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March 2011 - II: Spring fashion, Paris Fashion Week...

Spring Fashion Running Style 2011 Web/Mobile
...with pieces like the 'Phantom'-jacket by Nike. Since 100 years, women are using especially March to run together for women's rights...

Paris Fashion Week Galliano/Dior from an Austrian sight; by Karin Sawetz Web/Mobile
No reason to write further about the things that happened? Everything said? But the whole case...


Spring Fashion Comics in fashion Web/Mobile
Explosive colors mixed with bold writings on shoes and lifestyle accessories that look like sketched by storytellers transfer the fantastic world of comics into real life...


Paris Fashion Week Undressing a woman Web/Mobile
The products that resulted of Maison Martin Margiela's 'study of a dress' have the sexy appeal of undressing a woman...


Hollywood inspired artist Web/Mobile
New York based multimedia artist Graham Parker's work 'The Confidence Man' is inspired by the seven Academy Award winning movie 'The Sting' from 1973 with Paul Newman and Robert Redford...


Fashionoffice Insight, March 2011 by publisher Karin Sawetz Web/Mobile
An Austrian design label is according to the log-files the most requested emerging brand, albeit it hasn't received any coverage on our domains in the last years. Fashionoffice has nothing against the brand but common copyright dealings in Austria - especially the unmentioned copyright-holders...

UPDATE:
Geography data for Fashionoffice delivered by DoubleClick
Fashionoffice's inventory-impressions per country are published for the first time in sum with the data of the Mobile Leaderboard:
Germany 120,777; United States 53,925; Austria 48,265; United Kingdom 23,168; South Korea 9,792; Canada 8,930; France 7,826; Netherlands 7,318; Italy 7,059; India 6,197; Brazil 6,165; Australia 5,753; China 5,529; Russian Federation 5,239; Thailand 4,993; Poland 4,932; Spain 4,682; Switzerland 4,212; Mexico 3,820; Turkey 3,575; Belgium 3,516; Finland 3,451; Singapore 3,412; Portugal 3,021...


SHORT MESSAGES (from the FashionFeeds):

9 March 2011 - 'Gigolo'-collection by Dsquared2
...was recently presented in Fashionoffice's Men's Style article 'Enjoy your life!'. Now, it's announced that the work of the Dsquared2 designers Dean and Dan Caten, who are known for their lively men's and women's wear as well as their costume work for musicians like Madonna, Fergie, Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera, will be presented on 21 May at the Vienna Life Ball lifeball.org.

9 March 2011 - Elmgreen and Dragset in an interview about gay art
...at the last Biennale di Venezia. Elmgreen and Dragset's work centers around homosexuality and new gay rights like (the economical contract) to marry. On occasion of the exhibition 'Amigos' (until 5 March, Madrid), curator/writer Octavio Zaya publishes an article on Art-Agenda.com, which he closes with the analysis of one of the sculptures: "The black humor displayed in the bird’s nest holding two small quail eggs hiding in one of the lockers seems to transcend this theater of contradictions, fissuring identity all the while." art-agenda.com/agenda/view/125.

9 March 2011 - Music inspired multimedia installation 'Pinocchio Is On Fire' by Mark Bradford
...presented on a website that gives insight into the work of the US artist. 'Pinocchio Is On Fire' (2010) reflects on music, musicians and the roles they play in our society. Mark Bradford explains in a video that the installation is inspired by the character Pinocchio - a male that is made by his father - but rejected because he was not the perfect boy, and the artist's own experiences he made in the 80s in Los Angeles hip-hop communities. Now, Mark Bradford's paintings, sculptures, installations, and videos over the past decade will be on exhibition from 28 May to 18 September at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

8 March 2011 - Re-listen: 'April Fool' by the female funk-rock pioneers Isis
...from 1974 in a fan-video for 1970s comic supergirls like Wonder Woman, The Bionic Woman, or "VAMPIRELLA, the gothic love-child of Bettie Page and Barbarella, from the decidedly more adult horror stories of Warren Magazines..."

7 March 2011 - 'Can You Hear Me?' by Pace Won and Mr. Green
...is a tribute by the US musicians to the people of Tunisia. The text comes from Tunisian artists, who told Pace Won to spread the word.

7 March 2011 - 'Toil In Your Field' by the Austrian experimental a capella-electro band Bauchklang, feat. US spoken-work musician Ursula Rucker
...from the new album 'Signs'. Philadelphia based Ursula Rucker's text is motivated by social ideas like women's rights. The album 'Signs' by Bauchklang (make the sound with their voices) will be released on 19 March by monkey.

5 March 2011 - 'It's not about you' by the British band Scouting for Girls
Recently, Scouting for Girls' song 'This Ain't a Love Song' from the album 'Everybody Wants To Be On TV' was nominated for Best British Single at the Brit Awards (15 Feb, London). The Londoner indie-pop band hasn't received one of the desired Brit Awards statues styled by Vivienne Westwood. But now, Burberry has chosen the song 'It's not about you' for the presentation of the 'Exotics' SS2011 pieces. Scouting for Girls is on tour: March in NL and DE, April UK...

4 March 2011 - Scene 'The Tutor' from the new gothic-rock romance movie 'Beastly'
...with Neil Patrick Harris as the blind tutor 'Will' and Alex Pettyfer in the main role 'Kyle', who has to find his inner beauty. While he is searching, Kyle is turned by makeup artist Tony Gardner (began his career with Michael Jackson's video 'Thriller' and James Cameron's action classic 'Aliens') into a New York teen monster. The movie starts today in US, 17 March Greece and South Korea, 18 March Canada...

4 March 2011 - Scene from the movie 'Mary Poppins (1964)'; invitation to a conversation with its legendary costume consultant Tony Walton
On 21 March, the Museum of Performance and Design in San Francisco invites to a conversation with production and costume designer Tony Walton (All That Jazz, Death of a Salesman, Regarding Henry...). The conversation will be accompanied by images and videos from Tony Walton's work over five decades with collaborators like Walt Disney and Bob Fosse mpdsf.org. One day prior - on 20 March, Tony Walton will discuss with the curator of the Museum of Performance and Design Brad Rosenstein his work 'Fashioning the Family: The Costume Design of Mary Poppins' at The Walt Disney Family Museum waltdisney.org.

3 March 2011 - Colorful mix of reptile and cat prints on dresses, biker jackets, bags...
...presented with a video by Burberry under the title 'Exotics'.