Artist Yoskay Yamamoto New York Release Party (LeBasse Projects)

Written by VirtualSocialite on November 3rd, 2009

LeBasse Projects will host a release party and signing with artist Yoskay Yamamoto, making his first scheduled appearance in New York.

Yoskay Yamamoto

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.

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LeBasse Projects Exhibition in New York – November 5-7, 2009

Written by VirtualSocialite on November 3rd, 2009

LeBasse Projects presents: ‘Go East’

LeBasse Projects

For a special three-day only exhibition, Los Angeles based contemporary gallery LeBasse Projects expands its horizons to the East Coast.

LeBasse Projects

LeBasse Projects’ temporary exhibition offers New York a collection of work by some of the gallery’s best and brightest talent.

‘Go East’ presents the gallery’s penchant for fresh, innovative artists featuring Yoskay Yamamoto, Tessar Lo, Edwin Ushiro, Joao Ruas, Eric Fortune, Mia, and Nate Frizzell.

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Girl In The Red Dress makes live debut in New York

Written by VirtualSocialite on November 3rd, 2009

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.

Girl In The Red Dress

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

Girl In The Red Dress sings dark-edged pop, setting themes of lost love and heartbreak against unstoppably infectious beats.

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Ingrid Michaelson releases ‘Everybody’ in the UK + “Maybe” single

Written by VirtualSocialite on October 13th, 2009

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.

Ingrid Michaelson - Everybody

‘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.

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Julia Bradbury – BBC One Special ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ for Children In Need

Written by VirtualSocialite on October 8th, 2009

Julia Bradbury presents Countryfile on BBC One – which is watched by over 6 Million viewers each Sunday night.

Julia Bradbury

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.

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Film: Taking Woodstock (Universal Pictures) – UK Cinemas

Written by VirtualSocialite on October 8th, 2009

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!

Taking Woodstock

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.

Released in UK cinemas on 13th November, 2009.

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Brooklynite Gallery proudly presents Peru Ana Ana Peru + Bomb Squad

Written by VirtualSocialite on October 8th, 2009

Brooklynite Gallery proudly presents the first solo exhibition by PERU ANA ANA PERU

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.

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Press Conference: Sven-Goran Eriksson, Ukraine Vs England

Written by VirtualSocialite on October 2nd, 2009

Press Conference: Ukraine Vs England, FIFA World Cup

9am, Monday 5th October, 2009, Soho Hotel, London, W1

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.

Soho Hotel, 4 Richmond Mews, London W1.

House of Diehl Style Wars: The 2009 Style Battle Championship

Written by VirtualSocialite on September 19th, 2009

House of Diehl Presents STYLE WARS:

House of Diehl

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!

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John Varvatos headlines The Warehouse Sale – LA, September 24-27, 2009

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 - Warehouse Sale

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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