This is not what I am wearing in the show, but there will be a fancy hat involved.
I’m participating in Jennifer Sullivan’s “Fall Collection” performance (a “runway show”) at P.S. 1 today in conjunction with the publication of her wearable art and fashion zine Threads, co-edited with Jenn Brehm. It’s part of the Printed Matter New York Art Book Fair, details here.
Minimalism meets American sportswear at Matthew Ames this morning, a Art Institute of Chicago graduate and Ecco Domani Fashion Foundation award winner. Inspirations included the color blocking of abstract painter Elsworth Kelly, the geometry of modernist Agnes Martin and the movement of choreographer Merce Cunningham.
Ames intended for the various elements–color and shape–come together like interlocking puzzle pieces engaged in a choreographed dance. A dress in fluid silk in pink stands out as an individual expression against a black and white blocked coat with sculptural folds like geometric wings, as though it were a single dancer moving with respect to another dancer across the floor.
In the clutter of commercialism and crass that is New York fashion week, Ames is a pin-drop quiet voice whose austere vision provides some solace.
Nu and improved design, with cool image pop-out (roll over images for full-size views!), a recent comments section (you can be famous!) and updated links of artists, wordsmiths and things you need to get to know. Enjoy. Thanks, Dominic.
I have a memory of my brother holding a Skeletor mask up to a lamp to release its glow-in-the-dark powers. Its glow worked for approximately five minutes at a time, then it was time to recharge all over again. Eventually, whatever it was that made it glow stopped working altogether. My brother did not stop wearing the mask.
(This is not my brother, but this is the Skeletor mask he wore.)
So glow-in-the-dark is pretty powerful stuff. Powerful enough to inspire newsstand sales of print magazines? Stephen Gan, editor-in-chief and creative director of oversized gem V magazine, says yes, so they printed the cover of their latest issue, featuring Natalia Vodianova and Luke Grimes shot by Mario Testino, using a special UV gloss that makes it glow.
Here, Gan tells the nunu between shows in Paris why you will be standing next to a lamp ad infinitum with V in hand and which fall 2009 collection is his favorite so far. Also after the jump, a preview of V’s Vodianova spread. Continue reading ‘v magazine, you’re positively glowing! stephen gan explains why.’
The always charming Jennifer Sullivan (jennifersullivan.org) at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, 438 Union Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211, (718) 383-7309 on Saturday, March 7.
The Anna Copa Cabanna Show in Paper magazine today. All photos by Alexander Thompson.
If you live in New York (or are visiting) and wanna catch us live: We’re performing at the Highline Ballroom on March 3rd as part of the Rock-It Science festival with Rufus Wainwright, Dee Snider and a slew of scientists in bands….and our next full production is at Joe’s Pub on May 2nd.
Unravelled is a 10 episode web series on SHOWstudio that chronicles the making of Louise Goldin’s fall/winter 2009 collection. Like Unzipped but British! Knitwear is so much more than those popular Brooklyn knitting circles would have you believe.
“Amen to that,” says Cindy Greene when I pay compliments to their continued use of recycled materials—she and Johnson Hartig got their start screenprinting Midwestern thrift store finds. “And we shook off the skull.” Formerly their signature image, which spawned many imitators high and low.
Recycling ideas or eras is tricky business, and fashion designers do it a lot. (This season, the ’80s. Groan. Strawberry, Forever 21, H&M, Rainbow…I could go on and on about the cheapie tweenager stores for whom the ’80s has been and continues to be a staple. But hey, if you want to give $1200 to Marc Jacobs to do it for you, be my guest!) But to make use of actual recycled goods—this should be the real future in fashion.
At Libertine, the future meets the past, like rummagers sorting through a dump in the English countryside and applying their pictographic language. Books are something you wear, not read. Also aptly timed: This Italo Calvino short story in the New Yorker this week.
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