Because we’re not just about denim. Because travel and culture are necessities, not luxuries. Because style is an evolution. Because art and inspiration are around every corner. Because we love to indulge and we’re nice enough to share. Welcome to our world.
Australian band Tame Impala played their first London show at Cargo last night. Their album, Innerspeaker is out on modular on the 23rd August. Their low-fi physcadelic sixties sound is perfect for when the sun comes out.
Shoes from the Lanvin Soho store
Got shoe fever? We do! Nothing is sexier than cat-like Lanvin pumps to cap a pair of Hudson jeans. I spied lots of leopard and zebra styles, dotted with tiny rhinestones, peep toes, spiked and chunky heels, and boots (again in leopard) with a new favorite this season: cherry red! For guys, Lavin also puts out some cool running shoes in olive green and gray, also perfectly matched for a cool Lanvin/Hudson look.
Not to be outdone, some of the clothing also works with our best jeans. How about a one shouldered ruffled shirt (see white number below) with Hudson flares, again paired with the pumps? Or the badass Seventies style leather bag? Still, it’s hard to leave the NYC Lanvin flagship without at least coveting the set of over a hundred colored pencils (132 in all) for a cool $269.99! Lanvin NYC, 142 Greene Street, NYC.
All looks, by Lanvin, all work with Hudson jeans!
Vik Muniz “Mother and Chidren” shown in the film Wasteland
If you see one movie this year, see Wasteland. It is the most beautiful film of our generation. Premiering this week in special showings at IFC Film Center in New York, then opening to select theaters in the U.S. on the 29th of August, it may take an Oscar. It will surely take your heart.
Director Lucy Walker follows Brooklyn-based artist Vik Muniz to Brazil, his native country, where he grew up in a lower middle class home. Now, as the country’s most successful art export, Muniz revisits a community of garbage collectors at a landfill. These people live in outposts and rifle through the trash of both the rich and the poor, lifting what can be recycled. One of the oldest men of the workers, the head of their makeshift union, explains with pride that although he is not educated, his job is vital. He is proud. Even if they only collect one piece to be recycled to help the environment, “it’s 99, not 100″ pieces that will pollute.
All the workers in the movie tell their stories, how life took tragic turns. A mother whose son dies from pneumonia and she needs to identify him in a pile of garbage; a woman who cooks food that has not yet gone bad on the collection site so everyone can eat; a man who rescues books from the heaps, dries them in his refrigerator so he can read and educate himself.
Muniz photographs these people and then enlists their help in creating large scale portraits that they fill with garbage, which from afar resembles the most delicately painted pastel border. The image of Tao — one of the most charismatic collectors below — imitating Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Marat, dying in a tub sold for $50,000 at Sotheby’s in London, with all proceeds going back to help the Brazilian collectors. Muniz donated all the proceeds of the portraits back to them. In recreating them as art, he recognizes their dignity and reshapes their lives. This is a must see, a small miracle of beauty and life. IFCFILMCENTER
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Courtney Cox names Hudson as one of her favorite jeans.
With only a couple weeks left before autumn, we’re all basking in the last glow of sun with getaways to the country or the beach. In the exhibit, “Summer Selections”, at the Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe Gallery in Chelsea, even those of us trapped in the city can enjoy some color by a compilation of talented global artists including Iva Gueorguieva, Michael Reafsnyder, Judy Pfaff, Patrick Wilson, and Suzanne Caporael. Patrick Wilson paints the three small squares on the wall seen here and Caporael does the work with the abstract rhombus. My personal favorite — the two yellow round figures on a black background — by Robert Motherwell, takes the cake.
Enjoy the burn while it lasts: “Summer Selections,” Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, 525 West 22nd Street, until August 20th.
“Way of Seeing” — the show at the Carolina Nitsch Project Room in Chelsea plays with so many themes of humanity, technology, and sexual personae, you leave feeling like you’ve walked into a mini mind kidnapping. It’s quite effective, which is maybe why the show has been extended through this week. So you better get there fast!
You’ll see work by artists E.V. Day, Richard Dupont, and Alyson Shotz. Day places a lady’s Victorian glove in a bell jar, a sensuality suspended and trapped. She also drew diagrams of the inside of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner’s jet, with arrows pointing to navigational points and an on board screening room. How’s that for taking all the juice out of the male virility? Similarly, Dupont erects naked men lined up to depict their human representation in cyberspace. And Shotz plays with string theory in her drawings and also causes a double take in her mirrored wall balls, based on the Arnolfini Wedding by Jan Van Eyck.
It’s all definitely worth a look, through this week: Carolina Nitsch Project Room, 534 W. 22nd Street, NYC
Photos for Hudson, courtesy of Olivia Wolfe
The inside of Don Hill’s bar in Soho last Wednesday felt like the inside of a stove, or at least what we’d imagine that to be. The longstanding music venue/dive bar is still in process of renovation — due for an official opening during Fashion Week in September — so several A/C generators were not installed yet. Thus, hipsters like the miniature Olsen twins resembled melting candy munchkins. Think body odor, beer piss, and mascara that dripped like chocolate sauce, but what’s better for gritty rock n’roll? These pix above, shot by my pal, the artist Olivia Wolfe (who has a better camera than yours truly) captures just how sweaty it got for Alison Mosshart, who kept saying between sets, “It’s so f****n hot in here!” The group is finished touring for the album, “Sea of Cowards.” Consider this post a salute to the dog days of summer.
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