Photographer (and once Seattle resident) Ari Seth Cohen’s Advanced Style blog represent the most fashionable older ladies and gentlemen of New York and beyond. In collaboration with NOWNESS, Ari and Lina Plioplyte created a short film starring the older fashionistas.Advanced Style: Age and Beauty
Before The Sartorialist, there was the OG….
Street Style photographer, Bill Cunningham.
ABOUT THE FILM
“We all get dressed for Bill,” says Vogue editrix Anna Wintour.
The “Bill” in question is 80+ New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his columns “On the Street” and “Evening Hours.” Documenting uptown fixtures (Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller—who all appear in the film out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, Cunningham’s enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place and individual flair. In turn, Bill Cunningham New York is a delicate, funny and often poignant portrait of a dedicated artist whose only wealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace.
Posted March 7, 2011 at 6:44pm in Street Style New York Times Bill Cunningham Fashion Style The Sartorialist
Rag & Bone’s Guerilla Advertising Campaign
DIY from rag & bone on Vimeo.
The boys behind Rag & Bone, Marcus Wainwright and David Neville, have created a guerilla advertising campaign which involves plastering thousands of posters all over lower Manhattan, in delis, constructions walls, and sign posts, in “Dan Smith Will Teach You Guitar” fashion. The ads consist of personal photographs of models Abbey Lee Kershaw, Edita Vilkeviciute, Sasha Pivovarova, and Lily Aldridge wearing Rag & Bone.
via Refinery29
Posted January 28, 2011 at 2:30pm in Rag & Bone Guerilla Advertising Flyers Models Fashion Lower East Side
Art, Fashion, Action | MOVE! at PS1
MOVE!
Date: Saturday, October 30, 2010 - Sunday, October 31, 2010
Time: 12:00 PM to 6:00 PMMOVE! is a two-day event merging the worlds of fashion and art through the collaboration of designers and artists, organized by Visionaire/V Magazine’s Cecilia Dean and style journalist David Colman. There will be performances and temporary installations presented throughout the building from each of the collaborating designers and artists. Artists and designers include: Kalup Linzy and Diane Von Furstenberg; Rob Pruitt and Marc Jacobs; Terence Koh and Italo Zucchelli (Calvin Klein Collection); Tauba Auerbach and Ohne Titel; Olaf Breuning and Cynthia Rowley; Brody Condon and Rodarte; Rashaad Newsome and Alexander Wang; Dan Colen and Proenza Schouler; David Blaine and Adam Kimmel; Jonah Bokaer and Narciso Rodriguez; The Cheryls and American Apparel; and Ryan McNamara and Robert Geller; and TELFAR + Lizzie Fitch, Rhett LaRue, Fatima Al Qadiri, Ryan Trecartin, and Leilah Weinraub.
MOVE! is part of MoMA PS1’s Free Space initiative where artists, collectives, and nonprofit arts institutions are invited to make collaborative use of MoMA PS1’s gallery space for events, rehearsals, and other live presentations.
Check out this sneak peek from Cynthia Rowley and Olaf Breuning’s collaboration piece:
OLAF BREUNING AND CYNTHIA ROWLEY FOR MOVE! AT MOMA PS1 from V Magazine
Posted October 26, 2010 at 11:34pm in Art V Magazine Visionaire PS1 MOVE! Collaborations Fashion MoMA Cecilia Dean David Colman Marc Jacobs Terence Koh Diane Von Furstenberg Cynthia Rowley Alexander Wang Proenza Schouler
Kate Spade pop-up shop in London!
Kate Spade engaged Neverstop to produce their brand’s London debut, with the opening of a pop-up shop situated at 7 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. The “pop-up apartment” consists of four rooms: lounge, kitchen, dining room, and bedroom - spanning across two floors. The shop houses fashion, bags, footwear, crockery, furnishings, and art, in addition to exclusive London merchandise. It will be open for one month, starting on October 12th.
Deborah Lloyd, President and CCO of the label, hosts a strictly invitation-only launch party on October 13th.
Posted October 6, 2010 at 2:35pm in Kate Spade London UK Pop-up Pop up shop fashion event Covent Garden
The Target Kaleidoscopic Fashion Spectacular
Target took over The Standard in New York to put on “The Target Kaleidoscopic Fashion Spectacular” on August 18th.
In a dazzling and dizzying display of music, lights, dance, fashion, and, above all, wealth,Target put on a 20 minute show perfectly suited to the ADD-generation. A meticulously choreographed dance routine synchronized to a light show played out across 155 rooms, set to an original score recorded with a 30-piece orchestra and 10-member chorus.
More impressive was the cost of it all. One source estimates the cost of the event at around a million, easy. So we roughly broke down the cost of last night’s Target fall fashion spectacular (minus the private party at the Standard’s biergarten):
- 155 Standard Queen rooms at $295 (their cheapest rates) = $45,725
- 66 professional dancers at around $2000 a dancer (this rough estimate from MSA Talent Agency who reps 20 of the dancers who performed in the show). Dancers rehearsed on a 20,000 square foot sound stage for nine days prior to the show. = $132,000
- 20 models at around $1000 each = $20,000
- Scaffolding structure that held the runway show: $35,000 plus $10,000 for lighting
- Shutting down Little West 12th Street plus security: $100,000
- Celebrity service for Mary-Louise Parker and Penn Badgley at $1000 each for car service, $50,000 each for a 45 minute appearance = $102,000
- 156 LED lights at around $20 each = $3120
- Programming, equipment and labor for lighting = $50,000
- Original score = $35,000
- An estimated four days of recording at $3000 per day with a 30 piece orchestra and 10 member choir = $12,000
- 30 musicians at around $1800 each = $54,000
- Bleachers for viewing = $15,000
- Red carpet (step and repeat plus lighting) = $10,000TOTAL = over $620,000
from fashionista.com
images from wsj.com
