Double beauties, Kate Moss & Daria Werbowy are the muses of the last EQUIPMENT's campaign, captured by Daria herself.
/ by Michael Marson /
// CITY GIRL //
Just out now, Anthony Vaccarello‘s SS 2016 campaign featuring supermodel Freja Beha Erichsen captured by Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, and styled by Alastair McKimm.
/ by Michael Marson /
// BEHIND THE SCENES //
VETEMENTS and the Publisher IDEA BOOKS are releasing a limited-edition photo book shot exclusively by Pierre-Ange Carlotti. The print edition ll be produced in a run of 500 & sold at the Comme des Garçons Trading Museum in Paris beginning January 23, and later at Idea’s Dover Street Market locations in New York, London, & Ginza in Tokyo.
©Pierre-Ange Carlotti for VETEMENTS 2015 / IDEA 2016
/ by Michael Marson /
// SUPER 8 //
50 years after Super 8 film was first launched by Eastman Kodak, the company teams up with San Francisco designer Yves Behar to kick off its Super 8 Revival Initiative.
Their first prototype combines the classic features of the analogue Super 8 camera with digital functionality in a sleek and pared-back, updated version of the original models.
Hollywood’s blockbuster directors and film amateurs alike are going wild.
As are we.
// OTHER WOMEN //
// STRANGER IN A ROOM //
Dior Homme launches its SS 2016 campaign, photographed by Willy Vanderperre with Singer and lyricist Oliver Sim from the XX, actor Alain-Fabien Delon, artist Rinus Van de Velde & model Victor Nylander.
The still images are accompanied by a film which is titled “Stranger in a Room” after a song of the same title by Sim’s bandmate Jamie xx, which actually features the bass-player’s vocals.
/ by Michael Marson /
// 90'S ICONS //
The three 90's legends, Cindy, Claudia & Naomi join the Balmain Army for the last campaign shooted by Steven Klein.
/ by Michael Marson /
// BLACKSTAR //
On Blackstar, to be released tomorrow on his 69th birthday, Bowie, like on many of his other records keeps on creating new personas, only this time the persona is himself. With this album Bowie reveals himself, but on his own conditions. Weaving stories, both emotive and personal, sometimes almost encoded, so the listener will get the atmosphere but is left with some missing clues, only for Bowie to know and reveal.
Blackstar is nevertheless a coherent, reflective and darker Bowie masterpiece.
/ by Deer du Bois /
// BENN & THE BOYS //
The actor Benn Northover is the leader of the new Ermenegildo Zegna Couture for the Stefano Pilati’s SS 2016 collection campaign.
Benn & the boys were captured by Inez & Vinoodh& styled by Joe McKenna.
/ by Michael Marson /
// I LOVE BERLIN //
Urban spaces of Berlin, from a rooftop to a warehouse club are the raw backdrop to the SS16 GUCCI's campaign.
Glen Luchford captured the artistic & brutalist nature of this city contrasts against the dreamy romance mood of Alessandro Michele.
/ by Michael Marson /
// SERIES 4 by LOUIS VUITTON //
“Series 4”, the SS 2016 collection campaign continues the visual dialogue between several artists of imagery, started with "series 1"
Once again, the images comprise a triptych in which each section echoes and completes the other, weaving a narrative about a heroine whose multiple facets Nicolas Ghesquière wished to explore. The authors of this latest chapter are Juergen Teller, Bruce Weber and Square Enix, the Japanese video game and manga creator.
Each one expresses a point of view about the muses of a new era.
/ by Michael Marson /
// #10 MusicVideos 2015 //
BEHIND THE BLINDS' top 10 music videos of 2015.
/ by Michael Marson /
// DEAR FRIENDS, … //
For his first solo show in Brazil, Belgian artist Rinus Van de Velde presents a site-specific work, composed of large format charcoal drawings and text captions.
Together they guide the viewer through the story he wants to tell, evoking the illusion of places, populated by characters spanning from a hallucinatory outsider living on an isolated island, to a 19th century sculptor.
Rinus Van de Velde
São Paulo
11.12.2015 – 9.1.2016
© Rinus Van de Velde. Courtesy Tim Van Laere Gallery.
/ by Kim Poorters /
// COMME DES GARCONS X GUCCI //
COMME DES GARCONS X GUCCI’six limited edition scarves are now available at Dover Street Market New York, London, and Ginza.
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/ by Michael Marson /
// GIVENCHY SS16 Campaign //
Riccardo Tisci unveiled his new SS16 campaign captured by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott. Featuring an all-star cast of 27 models, the campaign reflects the theme of the Marina Abramoviç-directed New York Fashion Week show, all about "LOVE".
Accompanying images of the models, is a poem by singer Antony Hegarty, now known as Anohni: “I am a child on the river, and love waits downstream,” it reads. “A waterfall to steal my breath, and change my mind.”
“He’s a poetic person. In a few words, he said everything,” said Tisci, speaking on Hegarty’s text.
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/ by Michael Marson /
// XMAS //
BEHIND THE BLINDS'
100 favorite gifts for Xmas.
/ by MICHAEL MARSON & KIM POORTERS /
// SHERO //
Pirelli shot the female hero. Once naked, now dressed in the 2016 Pirelli calendar. The shero is here to stay. She was admired for her measurements. She will be known for her achievements. The shero is on fire. She inspires an uprising we are invited to join. There is no stopping her.
May the force be with us.
// MUSIC TEE by A.P.C. //
A.P.C. has a long association with music. A record label called A.P.C. (Section Musicale) was created soon after the brand’s inception and a recording studio was built at the head office at rue Madame in 1998. It is fitting that for Fall-Winter 2015 A.P.C. collaborate on a collection of print T-shirts with the following four musicians: Nicolas Godin, Étienne Daho, Paradis and Flavien Berger.
Available now in A.P.C. stores worldwide & on apc.fr.
/ by Michael Marson /
/ thanks to Sanel from Ulla Models /
// PARTICLE MIST //
Legendary photographer Bill Henson has released a new book featuring a collection of previously unseen photographs taken in 1976.
The series shows Henson’s recognised and celebrated style, capturing the delicacy, magnetism and celestial nature of the ballerinas, that is both bewitching and disturbing. When photographing the dancers, Henson found himself fascinated by the faces, which were ‘lost to the world, absorbed in the dance’. He was drawn to the idea of a spirit of an individual in a space.
// YELLOWBLUEPINK //
With yellowbluepink, Ann Veronica Janssens launches States of Mind: Tracing the edges of consciousness, a year-long investigation into the experience of human consciousness.
Invading the gallery with coloured mist - an ongoing experiment since her first fog-sculpture in 1997 - any detail of surface or depth within the space is blurred, and the viewers’ attention drawn to the process of perception itself through the medium of light and colour.
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“Nothing is more beautiful than a person’s own perception. I try to push it to its limits."
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On the occasion of the planned installation of two permanent sculptures for the City of Ghent, S.M.A.K. invites both the Brussels based artist and her Turkish counterpart Ayşe Erkmen to elaborate on their proposals in a duo exhibition.
Ann Veronica Janssens - yellowbluepink
London
15.10.2015 – 3.1.2015
© Ann Veronica Janssens. Courtesy the Artist and Wellcome Trust.
Ayşe Erkmen and Ann Veronica Janssens - .A
Ghent
31.10.2015 – 14.2.2016
/ by Kim Poorters /
