Mid-seasons may not be as widely celebrated by fashion houses as the big seasonal showcases, but these four powerhouses pulled out campaigns that tell a different story. Here are, at a glance, the pre-fall campaigns for Prada, Gucci, Miu Miu and Chanel. CHANEL Photographer: Karl Lagerfeld Models: Cara Delevigne, Pharrell Williams, Hudson Kroenig GUCCI Photographer: Glen Luchford Models: Alexandra […]
Marie’s Story, Welcome to Me, Sunshine Superman, The Connection: May’s Essential Movies
Kristen Wiig surprises us with a movie that’s funny and smart, while the story of Marie Heurtin—a young girl born blind and deaf in 19th Century France—tugs at the heartstrings: these and more of May’s best new movies. Welcome To Me Director: Shira Piven Starring: Kristen Wiig, James Marsden, Linda Cardellini Opens May 1st In one of the most […]
Form and Function: Mark Newson and the Art of Product Design
This week, the Lockheed Lounge by Australian designer Marc Newson has retained its title as the world’s most expensive design object, after fetching £2,434,500 in a sale at auction house Phillips in London. Newson’s aluminium and fiberglass chaise longue, designed in 1990, was first brought to fame when Madonna reclined in it in the video for her 1993 single “Rain”. […]
Rundgren/Nikolaisen/Lindstrøm – Put Your Arms Around Me (Erol Alkan Rework)
Runddans, the collaborative album by the legendary Todd Rundgren, and two of Norway’s finest, Emil Nikolaisen of Serena Maneesh and producer Hans-Peter Lindstrøm, is out on May 5th on Smalltown Supersound. The album is described as “a spiritual magnus-opus that stands alongside Rundgren’s most worshipped trippy albums of the seventies, fusing his blue eyed soul with Lindstrom’s epic disco compositions […]
Art Openings This Week in LA
If you’re in Southern California this week, here is a curated list of the most noteworthy shows opening across LA galleries this week. Sculpture Iva Gueorguieva April 25 – May 30, 2015 ACME, 6150 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles CA, 90048 Bikini Factory Anthony Lepore April 25 – June 6, 2015 Francois Ghebaly Gallery, 2245 E Washington Blvd., Los Angeles […]
Instagram’s Cut-Out Rebel: Kalen Hollomon
New York-based collage artist Kalen Hollomon makes the kind of technicolour digital collages that would appear to be quite at home on an innocuous blog about the everyday lives of New York subway travellers. Hollomonís work is, at first glance, refreshingly simple yet bold in its execution. His whimsically playful collages, made by superimposing clippings from fashion and vintage porn […]
The Nude Avant-Garde: Bertrand Bonello
French filmmaker Bertrand Bonello is at the center of a complete retrospective at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City, which will run April 29 through May 4. The retrospective, I Put a Spell on You: The Films of Bertrand Bonello will feature a preview, including a Q&A with the director itself, of Bonello’s recent film Saint Laurent, as well as […]
Cosmic Slop: Brit Wacher F/W 2015 Lookbook
Brit Wacher, the Montreal-based designer we profiled in the Blonde Ambition issue, has long been fascinated with the abstract. For F/W 2015, Wacher turned to the “cosmos” to deliver a collection that features many of the trademark elements that have marked her previous collections—shapely and structured, tailored pieces and flowy draped elements—but this time, Wacher has more liberally appropriated the use of […]
Coachella 2015: The Best Performances
If you were at Coachella, these will be fond reminders of what we hope was a memorable weekend. If you weren’t there, we bring you a selection of the best live performances, courtesy of Florence and the Machine, Chet Faker, St. Vincent, The Weeknd and more. Florence and the Machine ft. Father John Misty – Love Hurts […]