For all of the internet’s endless information collection, in the fashion sector it is still rare for cyberspace to trump the simple beauty of an old school glossy. So when a photographer friend of mine mentioned myvintagevogue.com as a new favorite find, the technology cynic in me was wary. But I was wrong. This carefully [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Slow and Steady Wins the Race with Stand Up Comedy
May 20, 2009 – 8:17 am
Just under a week after the opening of Matt King’s exhibition, Science Diet, I made my way back to Fourteen 30 Contemporary in Portland—this time for the launch of the first collaborative effort from the avant-garde boutique Stand Up Comedy and the fashion label Slow and Steady Wins the Race. The project, a thorough catalog [...]
A Few Words with Jeremy Laing
May 19, 2009 – 4:39 am
Canadian womenswear designer Jeremy Laing began presenting his collection in New York with what he calls an “on the fly” art project at Participant Inc., a Lower East Side gallery, in Spring 2005. Since the launch, Laing, who honed his design skills at Preen and Alexander McQueen, has garnered buzz for his lean, sculptural looks, [...]
Skin
May 18, 2009 – 6:29 am
Summer is clearly on its way, and with the warm temps comes skin exposure, gauzy fabrics and lounge-worthy fashions. This is mind, I was traipsing around one of my longtime favorite places, Piermont, NY (a tiny bohemian town on the Hudson River about 30 minutes north of the George Washington Bridge), when I found a [...]
Paola Suhonen’s Tiger Army
May 15, 2009 – 1:42 pm
Once upon a time, deep in the Siberian woods, a fierce tiger lost his one true love. With an aching soul, he mourned her absence and according to legend, his thick tears of longing formed the Amur River. It was this Russian folktale that inspired Finnish designer Paola Suhonen’s Spring ’09 collection for IVANAhelsinki. For [...]
