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April 2011 - I: Sport and fashion; treatment of humans and earth; teenagers...

Sport and fashion Web/Mobile
Intimissimi presents the new 'Soft-Shaping' collection with footballer Cristiano Ronaldo's new flame, the Russian model Irina Shayk...


The Noses of Journalists; Vienna Insight by Karin Sawetz Web/Mobile
...I was invited to the new hotel 25hours 'The Circus' in Vienna together with other journalists for the introduction of new perfumes...


Treatment of humans and earth; by publisher Karin Sawetz Web/Mobile
Women's History Month is followed by Earth Month in April. A view on initiatives of beauty labels like Aveda...


Fashion of Swiss teenagers in the 50/60s Web/Mobile
"It's a sort of hip-hop fashion before hip-hop," says Tosh Berman from the Hollywood bookshop 'Book Soup' about the fashion in 'Rebel Youth' by photographer Karlheinz Weinberger...


Stripes in candy and rainbow colors Web/Mobile
Fashionoffice collected from the spring/summer 2011 women's collections some pieces with stripes - like the bikini by p2, and a laptop in a reflective color that provides...


Luggage series made from aircraft material Web/Mobile
Rimowa presents in the Easter campaign luggage made from aerospace industry's polycarbonate for weekend travels...


The anatomy of the foot Web/Mobile
...seen at a new barefoot inspired line of Onitsuka Tiger with references to traditional Japanese footwear. Film addicts know the label Onitsuka Tiger also from...

Self-regulation - a very modern mindset; by publisher Karin Sawetz Web/Mobile
'Self-regulation' and 'self-determination' of the civilian population are themes in global media. If it's about women's rights or nuclear power...


SHORT MESSAGES (from the FashionFeeds):

28 March 2011 - Re-listen: 'Heaven's In The Back Seat Of My Cadillac' by the British band Hot Chocolate
...live on stage at the chart show 'Top of the Pops' in 1976. Frontman and band founder Errol Brown began his career with a reggae version of John Lennon's 'Give Peace A Chance' in 1969. The website errolbrown.com/about.html remembers: "Errol Brown changed the lyrics of the number but he was informed that he could not change Lennon's song without his permission! So a copy of the demo was sent to the Beatles record label, Apple with fingers crossed. Amazingly John Lennon loved the version and it was released on the Apple label." (Note: Apple Corp. was founded in the late 1960s by the UK music group The Beatles and has an apple in the logo; while Apple Inc. (iPad, iTunes, iPhone...), which was founded by Steve Jobs and partners in the same year of the release of the Hot Chocolate song in 1976, has the bitten apple as logo.)

27 March 2011 - Wang Ping's poem 'Small Boats' inspired artist/filmmaker Isaac Julien
...who speaks in the crane.tv interview about his 9-channel video installation 'Ten Thousand Waves' which is about his view on China - scenes from China of today combined with old photographs are telling a multi-layered story. Now, Isaac Julien's work is exhibited from 30th March on at the Museum Brandhorst in Munich (Germany). "His video installations all address aesthetic, social and psychological aspects of various living environments in which Western ideas of global culture are partly questioned and partly formulated in a new way." museum-brandhorst.de/en/exhibition-preview/isaac-julien.html.

27 March 2011 - 'My Music is a Boat' by Illute (released in March)
Berlin based singer Illute sings in German, Japanese, Spanish; on her second single 'My Music is a Boat' in English to guitars and a dramatic violin by Daniella Grimm.

27 March 2011 - Video about graffiti-photos on bridges/walls in Paris with people's statements
...like 'It changed my daily trip to work, there was a new setting! But what's good is that it is fleeting, because well, I prefer my old bridges and my old stone." Now, the giant photo series 'Women are Heroes' by the French street-artist JR (born 1983), who has photographed the 70 portraits of women during wars, is on show together with works by 17 other artists at the exhibition 'Wilde Zeichen' (translated 'Wild Signs') about graffiti in art from today until 29 June at Forum Frohner of the Kunsthalle Krems (Austria).

27 March 2011 - Songs by the indie-rock band The Smiths performed by fans for an art project
The videos for the three-part installation 'the world won't listen' by UK born (1970), in Germany based artist Phil Collins features The Smiths fans from Colombia, Turkey and Indonesia. The fans are performing songs from the compilation 'The Smiiths' from 1987. Now, the installation 'the world won't listen' is on view at Marabouparken in Sundbyberg (Sweden, until 29 May): "A tender, humorous, and occasionally heartbreaking portrait of humanity, the work is a study on the mediation and strength of popular culture's global reach." marabouparken.se

26 March 2011 - Pin drop, the split, synchro, fire dance... are the name of dance styles
...in a new music video. Fashionoffice just received the hyperlink to 'Ijo' by the British born, in New York living musician Siji, who collaborated for the song with producer/DJ Alix Alvarez. The video shows a dance audition in Lagos (Nigeria).

26 March 2011 - Re-listen: 'The Raft' by Fat Freddy's Drop
...from the album 'Dr. Boondigga and The Big Bw' (2009). The dub-reggae band from Wellington (New Zealand) Fat Freddy's Drop (the name is derived from a character in a comic strip and LSD acid art) announces the world tour: 27 + 28 May in Queensland (Australia), 18 June London (UK), 19 June Dublin (Ireland), followed by Portugal, German, Norway, Spain, France...

25 March 2011 - Insights into a new designer flagshipstore in Soho, New York
...and interview with designer Alexander Wang, who opened the store in February with illustrious party guests like musicians Kanye West and Santigold, model Karolina Kurkova, Vogue's Fabien Baron...

25 March 2011 - The Eyes of Journalists
...on Ernst Strasser, former Federal Minister of the Interior in Austria, lobbyist and member of the EU-parliament. The journalists of the Sunday Times uncovered with the video the 'Cash for Law' scandal. At this time, the Austrians don't know if it is according to the national rules legal or illegal to change the law for cash derstandard.at/1297821121854/Recht-Causa-Strasser-Die-juristischen-Folgen.

24 March 2011 - Interview with Mexican tattoo artist and illustrator 'Dr. Lakra'
...aka Jerónimo López Ramírez (born 1972) by vbs.tv on occasion of his exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston in 2010. Dr. Lakra is inspired for his body art by the cultures of Maori, Thai, Chicano, Philippine, and by symbols from inner-city gangs, pulp fiction, pre-Columbian culture, and religion. At this time, the work of Dr. Lakra is on show at the Museo Amparo in Puebla, Mexico (until 9 May) museoamparo.com.

24 March 2011 - 'Week-end à Rome' by Nouvelle Vague and Vanessa Paradis
...from the new album 'Couleurs sur Paris’ by the Parisian musicians of Nouvelle Vague Marc Collin et Olivier Libaux. Fashionoffice just received the tour dates for March and April with the words "Expect the unexpected": 24 March Warsaw (PL), 25 March Wroclaw (PL), 26 March Leipzig (DE), 27 March Nuremberg (DE)... followed by France, Sweden, Norway.

24 March 2011 - Model and musician Josh Beech singing in the bathroom
Recently, Moschino has chosen the British model and musician Josh Beech for the new campaign of the label's men's fragrance 'Forever' and presents with him the SS2011 collection on youtube.com/watch?v=PMaBgiRct6g. Josh Beech's latest song is the greasing guitars ballad 'She', available physically on 4 April.

23 March 2011 - Formula 1 driver Michael Schumacher in a car with drink mixer Salvatore Calabrese
Michael Schumacher (7-Times Formula 1 World Champion) spread the message 'Drinking and Driving Don’t Mix' as the first ambassador of Bacardi's 'Champions Drink Responsibly' campaign. Now, Bacardi announces tennis champion Rafael Nadal as the next representative on the label's website, which provides some good tips for party organisers like checking train timetables and local taxi numbers before the guests arrive; and for party guests "Stay in control by regularly ordering water or soft drinks" and "Make sure no one is left behind at the end of the night" championsdrinkresponsibly.com.

22 March 2011 - New music video 'Party bis zum Untergang' - means transl. 'Party until the Doom' by the Austrian band Kommando Elefant
...featuring Russkaja frontman Georgij Alexandrowitsch Makazaria, who bursts in the video a party of shy weirdos. The song will be released on 25 March, Las Vegas Record.

22 March 2011 - Re-listen: Electronic beats 'Venus In Furs' by Trash Palace feat. Cozette (2002)
...is covered from Velvet Underground's 1967 song. 'Venus in Furs' by the cult-band Velvet Underground, which is strongly connected to Andy Warhol, was covered in the last 40 years by several musicians, most recently in 2008 in a folk-rock acoustic guitar version by the 'The Kills'; you can hear it on quitmumbling.com/2011/01/the-kills-finish-new-record. The song, written by Lou reed, is inspired by Austrian journalist and writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's novel 'Venus in Furs' which is about a woman who loves furs, a man, and a contract between the two that was developed from a sado-masochistic pleasure gain. The term 'masochism' was derived from the author's name already in the 19th century.