Design team Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough, aka Proenza Schouler, took the idea of a video lookbook and pushed it one step further with the help of famed filmmaker, Harmony Korine. “Act Da Fool” is a haunting short film about ennui, destruction and hope. While slugging back 40s of malt liquor and beating tires with sticks, the protagonist waxes poetic about birds–she “wishes she was that bird and could fly away”.Throughout the film, Proenza Schouler’s fall collection sticks out against the overexposed desolate landscape in both a good way and a bad way. The clothes are striking but also strikingly expensive. It’s unlikely that even their ready-t0-wear jeans would bedizen bodies passed out on parking lot cement (not including, of course, certain child star twins who are fans of the brand). It might just be that very juxtaposition that makes “Act Da Fool” so poignant. In the Q&A posted on Proenza Schouler’s website, Korine says, “The pattern and paint drips on their clothes spoke to me. It said “go fuck up the world, burn shit, blow it up, eat mud, snort glue, drink a lot of malt liquor and eat some fried chicken, watch some strippers throw down the booty and find god.” We didn’t quite get all that from seeing the fall collection, but after watching this film we’re pretty glad someone did.
Read the rest of the Q&A, as well as an interview with the designers, here.
Kinetik 2011 is Anastasia Radevich’s sophomore footwear collection. It’s a smaller but more daring follow-up to her first collection, Biofuture, that exhibited at the LCF gallery and landed her a feature spot in London’s directory for best emerging creative talents. Biofuture focused on the top of the shoe (structured sea-toned metallics and shaggy fur) but this season’s shoes are all about the platform and heel. The shoes are held up by futuristic space twigs that look part sci-fi and part backyard found art. How we’re supposed to stand up in these bad boys is a bit of a mystery…but we trust the designer who did a two year stint at Aldo and worked with Alexander McQueen. Check out images from the lookbook below and her other collection on her website.
Why do we all love a show that, in so many ways, is getting away with totally sexist crap? Calling women “hyenas” and “hippos” is not cool in our day to day lives, but when the Situation does it, somehow it gets excused? [Jezebel]
Maybe it’s not okay to resurrect the spirit and breasts of Princess Di to sell lingerie? Or maybe, it’s a brilliant way to get some negative press? [Telegraph]
Imagine your brain ate a giant piece of bubble gum and then traveled to outer space in a blanket made of your worst nightmare and furry faces. Eric Sandberg makes art. [Mob Living]
Lighting firecrackers, buying buckets of ice cream, climbing to the top of buildings to drink a twelve pack, for the rebel (or rebelette) in every hearty girl, Rebel8 releases their women’s Fall ‘10 line. While this is mostly just a collection of tees and hoodies, they’re a pretty good collection for afternoon brews in the park, mid day bike strolls with your girly friends and one last hit on the baseball field. Next summer we want to see Rebel8 dresses and long tanks–so please make it happen guys.
If you want to listen to Matt & Kim’s new track Camera’s all you have to do is head over to their Facebook page and hit “Like.” Well, we like–not only the track but also this genius marketing trick.
Vogue Italia releases their September 2010 issue in 3D. Which means not only do you get to see Miranda Kerr, her doggy Frankie and her booty–but you get to see them all in three dimension.
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