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Garden State

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:45:00 -0400

Embrace crazy prints and creeping florals. They'll grow on you! Photos by Amira Fritz @ Cats & Dogs

Andy Warhol's Eyes on the Guise

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:05:00 -0400

Given the huge advances made by the LGBT movement of late, many in its ranks view the Gay Pride parade — held late June every year since the 70s — as, to put it gently, a little passé. Sweaty wigs, pierced nipples and assless chaps all bumping and grinding to throbbing techno on slow-moving, shaky floats are a funny sight to see, but the real front has moved elsewhere long ago, to courthouses, legislatures and movie sets across the land.

Still, June is Pride Month, and that means a lot of gay-related cultural events that might otherwise not get much attention suddenly pop up. One of those is a Christie's sale of works by Andy Warhol, the artist everyone thinks they know, but don't really. Open to the public, Eyes on the Guise is an auction of Warhol drawings and photos on the theme of the gay male gaze — Warhol's gaze — that may make one blush.

Held in conjunction with the Andy Warhol Foundation to mark Pride Month, and prefaced with an age warning, the collection ranges from innocent nude portraits of young men in Warhol's orbit to images that can essentially be described as porn. Warhol wouldn't have minded the descriptor; he deliberately pushed the subject(s) of his lens, his pencil, or his gaze into a dirty, pervy zone as often as he could — even if, or especially because, consensual homosexual acts were illegal for most of his life. Several later lots include scenes of Gay Pride parades and Fire Island parties, as well as portraits of Keith Haring, Truman Capote, and the artist in drag.

Visit Eyes on the Guise

Self-Portrait of Andy Warhol in Drag

Nude Male Model

Yves Saint Laurent

Standing Torso

Keith Haring and Juan Dubose

Querelle

Hooked: Craig & Karl for MCM

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:53:00 -0400

Take the art duo of Craig & Karl, put their playful illustrations on a range of bags from the German leather-goods label MCM, sprinkle in a slight resemblance to Takashi Murakami's collaboration with Louis Vuitton, heat on high for a bit, and you have pop luxury perfection.

At MCM boutiques worldwide and Harrods in London

Dolce & Gabbana, Tax Evasion, and Bruno Mars

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:51:00 -0400

This afternoon, as if trying to deflect attention from the much more sensational headline from this morning, Dolce & Gabbana announced that they're designing the outfits for Bruno Mars’ upcoming Moonshine Jungle world tour.

Good news indeed. Now about that other headline. A high court in Milan has finally, after six years, ruled on the duo's tax-evasion case — and it's not looking good at all. They pair has been found guilty, and each of them has been sentenced to a year and eight months behind bars.

At a hearing today, a judge ruled that when the designers sold their label to the Luxembourg-based holding company Gado — their two names abbreviated — in 2004, they did so improperly, selling the business far below market value with the intention of concealing hundred of millions of dollars worth of taxes. The ruling is a reversal of a lower court's acquittal in 2011.

Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana deny all wrongdoing and, naturally, they've appealed today's judgment. It's unlikely they'll actually face any prison time. That, however, is based on the assumption things in Italy go the way they always have. And if today has proven anything, it's that that's no longer the case.

Video Fix: Die Antwoord's Cookie Thumper

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:26:00 -0400

After their gruesome (read awesome) send-up of Lady Gaga last year, Afrikaans rave-rappers Die Antwoord are back with another head-spinning production. The new ditty, Cookie Thumper, and its video lack frontman Ninja — he was busy directing — yet still manages to focus like a laser beam on that time-honored troika of solid songwriting: sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll — emphasis on sex and drugs...

The Best of London Men's, Day 3/3

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:51:00 -0400

For his dot-happy, rainbow-bright Burberry men's collection, Christopher Bailey looked to fellow Brits David Hockney and Alan Bennett — artist and playwright-actor, respectively — who also happen to be elder statesmen of England's gay cultural elite. And the designer did so with a "nod and a wink," said a press release, making a strong case for pattern diversity and color equality. Honorable mentions go to Christopher Shannon, James Long, and Christopher Raeburn...

Burberry...

The Prancercize Lady Is Back! Who Can Resist John Mayer?

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:11:00 -0400

The Prancercize Lady is one small reason to sorta like John Mayer for the next 4 minutes and 31 seconds. Probably preferring to be called by her real name, Johanna Rohrback does what she does best and prances about a suburban street to Mayer's new song Paper Doll, thought to be about Taylor Swift. Yes, folks — after the Harlem Shakes and Gangnam Style, welcome to your new summer shimmy...

Candle Whisperer

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:40:00 -0400

Scented-candle aficionados looking for more than pleasantly aromatic wax with a wick will fancy a tactile new collaboration between Joya Studios and the artist Oliver Ruuger. The limited-edition candle and engraved leather case are made by hand in New York and London, respectively, with the latter produced from British saddle hide branded with artwork, an ancient Latin palindrome. The candle, called is hand-poured at the Joya Studio using soy, vegetable oil, beeswax, and of course the fragrance, a combination of woodsmoke, fire and juniper oil.

$450 for 12.5 oz at Barneys New York (Madison Ave) and Joya Studios

The Best of London Men's, Day 2/3

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:43:00 -0400

Alexander McQueen's Sarah Burton served some serious Sigmund Freud with her experiments in bespoke-level, Victorian suits merging lace doily and skull motifs. Katie Eary, Christopher Kane, and J.W. Anderson also mounted feats of conceptualism...

Alexander McQueen...

It's Happening: Kate Moss to Appear in Playboy

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:30:00 -0400

As expected, Kate Moss will bare her bunnies in Playboy's January issue, celebrating the soft-porn purveyors' 60th anniversary and the supe's 40th birthday. You can thank Oribe for the advance news. The hairstylist extraordinaire let it slip last week that the shoot, lensed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, was in the can. He would know because he did the hair.

Of course the magazine's celebrity titillation factor is based largely on the modesty level of the celebrity in question. And as we all know, Moss, ever the pro, apparently has little to no modesty. She's posed numerous times in the buff and in fact seems to relish in it. Memorably, she took it all off to commune with nature for Mario Sorrenti's Pirelli calendar last year.

Start Pulling Out Your Wallet for this Kickstarter Campaign

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 22:15:00 -0400

Of all the very worthy fundraising campaigns there are on Kickstarter, this one ranks way up there. Nearly halfway to his goal of $53,000, filmmaker Alfredo Salcedo has already, for the last year, been hard at work on There Was Magic, a documentary guaranteed to pull at your heartstrings — and hopefully wallet.

Held in 1986, at the panicky beginning of the AIDS crisis, a fashion show called AIDS Project Los Angeles' Commitment to Life brought out the best and the brightest from fashion and Hollywood, two of the communities hit hardest by the disease. In many ways, the movement to research and prevent HIV/AIDS got its start here. In that year and the following nine years, models and designers — Thierry Mugler, Cindy Crawford, Lypsinka, Geoffrey Beene, Bob Mackie, Naomi Campbell, Gianni Versace, Calvin Klein — came together to support the cause with a high-energy, high-wattage runway show.

Afonso Salcedo, who hails from Pixar and Dreamworks, says, "After reading Heavenly Bodies: Remembering Hollywood and Fashion’s Favorite AIDS Benefit, written by Michael Anketell, who founded the event in 1986, I became enormously interested in the back story of all ten shows — how they came to be and the incredible talent that supported them...There Was Magic will provide a nostalgic, moving and entertaining look back at some of the most breathtaking and ambitious fashion shows ever mounted — magical moments in time caught on film and not seen since they were live shows."

Visit There Was Magic on Kickstarter