The elusive Japan/Asia market-only Burberry Black Label range continues their niche market attack on menswear for Spring/Summer 2012. It’s filled with suiting and some casual wear – all tailored for the market the Black Label collection sits in. Absolutely killer jackets and blazers throughout but the real win goes to gentleman who can properly suit up into this collection. They don’t call it “Black Label” for nothin’.
“Streets of the World” opens this weekend at the New York City location of Opera Gallery. The installation features 40 of the more prominent street artists from around the globe. The show is meant to highlight the phenomenon of “street artists” transitioning into the contemporary gallery scene. The majority of the pieces on display were created specifically for the ‘Streets of the World’ installation – running May 11th – May 31.
Some of the artists who contributed work are: Rone, Kid Zoom, ROA, Blek le Rat, Herakut, How and Nosm, The London Police, Nick Walker, Saber, Revok, Faile, Bäst, Swoon, Ron English, Trustocorp, Mare 139, Jose Parla, Eric Haze, Logan Hicks, Aiko and Banksy.
A handful of the exhibiting artists attended the opening soiree earlier this week, including Ron English. Definitely stop through if you find yourself in SoHo between now and May 31st. A broader ranging collection of street-to-gallery art can probably not be found under any other single roof.
Photography: Jacob Breinholt/Selectism.com
Many more images from the preview show on the following page.
For their 2012-13 home kit, Nike turned the industrial history of Manchester United’s home city—specifically Manchester’s renowned cotton mills that were responsible for the iconic gingham check pattern featured on the jersey. The label on the inner neck takes it a step further, reading “Forged in Industry, Striving for Glory.”
The new home kit is made from Nike’s ground-breaking recycled polyester, making it Nike’s most environmentally friendly kit ever produced. Each kit (shirt and shorts) is made using up to thirteen recycled plastic water bottles … Since 2010 Nike has used an estimated 1115 million recycled plastic bottles to create its high performance kits.
The technical flurries on this gear go on for days, but we are especially curious about the Nike Dri-FIT technology that “wicks moisture away from athletes to help keep them cool and dry on-pitch.” Like, does that wicking work from the outside too, for sloshed pints? Read more here.
Coverjunkie points us UK artist, Hattie Stewart’s “Doodle Bomb” covers project. The images speak for themselves: the artist re-works the covers of fashion and lifestyle magazines with doodles and sketch work that mixes commissioned and unreleased bombs. Some interesting work in here against covers from I-D, Vogue, LOVE, Lula, and many more.
See many more of Hattie Stewart’s doodle bombs on the following page.
The Tom Sachs SPACE PROGRAM: Mars exhibition opens May 16 – June 17, 2012 at the Armory in New York City, turning 55,000 sq feet into an “immersive space odyssey” that features the artists sculpture of space mission platforms, vehicles, and suiting. In conjunction with the opening of the SPACE PROGRAM: Mars, the artists has entered in a joint venture with Nike launching the Tom Sachs: NIKECraft collection – a sportswear collection utilizing materials never before used in sportswear: automotive airbags, mansails, and space suiting. The details continue the relationship between astronaut and athlete with “Zipper pulls that double as storage containers, paracord that can be fashioned as a tourniquet and embellishments like the periodic table of elements screened on the inside of a jacket.”
Tom Sachs: NIKECraft collection includes The Mars Yard Shoe, the Trench, The Marsfly Jacket, and the Lightweight Tote.
Who’s got a cooking date night this weekend? Be it for family, friends, or even a casual date that (we hope it goes well), cooking up a nice plate of plate of pasta will not only fill the belly but it will put a smile on all. Rather than narrow it down today to one dish, we asked our friends at Food Republic to recommend us five pasta dishes that span a range of tastes, flavors, and cultural references. Who knew that streetwalkers in ancient Rome are thought to have invented Pasta Puttanesca Recipe?
There is a wealth of manly jewelry in this world, and a lot of it is very striking stuff. But a dude wearing a piece of rather androgynous ware, like the bracelet pictured above, is probably a dude who doesn’t rely much on macho posturing. We like that, and we are enjoying looking through aoúd’s Spring/Summer 2012 collection, imagining outfits and locations befitting some of this stuff.
The tassel might get a little sticky, but this would look smart hugging your wrist as you threw back a series of stiff Cuba Libres on a sun-bleached beach, dressed in some sort of linen suit. We are also picturing worn-out sea planes flying low overhead and bouncing down a landing strip next to the bar. Oh, and the sun keeps glinting on that little skull. “aoúd is the link between reality and invisibility,” we are told—in context, that actually almost makes sense.
HUDSON Jeans is trying an experiment of sorts. Their new initiative, HUDSON x Turbotech brings forth an innovative denim fabric that allows for you to create your own personal wash and look in very short time. The concept of being able to “take your jeans from raw to vintage in 30 days” is a bold statement that Hudson stands behind with Turbotech and one that allows for the individual to tell their story through their jeans.
With the help of a special group of guys, the HUDSON x Turbotech experiment will showcase their individual love and passion of denim. We will get to know their stories and follow their experiences for 30 days as they live in their Turbotech denim.
In the latest installment, @DJVice, talks about his life and the road he took to break into professional DJ-ing as well his passion for HUDSON x Turbotech and the personality it has. Let us see how his 30 days went.
We are not being pervy when we say that we could stare at naked women all day. Those cheesy lines about the beauty of the female form—like most worn-out clichés—happen to be true, and few photographers took this fact of nature to the heights reached by Helmut Newton
Helmut Newton’s Sex & Landscapes, a series created in collaboration with the late artist’s wife and collaborator, June Netwon, features 20 of his so-called “sex pictures”—glamorous, seductive shots of women in various states of undress and seductive performance—and 20 landscapes.
Crane.tv head over to White Cube’s newest location in Bermondsey, South East London, to talk to Gilbert & George. For over 40 years these guys have been acting rather weirdly whilst churning out work in their trademark style. We hear about their lastest exhibition, London Pictures and gain a little more insight into the British art scene’s most enigmatic pair.
