DC · Exhibitions · Photo Diary
If you combined incredible architecture and mini-golf, you’d get something like the National Building Museum’s indoor mini golf exhibition. As part of the “Building the Future” mini golf exhibit, the museum invited firms, as well as contractors, to come up with innovative design ideas that represented the future of architecture (continued…)
Move over Brainy, Lazy, Clumsy and Grouchy, the fashion bunch—Anna Wintour, Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano and Coco Chanel—are taking over your mushroom village in artist aleXsandro Palombo’s illustrations of what the popular ‘80s cartoon might look like re-imagined with real-life characters from the fashion industry. In his clever illustrations, enitled (continued…)
DC · Exhibitions · Photo Diary
An occasion fit for DC’s fashion finest, the Sofitel Hotel hosted the opening of the “Elles By Gilles Bensimon” exhibit in Washington DC. Known for his work with Elle magazine, and his reputation for being one of the greatest and most-respected fashion photographers of his generation, Bensimon’s exhibit featured never-before-displayed (continued…)
Events · Exhibitions · NY Diversions
isten up, New Yorkers: it’s time to get your culture fix on. If you missed our Obsessions in Portraiture event last October, you still have a chance to catch the photography of Kate Reeder. The super-talented Kate will be exhibiting at Superchief Gallery at Culturefix alongside artists Leah Moskowitz, Christine (continued…)
Art · Culture · Spotlight Feature
eneration Y is a generation of dreamers. And while we’re not the first generation to dream, we are the first to grow up with the encouragement to follow those dreams. In young adulthood we nurtured our creative passions, we made promises to ourselves that we’d never work a nine-to-five. Meanwhile, (continued…)
DC · District Diversions · Events · Exhibitions · Spotlight Feature
While DC has seen a lot of hype for the Corcoran’s retrospective Pump Me Up: DC Subculture of the 80s, The Fridge is set to show people a snapshot of what the graffiti world is bringing at this very moment. Curators CHE and ULTRA, both members of the history-making DC-based (continued…)
Exhibitions · Fashion · Spotlight Feature
Courtesy Photo Each year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art holds the Costume Institute Gala, a glamorous event that draws some of fashion’s most elite to the best-dressed red carpet of the year (seriously, who needs the Oscars red carpet?) The Costume Institute is an annual event that celebrates the opening (continued…)
Wallace Berman, Untitled, c. 1968,Verifax collage [divider] Art has the power to breach the bounds of reality and to present something about the human mind that seems to tear at the very rudimentary conceptions of consciousness. And such is the case with “Into the Mystic,” an art exhibit currently housed (continued…)
If you ever wondered what some of your favorite 90s cartoons characters would look like with high fashion makeovers, you’re in luck. Enter talented New York-based designer and illustrator Jerome Le Maar, who gave luxe makeovers to some of our favorite illustrated leading ladies, like Daria, Sailor Mercury and Betty (continued…)
With their own group of dedicated fans and followers—even some with their own paparazzi stalkers, top fashion editors join the celebrities that they write about, becoming celebrities themselves. And in some cases, even the pets of top editors have become newsworthy. Though, to be fair, fame for most editors (unless (continued…)
Illustration · Television · TV
We all know that 245 East 73rd street was a fake address used for Carrie Bradshaw’s apartment in the popular HBO show “Sex and the City.” In reality, her bedroom was created on a soundstage at Silvercup Studios in Queens. Does that mean we fantasize any less about that perfect (continued…)
This August, The Fridge DC is welcoming six arts collectives rotating in and out of their 1000 square foot space, bringing theatre, dance, graffiti, sculpture, slam poetry and more for its second annual FRESH PRODUCE. This Friday, opening 7 – 11pm, The Fridge is showing STREET MARKET, an exhibit taking (continued…)
Haider Ackermann’s muse, Tilda Swinton, is going to be all over Paris Fashion Week this autumn starring in a live performance piece every night from September 29 to October 1. A short film which was recorded during those rehearsals will be played on loop at the Palais de Tokyo. The (continued…)
Charity · Models · Photography
Model Kate Moss has done what few models have done: have a full-fledged career in the fashion industry lasting well over two decades. And in an industry when a model’s typical retirement age is around their mid to late 20’s, Kate Moss has managed to stay one of the most (continued…)
Film & Animation · Photography
Stanley Kubrick. Life and Love on the New York City Subway. Passengers in a subway car. 1946. Museum of the City of New York. X2011.4.10292.55E American director Stanley Kubrick has captured some of film’s most iconic moments for over four decades. His unique cinematography captured human life at its grittiest. (continued…)
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