Performa O7

Robert Whitman’s Flower 1963 (Photo from reconstruction in 1976), Photo Babette Mangolte

Don't miss Perfoma O7, currently underway throughout the city. One focus of this year's event is the relation between performance and dance. Among the many interesting events and performances which caught our interest is a talk on November 14th at the New School, which, judging from the line-up of speakers (Marina Abramovic, Vanessa Beecroft and Babette Mangolte), is bound to tackle discussions of the body and perhaps its relation to clothes. (Hopefully, a topic of a Peforma to come!)

And don't miss Christian Jankowski's calisthenics November 3.

Francesca

Doshi-Levien

Wellcome Trust Window Installation

Tomorrow evening the London-based design duo Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien will have a conversation at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum about their new furniture collection for Moroso that combines handmade and industrial production, a design approach that reflects a cross-cultural creative process. Nipa Doshi says, "I love my cheap colourful plastic bangles as much as my beautifully crafted jewellery. I am inspired when an East London Bangladeshi girl dresses in her traditional salwar kameez and wears trainers, speaking a mix of Bengali and cockney." Their new furniture collection features techniques such as quilting and applique mixed with bright colors and cheeky themes.

Guests will have the opportunity to view the installation of the new Doshi-Levien work in the Great Hall at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

CHNDM
2 East 91st St, NYC
June 27, 2007
6:30 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Members and students with valid ID: $5; non-members $10. For discounted registration or for more information, please call the Education Department at 212.849.8380.

Sarah Scaturro

Tomorrow Unlimited

Tomorrow Unlimited presents a curated roster of events and lectures this weekend called The Creator Series. This showcase is meant to investigate emerging creativity and ideas in all areas of design and the arts. Saturday, June 9th, looks to be especially interesting. At 12:30 pm there will a discussion called Sustaining Change which will look at how the current trendiness of ecology can be sustained over the long haul. On a drastically different (if no less trendy) note, at 2:30 pm Gareth Pugh, the London-based designer, will be discussing how he uses the concept of collaboration to achieve his aesthetic. Both events cost $10 each and are located in the Altman Building at 135 West 18th Street, NY, NY.

Symposium on Fashion Journalism

This Saturday (May 12th) the FIT graduate program in Fashion and Textiles Studies is organizing a symposium on Fashion Journalism. It takes place from 10-6:00pm at the Boardroom, Marvin Feldman Center (C Building) and will feature a range of papers from FIT graduate students on fashion journalism from the 17th century to the present. Of particular interest are the lectures on Virginia Pope, the former fashion editor of the New York Times and another one on the beginnings of Seventeen magazine. The last talk of the day will feature the history of the fanzine, and will include 'zines such as Cheap Date, Hot Apricot, and just possibly, Fashion Projects. This event is free and open to the public.

Upcoming Fashion Events (and Corrections)

As Four, Puppencouture, 2000 (from New York Fashion Now)

The Spring always brings with it a frenzy of activities in the city. Here are some fashion-related events coming up which we think might be of interest:

The Williamsburg Fashion Show is taking place May 4 through May 6, and features an evening organized by art/fashion boutiques Sodafine and Treehouse. Titled Cherry Blossom Circus and taking place on Friday May 4th around 8pm at Secret Project Robot (10 Kent Ave. at Metropolitan Ave), it includes performances by Feral Childe and a number of other Brooklyn-based designers.

NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program is also staging their end of the year show on May 8 and 9 (5-9pm). Though it’s not specifically a fashion event, it will include an array of projects dealing with the interaction between garments and technology. Under the stewardship of Despina Papadopoulos, who teaches at ITP, the New York community of people experimenting at the brink between fashion and technology seem, in fact, to be in expansion.

Last but not least, there will be an author event at on May 8 (at the Barnes & Noble Bookstore at 227 West 27th Street from 5 to 6:30pm) with Sonnet Stanfill for the catalogue she wrote concomitantly with the exhibit she recently curated at the V&A in London. Currently on view and titled New York Fashion Now, the exhibit and its accompanying catalogue cover the various strands of emerging New York designers. (Among the featured designers is Fashion Projects favorite Mary Ping, along with Three As Four, Cloak, and a great number of others.)