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(‘Short Messages’ from the cover of www.fashionoffice.org in chronological order)
Green Porno by Isabella Rosselini ‘Green
Porno’ is the first movie directed by Isabella Rosselini. She is playing the
starring roles like spider, wale, or in this video the role of an earthworm. Just received an invitation
to the opening of the exhibition ‘Green Porno by Isabella Rosselini’ on 8 Oct
at the NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft in Düsseldorf. The exhibition runs
until 11 Oct www.nrw-forum.de
Quiksilver video with music by Tha TrickaZ Quiksilver invites to music, skate boarding, and art
with Tony Hawk on 20 and 21 Nov at the Grand Palais in Paris. Take a preview
at the extraordinary skate location Grand Palais on a video with the 'Robbery Song' by Tha TrickaZ.
Urban Gardening ‘Urban
Gardening’ with the Swiss brothers ‘Freitag’ who produce bags of used
material from the road like truck tarpaulins, seat belts, bicycle inner
tubes, recycled airbags… The Walking Chair Gallery www.walking-chair.com invites to the fashion tactics to direct the
consciousness towards urban structures on 1 Oct, 19.00 (on display until 31
Dec 2009) during the Vienna Design Week (1 – 11 Oct 2009) www.viennadesignweek.at
New fashion platform The US fashion, film, and art organization ‘Gen Art’ invites fashion designers, editors,
buyers, bloggers and fashion consumers to join the new platform ‘Discover’.
You can submit a t-shirt design to the theme ‘inspiration’. The winner will
have their t-shirt produced and win a VIP travel package to Gen Art’s Shop
NYC discover.genart.org
Website about clean energy fashion. CEF
collects content about clean energy such as the video from the Los Angeles catwalk show of the Eco Nouveau (>YouTube,
www.econouveau.com) designers Gary Harvey, Bahar Shahpar, and Amanda Shi. CEF
has sent a glossary too: Eco-Fashion...uses organic raw materials, such as
cotton grown without pesticides and silk made by worms fed on organic
trees...doesn't involve the use of harmful chemicals and bleaches to colour
fabrics...is often made from recycled and reused textiles. High-quality
garments can be made from second-hand clothes and even recycled plastic
bottles...is made to last, so that people keep them for longer...comes from
fair trade - the people who make them are paid a fair price and have decent
working conditions www.cleanenergyfashion.com
Fashion and music darling ‘Mika’ in a photo
shooting for Vanity Fair in London (>YouTube). ‘Pop wonderboy’
Mika’s album ‘The Boy Who Knew Too Much’ came out on 18 Sept in Italy, 22 Sept in America etc. Mika will tour America in October. Find out more on www.mikasounds.com
Hip-Hop Underground Festival ‘Going Down’ by
musician Szenario; directed by himself (>YouTube). The Viennese
is part of the independent group of musicians under the keyword ‘Supercity’.
From 5 to 10 Oct, Supercity runs the RUN VIE Festival on 8 locations in Vienna with more than 25 Hip Hop-Underground acts www.supercity.at/RUNVIE
Viennese design night with chocolaterie, Champagne and Cidre During the Vienna Design Week, a group of artists and
retailers start a new cooperation to show fashion, jewellery, accessories
etc. with culinary and musical highlights in the ‘Kettenbrückengasse’ quarter
on 8 Oct, beginning at 18.00. My advice: start with chocolate, Cidre und Champagne at the Chocolaterie/Pâtisserie au marché www.fruth.at
Swedish humour on fashion films The wearable
magazine ‘T-post’ goes cross-media. Watch the witty documentary ‘A T-post
family Portrait - Karin & Carina’ (>YouTube). “We are
in the final stages of completing the first film in a series of documentaries
highlighting people in the T-post family. This first film gives you a chance
to get to know Karin and Carina. Every six weeks they neatly check every
single Tee for misprints and holes, and folds and package them to be shipped
out to all four corners of the world. But before the package is shipped they
singlehandedly check all 2500 address labels to make sure that they accurate.
Karin and Carina are two cool and lovely women and this is our tribute to
them.” The film will be released this fall. www.t-post.se
The underlying role of aesthetics in ideology and culture Sean
Snyder investigates the “transformative role of the archive in relation to
digital imaging technologies, developing a methodological approach to the
structuring of information. Utilizing the interpretative potential of
documents and databases, his work explores documentary practice as a
historical construct, and more generally the underlying role of aesthetics in
ideology and culture…” exhibition ‘Sean Snyder’ at the ‘Index the Swedish
Contemporary Art Foundation’ from 16 Sept - 25 Oct www.indexfoundation.se
‘Yearning For
Home’ by the now in America (NY) living British born singer Siji from his new album ‘Adesiji’ (video on YouTube). “My self-titled sophomore album 'ADESIJI',
is a full portrayal of where I currently stand as an artist and human being
and the experiences that have come to shape my character. A few of the songs
are about the current war, the environment, my yearning to take a closer peek
at my ancestral homeland (Nigeria), where I grew up in as well as the
spiritual side of my roots". www.sijimusic.com
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