The StyleMusee Diaries

Architects have redefined furniture… Are shoes next?

Renown architects have been designing furniture for years. The greats like Le Corbusier  and the Eames duo may ring a bell.  However, during market week I stumbled across an amazing bridge architect and now shoe designer Julian Hawes and was blown away.  Below is a mini timeline of inspiration…  

Bridge sketches to shoe designs

Prototype in 2009

Final product in 2010 

Coverage in 2011 

More to come in 2012… 

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What being a fashion blogger is really like…

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Art is my weapon… what’s yours?

I’m keeping this on the DL, but you want an exclusive preview, sign up at www.aimwmedia.com.  Below are photos from last night’s shoot.   

Dear little monsters…

Santa is bringing you just what you wanted for x-mas.  Count down the “12 days of Gaga” for Lady Gaga’s Barneys workshop. 

Photo: WWD

They’ve hidden codes throughout the Barney’s site and NYC for codes to get access to exclusive offers and content - Sheer Brilliance. 

Source: http://gagasworkshop.com/#gagamachine 

Additionally, shopping will make you feel warm and fuzzy - Barneys New York will donate 25% of sales from all items featured in GAGA’S WORKSHOP to a charity of Lady Gaga’s choice in honor of this special program and in the spirit of the holiday season.

Here is a sneak peek at what’s to come:

Source: WWD

CMA Art Auction

Photos from last night’s CMA (Children’s Museum of the Arts) Art Auction.  CMA is a non-profit organization that provides free art programs to underserved children and teens.  Donations were made for art work by featuring pieces by Andy Warhol, Cecily Brown, William Quigley, Yoko Ono, James Nares, and several other emerging artists.  The online auction was hosted by Paddle8, which truly innovating the art industry both on and offline.  I had a great conversation with one of the founders Aditya Julka who has revealed some of the extraordinary initiatives they are working on.  It’s definitely the start-up in the art world to watch.  

I’ve personally witnessed the power of art therapy through my past experience as a board member for A Home Within (a non-profit providing foster youth pro-bono psycho therapy and art therapy to foster youth) and I truly believe in and support CMA’s mission.  

Sketches for Doo.ri Chung’s Upcoming Collaboration with Impulse @ Macy’s

An International Affair - Wetsuit - A Crowded Sourced Music Video via Instagram

See video in the post below and more info via Mashable.  

Excerpt per Mashable:  Indie-rockers the Vaccines are debuting their new video for “Wetsuit,” which was almost entirely crowdsourced from fan photos submitted through Instagram, the photo-sharing app for iPhone. The video follows a festival-goer in a red hoodie from daybreak to day-ending Vaccines concert. Other than brief video segments, the entire video is from Instagram.

Fans were asked to take pictures of themselves at festivals and submit them by tagging them with #vaccinesvideo. The band received nearly 3,000 photos and approximately 15,000 likes on Instagram. The project, put together by Anomaly, also had an international splash with people from 99 countries visiting the contest site. It was then up to director Poppy de Villeneuve to sort through and pick the best photos to use and in what order.

“We always talk about breaking down the barriers between the band and the fans,” says Justin Young, lead singer for the Vaccines. “We like sharing music with them, meeting them, interacting with them, as most bands do. So this felt like the ultimate interaction. Instagram was suggested to give photos taken on people’s phone a nice warm feel.”

That warm feel (thanks to Instagram’s vintage filters) fits the song well. “Wetsuit” has an end-of-summer, dog-days mood that the crowdsourced photos pick up. “It’s a journey; a day in the life. the song is quite nostalgic, and I think the photos and the character’s movements will prove nostalgic for all the people that went to festivals this summer,” Young says. “The song is about being young and being stupid and free.”

The biggest gamble, of course, is whether those photos would be any good. Crowdsourcing a music video has a lot of variables including quality of photo and how to make the video seem like more than a slideshow. “The main thing that we were surprised to find was just how good the imagery was,” says Paul Graham, founding partner of Anomaly. “This was normal people, possibly a little dizzy, around the fields of the world creating some beautiful shots. Together they really do capture that sense of what a festival, and a summer of music, is all about.”

God Save McQueen - the most creative product placement

See post below on a film by Babette Pauthier starring ALEXANDER McQUEEN FEATHER SKULL SILK SCARF & BROKEN PORCELAIN SKULL SCARF.  Below are some v. haute stills.