Bags by Miles Jopling.

“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.”

Thanks, Jessica.

“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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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

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

Anni Albers proves that good design is resourceful and clever.

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

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.

All things Desi, curated by Mansi Shah.

Above: Chacha Chaudary’s Pinki.

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.

German Latin Disco Soccer: the way to go.

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.

Garments by Natasha Ghosn.

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

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.