Bags by Miles Jopling.

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Harsh · 08/14/10

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“It is a kind of ’size-matters’ syndrome, and if something should be changed, it’s this. I mean, being rich is fine, but there should be a limit to it. I just have my smallish Finnish coast guard boat that I happened to find out about from my shrink. But we’re not supposed to talk about those private things, so back to what we were talking about . . . I didn’t mean to stray onto boats. For many in this business, if they can make something and multiply it by nine, it’s like having a shot of heroin in the arm, a kick. I don’t have a kick from that. I get off on running the company, making a decent profit, paying people fairly, and having more than a decent life for myself—but that’s it.”

Harsh · 08/04/10







Jonathan · 08/01/10

Thanks, Jessica.

Harsh · 07/27/10

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Harsh · 06/03/10

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“There should be something smaller happening, although I can’t really say I’ve found it, which doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist. If there’s a really good thing going on now and I don’t know about it, I think that’s kind of right. If I know what’s going on, then it’s not truly new, if you know what I mean.”

Interviewed by Fraser Cooke. Two figures I am perpetually mixed on.

Harsh · 04/16/10

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Sandy · 03/08/10

Needless to say, I’ve got my Spring wardrobe all sorted out.

Mark · 03/01/10

Jean-Claude Vannier and his orchestra working with Yves Saint-Laurent in the early 70s.

Sandy · 02/16/10

Beatrice Valenzuela

“I always collected moccasins. I would get vintage ones, Canadian moccasins, Pueblo moccasins…I studied anthropology, so I have this fascination with anything indigenous — just how basic things can be, and how beautiful. So I had this obsession with moccasins and handmade shoes. And I found I couldn’t find a good pair of shoes out there that were good for every day that I really loved the design of, that were comfortable and that were affordable.”

— Beatrice Valenzuela

Jonathan · 01/07/10

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Nov. 21st 2009, 2-4 pm
8038 W. Third St.
Los Angeles

Harsh · 11/19/09

Here and There 9

The theme of the nineth issue of Here and There is HER LIFE. It deals with the various factors that make up the many waves in a woman’s life, such as working, becoming pregnant, giving birth. The colorful stories told by Elein Fleiss, Laetitia Bena, Yurie Nagashima, Miranda July, Midori Araki and Aiko Yamada, reflect each of their lives.

Nakako Hayashi writes: “There are various lives, various moments and various emotions. I wish to capture the ripples of emotion in our daily lives as seeds, right before they turn into fluff and float away. I wish to keep observing what grows from there. I guess this may be what I want to do with Here and There.”

Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 9
Softcover, 56 pp., offset 4/duotone, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-69-2
Published by Nieves

Distributed in North America by Textfield, Inc.

Textfield · 11/11/09

032c 18

032c 18, Thomas Demand
Softcover, 272 pp. + Thomas Demand dossier, offset 4/1, 20 x 27 cm
Edition of 2000
Published by 032c

Our knowledge of images is my material,” says artist THOMAS DEMAND in part of our 40-page Demand Dossier featuring interviews with filmmaker Todd Solondz, architect Adam Caruso, museum director Udo Kittelmann, and more; meanwhile Nike CEO MARK PARKER discusses creativity, commerce, and charity; Design Director at BMW ADRIAN VAN HOOYDONK tells Konstantin Grcic about the future of the driving experience; the MONTANA Club seduces Paris night life all over again; artist LUCAS SAMARAS pulls back the curtain on his prophetic creative vision; SLAVS & TATARS conjures ghosts of COMMUNISM past the 20th anniversary of its fall; photographer ALASDAIR MCLELLAN captures supermodel Trish Goff in a Big Sur splash; DANKO STEINER sets a new New York standard with CHLOË, MISSY, LIZZI, and NATASA in “Alphabet City”; the 032c SELECT premieres with 30-plus brand new pages of material culture.

Distributed in the United States by Textfield, Inc.

Textfield · 11/05/09

Two projects that fit loosely into a larger idea of supporting ideas that work quietly and locally.

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I have a few projects from this Porto-based label via trades with my friend Isabel (who produced the work above, from BF10/Wanda II). BdF’s website is pretty clear and concise as to aims and background information, so there’s not much else to say here other than this is one of my favorite imprints.

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I met Maki Hakui in NYC at this years Art Book Fair, and her magazine School was the only title I ended up shelling out cash for. I support her mission to avoid discussing the usual aspects and figures of Japanese art culture, and going straight to intimate, direct dialogues with its lesser exposed – but equally interesting – women creatives.

Harsh · 10/21/09

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“I think most Purple Fashion readers are new readers, if you can call them readers, I think they’re part of these people that go through magazines, look at them but don’t really read. I’m doing a magazine to avoid this way of looking at magazines. If you glance through Purple Journal and now Les Cahiers Purple, if you don’t enter in it, like in a book, take the time, then you don’t get anything from it. It’s not about visual excitement. A story like the one of Purple certainly never happened before. Olivier Zahm and I starting a magazine together in 1992, worked together for 12 years and went in such different directions that we decided to split. But we both feel “Purple” is us so we keep this name.”

Interviewed by Juan Moralejo for his new project, Foco.

Elein Fleiss projects via Textfield.

Harsh · 10/07/09

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One of the highlights of my short trip to London was this retrospective of Simon Foxton’s styling work, complete with a display of his scrapbooks. The Paul Hetherington-designed catalog is also a treat.

Harsh · 09/10/09

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Photos by David Sims, direction by Raf Simons. If you can find the Peter Saville-designed monograph on this hair stylist, you’re in for a treat.

“If you are expecting beauty, hairstyling ideas, or a nice coffeetable book, you will be disappointed. The photos are not visually appealing and don’t seem to have any artistic intent, though some do have the dark lurkings (without the genius of lighting) of the back-room B&W nude photos by Mapplethorpe. Aside from a young Kate Moss, these young faces exhibit marked sun damage and acne scars; perhaps these were “before” photos for a dermatologist’s office. The hair cuts and styles are crude (perhaps intentionally), and with the amplified pits and valleys in the skin they leave the reader wondering what Guido’s intention was in publishing this, as it hardly flatters his talent or esthetic sensibility.” - A Misguided Reviewer

Harsh · 07/24/09
Tet

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Old interview I didn’t see, he is heading up a new line for A Bathing Ape called Ursus. Drawing by Skate Thing.

Harsh · 07/14/09

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Anni Albers proves that good design is resourceful and clever.

Necklace one, (ball chain, bobby pins). Necklace two, (ribbon, washers).

Harsh · 03/15/09

Wear

Wear 2008, the journal of Elaine W. Ho/Homeshop, Beijing is now available.

Wear is a new independent artist-run publication from Beijing. In part a documentation of a series of public activities, discussions and interventions organised at HomeShop space during the 2008 Olympic Games, the first issue of Wear also serves as a broader platform to invite other artists, writers and contributors to reflect upon — from the point of view of a small alleyway in the centre of Beijing — a spectacular everyday amidst broader contemporary urban sociopolitics.

Wear is distributed in North America by Textfield or contact your local bookshop.

Textfield · 03/01/09

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All things Desi, curated by Mansi Shah.

Above: Chacha Chaudary’s Pinki.

Harsh · 02/24/09

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If you wear vegan products, take note: My friend and ex-studiomate Rachel’s animal-friendly crop of men’s dress shoes got a mention in the latest issue of VMan. Honestly, the only person who has gotten a good-looking vegan shoe right. And I’ve looked around harder than anybody out there, I guarantee.

Thanks, Rachel!

Harsh · 02/23/09

German Latin Disco Soccer: the way to go.

Sebastian · 01/29/09

032c, Post-America

032c, 16th Issue — Post-America

“A new world is coming into being almost unnoticed.” John Gray tells Hans Ulrich Obrist about the political and financial unrest in the “Post American Age;” Steven Meisel reveals fashion’s cruel and beautiful in a rare interview (plus a seven-page foldout madness of all his Vogue Italia covers); Wes Jones illustrates Dubai and the effects of superabundance; artist Sturtevant tackles copy, copyright, and the ready-made; architect Jürgen Mayer H., and artists Ralf Ziervogel and Roth Stauffenberg form a cluster of 3-4 Fantastic Germans (with 032c’s Architectural Digest visit to Mozambique’s Grand Hotel gone bad); Photographers Max Farago and Alasdair McLellan bring on “The Nudes;” and so much more on 246 pages.

032c, 16th Issue now available through Textfield Distribution or contact your local bookshop.

Textfield · 01/03/09

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Garments by Natasha Ghosn.

Harsh · 12/24/08

Patrik Ervell

Winter Sale:
70% off Dries Van Noten, Raf Simons, A.P.C., Patrik Ervell and Band of Outsiders
50% off Common Projects
Sunday 21 December at 11am, South Willard

South Willard will be using FedEx 2nd day for all domestic shipments ordered by 2pm monday, for Christmas delivery

Textfield · 12/20/08

Here and There 8

Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 8
The Loneliness Issue
published by Nieves
saddle stitched, 64 pp., offset 4/1, 21 x 29.7 cm

Here and There is available through Textfield Distribution or contact your local bookshop.

Textfield · 12/12/08
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