By Jessica Trent on September 23, 2010
This Saturday, September 25th is the LACMA Resnick Opening Gala Avant-Garde After Party — a great combination of art and fashion with previews of the following inaugural exhibitions:
Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700–1915 (which we mentioned earlier this summer)
Eye for the Sensual: Selections from the Resnick Collection
Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico
Andre Leon Talley shot some of the costumes from the European collection for the September issue of Vogue. And adding to the fun for the evening will be a performance by The Chapin Sisters.
Co-chairs include Jenni Kayne Ehrlich and Maggie Kayne. Host committee members include one of my favorite LA fashion/art couples, stylist Jessica de Ruiter and artist Jed Lind. Other host committee members include Sabina and David Nathanson, Hilary Tisch, Chloe Sevigny, Mary Kate Olsen, Band of Outsider’ Scott Sternberg, Cameron Silver of Decades, gallerist P.C Valmorbida, and models Guinevere van Seenus and Erin Wasson.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
10 p.m.–Midnight
Tickets: $200 Avant-Garde Members | $250 Non-Members | $1,150 Introductory One-Year Avant-Garde Membership + Individual Ticket
Fore more information or to purchase tickets, click here. — Jessica Trent
Photo: A turban by Paul Poiret from 1911, on display as part of the LACMA’s Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail exhibit that opens t0 the public on October 2.
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By Erin Weinger on November 16, 2009
While taking a quick cruise around Flickr, I came across something slightly disturbing, slightly cool. It seems that there is a whole culture of hobbyists out there who create editorial-quality fashion shoot photos with none 
other than Barbie and her plastic-bodied friends.
And the pictures are kind of mind blowing. Like, double-take “I can’t believe these aren’t real people” mind blowing.
Many of the dolls used are from Integrity Toys’ Jason Wu-designed collection (there was even a recent convention devoted to the line in Chicago), but a bunch of these budding shutterbugs design their doll’s outfits themselves, using nothing more than a sheet of standard tinfoil.
The tight-knit community trades tips on where to find the best sparkly stockings (here, apparently), how to position lighting and which backgrounds work well for certain kinds of shots.
Yep, its kind of creepy to think about grown men sitting in their basements bending Barbie into a Testino-worthy pose.
But the pictures are really quite awesome, anyway. Here are a few of my favorites so far:
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By Editors on November 2, 2009
Though Laura and Kate Mulleavy’s designs will soon be found in a sprawling Target near you with their Rodarte for Go International collection, they’re obviously also hobnobbing with more rarified retailers.
On the second-floor gallery of the influential Paris boutique Colette, the Pasadena-based duo recently curated a gallery show for their obsession with sinister romance, one that accompanies a pop-up shop running through the weekend. In the show, Autumn de Wilde’s unnerving Zombie Arrow photo-collages share wall space with Raymond Pettibon’s drip compositions and Sonic Youth frontwoman Kim Gordon’s subversive, text-based canvases. Karen Kilimnik’s eerie, black-and-white photographic fantasies and Helliott Hundley’s arresting Mom as Medusa are also on display.
Presiding over the entire exhibition are Annakim Violette’s taxidermied bats in an explosion of fauvist color and glitter. — Jeremy Allen
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Clockwise from top right: Untitled by Raymond Pettibon, Mom as Medusa by Helliott Hundley, Bat by Annakim Violette, Noise Nomads by Kim Gordon and Zombie Arrow #2 by Autumn de Wilde.
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