“The sites depicted in LaChapelle’s LAND SCAPE represent the globally networked industrial infrastructure of oil production and distribution. The gas stations and refineries that populate iconic locations are staged as architectural avatars of a planet coping with the stresses of peak-oil — even as the buildings’ dazzling spectacle and retro-future aesthetic distracts from the dangers of their […]

MONDAY 23

Iconic designer and more recently star of TV show The City Diane von Furstenberg talks tonight with Pamela Golbin, Curator in Chief of Twentieth-century and Contemporary Fashion at the Musée de la Mode et du Textile in Paris.
Furstenberg created the Wrap dress in 1974, and forever redefined what it means to be a […]

 
 
Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital will explore the many areas of 21st-century creativity made possible by advanced methods of computer-assisted production known as digital fabrication. In today’s postdigital world, artists are using these means to achieve levels of expression never before possible – an explosive, unprecedented scope of artistic expression that extends from sculptural fantasy […]

 
 
The Brooklyn Museum is the only East Coast venue for The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, the first international exhibition dedicated to the groundbreaking French couturier. Playful, poetic, and transformative, Gaultier’s superbly crafted and detailed garments are inspired by the beauty and diversity of global cultures.

This multimedia exhibition is […]

That’s right…Liam Gallagher, one-half of the indie-pop duo Oasis, is coming out with a fashion line, set to debut in June.
Called Pretty Green, after a song by The Jam, the range will sell footwear, denim, knitwear, jackets, trench coats, parkas, t-shirts, hats, scarves and accessories.
Normally, we’re really suspect of singers turned designers, but recently we […]

SATURDAY 21

It wouldn’t be Spring without the annual fetish fest The Black Party, sponsored by The Saint-At-Large. Normally targeted to a more mature gay crowd, this time the newly appointed 30 y/o director Vance Garrett is promising “Change”…targeting a new generation of leather, latex, and boot boys…uh…it’s not 1970? The last Saint party had to […]