For #ThrowbackThursday, try not to get scared by ‘Rubber Johnny’, director Chris Cunningham‘s experimental short + music video for Aphex Twin. Partially shot in infrared night vision on digital video, Cunningham’s video concept was simple – a raver transforming as he danced – which then evolved into this – ‘Johnny’ is a deformed teen kept in a […]
For Reema Acra Spring 2014, It’s All About Shine, Big Hair + Lots Of Skin
(photos: John Aquino) Reem Acra’s evenings for spring are full of disco glamour with sparkle, sex + form. Present was the requisite gold lamé number, which seemed to slink around the model as a long lost lover in a tight warm embrace while bias-cut looks took to turning you out in different ways. There was […]
Happy Birthday Karl!
(photo: Helmut Newton) Fashion god Karl Lagerfeld turned 80 today – I don’t believe it, do you? But as Karl was quoted as saying, ‘Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born,’ + boy, he’s not done living anytime soon! Happy Birthday Karl!
A Dictionary of Portmanteaux on Nowness.com Don’t you love animation that not only entertains but educates too? Well, that’s exactly what Christian Borstlap set out to do with this little number above entitled ‘A Dictionary Of Portmanteaux’. By definition, a portmanteau is basically a word that’s comprised of the union of two words like the […]
Favorite Looks: The Row Spring 2014
(photos: Giovanni Giannoni) For The Row‘s spring collection, designers Mary-Kate + Ashley Olsen dipped their toes in tailoring while diving in head first, into breezy + relaxed looks. With a photo of Indians dressed in white during British Colonial rule, as their point of inspiration, the global references were not at all literal if not […]
WAKE UP with the music video for Danish electro pop singer MØ, featuring her Diplo co-produced brilliant single, “XXX 88”. Directed by Tim Erem, the video jumps from MØ in her bedroom to riding around in the desert in a gold motorbike. Now although Diplo produced the track, you do get to see him on the cover of a […]
Opening Ceremony’s Spring 2014 Collection Will Drive You To
(photos: John Aquino) When designers Carol Lim + Humberto Leon sought inspiration from elements of their youth for Opening Ceremony‘s Spring 2014 collection – NY street looks peppered with traditional Korean garments for Carol + the drag racing subculture for Humberto – the end result was full of cool ease with excitement, punches of color + interesting […]
For Spring 2014, Ostwald Helgason Doesn’t Want You To Be Ignored
(photos: Todd Matarazzo) Designers Susanne Ostwald + Ingvar Helgason took to celebrating spring as the season of rebirth with punches of color, pattern, texture + whimsy. For their Ostwald Helgason Spring 2014 collection, they created a floral pattern (row 1, pic 1) + one with balloon animals (row 1, pic 2), which at times were in a […]