Hanni El Khatib: Pay No Mind on Nowness.com
Loving this music video for Hanni El Khatib‘s ‘Pay No Mind’. Directed by Simon Cahn, nothing could be better than the HEK Cheerleading Squad, gyrating + having fun, in an auto body shop or the night streets, to dress up garage rock as raw as this. You kind of feel like there’s a cheerleader behind the camera, able to capture each ‘cheer’, pulse + pump, effortlessly – I especially love the opening scene with the girls in the car.
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Here’s the music video for ‘Big Bang’ for duo Poom. Directed by Axel Courtière + produced by Frenzy, the video focuses on American pop culture symbols, to great effect, with a lot of tongue + cheek, literally! The song however, is alright, but with the right remix, it might just work.
Kind of apropos to have your eyes bear witness to all this, in motion, after mentioning James Rosenquist’s ‘F-111’ yesterday, as an inspiration to Boo Pala’s AW/13 ‘The Matadors of Abstraction’ collection. Like the video above, this painting was full of consumerism + advertising, a huge part of American pop culture.
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To describe Boo Pala’s AW/14 inspirations as simply color, pattern + architecture, is just scratching the surface. With patterns inspired by James Rosenquist‘s epic ‘F-111’ painting (below), a lot of the looks played with color, texture + structure in interesting ways. 
In case you didn’t know, ‘F-111’ was painted in ‘64, during the middle of the Vietnam War. The F-111 military plane was shown in fragments, comprised of conflicting consumerism, advertising + the Vietnam war. That being said, Boo aptly named this collection ‘The Matadors of Abstraction’, as it dealt with not only highlighting the ‘F-111’ painting, the artist’s history + Spanish historical + modern architecture of Enric Miralles (below), in relation to the current socioeconomic climate in Spain.
Notice how perfectly all these influences transform into wearable art.
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Warning: this fashion film might cause you to start voguing!
Here’s sick fashion film ‘The Collections’ by Solve Sundsbo, with styling by Panos Yiapanis. It was created exclusively for LOVE magazine (of course!).
Werq!
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Just love this fashion editorial for Bullett magazine, styled by Jessica Bobince + shot by David Schulze. My favorite look of all is this one below – belted denim dress + collar.
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Pure Breeds: The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel
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Yet another reason to heart Graydon Sheppard
If his name doesn’t spark any recollection, maybe ’Shit Girls Say’ will – the name of his ever popular YouTube hit. In ‘Purebreed’, his latest project, Graydon deals with the crème de la crème of dog breeds. In this first installment, we get to learn more about the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, a dog whose background is supposed to impress but I simply can’t find all that adorable.
When NOWNESS asked Graydon what animal personality would closely resemble his, he answers ‘a Persian cat’, since they’re both lazy, yet he’s better at hiding it.
Hilarious!
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Isn’t ‘Colour Therapy’, an exhibition film by Joost Vanderbrug & Alex Noble, the best?
Although a tease to Noble’s multi-disciplinary exhibition called ‘Creatures from the Kaliedoscope’, marrying art with fashion, in this mixed media landscape, the art comes alive, full of color, texture + motion. Just imagine how much greater the experience will be, once drowning in sensory overload?
So if you happen to be in London around Aug 30th, be sure to check out Noble’s work at London Newcastle Project Space. The exhibition will look much like the film, with large mixed media pieces, sculpture, installation, set pieces, film, performance + photography. The exhibit will be curated by genius Fashion + Art Curator, Ryan lanji, so you know you’re in for something special + memorable.
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Yayoi Kusama: Self Obliteration on Nowness.com
Repetition can sometimes incite chaos but how beautiful it is in the hands of Yayoi Kusama.
The notion of the thing that makes you happy being the same thing to destroy you, is for some, difficult to understand. Yet, for Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, whom you might remember from her epic collaboration with Louis Vuitton, polka dots always intrude her space + thoughts. In ‘Yayoi Kusama: Self-Obliteration’, a short film by Martin Rietti, you get to hear from the 84yo. artist herself + see how she must create + repeat + repeat, in full of color, just to survive.