Thursday, September 30, 2010
For his Spring/Summer 2010 show, Gareth Pugh chose to present a video of his new collection in lieu of a traditional runway show. The video, directed by Ruth Hogben debuted yesterday and was streamed live through SHOWstudio. This is a strategic move for both parties: SHOWstudio is trying to solidify itself as the eminent innovative [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]