OHWOW Gallery Los Angeles presents a new group show Too Old For Toys, Too Young For Boys which "examines the way tweens have influenced adults’ viewing habits." Curated by Alex Gartenfeld, the show features work from Ronnie Bass, Debo Eilers, Jay Heikes, Josh Kline, Barney Kulok, Donald Moffett, and Aura Rosenberg. Too Old For Toys, Too Young For Boys opens June 30th and runs through to September 1st 2012.
// OHWOW Gallery, 937 N. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles
Megan Christiansen
One of the Sundance Film Festival’s official selection films that we are most excited about is Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, the documentary directed by Alison Klayman gives us an unprecedented insight into one of the most intriguing and controversial artists of our time. Klayman captures Ai Weiwei's revolutionary strides to maintain human rights in his homeland and the backlash from the Chinese government.
Source - HB
Megan Christiansen
Peter De Potter is an artist and photographer from Belgium, where he currently lives and works. Having studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, he gained the attention of the fashion world through his 2001 - 2010 collaboration with Raf Simons. Initially intended as a one-off collection, the collaboration soon became a lengthy and ongoing relationship.
Angela Bevan
André Saraiva's solo show “Andrépolis” opened at The Hole in New York City last week, in the form of a miniature city installation in gallery 3. Made up of fifteen wooden, painted, and fully lighted buildings, the rear gallery is transformed into a city at night, with miniature neons lighting up the artist's recreations of a hallucinatory vision of New York nightclubs and restaurants.
Source - The Hole NYC
Jack Smylie
Riccardo Tisci kills it once again with his Givenchy Resort 2013 collection, an old photo of Hubert de Givenchy's muse Bettina apparently inspiring the "gypsy" collection. Don't think bohemian, think "romantic, but with a sharpness." Stand-outs are the divine cape-like dresses and shirts, the architectural outerwear and the geometric use of paisleys and print.
Megan Christiansen
Can sportswear have a soul? Now we're wowed by innovation, but everything's an improvement of an existing improvement. Like a calm corner in a market that's over-saturated though movements that immediately supersede what went before, shining fabrics, concealed seams and clinically rendered branding won't be around in a decade's time, let alone a century. Seattle's Ebbets Field Flannels were resurrecting sports apparel in 1988 — long before "throwback" entered the conversation — and through obsession and licensing limitations, lost leagues got their uniforms back.
Gary Warnett
Californian filmmaker, graphic designer and artist, Mike Mills, recently designed a small edition of exclusive prints for Los Angeles creative agency, Commune. The "Origin of Life" and "Robert Opel Streaks" posters are representative of Mill's striking signature style and are available now through ST&NDARD GOODS.
Jack Smylie
Phoebe Philo presents her new Resort collection for Celine, taking the opportunity to further refine some of the fashion houses staple pieces. The collection masters the use of leather and python, offers the ultimate wide leg pant and reintroduces some familiar prints in not so familiar ways. Accessories wise, two new handbag shapes were unveiled, the All Soft and the Edge, one a zipless fold over tote and the other a more structured piece.
Source - Style.com
Megan Christiansen
James Langdon is set to present his ongoing research project exploring the subject of the Construction School at Corner College in Zürich. The Construction School was an experimental design programme in Bristol, England from 1964 to 1979.
// Corner College, Zürich
Source - Manystuff
Megan Christiansen
Koto Bolofo, self-taught photogapher originally from South Africa, fell in to photography almost by accident whilst at College in London. Since the early 1980's, Koto has turned his lens to all manner of subjects, with a strong focus on fashion leading him to work with the likes of Vogue, Vanity Fair, Interview and GQ, as well as a seven year documentation of the inner workings of Hermès at the personal invitation of chairman, Jean-Louis Dumas.
Jack Smylie
