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December 2010 - III: Contradictions in fashion and beauty; stages for designers and artists


Contradictions Snow style Web/Mobile
...made of signature design pieces. Some of them tell stories of contradictions such as the 'Black Bad Fur Jacket' by Alexis Mabille for Pyrenex...


Stages Art, costumes, stages Web/Mobile
'La Bohème' shows stagy ‘snap-shots’ of artists. Jean Cocteau's photo of Pablo Picasso shows him next to his friend - a fashion model with an extraordinary bandeau-chapeau, in a cafe in Paris...


Stages Artists' stories on stages Web/Mobile
Shannon Bool has adapted the photo by Adolf Loos showing the bedroom of his wife, which is erotically designed with white fabrics on the wall and fur on the floor...


Stages Artists stage a hotel Web/Mobile
The works by Pipilotti Rist, Patrick Blanc, Alain Bony and Henri Laboile at the hotel Sofitel Vienna Stephansdom visualize the 'breathing', floating and interactive hotel artfully...


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...



UPDATE:

Fashionoffice update: geographical statistics
Fashionoffice has updated the geographical graphics of people, visits and page-views delivered by Quantcast. In the months before, most of the Fashionoffice traffic came from US, followed by France. Now, it's Germany where more than 50% of the Fashionoffice traffic comes from.

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SHORT MESSAGES (from the FashionFeeds):

15 Dec 2010 - 'Loud Mouths' by 'Wise Blood'
Just received the hyperlink to the single 'Loud Mouths' by the US musician 'Wise Blood' aka Christopher Laufman with the news that Wise Blood has recently signed to Dovecote Records and plans to release a new EP in early 2011. "By day, twenty-one year old Laufman works in a cemetery as an undertaker. When the sun goes down he is better known as Wise Blood, turning out heavy sample based pop bliss in his bedroom."

15 Dec 2010 - 'Our Own Pretty Ways' by Swedish folk duo 'First Aid Kit'
A YouTube-user comments one month ago that the reason why the video is lovely is '...how these wonderful girls have their clothes on. That's the difference between talent and no talent. If you have no talent you have to create a diversion that makes people focus on something else, like T and A. Hence all the semi-naked women strutting around on stage these days..." On 18 Jan 2011, Third Man Records will release a vinyl 7-inch 2 songs record of the 17 and 20-year old sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg, produced by Jack White www.thirdmanrecords.com.

14 Dec 2010 - Snapshots from a 'Polar Bar' on a hotel's roof top equipped with Italian fashion fabrics
The Italian label Stone Island provided the interactive fabrics (one changes its look with the temperature, the other is highly reflective) for the lounge of the recently opened 'Polar Bar' (looks like an expedition camp) on the roof top of the hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich.

14 Dec 2010 - Word installation 'Circus' by Barbara Kruger
US artist Barbara Kruger's word installation 'Circus' on the floor, ceiling, walls at the Rotunda of the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt (DE) with sayings like "Belief + Doubt = Sanity" or "What you love is better than what I love. What you believe is truer than what I believe. What you hate deserves it." can be viewed from 15 Dec - 30 Jan 2011. "The artist's sentences for the Schirn oscillate between generally valid statements, requests directed at the viewers, and psychological observations. Their enigmatic character is irritating, and their impact overwhelming, not least because of their extraordinary size." schirn.de

14 Dec 2010 - Re-listen: 'Paradise (Not For Me)' by Madonna feat. Yitzhak Sinwani
The video of the performance of Madonna and Yitzhak (English 'Isaac') Sinwani was shot during Madonna's Confessions Tour in 2006. Yitzhak Sinwani, who sings a Jewish poem instead of the originally French song text, wears according to Madonna's tour website a turban designed by Jean Paul Gaultier. In 2001, Madonna interpreted the song on stage in a Geisha costume by Jean Paul Gaultier. In the official video 'Paradise (Not For Me) directed by Dago González, Madonna wears an authentic wedding kimono from a Japanese woman that was found by costumer Arianne Phillips in Los Angeles madonnatribe.com/idol/dago_one.htm.

13 Dec 2010 - A bag on the shoulder of an actor in a movie
Recently, the Viennese film and theatre costume workshop Kostümhaus has founded the own label 'wienzwoelf' and released a handmade bag under the title 'A bag from Vienna'. The bag is made of recycled materials from an old seabag, parachute... and has already 'played' in Austrian movies that will be released soon: in 'Willkommen in Wien', directed by Nikolaus Leytner (2010), the bag stars on the shoulder of the actor in the leading role; and in the culture-clash comedy 'Und Bollywood kam in die Berge', directed by Holger Haase (2010), the bag appears in a story about a Bollywood-team in the Austrian Alps.

13 Dec 2010 - Couture house stages Paris hotel new
The French Haute Couture house Maison Martin Margiela re-creates the interior of the groundfloor, 7 suites and 10 guest rooms of the hotel ‘Maison Champs-Elysées’ in Paris, opening April 2011. Since December 2009, a team designs the new collections by following the ideas of Belgian Martin Margiela, who has left the house. The label is co-owned by Renzo Rosso, founder of Diesel. The design team is not leaded by a creative director. It seems as if the 'design-team-work'- concept is part of the label's program. Maison Martin Margiela announces that the team "...creates a theatrical environment where reality and trompe-l’œil are mixing together." 

12 Dec 2010 - Music video: 'Only The Young' by Brandon Flowers
...is the second track from the premiere solo album 'Flamingo' by Brandon Flowers, frontman of the US band 'The Killers'. Director Sophie Muller has placed him in a smoking between stars and angel-alike flyers. Muller's work is known from videos such as 'Wind It Up' Gwen Stefani (who has launched her fashion label with the video in 2006) or commercials like for L'Oréal with Beyoncé Knowles.

11 Dec 2010 - 'Don't Care Anymore' by Samantha Ronson
Fashion Net Düsseldorf has sent the 'Save the Date' for the party on 5 Feb 2011 where singer/songwriter and DJ Samantha Ronson (she comes from a famous family of musicians) will be on the turntables. The registration for the party of the platform for designers, industry, showroom operators, universities, labels... just opened. "We can’t reveal all the details just yet, but try this for starters; the one and only Samantha Ronson, star DJ from NYC, will be at the turntables." fashion-net-duesseldorf.de/index_en.html

10 Dec 2010 - Design on fabrics
...is the theme of an article by the London based 'Arts Thread' publication about the exhibition 'Sue Timney and the design of Timney-Fowler', which currently runs at the Fashion and Textile Museum www.ftmlondon.org. Sue Timney, owner of the label Timney-Fowler, has created iconic designs for fashion and interiors. She has delivered works to Paul Smith, Betty Jackson, Stella McCartney...

10 Dec 2010 - Fashion video: A jacket that changes its look when exposed to the cold
The Italian label Stone Island is known for its experimental dyeing on finished garments. Recently, the label has released a new video which gives an insight into the dyeing process http://vimeo.com/17359104

10 Dec 2010 - A film school that sees its origins in the artistic moving image
The KHM Academy of Media Arts Cologne (Germany) calls the ones who are interested in photography, film, directing, scriptwriting, animation, media design, experimental computer sciences, sound, sculpture, public art... to apply for the 'Audiovisual Media' degree course. "...the KHM is an art school with a focus on media, and a film school that sees its origins in the artistic moving image."

10 Dec 2010 - Video: Fashion event in Mumbai
Burberry Chief Creative Officer Christopher Bailey invited on 9 Dec to the roof terrace of the Four Seasons Hotel in Mumbai. The music for the over 400 guest came from DJ sets by British musician Rory Cottam from band The Cheek and Indian DJ Aqeel as well as a live acoustic performance by Indian musicians Aman and Aayan Ali Khan. It was Christopher Bailey's first trip to India. He says that being in India "...meeting everyone and feeling the energy behind the country was incredible and we had a great night in Mumbai."