"Once you think you know it all. Next thing you get to know is that you dont know nothing"
Happy Birthday J. Lennon!!!
Go to http://www.google.com/ and press play!!
Or lets go to the Strawberry Fields @ Central Park to sing happy birthday!
Ps. All you need is love.
Or lets go to the Strawberry Fields @ Central Park to sing happy birthday!
Ps. All you need is love.
Where to get inspiration from
'Well, how can I find inspiration?' they would ask. 'Look around you!' I would say. 'Look out the window. Go for a walk. Go to a movie. Go to a museum. Go see a show. Read a book. Go to the library. Take the Circle Line. Have a conversation.'
Tim Gunn
Move!
Best of art and fashion?? When they get together!
So, two thumbs up to Cecilia Dean, [editor and co-founder of Visionaire] , and David Colman [ The New York Times]
Who came up with an exhibit at MoMA PS1. Named “Move!,”
Featuring 12 artist-designer collaborations — Terence Koh with Italo Zucchelli of Calvin Klein, Brody Condon with Rodarte’s Kate and Laura Mulleavy, Jonah Bokaer with Narciso Rodriguez, Mary Ellen Carroll with Thom Browne, among others. The point of difference here? They’re all doing interactive performance-based installations.
“It’s not about how I can use your art to make my fashion look better,” says Cynthia Rowley, who’s working with Olaf Breuning, “or how you can make a garment from your art.”
As for the grammatically charged moniker, she explains, “The performances will be moving, but we also wanted the audience to be moving around. It’s a very fluid exhibit. I also want people to come, have fun and be moved like I was by [Sehgal’s and Abramovic’s] shows. Adds Colman, “ ‘Experiential’ is going to be on the Merriam-Webster hot-word list for 2010.”
MOVE! at MoMA PS1 will merge the worlds of fashion, dance, visual art, performance art and theater to create a new genre of installation/performance, taking the idea of the artist/designer collision to a new level. MOVE! at MoMA PS1 is part of “Free Space”, an on-going program that provides gallery spaces for exhibitions, events, studios, rehearsals, and other live presentations for “uninhibited artistic exploration and fresh contemporary art programming.”
Move! [october 30-31] will be admission-free and open to the public. A Halloween party, hosted by Visionaire, will cap off events on the 31st.
Please, take me there!!!
Salt & Pepper
Few days ago, while I was having a lovely meal with some family. We all agree in that every time someone looked for the salt, instead, end up grabbing the pepper. Its was hilarious.
Then a 6 years little boy said: Mommy it's because the salt is red.!!!
So I realized, the name in the pepper was red, and the one in the salt was black! Ding ding ding!!! Color theory 101!
Pepper Salt
Then a 6 years little boy said: Mommy it's because the salt is red.!!!
So I realized, the name in the pepper was red, and the one in the salt was black! Ding ding ding!!! Color theory 101!
Salt Pepper
A moment of silence for Alexander Mcqueen
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| Dress, spring/summer 2003 Alexander McQueen (British, 1969–2010) Shredded ivory silk chiffon and tiered silk organza Source:Alexander McQueen: Dress (2003.462) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This gown of sand-colored organza recalls the mille-feuille ridging on the surface of a shell. The hem of the skirt, like the wavy lip of a giant mollusk, further emphasizes the seashell quality of the gown. But unlike Aphrodite, who was born in the foam of the sea and borne to shore on a scallop, McQueen's beauty is a bruised pearl encased in a deconstructing oyster, the tumbled survivor of the violent action of waves.
 
For the surprise of everyone, it was the wedding dress of a friend's friend who by the moment was a teacher. My teacher. She find out the way to borrow the dress and bring it to a class.
On person... no words. Just amazing. To die for!!
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The Marchesa. The muse.
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"Women of the world today all dress alike. They are like so many loaves of bread. To be beautiful one must be unhurried. Personality is needed. There is too much sameness. The world seems to have only a desire for more of this sameness. To be different is to be alone."
- The Marchesa Luisa Casati
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Luisa Casati [1881-1957] had nude male servants gilded with gold. Wax mannequins sat, lifeless, at her dinner table. She wore live snakes as jewellery, & was infamous for her late-night walks, during which she would walk cheetahs on diamond-studded leashes, while completely naked beneath her furs.
When both her wealthy parents died, Luisa (aged 15) & her sister were suddenly the wealthiest women in Italy. Luisa’s natural propensity for the arts & fascination with surrounding herself with beautiful, unusual things became a major part of her personality. She regularly shocked the aristocracy with her bizarre garb & enthrallment with the macabre.
She was obsessed with her own image & commissioned thousands of artists to paint, sculpt & photograph her.
However, Luisa’s passion for clothing, jewels & extravagant lifestyle found her with a personal debt of $25 million by the time she was 49 years old. After all her personal possessions had been auctioned off, she fled to London where she eventually died. It is said that she was seen digging around in bins for feathers to put in her hair.
Rumor has it that among the bidders was Coco Chanel. Amused me how she have been Karl Lagafeld inspiration so many times.
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| Karl Lagerfeld held Chanel's 2010 Resort collection in Venice, home to the Marchesa for a large part of her life and she clearly influenced the entire collection. There's others designer and art directors crazy about her. |
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| She obviously a huge inspiration for Jhon Galliano |
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| Alexander Mcqueen F/W08 |
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| Harpers Bazar Editorial March 2009 issue |
Reads: Infinite Variety: The Life & Legend of the Marchesa Casati, The Definitive Edition by Scot D. Ryersson & Michael Orlando Yaccarino. Wacky Chicks: Life Lessons from Fearlessly Inappropriate & Fabulously Eccentric Women by Simon Doonan. Here’s a doll of the Marchesa by October Effigies. The Marchesa Casati: Portraits of a Muse by Scot D. Ryersson, Michael Orlando Yaccarino.
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