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More Awesome People Hanging Out Together
27 Oct 2011
Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett
Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld
Miles Davis, John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Groucho Marx and Alice Cooper
Prince William, Vanessa Redgrave and Uma Thurman by Greg Williams
Eric Clapton, John Lennon, Mitch Mitchell and Keith Richards.
Stephen Fry and JK Rowling
Pharrell Williams, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo & Thomas Bangalter (Daft Punk) and Kanye West
Diane Von Furstenberg, Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzeg and Barbra Streisand
Carlos Santana and John McEnroe
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Hamptons Gardens: Full Bloom
23 Oct 2011
Jack deLashmet's Lush New Tome Collects the Exclusive Neighborhood's Most Prized Landscapes
In true Hamptons fashion, landscaping guru Jack deLashmet came up with the idea for his new book Hamptons Gardens, previewed above, at a dinner party. “Christy Ferer always has very interesting people around,” he says of his former client and longtime friend. “You might be sitting across from Katie Couric, you never know.” Luckily, DeLashmet happened to be breaking bread with, in his words, “the best gardeners around.” Published by Assouline, the resulting celebration of East End Long Island gardening features images of such legendary vistas as Grey Gardens and the work of green-fingered celebrities including Russell Page and Miranda Brooks. Having made a study of Hamptons horticulture, DeLashmet is uniquely qualified to select the most impressive specimens, whose owners just so happen to have a knack with other aesthetic pursuits: “Anna Wintour has an incredible garden and Calvin Klein has the most beautiful native garden,” he says. “A lot of people consider Judith Leiber’s to be the best garden in the neighborhood—she could open it for tours.”
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Geoff Dyer On America
20 Oct 2011
The Eccentric English Writer Reveals His Love Affair with The United States
The cultural observations in eclectic author Geoff Dyer's recent freewheeling speech debunking Anglo-American stereotypes at London's School of Life are captured in these illustrations by Paris Vs New York's Vahram Muratyan. In a typically irreverent sermon straddling literature, comedy, etiquette and language, Dyer combined his encyclopedic knowledge with witty digressions into high and low culture. The author of four novels of genre-defying fiction, including Paris Trance and the savagely comic Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, which traces a disaffected journalist's cocaine-fueled trip through the Venice Biennale, Dyer has also written discerning essays on everything from photography and haute couture to donuts and Andrei Tarkovsky. The writer told NOWNESS: “There's a great essay by D.H. Lawrence where he ends up in New Mexico and says, ‘something in my heart expanded’—I get that when I see the American West, the sense of endless possibilities.” Here the reluctantly London-based Dyer muses on the best aspects of life on the other side of the pond.
Unfulfilled dream
My life is a total failure because of my failure to live in San Francisco. To me San Francisco is where that project which I think of as being American—combining individual freedom with civic responsibility—has been taken to some sort of furthest point. It really is like experiencing what life is like a few rungs higher up the evolutionary ladder.American literature
I got turned on to reading contemporary fiction through American writers. Salinger, Kerouac, and Joseph Heller: On the Road,The Catcher in the Rye and Catch 22. There's been something about that American voice, the demotic richness of American language that is not at all class-bound, and is so varied.Walker Evans
Walker Evans really established the paradigm of how America looks. From an early age you're so exposed to America in films and television, that there's this weird thing that happens when you go there: it seems so different to England but at the same time exactly like you've always pictured it. When we see pictures of old American towns, or old American cars, I wonder, did it always look nice? Or did we start to think it was nice because Walker Evans photographed it?Comedy central
One of the ways we console ourselves with living in England is that we like to say Americans have no sense of irony. There's a beautiful irony in that comment because America is the country that has produced Woody Allen, Seinfeld and Larry Sanders, some of the great ironists of our time. I find Don DeLillo screamingly funny. The irony is raised to such a level that is seems both sincere and funny at the same time.Service culture
Americans are friendly. It's not just friendliness, it is some sort of daily manifestation of American democratic principles. The first time I heard the expression "You're welcome" was in America. I really noticed the transaction being wrapped up in a nice social exchange. You can't help but notice the way that social ripples––friendly, American ripples––extend way beyond the immediate interaction that created them. I'd go for that “have a nice day” superficial friendliness over deep-seated English hostility any day of the week. -
madame gres
18 Oct 2011
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Arcade Couture: Mise en Dior
17 Oct 2011
Arcade Couture: Mise en Dior on Nowness.com.
Arcade Couture: Mise en Dior
Dior Hits the Jackpot with New Pinball-Inspired Film on the Iconic Pearl Necklace
The intricate assemblage of individual metal-capped faux pearls with Lurex thread, chunky links and grosgrain ribbon that make up Christian Dior’s Mise en Dior costume jewelry necklace is playfully re-imagined as a virtual pinball game under the creative direction of Camille Miceli. An arresting update of the traditional pearl necklace Miceli introduced upon joining the couture house in 2009, the Mise en Dior has since become a signature piece in the brand’s accessories line. Working together with her brother Patrizio to realize the film, Miceli’s aim was “to show, in a light and fun way, the richness and savoir faire of Dior.” References to many of the classic codes of the house—bar jackets, the Lady Dior bag, Dior J’adore fragrances and the Avenue Montaigne offices—pop up in the 3D animation, which rollicks and rolls to a Mozart-inspired electro soundtrack, a nod towards Mr. Dior’s love of classical music. “Pinball is one of the most classic and popular games. To make it modern and ‘Dior’ was an inspiring and nourishing experience,” say Miceli, who admits to a pinball habit of her own: “I have a friend who has a machine and we play for hours!”
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