Turnbull & Asser is a British clothier established in 1885. In addition to its flagship store on Jermyn Street in London, England, it also has two American locations, one in New York City and one in Beverly Hills, California. Turnbull & Asser is regarded as an exclusive store and has dressed such people as Prince Charles, Sir Winston Churchill, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush.[1]. Today, Turnbull & Asser also manufactures some women's clothing. Although extremely traditional outfitters, the company is known for its particularly vivid colours in shirts, knitwear, socks and ties.
In the 1974 film The Great Gatsby, the famous scene where Daisy Buchanan collapses in tears after seeing Jay Gatsby's shirt collection used Turnbull & Asser shirts (with the boxes and name clearly visible), despite the fact that designer Ralph Lauren had made all the other men's clothes in the film.
This is m y man Nitedog(Black Disco) Kevin Carney's line. A talented dude that also produces the ACID HAUS t-shirt line. Vey tasteful dude across the board. He really inspires me. Check his pedigree the generic story
Originally founded in 1997 in a NYC loft by Kevin Carney, the generic man collection came about in 2006, as Brandon Day and Kevin Carney began what they call “a case study in adultism”, a journey to define what it means to be an “adult” these days. Through a process of research, experience and discussion ‘the generic man’ lifestyle of the “Newdult” took shape.
The Newdult is tiring of streetwear and the high price of luxury. In response, ‘the generic man’ has created thoughtfully priced luxury for this new modern adult.
who is the generic man?
The generic man doesn’t need branding and logos to make him feel confident or stylish. He understand the significance of quality construction and clean, simple, refined lines.
The generic man is confident enough in himself to accept simplicity.
“If you have an interest in fashion and want to know about London Fashion Week and the British fashion industry, then you must read Style City – you will find everything you need in this book.” Paul Smith
STYLE CITY How London Became A Fashion Capital by Robert O’Byrne Price: £35 Publication date: 24th September 2009 Consultant: Annette Worsley-Taylor
Chosen by the British Fashion Council as its book of the year as it celebrates its’ 25th anniversary The definitive book on London Fashion since the 1970s
STYLE CITY is the first book to tell the inside story of how fashion developed in Britain from the early 1970s to the present day when London ranks alongside Paris, New York and Milan as a global fashion capital. London has produced many outstanding designers such as John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan and Stella McCartney. The book describes and shows – through 200 stunning photographs and illustrations – the key players in the fashion industry over this period, and the influences that went to shape British fashion: the music, the clubs, the parties, the tradition of dressing-up; but above all, the designers and their clothes.
The story is told largely through interviews with the designers and opinion-shapers of the period. Among those who talk about their experiences are Paul Smith, Philip Treacy, Jasper Conran, Bruce Oldfield, Betty Jackson, Rifat Ozbek, Katharine Hamnett, Antonio Berardi, Wendy Dagworthy, Body Map, Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman, Anna Harvey – the Vogue fashion editor who dressed the Princess of Wales for many years – and PR Lynne Franks.
Robert O’Byrne, previously Fashion Correspondent of The Irish Times, has spent many years at the heart of the fashion world, close to the people and events covered by this book. He is a frequent contributor to newspapers and journals in Britain, Ireland and the United States. Previous books include After A Fashion: A History of Fashion in Ireland.
Ever since consultant Annette Worsley-Taylor founded the London Designer Collections in 1975 she has been involved in all aspects of the promotion of British designers, and of London Fashion Week. She was Creative and Marketing Director and Consultant to the British Fashion Council for Fashion Week from 1993 to 2006. In 2002 she was made an MBE for services to British fashion.
For further information please contact: Emma O’Bryen Frances Lincoln Publicity on 020 7619 0098
I F***IN LOOOVE AQ!!!!! This guy is RADDNESS......Just wait. you will be all on him very soon. (Wink...Tastemakers) Born in the East End of London, he is the son of a taxi driver, McQueen started making dresses for his three sisters at a young age and announced his intention of becoming a fashion designer.
Alexander McQueen's early runway collections developed his reputation for controversy and shock tactics (earning the title "enfant terrible" and "the hooligan of English fashion"), with trousers aptly named "bumsters", and a collection entitled "Highland Rape". It has also been claimed that he was on income support and that he needed to change his name for his first show so that he could continue to receive benefits. McQueen is known for his lavish, unconventional runway shows, such as a recreation of a shipwreck for his spring 2003 collection, spring 2005’s human chess game and his fall 2006 show, Widows of Culloden, which featured a life-sized hologram of supermodel Kate Moss, dressed in yards of rippling fabric.
Some of Alexander McQueen's accomplishments include being one of the youngest designers to achieve the title "British Designer of the Year", which he won three times between 1996 and 2003. He has also been awarded the CBE, as well as being named International Designer of the Year at the Council of Fashion Designer Awards. December 2000 saw a new partnership for McQueen with Gucci Group acquiring 51% of the company, and McQueen serving as Creative Director. Plans for expansion have included the opening of stores in London, Milan, and New York, and the launch of his perfumes Kingdom, and more recently My Queen. In 2005, McQueen collaborated with Puma to create a special line of trainers for the shoe brand. McQueen became the first designer to participate in MAC's newest promotion: cosmetic releases created by fashion designers. The collection, McQueen, was released on 11 October 2007 and reflects the looks used on the Fall/Winter McQueen runway. The inspiration for the collection was the Elizabeth Taylor movie Cleopatra, and thus the models sported intense blue, green, and teal eyes with strong black liner extended Egyptian-style. McQueen handpicked the 3 cream shadows, coordinating eye shadows, two lip sticks, two lipglasses, three eyeliners, false lashes and Mineralized Skin Finish powder used in the
I recently went to The Museum at F.I.T. The Fashion Institute of Technology for the Gothic (dark glamor) Exhibit. And I have to say it was EXCELLENT!!! My take on "GOTH" has changed forever & I from a fashion standpoint am really inspired be this exhibit curated by Valerie Steele. This is a must see. Here some information I got off their website. For those of you that are not going to be in NYC before Feb 21, I included some youtube links for you to have a peak. I hear there is a coffee table book due for release in Fall 09. Look for that too & get your Goth Bars up! ~~~~~~~~~~~~
Gothic is an epithet with a strange history, evoking images of death, destruction, and decay. It is not just a word that describes something (such as a Gothic cathedral); it is almost inevitably a term of abuse, implying that something is gloomy, barbarous, and macabre. Ironically, its negative connotations have made it, in some respects, ideal as a symbol of rebellion. Hence its significance for youth subcultures. Today the words "goth" and "gothic" are popularly associated with black-clad teenagers and mascara'd rock musicians. But the gothic has many layers of meaning.
Just as the "barbarian" Goths were perceived by the Romans as the antithesis of classical civilization, so did the medieval Gothic come to be seen as modernity's Other, its "dark side." With the rise of the Enlightenment, the entire medieval period was retrospectively envisioned as the Dark Ages, characterized by superstition and sorcery. The Gothic has long attracted cultural outsiders, from the homosexual aesthete Horace Walpole, author of the first gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto, to the habitués of today's Vampire Balls.
The imagery of death and decay, the power of horror, and the erotic macabre are perversely attractive to many designers. John Galliano, for example, has described the "Gothic girl" as "edgy and cool, vampy and mysterious." Alexander McQueen, Rick Owens, Yohji Yamamoto, and Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy have also created what could be described as gothic fashion. Ann Demeulemeester may reject the gothic label, associating it with the ubiquitous skull accessory, but Owens proudly recalls that he once was a goth, just as Vivienne Westwood was a punk.
Bienvenue à la discothèque. Venez dans une détente et appréciez. Ayez une boisson et écoutez la musique. Rencontrez les nouveaux amis. Et danse, danse, danse !
Zero-G fashion in Japan (01:20) Report Oct. 5 - Designers take haute-couture to the stars at the Japan Aerospace 2008 show. Young designers compete for the chance to come up with a real space suit for future space voyagers. Susan Flory reports.
The recently opened shop Child of the Jago, in London’s Shoreditch area, is fittingly named after the 1896 novel by Arthur Morrison. It’s no coincidence that Morrison’s book, an account of criminal behavior among unruly youth, is set in the new boutique’s current digs — a few doors down from a pub owned by that other documentation of unruly youth, Vice magazine.
The brain child of the designer Barnzley, Joe Corre (son of the Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren) and Vivienne Westwood, Jago is born with a distinguished pedigree that extends past its punk-rock blood line: Corre, alongside his former partner Serena Rees, founded Agent Provocateur; the 43-year-old Barnzley, who first found favor during London’s late-1980s acid-house boom after printing smiley faces on a range of T-shirts, co-created the club-wear brand Acupuncture (famous for its platform trainers) and later the agitprop street-wear label Zoltar the Magnificent. Their latest style offspring, Child of the Jago, was imagined as a place to sell off the remnants of Britain’s lost empire. An eclectic mix of antique jewelery, vintage sartorial bibles and even parts of McLaren’s record collection is up for sale. Jago’s Terrorist line is designed in a old subway car on his neighbor’s roof; its wasp logo derives from the pair’s belief that “the creatures are the ultimate terrorist.” (We assume he means the insect and not the blue-blooded variety.) The more tailored pieces range in style from what the shop describes as “Victorian Pimp” to reworked workers’ uniforms done in tweeds, felt and a impossibly expensive found lurex. Recurring house prints are a collage of Victorian pornography and the 17th-century artist William Hogwarth’s “Gin Lane” print, a piece that, according to Barnzley, documents “the degeneration of the working class to the benefit of a corrupt ruling elite, not unlike today’s Britain.” McLaren and Westwood must be proud.
Barnsley is an old friend of mine. I've known him since the 80's. He & I really did some damage back in the day. Running wild around London, Tokyo & NYC.
Always the wind-up artist Barnzley really put his neck on the line here on this one. Never one to back down from a fight and equally capable of setting some shit off! Barnzley's latest endevour might really have him going toe to to with some real heavyweights and get the championship belt he deserves.
We talk to Simon Barnzley Armitage about the new revolution emerging from a little East London shop and what it means to be a Neo-Jihad Dandy.
I have not done a feature on a Male Model to look out for as yet because I love women and love to look at them. I have been so intrigued by the latest crop of young beautiful models that I must do a whole post on just young beautiful female model on the horizon.
I have put you in the loop on a couple of girls. I told you about IT GIRL: JOURDAN DUNN here on this site back in Sept 2007 and she is killing them now... In Vogue etc....she is everywhere....I went on about Chanel Iman.
So it's only fair that I check the temperature of some of the fellas for all my female readers. But I have got to share with you a young man that I feel have so much potential it's scary first. He is waaay under the radar right now because he is playing college basketball in his second season. He also plays college tennis. He is currently represented by TURP MODELS USA™ and was discovered by a stylist in the Shibuya section of Tokyo Japan this past summer. He has done a ton of High Fashion catalog work while in Tokyo this past summer. There are plans to bring him to Europe for the shows next season as well as New York Fashion Week.....He is NEXT!!!
Ladies & Gentlemen I introduce to you LONO BRAZIL 3. Yes this is my eldest son. He is more than amazing to me for obvious reasons. I am extremely proud of my dude. But you gotta admit, money is nice with his. His vitals;
You are not seeing things nor is this some of my clever Photoshop CS3 graphics. This REAL!!! This the State of Texas. Home of G.W.Bush. This gives a new definition to the term "Outlet Store". But this is not an Outlet Store.....
This luxurious Prada store is situated along a desolate road near Marfa, Texas. Located on the outskirts of Valentine, Texas near Marfa on desolate ranching land with no other visible trace of civilization. It’s the only Prada boutique of its kind, with nothing around for miles and miles.
Take the Van Horn exit on to Highway 90 south towards the town of Marfa. After a 45 minute drive, you'll find this Prada store in the middle of farmland. You might be asking yourself "What we're they thinking".
Is this some type of marketing ploy? Did they really put a Prada boutique in the middle of nowhere. Totally away from civilization. In a place where the nearest resident most likely has no idea who or what Prada represented or for that matter could even afford a $1000 handbag or pair of Prada loafers at $410 a pop!
It is actually the work of Scandinavian artists Elmgreen & Dragset. The two have created a monument to minimalism with their latest project, Prada Marfa.with the support of New York 's Art Production Fund and Ballroom Marfa, and will never be open to customers. Rather, it will be left to the elements, providing the unlikely fate of desolation and entropy for the fashion powerhouse. According to the Art Production Fund, Prada has been extremely cooperative with the project, offering assistance with every detail from its Pantones and logo to furniture and interior design. The sun-dried boutique will be stocked with a fresh array of the Fall 2005 line, dating the time capsule for any anthropologists or archaeologists who happen to be passing in the distant future.
No she is not African. Nor is she mixed with Chinese....SHE A BLACK GIRL!!!
She is from the BK! Coney Island to be exact. She goes to LaGuardia High School. And she is about to blow. Bethann, I'm telling you. You need to come on with it! Your hard work and all the advocating is about to pay off.
We told you to look out for Chanel Iman when she was a tender 15. I'm telling you now. This young daughter has got it. LOOK AT THAT FACE!!!
Yves Saint Laurent died Sunday at age 71 after a long illness. He had battled mental illness and drug addiction throughout his life.
The fashion giant was one of the most famous designers of the last century, along with Coco Chanel, Christian Dior and Paul Poiret.
Although he retired from haute couture in 2002, after 40 years of designing, YSL continues to dominate, and his clothing is still worn by trend-setting actresses and valued by fashion collectors.
I LOVE YOU KATOUCHA. GOD BLESS YOUR SOUL MY QUEEN. VOUS ÊTES À MON COEUR TOUJOURS
Katoucha Niane (30 December 1960 in Conakry, Guinea – 2 February 2008 in Paris, France) was a French supermodel—one of the world's first to have come from Africa. Nicknamed "The Peul Princess" (in reference to her ethnic Fula background), she worked, and later wrote, under the single name "Katoucha". She was the daughter of author, playwright and historian Djibril Tamsir Niane. She had three children.
As a child, Katoucha's family was forced into exile after her father came into conflict with Guinean President Sekou Toure. Living with an uncle in Mali, she rejoined her family in Dakar at age twelve. There she lived with the family of her paternal uncle, whose wife was private secretary to President of Senegal Léopold Sédar Senghor.[1] After marrying her husband at age seventeen and giving birth to her first child, they emigrated to France. It was there, in the 1980s, that she began modelling first for Thierry Mugler, then Paco Rabanne and Christian Lacroix, and became known as Yves Saint Laurent's "muse."[2] She remained one of the best known models in France, and an icon in Guinea. Recently she worked as host of the French language television program Top Model.
Niane stopped modeling in 1994 to focus on activism. She had been an outspoken activist against female circumcision, a rite performed in some African nations. Following her success as a model, she started the organization KPLCE - Katoucha pour la lutte contre l’excision (English: Katoucha for the battle against female circumcision). Niane herself was circumcised at age 9. In 2007, she published a book about her personal circumcision experience, "Dans ma chair" (Eng: "In My Flesh"), in France.
Katoucha lived in a houseboat on the Seine, near the Alexander III bridge in Paris. On February 1, 2008, she returned to her houseboat from a party. This was the last time she was reportedly seen alive. On February 4, 2008, police opened a missing persons case for her. Her purse was found untouched outside the door to her boat. Police believed that no foul play was involved, and that she was likely intoxicated and fell into the Seine.[3] Her body was found in the Seine River on February 28, 2008. The 47 year old model is believed to have died from an accidental drowning.
SHE WAS ALSO MY DEAR FRIEND. I will cherish her memory forever....
If you have heard or know anything, please contact the French Authorities.
Here's what the French media has written: Paris police seek missing model, former Saint Laurent muse PARIS (AFP) — French police were searching Friday for a Guinean former catwalk model, one time muse of the couture giant Yves Saint Laurent, a week after she vanished from her Paris houseboat. Nicknamed the "black princess", the 47-year-old Katoucha went missing from her home on a central stretch of the River Seine Friday night, according to relatives who reported her missing on Monday. The mother-of-three disappeared after being dropped off near her home from a party and her handbag was later recovered nearby. Investigators are exploring all lines of inquiry, including a fatal accident or suicide, and divers trawled the Seine in vain for her body this week. Born in Conakry, Katoucha worked with the greatest couture stars at the height of her career in the 1980s including Saint Laurent who "loved her enormously", according to Dominique Deroche, head of PR for the designer. "She was exactly like an Yves Saint Laurent drawing, a proud head on a long neck, very slim but with strong shoulders, made for haute couture." "She looked magnificent on the catwalk and often wore very powerful outfits -- like a cubist navy blue dress with doves around the neckline." Katoucha left the catwalk for good in 1994, but in recent years she made headlines as an outspoken campaigner against female circumcision, launching a foundation against the practice. "Today at the age of 47, I want a woman's combat and I have chosen the battle against excision," she said in a recent interview. Excised at the age of nine, in her home country Guinea, Katoucha recounted the ordeal in a recent book entitled "In My Flesh". The daughter of the writer and historian Djibril Tamsir Niane, Katoucha spent an idyllic childhood in Conakry. "I grew up surrounded byu hibiscus and ylang-ylang flowers. I used to get drunk on the richest perfumes and saw myself as a perfumer or a model," she wrote in the book. But then her life changed forever. "We lived in Conakry, life was sweet, then one day mother said we were going to the cinema. And I found myself the victim of a horror movie. "An unimaginable trauma, that I had never managed to talk about, until I found love and wrote 'In my flesh'," she said. She said she saw her career as a top model, first with the designer Thierry Mugler, as a form of "revenge" for the horror of excision. "I embodied the most arrogant and admired kind of feminity, I who was supposed to be diminished."
This is A TOY WATCH. No seriously, that's the name of this brand. The company, TOY WATCH manufactures Rolex inspired watches for a fraction of the price. Think SWATCH. This is not really a knock-off. It is a quality plastic watch that is as stylish as it is affordable. They range from $125 -$1500.
In the fall of 2006, Milan-based designer and wristwatch aficionado Marco Mavilla designed the first TOYWATCH. A lightweight, oversized plastic watch, inspired by high design timepieces, TOYWATCH is unexpected, arresting and irreverent. Under the direction of fine-watch collector and TOYWATCH USA CEO, Randy Gordon, TOYWATCH was brought to the USA in the summer of 2006. An anti-luxury statement in a luxury obsessed culture, TOYWATCH has become the "it" wristwatch and the "must-have" item among style influentials and tastemakers. The brand ignited a firestorm in the fashion, design and accessories industries and has been heralded as a sensation by the press. Fall of 2007 will welcome the first ever, freestanding TOYWATCH store - if you find yourself at Via Montenapoleone in Milan, come check out ToyWatch.
TOYWATCH watches are available at www.toywatchusa.com, and in more than 300 fine stores, including Barney's, Henri Bendel, Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Bloomingdales.
GET YOURS NOW!!! Get a few of them. Switch 'em up with your outfits. At this price you can't go wrong, Cause they are sooo right!
A retractable bed, a mobile mezzanine a bed arranged with the Practical ceiling and design, it offers a true space saving in space and a maximum of comfort.
Modern living and urban dwelling is no longer subject to crammed quarters. Our major cities globally are offering smaller spaces for larger prices. Not to be discouraged, those of us that have live/work loft/apts and love city living have to be inventive to maximize our spaces.
One French design company has a great invention as they have upgraded the convertible bed & made is very chic and stylish. It's called BED-UP!
Bedup is adapted to your height under ceiling. Out of standard of 2m20 with 2m80, technically possible until 3m40. Rangé with the ceiling, bedup occupies only 35 cm, which makes under vis-a-vis with 2m15 for a height under ceiling (HSP) of 2m50.
This I'm sure will solve many of our space issues. They are gonna make a killing in Japan! This is Brilliant!. But the great thing is that it is ultra modern. It turns a studio Apt into a creative workspace in the day. And a modern comfortable living space at night.
This product is being produced in France at the moment by a firm called DECADRAGES. In a few words DECADRAGES is a workshop of invention and creation in the area of furnishing, the design and the installation of space. We conceptualize pieces of furniture for the private sector as well as for the professionals.
Check out the website(It's in French) But you can get the idea.
SKY BAR......FOR REALZ!!!!!!!! Hotel In The Sky!! Or Pimp My Blimp!! This is the most ridiculos, most over the top, EXXXXTRAA thing I have seen since the movie "Red Planet". But this is not a movie. This is for real!!
Zeppelins seem to be the latest craze these days as another design company has come up with a flying blimp that houses a hotel with luxury suites for 60. Called the Manned Cloud, this concept by French designer Jean Marie Massaud, whose company, Massaud Studio partnered ONERA, France’s National Aerospace Research Center, for this project. Its creator claims that the giant airship is capable of flying at 280 km/h, which means that its passengers would be able to circle the Earth in 3 days.
"By the age of 17 Christos Tolera had already been photographed for the Evening Standard, The Face and I.D. magazine, well on his way to becoming a leading light in London's burgeoning underground club scene."
Ladies and Gentlemen I introduce to you Christos Tolera!
I remember first meeting Christos whilst (visiting) living in London, Eng back in the late 80's.(I went there to visit on my way home from living in Paris for a few months prusuing modeling. I ended up staying a year) We were at a dinner party for I believe Wil Downing. I don't recall the name of the restaurant but I was welcomed by Christos and had a great time. Also at that exact party I was introduced to Sade, Stuart Matthewman and a host of other London socialites that moved and grooved and was on the cutting edge of the London music, art & fashion scene. It was a blast! I remained friends with Stuart, Sade and some others there, but lost track of Christos. Until now....
I recently discovered his work as a painter and was amazed to find his work so compelling. Truthfully I did not know he was a painter. I new he was an actor/model cause I had seen him in fashion shows and in countless magazines like...Per Lui, Italian Vogue and Elle. As well he's appeared in more than I can recall music videos like Spandau Ballet, Sade and Eurythmics, to name a few. Mostly because he has a style an image that epitomizes what we view as real character. Think Coati Mundi meets James Bond with a little bit of Rudolph Valentino thrown in for good measure. He's a real fly dude.
A real renaissance man too, if ever there was one. I am really impressed with his work. It reveals his dark side in him I feel. The universal themes of Sex and Suffering, Death and Desire are all constant companions in the work.
http://www.christostolera.com
Log onto his excellent website to see more of his work. It's really good.
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN KNIT DRESS WITH DETACHABLE POLO Black knit dress with detachable polo. Button fastenings run horizontally around the dress, just above the chest. Long sleeves. The hemline sits on the knee.
Knit chic, perfect for smart daywear with towering platforms, then move straight into evening removing the polo neck and shimmy those bare shoulders.
MARNI BELTED JERSEY BACK SHIFT DRESS
Navy belted jersey back shift dress. Round neck. Sleeveless. The front is navy; the jersey back is charcoal grey. Pockets sit on either side of the hips. The hemline sits above the knee. A zip fastening runs down the back.
Simple and seriously chic, wear with towering heels everywhere and anywhere.
It goes without saying to all women fashionista's that you "MUST" own a little black dress. And in professional terms, no matter what you are selling, you have to sell yourself or you are not going to be productive.
The more upscale your product, the more upscale the image must be. Or if you want to achieve upscale status your image must say "UPSCALE".
So don't go into H&M looking for something cheap to work. It will look just that"CHEAP".
Founded in 1977, the New Museum is the first and only contemporary art museum in New York City and among the most respected internationally, with a curatorial program unrivaled in the United States in its global scope and adventurousness. With the inauguration of our new, state-of-the-art building on the Bowery, the New Museum will be the destination for new art and new ideas.
As nightclubs continue to get bigger, fancier and more extreme, the drinks get more expensive and the music gets more and more wack. Countless DJ's have come out of the woodwork everyday proclaiming to be better than the next guy. Many claim to possess a great new concept. In actuality, most are merely doing the same thing and nothing new is happening. It's not a good trend.
It's time for something different. Something unusual…
DISCO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB.
Let's get back to the basics. Strip it all down to its bare essence. No cover. Cheap drinks. GREAT MUSIC. Reminescent of the bar scene of the 70's.
Venture back with us to the days when a few beers and some good people came out to see, not be seen. And the music was good. Before House. Before Hip-Hop. Before genres separated us, they brought us together. A time when the word "Disco" sounded unusual. And the desire to dance and sing was not something you did only in the shower. You went out to your favorite social club.
Lono Brazil(TURP SOUNDS) and partner Josh Deep(DEEPER SOUL RECORDINGS) have created "DISCO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB" for the purpose of getting back to the basics. Both have reached the apex of the club & electronic music scene. Both want to be refreshed. Both fiend for something unusual to go down.
Josh Deep emerged from a dark cave on the South Side of Chicago in the mid 70's initially wrecking havoc on the jazz/funk scene in the late 80's and early 90's twisting up Rhodes and other electronics around Chicago. Avid record fiend turned label head, Josh Deep started Deeper Soul Recordings early 2004.
He has shared the stage with Kahil El'Zabar and the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, DJ'd with Archie Sheep, Osunlade, Rich Medina, IG Culture, Bugz In The Attic, and DJ Harvey at his four year residency at Sonotheque Chicago. Moving on, he is now ready to bring the many sounds of twisted Disco to your ears and boogie feet.
Lono Brazil has also held down residencies at nightclubs and bars like Gold's (Tokyo,Japan), Freds (London,Eng), APT (New York, NY), Reign (Beverly Hills, CA), Les Deux Cafes (Hollywood, CA), Sunset Room (Hollywood, CA), The Standard Hotel (Dwntwn Los Angeles, CA), Star Shoes (Hollywood, CA) and countless one-offs in San Francisco, Chicago and NYC over the years.....He's old enough to have experienced Larry Levan, Dave Mancuso, Frankie Knuckles and the likes perform live in the early 80's and young enough to still stay in the forefront of all things innovative. Originally from the first wave of electronic music producers and DJ/Promoters from Chicago, Lono Brazil was instrumental in bringing Hip-Hop,House Music, African, Latin and Electronic to the forefront of the music scene and is still to this day regarded as a true ambassador of Quality Music.
DISCO UNUSUAL SOCIAL CLUB is a collabrative effort between Lono Brazil and Josh Deep.
Saturday November 24th 2007 Danny's Tavern_ 1951 W. Dickens (Damen & Armitage) Chicago, IL. 60614__773-489-6457 11pm- 3am__No Cover Early Arrival Suggested
This is a 21+ event.
Cost: FREE!
Official Site: http://discounusualsocialclub.blogspot...
WHAT IN THE WORLD??? Or better yet where in the universe did JANELLE MONAE come from???
This is Cory Daye from Dr. Buzzard Original Savanah Band meets Klaus Nomi at the intersection Manhattan Transfer & Shirley Bassey sleeping with Sir Nose De-Void Of Funk!!!!
THIS GIRL IS F***ING AMAZING!!!! SHE IS THE FUTURE. I have not seen anything like this in 25 years. Andre 3000 baby sis..... All I can say is FINALLY!!! Oh & Merci Beaucoup!!!
The Keyshia Cole post really inspired me to do this one. One of the things I forgot to mention in my post on Ms. Cole with all due respect was her ample natural breast. Something that has not gone unnoticed by us men. It is in my most humble opinion one (or two) of her biggest assets.
Now you women readers don't get your thongs in a twist and become appalled by my frankness and matter of factness in discussing this topic. This is not to be taken as something vulgar or pornographic. My appreciation for all things feminine stems from my profound love and admiration for the female and her anatomy. WOMEN ARE THE BEST THING THE CREATOR GAVE TO THE UNIVERSE!
The Golden Hills before the Silicone Valley: Three decades of the world's most spectacular natural curves
Some call it the American obsession, but men everywhere recognize the hypnotic allure of a large and shapely breast. In The Big Book of Breasts, Dian Hanson explores the origins of mammary madness through three decades of natural big-breasted nudes. Starting with the World War II Bosom-Mania that spawned Russ Meyer, Howard Hughes's The Outlaw and Frederick's of Hollywood, Dian guides you over, around, and in between the dangerous curves of infamous models including Michelle Angelo, Candy Barr, Virginia Bell, Joan Brinkman, Lorraine Burnett, Lisa De Leeuw, Uschi Digard, Candye Kane, Jennie Lee, Sylvia McFarland, Margaret Middleton, Paula Page, June Palmer, Roberta Pedon, Rosina Revelle, Candy Samples, Tempest Storm, Linda West, June Wilkinson, Julie Wills, and dozens more, including Guinness World Record holder Norma Stitz, possessor of the World`s Largest Natural Breasts.
The 396 pages of this book contain the most beautiful and provocative photos ever created of these iconic women, plus nine original interviews, including the first with Tempest Storm and Uschi Digard in over a decade, and the last with Candy Barr before her untimely death in 2005. In a world where silicone is now the norm, these spectacular real women stand as testament that nature knows best.
"I am a breast, a mammary gland disconnected from any human form, a mammary gland such as could only appear, one would have thought, in a dream." Philip Roth, The Breast, 1972
On the occasion of its sixtieth anniversary, Assouline presents the authoritative volume on the bikini with iconic images from its history, a study of its symbolism, and a look at the most defining fashions. A sexy alternative to the one-piece swimming costume, the bikini forever changed the way women relate to their bodies. “Smaller than the world’s smallest bathing suit,” as it was first described by its creator Frenchman Louis Reard, the bikini has become a symbol of female sensuality and liberation. Here is a four hundred page tribute to the Hollywood pin-ups of the 50s; Bond girls Ursula Andress and Halle Berry rising up from the sea; the beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema, birthplace of the tanga; Brigitte Bardot, topless and poolside in St. Tropez; the itsy bitsy teeny weeny styles of the 60s; beach bodies on spring break; the monokini, tankini, bandini, and v-kini; the strappy and the sporty; the sexy and the outrageous. But whether iconic or ordinary, scandalous or social, every image of the bikini in this luscious volume is about beauty.
I just found this....I don't read Vibe Magazine anymore but.....
I gotta get this one....
IT'S OFFICIAL!!!!! Keyshia Cole has took MJB's spot as the queen of ghetto fabulousness.....Mary is going to have to join the ranks of legend/classic/icons like Chaka, Aretha etc....Cause Keyshia Cole is THE QUEEN OF HIP-HOP SOUL!
Nothing is more ghetto at the moment than KC. She epitomizes the ghetto aesthetic to the fullest. And her Reality Show is banoodles!!! Her mom, her sisters they just really letting it all hang out.
Keyshia has clearly been through some shit! (Watch The Show those of you in the states. It's heart breaking). But it is reality of how the majority of black women are "Livin In America". Keyshia is obviously a strong young woman.
Like Mary, she sings with that pain in her voice. She has that thing. You hear it when she starts to blow.
But the thing that she's got that Mary dosen't is SEX APPEAL!! I mean don't get me wrong. I have been in love with Mary since she was singing back-up in the Father M.C. video. But Keyshia Cole is F-I-R-E!
And pretty as hell! We are all witnessing a beautiful flower in bloom. She has so much potential. And can walk down the path that MJB have paved before her.
A note to Madison avenue marketing geniuses: GET HER NOW!!!!!! SHE IS THE LeBRON JAMES OF R&B.
Do your homework. Keyshia is so relevent right now.....
One of the most internationally acclaimed artists to emerge from Asia in the postwar era, Takashi Murakami effortlessly navigates between the worlds of fine art and popular culture and is best known for his cartoon-like, “superflat” style. This major traveling retrospective includes key selections spanning the artist’s career, from the early 1990s to the present. More than 90 works in various media—painting, sculpture, installation, and film—are installed in five sections, occupying over 35,000 square feet of exhibition space. The first portion features many of Murakami’s acclaimed large-scale otaku-inspired sculptural figures from the late 1990s. The second section comprises a grid-like shelving display of Murakami’s merchandise. A fully operational Louis Vuitton boutique, showcasing the artist’s collaboration with the designer brand, is on the mezzanine level. The largest portion of the exhibition traces Murakami’s artistic development, including early works that engage branding and the evolution of his signature character, DOB. Of particular importance, is the debut of Oval Buddha, an enormous self-portrait sculpture in the guise of a Buddha, and the premiere of part one of the artist’s first major animated film, kaikai & kiki. New installments of kaikai & kiki will continue at the exhibition tour venues.
SYNOPSIS «For the first time Karl Lagerfeld has agreed to let someone create an artwork on his every day life and to trust in the director. Until today there is no authorised biography existing and the memories who Karl Lagerfeld would compose stay perfectly confidential. After three years of work, and over three hundred hours of footage, Rodolphe Marconi discloses the daily life of the star through his personal lens as a filmmaker.»
Event Description Showcase 30 oct - 8 nov, featuring some of Sweden's fastest rising fashion stars today. Among the brands are Whyred, POUR, Odd Molly, J.Lindeberg, Dagmar, Björn Borg, Nudie, Acne Paper, Our Legacy and many more. Also photo exhibition from Stockholm-based photographers' agency LundLund, home to some of the most influential artists in European fashion photography, and a special showcase from überhipp international magazine, BON.
Location: The Embassy of Sweden 1-10-3-100 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032
This looks good. Great period piece. And I love Paris so......I love the song too. I first heard it covered by Grace Jones back in the 80's and loved it ever since. If you don't have it. GET IT! And Go see this movie. I believe it is showing in NYC (Ofcourse) Go see it and comment. I am going asap! Also find her music. It is REAL FRENCH MUSIC. The kind of stuff you listen to on Sundays during brunch sipping on Mimosa's being real fabulous!
La Vie En Rose is the title in English-speaking territories for La Môme (French for The Kid), a 2007 French language movie directed by Olivier Dahan about singer Édith Piaf, starring Marion Cotillard as Piaf. The movie premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. Co-stars include film veteran Gérard Depardieu, Sylvie Testud, Emmanuelle Seigner, Clotilde Courau newcomer Jean-Pierre Martins and respected character actor Pascal Greggory.
The film presents a fractured and largely non-linear series of key events from the life of Édith Piaf. Although scenes often jump back and forth across decades, parts of her childhood take up much of the first part, and the movie ends with her death, and the performance of what is perhaps her signature song,
*Note: Film is presented in foreign language with subtitles.
From the slums of Paris to the limelight of New York, Edith Piaf's life was a battle to sing and survive, live and love. Raised in poverty, Edith's magical voice and her passionate romances and friendships with the greatest names of the period--Yves Montand, Jean Cocteau, Charles Aznavour, Marlene Dietrich, Marcel Cerdan and others--made her a star all around the world. But in her audacious attempt to tame her tragic destiny, the Little Sparrow--her nickname--flew so high she could not fail to burn her wings.
Edith Piaf (December 19, 1915–October 11, 1963) was one of France's most beloved singers and became a national icon. Her singing reflected her tragic life, with her specialty being the poignant ballad performed in a heartbreaking voice. Today she is still remembered and revered as one of the greatest singers of France.
Edith Piaf is almost universally regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Still revered as an icon decades after her death, "the Sparrow" served as a touchstone for virtually every chansonnier, male or female, who followed her. Her greatest strength wasn't so much her technique, or the purity of her voice, but the raw, passionate power of her singing. (Given her extraordinarily petite size, audiences marveled all the more at the force of her vocals.) Her style epitomized that of the classic French chanson: highly emotional, even melodramatic, with a wide, rapid vibrato that wrung every last drop of sentiment from a lyric. She preferred melancholy, mournful material, singing about heartache, tragedy, poverty, and the harsh reality of life on the streets; much of it was based to some degree on her real-life experiences, written specifically for her by an ever-shifting cast of songwriters. Her life was the stuff of legend, starting with her dramatic rise from uneducated Paris street urchin to star of international renown. Along the way, she lost her only child at age three, fell victim to substance abuse problems, survived three car accidents, and took a seemingly endless parade of lovers, one of whom perished in a plane crash on his way to visit her. Early in her career, she chose men who could help and instruct her; later in life, with her own status secure, she helped many of her lovers in their ambitions to become songwriters or singers, then dropped them once her mentorship had served its purpose. By the time cancer claimed her life at age 47, Piaf had recorded a lengthy string of genre-defining classics -- "Mon Légionnaire," "La Vie en Rose," "L'Hymne à l'Amour," "Milord," and "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien" among them -
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