PARIS — With a pattern of angel wings undulating over her shoulder blades, the model walked through the gilded salon in one of Alexander McQueen’s final creations before he chose to leave …
PARIS — With a pattern of angel wings undulating over her shoulder blades, the model walked through the gilded salon in one of Alexander McQueen’s final creations before he chose to leave …
Alexander McQueen’s last creations had subtlety and beauty as well as the urgent futurism that was the essence of his spirit.
A beachfront residence designed by Seattle’s Paul Thiry, known as the “father of Northwest modernism,” may be soon destroyed if a buyer is not found. The unique home — built in 1962, the year of the Seattle World’s Fair, for which Thiry was principal architect — is a massive, concrete behemoth that needs someone able to pay the $240,000 necessary to move it to another waterfront property.
Designers Shantanu and Nikhil entered the sports arena with their new S and N label for Adidas Style Essentials at Lakme India Fashion Week (LIFW).
For his own label, Karl Lagerfeld followed the straight lines that he instigated before fashion in general joined the geometry class.
The current New York survey of contemporary artists’ take on our world isn’t the Whitney Biennial or the embarrassing installation of a private collector’s trophy case at the New Museum.
The KIA company would never admit it, even if executives in Seoul imbibed too much soju one night. But they have to be thinking that maybe this recession isn’t such a bad thing.
Glenn Gould, the great pianist, had a suggestion about Modernist music. Although apparently rejected by the ears of the general public, it could be made more widely acceptable; in fact, this was happening already.
The final round of the autumn/winter collections was well under way at Paris Fashion Week yesterday, with shows from Balenciaga, Balmain, Rick Owens and Manish Arora. With many of the industry’s most influential labels showing at the event, this is the place for the cream of the world’s press and buyers to get a head start on the new season’s trends.
2009 was the year mobile apps went mainstream, but what next? In this right to reply article, Patrick Gardner, CEO, Perfect Fools, looks at what to expect over the coming years.
&$ &$Poster and stills of the sci-fi film “Future X-Cops” [Photo: ent.sina.com.cn]&$ &$ Hong Kong director Wong Jing’s upcoming sci-fi action film “Future X-Cops” has released a trailer, offering an early taste of high-tech futurism. In the film, Andy Lau plays a superhero in the year 2080. He travels back in time to 2020 to protect a child who is pursued by assassins hired by oil companies as …
SAN LEANDRO, Calif.—-JanSport, the original outdoor gear Brand that equips people globally with quality backpacks, travel gear and collegiate apparel, today announced the launch of its South by Southwest mini tour with its 2009 Battle of the Bands winner, The Broderick.
When Beijing shopper Qian Jiatun recently visited the adidas Flagship Store in Sanlitun Village, Beijing, he found people dressed like Darth Vader and Stormtrooper striking poses for the visitors.
&$ &$ When Beijing shopper Qian Jiatun recently visited the adidas Flagship Store in Sanlitun Village, Beijing, he found people dressed like Darth Vader and Stormtrooper striking poses for the visitors. On the same day, Huang Chuyang and his friends were screaming in the shop Source in Shanghai. They claimed Stormtroopers were invading the city. It was, actually, a Star Wars fans party with free …
In the video for Little Boots’ “Remedy,” the artist, known in real-life as Victoria Hesketh, comes off as somewhat of an amateur Lady Gaga. In the video for Little Boots’ “Remedy,” the artist, known in real-life as Victoria Hesketh, comes off as somewhat of an amateur Lady Gaga.
Assessing new releases by Paul Motian, Freeway and Xiu Xiu.
NEW YORK, NY.- Nina Abrams died a few days short of her 98th birthday in February 2008, at her Putnam Valley, New York, home. She was married to Harry N. Abrams for 46 years.
The Kia Forte cedes nothing to its better-known rivals in styling, price, performance, fuel economy or features.
KIA would never admit it, even if executives in Seoul imbibed too much soju one night. But they have to be thinking that maybe this recession isn’t such a bad thing.
# dealzmodo Super-spec’d premium phones like the Droid and Nexus One are only part of Google’s long term plan for Android. What we have here is a glimpse of Android’s other future: Free. Android handsets are the new flip-phones! Sort of! More »
“I think,” said Michael R. Taylor, flashing a bright smile, “I’m going to take a little break now.” It’s not that he’s haggard from pulling together the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s next big exhibition, Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris, which opens tomorrow with more than 200 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper.
A new exhibition has gone up in Southfields Library featuring the work of adult students from Southfield Community College.
“Sound art is located somewhere along a kind of continuum,” says musician and artist Eran Sachs. “On one end, there’s composition and conventional and classical Western music, and on practically the opposite end, there’s that unraveled thing called art.
Only Isaac Mizrahi can cross camping with cocktails and have it make sense. Invoking the bygone Manhattan glamour of Geoffrey Beene and Bill Blass, Mizrahi lovingly freshened those old-school parameters of good taste to turn a quilted hunting jacket into a minidress or shrug a platinum parka over a sweater…
It’s Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, and the festival spirit extended across the seas to New York Fashion Week, with hot tropical colours, bright floral and foliage prints, and exotic accessories.