February 2011
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//DDD// Exhibition Wrap: Imeday Imeday Ollarday...
Created by Jennifer Catron and Paul Outlaw
Resembling a wonderfully demented mixture of Alice Wonderland meets Matthew Barney the Allegra LaViola Gallery played host to Imeday Imeday Ollarday Icklenay created by Jennifer Catron and Paul Outlaw, throughout December and January taking the form of an interactive performance and sumptuous dinner party experience. The exhibition transformed the...
January 2011
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//DDD// The Incredible Miniature World of Lori Nix
Lori Nix is a Brooklyn based photographer who constructs her subject matter rather than finding it. Influenced by landscape painting that possesses characteristics of romanticism and the Sublime, Lori creates photographs that depict our failing future and the demise of humanity, tempered with a touch a humor.
Incredibly, she achieves this by building small dioramas in her apartment and then...
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//DDD// Sex: The Threesome Trend Report by Lynn...
By Lynn Furge, Senior Fashion Editor
Usually used to spice things up a bit, the idea of body parts overlapping, multiple hands tongues… well you get the picture. The threesome is always a “should we? Or shouldn’t we?” question. Usually up until the minute the clothes come off.
If we speak instead of clothing coming on… it can be said that this spring’s threesome of layering unexpected...
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Literature: White Noise Trend Report by Lynn Furge...
Written by Lynn Furge, Senior Fashion Editor
A post-modern novel by Don DeLillo, winner of the National Book Award as well as named one of TIME 100 Best English Language novels, it is less the theme and more the style that echoes the sentiment of Spring’s white trend. As an author DeLillo deals with self and his/her own independence between the national and world communities. Heterogeneity...
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//DDD// Music: West End Records Trend Report by...
Written by Senior Fashion Editor Lynn Furge
Founded by the father of disco Mel Cheren, West End Records is New York’s exclusive and historic record label that defined the sound of New York City in the heyday of disco. Bright, bold, sexy and original the goal of each track was to get on the dance floor. And just the way music has evolved that 70’s style by artists such as Jennifer Lopez,...
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//DDD// 'RUINS': A Series of Abandoned Theatres...
In the early 20th century, following the development of the entertainment industry, hundreds of auditoriums were built everywhere in North America. Major entertainment firms and movie studios commissioned specialized architects to build grandiose and extravagant theaters. However from the 60’s, TV, multiplexes and urban crisis made them becoming obsolete.
During the following decades,...
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//DDD// Art: Degas Trend Report by Lynn Furge
By Senior Fashion Editor Lynn Furge
Master in the depiction of movement, Edgar Degas’ dance themed sculptures and paintings were a study in both form and color. Ballet inspired dresses floated down runways from New York to Paris with the same intentions.
Antonio Berardi starting off with a vintage fencing silhouette but evolved the idea using tones of ballet slipper pink chiffon. Band of...
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//DDD// Fashion: Yves Saint Laurent Trend Report...
Written by Lynn Furge, Senior Fashion Editor
Ever since the Retrospective of Yves Saint Laurent opened in Paris in March, it is impossible to imagine a world where his influence hasn’t touched today’s designers. The inspiration was put in more obvious terms by his admirer’s, students and colleagues this September as everything YSL entered the main stage.
From the uber luxury of zig-zag laced...
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//DDD// Film: The English Patient Trend Report by...
Written by Lynn Furge, Senior Fashion Editor
At the northern edge of the Sahara lie salt lakes and sand dunes. World War two gave these African countries their independence. The film romanticized the idea of exploration, forbidden regions and forbidden love.
Garments for both men and women are deconstructed and weathered. Barbara Bui said that her inspiration was female reporters, but...
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//DDD// One on One with Artist Undoboy
Interview by Andrew Boyle
DDD: Tell us a little about your background U: Originally from Malaysia, now I’m working as interactive design director at Crispin Porter + Bogusky. After graduating with a BFA in Graphic Design from the Ringling School of Art and Design in 2005, I worked as creative at JWT, NY and Wieden + Kennedy, OR.
DDD: Was your art a direction you wanted to pursue growing up or...
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//DDD// City Sketches Presents: Austin Samsel
Profiling emerging talents in the realms of design, fashion, food, travel and arts & entertainment, City Sketches gets up close and personal with those both interesting and interested. Here, Austin Samsel, the resident Cosmic Yogi at Bushwick’s D.I.Y. venue Market Hotel,shares his inspirations and essentials. By Natalie Guevara AUSTIN SAMSEL Austin Samsel sleeps in a fantastic room, tiny...