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December 2010 - I: Women styles; the creation of 'home'; reality in times of internet


Women style: From Australia to Austria to California Web/Mobile
The parka, shorts and trippy t-shirt from the Levi's collection 'California Dreaming' in a mix with art from Austria and Australia...


Women style: Classical and naughty Web/Mobile
...pieces that are developed from a classical style but modified with an artful touch. Like the wild tulip draperies on a dress, a stone arrangement on a ring, and an olfactoric potion 'naughty' ...


Creating 'home': Textile patterns in a museum Web/Mobile
Recently, Michael Lin was selected for a home series for Louis Vuitton. Now, an exhibition on the idea 'home at the museum'...


Creating 'home': Ming Wong Web/Mobile
The left screen shows the scenes of a Rainer Werner Fassbinder movie; right, you can see Berlin/Singapore based artist Ming Wong in the female role of the "successful but arrogant fashion designer..." Ming Wong takes part in the Singapore Biennale 2011 which runs under the title 'Open House' and follows the tradition of festivities such as Hari Raya, Deepavali and Chinese New Year, when people open their homes to others...


Reality in times of internet: What's real? Web/Mobile
Vienna and Taipei based artist Jun Yang questions our perception of time and space in an exhibition about the result of mass media such as mobile telephones or internet on the perception of reality...


Reality in times of internet: Fashion and media theory at Fashionoffice; Insight by publisher Karin Sawetz, Dec 2010 Web/Mobile
Fashionoffice's editorial concept is built upon the scientific approach to fashion and the theory that fashion has to be seen in a timeline and in context...



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SHORT MESSAGES (from the FashionFeeds):

1 Dec 2010 - Music video: 'Hot Knives' by the US band 'Bright Eyes' from the album Cassadaga (2007)
Director Patrick Daughters, whose video work for Feist's '1234' (2007) was nominated for the Grammy in the category 'Best Short Form Music Video', presents 'Bright Eyes'-frontman and songwriter Conor Oberst on a psychedelic colored stage, overlapped by video-scenes which run on his white suit while he is singing and playing the guitar. Today, Fashionoffice has received the announcement that the new 'Bright Eyes' album 'The People’s Key' comes out on 15 February 2011 conoroberst.com.

30 Nov 2010 - Fashion video: Saudi Arabian designer Hatem Alakeel in a BBC portrait
On 29 Nov 2010, New York based PSFK (PSFK are researchers on trends, consulters, publishers) have released an interview with Hatem Alakeel. Saudi Arabian fashion designer Hatem Alakeel answers when asked about the source of his inspirations: "Using art and history is always a great way to bring back old style and modernize it. I’ve done everything from printing Andy Warhol’s Cambell Soup on a thobe to using Clark Gable style for my classic line." psfk.com/2010/11/re-interpreting-tradition-fashion-designer-hatem-alakeel.html

28 Nov 2010 - Symposium and exhibition on 'Art, Fashion, Identity'
The London College of Fashion invites on 6 and 7 December to the symposium 'Aware: Art Fashion Identity' about clothing as a medium for communication - as it is a carrier of memory and traditions, how its meaning changes in cultural contexts or how it is engaged in social or political confrontations. The symposium accompanies the same-titled exhibition showing works of Hussein Chalayan, Yinka Shonibare, La Maison Martin Margiela... to name three of around 30 artists, couturiers, and designers who will be presented at the Royal Academy of Arts from 2 Dec to 30 Jan 2011. "Hussein Chalayan will present a new dress inspired by the 300 year old Japanese tradition of Bunraku puppet theatre while Yinka Shonibare is working with bespoke tailor Chris Stevens on creating 18 designs based on 19th-century children’s dress which will be assembled to form a wall mural." royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/gsk-contemporary-season-2010/exhibition/

28 Nov 2010 - Music video: 'God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen' by Annie Lennox from the album 'A Christmas Cornucopia'
Scottish singer/songwriter has collected traditional British, French, German songs and applied contemporary story-telling melodies to them such as one of the album's songs 'Lullay Lullay' links directly to violation against children. The first single of the album 'Universal Child' was released already in October and is the album's fundraising track for projects supporting and educating women and children in Africa with HIV/AIDS.

27 Nov 2010 - Dance-video: Eletronic-tango 'Pa' Bailar' by Bajofondo
The video for the song 'Pa' Bailar' by the eight members band (Uruguay, Argentina) Bajofondo is directed by Latin Grammy Award winner (Best Short Form Music Video) Picky Talarico. It shows a party where people are dancing to tango, electronic music. Bajofondo's composer/producer/vocalist/guitarist Santaolalla, he is also film composer ('Brokeback Mountain', Louis Vuitton 'Journeys') and awarded with several prizes (Grammy, Golden Globe, BAFTA...), says on MySpace: "With Bajofondo we don’t like the label ‘electronic tango’ because we try to make a contemporary music of Rio de la Plata (the river that forms part of the border between Argentina and Uruguay) music from Argentina, from Uruguay. ... in our case, so is rock ‘n’ roll, electronica and hip hop. Hopefully a new language, not pure tango."

26 Nov 2010 - Search technology in fashion boutiques
Recently, Google's Boutiques.com opened its interactive website. Boutiques.com is made of a self-learning visual search technology which navigates through numerous products of international labels and designers. Boutiques.com writes on its website that it "is built on technology developed by our team of fashion experts who work with engineers to 'teach' our computer systems to understand various patterns, pairings, and genre definitions." You can make an own quasi-'wishlist' by entering your profile. At first, the machine will detect your style: edgy, classic, romantic, or...

26 Nov 2010 - Re-watched: 'Santa Baby' performed by the Pussycat Dolls
The song 'Santa Baby' is originally by the American singer, cabaret star and actress Eartha Kitt from 1953. In the meanwhile, stars like Kylie Minogue, Madonna, or the Pussycat Dolls, who convince especially with the video from their stage performance, have recorded the song about making XMas wishes.

26 Nov 2010 - Double Santa double gifts?
Fashionoffice just received the hyperlink by the Swedish label T-post showing a XMas strategy for gifts with the words "Double Santa equals double gifts" - whatever this means.

26 Nov 2010 - Re-listen: 'Got My Mojo Working' by Muddy Waters and Sonny Boy Williamson II on the harmonica
The American Blues musician Muddy Waters recorded the song about 'Mojo' (Mojo is a magical charm and the sexual attraction a person has on others) in 1957. The video of the performance between Muddy Waters and Sonny Boy Williamson II is probably from the early 1960s. The song counts to the greatest in the 20th century music history.

25 Nov 2010 - Fashion video: Modepalast 2010
Fashionoffice just received the call for applications for the next Modepalast from 26 to 29 May 2011 in Vienna with the note: "We encourage green brands, newcomers and brands with collections for silver agers to apply for Modepalast 2011!" Details on www.modepalast.com.

25 Nov 2010 - An artist on nature and our media-related view on it
The artificially modified representatives of trees, earth, landscapes by the French artist Didier Marcel, who questions the interventions of humans on nature, are now exhibited under the title 'sommes-nous l’élégance' until 2 January 2011 at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

24 Nov 2010 - Arts, computer sciences, and engineering
The New Media Arts MFA program at the University of Illinois at Chicago is developed from an interdisciplinary approach of arts, computer sciences, and engineering. The students are trained to become researchers, makers, and innovators in the field 'New Media Arts'. Applications for fall 2011 are accepted until 1 February 2011.

24 Nov 2010 - Music video/trailer: 'Derezzed' by Daft Punk with scenes from the movie 'Tron Legacy' (release 17 Dec)
The soundtrack by the electronic duo Daft Punk for the follow-up of the legendary 80ies movie 'Tron' about a 'hacker' (1982), in 'Tron Legacy' it's a 'virtual-world worker' (2010), who gets into a computer system and fights in gladiatorial games against the 'Master Control Program' can be found on disney.go.com/tron/index_flash.html#/music.