Here’s Part 2 of our interview with sustainable dress designer Marie Cordella, who competes next Thursday night on Lifetime’s 24 Hour Catwalk. (Check out Part 1 of the interview here.)
You lived in New York on Septemper 11th. What was it like returning to NYC?
It was hard for me. I never really talk about it. I happened to be in the street during 9/11 and saw it happen. Read More…
I first met dress designer Marie Cordella backstage at a concert in April 2009, at Brooklyn’s Bell House. She was touring with also-North Carolina-based indie duo The Rosebuds, outfitting lead singer Kelly Crisp, and I remember being immediately intrigued by her distinctive aesthetic and infectious personality. Not surprisingly, I’m not the only one taking note. Since then she’s fashioned a path to NC notoriety (headlining Charleston Fashion Week last year) and impending national exposure, most recently having been invited to New York City as a contestant on Lifetime’s 24 Hour Catwalk. Even better, she’s got some noteworthy green credentials. Read More…
Imagine you find yourself wandering Chinatown or someplace and all of a sudden your tummy starts to growl. You don’t want to eat at that spot you just passed, with duck carcasses draped in the window as if the moral equivalent of curtains. But you don’t know the area well enough to divine an alternative, and you don’t want to spend precious minutes sifting through Yelp’s less-than-reliable filter options for the ethically inclined. Where to turn? Read More…
Here’s Part 2 of our interview with Lucy Walker, director of Academy Award-nominated short film The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom. (Check out Part 1 of the interview here.) Read More…
London-born, L.A.-based documentarian Lucy Walker cares about the losers. I don’t mean the indie flick, John Hughes-style loser-darlings who try their angsty hardest to reject the system, somehow managing only to reinforce it along the way. I mean the real-life losers of economic, political, and social games large and small, most of whom aren’t even invited to play in the first place. Read More…
Actress Jessica Chastain has had a whirlwind year portraying the eccentric but charming Celia Foote in The Help and the stoic Mrs. O’Brien (opposite Brad Pitt) in The Tree Of Life.
Other notable roles like that of Samantha in Take Shelter together with the aforementioned portrayals earned her a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress and a nod for this weekend’s Oscars, nominated BSA again for Foote. Read More…
In the early 1960s, when IBM was asked by the California Museum of Science and Industry in Los Angeles to contribute an exhibit, the technology giant reached out to Mid-Century modern design royalty (and husband-and-wife) Charles and Ray Eames. Mathematica (completed in 1961) is the result, and if you know anything about the Eameses, you know they would would never make some dry, boring show. Instead they crafted an interactive exhibit that’s basically like a really awesome class trip to a swinging sixties funhouse… of learning! Read More…
“My whole life I’ve been a supporter of animals – what they are, who they are.”
“Who they are” is the crux of contemporary painter Joe Concra’s Beast Epic exhibition at the Donzella 20th Century Gallery in TriBeCa (open through March 9th). Swathed in lush, atmospheric brush strokes and usually the singular focal point of a given work, Concra’s painted animals seem to more self-assuredly inhabit their own skin than the humans gazing up at them. Read More…
Last Thursday brought blistering temps and whipping winds, but that didn’t stop invitees from turning out in droves at Milk Studios for the first night of AW12 Fashion Week shows. The long line advanced at a snail’s pace but proved worth the wait as we sought the night’s most interesting prize: a viewing of John Bartlett’s buzzingly groundbreaking new collection.
As feeling returned to our fingers and toes and a frenzied party greeted us inside, we made our way through dense human forest to discover Bartlett’s boyish models, who were made to look muddied from a long day of work (or play).
It’s the kind of stylish impracticality that tends to abide only on the fantasyscapes of runways and photo shoots, but Bartlett’s cheeky conceit worked better than most. Equal parts Lord of the Flies and The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Bartlett’s presentation, an evolution of his trademark mix of big colors (rich reds, bright blues, canary yellows) and sporty, outdoorsy masculinity, showcased crown jewels like recycled microfiber ultrasuede motorcycle jackets, smartly tailored with zippers, pockets, and buckles; dependable basics like organic cotton long johns and form-fitting henleys, with visual textures from tartans to stripes to aforementioned solids; and feet either bared or dressed in M:Zero loafers by Melissa and Hunter wellies. It was a story of whimsy-meets-manly, and I for one particularly appreciated the fearlessness it takes to pair red with red with red, as Bartlett chose for one of his most striking ensembles. Read More…
True to our name, Cllctv (“collective”) is a big-picture project. Here’s what you need to know: Read More…
richroll (@richroll): Great piece Nell! So wish I could have been there...
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