Label beef? Doubt it, but Acapulco Gold gets their first love on Selectism with this “Another Piece of Crap” t-shirt; part of their Summer 2013 line. Why they decided to poke some fun on ze’ French label has everything to do with the ease of putting three words together. As appropriate as Comme des Fuck Down!
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For Autumn/Winter 2012, Miu Miu introduces a modern and feminine version of the classic slipper.
Miu Miu Slippers combine artisan heritage with aesthetic research, emphasizing the master craftsmanship involved.
Designed in soft velvet, elegant satin or patent leather, the slippers feature an embroidered ‘regal’ design, bow detail and striking jewel-like heels with crystals applied.
The Miu Miu Slippers are available in a selection of key colours; blue, bordeaux, ottanio, ibisco, nudo and black.
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July 24 sees the launch of the new Karl Lagerfeld Paris Man collection at Selfridges in London just days before the opening ceremony of the London Olympics. Selfridges will also be the locale for Lagerfeld’s signature line. London’s I Love Dust gets involved once again on a special series t-shirts for the opening under the “Team Karl” name.
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This is The One, published by Who Said It Publishing, offers an exclusive glimpse into the world of The Stone Roses. Internationally recognised photographer Dennis Morris visually records both behind-the scenes material and classic stage footage alongside intimate studio portraits and documents two iconic events in the history of music with never-before-seen images.
Limited to an edition of 1000 with over 250 unseen images and a signed silver gelatin print by Dennis Morris, This Is The One, priced at £295 and available from July, provides both an extraordinary view into the intoxicating world of The Stone Roses as well as a chapter of history charting fashions and trends of the 1990s for passionate fans and intrigued onlookers alike.
Shawmut Circle is named after a local playground which functions as the favorite skate site for Cody, one of the film’s central characters. The work consists of a series of fragmented vignettes that are set on three screens, and show glimpses of the daily lives of a group of adolescents and grown ups in City of Valley, USA. Muzi Quawson spent several months in this marginalized community on the border of Georgia and Alabama and created a complex, atmospheric portrait of the lives she encountered.
Quawson manages to catch the tranquility of small town life where the girl at the cash desk casually shares family news with a passerby and kids make out in the parking lot. The elderly “Bullet” takes us on a bike ride through the black community and tells us how he got his name. We also meet Cody, the young skater whose appearance clearly sets him apart from his peers. And there is Henry, who sings a hymn to us in the back of his grocery shop/gas pump.
Although the work does not aim to be a sociological document, it is full of references to the cultural background of the American Deep South. “Bullet’s” recollections of his work at the cotton mills refer to the time when “cotton was king” – a time long gone. The slow-pace of life, especially that of the youth depicted, tells us of the recession the area had to face since the decline of American textile industries. The clear geographical separation between the black and the white characters documents the racial segregation that was practiced well into the 1970s in Georgia.
Exhibition runs through till August 4th, 2012
Annet Gelink Gallery
Laurierstraat 187-189
NL-1016 PL Amsterdam
Netherlands
Shot in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley, and featuring portraits of the various tribes that inhabit the area, the photographs are a deeply moving, visual homage to the tribal peoples of Ethiopia, the birthplace of Homo sapiens.
The photographs from Cradle of Mankind, along with Joey L.’s documentary film, Faces of a Vanishing World – which first aired on Ovation TV in September 2010, chronicle the artist’s deep interest in Ethiopia, and the rapid transition of it’s oldest cultures. During his time in the country, Joey L. lived with various tribes in the region, learning the different customs of each while capturing individual portraits. Though these tribes may seem untouched by time, they are in fact in constant danger of disappearing forever. The artist states in a 2010 NPR interview that he is interested in anthropology and likes photographing different cultures, “[b]ut the ones I’ve been paying attention to lately are the, I suppose what you’d call vanishing ones, … the cultures that are on the verge of extinction, tribes that are threatened by progress and losing their language and losing their ways of life that they’ve sustained for thousands of years.”
Opposite – Portrait of Kolotola, Mursi Tribe, 2009
Exhibition runs through till August 4th, 2012
Stephen Cohen Gallery
7358 Beverly Boulevard
Los Angeles
CA
90036
