Jeffrey Deitch Invites Rodarte Designers To Exhibit At MOCA Los Angeles

via The Huffington Post

Jeffrey Deitch announced today that fashion house Rodarte (designed by two sisters, Kate and Laura Mulleavy) will have their own exhibit at MOCA's satellite space in West Hollywood's Pacific Design Center.
This is not the first foray into museum exhibitions for the sisters. An exhibit titled "Quicktake: Rodarte" was on at New York's Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in 2010. The pair also recently designed the costumes for "Black Swan" and their designs have become runway and red carpet mainstays.
The exhibition will include

pieces from Rodarte's spring 2010, fall 2010 and fall 2008 runway collections, plus original ballet costumes that the Mulleavys designed for the movie "Black Swan." The museum expects the show to feature about 25 pieces, which will be installed as a series of "interrelated conceptual vignettes," both static and in motion. (LAT)

This is yet another in a string of signs showing that art and fashion do, indeed, have a strong relationship. From LACMA's recent acquisition of an enviable costume and textiles collection to today's announcement from the Met that their costume department will undergo an intense overhaul, fashion seems to have found its place in the art world.
Watch the video from their Cooper Hewitt exhibit here:

Martin Solveig & Dragonette [Hello Episode1]

Inside Trussardi 1911

Milan Vukmirovic talks to yoox.com for the launch of the Red Camo collection, designed by Trussardi 1911 Exlclusively for www.thecorner.com, The New Yooxer met Creative Director Milan Vukmirovic who discussed the Greyhound Maison's trademark elegance and love of luxury.

Can Pubes Save American Apparel From Bankruptcy? The Hipster Retailer Backs Away From More Conservative Advertising

via fashionista.com

Remember when it seemed like American Apparel was toning down their notoriously porn-y ads?
There was that ad that featured Dov Charney working on his laptop in bed flanked by his creative directors. Then there were those illustrated ads, that showed frontal nudity and pubes galore, but the girls were, you know, CARTOONS. We figured that was as far as American Apparel would go when it came to showing pubic hair. We were wrong!

Here, in an ad in Purple Magazine (go figure), unearthed by Copyranter, American Apparel advertises their sheer undies on a young model with her pubic hair prominently showing. Not that there’s anything wrong with not waxing it all off like it’s become de rigeur to do, of course, and really why is it that pubic hair makes everything so much more taboo? We checked in with Jessica Grose, managing editor of Slate’s women’s blog, Double X for her quick take on this.
“Pubic hair is thought of as gross and undesirable now,” says Grose, “It used to just be titillating but now it is thought of as icky, or at least untamed, so it signifies something unruly, slightly gross and out of control…it’s a provocative ad.”
Copyranter questions whether it’s American Apparel’s sleaziest ad ever.
What do you think?
This seems to be part of a trend for American Apparel in returning to it’s more provocative roots. Other recent ads to have surfaced show a model climbing a tree with just a shirt on (no pants, no panties, natch), and another shows a topless model casually painting her nails in a room full of naked mannequins.

Tommy Ton's Street Style: Men Who Birng It

via GQ
A salute to the men who brought their A-games to this season's European shows—and who raised the street-style bar for this week's shows in New York

Photographs by Tommy ton


Adam Kelly, men's contemporary and designer buyer, Selfridges

"There's definitely that English, Savile Row quality to the way that Adam dresses, but he manages to do it with such ease that he doesn't look too buttoned-up or uptight. It's the way he casually accents a look with a neck scarf or opts for a Dries T-shirt under a jacket that inspires you to dress up with a more relaxed attitude." 

 

Francesco Cominelli, fashion editor, Vogue Hommes International

"Francesco has a way of wearing clothes in such a way that they become completely unidentifiable on him. You wouldn't know whether he's wearing Kenzo or Zegna or a market find; that's a gift of Francesco's styling abilities. He has fun layering and mixing patterns, textures, and colors, and it's refreshingly young and sartorially playful at the same time."

 

 Toni Tanfani, buyer/owner of Gisa in Ancona, Italy
"Mr. Tanfani is possibly one of the most elegant men I've ever photographed at Fashion Week. Incredibly well-polished, with a sophistication that very few other men have, Mr. Tanfani embodies all the qualities of the ideal Italian man: well-groomed, good-looking, stylish, and confident. There isn't really much of formula to Mr. Tanfani's look: navy double-breasted blazer, classic white dress shirt, and reflective aviators. But it's the man behind the clothes that make the clothes. And Mr. Tanfani only gets better with age." 

Duck Sauce [Barbra Streisand]

Joe Scarborough, Glenn Beck Feud Erupts (VIDEO)

via The Huffington Post
A war of words erupted between Joe Scarborough and Glenn Beck on Tuesday, after Scarborough said that Beck was delivering a "vile message to Americans every day," and Beck said that Scarborough could never back up his assertions with facts.

Scarborough spoke on Tuesday's "Morning Joe." He was talking about his hope that amped-up media rhetoric would cool down in the wake of the Arizona shooting, and he used Beck as an example:



Scarborough also said that Beck was a "nobody" until Fox News chief Roger Ailes brought him to his network. "If Roger Ailes decides to kick him out of Fox News, he'll go back to the Glenn Beck he was before," he said.

Beck--and, especially, his radio sidekicks--responded later on Tuesday. Beck's co-host Pat Gray was the most outraged by Scarborough's statements.

"How do you know what Glenn Beck says and does," he almost screamed. "You moron. Joe, there's a reason that everyone you know listens to and watches Glenn's show, including your mom, and not yours: you suck!"

But Beck also had some words for Scarborough."Every day on their show you hear about how the Tea Parties are violent," he said. "What is the difference, except that one has facts to back it up and one does not?"