Monday, August 31st, 2009
Most moms would frown at the thought of their son buying pornography, but if your son turned that interest into a career and published a book, aptly titled F**k Fashion – a collection of erotic female photography – wouldn’t you be proud? If, by chance your name is Vivienne Westwood, then your answer had better be “yes.”
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
We never thought the mice our cat catches for dinner would look so fresh as our newest accessories. Creating something that looks better on models than on our mantels, two separate artists, Julia deVille and Reid Peppard, bring a collection of taxidermied jewellery and objects that makes us cry, “Cruella, that’s fierce!”
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Brainchild of Swedish clothing line Elvine and the designers at Next Century Modern, Creators Inn accommodates visiting artists gratis – so long as they contribute to the creative welfare of the city.
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
As we’ve heard in the promos, “you haven’t seen war until you’ve seen it through the eyes of Quentin Tarantino.” They’re right. Tarantino’s so-called Basterds, a recruited group of Jewish-American soldiers lead by Brad Pitt’s character, Lieutenant Aldo Raine, are on a mission to kill every Nazi they come across, or as Pitt’s character says brilliantly, “We’re in the Nazi killin’ business and cousin, business is a-boomin’.” Tarantino’s “hillbilly poetry” for Pitt’s character is a witty counterpoint to the obscene violence portrayed – the removing of Nazis scalps – in Inglourious Basterds, which is phonetically written to sound French. And, in true Tarantino fashion, the film, a World War II sensationalized, Jewish retribution, what-if war-film, lives up to his cult-film repertoire: Kill Bill, Death Proof, and Pulp Fiction.
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
While the fashion crowd and overflow of young models awaits for Bryant Park to be covered by white tents for S/S 2010 Fashion Week this fall, the park is currently hosting an assemblage of middle-aged characters.
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Alexander McQueen and Puma have teamed up with SHOWstudio’s Nick Knight for Raw Power, a competition based on the “Crane vs. Tiger” campaign shot by Knight for the Spring/Summer 2010 Alexander McQueen Puma collaboration. Like something out of a bizarre nature documentary, the subjects of the photo shoot are a tiger, a crane, and two martial artists, the latter of who are dressed in the collection.
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Newly added to what seems to be our never-ending wishlist is the work of Montreal-based design group Samare, specifically for their one-of-a-kind pieces that pay homage to our Canadian heritage.
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Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Forget spending your summer break doing Jager bombs with MTV in Los Cabos: partying hard with musicians is how the cool kids roll in the Mediterranean. (Even Leo DiCaprio was spotted at a Dizzee Rascal performance.) Now in its fifth year, the Ibiza Rocks concert series has teamed up with Bench to bring fourth four months of hot acts to the island of San Antonio, Spain.
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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
CHARM AND SEX APPEAL ARE ONLY TWO OF THE REASONS WHY
Words Susan Locht Images ioulex Assistant Hector Adalid Styling Barbora Venckunaite
Make-up Roberto Morelli using Lauren Hutton Make-up Assistant Akira Flume Studio Splashlight NYC
Lauren Hutton struggled to move gracefully in front of the camera on her first big photo shoot in the 60s with photographer Richard Avedon. She claims she was nervous, so to put her at ease, Avedon suggested she pretend she was back in her girlhood home in the swamplands of Florida. “So I started to leap around, as if I was jumping through mud, and he loved it.” The shots Avedon took of her over the following decade are now iconic, particularly his nudes. Hutton herself has since literally leaped across the pages of countless fashion magazines, and her signature gap-toothed smile has been on dozens of Vogue covers. She’s acted in several feature films, including The Gambler, with James Caan, and American Gigolo, with Richard Gere, and is famous for having signed, in 1973, the very first exclusive modelling contract in the world, with Revlon. More recently, she has started her own skincare line, called Lauren Hutton Good Stuff, modelled for J.Crew, posed nude for Big magazine, and appeared in the look books for Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s clothing label The Row (which Hutton happened to be wearing the day we met).
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