Diane, A Shaded View on Fashion

Nonspheres IV - Luis Berrios-Negron July 19th - August 18th PROGRAM Berlin

Dear Shaded Viewers,

When I was in Berlin earlier this month I visited PROGRAM.

PROGRAM is a nonprofit project aimed at testing the disciplinary boundaries of architecture through collaborations with other fields. Initiated in 2006 by Carson Chan and Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, PROGRAM provides a discursive platform for artists, architects, critics and curators to explore ideas through exhibitions, performances, workshops, lectures, and residencies.

Nonspheres IV is the latest iteration of Luis Berríos-Negrón’s ongoing investigation into the contemporary tension between nature and technology. This project takes the built shape of a digitally generated lattice. This simulation of a carbon tetrahedral lattice fills the entire gallery, suggesting a continuous yet remote set of relationships intended to incite what Freud calls oceanic feelings, or the infantile sensation of boundlessness between the ego and the outside world.

Still, living displaces false sentiments
And now, when shrill pups are prodded to drown,
I just shrug, 'Bloody Pups'. It makes sense:
'Prevention of cruelty' talk cut ice in town
Where they consider death unnatural
But on well-run farms pets have to be kept down.

Excerpt from Early Purges, Death of a Naturalist by Seamus Heaney 1966

Later,

Diane

Swiss Textiles announces their finalists for the 2007 Award

Dear Shaded Viewers,

The finalists for the Swiss Textiles Award have just been announced:

Bless
Gareth Pugh
Marios Schwab
Ute Ploier
Felipe Oliveira Baptista
Anne-Sofie Back

In order to participate for the 100,000 EUROS Swiss Textiles Award, the designers must be nominated. Among the international professionals that proposed the above designers were: Suzy Menkes, Fashion Editor, International Herald Tribune, Armand Hadida, owner, L'Eclaireur, fashion store, Paris, Armand Limnander, Senior Editor, New York TImes Magazine, NY, Grace Lam, Fashion Style Editor, Vogue China, Shanghai, Floriane de Saint Pierre, Owner, Floriane de Saint Pierre & Associes, Paris, Yasmin Sewell, Senior Buyer Browns Focus, London and Linda Fargo, Fashion Director, Bergdorf Goodmann, NY.

Previous Swiss Textiles awards winners include: Raf Simons, Haider Ackermann, Christian Wijnants and Bruno Pieters.

The awards ceremony will take place November 9th in Zurich.

www.swisstextiles.ch

Later,

Diane

Welcome to our house

Gareth Pugh goes to Santiago de Compostela November 1 - 4th for the first international fashion and photography festival organized by Grupo Correo Gallego-NOOVO Magazine

Dear Shaded Viewers,

self portrait of Gareth as Andy Warhol

As you probably know by now, I am co-curating the first fashion and photography festival held November 1 - 4 in Santiago de Compostela. The co-founders of the NOOVO festival are Charo Gonzalez and Jorge Margolles.
Over the next few days I will be giving you a preview of the particpants. We are pleased to announce Gareth Pugh will be participating in the NOOVO festival.

poodle outfit from Gareth's winter show

Later,

Diane

Beautiful Fall - book review by Beniamino Marini

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Beniamino just finished reading “The Beautiful Fall: fashion, genius and glorious excess in 1970s Paris” by Alicia Drake (Bloomsbury, 2006), below is his review.

"I read it - of course - because I heard of the big quarrel between Karl Lagerfeld and the author: next january (the15th) they will have their first meeting at the tribunal because Karl has sued her. He says that what she writes about Karl’s german past is not true.

But I don’t want to talk about that. I want to talk about the book.
It tells the parallel story of two fashion icons: Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld, re-constructing facts, encounters, situations, parties and fashion moments through interviews (around 100 people were interviewed over the last 5 years), research in past articles and press reviews, books, aoutobiographies of people that were surrounding the two fashion designers and so on. It’s a huge work of research, aimed to “demonstrate” a few ideas that the author has concerning the two guys.

The first and strongest “idea” is that YSL and KL, almost the same age, never loved each other and that Paris’ Fashion was ruled by their two forces for at least twenty years (mainly in the 70s). What she also makes clear throughout the long book is that YSL was never “beaten” by KL in this harsh competition (in design, social relationships, fame, “aura”), but he was only beaten by himself retiring before his competitor. And only after the definitive retirement of the Divine Yves in 2002 (with a huge defilé and a press conference that made many people cry), the down-to-earth Karl was finally able to become the star he is now. (She says that in her research, the press reviews of KL in the last five years are more than all that he had aquired over the former 30 years of work, and becoming an international celebrity and icon even outside of the fashion world).

To support this hypotesis the author brings up a subject that is very very delicate, which concerns love, betrayal and death: the young and beautiful Jacques de Bascher. He, who at age 24 became a “male muse” to Lagerfeld, he died young at age 38 of HIV/AIDS. During his short lifetime he dedicated himself to beauty, elegance and social life, he was always with Karl. The author insists on the fact that Jacques became, for a short period of time, the lover of Yves Saint Laurent, creating a big drama between the two “fashion families”.

Like all big celebrities, tales of their past are always welcomed by the audience: that’s probably why, apart this type of love and fashion gossip, the author insists on many aspects of Yves’ and Karl’s lives back home. The first in Oran, Algeria, with his problems at school where his strangeness wasn’t accepted. The latter in the Hamburg bourgeois suburbs.

These last inquiries (the author went back several times to Hamburg interviewing relatives and neighbours of Karl), created a big scandal, because what she wrote is totally different from what Lagerfeld himself has always declared to the press.

I think that in history every person who became really important – it’s gone on forever – tries to “rewrite” his or her own personal history. Like in wars, the winner or the “conquistador” writes his own side of the story for the future readers. The history we read in textbooks has been rewritten several times always following the winners point of view. Think of native americans: only today some books have begun to reveal what actually happened to them. I equally find it pretty normal that a celebrity like Karl Lagerfeld, who definitely created himself, as a designer, but mainly as a fashion character, one that can loose 40 kg in one year to fit in Dior Homme’s trousers, one that is able to sell in a few years all his houses (including a castle and all the furniture inside) just to change, for love of change, could make up his past.

I don’t know where the truth lies and of course nobody really cares. Only thing that I can say is that I found a few mistakes in the book, and those are only the ones I was able to notice, knowing very little about all of those people during those years. For instance, the mispelled last name of Valentino’s partner (she wrote Giacometti instead of Giammetti), or other “italian” un-precisions (Prato near Florence is the home of leather makers, not textile. The main textile areas are in the north of Italy, near Milan, expecially back then, when the first fashion shows were taking place, think of Como silk and Biella wool). This is not very “scientific”. When you write a book which is not a novel, be aware of mistakes, mrs Drake, especially when you take the risk of being sued..."

Ciao,

Beniamino Marini

Ari Versluis & Ellie Uyttenbroek go to Santiago de Compostela 1 - 4 November

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Ari Versluis & Ellie Uyttenbroek are among the 7 international photographers that will be presenting their work at the lst international festival of photography and fashion organized by Grupo Correo Gallego-NOOVO Magazine in Santiago de Compostela November 1 - 4.

http://www.noovomagazine.com

Later,

Diane

Welcome to my home

Hey ShadedViewers,
Remember, Leather is always great, and in Fashion, sometimes, you play against designers.

Thanx to my amazing crazy roommate Desi for these videos, and thanks to Brenda Dickinson, of course.

Take care

Yoann

Mario Canal: Full Moon in Hong Kong.

Dear Diane, dear Shaded Viewers,
Let me share with you this nice postcard from Hong Kong...

Now, I will go to the roof and enjoy a night swim at the pool...
best>>>mario<

Mario Canal: Louis Vuitton Restaurant in Canton

Dear Diane, dear shaded viewers,
Let me show you a funny thing that I found on my first night in Guangzhou: the fake Louis Vuitton resto. Well, the place is amazing, you can choose your seafood as in a market and then eat it in the salon.
Let me show you first why I call this place the fake LV restaurant:

This is a table on the window side. You know that China is the heart of fake brands, but this goes too far: just love it.

Message for Mr. Arnault: i am not going to tell you where this restaurant is... Unless you pay me for it. yes, I am blackmailing one of the most powerful men on the planet earth, and I find it superb!
So, the fish market side of the restaurant is like this:

Let's have a closer look at the food on offer -Nothing related to LV or Mr. Arnault here-. Sorry if you are one of those viewers with a sensitive stomach...

And well, let me finish with my arrival to the Canton airport. After a pleasant and relaxing 13 hours trip in business class, I noticed that may be my t-shirt was not exactly the most appropiate one for landing in communist China -laughs-.

Now, I am in Hong Kong: I will show you interesting things from here too...

Love to Diane and all the Viewers>>>mario<

Luxury bags by Cerre

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Argo: Large buffalo tote with Japanese suede lining, custom Lampo zipper and Cerre eclipse hot branded on one side

Cerre is a luxury brand that produces a line of accessories and objects. They are not based on a season but release collections around fall and spring/summer. THe main focus of this Los Angeles based brand is luxury and craftsmanship and the idea is that when you purchase one of their bags they would like to think of it more like an heirloom, something that can age and become more beautiful and that you can hand down to one generation after another. .

Vela: Buffalo clutch with Japanese suede lining and custom Lampo zipper

Vela Detail: Silver Taurus ring on Buffalo

Each piece of leather is hand chosen and all of the hardware is sculpted first out of wax or clay by Clayton Webster and then cast either in solid silver or bronze. The production is limited to 20 of a style, some pieces like the bronze statues are one of a kind.

Orion: Italian nubuck with Japanese suede lining and custom Lampo zipper

Orion Detail: Bones Breaking, Skin Rotting Bronze

Preliminary version of Cerre record poster insert: graphite drawing by Geoff Kern

Currently Cerre is recording a record that will feature some notable players like Brian Mckinley from Royal Trux and Kevin Lasting from Women and Children. The record will be packaged in a sleeve made out of the same buffalo that is used for the bags and it will be accompanied by a poster inspired by the music drawn by Geoff Kern. It will be pressed on 180 gram vinyl and limited to 150 copies. The music will explore krautrock, free jazz and harmolodic areas of music.

www.cerre.com

Later,

Diane

A tea room in Shanghai by Graham Tabor

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Graham Tabor has discovered this magical tearoom in the middle of Shanghai. Little outbuildings are tucked away in the corners of the garden with tea rooms and a little bar. The inside of the mansion is art deco with a restaurant and afternoon tea is served in the garden and on the veranda.

Later,

Diane for Graham Tabor

Holiday pics from Filep Motwary/Karolina Kurkova/Angelos Bratis

Dear Shaded Viewers,

It's the season of the holiday pics, here are a few sent to me today from Un NoUVEaUIDEAL's filep mOtwary.

Filep went to help out his fellow designer friend, Angelos Bratis for a small presentation and enjoyed dancing with model Karolina Kurkova.

Angelos Bratis backstage

Later,

Diane

You Wear it Well : 26 August at the Iguatemi FilmeFashion Festival

Dear Shaded Viewers,

You Wear it Well was invited to participate in the Iguatemi FilmeFashion festival in Sao Paulo. The screening will take place August 26th.

The deadline for You Wear it Well 2nd edition is August 15th.

Later,

Diane

Naco-Paris and his Fake Chanel

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I met Naco-Paris at Ideal Showroom in Berlin. Do you think he should meet up with Karl?

Later,

Diane

Patrik Soderstam - one of the designers participating in the NOOVO fashion/photography festival 1-4 November in Santiago de Compostela

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I am co-curating a fashion and photography festival in
beautiful Santiago de Compostela. Charo Gonzalez and Jorge
Margolles from NOOVO Magazine in Spain are the founders of the event. I asked designer Patrik Soderstam to send me an image of his work and a personal statement for the catalogue. I thought that I would share it with you.

A sculpture from Patrik Soderstam

A statement from the designer:

The projects Patrik does for himself are not about running a business, making money or pleasing the customer. The work is about his need to express himself in a progressive way. This is done through clothing – but also through photography, graphics, sculptures and other forms of art.

- I want to be involved in things that explore and open up the human mind and consciousness. Things that tickle my own and other peoples brains and that look at how we see and think about ourselves, the everyday life we are living and what we do with it.

Later,

Diane

Kishin Shinoyama at Jousse Entreprise - Louise 8 September - 13 October

Shinorama Tokyo (tatoo), 1988

Shinoyama is credited to inventing the "Shinorama" panoramic impression of culture and its' inhabitants.

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Louise 13 has just announced their schedule for the fall, one of the artists that I am particularly interested in is Kishin Shinoyama. Kishin has been taking images for the past 4 decades. His work captures both construction and deconstruction.

1-2 TWIN 1969

The Birth, Twin and other series of nudes were published in his first Opus, "Nude".

In 1969 Kishin Shinoyama photographed nudes in Death Vally.

Death Vally 1969

The first major show of Kishin Shinoyama's work in a Paris gallery is curated by Eko Sato. Kishin Shinoyama started his work as a freelance photographer in 1968. His work is acclaimed for the portraits of the celebrities such as John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Rie Miyazawa, among others. His "Gekisha" and "Shinorama" series carries on his document of the times using new forms of expression and new techniques.

www.jousse-entreprise.com

Later,

Diane

HENRY HOLLAND COVERS THE UNIQLO HAT TRICK FOR HINTMAG

Kim Jones, Carri Mundane (Cassette Playa), and Gareth Pugh wearing their new Tee designs for UT (UNIQLO T-shirt) Project on Hintmag.com.
Photo: Alistair Allan www.dirtydirtydancing.com

www.uniqlo.co.uk

Click Jetsetera to see all the pictures at: http://www.hintmag.com/

The Beautiful Fall - news from Beniamino Marini in Milan

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Today in the Corrriere della Sera there was a big article about this book ("the beautiful fall") by alicia drake on karl lagerfeld, saying that karl was not from a rich family and he apparently was going around parisian english bookshops screaming and forcing booksellers to take the book away from the shelves. of course it's not been translated into french yet and it probably never will be.

the article said also that one bookshop in paris in the 6th arrondissement had the last copy in town, and it was not for sale.

guess what?

My friend Max was in paris for a one day trip and he convinced the salesman to sell him that copy.
which now is on my milano desk, as in the picture.

Later,

Beniamino

Santiago de Compostela celebrates 100 years of the Galician Hymn

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Yesterday was a big day in Santiago the Compostela, they were celebrating Santiago Apostle's Day and the amazing cathedral was even more amazing than it is every other day.

As I told you yesterday, I am co-curator of the first NOOVO fashion and photography festival at Santiago de Compostela to be held 1-4 November

photos by Grupo Correo Gallego

The fashion show will be held in a tent in the square behind the Cathedral.

Later,

Diane

Kirstin Hanssen and Maalke Holvast launch B612 in Amsterdam

www.myspace.com/b612mag

Turning a Public Toilet into a Spa-Ruben Santiago

www.ruben-santiago.com

Pablo Internacional Magazine - PUBLISH AND BE DAMNED: A ONE-DAY SELF-PUBLISHING FAIR

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Pablo Internacional Magazine is honoured to participate and invite you to the Publish and be Damned Fair this Sunday
PUBLISH AND BE DAMNED: A ONE-DAY SELF-PUBLISHING FAIR

Presenting Pablo Internacional Magazine issue 3 and PIM special issue Copan Building Sao Paulo and new MUCHO MACHO t-shirts.
also special guest publications:
Three Icelandic Poems by G. Bostock and Jo Robertson’s drawing and poetry books.

Publish and be Damned
Sunday 29th July 2007, 2-7pm
Rochelle School, Club Row, Arnold Circus, Shoreditch. E2 7ES
Lunch and lunchboxes and drinks by the school’s Canteen
http://www.publishandbedamned.org
publishandbedamned@gmail.com

After Party: TROPICAL MUTANT PUNK FUNK, a night by TETINE
Sunday July 29, 8:30 PM to 12:00 at Bistrotheque, 23-27 Wadeson St, London E2 www.bistrotheque.com
Tetine presents a special one-off mutant punk funk meets miami bass evening in brutal tropical mode at Sunday Night Live. Expect Tetine performing live plus DJ sets by Bruno Verner, Eliete Mejorado & Adriano Costa. Plus ++ preview of ‘You Are The One’ video ++ Live visuals by Rodrigo Garcia Dutra & tropical props by Fabio Gurjão.

Before afterparty: A very sweet overhead projector performance-reading of "Actually", a childrens book for grown ups by martin puta baltazar castor has drawn. Organized by Basso Magazin Berlin. Sunday July 29, 7:30 PM, at George and Dragon, 2 Hackney Road, E2
--
pablo@pablointernacionalmagazine.com
http://www.pablointernacionalmagazine.com

You Wear it Well 2 - Erwin Olaf

Dear Shaded Viewers,

You Wear it Well 2 films are arriving, we're looking forward to yours.

Here are two submission from Erwin Olaf

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Erwin Olaf's video Le Dernier Cri makes use of a kind of hyperrealism that
> is characteristic of much of his work. Here the slick realism of the
> Hollywood film is being driven to its limits, giving the whole work an
> absurd character. The camera moves in one long, continuous movement through
> a house; it almost seems to be floating. 'Paris, printemps 2019', reads a
> subtitle. The atmosphere in the house is suffocating - despite the
> spatiality and the fragile early-spring sounds that can momentarily be heard
> at the start. Everything is reminiscent of the 'homely' variation of
> modernism that was popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Everything is stylishly
> designed and decorated in tranquil grey-brown colours. There is no one to be
> seen, but the soft sounds penetrating from outside are soon drowned out by
> an ominous buzzing. Jacques Tati meets David Lynch. We hear the
> old-fashioned ding-dong of a doorbell. The vague contours of someone are
> visible behind the glass. A left foot in a white, high-heeled shoe
> dexterously turns off the domestic appliance that was the source of the
> buzzing, before joining the right and descending the open staircase. As yet
> there is no more of the housewife who is being carried by these feet to be
> seen than her lower body, from behind and the side. Then we see her head,
> from behind; her hands fleetingly touching her hair. After the bell rings
> for a second time, she rearranges a couple of flowers in a vase and then
> walks to the door. When the door opens, the face of a young woman with blond
> curly hair and peculiar protrusions and prostheses on her forehead, cheeks
> and mouth, appears (after this movement is flashed up three times with
> accompanying sound, to indicate that it is going to happen now). The woman,
> who is her aunt, compliments her in superlatives and exaggerated terms that
> are meant to describe the result of what she is seeing. The niece has
> clearly gone a step further in her exploits into plastic surgery than her
> aunt. She explains that this is now 'quite the rage'. The two women exchange
> superficial courtesies and go inside, followed by the camera that watches
> them from above until they disappear into the kitchen. Their voices still
> seem to be audible in the distance while the camera stays behind in the
> large empty room, where everything is neatly in place.

Rouge has all the glamour of a moving photo shoot. A girl with milky-white
> skin, wearing a transparent negligee and a voluminous wig, enters a
> bright-red room through an opening in the rear wall. Dancing in slow steps
> and wooden movements, she shows her nearly naked body. Flickering lights are
> accompanied by a cold, dry beat. Soon the white dancer is joined by a figure
> whose muscular buttocks and legs in red knee socks and black patent leather
> stilettos attract our attention. He bounces a football with his legs spread
> apart, thereby changing the room into a games area. The voice of a
> commentator tells us they have begun their warming-up, and in the background
> is the sound of vague cheering. A third and a fourth actor, with painted or
> otherwise embellished faces, now appear. Their slender bodies, swathed only
> in black shorts, a corset or a skirt, prance in their high heels over the
> small field, sometimes jerkily and haltingly, at others aggressively and
> provocatively. At times, almost unnoticeably, this is played backwards. They
> are performing a football dance with each other and with the white girl who
> is guarding a imaginary goal. Images of the game alternate with visions of
> the dancer being smeared with blood in a sensual way. The voice of the
> commentator, which seems to be coming from the mouths of the players,
> discusses in a couple of sentences the present conditions in football. The
> match ends with the goalkeeper being splattered in blood, at which in a dry
> voice and with lips synchronized she utters a few more words on the decline
> of the game.

August 15th is the deadline for submissions for You Wear it Well 2.

Later,

Diane

Gareth Pugh at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao for MID-E festival

Abel Ferrera and Shanyn Leigh in concert

Dear Shaded Viewers,

The other night when I was speaking with Shanyn Leigh she told me that she and Abel Ferrera were giving a concert. This was one of the many images in today's la Repubblica

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Later,

Diane

scroll down and watch the clip on youtube.com of Go Go Tales.

Guerrila Store Vienna/Unit F Festival and the work of Shari Pierce

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Shari Pierce was one of the winners for the Pierre Lang So Fresh Award.

All of her jewellery is made from Cardboard, found housepaint, and old
jewellery or fake metal chains. Her concept for the clothing was to take 2nd hand clothes that were going to be thrown away,
dip them also in housepaint, and use cardboard inside to make strange shapes.

" I will continue working
with this concept and am doing still installations with the clothing and jewellery in galleries in the next coming months."

Credits:
Jewellery and Clothing Artwork and Concept: Shari Pierce
Title of Body of Work: Cardboard Democracy
Materials: Cardboard Boxes, Found HousePaint, Old Costume Jewellery/ Fake Metal Chains, Second Hand Clothes

Photos Still Life Clothing/ Street & Gallery/ Jewellery: Mason Douglas
Photos Live Show with Model: Gerhard Krejci/ Simona Katzlinger
Styling: Yoppy Yoshida

Upcoming Exhibitions
Shari Pierce / Cardboard Democracy
Galerie Rob Koudijs, Amsterdam, NL
July 28- August 25th
http://www.galerierobkoudijs.nl/site.php?xs=exhibitions
www.sharipierce.com

Later,

Diane

AMSTERDAM FASHION WEEK

Dear Shaded Viewers,

this season's Laundry Days kick-off will take place as SPRMRKT. As wellas the opening festivities there will be a surrea seance by illustrator/artist Bagua Jody. I was there during the dress rehearsal.

Seven freshly-graduated design masters from Eindhoven present their work in Droog collective's gallery.

Ming-Lun Wu explores the relationship between cahiers and garments.

Later,

Matteo

Go Go Tales - Abel Ferrera

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Clip l of Go Go Tales by Abel Ferrera.

I've been a fan of Abel Ferrera ever since I saw Driller Killer, his 1979 film and then after seeing his 1990 film King of New York, I became addicted to his work . I had the opportunity to meet him a little over a year ago when he was screening his film, Mary in Paris. One of my all time favorite directors is John Cassavettes so to see Abel Ferrera do Go Go Tales as a musical comedy sort of hommage to the 1976 Cassavettes film, Killing of a Chinese Bookie was all too perfect. In my opinion the two directors define independent cinema.

My friend Shanyn Leigh, who plays the role of Dolly in Go Go Tales, invited me to the screening of Abel's last film, Mary and afterwards I joined her at the party. When I met Abel there I asked him if we could set up an interview before he left town, he agreed but he left town earlier than planned and the interview never did take place. Even for those few moments I got such a kick out of listening to his very powerful, New York, gravelly voice, I was really looking forward to that interview but hopefully it will happen at some other time. I have not seen him since but I spoke with Shanyn last night and she told me about the Go Go Tales clips on youtube. Of course, it gives me a special kick to see Shanyn on the big screen, okay, it was youtube, small screen, but i can imagine the impact on the big screen. Shanyn is the beautiful actress wearing the apricot slip, the one that says "Don't grab my tit hon."

Later,

Diane

The Stedelijk Museum - Andy Warhol Other Voices Other Rooms

Dear Shaded Viewers,

ANDY WARHOL

Other Voices, Other Rooms

12 October 2007 – 13 January 2008

Forty years after the first major European Warhol exhibition in Amsterdam, the Stedelijk Museum has organised an exhibition to shed new light on the oeuvre of the celebrated Pop Art master. With film, photography, video and famous icons ranging from Marilyn Monroe, Mao and Campbell Soup Cans, Andy Warhol – Other Voices, Other Rooms is a window onto the artistic thinking of this trendsetting artist, revealing the ‘conceptual soul’ of his work.

In his art, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) merged the public with the personal and glamour and stardom with everyday life. He also predicted that everyone would have their fifteen minutes of fame, virtually predicting the coming of Idols and YouTube. With 27 films, rarely screened video tapes and audio recordings of Warhol himself, and extraordinary archive material, this exhibition zooms in on the focus of Warhol’s work: voyeurism, the mundane, the individual and the eradication of distinctions between high and low culture.

Visitors literally receive a ‘red carpet welcome’ to the exhibition, treated to a barrage of paparazzi-style camera flashes as their entrance is photographed. Music by The Velvet Underground, the band Warhol launched from his famous Factory, accompanies visitors as they roam through a film landscape that includes Screen Tests, Sleep, Blow Job, The Chelsea Girls, Kitchen and Mrs. Warhol. These films were Warhol’s experiments – secluded behind the camera, he shows people’s behaviour in all types of situations, without intervening, using time and observation as his ingredients. This land-scape leads to the poetic installation Silver Clouds, which, in contrast to the films is dreamy and calm.

The heart of the exhibition is the Warhol Cosmos, which highlights the master’s thinking and way of working. In addition to famous icons, the Factory Diaries, in which Warhol captured his life in the sixties, seventies and eighties with an imperturbable eye for detail, and objects from the Time Capsules play a significant role. Once again, drawings, photos and rare archive material are presented alongside audio fragments of luminaries such as Edie Sedgwick, Mick Jagger and Man Ray.

The final section of the exhibition synchronously presents all the material that Warhol produced for television – which was the latest medium in his lifetime. Now, he projects his voyeurism onto everyone, stars and ordinary people alike, in the medium that seemed best suited to the job. Just as he did in his magazine Interview Warhol also had a keen eye for detail and trivia, with which he exercised a specific influence on the development of both media. In this section, the museum created The Studio Room, where visitors can take a Factory-like screen test.

The exhibition is curated by guest curator Eva Meyer-Hermann, in collaboration with the Andy Warhol Museum, one of the four Carnegie museums of Pittsburgh, and is on view at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm from 9 February to 4 May 2008. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue (NAi Publishers), the Andy Warhol Newspaper and a special issue of magazine Blend. The museum is offering various activities in The Andy Warhol Side Show – see www.stedelijk.nl for a complete range. Membership of the Andy Warhol Club provides unlimited free entrance to the exhibition and to parties, Factory Nights, film screenings and more. See also: www.andywarholclub.nl.Later,

Diane

A Sunny Day in Shanghai- through Graham Tabor's hotel window

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Happy belated birthday Graham, he turned 27 yesterday ...

Nothing like a room with a view.

H L treats him well.

WIshing you a trail of yellow butterflies to follow you around today.

Later,

DIane from Paris - Graham Tabor in Shanghai

"Beauty Invaders" -gruppo RAGNATELE

Dear Shaded Viewers,

“beauty invaders” (2007-digital video 01:30min.)

gruppo RAGNATELE

directors Emanuele De Donno Mario Salvucci
actors Francesca Greco Federico Adriani Mario Salvucci
sountrack Sail high or not see light (Gestalt OrchestrA) Free music License : C reaction

synopsis : beauty seeds in bare industrial sites
“silver seeds” by Mario Salvucci www.progettolanterne.it

Ragnatele is a creative social network of artists from Foligno, Italy, that experimet with different media and publish a quarterly catalogue of their work. www.viaindustriae.it/ragnatele
Ragnatele is: Federico Adriani Simona Badiali Elisa Cesarini Susanna Corsi Emanuele De Donno Elisabetta Reali Valentina Trabalza Mario Salvucci Valentina Valecchi Luca Cingolani Carolina Boco Antonella Batoli Tiziana Ferrieri Francesca Greco

You Wear it Well 2 - Deadline August 15th.

Later,

Diane

NEW YORK STORIES - EPISODE 3 / THE LIBERATION PROCESS

Hey Shadedviewers,
Episode 3 is online !
Have Fun :-)

Take Care Yoann

The 10th Anniversary of the Dazzle Dancers at Dietch Projects in Manhattan - images by Zaldy

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Last night was the 10th anniversary of the Dazzle Dancers and friends Miguel Villalobos and Zaldy were there enjoying the glitter and having lots of fun.

Zaldy and Miguel Villalobos

All photos by Zaldy

Later,

Diane

DINO DINCO: DO YOU TAKE IT?

It's just a question....

And didn't Debbie Deb sing, "Look out weekend, 'cause here I come...."

Have a nice weekend.

DINO DINCO: ROYCE OF LOS ANGELES

My good friend Raul just turned me on to one of our Downtown Los Angeles neighbors, Royce.  Don't know much about her yet except what you can learn from these clips.  I don't think anyone can shriek "Garbage hole!" the same way Royce can.

I especially like what her bed companion Marilyn says about money -- "you're either made of it, you marry it, or you make it yourself." 

You can befriend Royce here:

http://www.myspace.com/royce_losangeles

And swing by Raul's shop, ROCCO LA, for all your psychedelic, hip hop needs, 308 W. 5th Street, b/w Broadway and Hill Street, Metro Pershing Square.

http://www.myspace.com/roccos07

GIANFRANCO FERRE' OBITUARY for RODEO MAGAZINE by BENIAMINO MARINI

To Gianfranco Ferré, fashion designer, Milan june 17th 2007.

Elegant bear, chocolate his honey.

YOU WEAR IT WELL : Tank Volume 4 Issue 10

Dear Shaded Viewers,

The world tour of the first edition of You Wear it Well continues. Last weekend we were in Berlin and next stop is Sao Paolo and the IGUATEMI FILMEFASHION FESTIVAL IN BRAZIL. As you know we've extended the deadline for You Wear it Well 2 - the cut off date is August 15th.

Photo by Ari Versluis text by Isaac Lock

The second edition of You Wear it Well will debut in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Theatre on October 11th.

Later,

Diane

NONNI DEAD: Sruli Recht Debut Shoe Collection 08

"I have walked, blindfolded on the splintered plank to death in your sea.
Commanded the infantry of the Qualities
war through rivers of blood to tired slow victory.
Climbed the balcony to my Egyptians lair of blurred fantasy
and stole her heart, infinitely.
Each footsteps of fortune as we march under this sun
into Venus orbit and deep deep intimate dusk.
Sons of Eros and Brothers of Mercury, follow your heart
and walk with me."

GREY NURSE - cows and swine

WITH A SILVER TONGUE - cows and swine

HVALFORHÚÐSKÓR - DORKS - mike whale foreskin and swine

THE MESSENGERS VEINS - buffalo and awine

"these are Icelandic designed shoes of Sruli Recht, hand-lasted and numbereed one by one by the master shoe maker workshop of Brendan Dwyer, entirely leather, entirely deadly"

MADE FROM: Cows, Swine, goats, sheep, minke dork (whale foreskin), kangaroo, pine, buffalo.

View Full Collection

Paris Showroom
Rendez-Vous
October 4-7 2007
Enquiries/Appointments: contact@srulirecht.com
www.srulirecht.com

Take in Barcelona by Miguel Villalobos

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Take is very happy about his new magazine "le pli"

photo by Miguel Villalobos

Later,

Diane

Zandra Rhodes Summer Sale