Emma & I attended Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky, (2009) premier last night. Film was Directed by Jan Kounen.
“Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress”. -Coco Chanel
I was forwarded David James website today
http://davidjames-outofprint.co.uk
Inspiring work! James Art Directed some of my forever favourite campaigns and of course is the guy behind Another Magazine.
We Love Juergen Teller’s Book Zimmermann
It documents Raquel Zimmermann engaging in family events and interacting with Teller’s native environment in Bubenreuth, Southern Germany.
Emory Douglas was the Artist/Designer behind the Black Panther Party. He created the overall design of the Black Panther Parties weekly newspaper, throughout the 60s and 70s.
“Some of Emory Douglas’s images are nearly forty years old, but they are still as powerful as when Douglas first created them. They are dangerous pictures, and they were meant to change the world.” curator Sam Durant.
On show now at The New Museum. NY
Avedon Fashion 1944-2000
International Center of Photography.
“Dress designers lent me textures, shapes, patterns that become the ally of my true work which was always about women, what was going on beneath their clothes, beneath the hats. In their heads.”
I just got back from three weeks in NYC bliss, it was an amazing trip! So over the next few weeks I will bore you with posts about my finds but first I thought I would start off with a bit of footage from a Sonic Youth concert at United Palace Theatre we went to, on the eve of the 4th of July.
