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November 2010 - IV: Men styles; Design in industrial production


Elemental Men Style Web/Mobile/
Fashionoffice collected some pieces that are inspired by the element water and its transformations snow and ice. Fashion by Gant...


A city motorbike tour! Web/Mobile/
The trousers, shirt are from Jeroen Van Tuyl's SS2011 collection. They are combined with a watch, sunglasses, wallet, shoes... and a motorbike that premiered in early November 2010 in Milan...


Design in industrial production Web/Mobile/
Hella Jongerius has renewed industrial production by thinking imperfection, individuality and sustainability...


Saturday Midday Shopping; Beauty Insight by Karin Sawetz, Nov 2010 Web/Mobile/
The reason for this Beauty Insight is not only that I want to publish the statement of a shopwoman who spread social ideas in a beauty store; it's a necessity for me to write about some experiences that I have made with a cream.


Digital media in research, praxis, and education Web/Mobile/
'Timeline' and 'memory' are keywords that have been in the center of Fashionoffice.org-studies on human experience of reality and public opinion during the last five years. Now, the summary of the study on 'Memorized Data' will be published in the Annual Multimedia 2011 (release date 7 December 2010). 



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SHORT MESSAGES (from the FashionFeeds):

23 Nov 2010 - Fashion video: Making of scenes, designer interview and music by Vodka & Milk
Fashionoffice just received the hyperlink to the new fashion video by Los Angeles based label 'Veloce Hats' showing scenes from the shooting of 'The Noir Limited Edition Collection' of volleyball and cycling caps by Cameron Picardi, the founder of Veloce Hats velocehats.com. The music for the video comes from LA based Vodka & Milk; you can listen the track even on soundcloud.com/vodkandmilk/u-n-i-land-of-the-kings-vodka-milk-remix.

23 Nov 2010 - Unofficial music video: Punky garage-rock 'Shake Me Down' by Cage The Elephant
US band 'Cage The Elephant' just released their first single 'Shake Me Down' from the new album 'Thank You, Happy Birthday' on iTunes. The album 'Thank You, Happy Birthday' comes out on 11 Jan 2011.

22 Nov 2010 - Video insights into the 3rd edition of the art/design event 'Fitting Room' in Bilbao
Fashionoffice just received the announcement that the call for the 4th edition of the 'Fitting Room', this time in Madrid, opened today. The event is taking place in the Petit Palace Art Gallery Hotel of Madrid on 5th March 2011. Details on www.ilovefittingroom.com.

22 Nov 2010 - Viennese designers at XMas fair 'Design Schenken 2010'
The Vienna based label Mano Design just invited to the XMas fair 'Design Schenken 2010' (means 'Donate Design') at the Looshaus Wien (3 Dec - 5 Dec). Mano Design was founded by Hedwig Rotter, who studied in the class of Matteo Thun at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. On her website manodesign.at, she is presenting her products such as vases with lace patterns that look like white embroidered collars of a Victorian dress around a black covered neck, or a photo lamp that can be modified by inserting new photos...

22 Nov 2010 - Biennale in Korea researches on design for new and unexpected concepts, practices, and social relations
"We must understand design as a fundamental act of intervening in the way we live," states the 4th Gwangju Design Biennale (founded 1995) and invites under the title 'Design is Design is not Design' from 2 September to 23 October 2011 to discussions about who designs, how we design, for whom we design, and why we design. "The exhibition theme, inspired by the first words in 'Do Duk Kyeong (Tao Te Ching, 道德經)' of No Ja (Lao Tzu, 老子) - 'The way道 that is the way is not always the way. The name名 that is the name is not always the name.', throws a complex question to the viewers with the interpretation of 'design is design is not always design and non-design is non-design is not always non-design'." More on http://gb.or.kr/?mid=sub_eng&mode=03&sub=01&tab=2011.

20 Nov 2010 - 'I call the shots!' by Margo
Fashionoffice just received the hyperlink to the video 'I call the shots!' by Margo with the words: "The female Prince of the new millennium". Coolhunter.net is "completely obsessed with Margo from L.A..." and Thecouchsessions.net compare her style to the 80s, but with the difference that she combines the sexiness of voices like Prince with a sexy female touch. On YouTube, Margo has published an interview which gives an insight into her world, the male and female thing, artists she loves like David LaChapelle... youtube.com/watch?v=MNrgsPqYTEs.

19 Nov 2010 - Fashion house Fendi at Design Miami (1-5 December)
The fair for limited-edition design 'Design Miami/' (founded 2005) invites each year to 'Design Performances'. The live demonstrations give insight how design objects are made. In December 2010, fashion, design and architecture will interplay in the multimedia installation 'Modern Primitives' by the Italian fashion house Fendi and the New York based architects Aranda\Lasch. "A study in contrasts, Modern Primitives will explore how different creative methods become compatible when technology and craft, and computation and intuition, intersect." Details on designmiami.com.

19 Nov 2010 - Video: Lanvin for H&M fashion event in New York
Lanvin artistic director Alber Elbaz speaks about that he and his team have put a personal touch to the couture pieces to keep them personal even as products of a mass production process.

18 Nov 2010 - 'The Staggers' at a party of hair/makeup artists, photographers, and fashion stylists
Fashionoffice received the 'Save the Date' for the vernissage with connected party of the hair and makeup artists, fashion stylists and photographers from Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Hamburg, who are since July 2010 known as members of 'Young Division' youngdivision.de. The event with the Austrian band 'The Staggers' is announced for 24th November at the Pratersauna in Vienna pratersauna.tv/site/event.aspx?id=260.

18 Nov 2010 - Music video premiere: 'Bigger Than Us' by London's White Lies
This is the first video from a song of the new album 'Ritual' which will be released on 18 January 2011. The video 'Bigger Than Us' is directed by jonas & francois who have already made videos like Madonna's '4 minutes to save the world' - find work examples for Depeche Mode, Kanye West, Sebastien Tellier on elnino.tv/category/jonas-francois/. Fashionoffice received the video tip with the words that the video "is a thrilling and twisted modern-day tribute to the last sequence from E.T. Playing like the final five minutes of an enthralling film, the climax jumps out at you, the images get more and more intense and then, finally, you find a resolution."

17 Nov 2010 - Trailer: Martin Scorsese's documentary 'Public Speaking' about New York writer Fran Lebowitz
Fran Lebowitz, New York writer and selected for Vanity Fair's 68th Annual International Best-Dressed List together with women like Charlotte Gainsbourg, Michelle Obama, Tilda Swinton, Renée Zellweger..., speaks in the documentary directed by Martin Scorsese about her worldview and experiences. Fran Lebowitz is the author of two collections of humorous essays, 'Metropolitan Life' (1978) and 'Social Studies' (1981), the children’s book 'Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meet the Pandas' (1994), and was writing for Andy Warhol's Interview. 'Public Speaking' premieres on 22 November on HBO.