Garmz

i like this. designer consumer relationship at its finest. 

GARMZ

Things I Can't live Without - the never ending list

So far as I stumble on things I post them on this blog, but there is so much that ends up being overlooked.  In making this list, I hope to give a better idea.  Some topics are broad some are specific.  This list is in no specific order and always being changed


Manhattan - Soho
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
The Yankees
ICA
Carlo Scarpa 
Castelvecchio, Verona, Italy
Florence, Italy
Music - musicals, Queen, Florence and the Machine, Lydia
Alexander McQueen
Paris at night
MOMA
colors 
Chuck Close
Norman Foster
Mad Men 
Early 60s fashion
Barbra Streisand - Funny Girl - The Way We Were
"If you want to be irreplaceable,  you must be different" Coco Chanel
Met Costume Gala - fashion
New York Fashion Week
London
Tadao Ando - Punto Della Dogana, Venice, Italy
Shepard Fairey
dezeen.com
Marc Jacobs
M.A.C. Cosmetics
OMA
photoshop
ephemeral 




to be continued...

MFA

Unfortunately, the Chuck Close lecture is sold out, but it is fashion month! They are showing Unzipped a movie about Isaac Mazahi 1994 line and all about the production.  They are also showing the September Issue which follows Anna Wintour and her staff of Vogue.  They have a class that I hope take after getting back from Japan - The Look: Fashion, Photography and Film.  It is a 5 part series but since I will be gone for 2 I think I just want to do the one focused on todays fashion and fashion of the future on October 28. This is why I love design - it can come in all forms.
http://www.mfa.org/calendar/sub.asp?key=12&subkey=10698

Need to add this to the collection

"Featuring the work of over 150 artists, printed in full-color on matte paper, the focus is decidedly less on traditional graffiti than on public art that generally plays off its environment to make a point. Spanning illicit performances, social movements and protests, as well as several other outdoor interventions, seeing the works of renowned artists, such as Krink, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Os Gemeos, Jenny Holzer, Barry McGee, Gordon Matta-Clark, Shepard Fairey, Blu, Vito Acconci, C.R. Stecyk and of course Banksy, suggests the deeper social and cultural implications of the phenomenon."

(http://www.coolhunting.com/culture/trespass.php)

Fashion

Alexander McQueen, one of the greatest fashion designers of our time committed suicide earlier this year.  I found this tribute on youtube and want to share his outstanding accomplishments. Alexander McQueen embodied avant garde, theatrics, memorable silhouettes and design.  I will forever admire him.

Alexander McQueen Tribute Video

dezeen.com

Dezeen.com is one of my favorite design blogs.  It ranges in material.  This post caught my eye because currently my studio class is focused on Japanese Architecture and I will be traveling to Japan in two weeks.   It is really intriguing to see how architects design for a dense country and seeing the evolution of Japanese architecture. 

Dezeen Post