Rag & Bone Moments with Stacy Martin and Emile Hirsch
January 22, 2014
The latest rag & bone campaign sees sexy French Nymphomaniac ingénue Stacy Martin with West Coast rebel and Lone Survivorstar Emile Hirsch traipsing about a deserted, grayscale downtown Los Angeles.
Alanna Heiss, On the Horizon
January 21, 2014
The forsaken public school. The former jail. One abandoned warehouse after another. Most would see crumpled destitution; Alanna Heiss saw empty space.
Exclusive Video Premiere: ‘Strange Figurine,’ The Black and White Years
January 21, 2014
Mannequins are the perfect stoic actors for Austin-based band The Black and White Years’ charming new video “Strange Figurines,” in which the whole plot hinges on characters not saying what they’re thinking.
The Haas Brothers’ Los Angeles Philosophy
January 19, 2014
Twin brothers and partners Nikolai and Simon Haas have a philosophy about Los Angeles: Its open-mindedness, its loneliness, its rolling landscape, its warmth, and even its weed blend to make the rising arts capital a catalyst for creative minds.
Raf Simons’ Latest Campaign Looks like Russian Constructivism
January 15, 2014
Some might forget that before there was Raf Simons, Chrisian Dior creative director, Jil Sanders reinventer, sharp tailoring aficionado, there was the 20something Simons who left his career as a furniture designer to found an eponymous menswear label in 1995. Today, the line released its Spring/Summer 2014 campaign.
Chef Jason Kallert, Center Stage
December 30, 2013
There’s been a lot of talk lately about performance in dining, and dining in performance. But an under-wraps show brewing at the Diamond Horseshoe, an abandoned nightclub beneath Time Square’s Paramount Hotel, might stun ravenous spectators into silence–mouths full, eyes open wide.
First Dibs: Bottega Veneta Pre-Fall 2014 Look 39
December 27, 2013
Sweeping to the floor with slivered ribbons of disintegrating gold leaf, thos Bottega Veneta gown is actually a more abstract rendition of blooming and decaying chrysanthemums.
Renaissance Nightmares
December 12, 2013
With cosmic clashes, bloody rain and many a deformity, The Book of Miracles illuminates the nightmares of Renaissance Europe’s collective consciousness.
At the Garage Center, Performance Meets Life
December 11, 2013
A century ago this month, a group of Cubo-Futurist artists in St. Petersburg staged Victory Over the Sun, an opera they conceived as a total work of art.
Dazzling Display
December 9, 2013
“Jewels by JAR,” now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the Bronx-born jeweler’s first American retrospective.
The Only Picasso Anything You’ll Ever Need
December 8, 2013
To date, there’s only one place to see Picasso’s thousands of drawings, paintings, prints, and sculptures together: the Zervos Picasso catalog, assembled by Picasso’s friend and collaborator Christian Zervos.
Uniqlo’s Mixer
December 7, 2013
The projects are varied, but rooted in simple ideas. “My goal is to design by peeling away excess,” says Uniqlo design director Naoki Takizawa. “It’s the ultimate fashion, because it doesn’t strive to be fashionable.”
First Dibs: Burberry Prorsum Pre-Fall 2014 Look 10
December 6, 2013
All eyes might be on Miami, but we’ve got London on the mind.
The Prada Model
December 3, 2013
Climbing trees in Kenya as a kid, Malaika Firth didn’t think about fashion often.
The Whimsical Design Duo
December 2, 2013
It was one of those fateful New York moments when Elizabeth Ammerman, a Pratt freshman straight from the Texas Bible Belt, walked into the trendy SoHo boutique Seven New York.
Thomas Erber’s Curious Curations
November 26, 2013
It was in reaction to overbearing, omnipresent brands that journalist Thomas Erber developed a new approach to presenting modern luxury.
Marianne Vitale’s Own Frontier
November 20, 2013
“Fuck. We’re like a badass bunch of freaks!” says Marianne Vitale, flipping through the playbill for “The Missing Book of Spurs,” her old-Western-meets-psychedelic-whorehouse Performa 13 show, premiering this week at her studio in Long Island City.
Well-Versed
November 14, 2013
“If you read just one Cavafy poem, you don’t understand. But go back to it in 15 minutes and read it slower, it cracks open.”
René Redzepi’s Foraging Fundamentals
November 13, 2013
Chef Rene Redzepi is most at east, he’ll tell you, rummaging about the Danish landscape in search of ingredients for Noma, the three-time world’s best restaurant winner he opened in Copenhagen a decade ago.
Agnieszka Kurant’s Exformative Period
November 11, 2013
Artist Agnieszka Kurant brings phantoms to life.