CUTEMESS

Another interview with Paul Negoescu about Radu + Ana

Paul Negoescu interviewed by Diane Pernet.

A short film by Paul Negoescu

Wacky Stocking Stuffers?: Bless Fur Stick?  Must be made out of real cat if it’s $265! (Oh, it’s mink!?#&*%$^!!!!) Bless has a whole line of jewelry for your computer cables too.  Image one is the USB key with fur, image two is the USB cable with fur.  I don’t think real kitties and cable fur would be the best meow mix.

Liz Taylor as Cleopatra.  If only Cleopatra lived in Hollywood in 1963.  The costumes were designed by Irene Sharaff.  Read here for an interesting passage on the Cleopatra costume on stage and in film.

Betty Nguyen, Creative Director of First Person Magazine, with Adam
Iscoff-Daigian, Contributing Photographer, pictured above in front of
First Person’s mega-zine installation on Taylor and Eddy St in San
Francisco’s Tenderloin District.

Nguyen’s installation was selected by a juried panel and funded by the
Mayor’s office to create a dialogue with the Vietnamese community
inhabiting the neighborhood.  Her wall-sized poster-zine features
interviews and works by contemporary Vietnamese creatives like United
Bamboo’s, Thuy Pham, a founding member of the Bernadette Corporation
artist collective and photographer Duc Liao, as well as personal video
footage she paired with an intriguing written narrative recounting her
own experiences and encounters while visiting Vietnam, titled “Now and
Then”.

Installation will be up through January 5, 2010.

Hui-Hui

I recently received an email from the European label Hui-Hui.  The line was started by Anne Schwatzler, Katharine & Johanna Trudzinski and lets loose their obvious love of design, textiles and fashion.  The collections they’ve produced are evidence of their stated intention of creating in and out of the border of fashion and art.  The Summer 2010 collection called “JULIAN” achieves the creative spirit in which the collection references, that being the creative spirit of Julian Schnabel. It is completely wearable; both the design and textile treatments are fresh and current.  I want some!!! I’d love to stock my dream boutique/gallery with this line. They have a really cool blog too, http://hui-hui.de/die3/category/blog/ which I will be checking regularly.

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