Ahem

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This just in from SHOWstudio:

Alongside the 2012 SHOWstudio Shop exhibition Selling Sex, SHOWstudio launches a unique project under the provocative title Fashion Fetish. Created entirely by women working in fashion - including Ruth Hogben, Lady Amanda Harlech and Daphne Guinness, Lily Donaldson, Liberty Ross, Rei Nadel, Asia Argento and Dasha Zhukova of Garage magazine - these fashion films, performances and multi-media pieces make a comment on the fusion of fashion with fetish, a contentious and provocative subject. One piece will be released each week for the duration of the Selling Sex exhibition, 22 March - 1 June 2012.

Click here (or click the image above) to visit SHOWstudio and watch the first piece, directed by Ruth Hogben and featuring Karlie Kloss.

Where Did It All Begin

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Bobby Womack, "Please Forgive My Heart,"
from The Bravest Man in the Universe (XL, forthcoming June 2012)

P.S.

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...I couldn't resist adding:

The flower room at the Ritz Paris [click to enlarge].
Photograph by Tim Walker.

Where Fashion Sits

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Photos above and immediately below are of Anja Rubik at the Ritz Paris, from a 2010 story shot by Hedi Slimane for Vogue Paris (styling by Emmanuelle Alt).

Today American Vogue posted a story from its April issue featuring a Grace Coddington-styled Kate Moss in the Spring 2012 Couture collections - also shot at the hotel, which is closing for a two-year renovation starting this year. See the story here, along with a selection of images from stories throughout the magazine's run that have used the Ritz as a backdrop.

Kate Moss in Chanel Haute Couture,
photographed by Tim Walker [click to enlarge].
Vogue, April 2012.

Image of the Day

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The new Ferrari Museum in Modena – the final design project of the great London-based firm Future Systems – built around the former offices of Enzo Ferrari.

Image via Wallpaper* – click here for more info and a slideshow.

Amongst the Buzzing of Billions

. Mainly I just like this song but it's a cool idea for a video too. When the arrows appear you can use the arrow keys on your keyboard to choose your own adventure:
Chairlift "Met Before" from Something (2012, Kanine). Video directed by Jordan Fish.

Happy Spring

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Officially, that is.

Wes Lang, Time Will Tell, 2011
(11 x 8.5 in., acrylic on paper).

One of the works produced by Lang last year, during a month-long stay at the Chateau in L.A. (all done on the hotel's stationery). The series was inspired by Martin Kippenberger's hotel drawings. See more here.

Image of the Day

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A view through the top of the Smith Tower, from a Kinfolk Magazine story shot by Kyle Johnson.

Shallow

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Beach Fossils "Shallow" from a 7" on Captured Tracks (2012).

Image of the Day

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Pages from the journals of a young Keith Haring. The Keith Haring Foundation scanned the journals featured in the Brooklyn Museum show Keith Haring: 1978–1982, the first large-scale exhibition of Haring's early work. They will post one image a day through the show's close on July 8th. Go here for more.

(As per usual, via Suspence)