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February 2011 - I: Motto 'Relax' for men and women

Relax Men style under the motto 'Enjoy your life!' Web/Mobile
... inspired by a FTV.com video about the backstage scenery at the fashion show of Dsquared2 during Milan Fashion Week...


Relax Lust for living! Web/Mobile
A collection of some pieces, which are sparkling spring lifestyle like the cotton-rib underwear in energetic sunny yellow by Calida, a bottle in flower design by a Champagne-house...


Relax Maison Martin Margiela Web/Mobile
Flowers on Haute Couture dresses are not new. But this collection has a special appeal - not only because the models wear aviator sunglasses to evening...


Relax Holiday Look Web/Mobile
Fashionoffice collected some pieces for a holiday style like the blouse by Seidensticker, or a piece that tells the story of how a day became a National Holiday...


Fashionoffice Insight February 2011 by publisher Karin Sawetz Web/Mobile
The reason why requests for 'erwin wurm one minute sculptures' are leaded by search engines to Fashionoffice...


SHORT MESSAGES (from the FashionFeeds):

29 Jan 2011 - Re-listen: Fat Freddy's Drop - Flashback (Jazzanovas Mashed Bag Mix)
Dub-reggae by Fat Freddy’s Drop in a remix by the German formation Jazzanova. You can find it on the Jazzanova album 'The Remixes 2002-2005' together with tracks by Calexico, Masters At Work...

29 Jan 2011 - 'American Trash' by Innerpartsystem
The track 'American Trash' will be released digitally on 22 Feb, physically on 29 March. They are signed to Red Bull Records - what makes hopefully no problems for Fashionoffice as Red Bull is headquartered in Austria, where some have their own copyright strategies. This turns reporting into a 'risky' business!

29 Jan 2011 - High School portraits
...showing 'self-portraits' of 14 students in a project by Thilo Hoffmann, who is one of the artists of 'New Portraiture Exhibitions' at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (US), 30 Jan to 5 June. "The artist saw this project as a creative device to help the teens reflect on their position as they emerged from childhood to become young adults." Other artists that are exhibited are Shimon Attie, who portrays New York City's Israeli and Palestinian communities, or Timothy White showing celebrity portraits of Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts,...

28 Jan 2011 - Bunmi Koko SS2011, video from the Africa Fashion Week
The video begins with a performance that remembers a ritual dance, before the British-African styled women's wear is shown on the catwalk. London based fashion and art label Bunmi Koko ('Bunmi' is the first name of the designer and means 'God gave me' in Yoruba, 'Koko' is another Nigerian dialect for 'my other half', a nickname given by her partner) has received the African Fashion Award for the 'Emerging International Designer of The Year - 2010' in Johannesburg, South Africa. On 21st Feb, Bunmi Koko will present the FW2011/12 collection at Vauxhall Fashion Scout during London Fashion Week.

28 Jan 2011 - Spanish designer Jesús del Pozo opens the Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week
...on 18 February, before more than 40 designers will present their ideas until 23 Feb on the catwalk. Alongside to the couture collections, the Spanish designer (first shop in 1974) is active in various fields such as home interior, fragrances, bridal wear, accessories, costumes for the stage, where he has worked together with Bob Wilson for example, and he is involved in educational and cultural programs with the own Jesús del Pozo Foundation. More information about the Cibeles Madrid Fashion Week on ifema.es/ferias/cibeles/default.html.

28 Jan 2011 - The Divine Order in art and design
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (born 1924 in Iran, studied Fine Arts at the Tehran University, graduated from Parsons School of Design in 1949, living in Tehran) is known for her geometric glass sculptures that are mirroring the space around as well as the construction itself. The artist is inspired by the "...symbolism of numbers in Islam, where the belief is that at the core of any geometrical expression is the line and single figure based on the Divine Order of nature laws" - which is even the basis for pattern and form in Islamic architecture. Now, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian's work is exhibited at the gallery The Third Line in Dubai (27 Jan – 24 Feb).

28 Jan 2011 - Issey Miyake's plan to exhibit design
"...the expansion of IT and the Internet, as well as the lessons learnt from globalism and commercialism prompts us to reconsider once again, "What is design?" says 1_21 DESIGN SIGHT director Yasuko Seki about the upcoming exhibition 'Shiro Kuramata and Ettore Sottsass' (2 Feb - 5 Aug, Tokyo). Designer Issey Miyake breaks up in this exhibition the time-linearity of common retrospectives and focuses stronger on the content - the design work of Kuramata and Sottsass. Beauty addicted know the perfume bottle by Ettore Sottsass for Issey Miyake 'L'Eau D'Issey' from 1997, which is in the meanwhile an art alike collectible isseymiyakeparfums.com/#/41/archives/.

27 Jan 2011 - 'OMFG' by Brooklyn-native Birmingham electronic-pop band Deluka
...from the album 'You Are the Night' is now available as free download on deluka.com. Deluka is planning the US tour (starts on 3 Feb in Brooklyn; w. Does It Offend You, Yeah?) and they are preparing a new music video for the song 'OMFG'. The video will debut in mid-February 2011. Deluka's first video 'Cascade' was directed by Paris born in New York living fashion and celebrity photographer Antoine Verglas, whose work can be seen in fashion magazines like Esquire, GQ, Sports Illustrated or Vogue. Fashionoffice received the information with the words: "Stay tuned..."

26 Jan 2011 - 'Nero' by Little Tybee
The song 'Nero' is from the 12 track-album 'Humorous To Bees' by the five members band Little Tybee from Georgia (US). Paper Garden Records has just announced that the album will be released on 5th April.

26 Jan 2011 - Photographer Tracey Moffatt about her work
The video by the Brooklyn Museum was produced on occasion of the exhibition 'Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection' in 2008/9. Tracey Moffatt is an acclaimed Australian photographer, who throws a new light on the power relations in our society. Her work is part of the Swedish Moderna Museet, which presents the own photographic collection now in another context by a 'radical' hanging. "We want to show the museum collection from a new perspective, but also to present an alternative art history, not one that is more true, but simply another perspective,” says Daniel Birnbaum, director of Moderna Museet modernamuseet.se/en/Stockholm/Newslist/Focusing-on-photography

26 Jan 2011 - 'Birds Of A Feather' by Mocky from the album 'Saskamodie'
Mocky is one of the musicians of the 'green' sound installation 'Seven Speakers' at the Berlin Kreuzberg experimental design store Nr4, where the clothes, accessories by designers from US and EU are dispayed in an art scenery. The 'Seven Speakers' installation is made of seven speakers in a heptagonal arrangement - and plants. The music is contributed especially for this format by various artists such as Mocky (CA), Barbara Morgenstern and der Chor der Kulturen der Welt (D), or the project initiators Narrow Bridges (D/GB), to name a few. The installation is on view from 28 - 30 January, and during the music and art festival CTM.11 from 1 - 6 Feb in Berlin. It is announced that the shop will be transformed into a sonic greenhouse! Details on numberfour.org

26 Jan 2011 - "Rarely is so much noise generated by one individual"
...was the note that came with the information about the 22 years allround-music-talent old Ilan Rubin, who began to play drums at 8 - piano, guitar, bass and appearances as drummer at several groups followed. In 2007, he started 'The New Regime'. Now, the release of the album 'Speak Through the White Noise', which is entirely written, sung and played by Ilan Rubin, is announced for April 2011 thenewregime.com.

26 Jan 2011 - Retro-(Italian) styled skateboard clip
Fashionoffice found this amazing video by searching for more information about the art-music-sports event organised by the accessories label Nixon and Art Mosh on 6 and 7 February during the tradefair ISPO in Munich. Board graphics from Nixon's athletes such as Tony Hawk, Danny Way, Bob Burnquist... will be on show. www.artmosh.com

25 Jan 2011 - 'I Am Love' nominated for the Oscar in the category Costume Design
The Italian movie with Tilda Swinton in the main role (plays Emma Recchi who is married into a Milanese textile family) is nominated for the work of Antonella Cannarozzi in the category Costume Design for the Oscar (announcement of the winner on 27th Feb). The prominent 'Little Red'-cocktail dress is especially created by Jil Sander (Creative Director Raf Simons) for Tilda Swinton's role in the movie. "Emma Recchi’s wardrobe for the movie epitomizes the Jil Sander values, combining a refined simplicity with superior materials and understated luxury", Raf Simons states.

25 Jan 2011 - Bloggers invited to fashion tradeshow from 14 - 16 Feb in Las Vegas
WWDMAGIC, WWD is the 1910 founded fashion publication Women's Wear Daily, MAGIC is the name of the organising company of the tradeshow in Las Vegas, is searching for correspondents - in sum 30, 5 places are open, to document the event. "These bloggers will provide trend reports, generate real-time video segments, participate in buyer chats and style-offs and much more."

25 Jan 2011 - Breakfast music-video 'Not Evident' by The Narcoleptic Dancers
The Lovely Hearts Club presents the video of the electro-pop Dutch-French half-siblings duo who name themselves according to MySpace after a trademark of their father who was a Dutch footballer: "They took the name “The Narcoleptic Dancers’ in homage to their father. The sports press had given him the nickname due to his peculiar haircut and his nonchalant dribble."

24 Jan 2011 - Fashion designers create costumes for the video 'The Runaway' by Unkle
Recently, Nowness.com reported about the "shady" 'The Runaway' video by Unkle with costumes by the Boudicca designers Zowie Broach and Brian Kirkby. On frag-dream.platform13.com, Boudicca is presenting the SS2011 collection 'A Fragmentary Dream' on a model photographed in sleeping position in 27 items. For each outfit, Boudicca has dedicated a short movie with interrupted picture flow - such as not all parts of a dream can be remembered, some parts of the model's movements are lost. The new Boudicca FW2011/12 collection will be presented in March in Paris.

24 Jan 2011 - Re-listen: 'Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Of Company B' by The Andrews Sisters
Fashionoffice just received a music-compilation that accompanies the milestones of the underwear label Calida with songs from different times. The CD was released by EMI music on occasion of the label's 70th anniversary. Calida was founded in 1941 in Switzerland together with an Austrian family from the textile business; in the same year as the movie with the dance performance of The Andrews Sisters was produced. 'Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Of Company B' is one of the most important songs of the 20th century.

24 Jan 2011 - Kids today can rather master a computer game than swim
The study from the series 'Digital Diaries' (2,200 mothers of 2-5 years old young children in countries in America, EU, Asia, Oceania) by the Internet Security Company AVG shows how children interact with technology. "58 percent of children aged 2-5 know how to play a 'basic' computer game. For the U.K. and France that jumps to 70 percent. Even 44 percent of 2-3 year olds have the ability to play a computer game. By comparison, 43 percent of kids 2-3 can ride a bike. ... There is no tech gender divide between young boys and girls. As many boys (58 percent) as girls (59 percent) can play a computer game or make a mobile phone call (28 percent boys, 29 percent girls)."

24 Jan 2011 - Fashion installation about the fragility of humans
The video shows the 6th part of the fashion installation 'Fragil', which was made of FW2010/11 collection pieces by the Spanish design duo zazo&brull. Fashionoffice just received an invitation to the presentation of the new FW2011/12 collection 'Distopía' on 2 Feb during Valencia Fashion Week. 'Distopía' is inspired by the 1950s novel 'Lord of the Flies' by William Golding about human nature and how it changes in extreme situations zazobrull.blogspot.com/2011/01/distopia-autumn-winter-11-12.html.

23 Jan 2011 - Re-listen: 'Hot Topic' by Le Tigre
The feminist punk-band Le Tigre mentions in this song from 1999 artists, musicians, writers like Yoko Ono, Joan Jett, Gertrude Stein, Valie Export... and Faith Ringgold (born 1930 in Harlem, New York), whose painted story quilts are now on view in the exhibition 'The Art of Faith Ringgold: Story Quilts and Freedom Quests' (31 Jan - 15 April) at the SCAD Museum of Art (US). "Ringgold's characteristic duality of beautiful imagery and deceptively simple characters and storylines repeatedly challenge the viewers to reexamine mythologies of cultural memory and identity." scad.edu/news/2011/faith-ringgold-quilts-quests.cfm