sneak peek spring (part two)

Here's a few more peeks of new designers and their Spring 09 collections, arriving soon!



T by Alexander Wang
The new diffusion line from CFDA winner Alexander Wang feature just about the comfiest tees, tanks, and T-shirt dresses we’ve seen yet. Armholes are lowered, necklines are stretched, all cut in the designers fetchingly enervated style with colors like white, gray, charcoal, black and chartreuse. As the designer describes, “'It’s like sleeping in a T-shirt and then wearing it the next day.” All pieces are under $100.




5Preview
Swedish/Italian designers Emeli and Diego have screened iconic tongue-in-cheek prints onto unisex tees and tanks.




Anzevino and Florence
Using silk and twill blends, L.A. based designers Richard Florence and William Anzevino have created a sophisticated yet edgy collection of womenswear, menswear, and unisexwear.




Something and Something Else
The new collection "Spirit World" from Melbourne-bred designer Natalie Wood is downtown-cool with a feminine touch.



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sneak peek spring (part one)

Spring is just around the corner and the new pieces arriving soon are so stunning, they've got us delirious and down-right obsessed. Here's a tiny taste of things to come:



Stolen Girlfriends Club
The New Zealand music/art group have created a dark and brooding collection of sultry pieces for men and women, featuring subtle lace finishes and ox-blood plaid.




Kenzo Minami
Japanese visual artist Kenzo Minami has created another sleek collection of bold geometric graphics for his super soft unisex tees for Spring. As usual the tee shirts are enzyme washed to give them that vintage worn-in feel, and the detail and color variety in the silk-screened graphics are phenomenal.




Scout
The L.A. store’s spring collection of contemporary womenswear is a street-chic ensemble of baggy tee dresses, leaf print leggings and the occasional hunting and trapping motif.




Brian Lichtenberg
The new collection by celebrity-darling Brian Lichtenberg is a fiery hot blaze of lace and sequins. Welcome to the future.




Ground-Zero
The Chu brothers have returned with a whimsical collection of high-end unisex "pajama-wear as outer-wear." Their Spring 09 collection titled “Lazy, naughty n Sleepy” features cheeky and subversive graphics involving...Care Bears!




Sharon Brunsher
The Israeli fashion designer and Tel Aviv Design Institute graduate has formed a beautiful and well crafted set of hand-dyed dresses and feminine tops.




Maurie and Eve
Young Aussie designers Kelly Davies and Maya Clemmenson have smartly fused beachwear and evening wear into a debonair collection brimming with free and easy femininity.


Stay tuned for more featurettes on upcoming collections...

rock on mars

Stephen Sprouse
Rock on Mars

January 09, 2009 — February 28, 2009
18 Wooster Street, New York

Rock on Mars, a retrospective exhibition of the work of Stephen Sprouse, will transform Deitch Projects’s 18 Wooster Street gallery into a realization of Sprouse’s rock and roll futuristic vision.

Stephen Sprouse (1953-2004) was one of the most influential fashion designers of his time and a key figure in the dynamic mix of punk rock, wild style graffiti, and street influenced fashion that characterized the downtown New York community in the early 1980s. He was one of the first to build on the influence of Andy Warhol to create a fusion of art, music and fashion. He continued on a course that disavowed any division among these fields throughout his career.

The exhibition will introduce Sprouse’s extraordinary pop-influenced paintings to the larger art audience. His paintings of iconic rock and roll imagery including stacks of loudspeakers, Sid Vicious with his pants down, and an Iggy Pop crucifixion, have rarely been seen. The show will also include a selection of the video works made to accompany his runway shows, examples of his fabric and furniture design for Knoll, and fifty of his most influential fashion looks.

In conjunction with the exhibition project, Marc Jacobs has created a new collection for Louis Vuitton, inspired by Sprouse’s famous collaboration with Louis Vuitton in 2001, which featured the classic monogram bag scrawled with Stephen Sprouse graffiti. The new limited edition Stephen Sprouse – Louis Vuitton collection will be available in Louis Vuitton stores worldwide from January 9, 2009, the opening date of the exhibition. -via Dietch Projects



Stephen Sprouse, TV Sketch


Stephen Sprouse, Self-Portrait, Early Years


Stephen Sprouse, Debbie Harry Cut Out Dress Polaroid

an uncertain nature

For everyone who missed her first solo show, Alison Brady is showing again in NY starting this Thursday. The young SVA graduate reminds us a bit of Guy Bourdin, but she's got a quirkier, meaner streak we find amusing. Unlike Bourdin who kept everything a bit more "fashiony" and upbeat, Brady's photographic work focuses more on pain and death, ranging from sexy-scary to nasty and disturbing. Definitely not for everyone, but worth checking out if you're feeling jaded.



Alison Brady
An Uncertain Nature

Opening Reception
January 8th from 6-8 pm

Massimo Audiello
526 West 26th St No 519
New York NY 10001

Show runs until February 8, 2009



Artist's Statement: My work is a series of color photographs that work to stimulate unconscious emotions, desires, and sexual compulsions, all unified within a dynamic that vacillates between the real and the fantasized. I explore issues related to madness and alienation as they exist in contemporary culture, concentrating on expressions of neurosis, on feelings of anxiety, displacement, and loss of identity.

These emotions are depicted in terms of visual conflict through my imagery, and manifested in terms of grotesque exaggeration. While investigating issues related to the unconscious, elements such as eroticism, twisted humor, and horror come across. I strive to create dichotomies between the sensual and the horrific, the beautiful and the destructive; the result, I hope, is a body of work comprised of deeply emotional and disturbing depictions of the unknown, staged imagery that functions on a metaphorical level, and inanimate objects and settings serving to illustrate the inner workings of the unconscious.

Nearly everyone has experienced some sort of traumatic disconnect in their lives, whether it is a severance within the body/self or a break from family or friends. Much hysteria is rooted in such traumatic experience, one that cannot be integrated into a person’s understanding of the world. Freud, in “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” states, “Often times we tend to repeat a traumatic event over and over even until it becomes pleasurable.” This repetition contradicts our instinct to seek pleasure but, regardless, our mind has a tendency to repeat traumatic events in order to deal with them, as a way of mastering them. This repetition can take the form of dreams, storytelling, or even hallucination; my images allude to the cryptic mental re-scrambling through which our traumatic events resurface. When I conceive my images the questions I ask myself are: What is the state of normality? How can that normality be subverted, perverted, or generally transformed? When does this overcome the real and become psychotic?

My work attempts to play on these feelings of instability. The subjects that I use - some friends, some strangers - are placed into often awkward, bizarre set pieces, and coerced into visually compelling poses. Various websites (craigslist, etc.) became a way of enlisting others into my shoots. I use the photography medium as way of documenting the experience of these performance pieces. An example of this would be smearing chocolate syrup all over a stranger’s legs and asking him to climb into a dryer, they might be completely covered with glitter or have their head stuffed in an uncomfortable place