Just the Essentials

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At far right, fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez 
(who died of AIDS in 1987 at the untimely age of 44) 

with, from left, Eija Vehka Aho, Juan Ramos, 

Jacques de Bascher, and Karl Lagerfeld.

Today Rizzoli releases Antonio: Fashion, Art, Sex and Disco, by Roger Padilha and Mauricio Padilha of MAO Mag (including contributions by Bill Cunningham, Anna Sui, and Andre Leon Talley). The book focuses not only on Lopez's illustrations but also showcases his photographs, for which he is less well known.

Antonio Lopez and Jerry Hall, 1975. 

Photograph by Norman Parkinson.

A show at the Suzanne Geiss Company gallery in NYC, covering three decades of Lopez's career and sounding chock-full of interesting gems (including 8-millimeter films shot by Lopez), opens on September 7 (more info here).

Below, some of Lopez's earlier illustrations.

Beauty Head, 1963

 

For British Vogue, 1965

Model Carol LaBrie, 1971

 

 For The New York Times, 1966

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Who: The crowd
Show: Christopher Kane, Monday Feb. 20
Mood:"Let me call you back. ..."
Look: Goth and gadgets

From Damien Florébert Cuypers's series of quick illustrations of London Fashion Week, for T magazine. See others here and on Cuypers's tumblr – and more of Cuypers's work here.

The Line

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Early '60s Dior lingerie packaging.

Totally brilliant.

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Strath Blue Ribbon – a totally amazing birthday present by Joey Veltkamp! I feel truly honored to be surrounded by so many great and talented people.

In London Town

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Further evidence that London is the place to be: Seattle homegirl Izzie Klingels is featured in The Menagerie, a group show at Art Work Space (in the Hempel Hotel, London) for the next month. The opening is tonight – get on the list by emailing rsvp[at]artworkspace.co.uk and visit Izzie's website, tumblr, and Etsy shop to see more of her work.

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CMRTYZ for Blackbird

The freakishly talented art duo CMRTYZ (Carlos M. Ruiz + Ty Ziskis) are hosting a party at Blackbird in Ballard tonight featuring new artwork and t-shirt designs in collab with OBEY. 6–10PM / go here for info.

Bonus:

Here's a page from Carlos's daily sketchbook of his life. Go here for more.

Healthy

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Witch Gardens "I Wanna Get Sick" from a split cassette with Stephanie. $7 via Paypal to poorstephanie [at] gmail.com. Trading card artwork by Casey Catherwood and Derek Charm.

Rx

Also tonight—CMRTYZ presents:

Cassie Ramone (Vivian Girls, The Babies) is installing an aisle of Walgreen's - not a realistic, actual aisle, but rather a "super-aisle" filled with products sold at big-name drugstores that she's attracted to. So far, items for inspiration are: boxes of hair dye, waxing/hair removal products, fake nails/eyelashes, Hanes t-shirts and underwear, condoms, cosmetics aisle items such as lipstick and nail polish, chapstick, the magazine rack, Ziploc bags, As Seen On TV products, fungal cream, wrist braces, and surely there will be many more to come. Thick lines on the wall to represent "shelves" and on pricing- the pieces will be determined by moving the decimal point on the actual product over one (if a box of hair dye is $8.99 the piece will be $89).

Plus: after party with The Pharmacy, Cassie Ramone, TacocaT, Battle Stations. More info and additional greatness at CMRTYZ.

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Artwork by Stacey Rozich for Earth's new album, Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1, available now from Southern Lord on CD or 180g black or red vinyl. Earth plays its album release party tonight at the Tractor, with Pacific Standard favorite Mount Eerie and the Low Hums opening.

I Like the Night Life, Baby

Artwork for the Cars' second album, Candy-O, by Alberto Vargas, the Peruvian-born artist who painted classic pin-up girls for Esquire and Playboy from the '40s through the '70s.

I'm breaking our no-weekend-posting rule because a song by The Cars is stuck in my head right now (I have no idea why) and I feel compelled to share:


The Cars "Let's Go" from Candy-O (1979, Elektra)

One time I was in Montreal on a press-check for the magazine I was working for at the time (that's where you go to the printer and look at proofs, and basically watch the magazine start to go through the press to make sure the color comes out right).

[+] Ink and gigantic spools of blank paper

[+] Magazine pages transferred into film; printed pages going through the press

I was there for a couple days and then stayed for the weekend so I could cruise around and buy records. Montreal is always good for records – there's a whole store there that only sells French vinyl (sadly, no Cortex or Sun Palace – two French records that have been on my list forever – but I got a bunch of other stuff I was happy with). Anyway while I was driving around I heard an extended interview on the CBC about the recording of The Cars' first album (self-titled, 1978) and it kind of cemented in my mind that they were a band with great beginnings. They got sucky later and I hated those half-animated videos, but the early stuff is solid.

Anyway, now The Cars remind me of Montreal.

Outdoor Indoor

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sanso-xtro: "Hello Night Crow" from Fountain Fountain Joyous Mountain (2011, Digitalis). Video directed by Fergal Brennan. More info on Australian artist sanso-xtro (Melissa Agate) at sanso-xtro.com.

Tidelands

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Moondoggies "Empress of the North" from Tidelands (out this week on Hardly Art). Video by Pacific Standard favorite Drew Christie – see much more of Drew's work at his blog Democracy for the Cartoons.

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Select spread from a collaboration by photographer Wendy Bevan and London-born, Seattle-based illustrator Izzie Klingels for Test Magazine. Click here for video and more images from this story, and see more of Izzie Klingels' work – for Topshop, Vogue, Calvin Klein, The V&A, and many others – at her website.

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Kiki Smith: Balanced Light, a reflection on the changing of seasons featured in the New York Times op-ed pages on March 20, 2007, and in this weekend's special section celebrating 40 years of the Times' Opinion Pages. Click here for a video featuring select artwork from the opinion pages, and here for a truly amazing collection of excerpts from opinion articles over the years.

As the Crow Flies

Last Friday I had the chance to check out the amazing Dennis McNett installations in the windows at Barneys Seattle. (Click to enlarge.)

The photos don't fully do them justice but if you have the chance, head downtown and take a closer look.

McNett, who is based in Brooklyn, also did installations in the windows of the New York store this past summer. See more of his work here and check out the Barneys windows through the end of October at 6th and Pine, Seattle.

Time For Some Action(!)

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Okay okay I've slipped just a wee bit on my poster of the week "series" but here's one for ya. I'm looking forward to seeing this show, opening tonight at Ghost Gallery on Capitol Hill (Seattle), with work by Tabor Robak & DUMB EYES, Izzie Klingels & Amanda Manitach, Frank Correa & Nick Bartoletti, and Joe Gray & Keith Tilford.

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Temporary storefront posters by CMRTYZ (at the corner of Denny & Olive, Seattle).

See more of CMRTYZ' work at their website and at RARE Gallery in NYC through July 24.

The Great Seattle Fire: June 6, 1889

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Fire Fire I Heard The Cry from Drew Christie on Vimeo.

Moonshine

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Cool cover – the first edition/first printing of Alastair Crowley's Moonchild (1929). Yours for a mere $20,066.15 at Abe Books.

Chat Debout

A drawing by a multi-talented friend of the blog,
Valéry Lorenzo.