Donatella Versace / Stefano Tonchi

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Sunday With The Times. Donatella Versace / Stefano Tonchi. 05.04.08.

The Innocence Project

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The Innocence Project. Horacio Silva. The New York Times Style Magazine. Spring 2008. 

"Burden, who died in 1914, also appears to be the prints-wearing naïf du jour as designers collectively embrace a back-to-nature innocence worthy of Rousseau. On the ethereal spring runways, especially at the influential, Art Nouveau-themed Prada show, it was hard to see the forest for the nymphs. Many of the season’s delicate key looks — from the exuberant blooms at Dries Van Noten to the Liberty prints at Junya Watanabe to the gossamer-fine fabrics at Roberto Cavalli that revealed everything and nothing — owe a debt to Burden’s blushing but knowing milk-skinned sisterhood." (Horacio Silva) 

"There is a romantic freshness and candor in the air, a more naïve seduction. It’s about being provocative precisely in what you’re not showing but what you’re implying." (Roberto Cavalli)

Karl Lagerfeld

"Lagerfeld Digest". Text by Alex Hawgood. T - The New York Times Style Magazine. Spring 2008. 

excerpted text:

"Karl Lagerfeld's interest in architecture isn't limited to his many houses, as two new books of his architectural photographs so elegantly illustrate. "Karl Lagerfeld: Thee examples of 20th Century Modern Architecture" is a heavy-duty box set showcasing three of the most distinctive buildings in the world: Curzio Malaparte's Casa Malparte, Perugini's La Casa Albero Nella Pineta di Fregene and Tadao Ando's Vitra Conference Pavilion. "Konktret Abstract Gesehen," on the other hand, finds our ponytailed polymath taking grainy, abstracted shots of sidewalk cracks, straircases and other fragments of urban existence. Despite his passion for architecture, Lagerfeld suggests that he has no plan to design a house anytime soon: "Fashion, photgraphy, books. That's all"".  

Jackson Pollock

"Jack the Dripper". Text by Armand Limnander. The New York Times Style Magazine / Men. Spring 2008.  

excerpted text and quotes: 

"Like James Dean and Marylin Monroe, Pollock has entered the canon of American icons not just because of his artistic accomplishments, but also thanks to the myth surrounding his tortured life and premature death. (Many have surmised that even if he had survived the car crash, his severe alcoholsim woudl have killed him). No wonder fashion designers keep bringing him up: he's the archetype of the all-American, ruggedly handsome, bottle-swinging man with plenty of talent and a (well-hidden) sensitive side". 

"A year ago, Hedi Slimane Borrowed Pollock's drip artwork for Dior Homme; in the late 90's, Helmut Lang started a trend of paint-splattered denim, sending enthusiastic imitators to their garages. (As with Pollock's art, the do-it-yourself versions never quite matched the original). This season, Stefano Pilati at Yves Saint Laurent refreshed the action-painting look with pants, shorts and shoes smudged with practically every color in the Benjamin Moore catalog: in New York Adam Kimmel took a complementary approach, focusing not on the abstract expressionist's artwork but on what the artist actually wore". 

"Pollock famously said that modern art is the expression of the contemporary aims of the age we're living in. I find that very inspirational, because every generation has to deal with issues in its own way. His work was the result of a true need to express, and with jeans, T-shirts and overalls, he embodied the idea of a man as creator. He was at the forefront of existential masculinity".(Adam Kimmel)

Dior Homme by Hedi Slimane. A/W 07-08. 

Stefano Tonchi "What I do is What I Like"

Stefano Tonchi. Interview by Payam Sharifi. 032c issue #14 2007/2008. 

excerpted quotes:

"We like to say that fashion is the closest thing to a "mirror of society" - just because then you have to justify everything that happens in fashion with some political reason. That is not true. When you think about fashion and contemporary society, fashion is a mirror of it - but a mirror in the mood, a mirror in the atmosphere, a mirror in the sensibility. It's a good mirror. That doesn't mean that the skirt gets long because the economy is bad - that's really an old way of reading fashion to make it more relevant than what it is. That's not the thing. Fashion expresses the mood of people much more than any other media. Especially at this specific time. That's why so many great people are working in fashion, so many designers who have been in different fields before". 

"Well, especially with magazines, we are moving away  form simple information and becoming more and more of a very decadent society dealing with the pleasures of life. What is lifestyle? It's the things that we like to do, the things we don't consider obligations..."

"Yeah, I think so. When I think about it I think about the places you want to see and visit, the cultures you want to know more about. It's the things around you, the objects around you, and you can include clothes there, you can include your home ... And that's what I call "the life-style capital"". 

"I think it's just another area. Art is what fashion was maybe 20-30 years ago in that sense. It's a way to express yourself, express your taste. It's also a way to entertain and enjoy life. In the same way people used to enjoy shopping, now they enjoy going to art fairs".    

"I mean, through the difference between looking at a very beautiful garment by Gianni Versace, evolving to looking at a beautiful garment by Comme des Garcons. Moving from a portrait by Julian Schnabel to something like..."