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METAL MAGAZINE ANNiVERSARY REVISED BY MARCELA GUTIERREZ

 I have a deep love for Marcella's works. I met her while being an intern at Maison John Galliano. She comes from Guademala, now living in Spain. Marcella was fortunate enough to work also with Alexander McQueen.

WATCH AND LEARN : DIOR COUTURE F/W 98/99

DAVID FLAMEE REPORTS : GRAANMARKT13 PRESENTS 'BY GENTUCCA BINI'

Dear Filep and iDEALS, by Gentucca Bini is the new project of Italian fashion designer Gentucca Bini. It comes from the need to establish and intensify the relationship with the objects. Gentucca Bini mixes her style with the style of different fashion designers: re-branding becomes a renovation act.

Placing her style over a different brand, a style which will change every season, like in a prêt-à-porter collection, Gentucca gives new life to past fashion collections, producing slight but incisive changes, to respect their history, to re-create a relationship between the customer and the product, to start again from fashion, from the act of its birth, to interact with the past and make it fashionable again, to ensure the future and protect the memory, to make the product more personal and unique, without forgetting the funny aspect and the irony.

event

11.06.2010 and 12.06.2010 from 10.30AM until 6PM
Bring your designer clothing, during these three days Gentucca Bini will be present at her installation with three colleagues to give new life to your old designer pieces!

Graanmarkt13, 2000 Antwerpen
T: +32 3 337 79 92,

MASK + MASQUEE DURING A DEEP CONVERSATION ABOUT LOVE

Dear iDEALS, my new friend Elleana just sent me these two wonderful photographs takes during the time me and her were having a deep conversation about love.

FILEP DOES PORTRAIT: MATTEUS

Matteus posing for me right after his gig yesterday. His album is about to be released and I am telling you : you need to have it!!

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LADY GAGA ON SHOWSTUDIO / NOW / TUNE IN!!!!

http://live.showstudio.com/

"Lady Gaga: 

I don't know. I feel so blessed, it's so unexplainable the love that I feel for my fans and how they treat me. The videos, the notes, the artworks - the other day I spent hours reading through all this and raving about how talented and lovely my fans are. Love is a symbiotic thing, especially when it's real. Perhaps it's just very real - I put love into my fans, and they give love to me, and we continue to give love back and forth forever."

WATCH AND LEARN : THIERRY MUGLER ENCORE / SAGA

Robot Queen by Thierry Mugler inspired by the masterpiece Metropolis.

Learn how to pronounce it

Photograph by Helmut Newton.

ASVOFF MILANO / VOGUE ITALIA MILANO GUIDE

ASVOFF Milano Guide, as put together by Camille Asseraf.

REPORTERS INTERVIEW : BARBARA LANEVE&MARINO BOMBINI talk to COSIMO TERLIZZI for UN NOUVEAU IDEAL

Dear Filep and iDEALS, Cosimo Terlizzi is the director of the short film BEAUTY, part of ASVOFF by DIANE PERNET with VOGUE Italia.Click here and watch  his former film REGINA IRENA, with which Diane fell in love with when she first came across his works ...

Barbara&Marino - You're talented and young: did you expect you could be selected for this important venue among such very famous names? how do you feel?

Cosimo Terlizzi - Thanks for considering me young, nice of you. Things happens by chance, but it’s we decide which one to take. Everything started at Traffic Gallery in Bergamo where Stefania Seoni appreciated my works and posted pictures of them on Diane Pernet’s blog. Mme Pernet loved them as well (especially Damien the animal boy and video Regina Irena), and then asked me to participate to Milan Asvoff. Of course that thrilled me, but most of all I like this exciting cyclic ups and downs that this job gets.

B&M - Fashion is definitely moving towards new forms of expression and promotion, video art as first: how do you relate with fashion? is it something you've always thought to deal with?

CM - Being a figurative artist I consider videos the best contemporary way to promote art. My personal view on it is made of my surroundings, and in them I find fashion. Fashion inspires me but as a way to express myself rather than a worship of it. And as I said I love this never ending circle motion between its ups and downs: fashion lives dies and then lives again. Unfortunately this also means ugly consequences, let’s think of Russia or China, and the “human price” they pay for their aesthetic hunger. But I think things are gonna change: sustainability is the key nowadays; people long for something caring for costs and price, for affordable limited editions, they’re becoming more conscious of what they wear; luxury brands are no more that attractive.

B&M - Tell us shortly about you: where do you come from and how you got where you are now?

CM - I’m Italian and I was born where I shot Beauty, in Bitonto, Bari. It was a house out of the city actually. Uneven roads, sunny and dry. It was a rough life in a way, but also passionate and serene. I left when I was 19. Then it started my artistic life.

B&M - Quite a few Italians for ASVOFF contest: a new Italian wave is born?

CM - Well, Italy is not at her highest. Her history is becoming really tough at the moment, also because we use to deal continuously with the past, that will never come again. Artistically speaking time to change has come, in a way we’re avenging the darkness in which we have been laid for so long in.

B&M - Any collaboration for you in the future? which ones?

CM - I’m now promoting my film Folder, where amazing artists, as Christian Rainer and Massimo Carrozzi, accepted to be in the crew. I used all I did during last past year (pictures, low-fi videos, chat, mpeg-a). It’s a complex work about our generation and its new target.

Portrait of Cosimo and Mme Anna Piaggi by Jacopo Turrini 2010

REPORTERS INTERVIEW : BARBARA LANEVE&MARINO BOMBINI talk to DIANE PERNET for UN NOUVEAU IDEAL

Barbara&Marino: How do you rate MILAN venue of ASVOFF so far? Everything went the way you expected?

DianePernet: The location and the collaborations were perfect. I met Massimiliano Finazzer Flory, from the Cultural Ministry when I curated the Michael Nyman exhibition last month at 10 Corso Como. I showed him the teaser for the current exhibition; he liked the idea so much that he gave us the entire ground floor of Palazzo Morando, Costume Moda Immagine. Like the rest of the planet, I’ve always loved Italian Vogue so to collaborate with them was a great pleasure. Federico Poletti had the idea to bring ASVOFF to Milan more than half a year ago; he made it happen along with the participation of Lancia, the museum and Italian Vogue. To answer your question, I think this was our best screening so far.

Barbara&Marino:Your experience has taught us there are hidden places where to discover interesting scenes and talents: do you think asvoff could take place in other cities in Italy than Milan? If yes where? And if not why?

DianePernet:My festival has traveled around the planet that is the nature of ASVOFF so there is no reason that it could not take place in another city in Italy. There is a request now for a screening in Rome; the only possible difficulty at the moment would be the timing.

Barbara&Marino: The first decade of 21st century is almost over, talking about fashion has a completely different meaning than 20 years ago: what kind evolution do you see for the future and what does ASVOFF mean to fashion?

DianePernet:The changes that have happened over the past few years amount to nothing less than breaking down an old wall. It’s not likely that fashion will go back to the exclusivity of showing to the rarefied few. What the future holds, more innovative ways of showing fashion and of course, the increased popularity of fashion films. What ASVOFF means to fashion, I don’t want to sound pretentious so let’s just say a continued launch pad for emerging and established talent.

Barbara&Marino: It must have been hard to select good works among the huge response you received: which is the line you feel one should trespass to be original and authentic (not then just a fashion follower/victim)?

DianePernet:With any open calls you receive a lot of films that you know immediately will not make the selection. There is no magic formula for what works and what does not work, I base my choices on my own instinct. It either works or it doesn’t, if it makes me feel something that is already a good sign. I don’t like to give to many boundaries I want to be surprised. Originality counts a lot, so does the way the film is crafted, the director of photography, the styling, after all it is a fashion film festival, the hair and make-up, the editing and the music are all important in the appreciation of a good film. I remember receiving a film from LA a year or more ago, all the elements were great, there was a story, the acting was perfect and so was the editing and the lighting and the sound design but the problem was the clothes were not great… The fashion needs to play an important role in the film. I tried to explain the problem to the director because I really liked his film but I don’t think he understood.

Barbara&Marino: Your path to where you belong now has been quite an adventure, a beautiful one in a way: do you see any mistake you wouldn't do again?

DianePernet:I follow my passions and that is not necessarily the easiest route. What is important for me is to be free to do what I want to do. It makes for a beautiful adventure; however, you pay a price for that freedom. No regrets, I don’t think I could imagine my life any other way.

Barbara&Marino: What’s avant-garde for you nowadays?

DianePernet:Someone that writes his or her own destiny, in fashion design I immediately think of Rick Owens. Doing things in an original way be it architecture, fashion or film is what makes something new and ‘avant-garde’. When the Director Mike Figgis made Timecode and choreographed 4 cameras on one screen without any cuts that was avant-garde. Gaspar Noe’s film Enter the Void is cinematically avant-garde. The LIGHT film Sunshowers could be called avant-garde in the way that Elisha Smith-Leverock works with light, movement and sound or Erwin Olaf’s way of dealing with emotion and the surprise element could also fit that brief. Andrea Splisgar, the German performance artist and filmmaker is always pushing the boundaries and in the end maybe that is what the word ‘avant-garde’ is really about.

BARBARA LANEVE & MARINO BOMBINI REPORT FROM MILANO : ASVOFF WITH VOGUE ITALIA PART THREE

ALEXIS THEMISTOCLEOUS REPORTS : 90 DAYS, ONE DREAM

Dear Filep and iDEALS,the new book of fashion photographer Kristian Schuller entitled “90 days, one dream” will be released on the 4th of June.

The offer: 90 days, traveling to the most beautiful places in the world, accompanied by young girls full of dreams. An unusual and exciting challenge for fashion photographer Kristian Schuller that inspired a daring project parallel to his participation in the TV show with Heidi Klum.

The idea: A separate book project with the girls, photographed during shooting breaks in the television production.

The result: A road movie of fantastically staged photo shoots, an adventure that for everyone involved became mainly one thing in the end – a dream.

Alexis Themistocleous

Cyprus Correspondent