Beauty / Beast – Wonder Room n° 5
It’s now videomaker’s turn, Luca Merli will present a video specially created for WONDER ROOM.
The main concept is: Distortion.
With him on this project collaborated Painè Cuadrelli – sound designer – and SodaStudio who handled the
art-direction of the installation. Do not miss it!
WONDER ROOM
Via Tortona 31
Sunday – June 20, 2010 – from 7pm untill 10pm.
By The Blogazine bureau – invitation flyer conceived by Studio Soda
Sunday Brunch – Puffy Pancakes
Last week was my husbands (we recently got married, so I have to get used to the fact of saying husband instead of boyfriend), birthday. He loves pancakes and caky things. Especially with fruit!
So I made him these crossover caky-pancakes for breakfast. They turned out so great, that I’ve made them a few times after that to get the recipe right for you to make them too.
Eat them with fresh raspberries, as we did, but I can imagine them with strawberries and cream, melted butter and maple syrup, castor sugar, cinnamon and butter too…. miam miam!
Have a lovely sunday afternoon,
Yvette
Text & illustration by Yvette van Boven
Dead Meat – Pitti 2010
Dead Meat & Wonder Room [Wonder Room is a multi-disciplinary project conceived and curated by 2DM]
finally stated their collaboration on a new idea called Wonder-Tees, as you can easily guess, creating an unique line of T-Shirts to be launched the next Autumn. For this reason, we’re proudly presenting you the designer’s manifesto to get a little bit more inside their Weltanschauung, know more on how it translates on their clothing aesthetics and of course, properly enjoy this video.
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“Dead Meat is a Communication Project and a factory, founded by Giovanni Battista de Pol and composed by 10 fantastic creatures. Clothing is the communication vehicle, promoting a “critical thinking” is the intent. Dead Meat owes much to William Burroughs, Kurt Cobain, David Foster Wallace…
The new Spring Summer line is inspired on a futurist theme. Technically, the collection is based on four colors: white, black, gray and orange. Through each color we investigate a different social being. White is the color for reason, faith and power. Black represents irrationality and instinct. Gray is the color for culture, doubt and relativism. Finally orange, which is the color for action, efficiency and physical strenght. The rest is explained through the language.
Dead Meat will be presented at Pitti Immagine Uomo, as usual, inside the Fortezza Da Basso, stand Touch.
For this upcoming edition Dead Meat is also among the finalists of Who Is On Next, a special competition created with the collaboration of L’Uomo Vogue and Alta Roma, the entire collection will be exhibited at Limonaia Garden of Villa Vittoria – Florence.”
Text intro by Elisa Lusso – manifesto by Silvia Bergomi – video courtesy of Dead Meat
Ubuntu Collection
“I am because we are” is the subtitle of the Ubuntu Collection, a project by The Inoue Brothers, which decided to collaborate with Gazelle and Créol Brothers for this 100% African collection. The well known knitwear brand have always been searching to further their endeavors in creating relations in communities where craftmanship and cultural heritage are rich.
We are the first to receive this exclusive sneak-preview of the entirely IPhone shooting done in the heart of Zaire few days ago. As the photographer Xander Ferreira says – together with Nick Matthews inside Gazelle, an Afro-futurism theatre/music duo – this is pure guerrilla style and the crew happened to fly in and out the country in the president’s private jet!
Ubuntu provided eco friendly organic hemp material as canvases: the result is a collection of printed and beaded T-shirts, where the final garment is produced through an uncompromising process commissioning local artisans and seamstresses around Capetown.
Last but not least, don’t forget that each item comes with a unique beaded USB key containing backstage pictures, portraits of people from Khayelitsha and a short film by The Inoue Brothers & Gazelle, who also provided for an exclusive music track.
By Elisa Lusso – Photography: Xander Ferreira – Ad: Gazelle and The Inoue Brothers – Starring: Kuku Agami
Veggie Carnage
Very Bravo, the sassy Italian upstart purveyor of toys, graphic prints and other fun miscellany has just made the world of play a tad more compassionate. One of VB’s first editions, the product of designer and founder Mario Gatti, combines social consciousness and dietary conscientiousness in the the world’s first and only vegetarian toy: Carrot Slayer. Our man (and his vermilion root victim) comes decked out in both ‘Hippie’ hashish-loving and ‘Gruesome‘ leather-clad S&M dominator guises (sadly, there are no carrot handcuffs included).
While mostly a cheeky exercise the toy posits a seriously relevant perspective on the great vegetarian/omnivore divide: our food is inevitably our victim and its ritualistic preparation is a visceral experience. Yet, its source (which we have become all but disconnected from) may or may not be a cause of tremendous suffering. The personified carrot, although clearly conscious of his impending doom, seems pretty enthusiastic about the prospect of becoming salad garnish. Something tells me that if the happy carrot were a cute cow excited to meet an evil slaughterhouse axe, the message might not go over so well. And conversely, a carrot executioner, no matter how sinister, is just plain awesome. Orange blood spatter and all.
The toys are limited to 250 pieces each.
By Tag Christof, Images courtesy of Mauro Gatti
Home Made by Yvette
Our lovely food contributor hailing from Holland, Yvette van Boven, will not be able to feature her tasteful illustrated-recipes this week cause she’s really busy on a project called “Home Made”. What is it all about? Essentially focused on food, which we cannot leave aside with Yvette, “Home Made” will be a collection of many useful and step-by-step illustrated stories-recipes, in which the reader will be challenged to learn and prepare new things. New home made things.
A series of tips to use the ingredients you already got in your fridge, without any expensive or complicated machine or device.
The book works up from the morning and cooks itself throughout the day; so you’ll be pleased to make your own brewed tea, bake cakes and why not, your own drinks, nibbles, bites, till mayonnaise for those who need something to eat after a night out.
The ‘Do it Yourself’ philosphy is the one embraced by Yvette, who wisely designed the fonts, cut and drew the illustrations, wrote all the recipes, made the food styling and finally set up the book. Within a totally womanly matter, her husband Oof Verschuren shot the pictures inside the book. Will you be able to wait ‘Home Made’ to be out by the end of August? Considering this tantalizing preview, we won’t.
By Elisa Lusso – image courtesy Yvette van Boven
Erik Bjerkesjö / Ballroom 010
While trapped under a most opportune cloud of volcanic ash during Salone del Mobile this April, we caught up with Swedish designer Erik Bjerkesjö, who is in the midst of launching a shiny new – eponymous – label. The fresh upstart, complete with an atelier and showroom tucked into the pristine and happening Mariatorget area of Stockholm, is the fruition of a long process of refinement for the shoe designer’s vision of a synthesis of beautiful, thoughtful design and entirely manual, bespoke production.
The label’s aura is unmistakably Scandinavian in its honest detailing and purity of materials, but is pollinated with sly details and a heavy dose of exclusivity that, upon close consideration, transcends stolid notions of luxury footwear and effectively infringes on rococo mystique.
The result is an intelligent and endlessly sophisticated collection, much like Mr. Bjerkesjö, who himself is always incomprehensibly stylish and pores over his work through handmade replicas of Yves Saint Laurent’s iconic spectacles. Although Bjerkesjö’s brand is a newborn, his signature subversive style has been a long time in the making. He completed advanced studies at Polimoda under the guidance of Patrick de Muynck and in his nascent career has already garnered a considerable amount of praise.
Last year his work was featured alongside Rick Owens and Ann Demeulemeester in the obsessively curated and always progressive window of Luisa Via Roma, a holy institution of creative fashion patronage in Florence, known for being a barometer on upcoming designers and a prime showcase for conceptual artists like Felice Limosani.
He’s also exhibited at Copenhagen International Fashion Fair, and has also cooperatively shown with We Are Group, the Swedish bureau that also works with H&M, Ann-Sofie Back & Comme des Garçons. Fancifully called Ballroom 010, the inaugural collection is being entirely hand produced both by the designer himself and in Tuscany by the same master craftsmen who construct for some very famous, very drool-worthy – and very secretive – heavyweights. Needless to say, quality for the bespoke pieces is above and beyond superlative. Keep an eye out for accompanying projects, including work with video artist Igor Zimmerman and an all-out shoot with a certain – as-of-yet-secret – supermodel. Oh, the mystique! The collection officially drops in July 2010.
By Tag Christof – images courtesy of Erik Bjerkesjö
Pablo Arroyo – Pitti Immagine Uomo 2010
Year after year Pitti Immagine Uomo is growing within the walls of Fortezza Da Basso in Florence. If you’re pleased to walk between a huge amount of clothing stands, your eye will focus on a wide range of well known brands, but most of the times your attention will be going over new upcoming designers, which are actually the most amusing part.
This year, our talent Pablo Arroyo was in charge to represent 2010 Pitti mood on the fair poster, shooting Ella Kandiba@Next and Nick Rae@Fashion, both in a suit-styling by Ada Kokosar.
By Elisa Lusso – Potography Pablo Arroyo – styling Ada Kokosar
Heaven Can Wait / Gainsbourg Ft. Beck
Stop Making Sense. If you are the kind of fella who’s always trying to figure out what the hell is goig on in a video, we kindly suggest you to lose yourself in this one.
“Heaven Can Wait” is first single from “IRM”, the brend new record from lovely french singer Charlotte Gainsbourg – and features Balenciaga icon – Serge’s daughter and her mate Beck, both stranded in a weird world expressly created for them by LA director Keith Schofield.
Be prepared for everything: from Charlotte Gainsbourg holding a baby in a hot dog costume to Beck playing Super Nintendo with a dude in a horse mask.
And of course, don’t forget the Giant Bomb with the world “Nachos” on it. Hear Keith about this:“We were trying to think of a funny, nonsensical thing. What would be something that wouldn’t be interpreted as having meaning or making a statement. Because writing a word on a bomb can get pretty pretentious. Unless that word is nachos.” Sounds perfectly clear, Keith.
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By Alexio Biacchi
Marco Klefisch for Italia Independent
Marco Klefisch seems to be pretty productive in this period, well at least he’s keeping his mind busy on many different projects. This time the concept was realizing Italia Independent Spring Summer 2010 campaign composing a picture with an illustration.
Lapo Elkann – here shot by Alessandro Villata and illustrated by Klefisch – pretty fancys being the face of his own brand. Another Italian L.A. Lapers?
By Elisa Lusso – photography by Alessandro Villata courtesy of Italia Indipendent
