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May 2010 - II: Men, style, and motor
Men, love, and motors Web/Mobile/Map
The article starts with the 'Portrait of my Lover' by French artist Niki de Saint Phalle who used an image of her friend as a target and the movie 'A Single Man' directed by Tom Ford, which is about a man who suffers from living without his friend...
Fashion on Style Web/Mobile/Map
Styles don't go out of fashion; they become new interpreted by designers. You could even say that classical styles are the content of fashion...
Motor History; Vienna Insight by publisher Karin Sawetz, May 2010 Web/Mobile/Map
'The Sartorialist' inspired me for this special Vienna Insight. I looked through my family photos and found one from the early 1930s showing my grandma sitting on a motorbike...
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 tip on occasion of Mother's Day on 9 May 2010: work about motherhood by Louise Bourgeois
From 6 May until 12 June 2010, San Francisco based Gallery Paule Anglim presents drawings and sculptures of the French born in New York living artist Louise Bourgeois about the cycle of human life under the title 'Mother and Child'. Bourgeois' themes are birth, death, sexuality and the creative power of the mother; the transition from woman to embryo to child to girl to woman. 'Echo' (2007) is a central sculpture in this exhibition: it remembers internal organs and is developed by Bourgeois from experiments with clothing like an old grey sweater which hangs from a skeleton.
70/80ies music stage & backstage photos
...showing the punk-rock band 'The Clash' in black leather motorcycle jackets, slim trousers, and New Wave t-shirts. The band was active from 1976 to 1986 and well known for its idealistic political ideology. The Clash positioned themselves as rebels with a cause. With songs such as 'The Guns of Brixton' or 'I Fought the Law' they became icons with outlaw image for a generation that has worked on a new society. Find more videos, interviews on youtube.com/user/theclashtv.
Fashion designer for musicians
Brooklyn, New York based video site Motherboard.tv posted on 5 May 2010 the report 'Janet Hansen: Giving Daft Punk, MIA and Kanye that Laser Look' about a fashion engineer who has created 'Tron'-costumes for Daft Punk or illuminating outfits for Kanye West. The studied biomechanician creates 'enligthed designs' - this is also the name of her California based label. Motherboard produces not only editorial videos about design, art, music etc. On the website motherboard.tv users are invited to discuss the content and to contribute own ideas or to express the personal value of the content such as one user posted: 'Always wondered how some of those were made...'
Fashion photos from a men's wear designer backstage
Recently, Fashionoffice has received photos presenting international models like Alex Schultz, Erasmo Viana and others backstage at a shooting for the Brasilian men's wear designer Marcelu Ferraz SS2010. The fabrics for the pieces are by Dalutex, which is also the sponsor of the shooting. The models are styled up with additional fashion pieces by New Captain underwear, shoulder jewel by Karin Reiter, accessories by Alex Palma, Converse sneakers and Carrera glasses. For FW2010/11, Marcelu Ferraz has created a collection inspired by Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' in Middle Ages style. At this time Fashionoffice doesn't know if there is a plan to produce a photo story with the FW2010/11 pieces; but if we receive any, we will post it.
Fashion photo show 'Into The Wild'
Berlin based news service for avantgarde fashion 'modabot' has just sent the information about its newest application: fashion photo shows that can be embedded into own publications or shared on the social platforms Facebook and Twitter. The first show has the title 'Into The Wild'. Photographer René Fietzek has taken the pictures of a woman with wild punk hair and natural make up, created by hair/cosmetics-artist Christiane Buchholz, in the Tiergarten Berlin. Stylist Nele Schrinner has chosen extraordinary pieces like a dress with geometric elements by Dimitrios Panagiotopoulos who worked for Vivienne Westwood and Jil Sander before he started his own label 'Dimitri' in 2006, or a voluminous skirt by Marcel Ostertag who studied at Central St. Martin's.
Music documentary by artist Julian Schnabel: Lou Reed's Berlin (released 2007)
The documentary from the 4 days performances by Lou Reed of his 1973-album 'Berlin' was shot by artist and director Julian Schnabel in 2006 at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn. Schnabel (born 1951 in New York) has directed awarded movies like 'Basquiat' (1996), or in 2007 'The Diving Bell And The Butterfly'. Now, around 100 snapshots on polaroid taken by Julian Schnabel in the last years with a camera from the 70s will be exhibited for the first time to the public at the NRW-Forum in Düsseldorf (30 May - 4 July 2010). The 'Polaroids' show portraits of Lou Reed, Placido Domingo, Mickey Rourke, and The Beastie Boys, as well as pictures of the private rooms in Palazzo Chupi in New York (which Schnabel himself designed and decorated) and his studios in Brooklyn, Montauk, and Manhattan. Some of the photos are painted over by Julian Schnabel. Following video gives an insight into Julian Schnabel's studio, a former perfume factory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTG_RI7W8gk
Vintage photo from the 1930s
Scott Schuman's blog 'The Sartorialist' provides stylish street views from New York, Milan, Paris. On 2 May 2010, the blog post 'Tailored Outerwear, Vintage Photo Contest' with a photo showing three men in the 1930s on the street evokes comments such as "Quite an amazing photo, particularly as one of the gentleman has his trench tied tightly around his waist."
'Working Girls' at Swarovski in Vienna
The crystalline design label Swarovski presents in its Viennese store object-skirts by the Lithuanian textile artist Almyra Weigel as homage to working women. Weigel focuses in 'Working Girls' on the image of women in the 50s/60s by reflecting upon the past time - women's housework and work-related emancipation, from the angle of the beginning of the 21st century. The exhibition runs since 29 April 2010 through May. 'Working Girls' is the first of a series of exhibitions about fashion, design, and art which are on show inside the store and in the central store window. The 2-monthly series are curated by the Austrian fashion historian and theoretician Dr. Gerda Buxbaum.
Most viewed articles in April 2010
During the last 30 days, articles about Make Up For Ever, Chanel, and 'Domino', a movie with Keira Knightley in the main role, have received the most interest by fashion addicted online users...
MUSIC:
'Stop' by the California based punk-rock band 'Black Rebel Motorcycle Club' (BRMC) from the album 'Take Them On, On Your Own' (2003)
The three members band, which takes its name from Marlon Brando's motorcycle gang from the movie 'The Wild One' (1953), is with the new album 'Beat the Devil's Tattoo' (release March 2010) on tour now: 4 May Berlin, 5 May Munich, 7 May Milan, etc. followed by several cities in Italy, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Czech, Poland... in July they will arrive in Australia.
'Moonbeam' by Jens Buchert from the album 'Sunset City' (2009)
The music tip comes from a Juvena Spa experience while drifting away in the center of Vienna on the roof top of the Haas Haus (built by the Austrian architect Hans Hollein in a post-modern style). The German musician Jens Buchert delivers two tracks for the cosmetic label's own CD compilation.
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