THE UNTITLED MAGAZINE AT LA JOLLA FILM FESTIVAL Join The Untitled Magazine at the La Jolla Film Festival - July 26-28 at Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California The La Jolla Fashion Film Festival is the first international fashion film festival founded in North America, bringing together over a hundred short films. Last year's festival marked…
Karl Lagerfeld created one of his signature high collars for a new exhibition in London entitled Brilliant, which is being held as part of the Masterpiece London Fair in celebration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. The exhibition will take place at the Royal Hospital from June 28 until July 27 and is curated by Vogue jewelry editor…
On June 7, the second group of inductees into the CFDA Incubator class held an open house in their workspace at 209 West 38 Street for editors and buyers. The CFDA Incubator is a select group of up and coming designers selected by a committee of industry leaders. This group follows in the footsteps of…
The Queen of England isn't the only one celebrating a diamond jubilee this year! The Parisian fashion house Chloé will also be celebrating its 60th anniversary this fall with a number of events, including a Paris exhibition and party that will coincide with their fall fashion week show on October 1. The October fashion show will mark…
The Hole gallery on the Bowery in downtown Manhattan currently has on display the exhibit "Portrait of a Generation" from now until August 10, featuring the work of over 100 New York artists. The show includes artists such as Yoko Ono, Aurel Schmidt, Cass Bird, Terence Koh, Olivier Zahm, Cynthia Rowley, Dash Snow, Gordon Hull and Ryan McGinley,…
Salvatore Ferragamo is the sponsor of the latest exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's work at the Louvre, titled "The Saint Anne, Leonardo da Vinci's Ultimate Masterpiece." The exhibit was launched in honor of da Vinci's recently restored oil painting on wood, "The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne," created around 1510. The exhibition will be…
Your Sister's Sister is the new film by director Lynn Shelton (Humpday), about inter-family squabbles, the complexity of human relationships, and living life, all done in her trademark naturalistic, humorous style. The film centers around Jack (Mark Duplass) who a year after his brother's death has still not emotionally recovered and is struggling to get his life…
Damien Hirst, after a two-month fabrication process, has released a time-lapse video of him and his studio assistants carefully constructing his new scalpel blade painting, Destruction Dreamscape. Hirst is known around the world for his animals in formaldehyde, series of paintings of multi-colored dots on white backgrounds and, of course, his one million dollar skull encrusted…
Austrian-born New York-based fashion designer Helmut Lang unveiled his 2009 sculpture piece, Front Row, at Barneys New York on Madison Avenue as part of the store’s collaboration with Greek art patron Dakis Joannou and his Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art. The sculpture was revealed alongside pieces from Jeurgen Teller and Parisian design partners M/M, Mathias Augustyniak and…
Parisian Photographer and artistic director Vincent Bousserez, known for his humorous photographs using miniatures in the style of street artist Slinkachu, called "Plaste Life," was commissioned by the fashion house Louis Vuitton to create a series of images featuring his tiny people running rampant through their Paris flagship store. The photographs titled "Larger Than Life" combine Bousserez's fantasy world…
James Franco's latest venture into the art world is a site-specific installation/exhibition, in association with L.A.'s MOCA for the Venice Biennale. The show, called Rebel, is Franco's homage to the 1955 movie Rebel Without a Cause, starring James Dean. The show contains work from artists such as Douglas Gordon, Harmony Korine, Damon and Paul McCarthy, Ed Ruscha and Aaron…
The Intouchables is the French film directed by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano that has taken France by storm. Not only did the film achieve the second highest box office gross of all time in France, but it was voted as the cultural event of 2011 by 52% of the population in a poll by Fnac, Le Parisien, and…
Since Brigitte Bardot became an international six symbol in the early sixties, she has always inspired fashion designers. But it wasn't until 2012 that the French cinema icon got her very own eponymous clothing line. Last July, the 77-year-old actress signed a licensing agreement with the company Ternay, along with other investors, allowing her name…
The International Center of Photography in New York is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century, Gordon Parks. Parks grew up in rural Kansas, buying a camera at the age of fourteen after seeing photos of migrant workers in a magazine. Parks moved to…
The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York has just opened the second installment of their exhibit, Fashion A-Z: Highlights from the Collection of the Museum at FIT. Much like Part One of the exhibit, originally titled The Great Designers, the show focuses on some of the biggest icons in European fashion,…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IdEhvuNxV8 On Thursday, May 17th, at the age of 63, five-time Grammy award winner Donna Summer, lovingly nicknamed "The Queen of Disco," passed away in her home in Key West, Florida after a long battle with lung cancer. Donna Summer was born LaDonna Adrian Gaines to a devout Christian household in Boston in 1948. Summer began singing as…
On May 20th, the multimedia performance artist, K8 Hardy, probably best known for her zine FashionFashion, put on her Untitled Runway Show at the Whitney Museum in New York. Hardy put together over thirty looks as part of her exhibition for the 2012 Biennial. The exhibition piece had all the makings of any standard runway show, makeup…
Louis Vuitton has just announced their latest collaboration with 82-year-old Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, known for putting her trademark polka dots on everything, including cars, tree trunks, and herself. The collaboration will be unveiled on July 10, hitting stores just in time for Kusama's major retrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York. According to…
Scope Basel is a renowned art fair that brings together the hottest names in emerging artistic talents and gives them an international platform on which to showcase their work and network with seasoned professionals who work in every aspect of art. The festival has had over 45 events internationally in the past decade alone. Scope puts work…
A photo posted by @aerin on Jan 6, 2016 at 3:59am PST Aerin Lauder, granddaughter of household name Estée Lauder, and ex-style/image director to the company, will finally debut her personal lifestyle brand this summer. Aerin first announced the creation of the brand, Aerin LLC, back in April, but it won't be until August that…
