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Trained Contemporary Dancer, Writes for The New Order Magazine and French magazine; LURVE, blogs daily on TheWire.co.nz, and contributes to SlamxHype.com. NZ raised French blood.
By far the highlight on our trip to Paris was this; seeing The New Order magazine display inside the world's most influencial store, colette Paris!! Continuously pinching ourselves every time we walked past the store for the duration of Paris Fashion Week, we did take some inside shots of the displays. As you may know, this issue we have two covers; worlds biggest graffiti artist KAWS and pop artist Murakami. Selling exclusively at colette throughout Fashion Week, they sold out! 
I just became a fan, on the social network world of Facebook, of one of our biggest fashion designers in New Zealand, Karen Walker. Seems everybody is jumping on the self-promote wagon in these hard times....On her home page I found some recent backstage shots of her new season titled 'She's Cracked'. Looking crazy-cool, the designer has combined the beauty of comfort and functionality mixed with an effortless 'cool' and style. See images below.
With our first issue, 'Global Influence', sold out, our The New Order team are more than excited to launch the second issue called 'Pop Portrayal'. With one of our writers at the printers this morning we got a sneak peak at the magazine coming to fruition. Check out the video below! See more from inside the magazine here at Slamxhype, and you can buy our successful first publications here! Enjoy x
Brisbane Bridge. Sunny, sometimes tropical. On the way here it rained so hard our window wipers couldn't move fast enough for us to see to drive, and this is the other way home...
Australia.
Last week saw the opening at Plaything Gallery of 'NOW', a 24hr art challenge consisting of 15 artists from New Zealand all creating works of their choice under one common theme; 'Panic'. We were called up at 6pm Friday night and told our theme and were to hand in our piece of art work that following day at 6pm.
Panic is not a familiar emotion to me, being as laid back as I am, so I decided to focus on the situation of disaster and the aftermath of that happening. I wanted to somehow grab that feeling of moving on and re location that people have to deal with once something like that has happened. I was also interested in the time, duration and seasonal change that followed and how it helped someone to grow but not forgetting that the hurt was always there underneath. Although it would allow one to grow, change and evolve from this, in contradiction, I was consumed with the idea of the growth and time as being a virus and a never-opened-bottle type emotional strain on someone and how that affects their life.
So this is what I made-
A black backpack with a million silk flowers (well, it felt like a million)
Here are some from other works in the show too...
Erin Forsyth
Misery
Aleksandra Petkovich
The boys sold a few works to some art buyer in Christchurch so it was a huge success
Congratulations!
Cottilard plays the heroine that gets caught teetering on a cross-beam of the Eiffel tower and it is unknown who will save her out of the well-dressed thugs in Dior Homme. The film is the first from a series of four installments to come out with Dior's seasonal drop of accessories and collections, including an especially fancy Dior Mobile phone that resembles an Art Deco cigarette case.
Cotillard will play a different character in a different city with each episode, the second of which is titled "Lady Rouge." A visual stimulant that seems to be popping up with most fashion labels as a new way of getting across who their collection's girl/muse is and what she is about.
I have been writing for French magazine LURVE now for three months and have really enjoyed the first issue. It is great to have a magazine out there that is battling the crowds for a creatively demanding audience. The LURVE website here has recently posted some fantastic lyrics from our favourite soulstress; Grace Jones. I thought I just had to share, they are very cool.
Love me in a picture,
Kiss me in a cast,
Touch me in a sculpture,
Whisper in my mask.
Don't ask me any questions,
My personal life is a bore,
Admire me in glory,
An Art Groupie. That's all.
Grace Jones- Art Groupie
Fantastic song and great phrasing which, for me, conjures up many visual images. Thanks LURVE!
Looking forward to issue TWO xx
Image here is Grace Jones getting painted on by Mr Keith Haring.... awesome. x
Text from a daily spot to hit of mine; Geometrie Variable. She's cute too.
''Paz de la Huerta is an actress who literally reveals all of herself onscreen. She first appears in Jim Jarmusch's new film Limits of Control naked and holding a gun, and is credited simply as "Nude." Next week she flies to France, where she'll promote yet another revealing performance--a stripper, in French provocateur Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void. So when she showed up for her interview at the Soho Grand, we expected a candid interview. What we didn't expect was a cupcake, but lucky for us, we got both. Here, the confident actress reveals her dream collaborators, the difference between a sex kitten and a sex addict, and why she checks her e-mail at the Mac store.''
See interview here.
"Bobby Grossman is a photographer whose body of work is one of the most important documents of the punk rock, new wave/no wave scene of the seventies and eighties. Grossman was an artist who was omnipresent on the scene, and wherever he went."
See interview here.
Next show on at Plaything Gallery is NOW, a 24hr art challenge that consists of 15 young artists creating works within the duration of a day all with a common theme. I will put up some pictures from this show next week!
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