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Behind The Beast is a unique panel some of the city’s leading fashion industry experts including designers, forecasters, stylists, photographers, buyers and editors.

Behind The Beast is a unique panel some of the city’s leading fashion industry experts including designers, forecasters, stylists, photographers, buyers and editors.

Wednesday, October 28th
8PM SHARP!

Tribeca Grand (Screening Room)
2 Ave of the Americas
NYC

The night of cocktails and conversation will illuminate the road to this challenging industry for professionals, students and followers alike. Get the inside scoop on what exactly goes into the glamorous life from new product launches, magazine spreads, trend forecasting, fashion shows, and more.

Panel: 8-10 PM in Screening Room
Cocktails: 10 PM / Open Bar By Marani Vodka

Speakers include:

· Lindsay Taylor Huggins / Senior Fashion Market Editor, SELF Magazine
· Christine Barberich / Editorial Director, Refinery 29
· Kathryn Finney / Founder, The Budget Fashionista
· Farah Malik / Co-Founder & Designer, A Peace Treaty
· Samia Grand-Pierre & Lois Sakany / Bloggers, High Snobette
· Sara McCormack-Bridgman / Publicist, Ghostown
· Jasmine Takanikos / Trendforecaster, JTC
· Leah McSweeney / Founder, Married To The MOB
· Luna Vega / Digital Producer, Sauvage Studios
· Lynette Astaire / Fashion Photographer

*** MODERATED BY RUBY VERIDANO-CHING / MTV VJ North America***

RSVP: rsvpnyc@ladieslotto.com

Price: Pre-Pay Info: $15 Pre-Pay (By 10/27/09 or until tickets are  
available). http://tinyurl.com/LLBTBPPnon / $20 Day of (cash only)

Member Price: $10 CASH

sparkles….black…big hair… all things I love. check out this spread from Avenue Illustrated : Nonsense in the Dark. Styled by Kattaca, these beautiful photographs are by: Paco Peregrin

I am super excited to be getting down with Burton snowboards to celebrate the NY showing of their film The B Movie.

Today, Wednesday October 14th - there is a day full of activities - a signing with the pros in the Burton Flagship store, the screening of the movie at Tribeca Cinemas, and the after party produced by yours truly with Prince Paul, A-Dog and our girl Maggie Horn on the decks!

Check out the full itinerary on the Burton site…. and here of course….

you know I love you party people but this party is strictly guest list. Invite only!! make sure you go to the signing and the screening during the day!

Autograph Session
Burton Flagship Store :: 106 Spring St.
DJ A-Dog
4pm – 7pm * all ages

The B Movie Premiere
Tribeca Cinemas :: 54 Varick St
Doors @ 8pm :: Movie @ 8:30pm * all ages

The B Movie After Party
A Good Peoples Production
B.East :: 171 East Broadway
DJs Prince Paul * Maggie Horn * A-Dog
10pm * invite only * 21+

Check out the teaser for the movie!

We ditched the photo studio for a more cozy apartment shoot. Everybody helped with everything - especially holding the bounce boards to capture the beautiful, natural light. That’s the way we roll.

Jewelry drops soon. Get ready!

photo: devin doyle (gazettalux.com)
makeup: bethany brill (http://bbrill.com/)
model: aleksandra @ q models

This Thurs I join Bijules and Love Made in continued support of the Keep A Child Alive Organization with a sale at Soho House and after party at Chloe.

“Flip Fashion, Not Humanity” Charity Sale Event featuring today’s most genius jewelry designers:

Anna Sheffield * Bijules * Bliss Lau * Castro * Chris Habana * Love-Made * Pamela Love * Surface 2 Air

10% of all sales will be donated to Keep A Child Alive Organization in support of helping families fight against AIDS

You are invited to support fashion jewelry & Keep a Child Alive
Soho House, 29-35 9th Ave.
October 8, 2009 from 6-10pm
Credit Cards gladly accepted. RSVP mandatory: rsvp@bijulesnyc.com

After Party
Chloe, 81 Ludlow btwn Delancey & Broome
DJs: C-Town * Saheer (House of House) * Maggie Horn (Good Peoples)
RSVP: heart@love-made.com

An interesting visual commentary on the space where streetwear and luxury meet, tonight is the launch of the photo show “Altered Luxury” featuring photographs from Matt Salacuse, Robert Dimin & Justin Melnick.

Robert Dimin’s photos “Designer Drugs & Entitled”. consist of work he did from 2001-2004 that deconstructs high-end fashion logos (Marc Jacobs, Prada etc) and mixes them in with pop culture imagery.

Justin Melnick (known well as a photo journalist with a concentration on the Middle East) shows “Arm Me”, a collection of ammunition that is mixed in with luxury brands - Louis Vuitton, Chanel, and more.

Matt Salacuse collaborates with Marvin Barksdale to produce interpretations of luxury ads with street ads.

The show launches at the Dactyl Gallery (64 Grand St, 7-11pm) this evening and then continues on to the SoleFood Gallery.

Just passed by the work of Geraldine Georges on this blog.

Below are a few of her figurative illustrations.

The Belgian graphic designer mixes photography and illustration seamlessly, focusing on the female form. She recently had a solo show in Brussels which was received successfully, gaining press in leading design and style magazines.

Geraldine Georges

Click for Art is an ill site, where you can purchase works from some of the worlds most up-am-coming artists. Pieces range from prints and canvases, to pillows and chinaware. The site allows you to navigate through different styles, such as street, figurative, and illustration art, as well by location i.e., UK, Brazilian, and Asian artists. Art is always a good investment, because a few years from now, something you paid a few pounds for could go for a few hundred pounds. Trust!

Click for Art

I’ll confess: navigating the block of 34th Street between 6th & 7th Avenues is not one of my favorite weekend activities (nor, for that matter, something I typically enjoy any other time of the week). Through Sunday, however, I recommend not only doing it, but doing it multiple times. The vicinity surrounding Herald Square is of course home to Macy’s New York flagship–retail behemoth, tourist mecca and registered landmark. An estimated 7,000 people pass by the store in a given hour, many of them window shoppers. And this is your last chance to take in those windows, part of Macy’s seasonal satellite exhibition series, Art Under Glass.

This fall, the retailer partnered with the French Institute/Alliance Française (FIAF) as part of their Crossing the Line festival, marrying burgeoning design talent (art) with unrivaled market exposure (commerce). While bigger may not always be better, in this instance the pairing is ideal. Given the task at hand, i.e. essentially creating an installation that both celebrates and questions the idea of Americana, it works, both spatially and conceptually.

The windows themselves offer the artists mini, albeit hyper-visible individual galleries using actual Macy’s merchandise; the dichotomy between personal and shared space is both rare and entirely welcome. Co-curator Julie Boukobza likens the windows to “seductively hybrid spaces, between white cubes and the streets of New York City,” which “tend to reflect the concerns of our times.” Macy’s thus becomes, in Boukobza’s words, “a landmark of the American dream and its own interrogation.”

Participating artists include Marie Losier, in collaboration with Aya Kakeda and François Leloup-Collet; Olivier Babin; Sarah Ortmeyer; and Marie Maillard and Amélie Chabannes. AIDS 3-D, a partnership between Nik Kosmas and Daniel Keller, is featured, as are artists collectives Visual System (VS) and The Bruce High Quality Foundation.

The series also features Rita Ackermann and Agathe Snow, who created a multi-media, disco homage to the late Michael Jackson, entitled Mama Si Mama Sa Mama Co Sa…Liquid Man. Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, aka Shoplifter, a native of Iceland and the woman behind Bjork’s Medúlla album cover, got a little equine this go round. Like much of her work, Arnardóttir’s installation, Then they arrived at glacial speed, makes quirky, elegant use of hair, including that belonging to one very large, white horse.

Americans Nick Van Woert and Michael L. Yinger worked with found objects and recycled materials, respectively creating ten small shadow boxes featuring an array of handbags, sunglasses and shoes in Knock Off, and an oversize “map” of the United States, entitled Seen it all, I’m already there.

Yinger’s work is largely autobiographical, and in this instance included album covers and prescription pill bottles. A couple materials didn’t make the cut. This being Macy’s, the artists were subject to at least a little scrutiny. At the press preview I asked Yinger what had been omitted. “Bullets and cigarette butts,” he replied, smiling.

+Sarah

Macy’s, 151 W. 34th St., New York, NY 10001

All images courtesy of Mark Rifkin.