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May 2010 - I: Outfits inspired by Hollywood, music, art, and motorcycles


Fashionoffice inspired by Hollywood and music from Unkle Web/Mobile/Map
Fashionoffice has received a magazine lookbook by Hamburg based designer Anna Fuchs with the title 'Road to Hollywood'. While listening to the music of Unkle 'Burn My Shadow', the pieces on the following page found together to a mysterious night style...

Women on motorcycles Web/Mobile/Map
...the individual cultural development is not only country-specific. You can even find in Central European countries men and women who think at first of Britney Spears in 'I Love Rock'n'Roll' as soon as it comes to 'motorcycles and women'...

Global style Web/Mobile/Map
The globalisation of our society causes the increasing importance of 'tracking'; Isaac Julien's art work 'Ten Thousand Waves' at the 17th Biennale of Sydney...

Mash-up style-stories; Fashionoffice Insight by publisher Karin Sawetz, May 2010 Web/Mobile
Fashionoffice has developed a new editorial strategy that does not follow data results from third parties, but is created from Fashionoffice's contemporary taste for fashion, beauty and art, which is not measureable by technicians...


SHORT MESSAGES:

Art-video 'Vanishing Point' (2009) about speed, motorcycles, freedom by Janet Biggs
New York multimedia artist Janet Biggs approaches the search of freedom in a metaphysical way by showing the boundaries of the physical world. Such as the motorcycler in her video 'Vanishing Point' is reaching destruction or transcendence at the end of her search for freedom, or synchronized swimmers who try to defy gravity, or icebergs floating on Iceland. Now, the Washington gallery Conner Contemporary exhibits a new Janet Biggs video and photos. 'Nobody Rides for Free' is showing an explorer navigating through iceberg filled seas in the high Arctic, paddling a kayak past glacier walls and polar bears. By capturing the scenes, Janet Biggs tested her own will and endurance. The video is about the myth of the solitary white male explorer, the idea of the colonial polar hero. Janet Biggs has chosen for the video the androgyny voice of counter tenor John Kelly. Even her video 'Vanishing Point', featuring biker Leslie Porterfield and the Harlem Addicts Rehabilitation Center Choir, will be on view at Conner Contemporary (15 May - 3 July 2010).

Motor-video showing a racing car powered by Green energy
In April 2010, BMW has presented the racing car 'MINI E Race' (speed 187 km/h) at the Nürburgring. Until 11 May 2010, product designers are invited to join the design competition on Mini's center rail (where you store your mobile phone, mp3player, sunglasses, iPod-stations, etc.) at http://www.minispace.com.

Historic music-video from Janis Joplin's stage performance 'Piece Of My Heart' from the album 'Cheap Thrills' (1968)
Costumes worn by 60/70s musicians like US rock-psychedelic singer/songwriter Janis Joplin (born 1943, died 1970), who started her carreer at the formation 'Big Brother and the Holding Company' at the Bay Area San Francisco in 1966, are part of the exhibition 'Somethin's Happening Here. Bay Area Rock 'n' Roll 1963-73' with rare audio and video clips showing influences of music on fashion at the Museum of Performance and Design, San Francisco (runs until 28 August 2010). Jeanne Rose, who designed clothes for 'Big Brother and the Holding Company', invites on 13 May to a discussion on vintage, hippie, psychedelic, mod and Western looks that constituted rock ‘n’ roll style in the Bay Area in the ‘60s and early ‘70s www.mpdsf.org.

Fashion video with music from the 70s/80s
Burberry released for the new 'April Showers' collection a video with a song originally from the 70s in an interpretation by ska-band 'Madness' from the early 80s.

Styling application on iPhone
Yesterday, the Danish jeans label Only (founded 1995, more than 1100 shops in Europe) launched an iPhone App that enables stylist a-like outfit creations from the Only collections which can be shared on Facebook. The application provides GPS that guides to the nearest store, an online-shop, videos, news... The ONLY iPhone App is free to download on iTunes and use.


MUSIC:

Funk-punk 'Times A Thousand' by 'Hot Hot Heat' from the new album Future Breeds (release June 2010)
Vancouver based band 'Hot Hot Heat' are publishing this unofficial video for the song 'Times a Thousand' on YouTube. The song remembers 70s progressive rock sound in the style of British 'Cockney Rebel'. 'Hot Hot Heat' provides a rocking mix of acoustic and electronic guitars. In May and June 'Hot Hot Heat' is on tour in New York and Los Angeles.

Reggae-rap-hip-hop 'As We Enter' by Nas and Damian JR. Gong Marley
... from the musicians' project album 'Distant Relatives' (release on 18 May). Damian provides the instrumentation and sound, while the beats and lyrics come from Nas.

'Can We Go Wrong (RAC Mix)' by Hesta Prynn
Recently, female board-rider outfitter Roxy announced on its blog that the track 'Can We Go Wrong' by New York electro-pop singer Hesta Prynn is the 'Download of the Week': "'Can We Go Wrong' is a song that is bound to get stuck in that pretty little head of yours." Now, the remix of the song is online! In an interview on spinner.com Hesta Prynn describes her sound: "I have live drums on every single song, but there's also programmed drums and we mix those together. It's kind of the same with all of the elements of the music, a mix of live and electronic."