When you’re alone and life is making you lonely
You can always go – downtown
When you’ve got worries, all the noise and the hurry
Seems to help, I know – downtown
Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city
Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty
How can you lose?
With a fascination for stylish and imaginative concepts, Grégoire Alexandre has captured the best visible and invisible features of the Bugaboo Cameleon. The multi-terrain vehicle is surrounded by a tight white mise-en-scene setting, which refers to the different routes one can explore with the Bugaboo Cameleon.
Photography Museum Amsterdam (FOAM) organized a talk show with Amie Dicke, Jason Evans, Michel Mallard, Aynouk Tan & José Teunissen on Wednesday September 1st. It covered the subject fashion & art with the emphasis on fashion photography.
The passionate creative director Michel Mallard (also works for Vogue Hommes International) shared some interesting ideas regarding this topic. He explained that solely the top photographers like Steven Meisel and Steven Klein have the exclusive privilege to combine fashion with art (strictly in the Italian Vogue). All other photographers are subdued to the unwritten beauty rules of main stream fashion media. And these rules include marketing before art. He also explains this used to be very different. For example the photographer Melvin Sokolsky did his first test shoot for Harpers bazaar in 1963. It was a high fashion picture of a female model in a bubble. The test became the “Bubble” series of photographs depicting fashion models “floating” in giant clear plastic bubbles suspended in midair above the River Seine in Paris. The entire series included fashion and applied art at its best.
The chance that you read about this subject on another site is very likely, but It’s Nice That are very special. As one of our favorite sites, these guys are now taking pre-orders for issue 4 bi-annually printed publication. The issue, which is set for release on October 1st, includes interviews with Nick Knight, Neville Brody, Miranda July, Trokia, RBG6, Noma Bar and Bompas & Parr, plus features by Sara De Bondt, Adam Buxton, Adrian Shaughnessy, Jez Burrows, Mike Lemanski, Peter Nencini and Micah Lidberg. A James Jarvis exclusive screen print will be included with all orders made before September 30th. Some say this is their best issue to date……
Wonderful work in underwater photography by American artist Wayne Levin.
This a small part of the extraordinary images of various sea creatures that you can find on his website.
Very divers and all made exclusively in black and white.
Check out the photo series and discover Wayne Levin after the jump.
Last year the BBC named the band as one of promises of 2010 and gave them a nomination in the list “BBC Sound of 2010.” Coming from Manchester, Hurts is an electro-pop duo consisting of Theo Craft Hutch (vocals) and Adam Anderson (electronics, guitar), who are musically inspired by eighties bands like Soft Cell, Depeche Mode and Pet Shop Boys. Hurts doesn’t grab your attention with just their music, but also their very visual so-called art house look. The British press has described the duo as: ‘This electro-pop duo look as though they’ve been styled by Helmut Newton, directed by Anton Corbijn and produced by Trevor Horn on a Martin Hannet tip.’
After shooting Gant Rugger last spring for a photo-feature we did with the brand we became instant fans.
Now Gant Rugger released their Fall/Winter 2010 Lookbook video called “The Adventure To Cape Cod”.
Working together with two Triumph motorcycle enthusiasts and Washington based alternative rockband U.S. Royalty Gant Rugger made a great campaign. Highlighting the collection and embracing American heritage sportswear.
Key trends are striped sweaters, denim shirts and a hooded toggle coat.
Great campaign, great music by U.S. Royalty, Great clothing. After being a bit skeptic about Gant Rugger a definite eye-opener for me.
After the teasers, Sixpack France shows us there Lookbook for A/W 2010, showing us simple contempary designs of kitwear, jackets, graphic tees and lots more. The great images and art direction were done by ill-Studio. Along with the images we were given an introduction text that explains their inspirations and moods for the « SYNESTHESIE » collection. The first paragraph:
Evil is one of the primary instincts of the human heart. We advised you that we were about to break through its very substance – here we are.
No visible branding, the best fabric, truly classic styles…jackets for life.
As an example against today’s fast moving trends and the throwaway mentality of the fashion industry Paul Harvey and Allesandro Pungetti (former C.P. Company and Stone Island designers) went to work and created Ten C.
Ten C is short for ‘The Emperors New Clothes’ referring to the old story. The moral of this new brand?
Be critical, don’t listen to the ”fashionistas” every season who say you need to buy new clothes or shoes.
It only produces massive amounts of waste.
Checking your email, before watching the latest episode of Entourage on your iPad is the most common thing in 2010. 36 years ago things were a bit different! A full team of technicians, working on a computer the size of a room, to just figure out a basic mathematical equation. These great shots taken for an IBM catalog in 1964, capture the eve of the technology boom in great compositions . The use of bokeh and warm contrast, give the tense atmosphere that was present in the small space. Love the style!
On Thursday, August 26th 2010, the happiest of all socks, Happy Socks, opened their first concept store in Stockholm. Located on Mäster Samuelsgatan 9, it is situated in the most vibrant fashion shopping district of their beloved home city. They are perfectly situated close to brands like Acne, Whyred, Louis Vuitton, Diesel, Filippa K, and Urban Outfitters, where you are able to get the rest of the outfit to fit the most colourful socks in Sweden!
Our favorite blue and yellow brand from Scandinavia will be doing something special in the Netherlands as from Wednesday. IKEA will be broadcasting a total of 365 commercials in one year. Yes, the Einsteins under us will notice that comes down to one commercial a day. The small commercials will be broadcasted only once and recorded in one of the IKEA stores.
MADE Berlin, a creative platform based in Berlin, did a new episode of their video interview serie “Visions Of Visionaries”. After names like Pharrel Williams and DJ Neil Armstrong now it’s Levi Maestro’s turn.
Levi Maestro is know for Maestro Knows an online show based around Levi Maestro’s day to day life. Taking place all around the world Maestro shows you his friends and experiences through his eyes.
Maestro has directed and produced content as well as consulted for corporate brands and music artists.
Get ready for a true inspirational talk.
Enjoy the video.
As the last couple of years H&M is collaborating with a fashion designer to get high-end fashion to the masses.
Like me, you probably can’t wait for the the amusing sight of screaming women queuing up for you local H&M at 8 in the morning and tearing the shop up.
However this might be an interesting one cause it seems to be the first collaboration that would be really interesting for men.
H&M made this little teaser video. Can you figure out who he is?
The collaborative designer will be announced September 9th.
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