Marilyn by Amanda Lepore

A different view on Marilyn Monroe's death performed by Amanda Lepore featuring Cazwell, from her album I...Amanda.
Directed by Leo Herrera.

Enjoy:
Warning: The video contains nudity and bold scenes

Raeve

A great new video where butoh meets inception, by Antoine Asseraf and Rene Habermacher featuring the best outfits a fashion film could have by Givenchy, Raf Simons, Ann Demeulemeester, Rick Owens, Gareth Pugh and Comme de Garcons, plus amazing hair and make-up.

Enjoy:

RAEVE from AntoineAsseraf+RenéHabermacher on Vimeo.

Bals

What comes to your mind when hearing the word Bals? Baroque-style ballrooms, femmes fatales, extravagant masks, luxurious floor-sweeping gowns and the lovely sound of a waltz? Exactly! The above images become more vivid when opening the new super-glossy edition of Assouline titled Bals, edited by British historian, author and journalist Nicholas Foulkes. The amazing 308 pages book features nine of the most exceptional private costume parties of the twentieth century from the Romanov dynasty, to the Art Deco era of  Paris and the glam seventies, through over 250 illustrations, with social commentary by and for great personalities like Truman Capote, Paul Poiret, and Cecil Beaton, also memory notes by Jacqueline de Ribes, Helene David – Weill and Marisa Berenson.

Available at all the Assouline boutiques worldwide and online

Hermes F/W 2011 Campaign

The F/W 2011 campaign of Hermes is shot by legendary photographer Nick Knight, featuring Alana Zimmer and Isaac Carew. The campaign is complimented by the following amazing video that's full of movement, warm winter colours anad the House's beautiful printed collection.

Enjoy:

ReMap

Kostantinos Kakanias - Antonakis Christodoulou

 ReMap3,the art fest of Athens started tonight with the full of our participation downtown Athens.Energy, a really high artistic level and some of the best works we've seen lately dominated the top art galleries of the city, giving the signal for the hottest winter season coming soon.

Paintings, installation and videos took over the beautiful buildings of the athenian cult areas giving the message that everything is still going on. And it does.

Favourite artists? Poka Yio with his amazing Bordello Nacional theme held at an abandoned 5 floor building and H.O.P.E with his extravagant collages and spiritual inastallations.

Ira Triantafillidou

Christian Kracht

George Sapoutzis

Nicolas Party

Aliki Palaska

Aleksandra Waliszewska

Maro Michalakakou

Chris Martin

Gabriel Vormstein

Bordello Nacional - Poka Yio & Guest Artists

Tjorg Douglas Beer

Alexandros Tzanis

Tjorg Dougls Beer

H.O.P.E

H.O.P.E

Poka Yio

The Hilton Brothers

Paul Solberg and Christopher Markos a.k.a. the Hilton Brothers are an artistic duo famous for their photographic diptychs, evoking the idea of identity with their works, the question who took which shot. They are both masters of photography and use of light and work collaboratively since the eighties, sharing the same vision and creating a new approach in image.

After eight years in the making, their new 350-page book titled Tyrants + Lederhosen features their complete editioned works along with new ones will be premiered and exhibited at the Catherine Houard Gallery in Paris, as part of the Photo Festival of Saint-Germain-des-Pres from November the 4th to January 2011 to January the 21st 2012.


All pics courtesy of Catherine Houard Gallery

Y-3 S/S 2012 Collection & Backstage

Yohji Yamamoto’s  S/S 2012 collection for Y-3 is inspired by London and the spirit of the upcoming Olympic Games. The famous designer presented a unique combination of sports and London streetstyle with bold checks, printed t-shirts, utilitarian jackets and assymetrical lines, all made by new breakthrough fabrics and teamed with funky shoes.

Enjoy a few pics from the backstage and a video of the full collection below:

 All pics courtesy of Y-3