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, 2023-01-25 09:18:14,

Over the course of tQ’s 15 years online, I can think of few other artists who have provided me such joy as Chris Watson, the sound recordist who began his musical career in the mid-1970s with Cabaret Voltaire and has now arguably reached as many ears as the world’s biggest music stars via his work recording the natural world for David Attenborough’s hugely popular documentaries. The popular perception of sound art might sometimes be austere and academic, the sense is that it lacks the familiar formulas of musical genre which enable emotional connections with the listener, and I would occasionally be inclined to agree. Even the term ‘sound art’ can feel dry, chewy, or otherwise indigestible. Watson’s work, however, has an uncanny warmth to it that, when I sit down to listen to one of his albums or encounter one of his myriad live projects, seems to become an illumination of flora, fauna or place.

One Friday lunchtime at the National Gallery many years ago, deft deployment of sound recordings through speakers set around the frame turned John Constable’s painting ‘The Cornfield’ into a 3D space, the church bells chiming in the distance and sound of a dog curiously making the pastoral scene far more honest and less idyllic than it had previously seemed in the artist’s brush strokes. At Kew Gardens in the summer of 2010, his Whispering In The Leaves installation brought the rasp and hiss of insect life to the formality of the iron and glass…

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RIP maximalism! Gucci strips it back for first show post-Alessandro Menswear

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, 2023-01-13 17:35:00,
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After bidding the eclectic designer arrivederci in November, the house’s AW23 menswear collection was devoid of the feathers and flounce that defined his seven-year tenure

Friday the 13th gets a bad rap, but far from being a harbinger of doom, historically it was a day devoted to the divine feminine – until, as it so often often the case, the patriarchy got its filthy hands on it. With the number 13 considered lucky across many cultures, it’s also a symbol of new beginnings, so it made sense in more ways than one that Gucci’s first show post-Alessandro Michele would take place on this supposedly spooky day.

In group chats in the days leading up to Milan Fashion Week’s AW23 menswear season, and conversations as industry members filed into the Gucci Hub, opinions as to what was coming swayed one of two ways. Either it would be Gucci business as usual, with Michele’s long-standing team picking up his mantle and carrying on in his maximalist memory, or a sharp foot on brakes when it came to the feathers and flounce the designer was known for, as they stripped things back to basics.

Turns out those in the latter camp were the ones proved right – although even for them, the first look out of the gate came as something of a shock. As the showlights came up and the band at the centre of the stripped-back space (Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dogs) fired up, out came a model in a louche pair of khaki slacks and a white t-shirt, an oversized monogrammed…

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6 reasons you really need to see Louis Vuitton’s new exhibition

, 2022-12-01 18:03:00,

LV Dream is your chance to get up close and personal with Cindy Sherman, Yayoi Kusama, Takashi Murakami, and more

“Paris is always a good idea,” declared Audrey Hepburn in 1953 flick Sabrina, and while it’s since been plastered across the heinous kind of canvases Dunelm and the like love to churn out at any opportunity, the point still stands. More than ever, though, Paris is a good idea right now, as Louis Vuitton throws open the doors to a new exhibition that brings together all of its artistic collaborations under one roof for the first time.

Stepping inside LV Dream, almost 175 years of Vuitton’s trailblazing collaborative history opens up. Stretching from floor to ceiling, footage from iconic shows – like Marc Jacobs’ legendary SS08 collection, which saw the former creative director join forces with controversial artist Richard Prince – are beamed onto gargantuan walls. From there, the exhibition takes it back to the very beginning, as rarely-seen archive pieces are put on show. There’s the OG leather bag that developed to become the Neverfull, the first iterations of those mega travelling trunks, and a whole lot of uber-covetable link-ups between LV, Rei Kawakubo, Yayoi Kusama, Supreme, and loads more.

Opening up for business on December 12 at the luxury house’s Rue du Pont-Neuf HQ, here’s five more reasons you need to see the show.

LV Dream exhibition, Paris — Photography Adiern Dirand

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Portraits of the sliving dead at the Whitby Goth Weekend 2022

, 2022-11-04 14:14:00,

While its participants listen to shouty music, play with graveyard rats, and stomp about with canes, we capture the best looks from the UK’s foremost goth festival

Last weekend, hundreds of fingerless gloves and Victoriana corsets descended onto Whitby – an unwitting seaside town in Yorkshire that has played host to a goth festival twice a year, every year since 1994. Like Bressingham’s steampunk weekend or Brixham’s pirate weekend, the pageant compounds the Great British tradition of gathering en masse and dressing in an off-putting manner. There, like-minded ghouls from across the country break battered fish with one another and listen to shouty music from bands with names like Sigue Sigue Sputnik and The Last Cry.

The crowd has thinned somewhat over the years, with an ageing population of goths now outstripping their nascent counterparts. But the weekend seems to be enjoying a resurgence among online teens begging to be referred to as “the most esoteric bitch in Whitby” – which was probably Count Dracula’s motivation for docking his ship in the town’s cove in the late 1800s. “Community. You can be yourself here,” says Dan, a fourth-timer at the goth festival who’s standing in the carcass of a 7th-century monastery in a studded choker and a wipe-clean military cap. “Living in a place like Scarborough, you can’t really be yourself without being judged. But this is a non-judgmental place, here. I like the music, I like the style……

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Five arresting photo books to look out for this autumn

, 2022-10-06 11:38:00,

Leatherette, prosthetic breasts, and fashion world It Boys: we take a look through some of this season’s most extraordinary photo books…

STEVEN KLEIN, STEVEN KLEIN

“Steven is the only photographer I know who can turn a child’s inflatable pool into a sexual predator,” Vogue editor Phyllis Posnick once said of Steven Klein. As one of the world’s foremost photographers, Klein’s seductive and meticulous images are perpetually undercut by a subversive component, whether it be a mere suggestion of a disturbance or a more explicitly eerie element.

In this, his first-ever monograph [Phaidon], Klein’s work unfolds like a series of stills from the most compelling and stylish movie you would ever wish to be made. Sexually charged and with more than a hint of violence, fetishism and felony, his work features stars such as Madonna, Kim Kardashian, Lady Gaga, and Kanye West in uncanny and unexpected guises. This desirable photo book is bound in white leatherette and includes an introductory essay by art writer Mark Holborn, who warns, “To open this book is to enter criminal territory. Here, the police are busy. Transgression, too, has its allure.”

Steven Klein is published by Phaidon and is available now

CN: THE CHRISTOPHER NIQUET BOOK

Japanese icon books are based on the pure and unambiguous idea of books or zines dedicated to pictures of the creator’s object of love, be they mainstream icons or more cultish, obscure figures….

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Hal Baddie is hacking the cis-tem

, 2022-09-22 11:07:00,

Taken from the autumn 2022 issue of Dazed. You can buy a copy of our latest issue here.

It’s the crack of dawn when I log on to my Zoom call with Devin Halbal, the New York multi-hyphenate known to her 380.6k TikTok followers as @Hal.Baddie. The sun is still on annual leave, but the second Halbal enters the chat from Denmark, wearing a baby-yellow tee with her brown curls framing her face, an immeasurable amount of sunshine is bestowed upon us. At just 24, she has captured the hearts of her followers – or ‘dolls’, as she calls them – with her humorous videos that blend spirituality, wit and travel vlogging with an effortless style. She proves time and time again to be a master wordsmith. Her phrases, including “Met Gala Behaviour” and “Elevate, Activate, Appreciate”, are embedded in the Gen-Z lexicon. Through her videos documenting her adventures as a trans woman travelling alone, she inspires a new generation of dolls to live, love and laugh their way through their best lives. Over Zoom, we spoke about travelling solo, the perks of being a Cancer and how to create a positive social media experience.

So, I have to start this with a doll check-in.

Hal Baddie: Doll check-in!!!

How is the doll doing today?

HB: I’m doing great. I went for a walk and had some juice; I’m not too hungry today. But how are you, what is your doll check-in today?

The doll check-in is, I’m up, it’s early, my ring lights are on, OK! The baby hairs are laid;…

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Steampunk: The world’s most derided subculture is ready for its comeback

, 2022-09-20 10:45:00,

Grab your parasols and aviation goggles! Steampunk might be considered untouchable now, but the pace at which trends are being regurgitated means that anything is possible

By now, we’re all familiar with the relentless cycle of trends that are infiltrating the internet – and our minds. From Y2K to Indie Sleaze, we’ve experienced an endless rehashing of old aesthetics repackaged in TikTok-friendly formats and hailed by online commentators as the Next Big Thing. With the mid-aughts making a comeback in terms of indie music, Tumblr aesthetics and the emo revival, we find ourselves thinking: what’s next?

To answer that question, we need to dial back to a time when technology, and its advancement, felt like it had real revolutionary potential. As capitalism swallows itself and any chance of a future beyond it, it’s easy to feel like the Future = Bad. But this doesn’t get to the root of our collective angst, nor does it help us move forward. Perhaps what we need is something so based and cringe that we can’t help but put our obsession with the past to bed – a nail in the coffin, if you will.

As one of the last remaining 2010s subcultures to not be put through the cultural ringer, steampunk should be set to make a return in our nostalgia economy, but why hasn’t it? The hashtag #steampunk currently has 460 million views on TikTok, so there’s clearly a growing interest, with users showing off images of coal-powered flying boats and…

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Gucci, Burberry and Dior Mens AW22 campaigns: What’s in Fashion?

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, 2022-08-26 17:38:15,

It’s Britney Spears return day! And just like our favourite twirling pop star who’s been teasing us with new music for a while and has now finally delivered, the AW22 collections we coveted when we saw them go down the runway are now making themselves available for us to purchase (one wait was six years and the other was six months, but you get the point). And with the collections, of course, comes some breathtaking campaign visuals. There’s an Oscar-worthy Gucci moment, Burberry’s spotlighting of community and Dior Men transcending time. We hear you screaming gimme more though and so there’s also an exciting new Browns exclusive, Courrèges x David Sims and an Adidas sneaker from Parisian-brand Song for the Mute. Here’s what’s in fashion.

gucci aw22 campaign imagery by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott

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Gucci hacks Kubrick for its exquisite campaign

Fashion and film are, of course, old bedfellows, but there are few houses quite as obsessed with the world as seen on the big screen as Gucci. An avid cinephile, Alessandro Michele’s work has always been imbued with a transformative, cinematic quality — a sense that his clothes are designed to elevate their wearers above prosaic normality; to cast them as characters in their very own epics. “I’ve always imagined my collections as films able to convey a cinematography of the present: a score of stories, eclectic and dissonant, that can sacralize the human and its metamorphic ability,” he writes in a new release. It’s a fact evident in examples like the seven-part series he created in collaboration with Gus van Sant, Ouverture of Something that Never Ended, and Love Parade, the house’s centenary show on Hollywood Boulevard.

For the campaign for Exquisite Gucci, the collection presented by the house during Milan Fashion Week back in February, Alessandro and the team not only chose to celebrate cinema, but to hack the silver screen, and write the collection into annals of cinematic history itself. A powerful homage to Stanley Kubrick — “A philosophic filmmaker who, better than others, emanated the magic of that inextricable knot through which cinema exudes life and magnifies it,” Alessandro says — it sees some of the most iconic scenes from the “sculptor of genres” most emblematic films — The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Eyes Wide Shut and Barry Lyndon — recreated with looks from the collection at their heart.

“Sticking to my creative praxis, I seized those movies,…

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Christine Quinn of Selling Sunset’s fashion and iconic Balenciaga outfits

admin 7 Iconic Outfits, art, celebrities, culture, design, documentaries, fashion, fashion design, fashion films, fashion magazine, feminism, film, i-d, i-d magazine, magazine, music, news, photography, politics, pop culture, street style, TV 0 Comments August 23, 2022

, 2022-08-23 10:28:12,

When Beyoncé wrote the lyric “it should cost a billion to look this good”, there’s no doubt she was referring to Christine Quinn in a frayed denim Balmain minidress and a french fry handbag, causing drama on Selling Sunset. Over five seasons the villainness with a high-end wardrobe and an even higher ponytail has brought all the fashion and entertainment to the million-dollar-house-selling reality series. Sadly, though, it has been reported her time on the show has come to an end.

Let’s tell it like it is. We weren’t tuning in to see brokers ringing a bell when their property is in escrow (we’re still not even quite sure what that word means). No, we were there to watch Christine roll her eyes at them when they did. We watched for the ASMR of her acrylic nails tapping absolutely nothing work-related into her Macbook, or the chaotically-themed open houses she threw — which we half-suspect were purely organised so that she could expense botox, couture and caviar (we would too!). We watched for her turning up to the office to wreak havoc in the relationships and friendships of her colleagues wearing trompe l’oeil naked bodysuits, Bratz doll heels and head-to-toe Chanel.

But while she may not be returning to the Netflix series, a few Fashion Week appearances over the recent seasons – and becoming a Balenciaga babe – suggest we’re sure to see many more iconic looks from Christine Quinn, this time on the runway or sitting front row, rather than a Beverly Hills listing. Nonetheless, here are some of our favourite chaotic evil queen’s best fashion moments thus far.

‘Selling Sunset’, Season 1 Episode 8, 2019

Christine has a habit of showing up anyone who dares to stand within a 10 ft radius of her. Case in point, this time she casually strutted through LA traffic in this patchwork animal print leotard alongside a pair of skin-tight sheer lace trousers that made Mary look like she’d pulled on her white playsuit straight out of a Shein package.

Christine in Selling Sunset Season 3 Episode 3

‘Selling Sunset’, Season 3 Episode 3, 2020

This moto-chic look is cute and fashion forward, but what we’re really here for is the never-ending, floor-scraping ponytail. Christine makes fashion look so easy. If that was us we would have already tripped down the stairs twice and our tresses would be knotted with street litter, a stray cat and cigarette butts.

On her wedding day, 2020

Resplendent with gothic opulence, Christine Quinn’s wedding was the stuff of Wednesday…

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How ketamine chic became the new heroin chic

, 2022-08-02 07:00:00,

It’s cool to dress like an unwashed urchin, emerging from the landfill of consumer culture like a blabbering Minion

Trends are dead! Long live trends! People don’t know what to wear! But wear this! TikTok trends are fake! But not Indie Sleaze! Blokecore! Barbiecore! Namecore! [email protected]!!!

This is what happens when you spend too much time on websites, where the language of trend reporting has completely buckled in on itself. In April, fashion critic Rachel Tashijan described the whole thing as a “mass psychosis”, citing the internet’s feverish attempt to funnel algorithmic junk into deep and meaningful categories. This isn’t a particularly new phenomenon – magazines have always made outsized statements about fashion fads – it’s just that they are now competing with thinkfluencers, TikTok essayists, and Substackers to coin phrases like “Vibe Shift” in order to cash-out on clicks and send 30-something Twitter into a meltdown. Trend, and fashion more generally, is about so much more than being the first to identify the next big thing – which is almost always a mirage, fading as quickly as it’s labelled.

The real issue is that people seem to have forgotten what the word “trend” actually means, how it moves with and against culture, creating networks of taste and ideology. This can be hard to distinguish when there’s just so much culture happening at once, but in London, young people are beginning to clamber out of the chaotic consumer landscape: grubby scene kids and ragtag meme-merchants living on a diet of Elf bars, Monster, and SoundCloud rap. Musicians like Luke Blovad, designers like James Wallace who treat Minions as muses, tacking their turgid little bodies onto all-swamping hoodies. Teens adorned with Eurotrash truckers, wraparound sunnies, anthropomorphic plushie-hats, airbrushed sweaters, camouflage mini skirts, sharpied jeans, and Spongebob tees. They are the feral love children of Chief Keef and Trisha Paytas, destined for greatness but slumped into a barbiturate haze in front of South Park.

“My style is meta-ironic, ketamine chic, Pinterest vibes,” says @oatmilkandcodeine. “Truthfully, I don’t think about it that much but I feel like it’s about making what is traditionally seen as ugly appealing”. A stew of early web references, thrifted grunge, lowbrow cartoon characters, and “anything obnoxious or fake is always good,” @babydoublecup says. “I’ll find…

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