Deep Cuts

— Posted: 2010-10-20

In the new issue of W, I write about the amazingly gifted and creative duo Graham Tabor and Miguel Villalobos’  new accessory line 1-100. The story also briefly mentions their new book project, but there are no images of it, so I wanted  show them here. The book is a documentation and extension of their show Hic & Nunc at Brachfeld Gallery in Paris: an “fake preservationist” installation of meticulously assembled cardboard skeletons of pre-historic animals. The book features photographs of the construction process (which took place in a huge Brooklyn warehouse) and pictures of  stranded skeletons on a beach. The book is designed by Swedish art directors Sandberg + Timonen who also create Livraison magazine.

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Joy To The World!

— Posted: 2010-12-04

The online retail shop that Subports and I have been working on with the one and only Christian Joy is up just in time for Christmas! For thos e who don’t know her, CJ is a New York-based  artist and designer who makes all of Karen O’s amazing stage costumes (and some of her everyday tees and dresses too). This is the first time that Christian has made a collection based on her own  wardrobe and the result is cool, inspiring and completely stylish. No one else can manage to create super chic must-have footwear with a can of spray paint, a magic marker, some studs and a pair of men’s vintage shoes! Get your own piece of  Joy here.

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Princess Superstar (and Friends)

— Posted: 2010-11-01

Cinderella woke up in the morning, jumped up and down on the bed and yelled “I’m so ‘sited! I’m so ‘sited! It’s Haaallooweeen!” Then she stepped out in her plastic shoes, danced a little in the playground,  grabbed her pumpkin bucket and got candy from Steve Buscemi. When all the sweets in Park Slope had been claimed,  her friend Elmo and the Queen of Hearts came over to the castle and they ate their loot with record breaking speed. After that they felt pretty ‘sited again so they bounced across the bedroom like Cirque De Soleil without the safety nets and by the end of the night they had formed a band. Their first video is going viral any day now.

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Salon Somnambuli

— Posted: 2010-10-24

Elle Muliarchyk’s new guerrilla psychic fashion video Somanambuli has gotten a lot of play on the T blog and in the paper’s Sunday Styles section lately. The video, which is shot under cover, follows a the model Meghan Collison, dressed up in magazine-worthy outfits that project various fashion stereotypes, as she visits 10 psychics around town. Muliarchyk says that she wanted to explore how our appearances influence our fortunes and indeed , the choice of clothes did seem to greatly influence the readings.  (On the day she was dressed in hippie garb Collison was told clean up her act but the same fortune teller who saw Harvard in her future when she donned  ladylike tweeds.) But the video also has another layer, which is more complicated and mysterious. The name “Somnambuli”  comes from Elle’s idea of a sleepwalker seeing images of herself in different guises, and being unable to connect with them. She was inspired by Vladimir Nabokov’s novel “Despair” which is a sinister tale about identity and delusion.

Anyhow,  my point with all this is to plug the Salon Somnambuli event that I’m working on  in collaboration with Elle, my favorite online retailer subports and my favorite secret shopping place Fair Folks & a Goat. It will be the a mix of art exhibition,  tupperware party and séance.  We will screen the video,  invite a legendary real live psychic and sell beautiful large format stills along  with the clothes in the video  via subports. The event will be held in the deluxe domestic environemnt of  FFaG’s Upper East Side townhouse and I think it will be spectacular.

December 2, 7-9 pm

Fair Folks & a Goat

To make a reservation for the event or schedule a private viewing between Dec 2 -6

rsvp(at]fairfolksandagoat[dot]com

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Happy Birthday

— Posted: 2010-10-13

We went apple picking in Rheinbeck, Then Alva and I found ourselves a little house. In the evening there was a crazy hail storm. It was a good day.

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Steeler Obsessions

— Posted: 2010-09-03

My husband David Yellen  is participating in the exhibition WHATEVER IT TAKES: Steelers Fan Collections, Rituals, and Obsessions exhibition at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. This photograph of a fantasy hair style by the legendary Detroit stylist Little Willie is featured. The picture was in our book Hair Wars, which celebrated the touring fantasy hair showcase of the same name.

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Meet Jon Ashe

— Posted: 2010-09-03

My new favorite menswear label, Jon Ashe, applies the classic design principles of form and function with a Brooklyn hipster twist. Read all about it in my recent post for New York Times’ style blog The Moment

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  1. Andreas

    Great stuff.

“The Girl”

— Posted: 2010-08-26

I have a small piece about the lovely new Swedish movie “The Girl” in the September issue of W. It opens in NYC on September 17 and will be playing at Cinema Village. Go see it.

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Alva Bear

— Posted: 2010-08-09

This is my new favorite picture of my daughter that my husband David took last week. She looks like a messy angel – which is what she is.

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  1. Jen Hayes

    What a lovely picture.

Elle’s Angels

— Posted: 2010-08-06

I recently interviewed the artist and former model Elle Muliarchyk for the online magazine I edit,  vevant.com. Here’s a bit that didn’t make it in the piece. It’s Elle talking about the story behind her beautiful video The Last Poet. And, kind of like Elle herself,  it’s mysterious and somewhat otherworldly:
“It’s a short movie that I made for the New York Times that was inspired by Wim Wender’s Wings of Desire aesthetically, but in fact is sort of auto-biographical. When I was growing up in Belarus, many young lonely girls of all ages would commit suicide by jumping off the roof, which was always on the 9th floor. And the mothers would try to install a fear of being too close to the windows  in their daughters. Like mine would put me in a corner for 6 hours at a time if I came too close! Also – it’s kind of a tribute to a model (and poet) with whom I used to model in Paris, the Russian girl Ruslana Korshunova, who committed suicide a few years ago. She jumped out of the 9th (!) floor across the street from my house here in New York. I could have seen her doing this – our windows almost face each other!!! I was really shocked by this event and started making the movie shortly after it.”

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Love and Loss: Darling River

— Posted: 2010-08-06

I’m reading Sara Stridsberg’s painfully beautiful book Darling River. The novel is slight in size, but its content is so rich and powerful, that I find that it’s best savored in small bites. The poetic and poignant narrative feels almost like an improvised jazz record, Stridsberg has taken Nabokov’s classic “Lolita” and interpreted it through her own music. Four separate tales, starring three women and a monkey, explore themes of lost childhood, female submission and violence. The stories are about loss and degradation, but the tender language and imagery are almost ethereal, yet dripping with pain.  The words are light but they cut deep. Stridsberg has so much love for her subjects, and in extension, for humanity. And so have I, reading this book.

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