Japanese brands XLARGE and MADFOOT! have linked up to present a capsule collection this season. This small gamut gathers around both entities’ affinity for bold and colorful design themes as seen on the omnipresent leopard prints. In two colorways, namely brown and green, the animalistic prints are applied on the lining of the stadium jackets, New Era caps, and all over the upper portion of the high top sneakers. Limited to 100 quantities
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For Spring/Summer 2012 Alexander McQueen present a nice new shirt, featuring a large skull design all over the front, entirely made out of polka dots, thus matching with the rest of the shirt
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Last November, Leaders 1354 were given the task of making the Adidas Forum their own. The first permanent settlers in Chicago were the Potawatomi, so they took the Forum and mixed in a Native American theme with it. With that theme comes a few new twists to the Fourm: moccasin fringe on the heel (that’s also removable), zig zag stitches, and premium leather laces. These will be available Saturday Dec. 17th in store and their webstore.
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In her photographs the artist deals with the structure of ideal settlements built under Benito Mussolini in the backcountry of Sicily between 1926 and 1943 which articulate an attempt of creating social order. As already in her previous series ‘Displace’ Johanna Diehl focuses on the memory of places, the media awareness of architecture and its connection to ideology.
Those programmatically designed villages, so-called “Borghi”, were intended to colonize and develop the rural Sicily and served as centres for the agrarian communities. The borghi generally consist of buildings with similar types: a central piazza, a church, governmental headquarters, school and other facilities representing the structure and the claim for power of the Fascist Party. Nowadays most of the borghi may be found abandoned within a landscape as unfulfilled Utopias, as places without memory filled with time.
By choosing the singular ‘Borgo’ as title for the show Johanna Diehl emphasizes that the focal point of this cycle lies not in the enumeration of particular phenomena but in the concept of those places.
Exhibition runs through to January 21st, 2012
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf Frankfurt
Hanauer Landstrasse 136
D-60314 Frankfurt
Germany
Infinite Balance is the first US presentation of artists shortlisted for the Prix Pictet, the world’s top prize for photography and sustainability. The exhibition will showcase noted contemporary photographers from across the globe, including Sammy Baloji, Edward Burtynsky, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Susan Derges, Naoya Hatakeyama, Chris Jordan and Michael Wolf.
The exhibition brings together three years of internationally acclaimed and award-winning photographs, each of which addresses the issues of our changing world and concerns surrounding sustainability. Infinite Balance will display works from the three themes that defined each year of the Prix Pictet; Water, Earth and Growth.
Opposite – David Maisel, Terminal Mirage 5
Exhibition runs through to February 5th, 2012
The Museum of Photographic Arts
1649 El Prado
San Diego
CA
92101
Canned from a 20-year job as roadie for Blue Oyster Cult, Jimmy is broke and desperate. With nowhere else to go, he returns home to Forest Hills, Queens to visit his aging mother, where a wild night with some hard-partying high school friends shows him that some things never change. From director Michael Cuesta, ROADIE features performances from Ron Eldard, Bobby Cannavale and Jill Hennessy.
In theaters January 6th, 2012
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