Jumat, 03 Februari 2012
Klaus Nomi and Joey Arias dancing in Fiorucci windows NYC .
Klaus Nomi and Joey Arias dancing in Fiorucci windows NYC.
1987-USA - Arrow Shirt Commercial
1987-USA - Arrow Shirt Commercial
Arrow Dress Knits commercial (1971)
Kamis, 02 Februari 2012
Bergdorf Goodman salutes Christian Laboutin and Parsons students.
Last night in NYC, Christian Louboutin celebrated his 20th Anniversary with a party at Bergdorf Goodman.
Patrick McDonald, James Aguiar.
Nancy Bacich, Nancy Garcia.
Rabu, 01 Februari 2012
Neil Young: Steve Jobs and I were working on new iPod
By Sean Michaels guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 1 February 2012
Neil Young has claimed he was working with the late Apple boss Steve Jobs on a follow-up to the iPod. Young said he and Jobs were developing a new device for listening to "high-resolution audio", which would download content "while you're sleeping".
"Steve Jobs was a pioneer of digital music, but when he went home he listened to vinyl," Young said during an interview at the D: Dive Into Media technology conference. He and Jobs were apparently both concerned with the dearth of high-quality listening formats for audiophiles, and the two men met to work on new hardware that could store the large music files Young prefers. Since Jobs's death in October, Young complained, there is "not much going on".
Young is a notorious opponent of MP3s and other compressed music formats. He even criticises CDs, which he claims offer only 15% of the audio information contained on master recordings. "What everybody gets [on an MP3] is 5% of what we originally make in the studio," he said. "We live in the digital age, and unfortunately it's degrading our music, not improving."
The 66-year-old singer called on his audience to improve standards for high-fidelity audio and new consumer-friendly playback devices. The main obstacle to better quality recordings is file size: audiophile-quality songs can take as long as 30 minutes to download, Young said, and current players can store no more than about 30 albums. "I have to believe if [Jobs] lived long enough he would have tried to do what I'm trying to do."
While Young attacked the internet's effect on audio standards, he acknowledged its utility as a promotional tool. "I look at [the] internet as the new radio," he explained. "Radio [is] gone. Piracy is the new radio; it's how music gets around."
Young is currently working on two new albums with his long-time on-off backing band Crazy Horse. He recently updated his website with an epic, 37-minute jam, thought to be taken from these sessions.
5 Minutes with Tony King
Tony King began his career in fashion online as Gucci Group’s eBusiness Design Director. 2004 marked the year that he established CREATETHE GROUP to transform the face of luxury online. As the former chief creative officer and founder, Tony led the conceptualization and development of digital solutions in his New York, Milan, and London offices. Under his exacting standards and distinctly unique creative direction, Tony has been a leader in design solutions for over a decade. Dissatisfied with big agency mentality, Tony founded a new kind of agency with King & Partners in 2010.
Q1. What was the first record that you owned that really had a life changing effect on you?
TK - don't take this the wrong way but it was Sex Machine by James Brown. In 1987 I was 15 and started going to club that played funk and soul music, the music of James Brown really stood out. I remember buying the 7 inch vinyl of the that record.
Q2. You have a 'blue chip' client list that includes Kenzo, Thakoon, Bottega Venata, Jack Spade and Reiss. Why is fashion your chosen area of expertise and how adaptable is the industry to online marketing and e-commerce?
TK - I was told early on that if you do something you love you'll never work a day in your life. I've always loved fashion, design, architecture etc and I like to apply what I'm good at to those markets, and what I'm good at it coming up with ideas for digital properties, whether it be digital marketing or commerce ideas.
Q3. Vice is positioning itself as the 'new MTV' with a huge amount of original online content with Tom Freston at the helm of their endeavor. Do you think that a fashion brand could position itself as 'the new MTV' and if so, who?
TK - I actually don't think one brand could do that. Fashion is only interesting when it's mixed up with lots of brands and inspirations.
Q4. What are the Top Five Tips you can give fashion clients in the world of e-commerce?
TK - 1. find the right agency, embrace them as your partner and trust them. 2. know best practices but don't be afraid to break them where applicable. 3. forget focus groups, go on your gut, use intuition. your customers wont know what they want until they see it or use it. 4. having said that don't ignore your site analytics, read the statistics and know how to act upon them. 5. take risks.
Q5. Who is your ultimate digital icon and why?
TK - Not original but it has to be Steve Jobs. He did everything based on his instinct.
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