It’s Monday. Get down to business.
Australian jewellery label MANIAMANIA have produced two beautiful videos to showcase their second collection. Video is fast becoming a successful alternative to showing at fashion week and an equally creative medium for designers to experiment with. The use of lighting and soft focus lends to a real Seventies feel. What do you think?
“I always tell the girls, never take it seriously, if ya never take it seriosuly, ya never get hurt, ya never get hurt, ya always have fun, and if you ever get lonely, just go to the record store and visit your friends.”
Penny Lane
Je t’aime… moi non plus
Serge Gainsbourg/Jane Birkin
“I Love You… Neither Do I”
Originally penned in 1967 by Serge Gainsbourg during a brief affair with Brigitte ‘And God Created Woman’ Bardot, Je t’aime… moi non plus was re-recorded in 1968 with his then-lover Jane Birkin.
(Bardot had begged Gainsbourg not to release their version, among the reasons for her insistence was her husband, German businessman Gunter Sachs.)
“I only sang it because I didn’t want anybody else to sing it,” said Birkin.
Rumour has it the 40-year-old Gainsbourg met the 22-year-old Birkin on the set of Slogan and on their first date, they toured the bars of Paris, including a transvestite bar, and fell asleep drunk. The pair were married in less than a year.
Bardot’s version was not released until 1986.
“I’m surprised I was able to pull so much stuff together…I was digging around in closets to find this stuff. It’s going to be great for people to see the cohesive aesthetic of everything all together.” - BUREAU and DFA Art Director Michael Vadino
To gear up for LCD Soundsystem’s Australian tour this month, a visual retrospective of LCD Soundsystem and DFA is here.
To check out works by Vadino - including tour posters, party invites, sketches, commercial artworks and more - head to the Tom Dunne Gallery, 11 Little Burton Street in Darlinghurst from 28 July to 3 August.
Alessandra Ambrosio
Directed by Will Davidson
Music by Land
Fashion Editor Stevie Dance
Edited by Pai Borg
Special Thanks Mateusz Lilpop, Shaun Hartas, Ben Dossy, Jonathan Pilkington, Gina Liberto, Doll Wright and Richard Habberley.
NEW ISSUE OF RUSSH
On Sale Wednesday 28th July 2010.
Photography Will Davidson
Fashion Editor Stevie Dance
Cover Star Alessandra Ambrosio
