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Raf Simons AW10
We’re liking the look of the new Raf by Raf Simons AW10 collection, in particular his re-workings of the classic leather biker jacket with contrast sleeves and mixing of fabrics. Pictured are our pick of the bunch.
Alfred Dunhill Installation
With their first mark on the city, Alfred Dunhill held an installation recreating his London mansion, Bourdin House, in the Meatpacking District of New York City. Open for 7 days starting on February 11th, this coincided neatly with fashion week, and was a one-off chance to see designer Kim Jones a/w collection.
Friends With You
Art collective Friends With You unveiled their new flagship boutique to coincide with Art Basel Miami, located at 3930 NE 2nd Avenue Suite 202, Miami. There you’ll find a host of brand new limited edition products, including clothes, toys, prints, and fine art in their whimsical and inimitable style.
Rare Vintage
Fashion lovers must head to RARE vintage, the new premier destination for museum quality collectible and wearable vintage couture and frivolités in New York.
Rare Vintage – 24 West 57 Street, New York, NY
T (212) 581-727
apartamento 4
Taking a completely new approach in the interior design magazine market, apartamento features real people in real environments, with interiors we can all aspire to rather than over-styled, over-glossy, catalogue-like spreads. The 4th issue is now available in all good magazine stores, and in our opinion is definitely worth picking up.
StudioThompson and B Store
StudioThomson is celebrating its fifth birthday with a pop-up exhibition at London’s oh-so-cool B Store on Savile Row. For those not in the know, StudioThomson is a design and art direction agency that has worked across all media from fashion, to music, to art and interiors. The exhibition showcases a selection of their work for key clients including Pringle, Aquascutum and Preen. You can also pick up one of their notebooks displayed in the windows as a memento, which retail for only ten pounds and come come in 40 different shades.
31 Rue Cambon
We’re excited to learn of the first issue of the new Chanel magazine art directed and designed by Purple’s Olivier Zahm. Named 31 Rue Cambon after the first ever Chanel boutique, it will be distributed worldwide in all of their stores soon.
Elad Lassry
We’re big fans of the work of Elad Lassry. Born in Tel Aviv, but residing in Los Angeles, he works primarily in film and photography. He applies his high-conceptualism-meets-stock photography technique to everything from wolves, flamingos, and falcons to pickles, flowers, and friends, mostly shot in his east Hollywood studio, and shows his knack for upending expected takes on still-life and portraiture. At first his clean, direct shots look like generic commercial photography from the ’70s and ’80s, but the artist’s use of blurs, double exposure and harsh colors make them appear new and riveting. With recent solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and David Kordansky Gallery, and participation in the group show Younger Than Jesus at the New Museum, he clearly is one to watch.
Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity
This survey is MoMA’s first major exhibition since 1938 on the subject of this famous and influential school of avant-garde art. Founded in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933, the Bauhaus was a hotbed of creative thinking, re-examining all the ways of modern life, and influencing everything from architecture to fashion, from painting to furniture-making. This ambitious survey of over 400 works dissects the Bauhaus movement through exhibits, a “lounge,” and hands-on art-making workshops. It includes not only works by the school’s famous faculty and best-known students—including Josef Albers, Vasily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, but also a broad range of works by innovative but less well-known students, suggesting the collective nature of ideas.
November 8, 2009–January 25, 2010
Lubalin Now
The pioneering designer Herb Lubalin (1918-1981) is famed for wildly expressive typography and groundbreaking work for the magazines Avant Garde, Eros and Fact.
On view in Cooper Union’s new gallery, this installation includes recent posters, publications, and motion graphics by internationally recognized graphic designers that illuminate Lubalin’s continuing influence in contemporary design.
The exhibition will also mark the debut of newly relocated The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design & Typography, situated in the college’s new state-of-the-art academic building at 41 Cooper Square.
Exhibition dates: November 5- December 8, 2009
41 Cooper Gallery
Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter
The New York Based bookstore Printed Matter is the world’s largest nonprofit organization dedicated to publications made by artists. This exhibition, on view in the Third Floor Archives at PS1, shows examples of its publishing history from 1976 to present, featuring more than 100 international artists.
On view October 8, 2009 - January 4, 2010
Christian Marclay: 2822 Records
Art you can walk on: Christian Marclay’s installation plasters a whole floor of Moma’s PS1 with twelve-inch records of all different genres.
On view September 5, 2009 - April 5, 2010
Kehinde Wiley
Head to Deith Gallery’s second space on Grand Street, New York, for their presentation of works by Kehinde Wiley. Wiley, an African-American artist, is know for his spectacular and surreal paintings of contemporary hip hop trend setters. For this exhibition, his subjects are again young black men in streetwear garb, but in a shuffle of his normal artistic process, Wiley has inserted photographs onto his trademark highly decorated wallpapery backgrounds with the help of digital manipulation.
September 03 to September 26, 2009
Deitch Gallery, 76 Grand Street, New York
Opening Ceremony – Tokyo
Finally, the end of August saw the hotly anticipated opening of NYC retailer Opening Ceremony in the heart of Tokyo’s Shibuya shopping district. They will feature the same quirky inventory from the likes of Alexander Wang, Boy by Band of Outsiders, D.A.P. Books, Other Music, Trash & Vaudeville, and The Row in a huge 50,000 square feet mega shop spanning over 8 floors - their largest to date.
Tauba Auerbach HERE AND NOW/AND NOWHERE
Tauba Auerbach, opens her Here and Now/and Nowhere show at NYC’s Deitch Projects. Auerbach is known for her inventive twists on typefaces, creating magical new languages from the known English alphabet. Here and Now/and Nowhere, however, will feature more than just letter paintings and drawings; Auerbach will also be showcasing three-dimensional crumple paintings and fold paintings, as well as static photographs, and the show’s central piece.
September 03 — October 17, 2009
Deitch Projects, 18 Wooster Street, New York
Adam Kimmel debuts at Browns Men
Adam Kimmel makes his debut at Browns Men for AW09. The American designer began his career studying architecture at New York University, but in 2003 met a former president of Calvin Klein and began the craft and business of fashion. Kimmel creates luxuriously unstructured pieces from uncommon fabrics, using unique proportions, whilst always maintaining a masculine silhouette.
Renovated Whitechapel Gallery
The Whitechapel Gallery will open to the public this month following its multi-million pound redevelopment programme. The Heritage Lottery Fund supported project has transformed the former library building next to the Gallery, increasing gallery space by 78%. Designed by leading Belgian architects Robbrecht en Daem (with London practice Witherford Watson Mann Architects), the expanded Whitechapel Gallery provides one of the most exciting new cultural buildings in Europe. Included in the expanded building are new galleries dedicated to presenting collections and new commissions; a permanent gallery and research room for the Whitechapel Gallery’s historic archive, and an Education and Research Tower including study and creative studios.
The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London E1 T. 020 7522 7888
Yayoi Kusama at The Gagosian Gallery
New and recent works by the renowned doyenne of the Japanese art world, currently celebrating her 80th year in the business. Kusama is known for her trippy anti-minimalist installations, sculptures, and screen prints frequented by giant polka dots, sealike figures, and sexy yet childlike objects such as mushrooms and chunky shoes. Our highlight of the exhibition is the mind-blowing installation (pictured) nicknamed the “Infinity Room”—a seemingly gigantic void filled with mirrors and floating lanterns.
April 16 - June 27th 2009
555 W 24th St, New York (Chelsea) NY, 10011
AnOther Fashion Book
AnOther Fashion Book, a greatest hits compilation of the fashion photography that has been featured in AnOther Magazine and AnOther Man over the past eight years is out now. The first in a series of collectable books brings together in one volume extensive work by the most iconic names in fashion and art photography including Craig McDean, Nick Knight, Mario Sorrenti, Sam Taylor-Wood, Horst Diekgerdes, Stephen Shore, David Sims, Terry Richardson, Willy Vanderperre and Glen Luchford.
Martin Margiela to launch homewear
Martin Margiela has decided to broaden his horizons and bring his unique style to the decor world. The designer presented prototypes from his first collection at Italy´s Salone del Mobile. The collection features everything from wallpapers, bookcases and rugs to tables and small pieces that emulate the style of his stores, with various white colour palettes. The project is still a work-in-progress and will likely range from the design of objects and furniture in a self-produced collection or in the development of one-off partnerships, according to Pungetti. The company will also do commissions for individuals or public interior design and architecture.