December 16, 2011 – 9:48 am
From left: Kalen Kaminski and Astrid Chastka. Image by Shay Harrington. As famous for his spectacularly coiffed ‘fro as he was for his television show, The Joy of Painting, Bob Ross soothed legions of amateur artists by stating, “We don’t have mistakes here—we just have happy accidents.” For fashion designers Astrid Chastka and Kalen Kaminski, [...]
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Tagged Astrid Chastka, Bob Ross, CNC Router, hand-dyeing, Julie Williams, Kalen Kaminski, New York, PAMU (Paola Ambrosi de Magistris and Murray Hall)., resists, Shay Harrington, shibori, Shibori: the Inventive Art of Japanese Shape Resist Dyeing, Upstate, Womenswear, Yoshiko Wada
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November 29, 2011 – 8:50 am
Left: Metalepsis Projects 2012 collection map. Right: A wood-black print of necklace e2. Growing up in the 1980s, when Roger W. Sperry’s Right Brain-Left Brain Theory was ruling the American educational system, I was quickly classified as a right-brainer, an individual who recognizes the world through “intuitive, thoughtful and subjective terms,” as opposed to the [...]
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Tagged Accessories, Architecture, Astrid Chastka, Finite Series, jewelry, Laser Cut, Metalepsis Projects, New York, Sol LeWitt, Steve Keene, Victoria Cho
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November 20, 2011 – 1:10 pm
Walking into Greg Lauren’s installation Barracks feels like the physical counterpart to reading The Things They Carried. The air hangs heavy with ghosts of military’s past, which are embodied by 30 one-of-a-kind garments—all available for purchase—that Greg has constructed from re-purposed military fabrics taken from vintage Army duffle bags, tents, parkas and sweaters. Though many [...]
October 25, 2011 – 7:08 am
FACTORY by Erik Hart, Fall 2011 There’s a converse directness and ambiguity to Erik Hart’s work that leaves one with a feeling of pleasant unease, mostly because although it’s austere it can’t be readily contextualized. Though Erik designs a womenswear line called FACTORY by Erik Hart, he doesn’t label FACTORY as a clothing brand, but [...]
October 13, 2011 – 9:11 am
Edith A. Miller + J. Crew henley and scoop-neck t-shirt. Edith A. Miller is proud to be an American. Rather than a flag-waving lady, however, she is a clothing label started by Jennifer Murray and Nancy Gibson. Escaping New York City for a weekend on Fire Island, the friends found that they were wearing the [...]
