A spectacular visual biography of the life and career of one of the most colourful and innovative artists of the 20th centuryreleased by Phaidon deals with the extraordinary life of the Pop Art movement’s founder, his career and his inheritance in huge format. Therefore the book, with its 1400 colour and 600 monochrome illustrations, fits perfectly to Warhol’s definition of meaning: “what is written about you is not important, but how much.” More on www.phaidon.com

Beasts of Burden show opened this weekend!!! click here to see more

Louis Vuitton flagship store by UNStudio. These images show a proposed flagship store for fashion house Louis Vuitton in Japan. The international architectural Studio situated in Amsterdam  have an extensive experience in the fields of urbanism, infrastructure, public, private and utility buildings on different scale levels. I think the new Louis Vuitton flagship store will be amazing. www.unstudio.com

Fefe Talavera is an artist that has been primaruly active these past years in the Brazillian city of São Paulo. She shares that city with a whole generation of young artists that have been getting a very important international recognition lately. Fefe also shares with them a not always so common stylistic freedom and a powerful primary energy but that’s possibly with similitudes end. She has created a world full of montsers all of her own, a world of beings that go along in her trips to her darker inner self and also in her many real world travels making her work known.

source: www.subaquatica.com 

For the first time in Europe, the exhibition brings together, through more than two hundred runs, the editorial work of the famous American photographer for Rolling Stone magazine, Vanity Fair, Vogue, but also its most intimate photographs, his family and his relatives. The Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris presents Annie Leibovitz. This special exhibition, Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life, 1990–2005 includes more than 200 photographs, featuring well-known work made on editorial assignment, as well as personal photographs of her family and close friends. “I don’t have two lives,” Leibovitz says. “This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it.” On exhibit through 14 September, 2008.

The Japanese brand launched the fifth edition of its annual competition for the creation open to all. “UTGP 2009″ calls on young designers to revisit one of the flagships of Uniqlo, the tee-shirt. A jury of eight persons will select the model most creative. Among them, two virtuosos of contemporary art, Yayoi Kusama and Kashiwa Sato. A first selection will be revealed at the end of October, then the jury will keep twenty finalists before March 2009. Finally, a ceremony will reward the winner of the grand prize of the jury by a grant from 20 000 euro, and eight other issue price “of beating heart.” For this contest, the brand has played the seduction operation with schools of arts in Paris to motivate students. Click here to register!

Written by one of the world’s leading trend spotters and proprietor of the widely-read www.coolhunter.net, Bill Tikos, The World’s Coolest Hotel Rooms opens the doors to more than fifty of the hippest, sexiest, newest, and most unusual rooms across the seven continents. Featuring the work of today’s top architects and interior designers, this book offers diverse accommodations with one thing in common: impeccable taste with edge.

So wherever wanderlust may take you—from an idyllic getaway in Scotland’s remote Jura Island to the bright lights and nonstop action of Berlin—there is an amazing place to stay, and Tikos has roamed the globe to find it and the best room in the house.

From a personal concierge in Buenos Aires who can schedule an impromptu tango lesson to a spectacular view of Rajasthan’s age old Aravali hills from a deluxe suite, every accommodation provides a unique experience. Boring is not an option. There are rooms that fulfill rock star fantasies—complete with soundstage—and others that elevate the meaning of luxury, with sumptuously dressed daybeds in lush, secluded gardens with private pools. Each entry provides the inspiration behind the hotel’s architecture, details the room’s special amenities, design features, and rate. Local points of interest are described as well.

With every entry personally selected by a tastemaker whose discerning eye for the most happening movements, styles, and trends in travel, fashion, music, urban living, and design has earned him a global following, The World’s Coolest Hotel Rooms is indispensable for creating a special travel experience.

About the Author
Bill Tikos is the author of The Cool Hunter, a weekly syndicated column featured in various magazines and newspapers worldwide. Tikos is a go-to resource for the most influential media in the world. His web site www.thecoolhunter.net receives over 1.5 million hits per month and is read by the most influential media in the world. Subscribers include Vogue, the New York Times, and Travel & Leisure.

Apartamento is a new international editorial project dedicated to the world of interiors, born to tell the story of personal experiences and lifes through the spaces where we live and work. Everyday stories, seen without the usual masks of look-a-like interiors perfect to the millimeter, because in real life the variables are infinite and unpredictable, since every environment has got its own dynamics and peculiarities that make it special.

www.apartamentomagazine.com 

Have a look at Alexander McQueen’s new collection on www.alexandermcqueen.com.
The website features looks, items (different angles) and catwalk pictures. And now let’s go shopping!

Source: anna www.antimonide.com

The art collection belonging to the couturier Yves Saint Laurent - died on 1 June this year - and its companion Pierre Bergé will be auctioned in February 2009. Led by the auction house Christie’s in association with the auction house Pierre Bergé, the sale will take place in Paris. The collection of both art lovers together objects of primitive arts, enamels, statuettes of the Renaissance, Art Deco furniture and a range of contemporary artists and Old Masters that includes Picasso, Warhol, Mondrian, Matisse and Goya.. Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé had 40 years to collect these works.

Yves Saint-Laurent by Andy Warhol (1928-1987/American)