Screen Test – Jennifer Venditti
Directed by New York Filmmaker & Casting Director Jennifer Venditti (Director of “Billy the Kid”) starring 19 emerging actors.
To see the other films from Bloomingdale’s Film and Fashion Project go to www.bloomingdales.com/screentest
Coco before Chanel – Trailer
Coco Before Chanel is the story of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, who began her life as headstrong orphan, and through an extraordinary journey became the legendary couturier who embodied the modern woman and became a timeless symbol of success, freedom and style. The film portrays the formative years of Chanel’s life, the years of Chanel spent discovering and inventing herself.
In theaters: September 25, 2009
RIP Dash Snow
© Dash Snow
Dash Snow died on the evening of July 13, 2009 at Lafayette House, a hotel in lower Manhattan. His grandmother Christophe de Menil was quoted as saying that he died of a drug overdose. Other sources indicated that the cause of his death is still under investigation.
Berlin Fashion Week – Vladmir Karaleev S/S 2010 Show
Vladimir Karaleev is a Berlin fashion graduate – and he made sure that a little up-and-coming spirit could also be found this season in Berlin Fashion Week’s offsite show calendar. His Spring/Summer 2010 vision prescribed the essential design parameters for designers: form, materiality and color. Whereby the latter is an interplay between random selection on his part and additional advising from a friend, because Vladimir Karaleev is colorblind. That is why every career consultant would have probably advised the designer from Bulgaria against a career in the fashion industry. He does it anyway and for that reason has a particularly pronounced sense of fabric and surface. To live cello music, Karaleev presented variations of voluminous, cleverly thought out draped forms.
Unpretentious, slim silhouettes complemented the presentation in the brightly lit rooms of the Coma Gallery, where the designer who was born in 1981 draped the models in silk, vinyl and paper. A Berliner to keep an eye on.
Berlin Fashion Week – BREE + Ayzit Bostan II
Berlin may be the German fashion capital – but there are also creative designers in other German cities. Especially in Munich: Ayzit Bostan, for
example. On the occasion of her second collection with German bag manufacturer Bree, the Turkish-German fashion designer hosted a presentation of the collaboration’s new designs during Berlin Fashion Week.
That the two parties have joined forces has in the past years ultimately proven to be an ideal success concept: one has the creative potential, the other the know-how and the market standing. In the best case, the result is better than the sum of the individual parts, opening a new segment for both. That’s true for Bree + Ayzit Bostan. In 1995, Bostan makes fashion in a minimalist but romantic way, as she herself says.
After her apprenticeship as dressmaker and her studies at the Munich Fashion School, one thing was clear: a career in the fashion industry and Ayzit Bostan – that does not go together. She does her own thing and very consistently. Until now, she has refused to make the kind of preconceived collections the clothing industry is known for, instead launching fashion according to her own ideas. She creates articles of clothing that have lasted for more than one season while nonchalantly playing with contrasts: The printed sweatshirt stands on equal footing with elegant dresses or suits. All designs are always formally thought through and a tick more than just minimalist – and thereby her best advertising media. That is also how the cooperation with the company Bree resulted: one of Bostan’s friends was wearing an article of her clothing at a dinner party and someone commented on it. The man interested in the special design turned out to be German design luminary Herbert Schultes, who in addition to his work as industry designer for various companies also advised Bree. He suggested they work together, after all the German family company had made its name with innovative bags and luggage designs.
The result of the first round catapulted the brand into a new high-fashion store context – and thanks to a bag giveaway during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, one of the designs that made it into the second round could already be spotted on the arms of various fashion-conscious ladies. In addition to subtle, shimmering metallic fabrics, the focus was again on leather: flat carrying bags or a small triangular bag, for example, could be seen.
Incredibly adorable and pleasantly unpretentious, it lay in black silk paper on a stack of white cardboard boxes. Pleasantly calm but at the same time very sophisticated, Bostan also handles issues of presentation in her own distinct way, which is never too much but always pleasantly different.
www.ayzitbostan.de
www.bree.com
www.mercedes-benzfashionweek.com
www.fashion-week-berlin.com/en
Daniel Adam
Sp #1, soot, plexiglas, 72″ x 132″. 2007. © Daniel Adam Turner
Genesis 5250, encased tar, camphophenique, transparent vinyl, pine, 10″ x 15″ x 2″ 2006.
© Daniel Adam Turner
Daniel Turner lives and work in Brooklyn, NY. His work is a composition between everyday objects, fire and abstract painting.
Bill Viola – Visceral Transcendence, If For A Moment
Currently on display at the Haunch of Venison in London’s Burlington Gardens are three works by the seminal video artist Bill Viola: The Innocents (2007), Isolde’s Ascension (2005), and Poem A (2005). His work uses sound and image as a means of exploring the phenomenological and spiritual world. By pushing the limits of sense perception- stimulating, suspending, prolonging, enhancing, and sustaining experiences- Viola using his medium as a means of elucidating greater human truths. In his 35 years of work, he has done much to develop the technological, conceptual, and historical scope of his discipline, of which the proposed works are a small but formative glance.
Also at the Haunch of Venison is the second retrospective installment of work by the acclaimed British artist Keith Coventry, which includes an wide-ranging and impressive body of work dating from 2002-present.
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