Los Angeles architect and artist Fritz Haeg narrows the divide between residents and their communities with projects like Edible Estates, an international effort to convert front lawns into working food gardens.   

http://www.fritzhaeg.com/garden_main.html

"The lawn is an actively antisocial space that also requires a certain amount of maintenance and resources, which are wasted on something we don't even use." FHaeg


Inspired by people discovering their own sense of power and sustainability Fritz Haeg makes lawns into works of art and food.    check him out.
This is a great example of how a visionary talent can use art and an eco awareness to change a family, a community and hopefully one day a country.   I'm tearing up my lawn this week.

How do you raise a good person?  What makes us tolerant of differences?  Every time I read about another case of Myspace bullying or a Youtube girl-fight I get frustrated about the world we live in.   I know it sounds grandiose but what kind of a society do we live in that places an emphasis on fame instead of a person's character.    Who is raising these children to Hate?
 

In our celebrity obsessed media culture a new phenomenon of "ce-Web-rity" is growing out of control.     That unfortunate trend called reality TV was just the beginning.      Witness the cheerleader Lakeland, FLorida beating of a teen by 6 girls beating a classmate for 15 minutes .     Supposedly in response to comments made on a myspace page that dissed those in question.    Excuse me, but whatever happened to talking about stuff?     With girls saying on video that they were posting this beating on YOUTUBE.    Sadly, this is only one of hundreds of girl fights posted on YOUTUBE.    Girls have always had cliques and there is peer pressure and people are ostracized, but the level of extremism and violence is just unacceptable.   These teenage girls, (14-18)   premeditated a CRIME, lured and kidnapped this teen to a house, and then beat the shit out of her on camera.  Those two scraggly losers on the bottom served as lookouts.     When will it end?   What was the motive- Was it revenge? Was it for fame or infamy?   They committed a crime, f they go to jail, will they become hardened criminals?

FYI, the internet and myspace aren't the devil.    Let's just blame rock music, video games and television for school shootings and teen crime.     We live in a society that decencitizes sex and violence and it will continue to escalate as the media permeates our lives and becomes more omnipresent.


 

 The fact is, we really can't police this pop cultural phenomenon, all we can do it teach our children and their friends how to handle it.   How to think positively and embrace differences, how to walk away when you are bullied.     This is a huge issue, and I can't even begin to tackle it in one post.    Support tolerance.

 If more people felt this way, the world would be a safer, calmer, happier, more beautiful place.      Raise a lover, not a hater.








The one great thing that has come out of this crisis is the dialogue it has prompted.   If you go to YOUTUBE you can see hundreds of teens that made their own videos discussing how they feel about it.     

Here are some great books  on the subject, when my daughter is old enough she will be reading these as well.

all books available at Amazon.com

Mean Girls All Grown Up: Surviving Catty and Conniving Women   by Hayley Dimarco

Queen Bees & Wannabes: Helping your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and other realities.

Girl Wars: 12 Strategies That Will End Female Bullying (Paperback)

Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls (Paperback)  Rachel Simmons

Just Because It Isn't Wrong Doesn't Make It Right (Paperback)
by Barbara Coloroso (Author)

The likely marriage of gay fashion provacateur , Tom Ford and dick wielding lensman Terry Richardson has produced yet another disturbingly fabulous fashion campaign.

The  perfume, being marketed to men is blatantly pornographic with images flashing on the screen at 1 second intervals.    Offensive yes, graphic yes, memorable yes.   Ahhh -another successful campaign.    From the man who shot his own poo and the other man who 's famous G spot pubic ads made it the most memorable campaign of 2003. 

 

Although most of you will find this degrading to women and offensive, it more than accomplishes its purpose as successful advertising.  It is a bit like a car crash, you can't help but look;  if people are talking about it, it worked.

Will I buy the fragrance, no.  It is a men's fragrance being marketed to men.   (hence the porn friendly ads)  but I bought the sunglasses.        click to view



http://www.tomford.com/en/

all photos by Terry RIchardson

Tom Ford isn't my favorite designer, but I have tremendous respect for what he did for the Gucci brand when he took over and changed fashion.   He has always been an elegant man with impeccable taste.  Here are the fashion and business legend's ideas on power.

http://www.tomford.com/en/


A few memorable quotes from Tom Ford's interview with Tim Blanks in Arena Homme.

Power In fashion is the ability to get something done, to get your vision implemented without too many oother voices swaying it.

Power is contingent on your power-your track record, your confidence.   (learn it ladies and live it)   why cant we take advise from a sexy, well dressed gay man.

Power in fashion is fleeting.    You have to be very disciplined. If you do stupid things, you're going to lose your power. It's a meritocracy in a way.   You get your pwer from being spot-on.In the public arena, if you jump disciplines, that will add to the power.   (get out there and write a book, direct a movie or put together an art show)

People only love a winner to a point .   when u win for loo long, they want to knock you down.    

I never felt invulnerable.   If you're smart, you can never feel that way. That's when you really lose it.

Real power is concentrated in very few hands.   No matter how powerful you think you are, there's always somebody more powerful.     It keeps you humble, because without that humility, you lose your power.   There is enormous power in people liking you, because  Power is provided by a consensus of people.

Did Tom forget my personal favorite quote on power?     power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

 I don't consider myself a writer, but I like to write.    I started my career in the early nineties as a photo journalist working with some of the best writers in the business.    Cut to fifteen years later, and here we are.    After writing most of the features on this blog I have a new found respect for the written word and those that can eloquently express it.    I think what attracted me to the idea of doing a blog is the philosophical questioning of the value and objectivity of truth, the punk rock nature of it and the collective forum it creates .  I love the immediate dialogue between reader and writer and the dissemination of information that follows.    The internet provides so much information, readers have to sift through it to determine what's real and whats embellished or fabricated.   This is dangerous, since many readers won't research the truth.     Younger readers will get their news on the web, my child is already researching, learning and interacting on the web. 

To write a piece about a subject or person, to really write critical theory you have to do research.    People believe what they read.   People believe journalists.     Isn't it their ethical and professional responsibility to research their subjects and report the truth.    Legitimate investigative journalists have been doing it for years.  All journalists should.

I read a piece the amazingly talented Alice Walker wrote for the Guardian newspaper in England on Obama.   Here is a world renowned author and writer just expressing her opinion.    I thought it was well written and interesting.    When I started scrolling thru the comments I realized a scathing  amount of critism about the piece.   Was she appropriately informed, was she reporting the facts?    Apparently not.    What happens when a fiction writer writes an op ed piece.    Isn't she entitled to her opinion?    Yes.   But the nature of the web also enables dialogue and thats what makes the piece more interesting.
(Walker photo courtesy of PBS.org)
  

Do I take this writer's opinion for face value, or is it just their opinion.    Next time you watch the news or read a piece- remember that.    It's only their opinion.     Unfortunately, most writers don't do the leg work to research a piece and ask the right questions.   Read the piece and the commentary and decide for yourself.

  
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/apr/01/barackobama.uselections2008?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront

Today is Earth Day.   Go green.




This was one of my favorite photos taken in Mexico.   I have to thank Lipsticktracez contributor, Brighdie for finding this beautiful setting and the gorgeous models.    

Go Green expo is happening right now in NYC

http://gogreenexpo.com/events/index.php

google lets grass grow over their logo in appreciation of Earth day.


Eco fashionista recommends that you rock an eco bag.     Put that Balenciaga aside for a while and go green.    Think beach bag, travel bag, kid lunch bag, grocery bag, and possibly even, evening bag.  (although I have yet to try that one)


http://mybagcares.com/









vegan/nylon bag:   http://mattandnat.com      (this is probably the chicest eco bag I have seen)






rice bag:    http://www.ecoist.com/

You can also unleash your inner artist and decorate a plain canvas bag with fabric paint.    Its great fun to do this with your kids and teach them the importance of sustainability at the same time.   It's fun to make the environment part of your every day life.

This is my second commentary on what is deemed acceptable in the art world.     Is killing a dog acceptable?     Is impregnating yourself and having an abortion or miscarriage by choice?  Are artists held to the same moral conscience that journalists,  politicians and corporate CEO's are?    Where does it end?   Is it ok to kill someone (see German artist Gregor Schneider try to secure volunteers willing to die)  or watch them die and say it's art.   Where do we draw the line?

I'm not feeling this.     I understand that this asks questions and art is meant to do that, but it feels like a desperate attempt to make a statement.    True talent rises above shock value.



Please read the article about the Yale art student who used Abortion as a medium for her art.

Abortion image by Amelee

Article written by:

Martine Powers

Published Thursday, April 17, 2008

Art major Aliza Shvarts '08 wants to make a statement.

Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself "as often as possible" while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.

The goal in creating the art exhibition, Shvarts said, was to spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body. But her project has already provoked more than just debate, inciting, for instance, outcry at a forum for fellow senior art majors held last week. And when told about Shvarts' project, students on both ends of the abortion debate have expressed shock . saying the project does everything from violate moral code to trivialize abortion.

But Shvarts insists her concept was not designed for "shock value."

"I hope it inspires some sort of discourse," Shvarts said. "Sure, some people will be upset with the message and will not agree with it, but it's not the intention of the piece to scandalize anyone."

The "fabricators," or donors, of the sperm were not paid for their services, but Shvarts required them to periodically take tests for sexually transmitted diseases. She said she was not concerned about any medical effects the forced miscarriages may have had on her body. The abortifacient drugs she took were legal and herbal, she said, and she did not feel the need to consult a doctor about her repeated miscarriages.

Shvarts declined to specify the number of sperm donors she used, as well as the number of times she inseminated herself.

Art major Juan Castillo '08 said that although he was intrigued by the creativity and beauty of her senior project, not everyone was as thrilled as he was by the concept and the means by which she attained the result.

"I really loved the idea of this project, but a lot other people didn't," Castillo said. "I think that most people were very resistant to thinking about what the project was really about. [The senior-art-project forum] stopped being a conversation on the work itself."

Although Shvarts said she does not remember the class being quite as hostile as Castillo described, she said she believes it is the nature of her piece to "provoke inquiry."

"I believe strongly that art should be a medium for politics and ideologies, not just a commodity," Shvarts said. "I think that I'm creating a project that lives up to the standard of what art is supposed to be."

The display of Schvarts' project will feature a large cube suspended from the ceiling of a room in the gallery of Green Hall. Schvarts will wrap hundreds of feet of plastic sheeting around this cube; lined between layers of the sheeting will be the blood from Schvarts' self-induced miscarriages mixed with Vaseline in order to prevent the blood from drying and to extend the blood throughout the plastic sheeting.

Schvarts will then project recorded videos onto the four sides of the cube. These videos, captured on a VHS camcorder, will show her experiencing miscarriages in her bathroom tub, she said. Similar videos will be projected onto the walls of the room.

School of Art lecturer Pia Lindman, Schvarts' senior-project advisor, could not be reached for comment Wednesday night.

Few people outside of Yale's undergraduate art department have heard about Shvarts' exhibition. Members of two campus abortion-activist groups . Choose Life at Yale, a pro-life group, and the Reproductive Rights Action League of Yale, a pro-choice group . said they were not previously aware of Schvarts' project.

Alice Buttrick '10, an officer of RALY, said the group was in no way involved with the art exhibition and had no official opinion on the matter.

Sara Rahman '09 said, in her opinion, Shvarts is abusing her constitutional right to do what she chooses with her body.

"[Shvarts' exhibit] turns what is a serious decision for women into an absurdism," Rahman said. "It discounts the gravity of the situation that is abortion."

CLAY member Jonathan Serrato '09 said he does not think CLAY has an official response to Schvarts' exhibition. But personally, Serrato said he found the concept of the senior art project "surprising" and unethical.

"I feel that she's manipulating life for the benefit of her art, and I definitely don't support it," Serrato said. "I think it's morally wrong."

Shvarts emphasized that she is not ashamed of her exhibition, and she has become increasingly comfortable discussing her miscarriage experiences with her peers.

"It was a private and personal endeavor, but also a transparent one for the most part," Shvarts said. "This isn't something I've been hiding."

The official reception for the Undergraduate Senior Art Show will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on April 25. The exhibition will be on public display from April 22 to May 1. The art exhibition is set to premiere alongside the projects of other art seniors this Tuesday, April 22 at the gallery of Holcombe T. Green Jr. Hall on Chapel Street.

LACMA scores a hit with the Eli and Edyth Broad collection opening in February 2008.   

Michael Govan is the new director of the LACMA.  His lovely chic wife, Katherine Ross is the senior vp of communications for LVMH.   They are a sophisticated, worldly couple that will no doubt add to the cultural landscape of Los Angeles.

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The new Broad Lacma building is incredible.    Designed by Renzo Piano, it is has twice the exhibition space of the Whitney.   Richard Serra's monumental steel arcs open the building on the ground floor.    Over 70 feet long, 12 feet high and taking two years to  complete.    The next two floors feature work by contemporary artists Cindy Sherman,   Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol, John Baldessari, Jean Michel Basquit, jenny Holzer, Cy Twombly, Rauschenberg, Rosenquist, Ellsworth Kelly, Ed Ruscha


Probably one of the most important collections of contemporary art in the world.     Outdoor sculptures by Jeff Koons and a giant red firetruck by Charles Ray flank the entrance to the building.


The building is light and airy and make it a pleasure to view these incredible works of art.     My only issues with it were that there was a whole room dedicated to Leon Golub,  and a mediocre piece by Chris Burden.   And the absolute most hideous Julian Schnabel painting ever.    (he should stick to directing)     I'm not sure these fit with the rest of the collection.  A grand room of Cindy Sherman's was a bit overzealous as well.    Over 50 pieces by Sherman are crammed into this room, none of them being her earlier more interesting pieces.  On the other hand,  The new Jeff Koons work (steel rafts on fences that look plastic) is probably some of the strongest I have ever seen and this is truly one of the biggest collections of Jeff Koons in the world.    Including one of my favorites,   that nut job pedophile, Michael Jackson, with Bubbles the monkey.
  


  All in all the artists aren't really curated but grouped together in rooms and shown chronologically.    Its fairly straightforward and even an art neophyte will get it.     Im thrilled to have this addition to the LA art scene.

Would you hurt an animal to make a statement with your art.   How far would you go to say, "this is art".      In my opinion, this asshole went too far, and now he has been invited to join the Visual Arts Biennial of the Central American countries to create his installation all over again.    It's tragic and shocking in this day and age, whatever happened to being a painter.    
oh yeah, you need talent to paint.  This criminal act is cruel and unusual .   Im not alone 396,893 others signed this petition to boycott the presentation.

In 2007, the 'artist' Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, tied him to a rope in an art gallery, and starved him to death.





 
For several days, the 'artist' and the visitors of the exhibition have watched emotionless the shameful 'masterpiece' based on the dog's agony, until eventually he died.   
 
 

 
Does it look like art to you?
 
But this is not all... the prestigious Visual Arts Biennial of the Central American  decided that the 'installation' was actually art, so that Guillermo Vargas Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel action for the biennial of 2008.
 
PLEASE HELP STOP HIM.
 
http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition.html
 
It's free of charge, there is no need to register, and it will only take 1 minute to save the life of an innocent creature. 
 
 
Thank you for your time
 

Pierre Hardy..


Get a great designer to sign on for a season or create a collection.     Seems to be par for the course these days.   Target and H&M are doing it, why not the Gap.     Legendary  designer  Pierre Hardy, who has created shoes for Balenciaga and Hermes has partnered up with the Gap.

His collection is expected to debut for spring/summer 2008




"As we launch our European collections in Gap stores for the first time, we are delighted to have the opportunity to build on successful past collaborations with a world class talent like Pierre Hardy and to offer his interpretation of Gap's casual aesthetic to our customers," Stephen Sunnucks, president of Gap Europe, said today. Roland Mouret was the last high fashion name to set his talents to Gap and, since his dresses sold out a rate of 500-per-hour, it's not surprising that the company has gone for another name from the upper style echelons.    I love that high fashion is becoming high street.    Now you can buy a piece of shoe history for $78.00 bucks.

I'm for Hillary, I'm for Obama.  I just don't know anymore.  Why choose when you can combine?       Well, Im not alone.   All I know is Im for whoever is going to win and put the republicans out of business.   Can't these two just stop bickering and focus at the task at hand.   Can we change the course of history and make sure the old white guy doesn't win.

  

Los Angeles has a youth culture like any other city.      Some say better than most.   Downtown LA is probably the closest thing you will get to the NY's East Village or LES, London's Covent Garden or Tokyo's Harajuku district.   fyi: that is fellow blogger and lipstick lady, Allison and my BFF, Danielle.
 





























































 I went to Apartment 3's monthly party the other night and there were a lot of cool art students and young fashionistas doing their thing.   DJ MIa Moretti  was slammin and  it was refreshing to see young people put together their style with little or no designer items and look fierce.    YOU DONT NEED MONEY TO HAVE STYLE- PEOPLE.      Tastemakers already know this. 








































































The big accessory of the night was the giant 40 of JOLT.   

The chief executive of American Apparel Inc. has long been known as something of an exhibitionist. Dov Charney is beyond frank when discussing his sex life and sometimes wanders around his factory in his underpants.

Dov Charney

But the business operations of Mr. Charney's rapidly expanding clothing empire have not been nearly so transparent. Even as American Apparel rose to prominence over the past decade with basic T-shirts, clingy dresses and sexualized marketing campaigns, its status as a private company has shielded from view its chronic financial problems.

Now, American Apparel is opening the kimono -- and it's not necessarily a pretty sight. Since going public last December in an unorthodox maneuver, the company has conceded it suffers a number of "material weaknesses." According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, these include "inadequate expertise in the application of U.S. generally accepted accounting principles." The company is grappling with its fourth sexual-harassment lawsuit, and its former insurer says it won't pay any damages.

The company says it's blameless in the suit and that it's working to correct its other problems. But it also details an unusually long list of risk factors, including a recent query from Immigration and Customs Enforcement requesting citizen documents of factory employees; a current government tax audit and high levels of debt.

American Apparel had healthy sales of $387 million last year, up 36% over 2006, and reported a big 37.5% gain in same-store sales in the recently ended first quarter. But its shares are off more than 40% since December. Friday, they closed at $8.30, up 30 cents.

to read the entire article go to the Wall Street Journal:

By NICHOLAS CASEY

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120796037535209509.html

Please go see this show.   The work is incredible and if you don't know him, Lawrence is one of the first conceptual artists.   He is a legend and a true inspiration to artists everywhere.

LAWRENCE WEINER: AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE
04.13.08 - 07.14.08
The first major United States retrospective of the work of New York-based artist Lawrence Weiner (b.1942, Bronx, NY), one of the key figures associated with the emergence and foundations of conceptual art in the 1960s, Lawrence Weiner: AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE provides a comprehensive examination of Weiner's remarkable and cohesive oeuvre, assembling key selections and bodies of work from throughout his 40-year career. Lawrence Weiner has defined art as "the relationship of human beings to objects and objects to objects in relation to human beings," and that premise remains at the core of all of his work. The conditions of a work of art have been the basis of Weiner's approach since 1967, using language as a material object. The exhibition represents the full range of Weiner's practice, from the Propeller and Removal paintings of the 1960s, to the artist's "specific and general" works--language-based pieces that have maintained a consistent presence in his work since 1968. The exhibition also includes the full breadth of his production with works on paper, films, videos, books, posters, public commissions, multiples, and audio works. (all info courtesy of MOCA)

 

If you don't know it, the Studio Museum in Harlem is one of the most cutting edge contemporary art museums in the world.    Helmed by the amazingly talented and fashionable chief curator, Thelma Golden.    Please check out FLOW,  a show featuring a new generation of  international artists from Africa.    The show incorporates diverse mediums such as sculpture, installation, digital photography, video and paintings.


http://www.studiomuseum.org/

The museum also features music events, screenings, lectures and a ton of great cultural stuff.   A must see if you are visiting New York.













The fabulous Thelma Golden who, in addition to the artists,  has made this museum what it is today.

Global natural cosmetic sales are estimated to reach $10 billion in 2010. (organicmonitor.com)

In a trend towards sustainability and global organic products corporations scramble to buy up  cult brands.

Organic skin care company Dr Hauschka has always been a favorite of mine.    If you don't know them, read on.    What interested me is that recently the owner, Susan Kurz set up an irrevocable trust to make the company a non profit.     Thereby protecting the company from ever being sold and dismantled upon their retirement.  In an unprecedented move for corporate America, they started a trend here for small privately held companies that want to maintain their integrity over time.

In 2006 Estee Lauder paid $300 million for Aveda.   Both the Body Shop and Kieh'ls were snapped up by L'Oreal.     With huge corporations growing interested in sustainable products Dr. Hauschka has gotten many offers.   All turned down.    Now a trust, the profits are reinvested in operations, sustaining development in the company.

The Kurz's made sustaining their corporate culture and values a priority.   "We aim to heal the earth and humanity"

to learn more about their products go to:

http://www.drhauschka.com/

When it comes to formulating naturally pure and effective skin care products, it's all about the ingredients. Dr. Hauschka skin care understands that healing plant and mineral ingredients are able to effectively support skin health and restore beauty. We use certified Biodynamic botanical ingredients whenever possible. Our products benefit from the increased vitality and potency of Biodynamic plants just as the earth benefits from the gentle, sustainable nature of Biodynamic cultivation. If we are unable to obtain an ingredient Biodynamically, we'll make sure that it's organically and ethically obtained.

Dr. Hauschka manufacturer WALA Heilmittel combines the wisdom of herbal healing traditions with over half a century of holistic pharmaceutical experience. The resulting preparations work with the skin's natural functions to restore it to health and radiant beauty.

Joel  Meyerowitz

"The Elements: Air/Water Part 1"
exibition at Tokyo Gallery white room Tokyo.    March 7 thru June 8.
www.g-whiteroom.com  (this gallery is new and only features fine art photography, the owner is very cool, the space is gorgeous with lots of light and its a great location to view and show art.)

Joel Meyerowitz shots of Olympic divers shot in Ft Lauderdale are a dreamy large format show of bubbles and diver.    This show represents a departure from Joel's other color large format photography.   These images were altered digitally and show a more conceptual direction for the photographer.

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Joel has published over 15 photography books.  His work is featured in over  350 exhibitions in museums including the Pompidue, the ICP and the MOMA in New York.        His first book, Cape Light is an influencial book in color photography.   One of my personal favorites is Aftermath, published by Phaidon and released Sept. 11, 2006 featuring images taken after the World Trade Center bombing.     He is a true master of large format color photography.  check him out.

Affordable, avant-garde fashion coming to a retailer near you.   Comme and H&M collaborate on a new collection debuting this fall.

Comme des Garcons' founder and head designer Rei Kawakubo will create this autumn's guest designer collection at H&M. Rei Kawakubo, famous and admired for her creativity and artistry, will design a women's and a men's collection, with some pieces for children too. Accessories and an exclusive unisex fragrance will also be included in the collection.

"I have always been interested in the balance between creation and business. It is a dilemma, although for me creation has always been the first priority. It is a fascinating challenge to work with H&M since it is a chance to take the dilemma to its extreme, and try to solve it", says   Rei Kawakubo, Comme des Garcons. 

"Rei Kawakubo has been at the top of our wish list for a long time and we are thrilled that she has chosen to collaborate with us. We have tremendous respect for Kawakubo's fashion philosophy of questioning fashion's ingrained patterns, and admire her artistic approach to design. We are particularly excited that the collection will be launched in Japan, Kawakubo's native country, at the same time as the launch of our new store there", explains Margareta van den Bosch, creative advisor, H&M. 

The world launch of the collection will be at the opening of H&M's second store in Tokyo, Japan, in the beginning of November. Launch date for other H&M markets will be a few days later. 

Comme des Garcons Ltd was established in 1973 as a company based on creativity and originality. Always pushing the frontiers of design and never accepting the status quo, Comme des Garcons now produces 14 different brands and employs nearly 700 people, with shops in over 25 countries. 

H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB (H&M) was established in Sweden in 1947 and is synonymous with affordable as well as up-to-date and high quality fashion. H&M has a wide product range that is divided into a number of different concepts for women, men, teenagers, children and cosmetics. The company's clothing collections are created by its own designers, pattern makers and buyers. H&M has around 68,000 employees and over 1,500 H&M-stores in 28 countries. For further information visit www.hm.com.  photo: Getty images, text: HM

The amazing and talented Catherine Opie will debut her new photographs this week.   Please check out this cutting edge provocative artist...  Catherine will have a major show at the Guggenheim this year.   (more about this later)

 

Catherine Opie

April 10 - May 17, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 10, 6 - 8 p.m.

Regen Projects II
9016 Santa Monica Boulevard (at Almont Drive)
Regen Projects
633 North Almont Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90069
T 310 276 54 24 F 310 276 7430
www.regenprojects.com