Dan Snaith, aka Caribou, is a man of many transitions. The artist formerly known as Manitoba has, over the course of his career, swapped names, locations and styles like some sort of Canadian Richard Kimble. Hailing from southern Ontario, but based out of London, England, the multi-instrumentalist just released his fifth LP, Swim. It’s a rhythmic, complicated, danceable album that sounds decades removed from the psychedelic headphone symphonies of 2007’s Andorra; yet, it is equally inspired and ambitious.
Fashion Assistant Lauren Deleo
Hair Sarah Sibia at See Management
Makeup Stevie Huynh at The Wall Group NY
Casting Zan Ludlum
Models Dominic, Alejandro, Barry,
Milton, Jackson, Frey Mudd at Red
By now you’ve probably seen Todd Selby’s colourful new book, The Selby is in Your Place (reviewed in The Block issue 22). Yes, it’s a society book. And yes, it’s the offspring of his blog, The Selby. But the people inside aren’t random Joes by any means – they’re his friends (and Karl Lagerfeld).
Thanks to We Are Handsome, you won’t need a sunburn to stand out at the beach this summer. The breakout swimwear collaboration from Aussie designers Indhra Chagoury and Jeremy Somers is a sight for sore eyes. Slick enough to go from poolside to party, the line of hand-made one-pieces is splashed with bold colours and retro-inspired imagery – we can’t wait to suit up.
Valentino Garavani retired from fashion design after his 2008 couture show, but this retiree is far from gone. Valentino continues to make heads turn, from 2009’s Valentino: The Last Emperor to this month’s Valentino Garavani Archives. (more…)
To commemorate Alexander McQueen’s brilliance, Visionaire 58 Spirit: A Tribute to Lee Alexander McQueen features McQueen’s trailblazing works alongside contributing artists like Nick Knight, Steven Klein, Mario Sorrenti, Steven Meisel, and many others.
For Australian duo Canyons, the list of musical instruments they use on their EPs is as eclectic as their succession of DJ names (since this interview, they’re now known as DJ Tax and DJ Bill). Having released two EPs, Fire Eyes (on DFA Records) and The Lovemore (on A Hole in the Sky), Leo Thomson and Ryan Grieve, who also go by Leo Holiday and Ryan Sea-mist, are currently in studios finishing up their debut album (set to be released on Modular Records). The guys took some time from the busy schedule to make a mix tape for this issue of The Block, and after a few listens, we sat down to ask Leo a few questions.
Images Doug Inglish Words Susan Locht Fashion Editor James Worthington DeMolet
When Chanel Iman walked into the office of icy perfectionist Anna Wintour, the coltish model was only 15 and didn’t realize she should be nervous. “I walked right up to her and kissed her on both cheeks,” she says. “I had just come from spending weeks in Paris, so I was used to greeting people that way. I didn’t know that this might have seemed a bit bold… The other people in the room were kind of stunned.” But Wintour obliged, and today Iman, whose fashionable names are, in fact, her given ones, credits the Vogue editor with shaping her early modelling career. “It’s funny; there’s so many experiences I’ve had with modelling that now, when I look back at them, were way bigger deals than I knew at the time.”
Since signing with her first agency in Los Angeles at age 12, Iman, now 20 and living in New York, has travelled the world extensively, walking shows for all the major houses, including Christian Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Valentino, and gracing the pages of major magazines like Vogue, i-D, and Numéro. She’s been shot by an impressive list of heavyweight photographers, while most recently, she posed for Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott for DSquared’s F/W 2010 campaign, a gig she’d wanted for a long time. And earlier this year, with the help of her mom, she opened The Red Bag, a clothing boutique in Culver City. “There’s so much more I want to do, so many more things I want to try,” she explains. And since Iman just signed with powerhouse agency Supreme, this luminous beauty is likely to walk fearlessly into a few more big deals. “I want to be the best,” she says, “and I’m not going to stop until I am.”
