Don’t Miss Style Wars This Saturday at Don Hills
One of the most original diy competitions on the planet, Style Wars is making it’s way to NYC. Be there this Saturday for an experience beyond your wildest fashion dreams.
House of Diehl’s STYLE WARS: The Style Battle Championships Tour 2009 Featuring Dallas Austin, Jenny Shimizu, Pase Rock, Elettra Rossellini, Paul Sevigny & More!
“Like an old-school MC Battle, [but] these guys spit out style.” – The New York Times “If Fashion had an Olympic Sport, it might look like Style Wars” – The Chicago Sun-Times “A guerilla Project Runway… raising fashion’s already quick pulse to New York-minute speeds.” – The Los Angeles Times
House of Diehl’s Style Wars pits rising designers in head-to-head to fast fashion battles to create radical, outrageous fashion LIVE on stage. They are fighting for the title of US Style Battle champion and prizes including a spread in Surface Magazine.
Style Battling is the fresh phenomenon born in the basements of New York that is blowing up worldwide! New York’s electric night features celebrity judges Jenny Shimizu, Rebecca Weinberg, Claw Money, and Elettra Rossellini along with guest DJ Nancy Wang of LCD Soundsystem & The Juan MacLean on the decks.
Don’t miss Style Wars live on tour this Fall!
November 4 @ LIV, Fontainebleau, Miami Judges will include Paul Sevigny, designer Lei Marco, The Webster’s Frederic Dechnik and reigning Style Battle champion Karelle Levy.
November 7 @ Don Hill’s, New York Judges will include supermodel Jenny Shimizu, stylist Rebecca Weinberg, designer Claw Money, model Elettra Rossellini, music by Nancy Wang (LCD Soundsystem, The Juan Maclean)
November 13 @ Opera, Atlanta Judges will include producer Dallas Austin, Project Runway’s Mykal Knight, and Nedra Rhone of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, plus DJ Smiles.
November 17 @ Cinespace, Los Angeles Very Special Guest judges–to be announced. Battles followed by the Dim Mak DJs.
November 21 @ Mezzanine, San Francisco Judges include Simon Ungless of the San Francisco Academy of Art and Irene Hernandez of Chillin’, with music by DJs Pase Rock, Richie Panic.
TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE: www.houseofdiehl.com/stylewars
About House of Diehl: House of Diehl is the creative partnership of MJ Diehl and Roman Milisic. Producing award-winning fashion lines and multimedia experiences since 2002, their “revolutionary work” blurs the boundaries between style, art, music, and performance.
House of Diehl has shown and performed around the world: with Sonic Youth and Rem Koolhaas at the Greenspace Festival in Spain; on David LaChapelle’s Rich Girl video, alongside Elton John and Versace at the Lifeball, Vienna, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, MA. They are the inventors of STYLE BATTLING™.
