When I said Proenza and Demeulemeester were my fav for F/W I was still waiting to see the new "Bored to Death" collection from Obesity & Speed and OH MY GOD. WITHOUT A DOUBT. THEY ABSOLUTELY KILLED IT! I want everything. I love every piece. This is the by far the best I’ve seen all year, all fashion weeks, all collections. Get over to their site immediately and check out all the rest. Lyz & Josh are taking over and I couldn’t be happier about it!
Still can’t stop thinking about Proenza Schouler f/w 09. The show was one of the few NY collections I wrote about and would be all for wearing completely head to toe. I liked the shoes when I first saw them but forgot to check out the detail shots and thanks to Elizabeth I went back and took a better look…
Can I just say, WOW!!!!!!! (again!) I mean, I’m really not a shoe girl but THESE, how can’t you love them?!? Those boots on the right are seriously… oh man, I can’t wait to just try them on. Just looking at the heels in the middle make me ecstatic. The design of each of these is just way too epic for real words.
The details of all the clothes are so beautiful I can’t not talk about again. I mean, blue and black must be two of my favorite colors to wear together (funny, as I have this long sleeve black & blue striped shirt that I wear all the time that’s actually Proenza) and the zipper and buttons on the first jacket here are just more incredible than I can even describe. The second with those shorts that I am completely head over heels for. The last two, I mean, do I even have to begin to explain why they’re both so INCREDIBLE? This is definitely my favorite collection for all of F/W. (OK we all know Demeulemeester will be my other total fav so lets just get that out of the way before she even shows.)
To those of you in Texas, New York is coming to you! DO NOT MISS THIS!! If you are not into large crowds AT LEAST go and grab one of the amazing zines that will be available and then stare at all the work in the safety of your own home. But really you should at least have a few drinks to calm your nerves and then go check everything out.
Please join us for the opening reception of:
GET A ROPE
curated by Kathy Grayson
Terence Koh
Slava Mogutin
Aurel Schmidt
Dash Snow
Patrick Griffin
Aaron Bondaroff
Nico Dios
Ry Fyan
Xu Han Wei
at CTRL on Friday, February 27, 6 – 8 pm
(exhibition continues through April 18, 2009)
If picante sauce commercials have taught us anything, and they have, it’s that Texans know the real spice when they taste it, and won’t hesitate to string up effete East Coast imitators. But not everything from the Big City is processed, easily consumed pap; some of New York’s artists are making work that’s fresh, chunky, immediate and authentic enough to satisfy even the grimiest Texan palate.
Curator Kathy Grayson brings a Downtown NYC insider’s perspective to CTRL with a show comprising many of that scene’s luminaries, some of whom also have a personal connection to Houston. Patrick Griffin grew up in Houston, and met Dash Snow here, a teenager in exile from misdeeds in Manhattan. Dash’s grandmother, Christophe de Menil is the reigning doyenne of the Houston art world. Terence and Slava are titillated by Texas.
Beyond their social lives, what connects these artists is a direct, down-and-dirty style unencumbered by the stereotypical New Yorker’s urbane subtlety. Aurel Schmidt makes meticulous trompe-l’oeil drawings of dissolute, strung-out monsters emerging from arrangements of cigarette butts, flies, maggots, condoms, birds, snakes, cobwebs and the like. Dash Snow’s photographs are romantic, repulsive and lucid documents of the downtown scene he helped to start. Slava Mogutin takes tender and dirty pictures of boxers, strippers and fetishists: bathroom-stall love poems. Patrick Griffin’s painted re-creations of old thrift-store buttons are too gritty to be slick and too sincere to be pop. Impresario Aaron ‘A-Ron’ Bondaroff, whose lifestyle has been his job since the age of fifteen, has literally made his life a style, publishing his complete autobiography on a series of T- shirts. Terence Koh’s celebrated practice conjures a stark and seamy opulence that runs roughshod over distinctions of class, taste, genre and gender. Xu Han Wei, yin to Terence’s yang, is a more mysterious but equally versatile talent.
Several of the artists will be traveling to Houston to make site-specific pieces, to come home or to gawk. A zine documenting the exhibition and the surrounding shenanigans will be available.
I haven’t received this many 7"s in such a short span of time since I used to spend all my money on records (Kills , RTX , Bridez ). I can’t describe this purchase any better than their label did… "You’ve blown your speakers playing these to death on YouTube, now blow your speakers playing them to death on your stereo." ..because it’s the total fucking truth. Pick this up now before it’s long gone forever.
Also new + RAD is the Fake Blood Jackets EP that you are fucked if you don’t bring home right this second (it’s up on itunes too if you’re less into vinyl and more into your ipod).
My favorite song right now.
We are seriously, incredibly way into with this designer Odyn Vovk. Both of us would wear his gear head to toe. A bigger post coming later but for now enjoy the closing at his show from FW.
When Kenneth told me a few weeks ago that he was starting a blog for his adorable dog Chich, I already knew it’d be epic. He had finished shooting one of my favorite people on earth the same day and knowing that Kenneth always photographs his subjects with Chich, I was assured he had snapped a few with this one for sure. Anyway, he launched the blog today and it is already a fast favorite. Sure to make everyone insanely jealous of a little tiny chihuahua.
I posted this on Sex Savages on Wheels this morning but it’s too good not to put up here also. It’s from British Vogue March 09. I made up a new word that may represent my favorite photoshoots when they’re done right, motoshoots. Ha ha ha. Motoshoots when they are pieced together perfectly (like here) are as good as beach shoots for me (again, when they look something like my favorites do ). I’m really digging those studded jeans…. Meadham Kirchhoff killers which would be fun to DIY. Kristin & Val at Bleach Black may need to undertake this one for sure.
First looks from Pam Hogg in LDN make me so happy!!!!!!!! LOVELOVELOVE.
This shit is enough to make me never even consider buying anything from Forever 21 again. It’s bad enough they’re a bunch of christian fuckers who have to make that widely known but ripping off my fucking friends is the lowest of the low and completely and totally FUCKED! Do not buy this shit from them!!!!!!!!
Instead head over to the Obesity & Speed site and grab up every piece you can and then try to snatch up the last of the O&S tanks at Urban featuring the epic epic epic Poly Styrene of X-Ray Spex on their most famous (apparently!) tank.
I first got their songs recorded onto a mixtape for me when I was a very young teen hanging out with older skate rat punk dudes and I think I played the same couple songs over and over and over on my walkman for weeks on end until I was finally gifted the Germ Free Adolescents LP on vinyl. This song speaks volumes about the F21 ripoff but also to the people I am unfortunately still encountering who seem to try so hard to be something they’re not and it just kills me.
If you’ve never seen Lagerfeld Confidential than you don’t know the greatness that is Karl’s jewelry setup. There are more rings than anything (naturally) but really, who wouldn’t love to have a similar deal in their house. I think I have a number of years left collecting all my favorite jewelry to amass this extraordinaryness. The very last shot is a few of the drawers pulled out where you can see Karl picking out the pieces that keep his collar so stiff. His whole apartment is so incredible but I thought you guys would appreciate this.
No surprise here, Proenza absolutely slayed it! Every piece was incredible, these three are my total favorite looks. I am all for leather shorts cut exactly like they are here. Navy and black are two of my favorite shades to mix and added grey is just perfection. All the details are incredible and the SHOES are just WOW. Love them so much.
So many wonderful things at Yigal Azrouël. These three are just so lux and amazing and I especially loved the cuff by Pamela Love that was made for the collection.
Completely adoring these Bex Rox rings at Browns. The first looks like good caviar (we love) and the second like a beautiful speckled egg. What I would give to pick up both of these right now cause I could see myself never taking them off.
I put this up on Sex Savages on Wheels but also couldn’t resist throwing it up here too. Another couple photos by the epic Hugh Lippe .
Sidenote: If you fashion girls are gonna grab our photos from Sex Savages at least credit us as the source so we get more people checking it out. THANKS
