OriginalFake – Spring/Summer 2011 – T-Shirts
Tees, tees, and more tees, when the subject is OriginalFake, you never can forget about the collaborative label’s graphic tee. If it this season’s outerwear line is the centerpiece, than the t-shirt collection is the cornerstone, not just for this season’s collection but label itself. A few familiar ones are back, like KAWS Chum caricature. A … READ MORE
OriginalFake – Spring/Summer 2011 – Knits | Shirts | Hoodies
Simply too expansive as a whole, the best method to showcase the Spring/Summer 2011 Collection from OriginalFake was to do it in piecemeal. In addition to the mentioned outerwear line, the creative team at OF busied themselves the last few months with the final touches. While there are still staples from past collection, like hoodies with … READ MORE
OriginalFake – Spring/Summer 2011 – Outerwear
The Xs mark the spot. 2010 has been a whirlwind year for KAWS, from book tour to his first major solo exhibition, and now the premiere of the OriginalFake’s spring/summer collection for 2011, there is simply no time to rest for the artist. If last year was an indicator 2011 will be another stellar year for … READ MORE
KAWS COMPANION – “Passing Through” Hong Kong To Connecticut | Installation Video
As the season’s first snowflakes drifted into view, men in bulky winter clothes carefully displaced the precious cargo from their flatbed. The cargo was not only a 16-foot tall giant, but a guest of honor from Hong Kong. The short film by creative collective Paper Fortress Films, with its serene music by Sebastien Tellier as the … READ MORE
OriginalFake – Spring/Summer 2011 | Preview
A solo exhibition, a book signing tour across Asia, for Brooklyn-base artist KAWS, 2010 was a whirl wind year of success. That streak might continue onto this year with the new collection from his clothing label with Japan’s MEDICOM TOY, OriginalFake. With its digital lookbook for the season set to publish this Saturday, January 15th, MEDICOM … READ MORE
Balmain x Kate Moss – “Everglade” Video | By Inez & Vinoodh
Rehashed for the new year, fashion photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin premiered their new video of Kate Moss on NOWNESS last evening. Taken from snippets during their Fall/Winter 2010/2011 campaign photoshoot for fashion house Balmain, Inez and Vinoodh added a few “extra” elements to spruce up the black and white short film, including the … READ MORE
Gering & Lopez Gallery – Hajime Sorayama 1970 – 2010 Retrospecitve
Common tools with uncanny skills equate to the broadening of possibilities, that was Japanese artist Hajime Sorayama’s talent when he tapped into simple artistic mediums such as air brush.Though most would be familiar with his recent NO FUTURE Companion with KAWS, Sorayama’s fame came from realistic images on unrealistic plains – robotic beauties in pin-up forms, … READ MORE
KAWS 16-Foot Companion – New Home At The Aldrich Contemporary Museum
On a snow dusted hill over looking The Aldrich Contemporary Museum in Ridgefield, CT sat a lonely giant. Why its none other than the giant Companion by KAWS. After its debut in Hong Kong at KAWS “Passing Through” exhibition, the 16-foot fiberglass figure made its way to its new home in the U.S. The sculpture is … READ MORE
KAWS Book by Rizzoli – Book Signing at JUICE Taipei | Event Recap
Last weekend was KAWS was in Shanghai, this week they came from all over Taiwan, some even traveled from neighboring Japan and even the U.S. just for an opportunity to have their books signed in-person by the artist KAWS. In this, the last leg of KAWS Book by Rizzoli signing tour in Asia, over 800 people … READ MORE
The Selby – Pharrell Williams At Home In Miami
Pharrell Williams is musical virtuoso, entrepreneur, fashion guru, artist, furniture designer, and now “Kidult”? Though he explained that he couldn’t lay claim in creating the term during a subsequent interview, he certainly lives by it at his penthouse duplex by Miami’s beautiful South Beach. Thanks to photographer Todd Selby and his ever popular photo site, The … READ MORE
