www.myspace.com/vanillaroyal

www.myspace.com/photonovela

http://www.polomuseale.firenze.it/musei/palazzopitti/

23 – 26th January 2009

www.artefiera.bolognafiere.it/eventi2009/artfirst

PITTI IMMAGINE UOMO 75

Pitti Immagine organises some of the world’s most important fashion events: international quality clothing and textile fairs, communication happenings and cultural and research initiatives for the fashion system and fashion as the aesthetic expression and global evolution of taste.

http://www.pittimmagine.com/it/homef.php

http://pittiblog.pittimmagine.com/

Pitti Immagine currently organises the following events:
- Pitti Immagine Uomo (men’s fashion collections. In Florence, two editions a year)
- Pitti_W Woman Pre-collections (women’s fashion precollections. In Florence, two editions a year)
- Pitti Immagine Bimbo (fashion collections for the 0-14 age group. In Florence, two editions a year)
- Pitti Immagine Filati (yarn collections for knitwear. In Florence, two editions a year)
- Touch!, neoZone, Cloudnine (women’s fashion collections. In Milan, twice a year)
- ModaPrima (fashion collections for men, women and children for large-scale organised distribution. In Milan, two editions a year)
- Fragranze (collections of artistic fragrances and essences for the body and home. In Florence, one edition a year)
- Taste (refined food and wine products and culture. In Florence, one edition a year)

Many of the communication events and cultural and research initiatives that compare fashion with other contemporary creative languages (visual arts, design, architecture, cinema, photography, advertising and music) are organised by the Pitti Discovery Foundation.

 YOU: concept store in the centre of Turin

YOU propone abbigliamento e accessori uomo/donna non seriali ma in pezzi unici, prodotti sempre nuovi e di ricerca.

Creazioni uniche in Limited Edition nate dai sogni e dai pensieri di giovani stilisti e designers.
Un Concept Store con base nel centro di torino, che presenta le collezioni di designers italiani e internazionali (Londra, Berlino, Barcellona…) che hanno in comune sperimentazione, ironia ed ecletticità.

organizza eventi, ogni mese promuove le collezzioni con aperitivi accompagnati dai migliori DJ Set

YOU

Piazza Vittorio Veneto, 12/f – 10123 – Torino – info@freetobeyou.it

staff:

www.freetobeyou.it

 www.myspace.com/freetobeyou  

Jack Smith ( 1932 – 1989 ) was an American filmmaker, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema. He is generally acclaimed as a founding father of American performance art, and has been critically recognized as a master photographer, though his photographic works are rare and remain largely unknown.

Jack Smith was one of the first proponents of the aesthetics which came to be known as ‘camp’ and ‘trash’, using no-budget means of production (e.g. using discarded color reversal film stock) to create a visual cosmos heavily influenced by Hollywood kitsch, orientalism and with Flaming Creatures created drag culture as it is currently known. Smith was heavily involved with John Vaccaro, founder of The Playhouse of The Ridiculous, whose disregard for conventional theater practice deeply influenced Smith’s ideas about performance art. In turn Vaccaro was deeply influenced by Smith’s aestheics. It was Vaccaro who introduced Smith to glitter and in 1966 and 1967 Smith created costumes for Vaccaro’s Playhouse of The Ridiculous. Smith’s style influenced the film work of Andy Warhol as well as the early work of John Waters, and while all three were part of the 1960s gay arts movement, it is certain that both Vaccaro and Smith refuted the idea that their sexual orientation was responsible for their art.

Smith has also been referenced by artists such as Laurie Anderson, Cindy Sherman and Mike Kelley, filmmakers David Lynch and Matthew Barney, photographer Nan Goldin, musicians John Zorn, Lou Reed and David Byrne, and theatre director Robert Wilson. Theater legend Richard Foreman writes, ‘Jack Smith is the hidden source of practically everything that’s of any interest in the so-called experimental theatre today.’

 He also worked as a photographer and founded the Hyperbole Photographic Studio in New York. In 1962 he released The Beautiful Book, a collection of pictures of New York artists, which has recently been re-released by Granary Books.

After his last film, No President (1967), Smith created performance and experimental theatre work until his death on September 25, 1989 from AIDS-related pneumonia.

 http://www.jacksmithandthedestructionofatlantis.com/

In this picture, Smith is acting in the Warhol’s film “Camp”; he is the one with the black sunglasses.

SPICE GIRLS

CHER

ABBA

POISON

PRINCE

TWISTED SISTERS

STRYPER

VILLAGE PEOPLE

ALICE COOPER

BETTE MIDLER

http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Camp_style/id/1944073

Nel 2008, cbm Italia sostiene e promuove l’iniziativa 100 anni X 100 testimonial X 100 progetti. Tante personaggi importanti provenienti dal mondo dello spettacolo, dello sport, della cultura e dell’imprenditoria italiana presteranno la loro immagine a supporto dei  100 progetti per aiutare cbm a comunicarli e a raccogliere così i fondi necessari a sostenerli. Tanti sono gli ambasciatori di cbm che hanno deciso di prestare la loro immagine. Tra gli altri Elio Fiorucci.

 Il noto stilista ha scelto di essere il testimonial dei progetti di cbm in Myanmar (ex Birmania), paese duramente colpito dall’uragano Nargis, dove cbm supporta un progetto oculistico di eccellenza.

t-shirt ” Love is Possible” by Elio Fiorucci.

Acquiring this t-shirt you contribute to help cbm Italy onlus an association not profit that it is taken care of the problem of the blindness in the world. All the proceeds will come entire devolven at association.

Elio Fiorucci has chosen a Charlie Chaplin’s subject: the characters of City Lights. 

 www.cbmitalia.org

City Lights is a 1931 American silent comedy film written, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin

The plot concerns Chaplin’s Tramp, broke and homeless, meeting a poor blind girl (Virginia Cherrill) selling flowers on the streets and falling in love with her. The blind girl mistakes him for a millionaire and, because he doesn’t want to disappoint her, he keeps up the charade…

Underground celebrity Ultra Violet was born Isabelle Collin Dufresne in 1935 in France, a convent-raised French bourgeois heiress. A coiffured society deb in those days, she moved to New York in 1953 where she spent a decade surrounding herself with artists like John Graham, John Chamberlain, and Salvador Dalí, the last with whom triggered her career as a painter. It was through her relationship with Dali that she eventually met pop icon Andy Warhol in the early 1960′s and changed her name to Ultra Violet, evolving into one of Warhol’s more accessible and unforgettable trashy-chic East 47th Street “Factory” superstars.

Theda Bara and went on to appear in Warhol’s The Life of Juanita Castro (1965) and I, a Man (1967) before her cameo inclusions in other now-cult films. Her best-selling 1988 autobiography “Famous for Fifteen Minutes: My Years with Andy Warhol” detailed her rise in celebrity, and her play “You Are What You Eat” was performed in Czechoslovakia in 1992. As a visual artist with political and spiritual overtones, her mixed-media works have been displayed worldwide. She opened an art studio in Nice in 1990, creating a movement called “L’Ultratique,” publishing two manifestos in the early 1990′s. Her work was included in the Audart exhibition that commemorated the tenth anniversary of Warhol’s death. A bi-continental resident, Ultra Violet currently divides her time between her studio in Nice and her penthouse apartment in Manhattan.