Click Chic: The Fine Art of Fashion Photography

Photograph by Roderick Angle Don't miss out on the new exhibition which opened last week at the Museum of the School of Visual Arts! While many fashion scholars realize that fashion photography is another forum for artistic expression, curator Dan Halm states, "because they’re originally conceived and created to appear in magazines and advertisements, fashion photographs are often considered disposable.” Highlighting work from six SVA alumni, Click Chic aims to recognize fashion photography as an art form. Artists include Roderick Angle, Guy Aroch, Maki Kawakita and Ryan Michael Kelly. The opening reception will be held tonight, from 6-8 pm.

Visual Arts Museum
209 East 23 Street
New York, NY 10010
212.592.2145

On view from September 6 - October 6, 2007

Slow and Steady Wins the Race Pop-up Store

Slow and Steady, Designer Underwear after Calvin Klein

Slow and Steady Wins the Race is celebrating its 5 Year Anniversary with a Pop Up Store which will stay open from Sept 8th until Sept 15th at the Sol Moscot shop in the Lower East Side (on 118 Orchard Street). Recently shown at the V&A in Sonnet Stanfill’s exhibit New York Fashion Now, the experimental line’s investigation of the vocabulary of fashion, branding and consumer desire is increasingly relevant, as these issues become more widely discussed. (See, for instance, Holly Bruback’s article in the current issue of the New York Times T Magazine and Caroline Weber’s review of Dana Thomas’ book Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster in the Times.)

Rosa Mosa in New York

Rosa Mosa's Shoes

Rosa Mosa—the artisanal shoe company based in Vienna—is finally available in New York. Rosa Mosa’s design duo Simone Springer and Yuji Mizobuch, who we interviewed for the first issue of Fashion Projects, are known for their quirky sculptural work and make a great addition to the roster of artsy designs handpicked by Erin Weckerle for her Brooklyn boutique Sodafine (another Fashion Projects #1 subject!).

Social Fabrics: Call for Participation

Proposals are invited for an event-style exhibition of wearable technology art, to be held at the College Art Association 2008 Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas, sponsored by the Leonardo Education Forum.Social Fabrics will explore artists' creative deployments of mobile, socially interconnective media as wearable attire or personal accoutrements. This event-style exhibition, curated by Patrick Lichty and Susan Ryan, will demonstrate convergences between fashion as expression/statement, and the phenomenology of "network culture." Works presented will include technological attire and accessories, as well as works that engage the implications of our contemporary media and fashion driven lifestyles.For more information, visit http://www.socialfabrics.org

Summer Readings

Serah-Marie McMahon of Worn Journal interviewed Fashion Projects for the Indie style issue of Broken Pencil—a Montreal based journal on independent publishing. Besides the interview, the current Broken Pencil issue (which is mainly available in the US via their website) covers topics ranging from the Houston-based guerrilla knitting collective Knitta Please to a history of indie typography. Further summer reading is provided by the fourth issue of Worn Journal (the Montreal-based style magazine), which features, among other things, an interview with Caroline Weber and an article on Sonya Delaunay. Also of notice is an article on slow fashion written by Kate Fletcher and published by the Ecologist. (For an excerpt of it see below.)

http://fashioninganethicalindustry.org/!file/factsheet13slowfashionkatefletcher.pdf/