Michelle Jank, the Perth-born, Paris-based jewellery and fashion designer, stylist, consultant and all-round wunderkind. In 1991, Jank became a fashion model, officially beginning her career in the fashion industry at the age of fifteen. After only two years at the University of Western Australia, where she tried for a fine arts degree in textiles and jewellery, Jank decided to move on and finally begin working as a designer. Primarily a fashion designer but with a very strong interest in non traditional jewellery, she applies similar techniques to large collars, adorning them with silk flowers, PVC bows and crystals. While her jewellery, sold in boutiques like Belinda Colette and Dover Street Market, is gathering serious buz.

Gregory Crewdson (born September 26, 1962; Brooklyn, NY; lives and works in New York) is an American photographer who is best known for elaborately staged, surreal scenes of American homes and neighborhoods. He have an exhibition in at Luhring Augustine, I saw the pictures in the White cube in london few year ago.

luhringaugustine.com 

Catherine McNeil, the Giorgio Armani advertising campaign favourite, has branched out to become the face of Christian Dior Jewelry. The Australian model was photographed with luscious brunette locks, complete with a fringe wearing Dior’s collection of fine jewellery for their print campaign.

Photography: Inez & Vinoodh. 

The german artist Eno Hanze has showed that processing is not just for animation. He is translating his analogue experiences in digital work through VVVV.!

Der Wirklichkeitsschaum was programmed using VVVV, final size of 33 X 11.5 feet and was built using 288 A3 prints.

www.enohenze.de

www.vvvv.org

MUSAC presents on May 17 the project that the artist Hedi Slimane has produced ex professo for the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León. Through a publication and an installation created expressly for this occasion, Slimane continues his personal exploration of youth aesthetics in relation to music as a factor of construction and transformation of identity.

In May 2007 Hedi Slimane was invited by MUSAC and Maraworld—the company that promotes the International Festival of Benicàssim—to portray with his camera the 18th edition of the major musical event. For the four days of July during which thousands of young people from all over the world concentrated on the shores of the Mediterranean to attend their annual date with music, Slimane unceasingly pursued with this camera those beats so characteristic of his own aesthetic. Now, almost a year later, the reflection of that work is presented in a project that, through an installation in Leon’s museum space, and a publication, puts the French creator’s aesthetic universe into perspective.

As regards the installation, Slimane once again exhibits the connections between musical celebration and fans, and, definitively, the constructive reciprocity of both identities through the exchange promoted by live music. Thus, visitors to the exhibition will find a display of all the iconography intrinsic to a concert: an empty stage and the young members of the audience. The artist thus ultimately proposes an inversion of the habitual role of the spectator—or fan—as the visitor is allowed onto the stage to experience the rock star’s overwhelming sensation when before the masses who expectantly await the appearance of their idol, whom they venerate, and with whom they identify.

Undoubtedly, this is an installation that goes beyond photography and in which Slimane resituates the audience inside the action, as it is both an active and passive subject of a moment that is frozen.

Exhibition Title: HEDI SLIMANE_MUSAC
Artist: Hedi Slimane
Curator: Agustín Pérez Rubio
Coordination: Marta Gerveno
Venue: Hall 1
Dates: May 17—September 7, 2008
With the support of Maraworld

www.musac.es

PERSONAL STYLISTICS: including

Victoire de Castellane, Courtney Love, Proenza Schouler, Luigi Murenu, Jane How, Cathy Horyn, Karl Lagerfeld, Grace Coddington, Juergen Teller, Paolo Roversi, Mr. Chow, Alice Dellal, Jen Brill, Lesley Arfin, Natasha Poly, Lara Stone, Bob Colacello, the Violets, Ipso Facto, Alber Elbaz, Annalisa Astarita, Emmanuelle Alt, Carine Roitfeld and more….

Model: Natasha Poly, photo: Mario Sorrenti, stylist: Jane How 

Model: Lara Stone, photo: Paolo Roversi, stylist: Jane How 

Wendy began her professional career in photography in 2004. It was shortly after she graduated from her degree, in Fashion Photography, and was still assisting several photographers, that she was first commissioned by i-D magazine.

Most recently, and perhaps going back to were her ideas originally were formed, she has started to work on the idea of using these pieces within performance, or perhaps Tableaux Vivant.
Wendy is currently working on her first short film, for the Fashion Film Festival, that will be showcased at the Tate Modern in early May 2008.

www.wendybevan.com

An edition about personal geography, collecting some of the many worlds planet Earth holds within our reach.
with
Linda Evangelista, Pedro Almodóvar, David Armstrong, Kris van Assche, François-Marie Banier, Gian Paolo Barbieri, Pablo de la Barra, Peter Beard, Jop van Bennekom, Anuschka Blommers & Niels Schumm, Chris Brunnquell, Richard Buckley, David Byrne, Todd Cole, Juergen Teller,Albert Folch, Tom Ford, Inès de la Fressange, Stephen Gan, Juan Gatti, Saul Gievens, Anthony Goicolea, Matthew Gray Gubler, Quim Gutiérrez, Jefferson Hack, Sam Haskins, Jake Shears by Casey Spooner, Ashley Heath, Brian Griffin and Patrick Waugh, Marcelo Krasilcic, Jordi Labanda, Christian Lacroix, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Stephane Marais, Ryan McGinley, Alasdair McLellan, Michael Meads, Xevi Muntané, Michael Nyman, Elena Ochoa Foster, Manuel Outumuro, Peter Parker, Elsa Peretti, Thomas Persson, Walter Pfeiffer, Silvia Prada, Terry Richardson, Daniel Riera, Carolina Herrera by Francesco Sourigues, Ola Rindal, Rodarte, Paul Schiek, Sam Shahid, Victor Skrebneski, Hedi Slimane, Francesco Sourigues, Casey Spooner, Joel Sternfeld, Jock Sturges , Wolfgang Tillmans, Pete Turner, Grace Coddington by Luis Venegas, United Bamboo, David Urbano, Javier Vallhonrat, Gus Van Sant, Luis Venegas , Francesco Vezzoli, Chris Vidal, Miguel Villalobos, Mariano Vivanco, Matthias Vriens, Tim Walker, Alex Wiederin, Samuel Zakuto, Bruce Weber by Sam Shahid

more - www.fanzine137.com

Nike has applied the best of British style to the design of one of its icons, the Nike Dunk, to create a limited edition, transcultural sneaker, which will be released this April at select retail accounts.
Set in a famous Tudor building in the heart of the West End, Nike designers were inspired by the signature fabrics at the Liberty department store during a visit in the summer of 2006.

The Nike Design team selected two classic Liberty prints, Wilshire and Pepper, to create two limited editions of the Nike Dunk. Liberty fabrics are characterized by tender palettes, all over floral prints, and detailed movement, which is the perfect juxtaposition with the clean design lines of the Nike Dunk.
The limited edition sneakers feature a gum rubber midsole and a heavyweight Liberty fabric for the upper which was chosen for its durability. British designers working within Nike’s global design team were consulted during the creation of the shoes to ensure the final look was quintessentially British.

Limited edition of 185 pairs each in Europe, available in Colette paris, and maybe Liberty London.

Two Faced: The Changing Face of Portraiture

Conceived of as a celebration of portraiture in the 21st century, Two Faced unfolds over two sections and offers an interesting, unique and often amusing look at the art form. The first section of the book showcases a selection of portraits in various mediums by well known artists. The second section then sees these image-makers divided into pairs and charged with the task of producing each other’s portraits. The wide variety of artists involved spans many disciplines and includes Marion Deuchars, David Shrigley, Michael C. Place, eBoy, Rankin, Simon Henwood, Stella Vine, Ian Wright, Paul Willoughby, and filmmaker Shynola. How did each artist respond to their subject and to their task? What does each image reveal about both the sitter and the artist responsible? Find out in Two Faced, not simply a collection but an art project that celebrates the notion of cultural exchange through the talents of some of the most in-demand artists of our time.

to see more: youworkforthem.com