Folds Make a Shirt

I loved this shirt by Kistowski. I wonder what it would feel like. The whole effect is so surreal. Theres perfect dimension and perfect shape but the whole thing is so soft and durable.

Tyler Kenns S.E.K.S.S- Up and Coming Event DESIGNER

This are some of the pieces from one of the Up and Coming Designers that will be featured at the event. Thanks to all who are supporting us we truly and really appreciate your support in making this event amazing. Please invite all your friends! Tyler Kenny is an amazing designer. He's only 19 if you can believe that. He is already famous and has an incredible fan base. We are all looking forward to his fashion show at the event.

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Karin Bubas- Artist of the Week (Well Second Time)

There is something of the Mona Lisa in Lauren Conrad’s signature half-smile, hovering between certain boredom and smug knowingness. We’d just never realized it until last week, when we heard that The Hills are alive again, and in portraiture? No kidding: Karin Bubaš (karinbubas.ca), a Vancouver artist known for photographic work, has created a whole series of drawings of TV’s favourite California girls—mascara running, collagen lips trembling, looks killing from across da club.

This is pop art for a post-pop-art generation. Or, if you took philosophy instead of art history, think of it as a Baudrillardian hyperreality show: the soft-focus simulacra of already-simulated lives, those long female gazes drawn out, then re-drawn out in pretty pretty colours. Meta, in pastels.

Before this, Bubaš did a watercolour series based on the trashtastic ’80s soap Dynasty. But it’s not bad acting that compels her; rather, she tells us, “there’s a raw emotional beauty that makes for interesting study.”

She was also inspired, while in Paris last fall, by Le mystère et l’éclat, a “fantastic pastel show” at Musée d’Orsay.

Artist of the Week- Charlotte Ficek

This is my friend Charlotte's art. She has some really amazing stuff and I really love it. This was during the portfolio class and the work was about contrast (I think...). My fav is the self portrait done in conte. It's amazing and for serious looks like her. For further info contact Charlotte on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/charlotte.ficek?__a=1

Tomaselli- Artist of the Week

Fred Tomaselli
With touchstones like exotic birds and psychotropic drugs, artist Fred Tomaselli’s intricate collage paintings open the mind to new ways of seeing.
By Julie L. Belcove Portrait by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin
July 2009
Fred Tomaselli is feeling a little “blitzed” today, as he puts it, a series of midnight epiphanies about his backyard garden having triggered a stream-of-consciousness mental ballet that kept him from getting any shut-eye. So now he’s battling the effects of insomnia the way countless people the world over do: with a cocktail of caffeine and nicotine. Sitting in Kasia’s, a Polish diner near his Williamsburg, Brooklyn, studio, Tomaselli is slouched in his chair under lace-curtained windows, drinking coffee and chewing nicotine gum. Lots of it. “I’m trying to get my head right, trying to correct my brain chemistry with more chemistry,” he says.
The impact of chemical substances—be they medically necessary or purely recreational—on gray matter has been a recurring theme of Tomaselli’s art for the past 20 years. He has meticulously assembled collages using pharmaceuticals of every size, shape and color encased under layers of resin; he has made what he terms “chemical celestial portraits in inner space and outer space,” using friends’ and loved ones’ preferred drugs, from hallucinogens to decongestants, to depict the stars in the night sky on the days they were born. He has even tackled cigarettes, which the laid-back Tomaselli, still teenager thin at 53 and habitually in sneakers, asserts were harder for him to kick than any of the illicit drugs in his past. For a piece called Dermal Delivery or How I Quit Smoking, he ripped off his daily nicotine patches and glued them into what he describes as a “flesh grid quilt.” “It was sort of a performative work insofar as I was going crazy, I was trying to quit smoking, and I was making my work out of that process,” he says of the three-month ordeal. “Then I ended up starting to smoke at the opening.”
Of course, last night he could have popped an Ambien, or even just a half, which he calls “a velvet hammer—it totally puts me out,” but, he explains, he’d taken the sleeping pill two nights in a row while visiting friends upstate and didn’t want to make it three. Articulate despite his claims to the contrary—“I’m actually pretty smart when you get to know me,” he pleads—he then launches into an exegesis of sleep studies, some of which have found that certain subjects, though seemingly asleep, had the brain activity of wide-awake people. Even weirder, in the morning they reported that they’d had a great night’s rest and felt terrific. “But their brains weren’t shutting down,” Tomaselli says. “They weren’t going into REM sleep.”
Other studies have indicated that Ambien “doesn’t make you sleep so much as it makes you forget that you were awake, that it’s an amnesiac.

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You may have already heard of Je Suis Belle's spring 2010 collection from eerily quick on the uptake blogs such as Style Bubble and Kingdom of Style. I generally avoid repeating content but for this case I'll make an exception, as the relatively unknown brand deserves more press and they were kind enough to send an info package filled with lovely high-res images directly to my inbox. I love being able to see the details for a change! I'm rather bored of using tiny style.com photos over and over again.Je Suis Belle is the brainchild of Dalma and Tibor, who met in university in Budapest and have since been on a mission to create clothes for the self-confident woman, who seeks gracefulness, playfulness, and appreciates a sense of individuality. The spring 2010 collection was inspired by the works of contemporary Hungarian artist Attila Szűcs, whose paintings were printed all over the body, on lightly draped dresses and blouses. Straw hats were sliced in half, creating a casual visor, perfect for picnics in the park or lounging on the beach. I was a bit confused by the shoes. Were these clobbered together backstage before the show or are they intentionally made so haphazardly unfinished? Sure looks like an easy DIY...I set runway shots side by side with images of Szűcs' paintings below. I enjoyed browsing through the online gallery, definitely worth a look-see! I love the mysterious hazy images. Especially the ones depicting the curious electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. Yes. Oh, and I just wanted to add, the painting names were taken directly from the website. I'm not sure if the typos are intentional or not...