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September 2010 - II: Hunting style; sexy-wild women; music; net art...


The chief forester Web/Mobile/
Originally, the 'Hunting Style' was inspired by an old Austrian country song about an illegal hunter who declared that he knows nobody and he never sees anybody. But then, a music tip leaded Fashionoffice to Benjamin Kutsko's video for 'Fawnhawk'. Fashion by Peak Performance, Ludwig Reiter...

Sexy, wild, cool view on women Web/Mobile/
Lanvin is probably one of the most interesting French high fashion labels in 2010. Fashionoffice looked closer at the women's collection and other activities of the fashion house like the collaboration with H&M...

Music video 'Credit Card Babie$' by MEN Web/Mobile/
"Combining politics with dance parties, art with activism, MEN shows reach a fever pitch. Their songs speak to issues such as wartime economies, sexual compromise, queer rights, and demanding liberties,..."

Music video in romantic 70s folk-rock style - premiere Web/Mobile/
Harper Simon has written the love song 'Berkeley Girl' to a friend. In late August 2010, the video to the song premiered...


"How is the net set up?" Web/Mobile/
...is one of the questions during the festival for digital arts and culture 'Paraflows' in Vienna. Fashionoffice looked closer at the net art by Austrian artist Lia...

Urban sport & art events Web/Mobile/
The Paint Club is on Battle Tour in 13 European cities. It stops at the Bicycle Film Festival in Vienna, where Lucas Brunelle's bike video 'Line of Sight'...

Fashion from Australia Web/Mobile/
The fashion video from the 70s starring an altar boy and a vicar was found on a search for more information about the event 'It's a man's world' at the Melbourne Spring Fashion Week (30 Aug - 5 Sept 2010).

How it looks inside when we look outside; Insight by publisher Karin Sawetz Web/Mobile/
Fashionoffice users know the editorial work of the magazine; this month, I present what we are doing alongside to articles about fashion, beauty, and art...

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MUSIC:

Funky synth-disco 'Static On The Wire' (RAC Remix) by Holy Ghost!
The song 'Static On The Wire' by the New Yorker duo Alex Frankel and Nick Millhiser alias 'Holy ghost!' premiered today in a RAC remix on the MP3 download site RCRD LBL with the remark "...this one was too good to pass up."

'Combustivel' by Arto Lindsay
Experimental musician Arto Lindsay (born in US, raised in Brazil) is known for mixing rhythms and melodies from diverse cultures and genres in provocative new ways; Lindsay crosses both geographical and musical borders. The musician, producer, and artist has already collaborated with Laurie Anderson and David Byrne, John Zorn, German theater director Heiner Müller...to name a few. The Berlin gallery VW (VeneKlasen/Werner) invites on 4 September 2010 to SMYPHONY- MOVEMENT I: CAST by Arto Lindsay. Lindsay will paint the gallery with sound, dripping and pouring his music onto the walls, corners and floors of the space, where it is recorded and played back as a memory of the performance.

'The Truth Is in the Dirt' by Karen Elson from the album 'The Ghost Who Walks' (Third Man/XL Recordings)
The gothic-folk video is directed by Maximilla Lukacs and Sarah Sophie Flicker aka 'The Belles Of The Black Diamond Field'. The filmmakers describe the inspiration for their work on Myspace with the keywords:"The Czech New Wave, Woody Allen, Tarkovsky". It premiered recently on VanityFair.com. The song will be released on 21 September backed with a cover version of Donovan’s 1966 hit 'Season Of The Witch'.

FASHION:

'Worst Fashion Show Ever'
The info was sent as a Google alert about new fashion articles; one of the headlines leads to this video under the title 'Worst Fashion Show Ever'. It is published by the New York headquartered magazine about fashion, media, beauty, retail Styleite.com. The magazine comments media products such as the 'Worst Fashion Show Ever', reports from fashion events like the World AIDS Conference in Vienna, where prostitutes presented fashion, or analyses the work of designers today under the influence of celebrity culture.

Reflection on 'Science Fashions' by Elke Gaugele at MIT lecture series
On 13 Sept, Elke Gaugele, head of the department 'Fashions and Styles' at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria, will speak about the sciences which research on fashion - from technological (clothing for space astronauts, eco-fashion to clothing as communication tool - keyword: wearable computing) to cultural sciences.