Land Rover collaborates with British designer Sir Paul Smith to create a bespoke Defender.
The exterior panels of the bespoke 4X4 are painted in 27 different colours, all chosen individually for different reasons. Inspiration was drawn on everything from the British countryside to Defenders used by the Armed Forces. “I wanted deep rich colours, but at the same time, I wanted them to work together yet be surprising.” Smith said.
UNDERCOVER was founded in 1990 by Jun Takahashi while studying at the Bunka Academy of Fashion. Soon after, the first collection was presented in 1994 during Tokyo fashion week. UNDERCOVER became renowned worldwide through challenging traditional perceptions of design and combining elements of streetwear and high fashion. This marriage of opposites became a fundamental theme throughout future collections and in 2003 the brand made its debut on the Paris catwalks for the Spring/Summer season.
Supreme and UNDERCOVER have worked on a collection together for Spring 2015. The collection will consist of a Schott® Perfecto Leather Jacket, Trench Coat, Hooded Flannel Shirt, Hooded Sweatshirt, Pullover Crewneck, Bondage Pant, Sweatshort and four new original graphic T-Shirts.
Available in-store in New York, Los Angeles, London and online March 26th.
Available in Japan on March 28th.
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CSM graduate Natasha Somerville spawned the creatures that are shaking up the world of luxury accessory design. Expert craftsmanship and bold, daring ideas come together to give you designs that are truly unique. Step inside the den and become captivated with all the mesmerising details of our creations- from the individually crafted hardware to the luxury leathers, everything feels as good as it looks. Years in the making, thought and effort has been put into every detail to give you a monster that won’t run from the spotlight.
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The content of the exhibition focuses predominantly on a body of work that Sassen made in Pikin Slee, Suriname in 2013. Pikin Slee is the second-largest village on the Upper Suriname River, deep within the Surinamese rainforest. The exhibition consists of black and white and colour works shot on an analogue camera.
In her first visit to Pikin Slee in the summer of 2012, Sassen was intrigued by the village and its inhabitants. Her eye was caught by the overwhelming natural beauty and the Saramacca’s very traditional way of living, combined with the more mundane objects which seemed to seep through daily life. The Saramacca community are isolated from the outside world, living without running water, electricity, roads or the internet. The only way to access the village is by canoe, a journey of about three hours up-river. They grow their food on small agricultural plots, producing cassava bread, pressed maripa palm oil and dried coconut.
Exhibition runs through to April 12th, 2015
ICA
The Mall
London
SW1Y 5AH
Andre Dos Santos has spent the best part of ten years documenting and exploring the streets of New York’s outer boroughs with his two trusty Rolleiflex TLR’s and other vintage medium-format cameras. Having spent three years wandering the often deserted and remote parts of the Bronx, it’s Dos Santos’ photographs of this borough that represent his largest body of work and illustrate the scenery and streets that remain a strong inspiration in his work today.
Exhibition runs through to April 12th, 2015
The Print House
18 Ashwin Street
London E8 3DL
This is the first exhibition in Britain devoted to salted paper prints, one of the earliest forms of photography. A uniquely British invention, unveiled by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1839, salt prints spread across the globe, creating a new visual language of the modern moment.
This revolutionary technique transformed subjects from still lifes, portraits, landscapes and scenes of daily life into images with their own specific aesthetic: a soft, luxurious effect particular to this photographic process.
The few salt prints that survive are seldom seen due to their fragility, and so this exhibition, a collaboration with the Wilson Centre for Photography, is a singular opportunity to see the rarest and best early photographs of this type in the world.
Opposite – William Henry Fox Talbot, Study of China, 1844
Exhibition runs through to June 7th, 2015
Tate Britain
Millbank
London SW1P 4RG
