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September 2010 - I: Unpredictable Vagabonds; Men on Journey
Unpredictable Vagabonds Web/Mobile/
Fashionoffice has picked some pieces for women who prefer to be prepared for any new situations...
Men on Journey Web/Mobile/
...with an iPad dressed in recycled material from the road, a watch with the name 'Full Blooded Earth', a warm jacket with hiking badges, an eye cream with extra oxygen...
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UPDATE:
Fashionoffice's media data 'people', 'visits', etc. in a new layout
Fashionoffice has re-launched the layout of the magazine's statistical data delivered by Doubleclick, Feedburner and Quantcast. The detailed reports about people, visits and impressions are delivered by the digital media measurement company Quantcast (San Francisco/New York), which works with data centers around the globe. Recently, Quantcast has gained the Media Rating Council accreditation for its statistical online traffic measurement technology. Fashionoffice was informed with following words: "What this means for you: affirmation that any audience measurement data from our site is valid, reliable and effective." By clicking on the Quantcast badge, you will find additionally the IAB-compliant traffic report for Fashionoffice.
Fashionoffice removed from Google Map in Austria, keyword 'fashion'
We still don't know who gave somebody the right to delete Fashionoffice from the landscape. On 21 Aug, we have found out that someone has changed the entry for Fashionoffice on Google Map: "Changed 17 hours 9 mins ago. Name: fashion.at (English, type: Obscure). Place removed". This happened after we have changed the wrong entry for fashion.at (you landed instead on fashion.at/triumph). The magazine is now removed entirely from the Google Map for the search 'fashion' in Vienna/Austria.
FASHION WEEKS:
Search on 'Istanbul Fashion Week'
Fashionoffice has installed a new Twitter search on Istanbul Fashion Week.
Atil Kutoglu SS2011 at Istanbul Fashion Week (25 - 28 Aug)
Vienna/Istanbul based Atil Kutoglu, known for Ottoman, Turkish inspired female fashion made of floating soft materials, opened as the first design label on 25 Aug the Istanbul Fashion Week. The fashion week presents Turkish fashion designers as well as apparel brands.
Defile photos from the catwalk in Istanbul
By searching on Twitter for 'Istanbul Fashion Week', Fashionoffice followed some tweets that are leading to Vogue Türkiye. The magazine publishes catwalk photos of Bora Aksu SS2011 (the Turkish designer graduated from Central Saint Martins, before he debuted at London Fashion Week in 2003), Arzu Kaprol SS2011 (studied at the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts nearby İstanbul and is trained at the Paris American Academy; she has an own website arzukaprol.net which presents her interesting FW2010/11 collection styled up with antique-futuristic masks), etc. ... to name two designers from Vogue's defile list.
Trailer: Fashion Weeks in Salzburg's Old City
The Fashion Weeks in Salzburg Altstadt ('Altstadt' means 'Old City') from 25 Aug to 18 Sept are teasered with the short video trailer. By searching through the extensive program of fashion shows by Austrian labels like the head wear producer Mühlbauer and presentations of international labels organised by Salzburger shops like Hämmerle, Fashionoffice looked closer at especially one event on 4 Sept with the title 'Ploom up your Dirndl' (Dirndl is the traditional dress of the European Alps). It is announced that it will be shown how an old Dirndl can be recycled into a new Dirndl - a sort of 'renovation' of an old dress. Ploom has an own shop in the city of Salzburg. The founder is designer Tanja Pflaum, a trained men's tailor, who works with traditional methods of 'Trachten'-couture and combines them with a modern philosophy like the recycling idea. Details about the Fashion Weeks on salzburg-altstadt.at
Ona Saez campaign with Jesus Luz
By searching through the defile photos of Buenos Aires Fashion Week (11 -13 Aug, Argentina bafweek.com), the Argentinian label Ona Saez attracts with black and white colored pieces inspired by the aesthetics of photographer Helmut Newton, 50ies Teddy Boys and pop art. The sexy collection fits best to a communication concept which foresees a campaign with Jesus Luz in the starring role.
Indian designer Suneet Varma and models having fun on the catwalk
The video shows Suneet Varma's fashion and the designer itself at the Grande Finale of Lakmé Fashion Week in Mumbai (India) in March 2010. For the next fashion week (17 - 21 Sept) in Mumbai, the beauty brand Lakmé announces Malini Ramani for the Grande Finale. She will show her Winter/Festive 2010 high-fashion pieces under Lakmé's theme 'Gypsy Collection' which is intended to bring together many influences from around the globe. lakmefashionweek.co.in
FASHION:
Lookbook video 'Men's wear FW2010/11'
Fashionoffice received the hyperlink to the 'Menswear Autumn/Winter 2010 Look Book from H&M'. Andreas Löwenstam, menswear designer at H&M, was inspired by a wide range of classical pieces that were born in the 1930s, 40s, 50s, as well as in the 1970s. The designer created the new collection with the idea of a 'well-dressed bohemian guy'. Military pieces, leather jackets, checked shirts, tweed blazers, knit-cardigans, laced boots with narrow trousers packed into...
Nike Sportswear TV interviews DJ Bobbito Garcia at Sneakerness
Sneakerness is an event for sneaker fans to view new models from various labels and to collect old ones. Since 2008, the annual event happens in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. On the video you can see New York based DJ Bobbito Garcia who was the prominent DJ at the aftershow party of Sneakerness in Cologne in April 2010. For the next Sneakerness event on 9 Oct in Vienna, sessions by the Red Bull Music Academy and other specials are announced. Details on sneakerness.com.
ART, FILM:
Interview with comic strip artist Jean Giraud alias Moebius
Paris based Fondation Cartier exhibits from 12 Oct 2010 to 13 March 2011 works by sci-fi, reality-fiction comic strip artist Jean Giraud, who names himself 'Moebius' after the German mathematician, under the title 'Transe-Forme'. Moebius is also known for his film work like the production design of the movie 'The Fifth Element' (costumes were designed by Jean-Paul Gaultier). The exhibition is focusing on the theme metamorphosis and that "...the forms in our environment may not be as stable as they seem". Moebius' comic strips are non-linear narrations to involve the reader in generating meaning. Therefore he uses techniques which are known from the surrealist dessin automatique. Details on fondation.cartier.com.
Deconstructivsm in design and art
French philosopher Jacques Derrida (1930 – 2004), known from his deconstructivist theories, speaks in this documentary from 2002 about the predictable and unpredictable future, narcism and love, his experience with anti-semitism in his youth, the possibility of forgiveness, the impossibility of improvisation, archives and death, privacy, etc. and he declares that one of the reasons why he started deconstructivism in philosophy was to break up phallogocentrism. The philosopher inspires creative heads for new views on old things; designers are working steadily with the concept of 'deconstruction' and artists like Sergio Vega provide new views on social and political issues. Sergio Varga's work on Latin America is presented in the exhibition 'Argentina in Focus: Visualizing the Concept' at the Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, 16 Sept - 21 Nov 2010. "For this exhibition, Vega created 'Shanty Nucleus after Derrida 2' (Barraca nucleus despues de Derrida, 2010), an installation that occupies an entire room in the museum. In order for visitors to continue their tour of the exhibition, they have to walk through the multiple color panels, some of which display photographs of slum dwellings; these images draw attention to the extreme poverty in which a great part of the world's population lives today." writes curator Alma Ruiz in his catalog essay 'Two Individual Visions.' on museum.oas.org.
Vanessa Paradis in the French movie 'Heartbreaker'
"Utterly chic" is Vogue cited in this trailer of the movie by director Pascal Chaumeil with Vanessa Paradis in the starring role. 'Heartbreaker' is about a man who comes into the life of a woman to break up her marriage. Romantic, charming, funny and chic are the favored keywords for the movie in several articles online. But 'Heartbreaker' is not after everybody's taste. Jason Solomons writes on Guardian.co.uk: "High concept romantic comedy Heartbreaker will amuse certain people – unfortunately I wasn't one of them. ... And I really don't like Dirty Dancing." The movie will be released in Sept 2010 in Canada, Spain, USA, Oct in Switzerland...
MUSIC & FILM:
Free download 'Set No Sun' by Unkle & film about a musician and snowboarders on new routes
"Follow Me Down explores a theme that anyone driven by some immeasurable passion will recognise — that there are no easy rides in life." In the new video documentary ‘Lives of the Artists: Follow Me Down’, recording artist and founder of the British formation 'Unkle' James Lavelle explores together with the snowboarders Jeremy Jones and Xavier De La Rue new routes within their disciplines. The film will premiere with the live-performance 'Variation On A Theme' by Unkle on 7 September in London. On the website, you will find the trailer and a free download of the new track 'Set No Sun'...
Directors' trailer-cut for Mogwai's concert film 'Burning'
On 24 Aug 2010, Scottish band Mogwai released the live album 'Special Moves' and the concert film 'Burning', shot at their three night residency at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg in April 2009. The film is directed by the French filmmakers Vincent Moon and Nathanael Le Scouarnec. "...the black-and-white footage does the talking without standard theatrics...there's atmospheric beauty in the close-ups of hands shredding at guitar strings onstage and applauding in the crowd." writes Spin Magazine, where the trailer in a special directors' cut for SPIN.com, featuring audio of 'Mogwai Fear Satan', premiered on 23 Aug, the DVD is available since 24 Aug mogwaispecialmoves.com.
'Never Stop' by Chilly Gonzales
The track 'Never Stop' from the new album 'Ivory Tower' by Chilly Gonzales (produced by Boys Noize, comes out on 14 Sept) has been chosen for Apple’s new iPad campaign. Chilly Gonzales has written and produced even a film with the same name where the musicians Peaches, Tiga and Feist will appear. Schedule of the movie-tour (26 Aug London; Paris, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Berlin and New York in Sept, Vienna in Oct...) on chillygonzales.com.
MUSIC:
Free download of the new track 'If You Wanna” by the UK band 'The Vaccines'
Fashionoffice received the music tip with the words: "This demo from new UK band The Vaccines floored us when we heard it. Eddie Cochran meets The Jesus And Mary Chain by way of Stiff Records? We love it!"
Mash-up song 'What Starry Eyes Need to Know' by Neon Hitch
In early August, British musician Neon Hitch released her mash-up song 'What Starry Eyes Need to Know'. Some compare her with MIA and Nelly Furtado, but Kate Bush with a touch of punky pop fits as well. Fashionoffice reported recently from her covering of Snoop Dogg's 'Drop It Like It’s Hot'; Snoop Dogg loved her version of 'Drop It Like It’s Hot' that he re-tweeted it to his 1.6 million followers. At this time, Neon Hitch is working with producer Benny Blanco (Santigold, Katy Perry, Britney Spears) on her debut album 'Beg, Borrow, and Steal' (Warner Brothers, 2011).
'Puppet on a string' by Bella Wagner from her new album
Fashionoffice received the information about the new album by the Viennese singer with Croatian and Slovakian roots (she speaks five languages fluently: German, English, Slovakian, Croatian and Hungarian), with the question to choose the favored track. Bella Wagner has a wide range on styles on her album. She makes it hard to decide.
'Night And Day' by Chief from the debut album 'Modern Rituals' (release 20 Sept Europe)
This is the debut video of the
Californian 4 member band Chief. The information about the video came with the remark: "Chief performing in a world of what can only be described as decadence and murderous passion." The New York Post contributed:
"This is a fresh new band about to get out from under the radar, and they’re going to be huge taking America a little at a time. This is a band worth hearing." |
