BindTorture&Kill: 07/23/08

Opening Ceremony meets Comme Des Garcon

NYmag.com reported, earlier today, that Opening Ceremony is hosting a Comme Des Garcon pop-up, along with a slew of other Japanese designers, including Hiromi Tsuyoshi. Go here for the full article.

Paid Minimum wage and still rock'n handmade

Etsy.com is a place to buy and sell handmade goods of all kinds. From jewelry and accessories to contemporary photographs and everything in between.

Here are some of my favorite sellers/items!

$12 - GreenSquirrel

$18 - I Have Buttons for Eyes

$14(headband) - Lou and Lee

$5 (vintage bow ties) - The Blue Button

fur is murder fabulous

vogue. paris.

Magazine: Vogue Paris August 2008
Title: 2. Reality Show
Photographer: Mario Testino
Model: Raquel Zimmermann
Styling: Carine Roitfeld
Hair & Make-up: Charlotte Tilsbury

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ReacTable = the coolest looking instrument ever

you know it's cool if bjork uses it

reactable homepage

you're a pretty. pretty. pretty. pretty. girl.

Combining a couture zeitgeist with pure urban grit Desira Pesta is a quintessential New York Fashion designer and artist. With unique collars composed of overlapping fabrics, feminine cuts with asexual prints and dark haunting images, Desira Pesta is the perfect line for the contemporary creative soul..... raw, energetic, complicated and beautiful. What more could a girl ask for?

Desira Pesta Scarlet Circus Dress

Desira Pesta Staralfur Blouse

Hexagon Huge Wall Painting

Desira Pesta SPRING 2008 COLLECTION Principe Dress

available at www.desirapesta.com

we are all born naked.

tj's favorite fashionable nudes:

Asexual Revolution | Steven Meisel | W Magazine Oct. 2004

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Lou Dillon |Takis Bibelas | Playboy France March 2008

Kate Moss | Luis Sanchis | The Face March 1999

reconstituted pop/garbage

Bjorn Copeland (guitarist/knob twiddler for BLACK DICE) is one of my favorite visual artists.

Colorslide 8-layer silkscreen print

run of 16
available here

some of his collage work

selected album covers

in a semi-recent interview with fecalface, Copeland states that his "main influence is just mundane pop culture. Crappy television, pop radio, advertisements. I don't go out to see very much these days."

How fantastic.
for some black dice songs, go here

and for a more extensive portfolio including past exhibitions and art go here

bigger is better.

The latest installment of V features Naomi Campbell, a larger-than-life personality effortlessly sauntering about in larger-than-life fashion. I remember plastering pictures of Ms. Campbell all over my bedroom walls as a pre-teen in the early 90's and still fully delight in seeing her in editorials because let's face it... she's still one fierce bitch. She's also the perfect face and body for the '08, '09 season where designers like Viktor & Rolf seem to be going back to 80's excess, individualism and idealism, despite the fact that right now our economy is rather post 80's. Perhaps as always fashion is way ahead of itself?

Magazine: V No. 54 (July.August 2008 ; FW 2008)
Title: The Empire Strikes Black
Photographer: Mario Sorrenti
Model: Naomi Campbell
Styling: Jane How

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A new favorite.

Wendy Bevan creates images like I've never seen. They're eerie and, dare i say, magical?

Rei Kawakubo & Dover Street Market

Rei Kawakubo's Dover Street market opened this week with new and , as expected, innovative installations from Faragamo to Galliano, and a window display by Jamie Reid.

Kawakubo is quoted saying “I want to create a kind of market where various creators from various fields gather together and encounter each other in an ongoing atmosphere of beautiful chaos: the mixing up and coming together of different kindred souls who all share a strong personal vision. We hope to make DSM more and more interesting. I enjoy seeing all the customers coming to DSM dressed in their strong, good looking and individual way. I would like for DSM to be the place where fashion becomes fascinating.”