Yeah Yeah Yeahs - ZeroWow. Sink your teeth into the fresh single from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Zero, with major riffs and man, look at that jacket. It is oh so sexy with her PVC dress. Love the huge K.O. at the back, and the arsenal of studs. Perfect for that high when you dance and sing as no one's looking. What a knockout!
Designer Christian Joy, does the costumes for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. UrbanOutfitters has the scoop with this interview right here. She's based in Brooklyn and I am in love with how colourful, quirky and acid her designs are. Totally trippy:
Designer Christian Joy, does the costumes for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. UrbanOutfitters has the scoop with this interview right here. She's based in Brooklyn and I am in love with how colourful, quirky and acid her designs are. Totally trippy:
"Whenever I'm kind of stuck for inspiration, I'll just go online and look at David Bowie or Kansai Yamamoto. I love David Bowie, so he's my favourite. Right now I am into magic and spiritualism, a little more psychedelic, because I think that's where things are going. I'm also really inspired by the silent film Aelita:Queen of Mars - the costumes are all Russian Constructivist, and the sets are insane."
I love it. David Bowie as a muse. Sincerely, that is how I feel, the androgynous girl with a feminine side. Aye, the air is electric and that's also how I feel whenever I listen to electro music. Take me to another planet! At least, the nether depths of another space.... oddity? Ooh, guts! Showmanship! Her site is right here. She has a nice spring '09 collection too.
And, what is fashion without a cultured soul or history? It all boils down to philosophy, how you see life. Socrates disagreed with the Sophists (the artists, the people who made a living out of their wisdom) His favourite example was the flower, and if one upon seeing it could instantly feel the perfect, unchanging and purest form of beauty, recreating it in the form of an art piece would only be further from the truth. He also believed that no teacher could pass on a wealth of experience down to his student, only lead them in the right direction so they may experience the truth for themselves. Well yeah that's right Mr. Socrates, but for the first part, I BEG TO DIFFER! The image of the flower was filtered into our brains as electric signals upon first sight, hence our perception is an unavoidable prism.
Am I looking at the clouds or the air in front of me?
It has its limits. But sometimes, artists capture the secondary essence of something intangible, for preserving a memory or let's say an experience like perhaps a dream or a mood at that one moment, which encompasses many compacted forms, well there is just no other way to describe it, to solve a problem and understand it and show your appreciation for it except by creating something. Sometimes, it's just good to share it with the world, like I'm doing right now!
On another level, I'd like to think that fashion without context is dead. The stimulus has to come from something external, or the stream will eventually run dry. Kaput. To incorporate it into life and fuse it together with something else, that's another story, it collides and combusts into a powerful, and aesthetically pleasing beam of light! I recently read about Jean Charles de Castelbajac's recent foray into art with his Triumph of the Sign exhibition on Dazed Digital. I love his humour.
Remember his kermit and lego stuff? This time, he got Chinese artists to recreate the most beautiful works of art, and stamped them with the logos of powerhouse brands. He quotes:
"The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning."
And, what is fashion without a cultured soul or history? It all boils down to philosophy, how you see life. Socrates disagreed with the Sophists (the artists, the people who made a living out of their wisdom) His favourite example was the flower, and if one upon seeing it could instantly feel the perfect, unchanging and purest form of beauty, recreating it in the form of an art piece would only be further from the truth. He also believed that no teacher could pass on a wealth of experience down to his student, only lead them in the right direction so they may experience the truth for themselves. Well yeah that's right Mr. Socrates, but for the first part, I BEG TO DIFFER! The image of the flower was filtered into our brains as electric signals upon first sight, hence our perception is an unavoidable prism.
Am I looking at the clouds or the air in front of me?It has its limits. But sometimes, artists capture the secondary essence of something intangible, for preserving a memory or let's say an experience like perhaps a dream or a mood at that one moment, which encompasses many compacted forms, well there is just no other way to describe it, to solve a problem and understand it and show your appreciation for it except by creating something. Sometimes, it's just good to share it with the world, like I'm doing right now!
On another level, I'd like to think that fashion without context is dead. The stimulus has to come from something external, or the stream will eventually run dry. Kaput. To incorporate it into life and fuse it together with something else, that's another story, it collides and combusts into a powerful, and aesthetically pleasing beam of light! I recently read about Jean Charles de Castelbajac's recent foray into art with his Triumph of the Sign exhibition on Dazed Digital. I love his humour.
Remember his kermit and lego stuff? This time, he got Chinese artists to recreate the most beautiful works of art, and stamped them with the logos of powerhouse brands. He quotes:
"The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning."
Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text
It looks to be a satirical statement on capitalism versus art, and boy are they hot! I love how he takes contrasts and mashes them together. One of the Antis of our time.It's okay if you don't get the whole message of what art is about. When your brain feels those little bytes of pleasure as you glaze over a brilliant piece, you're already much closer. Socrates said that even though when 2 people look at a flower, although one might perceive it as beauty and the other do not, they both know that such a thing as beauty exists. We are forever creating in our own ways to reach out to it, so GO FORTH AND MULTIPLY!
-Miss C.
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