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January 2011 - III: Women and men on travel; glam-streetstyle


Travel Time to pack the coffer! Web/Mobile
Fashionoffice has packed a Rimowa case made of aerospace material with pieces like a bikini, a travel-friendly sun protection, a perfume in a flacon that remembers a metallic angel wing...


Travel Extreme depths, heights and endurance Web/Mobile
Fashionoffice was inspired by the exploration of our world and the needed endurance; such as seen at the Mars-project underwear by Bruno Banani...

Travel The Tyrolean Style; Austria Insight by publisher Karin Sawetz Web/Mobile
Probably it's because of the Hahnenkamm race in Kitzbühel, but last night I dreamt that I am in the snowy mountains on my skis in between the race course...


Glam-Streetstyle Street, mobile, green get glamorous Web/Mobile
The new urban-street style collections have one in common: they appear in 2011 with a more glamorous appeal; like the denim pieces by G-Star...


Glam-Streetstyle Humanity in Fashion Award Web/Mobile
Janosch Mallwitz discusses with his sportive urban collection our collective images of 'eco' and 'consumption'. The award's idea is that fashion can be produced environmental friendly as well as designed in a quality that lasts over seasons...


Fashionoffice Insight January 2011 Web/Mobile
It's the users' choice what is relevant and trendy in fashion.

UPDATE:

Keywords, search engines and how users find content online
The most used keyword/phrases on search engines that led users in December 2010 to articles on Fashionoffice was the German term 'auto', which means translated 'car'. According to the statistics by Fashionoffice's provider Globat.com (26 Dec), approximately 30% of the 'keyphrases used on search engines' and 13,2% of the keywords that bring users to Fashionoffice is 'auto'. In the last years, Fashionoffice has researched keywords, their effects on finding information online and how the request for content is tracked by reliable servers. A summary of the study (duration 2006-2010) was published recently. "What makes the results interesting is that we are not monitoring a hacked server - we have checked it with officials and provider over the last years, but a standard for web-content on online-domains." Karin Sawetz, publisher Fashionoffice.org.

By clicking on the Quantcast graphic, you will find additional reports for Fashionoffice.

SHORT MESSAGES (from the FashionFeeds):

17 Jan 2011 - Re-listen: 'Fly Away' by Lenny Kravitz from the album '5' (1998)
This video has entered the history of music! The Grammy awarded song was interpreted by the Californian director Paul Hunter, who is counted for his work for musicians like A Perfect Circle, Marilyn Manson, Jennifer Lopez, Christina Aguilera... to the best music video directors. Recently, Hunter has directed the video 'Give A Little More' by Maroon 5; you will find a similar scenery like at the Lenny Kravitz video. But with the difference of a more obsessive Kravitz and the censorship of topless women by unsharpened parts (a digital effect) on the film material, which was a typical style element in the late 90s; it was the same time that in film business the analog material, treatment and distribution was replaced by digital bits and bytes.

16 Jan 2011 - Today's active role of recipients in the cultural process
On 21 and 22 January, the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum invites to the conference concerning new relations in art and society. "Participation in art provides the subjects taking part with a further possibility: they can participate actively as protagonists in communicative processes that also have the ability to construct reality."

15 Jan 2011 - Re-listen 'Let Love Rule' by Lenny Kravitz in a remix by Justice
The French electronic dance music duo Justice has released the remix of Lenny Kravitz' song 'Let Love Rule' in 2009. The musicians of Justice had been active in fashion too: in 2008, the musicians transferred their personal style into a small collection of jackets and jeans for Surface To Air; such as Stereogum reported. Surface To Air is a Paris headquartered group that collaborates with artists, designers, musicians, etc. in the fields fashion, communication and film. They have own shops in Paris, Sao Paulo and they are represented at Le Printemps in Paris.

15 Jan 2011 - Interview with the designers of the Mexico City based label 'Teamo'
...which means translated 'I Love You'. The Styletrek-interview with the 'Teamo' designers Rafa Cuevas and Roberto Sanchez is one of a series produced by the virtual boutique of designer fashion from the Americas, Europe, Australia and Oceania, Asia. Now, the boutique (founded Feb 2010 by fashion and internet specialists) extends and calls designers to apply. Details on styletrek.com.

15 Jan 2011 - Jack White's new music video
With this music-video-teaser, Jack White's label Third Man Records and Nonesuch Records just announce the premiere of the retro-styled video 'Thunder on the Mountain' (a Bob Dylan song) by rockabilly singer Wanda Jackson accompanied by Jack White on guitar and The Third Man House Band. Wanda Jackson's album 'The Party Ain’t Over' will be released via Third Man and Nonesuch on 25 January.

14 Jan 2011 - Interview with a New York based jewellery designer
The video was found on stylelikeu.com while searching for more information about the upcoming printed book of the publishers of the online publication that provides intimate insights into the fashion life of "people who possess exceptional personal style". Elisa Goodkind and Lily Mandelbaum's print edition of 'Stylelikeu' is a picture book that opens the doors to many different lifeworlds with citations of the portrayed people about fashion, style such as "Nothing is in, nothing is out. It’s about what really looks good on you and how you feel in it." The book comes out in April 2011 at powerHouse Books.

14 Jan 2011 - 'Waiting For My Time To Come' by TopBananas
Fashionoffice just received the hyperlink to the debut video of LA rapper/producer TopBananas. TopBananas says that it "is the story of a blue collar guy trying to keep his sanity outside of work." The musician's seven song album 'Electric Nights' is announced for spring 2011.

13 Jan 2011 - Electronic-pop 'Not Enough' by Brooklyn band Xylos
Recently, Xylos was counted by the New York Post to the '10 Artists to Know in 2011'. 'Not Enough' is from the self-titled album which will be released soon.

13 Jan 2011 - 'Green' sportscar
Fashionoffice follows the latest statistical keywords-data and delivers information for the ones who are searching on Fashionoffice for cars. The video by 'The Guardian' shows reporter John Vidal, who meets Dale Vince from UK's green energy company Ecotricity for a test-drive with the sportscar 'Nemesis'. "We wanted to prove electric cars can be quick to develop, beautiful to look at, cheap to run, and run entirely on wind power", says Dale Vince on ecotricity.co.uk. "I was not looking for something ecological, worthy and a bit self-sacrificial, far from it.  I wanted to create something exotic and desirable.  Something that would turn heads and challenge stereotypes." 

12 Jan 2011 - Call to apply: 'green' fashion designers from around the world
The video shows the Paris-runway-alike staged scenery with a wooden romantic house and several collections of designers at the Modepalast in Vienna. The next Modepalast with focus on 'green' fashion will happen from 26 to 29 May 2011. Designers of sustainable, high quality fashion, jewellery, and accessories are invited to apply until 16 January on www.modepalast.com.

12 Jan 2011 - 30 women's dresses for the opening of the Pitti Immagine Uomo
... presented on models, actresses, students, women connected to humanitarian causes on 11th Jan at the church Santo Stefano al Ponte in Florence. Alberta Ferretti has created the 30 dresses especially for the opening of the 79th edition of Pitti Immagine Uomo in Florence, which is known for its men's fashion shows. "I enthusiastically accepted the invitation to show in Florence during the Pitti Immagine Uomo, the world renowned Men’s show, with the objective of creating a unique and sincere collection. This is an important occasion, not necessarily to showcase myself as a designer, but more importantly to unite my voice as a designer with women everywhere who work to provide new opportunities for women everywhere. This is also why I wanted to partner with the Jordan River Foundation, an Association sponsored by Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan who represents a cultural link between East and West, in the name of women’s emancipation and independence," states Alberta Ferretti on albertaferretti.com.

12 Jan 2011 - Live performance of 'Rolling/Nectarine' by Hooray For Earth in San Francisco
Fashionoffice has already posted once the song in the version of a psychedelic music video. Now, this posting leads to the live performance of the song for yourstru.ly - an online publication (headquarter San Francisco) by filmmakers, photographers, designers... who are sharing their passions. The website with reduced partly TV-screen alike design, features new music on a playlist and the 'theatre' with video coverage of live performances, interviews...

11 Jan 2011 - 'Balloon' by Pawel Althamer
The video shows how the balloon - a gigantic naked self-portrait of the artist Pawel Althamer himself, is filled with air. The flying man has a length of more than 20 metres. The sculpture stands for the construction of the relationship of the individual with the world. The 'Balloon' was exhibited already in 2007 in the exhibition 'One of Many' by the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi in Florence. Now, the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi announces the new exhibition '8½' with presentations of works from past exhibitions such as Pawel Althamer, John Bock, Maurizio Cattelan, etc. From 11 to 14 January, ''8½' will be one of the main events at the 79th edition of Pitti Immagine Uomo in Florence pittimmagine.com/en/fiere/uomo/flasheventi/index.php.

11 Jan 2011 - 'My Eyes To See' by 'Alcoholic Faith Mission'
Fashionoffice just received the hyperlink to the new video for the song 'My Eyes To See' by the Brooklyn based band 'Alcoholic Faith Mission' with the note: "A video is worth a thousand pictures and a picture is worth a thousand words, though, so use YOUR eyes to see!"

10 Jan 2011 - 'Second Lives' by the French electronic-techno musician Vitalic (album 'Flashmob')
The amusing video, directed by Julien Henry, shows an elegant toilette visited by people who look as if they are working in one office. While they are doing whatever people are doing on the toilette, they are captured from the static angle of a secret observation camera. Vitalic alias Pascal Arbez will appear on stage at the audio visual festival 'Urban Art Form' in Wr. Neustadt (nearby Vienna)/Austria (16 to 18 June) uaf-festival.at