Inez + Vinoodh's Art and Commerce editorial for Oct. '09's W Magazine

[brilliant.]

Soooooo.... okay. We're having a trial separation with Blogger, but have been breathlessly posting our hearts away on our tumblr - but we HAD to post this amazing editorial shot by the incredible Dutch duo Inez va Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. *allllll of it.

These pairings are so so so smart.

*And we LOVE Freja and Raquel!

[*yli]

Photo Source: W Magazine

Slideshow created by *yli factory

Music: "Black Flowers" Yo La Tengo

We Came for Swoon...

*and stayed for Tod Sieele, YUM.

So yesterday was the benefit silent auction for "Swimming Cities of Serenissima." We bought a crapload of raffle tickets but won't know if we won any of Swoon's work until the 26th. Keep your fingers crossed for us kiddos! 

This was seriously ridiculous amounts of fun - and we almost didn't go.

We'd begun our day mid afternoon on a belly full of coffee wandering about Design Within Reach looking for a little gift with which to bribe a friend of ours (hey Xen!) into letting us tag along with her to SXSW.

Heavily caffeinated, we went to momofuku to kill the twitches with spicy noodles, shitake buns, and considerable amounts of ginga kogen. Needless to say after that we were in no mood to trek to Brooklyn to watch a fleet of found object ships drift about.

*we don't even really like beer but sometimes it just...goes.

Long prelude short, we ran into, *get ready for this now... our friend's ex-roommate's, ex-studio mate's, ex-fiance, who was also planning to attend and we were re-motivated. Especially since we are fans of Swoon's work and we love the kooky kids of Secret Project Robot.  

*Plus they promised us a party 'til the wee hours, gotta luv that. 

get into their website and all the collaborators that made this love fest happen and try to catch their send-off party scheduled for the 21st and support support support if you can.

[ *yli ]

Photo Source: swimmingcities.org

Photo Credit: Tod Sieele

Jeremy Kost's "After the Party" @ the Dactyl Foundation

                                                                                                                                    aye candy.

Yes, that Jeremy Kost. The scene-y "polaroid artist." 

We were completely into this show. Seven *wait for it... "rectangular tessellations" *yESssss narrating beautiful male models in varied stages of pursuit, dissatisfaction and savage destruction of his desires. The emptiness and consequences of instant gratification translated through his relationships with a cape, a stuffed tiger, a doll, his own clothes... and Elmo - captured with the brutally honest, instantly devastating, instantly gratifying medium that is the polaroid, natch. It will be at the Dactyl Foundation until the 21st of March, make a point to go see this one, kids.

*on a shallow note we could watch eye candy destroy stuffed animals all day...

[ *yli ]

Photo Source: jeremykost.com

"Weird Beauty: Fashion Photography Now"

This took us back to our gradeschool days when we used to fill photo albums with collages of pretty things from fashion mags (we'd go to town on a Haprper's Bazaar, but NEVER cut up a Vogue ::wink::)

The ICP is currently running a series of four exhibitions celebrating 2009 as the ::swoon:: "Year of Fashion" and is up until the 3rd of May.

*oh ICP, you couldn't have made us happier if you tried.

Of the four exhibitions, undeniably the man event is "Weird Beauty."

Essentially a montage of tear sheets from the last two years of significant fashion photography, the most notable of course being from European mags like Numero, Doingbird, and French and italian Vogues. The US standouts being W and V magazines - go figure ;-) A collection of about 40 or so distinguished fashion photogs vandalising beauty's status quo. Knight, Lagerfeld, Klein, diCorcia, oh my! 

*naturally, we were in heaven.

[ *yli ]

Photo Source: icp.org

"Spot the Fake" by Miles Aldridge

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