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Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Two local sculptors are being honored by The Smithsonian Craft Show as the recipients of that organization’s first-ever Visionary Award. Wendell Castle and Albert Paley will receive the award at a dinner in Washington, D.C. on April 9th, and they will also give a talk there on April 10th.
Monday, February 17, 2014
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The history and the art of Kawakubo's brand
Rei Kawakubo, the enigmatic head of innovative Japanese fashion house Comme des Garçons, has a special vision which extends beyond clothing to furniture, architecture, and graphic design, always defying conventional thinking. i-D examines Rei’s complex and conceptual world, digging through the magazines archive and re-visiting interviews which explore how the fashion house continues to challenge the Western ideals of body shape and garment construction. Breaking the conventional rules, Kawakubo continues to push boundaries, perfectly marrying fashion with art in the most unexpected of ways
Monday, February 3, 2014
Saturday, January 25, 2014
Deborah Turbeville: Bohemian Image Maker
Deborah Lou Turbeville, American fashion photographer
died last October, 2013. She is credited
with adding a darker, almost Gothic more brooding element to fashion photography beginning in the early 1970s.
Fashion photography
was notoriously done in well-lit spaces, Turbeville wanted to create images
that were edgier that with a sensuality and strangeness, glamour and decay. She created her own
worlds inhabited by pale, haunted eyed models many times photographed in derelict
buildings. In 2009, Women's Wear Daily wrote
that Tuberville transformed "fashion photography into avant-garde art, — a distinction all the
more striking in that she was almost completely self-taught.
The worlds Turbeville created are many times de
rigueur in fashion photography today. She was the only woman and the only
American in the triumvirate of Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin and herself who
changed fashion photography from safe to one that shocked the viewer. It wasn't just about the clothes anymore, Turbeville created her own dark fairy tales where the model and the clothes all became part of the Turbeville world.
Books with Turbeville's photographs
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
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