Croatian born and German raised designer Damir Doma studied in Berlin and Munich. His talent then led him to Antwerp to work for designers such as Raf Simons and Dirk Schoenberger. Inspired by artists such as Gottfried Helnwein, Joseph Beuys, and Gerhard Richter, his collections are heavy in material and textile research and embody soft shapes. For his new collection, however, he was inspired by the artist Anselm Kiefer, which led to the use of melancholic colors and fluid drapes.
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Joy Ahoulou and Simon Burgunder of Basel, Switzerland have been friends for several years. They both completed a tailoring apprenticeship and later studied Fashion Design at The University of Applied Arts in Basel. After receiving two grants for their post graduate collections from the Federal Office of Culture, they decided to work as a team and develop their own line called Ahoulou Burgunder. Inspired by the notion of manhood, their designs explore the limits of masculinity and feminity – using fabrics from the likes of Schläpfer, Forster Rohner etc. for instance – with derision and fun.
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Tangled Alphabets, a collection of works by León Ferrari and Mira Schendel is on show at the MoMA in New York City until June 15 2009. I was lucky enough to catch the exhibit, and was not, by any means, disappointed. Located at the top floor of the museum, make sure you plan enough time to get to it. Or start from the top down.
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La Chatte consists of the charismatic Vava (singer), Stéphane Argillet (machines), and Nikolu (guitar). Their music is influenced by the colourful electro-pop of the seventies, verges sometimes on the chaotic with gusts of post-punk and no wave, with a melancholic loop in the background, both obscure and minimalist.
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The Depth Affect project was born in the new millennium in the suburbs of Nantes, France. In David Bideau and Rémy Charrier’s student rooms, keyboards and laptops outnumbered Beach Boys and Autechre records. From then on, they were set to start building the architecture of their music.
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Belgian artist, Jan Fabre, will be presenting his work From the Feet to the Brain at the 53rd Venice Biennale in the Arsenale Novissimo, from 06.06.2009 – 20.09.2009.
From the Feet to the Brain follows a beautiful and horrific metaphorical artistic vision of the body. It is created in different rooms and levels starting from the feet and ending with the brain, which the artist finds is the most sexy part of the body.
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Join us at the Hultsfred Festival in Sweden from July 8-11 2009 to check out The Gossip amongst other bands such as The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, The Sounds, Klaxons, and Kings of Leon.
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Now digitally available, Let’s Kiss and Make Up is a fun new two part compilation (Slow and Fast) of various artists just released by the French label Tsunami-Addiction. Limited CD edition is available in October 2009. (Interviews with some of the artists soon to come.)
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One of four hundred photographs from the series Case History by Boris Mikhailov, Ukrainian photographer (1938) who works and lives in Kharkov and Berlin. Case History is a photographic work, which documents the disintegration of the human condition and social structures following the break up of the Soviet Union, focusing on the harshness of life for the homeless.
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A tribute to a wonderful man and photographer. Vietnam War photographer Van Es has passed away in a hospital in Hong Kong at the age of 67 from a brain hemorrhage.
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