LeBasse Projects will host a release party and signing with artist Yoskay Yamamoto, making his first scheduled appearance in New York.
LeBasse Projects will release for sale the final reserved case of white and chrome gallery colorway ‘Koibitos‘ designed by Yamamoto and produced by Munky King.
Girl In The Red Dress, the Chicago-based singer whose music has already generated a surge of interest across online music retailers and latex fetish fans alike, made a storming world debut as a live act in New York City on October 21st 2009.
Performing the three songs from the ‘Disguise’ EP, the Girl played as part of the Chashama Film Festival’s opening night festivities. The gig was the curtain raiser for a showing of the new movie ‘Dirty Step Upstage’, in which she appears.
Girl In The Red Dress sings dark-edged pop, setting themes of lost love and heartbreak against unstoppably infectious beats.
American indie sensation Ingrid Michaelson, whose album ‘Everybody’ is released in the UK on 19 October, 2009, will make a different track from the album available to fans every day until the release. The tracks each have a video introduction from Ingrid, and can be streamed from her ‘Ing TV’ widget below.
‘Everybody’ is Ingrid’s first UK release, and will be followed by the single “Maybe” on 16 November.
In the US, she has become probably the most successful unsigned artist in history. She has sold over 400,000 copies of her debut album out of her manager’s office, and her track “The Way I Am” was downloaded over 1.5 million times after being featured on an Old Navy commercial. She’s appeared on Good Morning America, Conan O’Brien and Jay Leno, and been on the cover of Billboard.
Julia Bradbury presents Countryfile on BBC One – which is watched by over 6 Million viewers each Sunday night.
On Tuesday 27th October, 2009 she will also participate in a BBC ONE special – racing against time to raise money for Children In Need.
‘Around the World in 80 Days’ will offer a visually stunning circumnavigation of the world – re-enacting the epic odysseys of Phileas Fogg and Michael Palin for a 21st-century audience.
Taking Woodstock is the new film from Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee (Academy Award Winning Director, directed Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) – and it’s a trip!
Based on the memoirs of Elliot Tiber, the comedy stars Demetri Martin as Elliot, who inadvertently played a role in making 1969’s Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the famed happening it was.
Featuring a standout ensemble cast and songs from a score of ’60s musical icons including The Grateful Dead, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and Country Joe and the Fish – plus a new recording of “Freedom” from Richie Havens – Taking Woodstock is a joyous voyage to a moment in time when everything seemed possible.
Brooklynite Gallery proudly presents the first solo exhibition by PERU ANA ANA PERU
…AND THEN WE JUMPED INTO THE ABYSS OF NUMBERS:
Memories in Absurdity From the Bowels of Peru Ana Ana Peru
October 17 – November 14
Brooklynite Gallery
OPENING NIGHT – October 17th, 2009, 7:00pm – 10:00pm
MUSICAL GUEST: BOMB SQUAD
You’ve seen it on the streets – just a black square with white text. Two names, a mirror image of themselves. These discreet signs of whoever or whatever refers to itself as PERU ANA ANA PERU are backed up by an eclectic collection of ornately designed pieces of artwork– pasted, fastened, scribbled or dangling to your left or right.
Sven-Göran Eriksson and representatives from international football agency Kentaro will attend a press conference at 9.30am Monday 5th October at Soho Hotel (London) to reveal ground-breaking broadcast plans for Saturday’s England Vs Ukraine World Cup clash.
Written by VirtualSocialite on September 19th, 2009
House of Diehl Presents STYLE WARS:
The Style Battle Championships Tour 2009
After a runaway first US campaign, a 5-continent World Tour, with support from Banksy, Bravo, and Ashton Kutcher, the original style battle competition returns.
“Buzzing with excitement – an awesome night out!” – INSTYLE
“A guerilla Project Runway…raising fashion’s already quick pulse to New York-minute speeds” – The Los Angeles Times
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS STYLE WARS?
The 2009 Style Battle Championship Tour hits America’s most stylish cities this fall to find the best undiscovered design talent in the country. You saw it on Make Me A Supermodel, or perhaps in Johannesburg, London, Hong Kong or Buenos Aires. Now come witness the fitness live!
Fusing the street-bred spontaneity of a rap battle with the glamour of fashion, House of Diehl’s STYLE BATTLING™ is the fresh phenomenon born in the basements of New York that is blowing up!
Written by VirtualSocialite on September 16th, 2009
Four-Day Fashion Event – The Warehouse Sale – Headlined By John Varvatos
Premieres in L.A. September 24-27
John Varvatos headlines The Warehouse Sale’s Inaugural West Coast Affair
From its conception, designer John Varvatos’ seamlessly melded synergy of Rock ‘n Roll and classic structure has been a composite for a much-needed, fresh, new genre.
On September 24, 2009, John Varvatos will hold premiere designer honors as the nation’s largest and most coveted fashion sale, The Warehouse Sale, makes its first Los Angeles appearance.
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