Florence and the Machine

This British singer and group are in a word, outstanding.

Interview with NylonTV here.

kao pao shu

I attended Simply Stylist a little while ago during L.A. Fashion Week,  an event for stylists and celebrities to check out talented and lesser-known designers. While I was there, a stylist picked up some rad pieces for an editorial shoot with Juliette Lewis in S Magazine.

The line, Kao Pao Shu, (which sounds like something Lewis would exclaim while onstage) features designs by Naida Begeta. Begeta is from Sarajevo, Bosnia, having moved to L.A. from Italy a couple of years ago.

The designer’s recent collection includes handmade purses made out of seat belts that mold to the body, and dresses of ribbons and prints from her own artwork. According to her PR rep, Charlie Cario-Cooper, Begeta’s collections are adjustable, flexible, and easy to wear.

In the war between fashion and art, these pieces have no enemy:

Gucky

James Franco’s spoofs himself as the new face of Gucci in a video for Funny or Die. It is amusing how Franco refuses to oblige in sexy-face, even for an ad campaign .

Image from Gucci ad:

Franco in his comfort zone:

James Franco: Gucci Commercial Outtakes from James Franco

No One Belongs Here More Than You

Miranda July in Rodarte.

Interview: Tyson vs. Mitchell

I love film critic Elvis Mitchell from NPR’s “The Treatment”, and j’adore that documentary film on boxer Mike Tyson, Tyson. Out of this world.  The guy used to keep pigeons when he was a kid and stay out of street gangs, until they killed his pigeons.  What more do you wanna know already?

But what I really want to know, is why there hasn’t been a SNL spoof of Mitchell yet. Oh, SNL, the opportunities you allow to just drift on by.

Barbaric Tendencies

I never realized that the costumes in Conan The Barbarian are so great. They’re like right off the runway from this season’s Fashion Week.

The 1982 film version is definitely worth checking out by the way, if anything for its minimal dialogue and The Governor punching out a camel.

Watch for it.

Perils as Noted by the Indie Bourgeouis

Sonic Youth was just on Gossip Girl, which is strange since they also did a “gig” on Gilmore Girls. Must be their favorite shows.

Video for the opening track off of Sonic Youth’s most recent album, The Eternal: