Celebrating the 5th anniversary of their Zozo Chapter Store, Stussy has partnered with long-time cohort AFDICEGEAR on the GORE-TEX Baker Jacket. Waterproof, windproof and breathable this snowboard jacket features contrast green seam taping over a black and white body.
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To celebrate the Olympic Games, adidas reveals ‘miadidas Customisers’, a real-time art project uniting the most passionate artists, athletes and fans from around the world to produce unique customised shoes that will embody the London 2012 Olympic Games.
17 days, 9 artists, 34 artworks. Every day of London 2012, live at the adidas Olympic Lounge, two artists from a carefully hand-picked shortlist of nine will customise the Performance footwear of select Olympic athletes, inspired by the day’s winning ‘all in’ moment. As congratulations, one artwork will be awarded to the chosen athlete daily, a unique and personalised trophy for their journey; the other will be given away online, an inspirational gift to the next generation of potential adidas Olympic athletes who have suggested their day’s most outstanding sporting moment.
Key artists include footwear customiser NASH MONEY, London-based props and accessories designer Fred Butler, emerging streetwear talent Kara Messina of Y’OH Streetwear, hat and accessories designer Nasir Mazhar, and street artist Dr Noki amongst others.
Thomas van Schaik, Global Brand Director of adidas said “London is a creative city with some excellent emerging artists who can help put their unique spin on our adidas footwear. The real-time element allows everyone to get involved by defining the key moments from this Olympic Games and seeing them captured immediately on an historic item that they can then have the chance to win.”
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Barbour is getting together with Wood Wood to celebrate the Danish brand’s 10th anniversary. Wood Wood took one of the most classic Barbour waxed cotton jackets, the Bedale, and infused their own style and DNA into it. The Danish brand used subtle color blocking elements on the upper of the jacket, two tone metal buttons, as well as leather insertions and reinforced outer pockets. Another great detail is the hidden pocket on the inside of the jacket, a characteristic which become a bit of a signature for Wood Wood over the years.
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A group exhibition showcasing the work of a new generation of photographers.
In these troubled and uncertain times of upheaval and dissent on a global scale, a new generation of photographers and image-makers is emerging. Steeped in the process and versed in the psychology of the medium, they are exploring angst, neurosis, notions of fragility and identity and even the subjectivity of photography itself.The photographers included in the exhibition come from a diverse range of photographic backgrounds: from fashion and still life to conceptual photography and contemporary art. Despite the diversity of their practice, shared interests emerge. Their work challenges conventional boundaries of photography in surprising and unconventional ways, from appropriating found images to incorporating other media.
Exhibition runs from September 14th to November 10th, 2012
Brancolini Grimaldi
43 – 44 Albemarle Street
First floor (above Post Office)
London
W1S 4JJ
United Kingdom
For the past year Tillim has been photographing the landscape in French Polynesia. He was drawn to this landscape that has been continuously sketched – and later photographed – since Captain James Cook’s voyages in the late 18th century, perhaps because it almost eludes convincing representation. In reading the accounts of the artists who accompanied Cook, Tillim was interested to note that their debates on-board ship around the subject of the representation of landscape are very similar to those we have today: how much do you ‘give’ a scene and how much do you let it speak for itself? In this regard, he explains his own difficulties in finding a way through this binary because of our strongly conditioned notions of the frame and the picturesque.
Opposite – Tautira, Tahiti, 2010
Exhibition runs from September 14th to October 27th, 2012
kuckei + kuckei
Linienstraße 158
D-10115
Berlin
Germany
Concentrating on the 1970s, but spanning to the present day, Horenstein’s gritty, black-and-white photographs capture the irrepressible spirit of an American institution. Some say the 1970s were the last great decade of country music – between the pomade, plaid jackets, and goofy hillbilly jokes of the 1950s and the more polished “Urban Cowboy” sound of Nashville in the early 1980s.
Horenstein’s work captures it all, from the roadside seediness of TJ’s Lounge to the backstage glamour at the Grand Ole Opry. From bluegrass festivals and country music parks to the honky tonks and dance halls, these images picture such celebrities as Dolly Parton, Jerry Lee Lewis, Waylon Jennings, up to a recent cardboard cut-out of Garth Brooks (which speaks volumes about the artist’s personal opinion of the direction the genre has taken of late). However, the photographs feature not only the stars, but also include the familiar venues and enthusiastic fans who sustain them.
Exhibition runs from September 6th to October 13th, 2012
ClampArt
531 West 25th Street
New York
NY
10001
