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Don’t Try This at Home

In anticipation for POP X Cindy Sherman Fanzine, here is a little thing from our archives. Merci Cindy Cindy Sherman wears Balenciaga by Nicolas Ghesquière Photos Cindy Sherman Scans from Vogue...

Issey Miyake- jeux de tissu performance by Yayoi Kusama on A-POC King and Queen- 2000 (Friedmann Hauss)

In 2000 Kusama worked alongside Issey Miyake putting her signature dots on Miyake A-POC fabric. About Kusama“Yayoi Kusama is perhaps Japans most famous living artist. From her groundbreaking work...

I may be making fashion in the sense of craftmanship, but I hate the world of fashion.

Does your work address out society, politics, the world at large? I say: Sit down, calm down, you are turning in a carousel that moves too fast. Fashion has lost respect of clothing My job is to...

“I’m an art object and very very expensive!”

Irina Lazareanu by Cecile Bortoletti for Lurve Magazine. Styling :Marine Braunschvig.

Douleur J- 10

10 days before Valentine’s Day let’s tell stories of ordinary and not-so-ordinary heart-break. Let’s use this blog as a catalogue of suffering, break-ups and love letters that never arrive. Love, I...

This is a tear sheet yellowed with antiquity

Glamour, angels, beauty, sex, fabrication, androgyny and exultation. These are the words we should use to remember the great artist that Steven Arnold was. Arnold, who passed away in 1994 was a...

Letter to an angel

Tilda Swinton as Lena the prostitute in Derek Jarman’s Caravaggio (1986) “All art is against lived expression. How can you compare flesh and blood against pigment?!!….I have trapped pure spirit in...

Fashination

About cross-fertilization of art and fashion In 1997 Martin Margiela produced an entire exhibit for a museum (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 6 June - 17 August 1997). He destroyed his...

Memoirs

« Real clothes and costume, yesterday and today. With my two hands, I have mixed the ridiculousness and absurdity of costume and the boringness of real clothes, like creating the salad dressing for...

bits and pieces

William Blake, The Annunciation to the Shepherds Maria Carla at Rick Owens Spring /Summer 09 Shirin Neshat Untitled (From Woman of Allah Series), 1995

Daria Werbowy for Prada

The Thunder, Perfect Mind is a poem discovered among the Gnostic manuscripts at Nag Hammadi in 1945. Thunder Perfect Mind (the title is, more accurately, The Thunder - Perfect Intellect), takes the...

Association d’idées

The Broken Column by Frida Kahlo (1944) Leather corset Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci (2009) This self-portrait shows the artists spine as a broken Ionic column. By 1944, Fridas health had deteriorated...

The THEO ADAMS COMPANY present: Cry Out

CRY OUT (Trailer by Matthew Stone) - Presented by the Theo Adams Company from Theo Adams on Vimeo. In the spotlight, your tears glow like glitter. Be a superstar in the chorus. Step forward, and...

Quote of the day

“wondering if a life in art is really just an ad for one long hot, kissy night at the beach. Or something closer to fairyland” LINDA YABLONSKY

Harriet Casdin-Silver

“Harriet Casdin-Silver is a pioneer of art holography in the United States and was an important figure in the development of installation art and technological art in the 1960s. Casdin-Silver?s...

Hair Inspiration

Mika Rottenberg Still from Cheese – 2007 The Seven Sutherland Sisters The Seven Sutherland Sisters of Lockport, New York, were world-famous for their incredible hair, which reportedly had a...

Made in Heaven

Ilona on Top (Rosa Background) (detail), 1990 Estimate 2,000,000 - 3,000,000. Contemporary Art Day auction at Sotheby’s New York, Nov 12 2009.

From our dream bookshelf

Fashion and Surrealism # author: Richard Martin # publisher: Rizzoli International/Thames & Hudson # publication date: 1987 # BNET.com: ArtForum: Couture de force - interview with curator Richard...

Vanessa Beecroft

13 vb47.364.dr (2001)

Walking as Art

19 “Shoes hold the key to human identity”

SULCORPO

“Something that is taking shape in my mind and will sometime come to consciousness”/ “Something which I know exists, but I cannot know if anyone else knows it” Lara Stone par Jean- Francois Lepage...

Quote of the day

“Seeing one picture of Chagall is much more important than reading all the issues of Vogue ever published.” Renata Molho in Vice. Spring 2008

Stranger than Fiction

Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.2006. Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.2006.

Fauchon + Brigitte Bardot