LACOSTE X IUCN SOS

Posted on 2019-05-06

The Lacoste X IUCN SOS partnership has launched its second awareness-raising campaign to highlight and support species conservation action worldwide.
Ten Lacoste stores across the Americas, Europe and Asia and online will put the spotlight on one specific threatened species, selling limited-edition polo shirts related to just that animal. The number of shirts for each species corresponds to the number of known individuals remaining in the wild.

Each individual species within the highlighted 10 gets its own polo shirt, and the amount of shirts made depend on how many of that specific species are known to remain in the wild. In total, 3,520 shirts were made.

The Iberian Lynx — 589 specimens left (Paris)
The Yemeni Mouse-Tailed Bat — 150 specimens left (London)
The Opal Goodeid — 150 specimens left (LA)
The Northern Hairy-Nosed Wombat — 115 specimens left (Tokyo)
The Mountain Chicken — 132 specimens left (Miami)
The Addax — 90 specimens left (Berlin)
The Cebu Damselfly — 50 specimens left (Shanghai)
The North Atlantic Right Whale — 444 specimens left (New York)
The Moheli Scops Owl — 400 specimens left (Seoul)
The Hawaiian Monk Seal — 1,400 specimens left (online exclusive)

www.lacoste.com
www.saveourspecies.org

  

LEVI’S PRIDE 2019

Posted on 2019-05-06

Levi’s celebrates Pride 2019 with its sixth collection, this time partnering with OutRight Action International, which campaigns for LGBTQ rights globally. OutRight will receive 100% of the net profits from the collection. The yearly Pride collections continue Levi”s their longstanding track record of being an LGBTQ ally, it was the first Fortune 500 company to provide same-sex partner benefits back in 1992.
The collection consists of shirts, a jacket, a vest, shorts, and accessories, rendered in black, white, or dark blue denim with the rainbow flag.

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ALIFE®/ADIDAS CONSORTIUM NIZZA HI

Posted on 2019-05-06

This season, Alife, a long-term member of the adidas Consortium family returns to bring a new look to the classic adidas Nizza silhouette.

Originally released in 1975, the vulcanized canvas shoe is a lasting icon from a time when sporting footwear – and indeed often the sports themselves – were approached in more stripped back, ‘let’s get to it’ fashion. Today, the Nizza Hi is lauded for its minimalist, versatile aesthetic and Alife brings their own character to the shoe while maintaining the qualities that have made the shoe endure for so many years. While the brand’s oversized logo is applied as a pad print on the outside of each foot (as opposed to the traditional heel position), all other elements of the shoe – from the canvas uppers and rubber midsole to the heel tab and the laces – are rendered in monochrome, brilliant white. Minimal detailing such as the dates of Alife’s inception and current year on each of the toe-caps, branded laces and specially-created TPU wristbands make for an understated, easy to wear rendition of this style.

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alifenewyork.com

  

ZHENG GUOGU – PHOTOWORKS 1993-2016

Posted on 2019-05-06

Zheng Guogu was born in Yangjiang, Guangdong Province, China. He grew up when the impact of the Cultural Revolution was waning as the country opened its door to an increasingly globalized world. As a result of this profound shift, Zheng Guogu had access to the cultures of the West and Hong Kong through television, pirated Hollywood films and computer games. This early exposure to Western media, culture and consumerism played a key role in shaping the artist’s worldview and artistic practice.

During the 1990s, Zheng Guogu began to experiment with photography as his primary medium. One of his best-known works from this early period is My Teacher (1993). In this work, Zheng Guogu sits next to a homeless man close to his own age in the middle of the street as they both laugh full-heartedly. Zheng Guogu encountered this man while in Yangjiang and spent over six months observing his behavior, fascinated by his disregard for societal norms. Zheng Guogu continued to experiment with photography in works such as My Bride (1994) and Honeymoon (1995). In these works, he demonstrated that the camera can be used to capture a seemingly truthful image of an entirely fictitious event, similar to the ways in which images in mass media culture sell a false sense of reality.

Opposite – The Vagarious Life of Yangjiang Youth No.16, 1996

Exhibition runs through to May 18th, 2019

Eli Klein Gallery
398 West Street
New York
10014 NY

www.galleryek.com

  

KAIJU’S RAMEN BY ILUSTRATA

Posted on 2019-05-06

Imagine you’re a Kaiju sitting along the streets after a long hard day of destruction, slurping down a bowl of warm delicious ramen! Reminisce the destruction of cities and an ever-increasing kill count, replay the chorus of screams and cries as you garnish your noodles with the roofs of sky scrappers that once towered over the horizon. Take a sip of the delicious broth that warms your belly for there is no better reward than a steaming hot bowl of ramen. Let out a hearty roar, after all, there’s no ramen like Kaiju’s Ramen!

Designed by Ilustrata, Kaiju’s Ramen brings together their love of Japanese food and Kaijus, “It’s quite funny to imagine these giant creatures doing other things when they aren’t destroying the city.”

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JOSH SMITH – EMO VIEWING ROOM

Posted on 2019-05-06

The exhibition City of Stars marks a major turning point in the artistic and conceptual practice of Rodrigo Matheus, who has been based in France for the last four years. The title comes from a brutalist architectonic complex called “La cité des Etoiles,” realized between 1976 and 1982 by Jean Renaudie (1925-1981), within the scope of revitalizing the city of Givors. Drawing inspiration from the French architect’s work, Rodrigo Matheus presents us with an immersive exhibition.

Rodrigo Matheus, imbued by Brazilian brutalist architecture, wished to create works that would fluctuate between an homage to and an interrogation on this architecture in France. In this exhibition, he reflects on the suburb as a space of social construction and creativity, dear to Jean Renaudie.

Opposite – Scholes Street, 2019

Exhibition runs through to June 15th, 2019

David Zwirner
519 West 19th Street
NY 10011
New York

www.davidzwirner.com