Not only the Bape Superstar returns, but adidas Originals will also present a ‘B-Sides Edition’ of the Undefeated Top Ten Hi. The new one is basically a flip on the original edition and features a pebble leather upper with white stripes and gold details. The sneaker will be released August 2011, with more information to follow.
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To celebrate one year to go to the London 2012 Olympic Games, official sportswear partner adidas have created a temporary pop-up shop at Westfield London to showcase their latest London 2012 collection.
Visitors to the pop-up shop will need to keep their eyes open as they may be greeted by one of their Olympic sporting heroes as adidas is expecting to see a few famous sporting faces pop down over the period.
Further collections are planned over the next year as the excitement builds to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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The Fred Perry Origami Blank Canvas was developed after it was discovered that there is a subculture of artists in Japan that specialise in ‘fashion origami’ with a large focus being on the polo shirt. Fred Perry began investigating the paper conventionally used within the Japanese art form and found that traditional patterns were regularly used. Three of these have been injected into the Blank Canvas range as prints on the shirts, and include the cherry blossom, polka dot and fans.
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In 1972 the Whitechapel Gallery commissioned British photographer Ian Berry, renowned for his coverage of conflict, to turn his lens to everyday life in east London. He captured the last members of a dwindling Jewish community and the arrival of new faces from the Caribbean and South Asia; slum clearances heralding brutal high-rise towers; pineapples appearing in a greengrocer’s window; and a cobbler meeting the demands of a growing youth culture with star-spangled platform heels.
This is Whitechapel presents photographs and archive material from Berry’s momentous commission revealing the poverty, the acts of kindness and community and the political tensions that are still evident today.
Exhibition runs through to September 4th, 2011
The Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London
E1 7QX
Tyler Shields is coming to Central London to join forces with Maximilian Wiedemann in an exhibition which will release never before seen controversial images of Lindsay Lohan by Tyler and the pair’s collaboration with those images.
Tyler Shields is famous for his blood bath and porn star images of Lindsay Lohan, taken while she was appearing in court, which she was forced to defend as art. The latest images, to be displayed for the first time at Imitate Modern in London, W1, will stir up as much of a publicity storm which Maximilian will add his own brand of wry humour and subversion to.
Maximilian is famous for turning culturally iconic images or brands on their heads, thus revealing information which is often more truthful than the original image. Max and Tyler’s collaboration on images of Lindsay Lohan reveal a cutting insight into society’s harmful manipulation of celebrity for money and the human cost of such.
Exhibition runs from October 13th to November 20th, 2011
Imitate Modern
27 a Devonshire Street
London
W1G 6PN
This will be Friedlanderʼs first solo exhibition in London since his 1976 show at the Photographersʼ Gallery.
This exhibition charts numerous journeys made by the photographer during the last decade across most of the fifty US states. Shot entirely from the interiors of rental cars, typically from the driver’s seat, Friedlander makes use of side and rearview mirrors, windscreens, and side windows as framing devices for a total of 192 images.
Elements from car interiors such as steering wheels and dashboards, as well as leather or wood panel trim, provide an index of their own; these differing qualities of finish and contemporaneity often appear strikingly at odds with the terrains in which they are located. Presented in the square-crop format that characterizes Friedlander’s more recent work, these images complicate and invigorate the most bereft of rural scenes. His desire to collapse and flatten out the three dimensional world parallels the means of cubist painting and recalls the collaging techniques of pop art.
Exhibition runs from September 1st to October 1st, 2011
Timothy Taylor Gallery
15 Carlos Place
London
W1K 2EX
