Here’s Jessie Ware Belting Her Lil Heart Out With ‘Running’.  Digging her sultry + breathy voice – look out for her new album ‘Devotion’ dropping Aug 20th. 

(via pitchfork)

Part of The Valtari Mystery Film Experiment, choreographed by Ryan Heffington, here is a beautifully strange experimental film starring Shia LaBeouf (like you’ve never seen him before, REALLY!) and Denna Thomsen.  Written and directed by Alma Har’el for the song Fjögur Píanó by Icelandic band, Sigur Rós, the band gave each of the dozen filmmakers chosen complete creative control in realizing their vision upon listening to songs from their new album, ‘Valtari’.  This version is the third installment of the ‘experiment’.

To me it’s simply a love story full of raw emotion with random perks of tenderness, punctuated by ugly ‘truths’ hidden behind fantasy —- sounds like a lot of my past relationships yet not as well choreographed as this.

(via SLAMXHYPE)

Kenzo’s Fall Winter Campaign Will Be Very Goude Indeed

(photo: Jean-Paul Goude)

With The Unique And Genius Eye Of Jean-Paul Goude

Due out in July’s L’uomo Vogue issue in tandem with Pitti Uomo, Kenzo’s Fall Winter campaign will definitely delight and satisfy.  Through the extraordinaire creative lens of Jean-Paul Goude, a lifelong favorite of Kenzo’s creative directors Humberto Leon and Carol Lim (also the masterminds behind Opening Ceremony), Goude managed to create an image with unisex appeal as seen above.  Leon told WWD, “The idea that this image can work for both men’s and women’s magazines, depending on how you reverse it, was a very interesting take from his part on our collection.” 

With Kenzo being part of the Seventies era, Goude seemed to be the best man for the job to reinterpret that era with contemporary nuance.  A longtime collaborator with model/singer Grace Jones, responsible for this infamous image,  Goude’s talents never

(photo: Jean-Paul Goude)

cease to amaze.  With over thirty years of incredible projects including photography, graphic design, video, film and poster design, starting in Sixties advertising then with Esquire magazine in the Seventies styling such iconic images as this,

(photo: Jean-Paul Goude)

(which made the cover), to Andy Warhol and creating memorable advertising campaigns for giants like Chanel + Perrier,  Goude always manages to deliver – a definite perfect match for Kenzo!

Here are a few of my favorite Goude images:

(via WWD)

Be still my heart but it’s official – Maison Martin Margiela will be collaborating with H&M for a capsule collection due to drop Nov 15.  In a way, many might wonder how the two could ever truly ‘fit’ but then again, could you have ever imagined a COMME des GARÇONS + H&M collaboration a while back?

All I hope for is pretty huge considering low end retailer with high end design collaborations success:  great quality, unique details as close to Maison Martin Margiela’s high fashion and the tongue-and-cheek sense of humor found in a lot of the label’s accessories.

(via SELECTISM)

Here’s Politica, from Minneapolis in their hypnotic music video for ‘Wandering Star’ off their album ‘Give You The Ghost’.  With sweet vocals that definitely get under your skin, director ELY was able to truly capture the song’s mood and direction without getting lost in conceptual translation.

Destined to be a hit according to Diane Pernet’s dead-on predictions, you too will see what she means.  

Enjoy!

(via ASVOF)