Edited by Lester Brathwaite
It pays to have friends in high fashion places. The annual amfAR Cinema Against AIDS gala held last week during the Cannes Film Festival brought in a record-breaking $11 million thanks to a little help from Carine Rotifeld and company.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
Out of a stark white live-in studio in Downtown L.A. comes the experimental clothing of Erik Hart. He explains, “It’s always an exercise in the tension of dichotomy. I like to take a garment to the purest essence of what they want to be. I have no interest in the excess or the ornamental. I don’t do trends.” He calls his company Factory because it gives him a wider breadth to express himself than clothing alone, and as a grateful nod to Andy Warhol. An artist of many mediums, he’s a photographer, he creates installations, and has been touring in bands since the age of 16. “I used to think of ideas in sound. Then over the years I started to think of it in imagery, sound being secondary.“ With visuals first in mind, and a minimalist mentality, he’s thriving with forward thinking garments. Peek inside the factory doors at Fall 2012 here.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Despite dying of a heroin overdose in 1988 at the de rigueur age of 27, the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat looms large in the modern art world. Originally a graffiti artist hailing from Brooklyn, that spirit of early hip-hop rebellion has been channeled/co-oped by Reebok in a line of kicks and apparel, but at the height of his success, Basquiat was better known for working in Armani suits — a status symbol of the 80s if there ever was one — often emerging in public with paint splattered all over them. Here are a few pointers on how you too can achieve that gentlemanly, laid-back art school dropout look.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Along with Edie Sedgwick, Candy Darling, Holly Woodlawn and Nico, Joe Dallesandro was one of Andy Warhol‘s greatest Superstars. A male hustler by trade, Dallesandro rose to stardom portraying just that in Warhol’s 1968 production, Flesh, directed by Paul Morrisey. In 1971 he not only graced the cover of Rolling Stone but also provided the infamous bulge for The Rolling Stones‘ classic Sticky Fingers LP. Warhol later remarked that ”In my movies, everyone’s in love with Joe Dallesandro,” so this Male Model Humpday, and in celebration of our month of Art & Design, feel free to fall.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
While M.A.C. already nailed Marilyn Monroe, Nars is giving us a more saturated Marilyn for Fall. Nars is heading to Andy Warhol‘s factory to concoct a collection that Pops. Come October, we’ll see the super saturation that defines the pop art movement. They’re creating all new packaging for the collaboration with The Andy Warhol Foundation. So, eyeshadow in a can of Campbells? Lipstick in a banana?
Edited by Amanda Gabriele
Art and fashion go together like champagne and caviar – both delectable and both delicious. Some of the world’s greatest and most innovative fashion designers have turned to fine art pieces for inspiration. From screen printed soup cans to Piet Mondrian’s primary color-charged grids, wearing art on your sleeve is the coolest way, in our opinion, to express yourself. Check out four fab fashion pieces inspired by art and channel your inner gallery to come out and play.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Barneys New York has teamed up with members-only contemporary art website Exhibition A to ask, “why decorate when you can collect?” At the Exhibition A pop-up galley in Barneys’ Madison Ave flagship, you can start building your art collection with prints for sale under $1000 by Spencer Sweeney, René Ricard, Max Snow and Lucien Smith, as well as signed and rare books by Andreas Gursky, Andy Warhol and Cindy Sherman.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Everyone wants a piece of Elizabeth Taylor. Even, “American socialite” — as the Telegraph gingerly describes her – Kim Kardashian, who won out in a bidding war over three Lorraine Schwartz jade bracelets for $62,500 at the second round of the greatest garage sale of all time. Taylor’s couture and assorted jewels brought in $2.6 million, setting a record for a fashion auction.
Edited by Jessica Lapidos
Coco Rocha jiggied her money maker for the homeless. At Artwalk‘s auction for the Coalition for the Homeless, Coco told the audience of heavy-wallet-weights that if they continued to donate after the auction was over, she’d get up and do her famous Irish Jig. Unlike the pleas of hosts Alec Baldwin and Richard Gere, this offer spurred rapid fire donations. Within 60 seconds, the “Emergency Feeding Fund” was up to $35,000! That’s $583 a second! See the Coco Rocha’s Jig here.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Karl Lagerfeld is a genius. And like most genii, he’s also completely bat-shit crazy. Over the years he’s offered his usually unsolicited opinions about people and — never really known for his cheery disposition — his comments have usually fallen in the spectrum of bitchy and, well, super bitchy. Below are 13 of the Kaiser’s greatest backhanded compliments.
