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Jan 2010 - IV: Men & Women, Fashion & Media

Men Style - The contemporary man Web/Mobile 
Fashionoffice asks: if style is the product of a holistic view on fashion, beauty and lifestyle, what's the concept of the contemporary man?



Women Style - Women at the Office Web/Mobile 
Long trousers don't make a bright boy; Office Insight by Karin Sawetz. Once, I was interviewed by a journalist about office fashion - not Fashionoffice - I really mean fashion in the office. She has asked me about the key...



Fashion & Media - Miyo Yoshida Web/Mobile 
... works about fashion and the influence by media. She uses in her installation pieces like the book 'Media Control' from Noam Chomsky, a Louis Vuitton bag, Chanel makeup, an Apple iphone, the Sex Pistols album 'Never Mind The Bollocks', etc...



Fashion & Media - Xuly Bet Web/Mobile
Fashion and music in punk-Afro style! The punk-Congolese opera 'more more more... future' and dance performance with costumes by Paris based fashion recycler Xuly Bet...



Fashion & Media - Fashionoffice Insight by publisher Karin Sawetz Web/Mobile
Journalism and social media, trends in 2010, most viewed articles in 2009...

Geographical data of Fashionoffice
Traffic from US grew from 23.27% to 40.81% while Quantcast tracks fewer users from the Asian countries Korea, China, India on Fashionoffice...


SHORT MESSAGES: 

Fashion as media - Fashionoffice publisher Karin Sawetz's catwalk tip: Louis Vuitton fall/winter 2010/11 at the catwalk on 21st Jan 2010 in Paris. "It's not only that Louis Vuitton is inspired by the art movement from the city where I am born - the Vienna Secessionists were exploring new possibilities of artistic expression and believed that a society must allow art its freedom - I simply like the Egon Schiele inspired vintage-Dandy-look." Godfrey Deeny cites in Fashion Wire Daily Vuitton’s men’s designer Paul Helbers: "Today’s laptop workplace has blurred the boundaries between tailoring and casual pieces."

Fashionoffice publisher Karin Sawetz's catwalk tip: Maison Martin Margiela fall/winter 2010/11, 23rd January, Paris. "I understand not a word what the producer of the video from the catwalk presentation is talking about, but I think she is not only commenting the fashion of the men's models. Even her camera is sometimes more fixated on a man in the audience than on the show. By the way: the Brazilian (?) Ana Clara Garmenida shows also on her website anaclara.com.br a good taste in men's look."

Media critic - Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor The media critical movie 'Double Take' (2009, directed by Johan Grimonprez, story Tom McCarthy) with the role 'Alfred Hitchcock as a paranoid history professor' is on world tour: in January at the Sundance Film Festival in US, followed by Canada, in February in Belgium, The Netherlands, Florida, etc. to name a few. The magazine 'Art in America' writes in its May 2009 issue : "THINK AGAIN. With Double Take, Johan Grimonprez extends his exploration of the mirror worlds of news and entertainment, using Alfred Hitchcock – and his doubles – as suitably duplicitous guides."

Critical fashion - Men’s Fashion in the video ‚Gangs of London’ - Fashionoffice just received from photographer Alexander James and the Distil Ennui-team the information about the new video about the 'Gangs of London' shooting with fashion by the Londoner tailor and former Givenchy (2003 – 2007) creative director Ozwald Boateng and the British brand Social Suicide. The photo shoot has a critical theme on political power, the banking scene, and dictatorship. Social Suicide are publishing on their website that the suits from the 'Dictators of Fashion' collection are inspired from the 20th century political heroes and tyrants: "Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Charles de Gaulle, Benito Mussolini, Nelson Mandela, Chairman Mao, General Kalashnikov, Malcolm X, John F. Kennedy and Fidel Castro. Ten characters, Ten cuts, Ten stories; all with incredible detailing, beautiful handwork, leather trims and delicate embroidery." For the ones who want go deeper into the theme style and men's fashion: on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW0e0xl_TQ8 you can watch Ozwald Boateng speaking about 'Why Style Matters'. He dresses up celebrities like Jude Law or Will Smith.

Music:

Valentine’s music tip - 'Cosmic Love' is a track from the album ‘Lungs’ (number 1 in the UK album charts in the week of 19th Jan) by the British soul inspired singer Florence Welch from ‘Florence and the Machine’. The video shows her performing the song with a guitarist in the Last.fm Discover Studios in November 2009. Hearing Florence and The Machine evokes the impression as if Kate Bush is dancing to the music of the White Stripes, cooled down by Tom Waits-Nick Cave sounds, with a touch of Bjork's eccentricity. On her website is published that: “Everything is about boys!” she laughs. “The whole album is about love – and pain. People see my lyrics as crazy, but to me it’s an honest, heartfelt album. I didn’t set out to be wacky. I just want it to be emotive.” The musician is nominated for Best Female, Best Album (for 'Lungs') and Breakthrough Artist at this year’s Brit Awards. Florence and The Machine will perform live at the Brit Awards Ceremony on 16th February.

Valentine’s music tip - ‘Soldier of Love’ by the Grammy awarded UK-Nigerian funk-soul singer Sade, title track from the new album (release 8 Feb).

Valentine’s music tip - "I'm writing this to you in reverse... I wanna show you how I love you" sings Britt Daniel from the indie-rock band 'Spoon' (formed 1993) from Texas in 'Written in Reverse', the first single from the new album 'Transference'. The album (comes out on 19 Jan) can be pre-ordered on the bands site ; 'Written in Reverse' is already available on iTunes. Spoon starts their tour on Valentine's Day (14 Feb) in Glasgow, 15 Feb Manchester, followed by London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Texas, Washington...

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