Fred Perry and Raf Simmons collaborate again for Spring/Summer 09. This time the inspiration is West Africa (hence the black model). www.fredperry.com

Hometown: NYC, USA
The Virgins formed in 2006, Downtown New York City. They are the brain child of vocalist Donald Cumming, childhood muse of photographer Ryan McGinley, who chronicled Cummings riotous teenage years gallivanting around the backstreets in NYC, a feral and rebellious existence that persists in The Virgins music today. McGinley’s documentation of Cummings youth […]

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Recent Soundsuits, Nick Cave’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. A diverse selection of the highly imaginative, mixed-media, wearable sculptures, Soundsuits, for which Cave has become well-known, are currently on view.
A row of suits of woven hair in vibrant colors, from fluorescent orange and lime […]

ANNA KUSTERA will be exhibiting a selection of over 30 vintage prints by renowned Swiss photographer, Karlheinz Weinberger, from December 6, 2008 to January 17, 2009.
Karlheinz Weinberger (1921-2006) worked by day for most of his adult life in the inventory department at a Seimens-Albis factory in Zurich, Switzerland. In his free time, however, he escaped […]

Video Nasties are one of most spine tingling new bands to come out of London’s Dark Wave movement, a scene or sound characterised by its dark energy, exploration of the drug ketamine and reflection on a time where the high expectations of the millennium youth were shattered by the realism of CCTV-capitalist life in dystopian […]

“I’m sorry,” Vanity Fair scribe Matt Tyrnauer apologizes for the metal-on-metal squeal that’s either the M-103 or Manhattan’s latest terror siege, “I’m on Lexington.” The physical shift this downtown type has made to an advertising main drag adjacency is a figurative one for Tyrnauer as well since he spent the last three years of his […]