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June 2010 - I: Street views and catwalk looks
What do designers wear on the catwalk? Web/Mobile
The photo of the designers Andy & Debb could even be taken at the Croisette during the film festival in Cannes. They look like Asian Action movie heroes!
The easiness of fashion Web/Mobile
Enjoy some nice things for summer and late summer! Like the petrol/white dress by Ivana Helsinki, make-up by Clinique, 'Toujours Glamour' by Moschino...
Street view from Vienna Web/Mobile/Map
"On my way to a 'Jour-fixe' about SEO and SEM I had to stop at a crossroad. I looked at the passengers walking across the road; the outfits were not thrilling - trivial combinations of trousers and jackets with scarves. Even the music from the radio was trivial and so I was searching for a new channel as my car was shaked up by the sound of up to 10 Harleys..."
Fashionoffice Insight by publisher Karin Sawetz Web/Mobile
To give you a better orientation how users find Fashionoffice by search, the most important keywords are listed on this month's Insight...
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Music tip: Serge Gainsbourg's song 'Harley David Son of A Bitch'
Later, the song was covered by 'The Bollock Brothers'.
Music-art documentary video tip: 'Robert Mapplethorpe & Patti Smith'
Robert Mapplethorpe is in fashion again. The photo of Patti Smith in a white skirt, trousers with suspenders that look like a tie, holding a dark jacket on her shoulders, from 1975 is iconic. It stands for a society that has changed its view on men and women. The oeuvre of Robert Mapplethorpe focuses on nudity, male bodies and homosexuality. The New York gallery Sean Kelly just sent the information that the MALBA - Fundacion Costantini Buenos Aires (Argentina www.malba.org.ar) will show from 4 June to 2 August 130 photographs made by the New York (Queens) born photographer between 1975 and 1988 under the title 'Robert Mapplethorpe: Eros and Order'. At this time, even the NRW-Forum in Düsseldorf (Germany) runs an exhibition (until 15 August) about the artist. The organizers of the exhibition deliver an accompanying guide which can be received on mobile phones. On the website nrw-forum.de, you can 'listen to the images'.
Music video tip: premiere of 'Summertime' by Lana Mir from her new album (release 24 August)
The easiness of music! Fashionoffice just received the music video tip for the track 'Summertime' by the Ukrainian born, in New York living singer/songwriter Lana Mir from the new album 'Lana Mir'. The video is showing easy living in New York’s Central Park. It premiered yesterday on the online edition Venuszine.com of the Chicago headquartered print magazine 'Venus Magazine'. The magazine focuses on women in music, art, film, fashion, and culture. The Venus Zine has an own radio, entitled 'Venus staff is listening to...'.
Music video tip: Elektro Guzzi filmed by Karin Hammer and Stefan Hafner
The Viennese band Elektro Guzzi will perform live on occasion of the after show party of the Modeschule Wien 'Bachelor studies for Fashion' on 12 June at the new Viennese dance and concert location 'The Loft'. The split-screen black/white video by the Austrian filmmakers Karin Hammer and Stefan Hafner expresses perfectly the music style of Elektro Guzzi. The musicians’ analogue trance-dance-arrangements of drums, bass, and guitar sound like electronic music although they are using no computer. The video shows the time aspect of the simultaneously played instruments. Elektro Guzzi announces on its website that the band's debut album (produced with Patrick Pulsinger) will be released this month.
Music tip: 'Queer' by Garbage
Good things don't go out of fashion! Like the video from 1995 for the track 'Queer' by the Scottish/US band Garbage. On YouTube, users discuss the song about extraordinary humans, who are not exclusively homosexuals. Last week, the poster of the video answered one user: "Its is and its not, consider this to being queer is not all about your sexuality, for example many belive the so called jedi religion is queer!!!" According to rumours on the net, Garbage is working on new material for 2010.
Music tip: 'Only Here For The Fight' by Swedish singer/songwriter Jenny Wilson from her album 'Hardships'
Jenny Wilson is giving away 'Only Here for the Fight' as a taste of her new record. Fashionoffice was encouraged to post and share! The album, which premiered in Europe already in 2009, will be released on 24 August in US. Jenny Wilson has written, recorded, and produced the 14 tracks in pop-R&B, modern spiritual style for the album 'Hardships' in her studio in Stockholm. Already in early 2010, Jenny Wilson has inspired Fashionoffice with her video for the song 'Like A Fading Rainbow' to make an article about new urban wear. In this video she performs a nature ceremony with children in urban sportswear on the grassland and in the forest.
Fashion photography
Absynthphoto.com has relaunched its website with works by the photographers Michael Labica and Sandrine Dulermo who have recently captured Dita Von Teese in PVC shoes designed by Jean Paul Gaultier (making-of video).
Fashion video from Alisha Trimble's 'Blanche DuMois' FW2010 lingerie show
Fashionoffice received an invitation by designer Alisha Trimble to the summer event of the vintage shop 'Isobel Arnberg' on Friday, 28 May in New York's district Nolita. On the same address like the shop - one floor downstairs, designer Alisha Trimble opens temporarily her space 'little a', where she creates the women's wear 'Alisha Trimble', the lingerie line 'Blanche DuMois', and her own swimwear line 'BrainWaves. "Being next to vintage shop Isobel Arnberg is a blast, and having the young designers’ market on the block is also a perk because I get to see my friends," says Alisha Trimble www.alishatrimble.wordpress.com.
Art video 'Rise and Fall' (2009) by Fiona Tan
Artist Fiona Tan focuses on the fact that humans constantly develop their identity by remembering and forgetting. She enforces the dramaturgy of the video by using a split screen to tell the story about a woman who remembers moments in her life. Amsterdam-based Fiona Tan, born 1966 in Indonesia and grown up in Australia, continued her reflections on identity in one of her most recent works 'Projection 2010' where she is turning the camera on herself for a self-portrait. Both art videos are exhibited at the Vancouver Art Gallery (Canada) until 6 September 2010 www.vanartgallery.bc.ca.
Video about how the body sculptures of artist Antony Gormley are made
British artist Antony Gormley speaks in the video about his sculptures which are representing the artist himself. At this time, Antony Gormley is showing in the exhibition 'Critical Mass' 60 life-size bodies which are installed on the roof of the De La Warr Pavilion at the sea coast in Sussex, England (runs until 31 August 2010). In sociology, Critical Mass means the level of density within a collective until something transformative happens. Antony Gormley visualizes with the lying and kneeling body-sculptures the fragility of human societies. 'Critical Mass' was first exhibited in 1995 in a railway remise in Vienna as remembrance of the holocaust.
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