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January 2011 - IV: Shows in Paris & Berlin; celebrity culture

Paris Rick Owens FW2011/12 Web/Mobile
US designer Rick Owens' men's wear fashion show during Paris Fashion Week is commented by Style.com and LATimes.com; AFP publishes a video-interview...


Celebrities Originals, copies, clones Web/Mobile
...to slip into the role of another person - mostly into the role of a celebrity to catch a few of the star's glitter. Fashionoffice created a street style 2011/12 look for men with a jacket by Fila...


Celebrities Scarlett Johansson as role model for 2011 fashion Web/Mobile
Scarlett Johansson represents a new female role that can be described as sexy, intellectual and bohemian. Now, she appears in a campaign for...


Celebrities Society photos 1920, 30s Web/Mobile
Trude Fleischmann received attention with her movement-studies of naked dancers and portraits of prominent people. She was one of the pioneering female artists in Vienna, who experimented...


What's coming next? Web/Mobile
The eco-system of digital media with the three participants - publishers, advertisers, users...

SHORT MESSAGES (from the FashionFeeds):

23 Jan 2011 - 'Smash His Camera'
...once said Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis when she saw US paparazzo Ron Galella. The saying became the title of a documentary about Ron Galella. Director Leon Cast (2010) states: "Any sentient human being who has ever read a newspaper, magazine, or watched the nightly news came to the same conclusion: Ron Galella was a monster." Time and Vanity Fair called him "the Godfather of the U.S. paparazzi culture". Galella's photographs were used in Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Rolling Stone... Now, they are part of the exhibition 'Zeitgeist and glamour: the decades of the jet set' showing images of the 60s and 70s at the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf (5 Feb - 15 May) nrw-forum.de.

22 Jan 2011 - Fashion video about 'Collective Memory'
The video (directed by José Ricardo García) is a surrealistic, thrilling dreamy presentation of the collection 'Collective Memory' by the New York based design duo 'A La Disposition' (biography on Modemonline.com). Fashionoffice just received an invitation to the presentation of the new FW2011/12 collection 'The Utopian Aviary' on 21 February at the London Fashion Week.

21 Jan 2011 - Women's wear FW2011/12 in a humorous-thrilling fashion installation
...by the design duo Augustin Teboul that references to Brothers Grimm tale 'Little Red Riding Hood'. The new interpretation of the tale about the wolf who pursues the 'Little Red Head' was presented on 19 Jan during Berlin Fashion Week with dresses and tights that float like pitch (pitch is in German synonymous for 'hard luck') over the bodies of the women, who transform in the performance from the seduced into seducers. Music by Ambroise Prieur and Sébastien Roger, voice by Pauline Dupak.

21 Jan 2011 - Men's wear FW2011/12 from Paris Fashion Week
Uploaded today: Louis Vuitton presented the new men's wear collection in Paris. Some of the coats and jackets have discrete integrated warming upholstering; they look like life-vests. The collection seems to be designed for dare-devils! There is a thrilling vibration on the catwalk. Fashionfame.com writes that designer Paul Helbers has "...mixed it with hint of strangeness inspired by David Lynch."

21 Jan 2011 - Denim styles for women and men FW2011/12
Just uploaded: G-Star Raw denim fashion show men and women (slim as well as extra wide jeans in an interesting cut combined to very tight tailored jackets) presented at Bread & Butter during Berlin Fashion Week.

21 Jan 2011 - Women's wear FW2011/12
The catwalk video was just uploaded by the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. It shows the new women's wear collection FW2011/12 by Munich (Germany) headquartered label Rena Lange (founded 1916). Now, it's the third time that Rena Lange (design director Julian Neale) presents at the Berlin Fashion Week. The pieces are elegant and remember mid1970s fashion with knee-length wide skirts, blouses with bows, prints in pop-art style... Additionally, 90s 'deconstruction'-elements such as a white thick woollen pullover over a black long glittering gown or a coat in mi-parti (above red, below sand) break up the harmony of 'common' female elegance.

21 Jan 2011 - Fashion and youth culture
By searching for more information about the upcoming exhibition 'Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven', Fashionoffice has found the video of Turner awarded British artist Mark Leckey, whose video 'Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore' about the party-scene of UK's youth from the 70s to the 90s will be on show from 27 Jan to 12 March at the Columbus College of Art and Design (Ohio). Fiorucci is synonymous for the 'disco' (70s) and 'popper' styles (80s) of the European youth. The video shows people dancing the lifestyle of 3 decades. "...the idea that "the best days of your lives" will be wiped away by a change in fashion." writes Justin Quirk about the video on guardian.co.uk.

21 Jan 2011 - Celebrities on the red carpet at the Berlin Fashion Week
The video begins with an amazing red carpet photo shoot showing celebrities like Til Schweiger, Jette Joop, Boris Becker... in front of the label wall for the crowd of reporters on occasion of the Mercedes-Benz and Vogue Fashion Night on 19 January at a place in Berlin that was held officially secret. The second part gives an insight into the party. The three following chapters are dedicated to a female and a male celebrity and the co-organiser of the fashion night: model Karolina Kurkova speaks about her job at the fashion week and her motherhood, Formula 1 Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg about the racings, Vogue chief editor Christiane Arp about the Berlin Fashion Week.

20 Jan 2011 - Why do we love stars and icons so much and why are we fascinated by them?
...is one of the questions at the round-table 'The Magical Side of Celebrity' on 28 January at the New York Public Library with three writers and theorists, who have worked about the cultural phenomena 'icons' and 'celebrities'.

20 Jan 2011 - Risky art performance
The German born, currently in New York working artist Nadja Verena Marcin presented on 2 May 2010 in New York the around 20 minutes performance 'Nadja by Breton' questioning today's society and its responsibility for the creation of the public space. Nadja Verena Marcin walks over a wooden construction some metres above the earth which is partly covered by a sculpture made of fabrics that looks like a kid's toy; when she reaches the middle, the construction breaks; but the sculpture covers only a small space of the earth below her... Now, the work of the artist is exhibited under the title 'lost in translation' from 21 Jan to 5 March at the Jens Fehring gallery. "Marcin's works, which include, besides videos and live performances, performance-based photographs, use her own identity and personality to explore the depths and limits of our social behavior, trusted rites, and the resulting vulnerabilities." jensfehring.com

20 Jan 2011 - Men's wear 2011 collection video
The Italian label Stone Island presents its SS2011 men's wear on a video with catalogue alike pictures and male models that are moving subtle. Today, Stone Island invites to the launch of the 'Reflective Jacket' at the store Firmament during the Berlin Fashion Week am-firmament.com.

19 Jan 2011 - Berlin Fashion Week mobile calendar
The German fashion news agency modabot.com publishes on m.modabot.com the Berlin Fashion Week mobile calendar with dates until 24 Jan, short description, and navigation-link to google maps for the selected event. The web version is available on events.modabot.com.

19 Jan 2011 - Conversation about the history and future of museums in the digital age
The Art Basel conversation with directors/curators from the MOMA, Rhizome, and Indianapolis Museum of Art gives an insight into the changes of archives, legal aspects, educational programs and the marketing of museums through the last 16-18 years since the internet became a tool of art historians and administrators. The new role of curators as publishers of academic content (on the web, mobile applications...) that is written in a common language, how to reach users and activate critial views, the museum as the future space for interactive participation on believes and ideas, or the changes of our society through digital media in general - even when the technology is not visible or absent, are some of the topics.

17 Jan 2011 - Men's wear 2011/12 in an earthy-raw, natural style
The video shows the new FW2011/12 men's wear collection by the Italian knitwear specialist Missoni and designer Angela Missoni during the Milan Fashion Week. By searching for online commentaries, it's the bohemian and relaxed look of the layering of vests, jackets and pullovers over wide trousers that is often mentioned. GQ.com writes: "It's a feeling that's part Tyrolean and part Boho."