contribute to “The Fashion Body,” a videographic study of body parts. Each artist focuses on a single part of the body, and the result is an astounding array of approaches to and messages about how body parts function physically and symbolically; as fashion objects and in personal expression. [...]
Friday, September 3, 2010
Of all the fabulous, wearable fashion in this month’s Vogue, the most striking spread is Monsters, INC, in which Raymond Meier shoots fall’s hottest fur accessories modeled atop performance artist Nick Cave’s very furry soundsuits. Like a psychedelic Where the Wild Things Are or an edgy Dr. Seuss illustration, Cave has captured every imagined childhood [...]
Iconic menswear designer Hedi Slimane’s creativity knows no bounds—most well known as art director for Yves Saint Laurent from 1993-99 and creative director of Dior Homme 2000-07, Slimane is also a writer, furniture designer, musician and fashion photographer. He is famous for creating the “new male ideal” in the early 2000’s. By designing slim-cut menswear [...]
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Thursday, August 12, 2010
Marc Jacobs’ new men’s fragrance, Bang, has caused quite a stir lately with provocative print ads that feature Jacobs himself greased-up, nestled in crinkled metal and covered only by the Bang bottle. Jacobs came up with the name, which he chose for its immediacy, power and masculinity, while at the gym. The ad campaign was [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The WWD accessories book came out – just the drug we needed to snap us out of our seasonally affected wardrobe stupor. And this one was AWESOME – a big bowl of I Want That (with convenient shopping details on every page). Below, the best of the best. We die. Shoes – Purses – Pretty [...]
I was browsing through the Shop Class page of the WWD accessories book, the one featuring chic woodworking for the well dressed – hey, that could be me! (?) – when I saw a clutch by Nada Sawaya. Intrigued, I went to her website and found the following internet treasure. Nada calls her clutches minaudieres [...]
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Amazing packaging by Lucy Hargrave for Soapworks. “Designed in collaboration with Josh Tatarynowicz, these packages were for a handmade goats milk soap company. We created four intricate Mandala patterns based on the natural ingredients used in each soap flavour; like peppermint leaves, rose petals & lemon slices. The patterns are laser cut out of card [...]
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