Currently on display at Galerie Rob Koudijs, Amsterdam, is a new exhibition featuring the works of Dutch designer Ted Noten. For the first time in his career, Noten deliberately combines all domains he is engaged in. Design, visual arts and applied arts are equally represented in the collection of assemblages, necklaces, rings and bracelets.
Haunted By […]
Fantasia, by its strictest definition, is a musical term: describing free improvisation and contrast of musical treatments that seldom follow textbook rules. Appropriate then that the same word should be the title of Nick Knight’s latest fashion film: a free-wheeling exploration of joyous, unbridled movement in model and clothing alike. Harness to this the riotous […]
If you somehow manage to sneak into Marc Jacobs’ show at the Lexington Avenue Armory next month, don’t expect to be sipping bubbly at his after party. Why? Well, because there isn’t going to be one. The recession just about ransacked the fashion industry these past few months, sending some of our favorite designers home […]
For spring summer 2009, Paul Smith Jeans has interpreted classic Shakesperean characters onto t-shirts.
Yorick (Hamlet) Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Mercutio (Romeo and Juliet) all get re-interpreted by Paul Smith Jeans. These illustrated organic cotton t-shirts depict Yorick, Oberon and Mercutio as a free spirited rockstar entertainer, a madman and a modern day ‘boy […]
Gay in Gotham
Spider-Man creator Stan Lee is to unveil the world’s first gay superhero.
High school basketball star Thom Creed hides his developing superpowers along with his sexuality.
Former Marvel Comics boss Stan, 86 — who also created the Hulk and the X-Men — will unleash the character in an hour-long TV drama being shot in the […]
Dame Vivienne Westwood, the British fashion designer, wants to write the next Sex and the City film.
The 67-year-old has written to the show’s producers to ask them to use her plot for the sequel, it has been reported.
A source told the Independent newspaper: “She’s been obsessed with the film ever since she saw it. She […]
The Costume Institute’s spring 2024 exhibition, Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion, reactivates the sensory capacities of masterworks in the Museum’s collection through first-hand research, conservation analysis, and diverse technologies—from cutting-edge tools of artificial intelligence and computer-generated imagery to traditional formats of x-rays, video animation, light projection, and soundscapes.
When an item of clothing enters the Costume Institute […]
MONDAYS
Drag Wars is the future!…where the next generation of NYC drag performers will be revealed! The competition is super fierce…so, make sure you come early, and sign up…if you think you’ve got the right stuff! Hosted by Shequida Hall. DJ Nicky Boombox.
Pieces Bar, 8 Christopher St., NYC, 10pm, free.
