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Art Into Life
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"Any organized work - a house, a poem or a painting - is an expedient object that does not isolate people from life but helps them to organize it." - Veshch' no. 1-2, March-April 1922

When Art Meets Art (Meets Art)

It feels like a collaboration from another century — modern art greats coming together to create a production that pushes the limits in every way. Great designer meets great architect meets gre...

22 may 12

Why Didn’t British Women Adore Adele

The fashion industry generally ascribes a direct correlation to the influence and celebrity of the woman who graces a magazine’s cover and the sales figures for that particular issue. In this l...

20 may 12

Sometimes Life Really Shouldn’t Imitate Art

Clearly I am all for life imitating art, art imitating life, art in life, and style driven in equal parts by beauty, enthusiasm and a good sense of humor. Still, the two are not entirely interchangea...

19 may 12

San Miguel de Allende

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18 may 12

April Flowers Bring May Showers, But By June Everything Should Be Coming Up Roses Again

Just in time for graduation, the ASOS Salon collection of dresses has arrived, and they are truly exquisite. Most dresses are around $200, so they’re not your usual fast fashion bargain, but ar...

17 may 12

The Art Of Two Amazing Muslim Women, Making Beauty Of Inscription And Erasure

It has been announced that on May 22 Lalla Essaydi will be awarded the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s Medal Award. (A retrospective of her work, “Lalla Essaydi: Revisions,...

16 may 12

Let’s Face It, There’s Always Something Else To Shop For, And It’s Target Time

I don’t know about you, but I have a had to institute a moratorium on spending on spring clothing and accessories. I have no reasonable excuse for buying anything else. So, trying to steer clea...

15 may 12

With This Springs Jackets What Is Old Is New Again

We’ve discussed shoes, printed jeans and floral dresses, but the other key item this season — the one that’s almost the easiest to wear — is the floral print jacket. Personall...

11 may 12

The Costume Institute Gala Shows Fashion At Its Best And Its Worst

Yes, I cannot pass up a good red carpet. So here’s the 2012 Met Ball hit list. Camilla Belle is so perfectly stunning you can’t even hate her for it. OMG! The tulle gave Dianna Agron̵...

10 may 12

An Assortment Of Mints Because Everyone Loves Style From The Stars

Stylemint. Shoemint. Jewelmint. And now Homemint. Enough already. Why does the connection with celebrity carry so much weight? I kind of understand why we are so taken with what celebrities wear. The...

09 may 12

More Fun With Dick And Jane or I

So, we went to the Proof of Purchase postcard sale for the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. It’s on for one more day, there are a lot of great postcards still available, and all of ...

06 may 12

Head To J. Crew For A Piece Of The Fashion World’s Darling – Joseph Altuzarra

It turns out that the leaked collaboration between Manolo Blahnik and J Crew which I posted about a month and a half ago is indeed too good to be true. And Blahnik’s denials of any knowledge of...

05 may 12

Pocket Sized Art For All

For several years we received, as Christmas gifts from my in-laws, post card sized images by various artists. They bought the postcards each year at RCA Secret, an exhibition and sale put on by the R...

04 may 12

Peplum Power … Give Your Skirt Wings

If fall’s most mystifying trend was the mullet dress, spring offers an equally mystifying take on the idea. For spring it’s all about the peplum skirt. This is one of those trends that I ...

03 may 12

How’s This For Funny – Make Your Guests Sit Under A Pooping Bird While Eating Dinner

Priceless … design with a sense of humor. It’s not everyone who is able to design products or spaces which are both beautiful and playful, make you smile but can also be taken seriously f...

02 may 12

Dress It Up, Call It What You Will, It’s Still Marc Jacobs

Isn’t it kind of intriguing how a designer can design multiple collections simultaneously? It is one thing to create nice clothes. It is altogether another talent to be able to distill the esse...

01 may 12

Is It The New Shape Of The Magazine Industry … Domino Is Back

As a dedicated lover of shopping for things to make life more beautiful, I was extremely sad to say goodbye to Domino magazine (especially when they fulfilled the rest of my pre-paid subscription wit...

29 apr 12

The City As The Ultimate Representation Of Twentieth Century Art

To mention Sol Lewitt and leave it at that is to do a disservice to the other artists showing at MASS MoCA since truly each exhibit is more engaging than the last. So, to continue my tour of our visi...

28 apr 12

It’s On Your Face Folks, So Make Sure It’s The Look You Want

So today I finally had to break down and buy a new phone. I had an iPhone 3S. I have no idea when I got it. Years ago. But lately it has decided that it’s not terribly interested in connecting ...

27 apr 12

Spring Dresses, Look Like Costumes From Mad Men, But Are Utterly Modern

As spring gets into full swing, and the stores are starting to hold spring sales, it seems like must have item this spring and summer is not in fact floral jeans (although they’re still great, ...

26 apr 12

Diego Rivera At MoMA … As Relevant Today As Ever

In case I haven’t said it enough, one of my favorite periods in recent art history is the 1930s (in Europe, the United States and the then Soviet Union). This is largely due to the emphasis, at...

04 mar 12

The Face Of Chinese Fashion … The Amazing Art Of Guo Pei

We have all been aware for some time that most of the products we consume are made in China. Go to China and you can get cheap manufacturing for American products. But as global economy shifts and ...

03 mar 12

Ain’t Nothing Wrong With Getting Older Girls

As a fashion addict, I always love finding a new line I didn’t know about. But I think there’s something particularly titillating about discovering a line that has been around forever tha...

02 mar 12

R.I.P. Davy Jones

Clearly, my comfort zone lies with visual culture. There are many other areas of aesthetic experience which are a part of the overall concept of “art into life” but are generally woefully...

01 mar 12

An Elegant Table And A … Well … Boy

Not feeling terribly philosophical today — just a few images to share: The Giselle Lounge Table by Anna Neklesa for Kerozen Design Neklesa is a 23 year old designer from Saint Petersburg, Russi...

29 feb 12

Just Another Red Carpet, But At Least We Can Laugh At Helmet Hair

I’m not sure why I feel quite so apologetic about the possibility of writing about the dresses on the red carpet at the Academy Awards. For someone interested in fashion and aesthetics, there ...

28 feb 12

Everything’s Coming Up Roses … Spring Is Right Around The Corner Isn’t It

All of this 50 degree weather in Boston in the middle of February has me thinking that spring is right around the corner. I know — when March dumps 20″ of snow on us I’m going to b...

26 feb 12

This Is Me … No Wait This Is Me

I am always intrigued by photographs that explore the changes in a person’s face over time. It is a fascinating way of questioning what constitutes identity. If you ask me, it can also be wil...

25 feb 12

Nomerz … Giving The Russian Landscape A Facelift

Every once in a while an idea comes along which is so clever that it seems absolutely obvious — even though it is being expressed for the first time. I love graffiti — or more broadly, st...

24 feb 12

A Genius Of Her Own … Yup, That’s A Pencil On My Dress

The Mary Katrantzou for Topshop collaboration was (is — since it has yet to arrive at Topshop New York and Topshop Las Vegas) amazing. By many accounts it is the best designer x fast fashion c...

23 feb 12

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