Love, love, love this Cher as Che Do You Believe In Life After Love tee by FencingNArchery. But what makes this Che tee so perfect, besides Cher being a revolutionary in her own right, is what reads under her name in Spanish (Che’s native tongue): ¿CREES EN LA VIDA DESPUÉS DEL AMOR? or Do You Believe In Love After Love?
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Great stocking stuffer!
Check out this fashion short by UK designer BYBJORN featuring deconstructed denim couture in detritus. This look is tight from head-to-toe!
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Is it a debut album? Is it a book? Is it an iPhone app? Is it an interactive video? Well, what if I were to tell you it’s all of the above?!
(photos: Creative Applications Network)
Developed for electronic musician edisonnoside by graphic designer Matteo Di lorio, ’Sadly By Your Side’, the eight-song album, book + iOS app, is a processing + remixing tool that changes the song depending on what images your camera captures, granting the song infinite possibilities to never sound the same twice. The experience, described as synesthetic by Di lorio, incorporates sound, imagery + literature. I wonder what the songs would transform into, repurposed + repackaged by the images captured of Banksy‘s art? Check out the demo below.
‘Sadly By Your Side’ is the second project from Fabrica‘s ”Objectified mp3” series, a campaign in which all of the firm’s studios collaborate to redesign the way that they create, distribute + share its music is unique indeed. Fabrica’s researchers arrived at this notion based on the question, ‘Given that music is now a largely digital experience, and physicality is removed or at least transposed, what else could we create around the distribution, discovery + listening experiences?’ But the tracks themselves, make the experience that much more transcendent, emotional + unique to the user. If you know anything about EDM, the sounds can sometimes revolve around beats, blips + beeps, resulting in a swell of emotion of epic proportions (think Richie Hawtin) + this opus is no exception. Click here for your free app + watch it unfold.
If you want to have a listen, here are the the songs from ‘Sadly By Your Side’ which is described as an album that describes + explores the theme of distance, how physical + emotional distance can act upon us like a thin blanket of fog, warm and embracing that tries to keep us safe. But when the music fades, we feel lonely + fragile once again, like we were before listening to it. The record is a journey that takes us away from ourselves +, at the same time, helps us discover what it means to be home.
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With ‘The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk’ exhibition currently on display at Brooklyn Museum, here’s Jean Paul Gaultier‘s rare music video for 1988’s ‘How To Do That’. Directed by Jean Baptiste Mondino, the concept is clear – models jump off the page like haute couture paper dolls, wreaking havoc in negative space, with plenty of style, attitude + grace.
Werq!
For #FlasbackFriday, wake up to Roy INC.’s fabulous video for ‘Attention Kills’. Also known as Roy Anthony Brown, Ray’s professional life spans 20years, as a muse, dancer, model, singer + musician.
In the 80’s, he was seduced by London’s club scene which then lead to joining House of Child, Les Child’s voguing dance troupe, followed by walking for fashion-line Bodymap’s last ever catwalk show, telling glass magazine, ‘I was voguing down the runway. Then Pam Hogg, an old friend, asked me to model for her, and that got me thinking.’
In the 90’s, considering himself the ‘Kate Moss of male models at that particular time’, he was the first black model ever shot for L’Uomo Vogue by renowned photographer Tyen, who Roy found out, ‘never took pictures of black men’. Now being the only black model for Roy, was less than rewarding adding, ‘I was doing stuff with Gaultier + had started working for German Vogue, L’Uomo Vogue – both for Tyen – + Vogue International, always being told ‘Oh aren’t you lucky.’ And I thought why? ‘You’re the only black guy in the magazine’. Once I turned around on a shoot + said, ‘Don’t you think it’s disgusting + really embarrassing that I am the first black guy?’ I want there to have been a string of other black models but if I am the first then hopefully after me there’s going to be a lot of other guys. It shouldn’t be just because of their color. It should be because they are good models.’ Unfortunately, this problem still persists today with Bethann Hardison of The Diversity Coalition recently saying, ‘I think that the menswear is just as equally important as the womenswear because for me, when I look at the men’s show that’s when I get more upset. I really do, because there’s so many good black male models; these black kids that I think are really significant.’
When describing the video, director Alan Cross said, “A music video for legendary model, singer + performer Roy Inc + his song Attention Kills. The idea was to set about creating an surreal, dystopian world + synthetic setting for the song to be played out by various glamorous iconic characters, (with the odd car crash thrown in of course)! There was a lot of green screen involved to make this happen! We filmed the whole thing in one room, with a single camera + a whole lot of hairspray. “
Enjoy!
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Here’s the scariest clip from Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’ – in this scene, you finally see Lucy (Sadie Frost) turned into a vampire, wearing a sick costume, designed by Eiko Ishioka, the late, genius costume designer (she actually won an oscar for the costumes in this film), + meeting her end, at the hand of Van Helsing (Anthony Hopkins).
This flick is a definite must see – not only is it a great love story, the costumes alone are killer!
Happy Halloween!
We’ve been terrorized by bed bugs long enough, but soon, Fendi will cause mass hysteria with a luxe infestation. Check out Fendi’s adorable, tactile + graphic ‘Bag Bugs Invasion’ or ‘Nov 5th.
(via Vogue Paris)
Don’t feel too bad for Justin Timberlake – here he is suffering the scorn of beautiful actress + model Riley Keough (Elvis’s granddaughter no less), in the video for ‘The 20/20 Experience 2 of 2’ single ‘TKO’. As usual, his voice slithers into you, while hot beats play with you, along with the hook.