31 July 2007 [Tuesday] @ 11:14 am posted by Saint Agnes
Cryptic Chronic
Chronicles of Never was born in 2006 from a whimsical desire to design with different mediums and new shapes. The medium was dark metals and the shapes took the form of jewelry. The unisex collection of necklaces, bracelets and rings sculpted from real and old materials: black, brushed silver, and blackened silver (you won’t find polished or shiny metals here…) are now joined by the first collection of dark, romantic clothing.
Former founding designer of Ksubi, Gareth Moody introduces his solo 2008 clothing collection “Water Will Burn” as a very mystical journey, his inspirations pulled from space within space, architecture, manga, industrial materials, neo-ism, cubism. “As far as becoming a designer…I create things, that’s all, and this process happens to involve design. My education came through trial and error, and continues to…Prior to Ksubi I was a gypsy”, states the Sydney, Australia native.
This season Moody teamed up with his close friend Marvin Scott Jarrett (Editor-in-Chief of our beloved NYLON magazine) to create shapes, cuts and colors with the feel of modern witchcraft. Low “diamond” crotch knit pants, cotton double wrap scarves, and cryptic graphics on tees are contained within the dark color story. Romantic but doomed.
We can’t wait to get our hands on some!
US stockists include American Rag, BlackBird, Valentina and Active Endeavours. As of today no stockists in NY yet, but we’re sure there will be in a flash… (Worship Worthy store, where are you?!!)
Visit the website for sales info until then: www.chroniclesofnever.com
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SUMMER SALE IN BABYLON
THE DAMMITS SOOOHOT SALE starts Thursday! Miami’s ARRIVE store is having a summer sale in New York- whoop, whoop! 50%-75% off, you’ll want everything you see. Alexander McQueen, Junya Watanabe, Margiela, Society for Rational Dress, Ksubi, OriginalFake, and tons more. Sale runs Thursday- Sunday. GO! Seriously. 151 Orchard between Stanton and Rivington. Click flyer for times.
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27 July 2007 [Friday] @ 11:56 am posted by Saint Agnes
Super Sunnies
Last Monday we walked the Capsule trade show, one of the best I’ve been to in a long time. (Congrats to the ladies of BPMW for a success!)
As we strolled the aisles of the Cathedral where the show was held, we spotted a brand in which one of our interns went into frenzy… Super. The vintage-inspired sunglasses are manufactured in Italy giving them a strong and sturdy feel. All of them come with Zeiss lenses (better for the eyes and helps diminish glare) and there’s 8 colors to choose from including bright shades of teal, daffodil, and fuschia.
Fans of Super already include Uffie, Yo Majesty, Busy P, Depolique, and Luisa of CSS.
Super sunglasses are available at Fred Segal LA, Colette, and Steven Alan in NYC.
Visit them online at: www.retrosuperfuture.com
Intern supervision highly suggested.
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ON A SIDE NOTE
Married to the MOB has teamed up with KAWS once again to produce a super sexy bikini. With an edition of 200 these will be priced at $175 a piece. The Rattle Bikini will be available for purchase starting today, Friday July 27th at Original Fake (Tokyo), Alife (NYC), Colette (Paris) and on the MOB website: www.marriedtothemobnyc.com
In other MOB biz, the ladies will be holding down the Bench this week! Fancy, Ari on the Go Forman, DJ Max Glazer, and Big Black Matt Goias present Married to the MOB’s Most Official Bench. A celebration for DJ Ayres’ birthday. Click on flyer for more details.
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SAMPLE SALES
Up to 50% off on selected Keep Shoes! Choose from Duke lowtops and water loving Benten boat shoes, Mayan and African prints, and more. Visit: www.keepcompany.com
If you live in Los Angeles, you’re one lucky bird. Corpus is having a sample sale that runs til tomorrow. Click on flyer for more details and location.
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25 July 2007 [Wednesday] @ 7:00 am posted by Saint Agnes
This Week’s Blowouts
Thanks to everyone that came out to our party on Monday night for market week. You all looked so gorgeous! Here are a couple more events going on this week to keep the party going…
WEDNESDAY, JULY 25TH
Cassette invites you to Corio with DJs Josh Madden, Justin Miller (DFA Records), Jordan Silver and special guests. Sponsored by Theme, Evil Monito, and Cassette with your hosts Bugsy, Sammy, and Sky. Party starts at 10pm, early arrival suggested. Corio is located at 337 West Broadway. RSVP: info@houseofcassette.com. Click flyer to enlarge.
Deadly Dragon Sound presents “A Dance In A Chinatown”, celebrating the birthdays of JDeBeck (DDS) and Angelo (Absurd). Featuring Cornell Campbell straight from Kingston, JA and Phillip Fraser. Happy Ending 302 Broome Street. 10pm-4am. Click flyer for more details.
THURSDAY, JULY 26TH
Clawzzz, Nike, and DQM invite you to The Official Sneaky Peak Party to celebrate the release of the Claw Money x Nike Blazer. The very first Tier 0 sneaker for the ladies. 6-8pm at Dave’s Quality Meat. 7 East 3rd Street. After party at Max Fish. Click flyer for more details.
Coochifrito is back! This time at a new, slightly bigger location so we can all (Gaby was hoggin up the dancefloor) get our groove on! Dante Ross, DJ Smoke “L.E.S.” and Dorian provide the beats. Salsa and Freestyle… the unofficial after-after party for Claw’s Nike Blazer sneak peek, and Angelo’s other birthday party… See you there…
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23 July 2007 [Monday] @ 11:43 am posted by Saint Agnes
The Confessional: Deanne Cheuk
It’s a wet, wet Monday… Maybe this Confessional will add a little sunshine to your morning!
This week we’re featuring the talented illustrator, designer, art director, Deanne Cheuk. She started putting her ideas into motion at the early age of 19 and hasn’t stopped to put the pen down. Her style and use of watercolors create the most feminine and intricate works of art. Between her work on magazine covers, the publishing of her own books, and solo art exhibitions worldwide, Deanne Cheuk is one of the most highly regarded artists of our time.
Read on to find out her words of advice to young artists…
Don’t forget to visit her online: www.deannecheuk.com
Name and Age, please:
Deanne Cheuk / 32
Marital status:
Shacked up
Where are you originally from?
Perth, Australia
How long have you lived in New York?
7 Years
What neighborhood in NY do you live in?
Lower East Side
What are your favorite memories of New York since living here?
Every day!
Give us a brief rundown of your past work experience.
My first major job was as art director of a magazine in Perth called REVelation magazine when I was 19. Three years later I started my own magazine called Mu, three years later I moved to New York and started Neomu and worked for David Carson, not long after that I art directed Tokion Magazine for a few years. All the while I’ve freelanced and continue to do so as a designer and illustrator.
We love your art/paintings. When did you realize your passion for art?
Thank you! I have always been passionate about art but that was never properly realized until I had my first solo show in Philadelphia in 2004. Actually maybe it still hasnt been fully realized - I am still trying to get to where I want to be with that.
What was it like growing up in such an isolated city like Perth, Australia?
My parents took my family traveling alot so I never felt that isolated and I was always fully aware at how much more there was to see in the world. At the same time, growing up in Perth for me was great because it nurtured my do-it-yourself aesthetic - my friends and I made our own clothes, and we eventually made our own magazines because you couldnt buy what we wanted and liked.
How did you make the transition from Perth to New York?
I bought a 4-week return ticket but never properly returned. Everything just fell into place for me.
You were the Art Director for Tokion for a while, how has this experience influenced you and how do you think your work has influenced the magazine?
I had a lot of creative freedom on it so that reinforced my views on the type of projects I like to take on, in terms of how my work has influenced the magazine now 2 years on from when I quit, well, they’re still using watercolor/painted type and people keep asking me why. Other than that, it’s a completely different magazine now to the last issue that I did.
Where do you seek inspiration?
In everything and anything, books, magazines, tv, movies, people, art, museums, friends, the street… the usual.
You often spend hours painting, drawing or sculpting, how much of your work involves computer technology?
Alot. I do everything I can on the computer except my paintings obviously. I think that has been something that has been hard to get my head around with painting, I can do things so much faster on a computer.
In the last few years, graphic designers seem to play more of an important role than ever in the media, art, music and fashion world. What do you think about this?
I think it has become important to some degree - but not majorly important. It is great that designers that are doing original and amazing work are getting recognized, but there is still a lot of bad design out there.
Tell us about your magazine NeoMu which states ”No words, no advertising, just inspirational images, photographs, and graphics” and is the tiniest magazine on earth whose proceeds go to charity. Where and when did you get the idea to publish this magazine and what are your goals for its future?
I started Neomu in 2000, the idea started as a zine and it came about basically because I still had a lot of contacts from Mu magazine and I was frustrated with how expensive design books were and I felt like alot of those books only had a few pages that were inspiring, I wanted to make something that was inspiring on every page and I wanted to make it free – it all grew from there.
The size came about because I thought it would be cheaper to make it super small – of course it isn’t, and as I wanted to inspire everyone with it, the original plan was to donate all the proceeds to a charity for the Blind because I wanted to inspire those that could and couldnt see it. After a few issues though I left it up to the stores to choose charities that they related to to donate the proceeds. I send the books to stores for free and they sell the copies for $1 each. So I’ve published and paid for 8 issues so far, I plan to do 2 more before I end it but the last two issues keep getting postponed because of scheduling problems. I will do them soon though.
I heard you like to work without music and in complete silence to possibly avoid doing something that has been in the past. This is a very compelling idea, can you tell us more?
It’s really just a concentration thing and also I really love my work and I love doing it and making what I make – it seems more enjoyable to be completely immersed in it in quiet. With my art now though, I am exploring the concept of sound with it in terms of considering what sounds different colors might make and how those sounds work together, it’s just experiments at the moment though and of course I do it in the quiet!
Your clothing line Liness is beautiful and coherent with your work, it seems like a natural addition to your activities. Who do you work with on this line and what’s the meaning behind “Owliness” and “Boyliness”, the names of your collections?
Actually we ended the line last year because we were all too busy to properly commit to it. I was doing the line with a fashion designer Yasmin Majidi and another designer/illustrator, Rilla Alexander. The name of the brand was a made up word, it was the suffix to each season’s obsessions, so the first collection was about an obsession with Owls and then Boys, and then we also made collections called Sleepliness and Earthliness.
The title and illustrations of your book “Mushroom Girls Virus” is very intriguing. Any anecdotes about how you came to create this book?
There is a style of illustrations that I started to make which were pencil drawings with watercolor of girls and mushrooms, it all came about as a natural progression from illustrations I was making on the computer, the style evolved from just constantly making new work. So I had loads of work I had done in that style and some of it was for obscure commercial commissions and it just seemed sad that not many people were going to see it, so I decided to publish that style of work in a book and be done with it. I haven’t drawn mushrooms since then, though I’m still drawing girls! That style has evolved again since the book though, so in a way I am done with what was in the book.
When you were studying in Perth where you were told you would learn “how to design toothpaste boxes”, did you ever imagine that you would be published by some of the most widely read fashion magazines (Vogue, Nylon, Flaunt, Glamour etc)? What do you think of this evolution, how did things lead from one thing to another?
That’s right – my art teacher told me that graphic designers designed toothpaste boxes and I thought that sounded great – how naiive! I’ve honestly just always worked on things that I’ve liked, and if I cant find what I want then I’ll make it myself – and everything has come from that, I’ve never cared about pursuing the next cool job or the next cool person or thing, I never chase after things like that and maybe that is a quality that resonates with the people I work with? I dont know, maybe I’ve been lucky? I tell young designers that ask me for advice that they just need to make really original and beautiful work and it will get noticed, someone will notice it if it’s good.
What would be your advice for someone who wants to start a career in art and design?
Create, dont imitate. And go for it!
Who are your personal art and fashion icons?
Art: Jose Parla, Ro Starr, Rhys Lee, Fashion: Sue Stemp
Got a long term plan?
I need to get into my art studio more, that’s all.
Do you have much free time? And what do you do when you’re not working?
I have no free time and I am not joking, when I am not working I am sleeping.
How would you describe your personal style?
‘Buy It Now’ on ebay.
What’s your favorite accessory you own?
A wooden necklace that I got from a flea market in Hong Kong for $1
Where do you like to shop?
Clothes: Balenciaga, Marni, Uniqlo, Ebay
Housewares: Ikea
Beauty: Laura Mercier
Do you go out much? Got any favorite bars, lounges, clubs?
Hardly ever, I work at night so I’m totally boring. Plus there are not many events that are babysitter worthy.
Name your top 3 fave restaurants in NY and what your favorite dish(es) is there.
Sobaya - Tenzaru Soba, Black Sesame Icecream
Zucco - Steak Frites, Creme Brulee
BLT Prime - New York Strip Steak, no room for dessert. The crowd is awful but the meat is amazing and they have a huge meat locker that is like a horror movie, I love freaking out out-of-towners with it!
What music have you been listening to lately?
My daughter must dance to The Strokes every single day so unfortunately that is all we listen to.
Whats your most recent discovery/exploration in New York?
Pong on Stanton street
Do you plan on living in NY forever?
I love it here, but anything could happen, I’ll just go with it.
If you smoke, tell us your favorite rolling paper. If you drink, tell us your cocktail/drink of choice.
Don’t smoke or drink anymore.
Name one New York woman that you would nominate to our Hail Mary! list.
Sue Stemp
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20 July 2007 [Friday] @ 1:54 pm posted by Saint Agnes
Art: The Walls Belong To Us
Above work by legendary graffiti artist MICO
How much we love art isn’t always reflected in the amount of it we actually own. Next week marks the beginning of a huge art benefit auction and is the perfect opportunity to change that!
Alan Ket is a writer, Hip Hop historian, activist and graffiti artist from New York City. He was a founder of Complex magazine along with Marc Ecko, and started a publishing imprint, From Here to Fame, to preserve Hip Hop’s rich history and to provide an imprint for marginalized writers and artists. He has recently been charged on counts of felony criminal mischief, and possession of graffiti tools all relating to a search performed on his home in New York City in late 2006. The arrest had come in the context of a growing anti-graffiti sentiment in city government due to gentrification. Ket’s arrest appears to be a politically motivated attack for his involvement with Marc Ecko and Ecko’s successful lawsuits against the city of New York in order to hold a graffiti event and the repealing of a spray paint sales ban to 18 year olds. Many consider the charges against him excessive.
All sales from the art benefit “The Walls Belong To Us” will go to towards Ket’s legal defense. Works for sale are from an extensive list of well-known names in urban art, graffiti, and photography including Jose Parla, Jameel Shabazz, Futura 2000, and Martha Cooper among many, many others!
Bidding starts online Wednesday, July 25th and we’ll also have a chance to see the art in person in one large space on August 1st. Click on flyer for more details.
For more info on the event visit: www.thewallsbelongtous.com
For more on Ket’s story: www.supportket.org
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19 July 2007 [Thursday] @ 7:00 am posted by Saint Agnes
A New York City Benchmark
the Bench (non)event Board of Directors DJ Max Glazer, Matt Goias, and Ari Forman
The Bench has been around for a few years now but it wasn’t until earlier this summer that it got its capital “B”. DJ Max Glazer, Fannypack’s Big Black Matt Goias and Fancy, and downtown sneaker impresario Ari Forman were bored one Saturday night and wanted to explore their love of sitting around doing nothing. Unamused with their frequented bars and lounges the four decided to sit. It was a night filled with people watching, good conversation and laughter! From that night on the four vowed to meet there each Saturday night and they invite us all to join in on sitting.
This Saturday, July 21st come sit for two fun-filled (un)events! Artist Steven “ESPO” Powers will be showing some never seen before works at the Bench in Coney Island from noon-8pm. (The Siren Music Festival will also be taking place making it a great time to sit, people watch, and talk s*@#!) A super limited edition ESPO t-shirt “Ass, gas, or cash” will be for sale. Later that night at 10pm, the regular Bench event will be honoring legendary music producer Dante Ross. Swing thru for a night of celebrity spotting. Click flyer for more details.
The Coney Island Bench is located at @ The Dreamland Artists Club
1206 Surf Ave Between Stillwell & 12th Street
Come sit every Saturday night at the Bench from 10pm until closing.
Southwest corner of Houston Street at Orchard Street. No Cover.
Bottle service available.
Free Altoids!!!
“Taking it back to the streets since four weeks ago!”
Befriend the Bench here
Art by ESPO
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SUMMER SALE IN BABYLON
