When looking to create a video to showcase her current collection, jewelry designer Michelle Lane tapped into her editorial past. As a stylist for Nylon and Teen Vogue, she had greatly admired Swedish-born, Paris-based photographer Louise Enhörning’s work but location had prohibited collaboration. This time around, Michelle resolved the continental divide by selecting to shoot [...]
Author Archives: Erin Dixon
Lee Hazlewood x Rotter + Friends
April 23, 2012 – 8:01 am
Images by David Black All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects & feelings which motivated it. At the time the artist, poet, playwright and cultural renaissance man Jean Cocteau uttered the above statement in 1918, “music” usually meant the ragtime beats and upbeat lyrics of Irving Berlin [...]
The Story Behind Fivestory
April 20, 2012 – 7:54 am
In 2010, Claire Distenfeld cold called the interior designer Ryan Korban. She had a project that only he—the visionary behind Alexander Wang’s Mercer Street store and numerous celebrity homes—could execute. Intrigued, Ryan listened and liked what he heard: Claire, a veteran of the art world, and her father, Fred, were planning to open a boutique [...]
In Conversation with KAUFMANFRANCO
April 11, 2012 – 9:44 am
Ken Kaufman and Isaac Franco. Images by Paolo di Lucente In a decade in which designers and stylists have become synonymous and celebrity status typically receives more media attention than sartorial skill, Isaac Franco and Ken Kaufman, the designers behind the New York-based womenswear label KAUFMANFRANCO, are of a different school. They come from an [...]
In Conversation with Odile Orsi of MUTA
February 29, 2012 – 11:00 am
Looks from MUTA Taking a less-is-more approach to fashion design, Odile Orsi launched MUTA in 2010 with the express purpose of updating and exploring the potential of the sheath dress. With origins steeped in Hubert di Givenchy, Audrey Hepburn and the ’60s, in the past 50 years the sheath dress has become a worldwide wardrobe [...]
