Posts Tagged ‘Andy Warhol’
This April: Uniqlo Pop Up Shop Details
- Published on Monday, 01 April 2013 16:03
- Matt Bell
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Bumming around NYC any Saturday in April? Keep an eye out for the traveling UNIQLO pop up shop on wheels (nerdy-chic computerized rendering above). There, you’ll find the latest UT collection (currently featuring the artwork of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and AndyWarhol) in addition to some personality flavor by way of musician Danny Brown, artist Curtis Kulig and Boardwalk Empire actor Michael K Williams. The truck will stop at Gansevoort Plaza (14th and 9th) for performances and…for the app-sessed, you’ll be able to play around with a new specialized UT camera application, which is more or less, where you’ll take a cool Instagram shot. For times and locations of the traveling unit, please go to the UNIQLO US Facebook or look for tweets by each performer!
Uniqlo UT Andy Warhol Collection Launches Today
- Published on Monday, 04 March 2013 13:46
- Matt Bell
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“Pop art is for everyone,” Andy Warhol once famously quipped, so we’re thinking he’d steadfast approve of Uniqlo taking inspiration from his work, placing them on T-shirts, pricing them for under $20 and then selling them on the Internet. We’ll also say that Warhol would be a fan of the entire line of UT T-shirts, which Uniqlo says is a direct expression of who you are. Feeling like a can of soup? Some dollar signs? Maybe a Warholian quote? Then click here to shop the new arrivals.
Related: Uniqlo E-Commerse is Now Here
Paris Fashion Week—Tillmann Lauterbach SS'13 Collection
- Published on Monday, 02 July 2012 13:30
- Matt Bell
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West meets East in Tillmann Lauterbach men’s Spring/Summer 2013 collection. Inspired by a trip Andy Warhol once made to China with his photographer friend Christopher Makos back in the 1980’s, the collection takes the post punk aesthetic of Warhol’s New York and melds them with classic Chinese wardrobe structures. And more—Micro Jacquard jersey on tops and trousers, Italian canvas bags, rubber coated short sleeved summer coats and beautiful prints also allude to the influence of the industrial revolution. The collection showcases midnight blues, various shades of grey to black, dashes of-off whites and khakis, and a pop of Tibetan Turquoise. The construction of the silhouettes lend to the mood as well, providing a relaxed feeling to even the most formal of pieces.
ART SERIES HOTELS ASK—CAN YOU SPOT A FAKE WARHOL?
- Published on Tuesday, 15 May 2012 11:44
- Matt Bell
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Australia’s Art Series Hotel Group is testing your knowledge of fine art—or at least how to spot it. They’ve brought together the worlds greatest living art forger, Tony Tetro, with one of the worlds most forged artists – Andy Warhol – to ask you…which Warhol is Warhol’s? Think you can tell? Read on…
Tetro, who actually served five years in prison (1989-1994) after being tried for forgery in Los Angeles, has been commissioned to produce nine replica Warhols that will hang in the hotels alongside a genuine one until August 3.
Starting last night, guests staying at an Art Series Hotel—a group of luxury hotels each named after a famed contemporary Australian artist— will be asked to pick the “real‟ from the fake from a line up of 10. One fake will be revealed each week and given away as prizes, with an original Warhol given to one of the guests who picks Warhol’s Warhol.
The hotel group’s CEO, Will Deague isn’t being flippant at hiring a convicted art faker for this most interesting of promotions. “Art Forgery is a serious issue facing the international art industry. Tony Tetro is a prime example of how commonplace it seems to be to replicate the classics. Tetro and other forgery artists have made a business out of reproducing our art masters including Warhol, Picasso, Monet and even our own namesake artist, Charles Blackman. In running Which Warhol, we’re looking to profile this serious issue and stimulate discussion and debate around the production of replica art. What does it mean for the industry, how can you pick a fake from a real, what value do we actually place on art?” he said.
What do you think? Sure the promotion is an amazing idea—who wouldn’t want to walk away from a night in an Ozzie hotel with a real live Warhold—but what of people who replicate other people’s work? What if someone copied—thread for thread—a McQueen collection? What about buying fakes? Anyone ever been to Canal Street in New York City?
The Blackman 452 St. Kilda Road, Melbourne, VIC 3004
The Cullen 164 Commercial Road, Prahran 3181 VIC 3141
The Olsen 637 – 641 Chapel Street, South Yarra VIC 3141
