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Feb 2010 - IV: Architecture & fashion


Architecture - The Air Mailman Web/Mobile
The video about the Teufelsberg (Devil's Mountain) in Berlin where a man is interviewed about his work at the former listening station of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the connection between the station and the airport Tempelhof is...

Architecture - Bunker style in Berlin Web/Mobile
Angelika Taschen has selected for her new book many stylish spaces like the house of French Vogue creative director Fabien Baron alongside to provocative ideas for interior like the penthouse in a bunker in Berlin-Mitte...


Architecture - Space design Web/Mobile
The design of a toilet for zero gravity rooms. Fashionoffice takes a closer look at the creation of space. Isn't space the raw material of architects...


Architecture - Old and new design Web/Mobile
Viennese architect Gregor Eichinger on correlations between old and new. Part of the architect's selection are the erotic fashion accessories made of porcelain in Augarten style by fashion designer Susanne Bisovsky...

Map point - The Fashionoffice Map Map
The map shows some interesting places where people are creating fashion. Follow the points on the map...

Styletrends - What's the trendiest personal style? Web/Mobile
Since 2003 Fashionoffice researches the most important trends by asking users online on Styleradar and Beautyradar. During the last field period,
users had the choice to vote for one of 19 variables from 'Classic' to 'Romantic', over 'Mod' or 'Sporty', 'Vintage'...

SHORT MESSAGES:

Are the ‘Men in Pink’ bankers who have an erotique liason with money, or are these Parisian homosexuals singing in a chorus?
“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth,” are the words by Aldous Huxley (‘Brave New World’, foreword to the 1946 edition) that are accompanying the Mudam Luxembourg exhibition showing works from artists like Marina Abramovic, Edgar Honetschläger, William Kentridge, Raymond Pettibon, to name only a few from approximately 90 artists that open a view on the universe. Curator Enrico Lunghi has selected art works that provide various possible ‘readings’ of the world around us by asking: ‘What image do they show us of our bodies, our land, our towns, our dreams and fears?’ From the French Sylvie Blocher for example is the video work ‘Men in Pink’ from her series ‘Living Pictures’. The ‘Men in Pink’ can be seen from different views: are they bankers from Luxembourg who have an erotique liason with money, or are these Parisian homosexuals singing in a chorus?

Fashion designers on 'earth.re.create' 
Graz in Austria is known for cross cultural and collective fashion design projects. Last September 2009, a group of designers has invited artists from Cuba to work together on cross-cultural fashion. In the same month, 15 designers created from the same fabrics individual clothing pieces in one week. Now, in Feb 2010, artists, designers, etc. from Graz joined under the name ‘earth.RE.create’ to promote an eco-friendly lifestyle. From 22 – 26 Feb, they are inviting to bring clothes to the ‘Clothes Swapping’ under the motto ‘Swap your designer clothes – get new ones – and save the earth!’.

MUSIC:

Who are The Black Belles? They are playing the guitars like Jack White! Fashionoffice received a music tip: the video directed by Jack White is showing four women with black hats - looking like witches with the faces and figures of models. "What Can I Do?" is the first single by the Nashville-Tennessee group 'The Black Belles'. By searching the web, nobody really knows who the four women are. On several online-sites there is only one consensus: "There's very little information about them anywhere..." Listen closer to the excellent guitar play...