The Fashion Museum of Antwerp (MoMu) is currently holding a women’s daily wear exhibition curated by Karen Van Godtsenhoven and Wim Mertens. About a hundred of silhouettes from the Jacoba de Jonge collection have been assembled together and transferred from Holland. The exposition showcases everyday outfits of bourgeois women between 1750 and 1950: from inside-wear [...]

We’re all familiar with the ubiquitous screen print turned graphic design of Andre the Giant, the logo of Shepard Fairey and his brand Obey. How the icon became a staple of our pop culture catalog is somewhat less well-known. To date, the history of Fairey’s work comes mostly from a handful interviews with the street [...]

From March 22nd to April 3rd, the Cinéma du réel international documentary film festival is taking place at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, for its 34th edition. 200 films are selected, divided in four categories. This year’s avant-garde section, exploring documentary, pays tribute to filmmakers as Warriors, those using lethal weapons, those using cameras, those using [...]

The Western Sahara does not often frequent our thoughts, but in this mysterious desert, there lives a group of exiles under military occupation. The Sahara International Film Festival, or FiSahara, might be the world’s only film exhibition held in a refugee camp, bringing entertainment, culture and education to the Saharawi people. After Spanish colonists withdrew [...]

Street style columns are everywhere now. Bloggers like Scott Schuman (The Sartorialist), Yvan Rodic (Facehunter) and Phil Oh (Street Peeper) have worked from the ground up to make huge successes of themselves; they now regularly shoot campaigns for high-end fashion brands and collaborate with international chains. With the advent of camera phones and digital photography, [...]

The ever-classy Norah Jones just dropped the first single to her May 1 release, Little Broken Hearts, but it is the album’s cover art that has caught our attention. The illustration that adorns Jones’ fifth LP was inspired by “a sadistically sensual motion picture,” set in the days of the Depression and Prohibition. The 1965 [...]

Short films come in different forms, and lately, they all have one thing in common–attention to aesthetics (aesthetics that won’t steal the spotlight from the film’s star, of course). The incredibly talented Walis Ahluwalia appears in front of the lens guarded by a stellar battalion that includes actors Agyness Deyn, Jason Schwartzman and Tilda Switon. [...]

Swedish director Tomas Alfredson is no stranger to adaptations. His 2008 film, Let The Right One In (2008), based on John Ajvide Lindqvist’s novel of the same name, was a formidable success both domestically and internationally, even sparking a Hollywood re-make (Let Me In, 2010). His latest effort Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is based on [...]

This past Tuesday marked the second annual Faith Shorts Global Film Competition run by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. The budding event is unique in its call for youth from around the world to participate in the production of short films. In three minutes or less, over 120 teens between ages 14 and 18 expressed [...]

Ai Weiwei remains unapologetic and defiant, while continuing to be an inspiration to those who care about human rights and social justice. Although he was released from secret detention in September, the Chinese authorities continue to strong arm the artist. The government has had a particularly difficult time muting Ai due to his huge international [...]

Pharrell’s new film, Tokyo Rising, premiered last night at the Hiro Ballroom in New York City.  The project was a creative marketing collaboration between Palladium boots and director Thalia Mavros.  The film takes Pharrell on a journey through the creative underground of Tokyo to get a sense of how the city has recovered from the [...]

Who: Alison Chernick What she does: Filmmaker Where: New York City, USA What she is working on: A script for a narrative feature that I plan to shoot spring of 2012. It is a film inspired by Maurice Pialat’s Nous Ne Vieillirons Pas Ensemble. What movement she would  like to start: An Anti-plastic movement. All [...]

The 4th annual Imagine Science Film Festival in New York City aims to showcase compelling and creative films while maintaining scientific integrity. This year’s festival will take place October 14-21, and will have screenings at locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, as well as select films online including past winners. “ISFF is the first science film [...]

Beats Rhymes & Life chronicles the journey of Q-Tip, Phife, Ali and Jarobi as they come to grips with adulthood through the successes and struggles of A Tribe Called Quest. Their anecdotes paint a unique oral, sonic and visual history of the legendary group, New York City and classic hip hop. The film covers the [...]

My Little Princess opened yesterday in the french movie theaters. The semi-autobiographic film by Eva Ionesco, starring Isabelle Huppert and introducing striking Franco-Romanian Anamaria Vartolomei, depicts the troubled mother daughter relationship Ionesco went through as a kid, while being her mother’s fetish model. In her debut feature, initially presented during Cannes Critics week, last May, [...]