Monday, 28 February 2011
Monday, 21 February 2011
Yoga Stops Traffick
Wherever you are in the world, get ready to roll your mats out on 12th March 2011 forYOGA STOPS TRAFFICK, a worldwide yoga event to raise awareness about human trafficking. Last year YST brought together 1,500 people in 20 countries, 51 yoga studios, parks, homes, beaches and mountaintops around the world. With your help we raised over £15,000 for Indian organization Odanadi Seva Trust, to give survivors of human trafficking the chance of a better future.
Following on from the huge success of last year, we ask you to join us once again to take a stand against human trafficking: all you need is your yoga mat! Discover how you can getinvolved, and about the incredible work being done by Odanadi. To find out here how the money raised from Yoga Stops Traffick will be spent visit www.odanadi-uk.org
Friday, 18 February 2011
Thursday, 17 February 2011
George Condo: Mental States
check out more at: http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/431
George Condo has been a singular voice in American and European art for almost three decades. Born in 1957 in New Hampshire, he studied art history and music theory at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell. In 1980 he arrived in New York, where he quickly became part of the burgeoning East Village art scene. Exhibiting at the Pat Hearn Gallery along with painters such as Mary Heilmann and Philip Taaffe, and becoming close friends with artists like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Condo developed a unique painting style, employing the virtuoso draftsmanship and paint handling of the old masters to depict subject matter that sprang largely from his imagination.In the context of early 1980s New York, Condo’s paintings—which he called “fake old masters”—displayed a provocative untimeliness. While many artists at the time borrowed specific imagery from historical sources, Condo instead adopted the styles, techniques, and methods of earlier painters and applied them to subjects distinctly his own. Over the next two decades, he went on to explore an astonishing variety of aesthetic territories, from Mannerist ornamentalism to Picasso-esque Cubism, drawing from Diego Velázquez to Looney Tunes. Possessed of an enormous memory bank of art historical references, Condo synthesized these past pictorial languages and motifs to create, as he put it, “composites of various psychological states painted in different ways.”
Condo is exceptionally prolific and has produced an enormous body of work since the beginning of the 1980s. The bulk of it has been portraiture, not of living individuals but of invented characters. Many early portraits, while often fantastical, evoke complex and precarious mental states. Over the past decade, Condo has introduced a range of distinctly contemporary types: figures that despite their apparently commonplace social roles seem to belong to the furthest extremes of the human psyche. In paintings like these, which in his words, “reflect the madness of everyday life,” meticulous attention to naturalistic detail is coupled with elements of the grotesque and the absurd.
“George Condo: Mental States” presents what the artist has called a “conceptual survey” of work over the past thirty years. Divided into four sections, each of which examines a particular theme or genre central to his work, the exhibition reveals his tragicomic vision. It demonstrates that no matter how varied his artistic language or strategy, Condo’s paintings and sculptures create a singular view—dystopic, humorous, empathetic, and critical—of our post-humanist age.
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Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Monday, 14 February 2011
Sunday, 13 February 2011
Men’s Fashion: 2011 ECCO Domani Fashion Foundation Winner NATIVE SON
I think the artist in me believes that [social media] destroys part of the allure of my brand and the [fashion] industry as a whole. – Kyle Fitzgibbons, Native Son
Kyle Fitzgibbons is one of the most intriguing menswear designers that you’ve probably never heard of.
And you get the sense he’s okay with that because, to be fair, he’s been a bit busy.
And you get the sense he’s okay with that because, to be fair, he’s been a bit busy.
And it’s probably just as well.
This relative anonymity has allowed Kyle the latitude to work with other labels while refining and stewarding his vision for latest menswear project. NATIVE SON is a Los Angeles based luxury menswear label created about three years ago amid designing, consulting and freelance stints for other labels such as Band Of Outsiders, Apolis Activism and Bespoken.
Kyle’s experienced, expert eye is immediately apparent in his current collection: in the minimal direction & styling, impeccably tailored shrunken trousers and jackets, crisp shirts and razor sharp top coats as well as innovative public relations campaigns – like a 3-D fashion film during F/W 10 New York Fashion week.
Most recently, Ecco Domani, the stylish Italian wine brand that invested more than $1 million to help launch the careers of over 60 internationally known designers including Erin Fetherston and Zaz Posen through it’s Fashion Foundation, announced NATIVE SON as one of seven 2011 honorees. This means, among other things, that Kyle now gets a $25,000 grant, plus a chance to showcase his collections during New York’s Fall 2011 Fashion Week.
Read More at: http://www.prcouture.com/2011/01/31/mens-fashion-2011-ecco-domani-fashion-foundation-winner-native-son/
10 Essentials: Alexander Wang
If you're as talented and dedicated as Alexander Wang—as in, you were designing your first collection your sophomore year of college and won a CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund award at the age of 24—it's probably good to keep the rest of your habits precisely no-fuss. "I don't want to say I'm locked down," says Wang, of living and working in Chinatown, "but it's easy, it's convenient, and it has the food I love." That might sound at odds with his wild creativity, but it's more a product of his focused attitude. The man knows what he likes: loose and easy looks with the perfect balance of disheveled refinement. He made a name for himself with his anti-fitted womenswear and the past year he's brought the same sensibility to his sharply casual men's line of slouchy tees and hoodies. Here he shows us what keeps his finely-tuned routine in check.
Read More http://www.gq.com/style/ten-essentials/201102/alexander-wang-ten-essentials#ixzz1Dr4et5pu
Read More http://www.gq.com/style/ten-essentials/201102/alexander-wang-ten-essentials#ixzz1Dr4et5pu
10 Essentials: Rick Klotz of Warriors of Radness
Once upon a time there were a boatload of rad-as-hell brahhhs surfing the coast of Southern California. The trunks were neon, the hair Spicolian, and the attitudes were fresh to the max. It was called the '80s and Klotz was there taking notes the whole ride. In 2008, after about 20 years of running his own T-shirt-focused company, he collected all those thoughts and launched Warriors of Radness, an irreverent throwback surf line full of in-your-face graphic tees, pull-overs in a kaleidoscopic palette, and tribal printed trunks. The volume on every item is turned way up. Similarly, Klotz's life is anything but subdued. Here, he lets us in on a few of his secrets to an authentically chill and stylish life.
READ More AT GQ:
http://www.gq.com/style/ten-essentials/201102/rick-klotz-ten-essentials#slide=1
Friday, 4 February 2011
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe * Blue STAR
Little emerald bird wants to fly away.
If I cup my hand, could I make him Stay?
Little emerald soul, little emerald eye.
Little emerald bird, must we say goodbye?
If I cup my hand, could I make him Stay?
Little emerald soul, little emerald eye.
Little emerald bird, must we say goodbye?
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