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June 2011 - I: Jeans and prominent models; fashion for music festivals; personal diary...

Lee Jeans photographed by Terry Richardson Web/Mobile
...with prominent models like Elvis Presley's grand-daughter Riley Keough and male model Isaac Weber...


How to dress at music festivals in 2011? Web/Mobile
Pieces which are advised by international labels, items that are following the idea of outdoor entertainment...


Design as a personal diary Web/Mobile
The re-design of sneakers gave reason for a closer look at Billy Reid, who has recently received a GQ award and the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund...


Women's wear FW2011/12 Web/Mobile
The German fashion label St. Emile presents for fall/winter 2011/12 casual pieces with elegant twist made from traditional autumn...


SHORT MESSAGES (from the FashionFeeds):

28 May 2011 - Watch design inspired by Guinness World Record in cave freediving in Mexico
The Swiss watchmaker Oris was inspired by the Guinness World Record from autumn 2010 of Carlos Coste (born 1976 in Venezuela) in freediving in a labyrinth of underwater caves in Yucatan in Mexico for the 'Carlos Coste Limited Edition Cenote Series' from the diver collection. The display of the watch reflects when its dark (referencing the dark caves) and the designers have set two signs to remember Carlos Coste's dynamic freedive of 2:30 minutes and 7:30 minutes for static timediving.

28 May 2011 - Searching for the things that happened
The video presents scenes from two filmworks by the Viennese artist, documentarist, and researcher Marika Schmiedt (born 1966) about the holocaust during the times of National Socialism in the 1930s/40s in Austria; especially the prosecution of Roma and Sinti. In the first video, Marika Schmiedt shows how difficult it is to find the truth in the Austrian bureaucracy - she runs in 'fast motion' from one office to the other. The second part of the video is taken from the series 'Visible' - a form of oral history, about the painter, musician, writer Ceija Stojka, who survived a concentration camp; Ceija Stojka says to the filmmaker that she is one of the last ones who has the chance to take a personal look at the thoughts, memories of a witness of the holocaust. Now, the work of Marika Schmiedt is part of the show 'Call the Witness' at the Roma Pavilion during La Biennale di Venezia callthewitness.net.

27 May 2011 - Video about an inspiring ball in Venice in 1951
Nicholas Foulkes (author, historian, journalist) speaks about 'Le Bal du Siècle' - theme '18th century', by multi-millionaire and interior designer Charles de Beistegui who invited guest like Barbara Hutton, Peggy Guggenheim, Orson Welles, Salvador Dali,... to a fashionable spectacle (costumes were created by later famous designers like Pierre Cardin) at his Palazzo Labia at the Grande Canale in Venice in 1951. The video is one of a series introducing to the inspirational sources of the new collection 'Bals de Légende' by the French joaillerie house Van Cleef & Arpels (collection release on 17 June in London).

27 May 2011 - Trends women's wear fall/winter 2011/12
...presented by H&M. The video begins with elegant combinations of flower dresses, skirts, trousers and tops combined with nice hats that remember the romantic androgyny of flapper girls; the red/white ankle boots in the style of early 20th century are mixed even to pop-psychedelic-flower skirts; last mentioned come also in asymmetric cut. Another styling by H&M shows leg wear that lets the viewer a while in doubt if the woman wears tights or sportive 80s leggings to a super-mini which is in real the extension of a top. A male-tailored jacket to a skirt which looks like a draped knit scarf make think of Diane Keaton in the movie 'Annie Hall' from the late 70s - but in the H&M scenery she has received an outfit update in Antwerp during the 1990s. In sum and fast checked, there are around 100 years style history where you can grab your personal look the next season.

27 May 2011 - Album 'Tai Chi Bum Bai Chi' by the Austrian group The Kung Fu Divas
The album contains 3 electronic-renaissance music-fusion-asian sounds tracks; just relased on 19 May.

27 May 2011 - 'A Little Death' by the US punk-rock band Fucked Up
...in a review (with audio) on Pitchfork.com, where the track was described with the words: "It's a pop offering from a crew named Fucked Up." The 4th part of the concept album 'David Comes To Life' (78-minute rock opera in 4 parts about a man in the 70s in a British industrial town, who loses his lover in a bombing...) comes out on 6 June; you can listen the tracks from the album on davidcomestolife.com. Fucked Up is on tour in US (TX, NY, MA...).

26 May 2011 - Video showing creations of designers of the Fashionlab Graz (Austria)
The Fashionlab Graz is an organization of fashion and accessories designers in Styria (AT). During May and June, the Fashionlab invites to several events such as on 31 May to an exhibition about photography (runs until 29 June). The photos of fashion by ap_moDE.SIGN are made by students of the second level education (college) for Fine Art Photography and MultimediaArt at the Ortweinschule Graz.

26 May 2011 - Fashion and photography festival from 6 to 11 June in Vienna
The video was made on occasion of the kick-off event for this year's 11 festival for fashion and photography; it shows fashion by Marios Schwab and the festival campaign images directed by the Austrian artist Erwin Wurm who created clothing sculptures ('Kleiderskulpturen') with designs by Ute Ploier, Jil Sander, etc; photographed by Elfie Semotan. The festival happens at the Museum of Ethnology and various venues in the city such as at a designer showroom where ideas for sustainable design approaches will be presented (7 June 'showroom for remade fashion design'), on 8 June to the Viennese prater where visitors can view fashion along the route of the Liliputbahn (a small railroad), on 9 June the ones who are interested in costume history can attend a guided tour through the picture gallery of the Museum of Art History ('Kunsthistorisches Museum')... 11festival.at.

26 May 2011 - Punk-rock-party song 'Blow Your Mind Away' by the Berlin band Poolstar
...from the album 'Losing Gravity' (2005) was the official hymn of the IFMXF FreestyleMotoCrossShow 'Night of the Jumps'. The four members band Poolstar's music is influenced by "love sex music life". They will perform today at Sage Club in Berlin sage-club.de/acl/programm.

25 May 2011 - Documentary about Jim Thomson who had great impact on the silk industry in Thailand in the middle of the 20th century
The architect and interior designer Jim Thomson is known for bringing in the 1950s new production technologies and distribution methods to the Thai silk industry. Until today, Jim Thomson's Thai Silk Company stands for experiencing Western and Eastern cultures and marks a milestone in globalisation. Now, the fabric label of Jim Thomson is collaborating with the artist Navin Rawanchaikul for Thailand's Pavilion at the Biennale di Venezia. 'Paradiso di Navin' is a multimedia art installation with restaurant and bar dressed up in indigenous Pha Khao Mar textile motifs. "Incorporating everyday culture relevant and current to the chosen environment, Navin explores the negotiation between local circumstances and trends of globalisation. His oeuvre encompasses a broad array of media including installation, film, performance, mobile galleries, billboards, comics, games, merchandise and cocktails." e-flux.com/shows/view/9643.

25 May 2011 - "Too good harmony is boring. Maybe conflict is charming, exciting. I am not interested in fashion..."
...says Yohji Yamamoto in the trailer of the approx. 30 min documentary 'This Is My Dream' (release in autumn 2011) about his work. Director Theo Stanley (known as the Director of Photography for Bruce Weber’s documentary films 'Letter to True', 'Chop Suey'; commercials for Vera Wang, Chanel), shows Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto (honored from the French government to the CFDA) and his team creating the collaborative adidas collection Y-3 SS2010 during summer and early fall 2009 in the studio in Tokyo and at the styling for the show in New York.

25 May 2011 - Bollywood-electro 'Load-David Starfire' remixed by 'Love and Light'
...from the 'Bollyhood Bass remixes Vol 2' album by San Francisco and Los Angeles based producer/DJ David Starfire; released in May on Six Degrees Records.

25 May 2011 - Electro-latin-soul 'Astro Black (The Big Wow Mix)' by the Viennese formation 'Freedom Satellite'
...is a remix of Sun Ra's jazz-composition with vocals by June Tyson. Freedom Satellite was founded 1997 by the producers/DJs Jürgen Drimal (owner of the label Vienna Scientists Recordings) and Gernot Ebenlechner, who studied mechanical engineering and wrote a thesis for the European Space Agency before he turned to music freedomsatellite.at.

24 May 2011 - Female identity in a world of demographic shifts
...expressed in the poetic-political art video installation 'Home and Away' (2003) by the South-African (Cape Town) multimedia artist Berni Searle showing a woman floating in front of the Spanish border. 'Home and Away' is an early film work by Berni Searle, whose new video-installation 'Interlaced' (a woman veiled in lace and filmed in the Gothic architecture of a hall in Brugge) is at this time on traveling exhibition (until 12 June in Brugge - BE, 20 May - 18 Sept in Metz - FR, 9 July - 16 Oct in Arnhem - NL) . "She questions tirelessly the self and the other, examining the elements of her own identity shaped by successive cross-fertilizations: a 'composite identity'..." mmkarnhem.nl/ENG/agenda/tentoonstellingen/berni-searle-interlaced.

24 May 2011 - Mobile phone app for 'Grill Culture'-aficionados
...with around 250 recipes by the American grill expert and author of the 'Weber's Big Book of Grilling' Jamie Purviance and tricks for healthy and secure (!) barbecuing. The 'Weber’s On the Grill'-app is available since the beginning of this month; in some days even in German language.

24 May 2011 - Guerilla knitting for women's rights
Fashionoffice just received the hyperlink to the website 'Knitherstory' where the photo showing designer and knit artist Veronika Persché and her contribution to the Women's Rights Movement in Vienna on 19 March is published. Veronika Persché has named her knit image 'Rosie'; she writes about the guerilla knitting initiative (more than 100 women knitted for public places in Vienna): "Hung just before the big demonstrations, the pieces were meant to be on display for about one month. Unfortunately almost all of them were removed shortly after. Same thing with my piece and I still have no idea about its whereabouts. Someone told me it was seen in Zurich... (!?) I do hope Rosie is doing well in her new place!"

24 May 2011 - Historical facts and a way to provide background information through new technologies
...explains Alexander Stickelberger on the video the virtual museum guides developed by the Austrian headquartered company 'Nous'. Fashionoffice just received the information that Nous has created the interactive multi-lingual (incl. sign language) museum guide for the permanent exhibition at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs in Berlin about the German history of labour and a social society. The Nous-guide provides for the visitors of the exhibition background information about the beginning of social legislation, child's work, situation of women...

23 May 2011 - Clay sculptures 'Hipocrites' are representing men who feel the loss of their influence on politics, society or the destruction of nature
The video shows the 'Hypocrites' by Mirko Bratušas, who represents the Republic of Slovenia at the 54th La Biennale di Venezia. The installation of the Hipocrites in the Slovenian Pavilion is entitled 'Heaters for Hot Feelings'. The artist explains on his website the project in Venice: "Feelings are difficult to articulate, to display. To ourselves and to others. Exposed or isolated from all other … I’d be happiest if I managed to awaken in the visitors the sensuality that we’re all lacking. There’s a lot of talk about high technologies, new technologies in the arts. We’re used to things existing, and knowing nothing about them." mirkobratusa.si/current. Find more about the project on ukom.gov.si/nc/en/media_room/press_release/article//2326.

23 May 2011 - Updates on the imprint of Fashionoffice
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