Archive for the ‘Fashion’ Category
Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
Elizabeth Taylor Wearing a Chador at the Shah Cheragh Shrine, Shiraz , 1976: © Firooz Zahedi - Courtesy Leila Heller Gallery, New York
© Firooz Zahedi - Dressed as an Odalisque II, 1976, Printed 2011 C-print 48 x 36 in/ 121.9 x 91.4 cm, Courtesy Leila Heller Gallery
The muse of many artists, including Warhol, the late actress Elizabeth Taylor reveals a more candid side in an exhibit of photographs by Firooz Zahedi, in which she returns to the glamorous age of Cleopatra. A show with over 40 photographs from the actress’s travels to Iran in 1976, is on loan from LACMA, and can be seen at Leila Heller’s new downtown gallery till October 29th.
Firooz Zahedi had left Iran as a child, but together with Taylor, he returned to his country to photograph the culture made exotic once more through the lens of a visitor. Together they traveled to Persepolis, the once destroyed ancient Persian capital, to Shiraz, and to the tile-decked town of Isfahan, where Taylor, after visits to the bazaars, purchased the costumes for her transformation to an oriental odalisque.
Elizabeth Taylor in Persepolis with view of the Tent City in the background. © Firooz Zahedi Courtesy Leila Heller Gallery, New York
More of Elizabeth Taylor’s Photographs in Iran
Tags: Andy Warhol, Christie’s, Elizabeth Taylor, Firooz Zahedi, Leila Heller Gallery, new york
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Friday, September 2nd, 2011
Fumie Sasabuchi, untitled., 2010, paper, oil on card-board, 50 x 70 cm / 19,7 x 27,5\
Japanese artist Fumie Sasabuchi exposes the decay beneath the surface of vanity in fashion magazines. Her aesthetic reflects a return to a Gothic and necromantic trend in fashion portraiture, and it recalls Alexander McQueen’s flirtation with thanatos, the Freudian concept for the death instinct.
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Tags: alexander mcqueen, Fashion, Fumie Sasabuchi, Galerie Zink, Munich
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Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
A photo taken at Burning Man, David Art Wales 2010
Festivals have been sprouting love, peace and happiness across the planet, and some like the Festival in the Desert in the Sahara in Mali, Afrikaburn, and Burning Man which take place over several days, become watering holes for artists, musicians and a place to show off distinct styles.
Escape to New York was a festival organized in early August in South Hampton New York with installations, live music, performance art and experimental theatre. The organizers put up private teepees, suitable for glamorous camping, “glamping,” to accommodate the Hampton’s taste for sanitized partying – in contrast to the tents and wagons that spawn chaotically in the crowded fields of Glastonbury.
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Tags: Africa, AfrikaBurns, Alison Lucek, Burning Man, Byronseque, Carnivals, David Art Wales, Escape to New York, Festival in the Desert, Glastonbury, Halloween, Mali, new york
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Friday, August 12th, 2011
By Kiša Lala
Gypsy woman showing her golden smile - Romania - © Photo Kisa Lala 2011
Living on the edges of townships in the grey zones between cities, the Gypsies of Central Europe stay off the grid. Myths, rumours, lies cloud their histories for they leave few traces and heed no rules, instead, they live off the land, and sometimes they beg, thieve and steal.
Count Kalnoky tells me, that at his residence, in the village of Miklosvar in Romania, where I was staying as a guest, he was indeed wireless: the gypsies had cut the cables to fence the copper for their lawless trade.
The roving life seems romantic, but it’s not for the timid. To winter in open fields, to bed in barns, wagons, trailers means Gypsies are strong in their will to be free. They barter for work and stow their riches in silver and gold, knowing it can’t burn like paper, or vanish when people stop believing in its value. Gypsies are always on the move but when they halt, they build silvery houses, knowing if all else fails, they can just melt the metals and leave.
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Tags: Gypsy, Iain McKell, Kisa Lala, Miklosvar, Patrick Cariou, Photography, Romania, Romanies
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Saturday, July 30th, 2011
By Aaron Barr
Photo by Jim Wright
East Village, New York City, NY – Walking down a set of concrete steps and stepping into a small shop, you’ll find guitars hanging like trophies and vintage amplifiers leaning patiently against the walls. Cans of paint and various tools give the appearance of usefulness, and a friendly face greets you as you walk through the door.
That’s Jimmy Carbonetti. Born on New York City’s Roosevelt Island, he has found his true calling creating handmade, one-of-a-kind guitars. They are marvelous pieces that are both form and function, pushed to their limits; equal parts precious museum and gritty dive bar.
Jimmy wears this craftsman role quite well and pairs it with a passion for playing music, identifying with iconoclasts before him like Ronnie Wood, John Entwistle, and George Harrison; artists that made their solemn vows to music and kept them through life’s many ups and down.
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Tags: caveman, cobra, jimmy carbonetti
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Saturday, July 9th, 2011
Performance artist Marina Abramović collaborated with her favourite designer, the creative director of Givenchy, Riccardo Tisci, who she breastfeeds on a photo-shoot for Visionaire’s 60th edition, an issue which the designer has art-directed. Maternal anxieties have been a theme also in her latest project for the Manchester International Festival, ‘Life and Death of Marina Abramović,‘ which launches today. The play is directed by Robert Wilson starring Marina as her own mother, Willem Dafoe as the narrator, and has a soundtrack written by Antony of ‘The Johnsons’ Hegarty, who has also been a close friend of the artist.
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Tags: Antony of 'The Johnsons’ Hegarty, Givenchy, Manchester, Marina Abramovic, Riccardo Tisci, Robert Wilson, Visionaire, Willem Dafoe
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Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
PRADA CATWALK MAN SS 2012, ITALY, MILAN, 2011 By OMA / Agostino Osio © All rights reserved
Prada collaborated with Rem Koolhaas‘ OMA design studio to create a show space for its men’s Spring/Summer 2012 catwalk show at the Fondazione Prada in Milan.
OMA organized rows of blue foam cubes in a 1.5 x 1.5 spatial grid spread across the hall for the audience to sit on while models zigzagged between them creating more engagement and visibility then the usual linear catwalks.
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Tags: Fondazione Prada, Milan, OMA, Prada, Rem Koolhaas, Venice
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Monday, May 2nd, 2011
Dress, The Horn of Plenty, autumn/winter 2009–10 Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph © Sølve Sundsbø / Art + Commerce
It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholic but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle – everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things: Alexander McQueen
What could be more important on a day that began with a news blitz that Obama had nabbed Osama? Well, fashion of course… It was the Metropolitan Museum’s launch of the Alexander McQueen retrospective, Savage Beauty that crowds flocked to preview.
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Tags: alexander mcqueen, Andrew Bolton, Barneys, Costume Institute, Dale Posner, daphne guinness, Hamish Bowles, Metropolitan Museum, new york, New York City, Sarah Burton, Stella McCartney
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
By Kiša Lala
Bill Cunningham photographing in the street, in BILL CUNNINGHAM, A film by Richard Press, 2011
Bill Cunningham, the NY Times fashion photographer has been ubiquitous in the streets of New York for many decades chronicling the fads and frills of the city’s dandies, and canonizing them in the paper’s weekly column. At last a film has captured the man always behind the camera.
The film documents the sprightly 82 year old Mr. Cunningham on his daily sojourns, by bicycle, to his regular haunts, like the junction of 5th Avenue and 57th Street, where he’s a common fixture – and if one makes the cut that day – that is, if Cunningham’s camera hand goes up as one wanders past – it might well be the highest accolade granted any New Yorker, a certified salute to their sartorial elegance. But if he doesn’t, then, as Anna Wintour says in the film, it is simply death…
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Tags: Anna Wintour, Bill Cunningham, Fashion, Kisa Lala, new york, Photography, Richard Press
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Sunday, March 20th, 2011
Scott Campbell, Noblesse Oblige, 2011, Cut uncut US currency sheets, copper box, 21 x 25 x 18.75 inches
Tattoo artist Scott Campbell has migrated his etchings from skin to galleries – OHWOW inaugurated their new space yesterday in Los Angeles with a show of Campbell’s new work inked on the insides of ostrich eggs and stacks of paper money, using styles of vanitas imagery traditionally associated with the arena of tattooing.
Campbell, who is probably making a mint through his recent collaboration with Louis Vuitton, had enough currency on hand to carve a skull from $11,000 of uncut sheets of US dollar bills. The show, titled Nobelesse Oblige, signifies the artist’s pride in his blue-collar heritage, and plays with the idea of what is precious by removing value from social currency or placing value on the artefacts of common trade (by gold plating copper plates made with his tattoo gun).
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Tags: Aaron Bondaroff, Al Moran, Kisa Lala, Lisa Farmer, Los Angeles, louis vuitton, Marc Jacobs, Miami, new york, OHWOW, Richard Prince, Scott Campbell, Stephen Sprouse, Takashi Murakami, Wim Delvoye
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