NYFW: SS 2016
September 16, 2015
Everything you need to know from the Spring/Summer 2016 shows.
Into the Archive at the Museum at FIT
September 15, 2015
Rei Kawakubo, Balenciaga, and Norman Norell, as well as scores of fashion’s most important innovators, are all immortalized in the Museum at FIT’s archival collection.
Dion Lee’s Bionic Woman
September 14, 2015
The materials used in Dion Lee’s Spring/Summer ’16 collection (including buttery suedes, linen gauze, opaque silks, and peekaboo lace) emphasized the designer’s sensually sporty, asymmetrical, and relaxed silhouettes.
Jason Wu’s Timelessness
September 11, 2015
If Umberto Boccioni ever designed womenswear, we imagine it might end up something like Jason Wu’s Spring/Summer ’16 collection.
Tailoring at Tome
September 11, 2015
When design duo Ramon Martin and Ryan Lobo reconnected with visual artist Fiona Hall’s artwork at the 56th Venice Biennale, they immediately found the inspiration that is now behind Tome’s Spring/Summer ’16 collection.
Creatures of the Wind’s Punk Rock Glam
September 11, 2015
The feeling of the ’70s wasn’t far away during yesterday’s Creatures of the Wind Spring/Summer ’16 runway show.
Bill Clegg on Loss and Forgiveness
September 3, 2015
Did You Ever Have a Family, the debut novel from literary agent and writer Bill Clegg, is about grief—an aching loss that is at once urgent and detached—and reprieve.
Artists at Work: Lawrence Weiner
September 2, 2015
This fall, Lawrence Weiner will become the second artist to ever install an exhibition within England’s Blenheim Palace. Titled “Within a Realm of Distance,” the conceptual artist aims to create what he refers to as a “simultaneous reality.”
Artists at Work: Artie Vierkant
September 1, 2015
It’s a tangled world wide web out there, and artist Artie Vierkant has always been always ahead of the curve in conceding the impossibility of controlling images and information jumbled therein. His 2010 essay “The Image Object Post-Internet,” which he wrote while in graduate school, dismantles the notion that art–or anything, really–can have a true […]
Artists at Work: Rebecca Ward
August 28, 2015
“I like the idea of taking a form and cutting it apart and putting it back together,” Rebecca Ward tells us in her Bushwick studio.
Andre Agassi, 20 Years Later
August 26, 2015
This past Monday, Nike aimed to restage an iconic 1995 flash mob tennis commerical, bringing Andre Agassi and Pete Sampras (plus Roger Federer, Maria Sharapova, Serena Williams, John McEnroe, Rafael Nadal, and more) together in Manhattan’s Meatpacking district.
Artists at Work: Jeffrey Tranchell
August 19, 2015
This month we’re visiting New York-based artists in their studios, ahead of their fall solo exhibition openings.
Cultural Reference
August 18, 2015
Go back to the roots of the cultural phenomenon we know as hip-hop with these three books.
Alfonso Gomez–Rejon’s Movie Masterclass
June 11, 2015
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon had a good reason for deferring his place at AFI: he had been working for Martin Scorsese, and Scorsese wanted him to “stick around for another year.”
Tannaz Hazemi, from Iran to Cannes
May 19, 2015
“I was born the week of the American hostage crisis in Tehran,” explains writer-director Tannaz Hazemi.
Away from Abstraction
May 15, 2015
In the past few years, Anthony Miler destroyed his abstract paintings and moved toward an aggressive, nonrepresentational style of figure painting.
Don’t You Know I’m Mo’Nique?
May 14, 2015
Mo’Nique never intended to become an actress.
The Attraction of Anonymity
March 27, 2015
“Sometimes I’ll be looking for a particular image, say clowns, but a lot of the time there’s a randomness,” artist Laura Lancaster says. “[The randomness] makes it more interesting for me—to not be too in control and to be responsive to what I’m looking at.”
Backstage Beauties
February 24, 2015
New York Fashion Week came to a close on Thursday and left us with a renewed interest in dark, glamorous beauty.
Amongst the Clouds
February 23, 2015
Working with what her immediate environment provides, Brooklyn-based artist Tamar Halpern visually renders the conceptual idea of free association.