LEGENDS of LA CIENEGA: Recap

In May, I was privileged with the opportunity to be involved with the LEGENDS of LA CIENEGA design event in West Hollywood. Working with our client, La Cienega Design Quarter (LCDQ) on a first annual event, we co-created something really special. I'll let the newly released video do the rest of the talking, so take a look at what I'm so proud to share with you:



LEGENDS of LA CIENEGA For over half a century, La Cienega Boulevard in West Hollywood, has been the destination for stylish shoppers of top quality design and the workplace of internationally recognized interior designers and their design houses. In 2007, The La Cienega Design Quarter (LCDQ) was formed by 40 interior design merchants to promote and create further awareness for this neighborhood as a destination for design and decorative arts shopping in Los Angeles. In 2009, PF&C engaged a strategic publicity campaign in conjunction with LCDQ’s first annual event, LEGENDS of LA CIENEGA, to introduce the La Cienega Design District as a vital hub for design aficionados and enthusiasts in Los Angeles. A collaboration between ELLE DÉCOR, LCDQ, and PF&C, LEGENDS of LA CIENEGA was packaged as the first design event of its kind for L.A., cross-pollinating interior design, fashion, architecture, & product design. Through a creative press outreach and event program development, PF&C enhanced the LCDQ brand, and allowed for the event to gain editorial viability for print, digital media, radio, and television. Capitalizing on relationships within the design community in L.A., the list of participating designers for LEGENDS of LA CIENEGA included Martyn-Lawrence Bullard, Suzanne Rheinstein, Kerry Joyce, Waldo Fernandez, Michael Berman, James Magni, Madeline Stuart, David Phoenix, Catherine Malandrino, Trina Turk, & Carolina Herrara to name a few.

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LEGENDS of LA CIENEGA: Recap

In May, I was privileged with the opportunity to be involved with the LEGENDS of LA CIENEGA design event in West Hollywood. Working with our client, La Cienega Design Quarter (LCDQ) on a first annual event, we co-created something really special. I'll let the newly released video do the rest of the talking, so take a look at what I'm so proud to share with you:



LEGENDS of LA CIENEGA For over half a century, La Cienega Boulevard in West Hollywood, has been the destination for stylish shoppers of top quality design and the workplace of internationally recognized interior designers and their design houses. In 2007, The La Cienega Design Quarter (LCDQ) was formed by 40 interior design merchants to promote and create further awareness for this neighborhood as a destination for design and decorative arts shopping in Los Angeles. In 2009, PF&C engaged a strategic publicity campaign in conjunction with LCDQ’s first annual event, LEGENDS of LA CIENEGA, to introduce the La Cienega Design District as a vital hub for design aficionados and enthusiasts in Los Angeles. A collaboration between ELLE DÉCOR, LCDQ, and PF&C, LEGENDS of LA CIENEGA was packaged as the first design event of its kind for L.A., cross-pollinating interior design, fashion, architecture, & product design. Through a creative press outreach and event program development, PF&C enhanced the LCDQ brand, and allowed for the event to gain editorial viability for print, digital media, radio, and television. Capitalizing on relationships within the design community in L.A., the list of participating designers for LEGENDS of LA CIENEGA included Martyn-Lawrence Bullard, Suzanne Rheinstein, Kerry Joyce, Waldo Fernandez, Michael Berman, James Magni, Madeline Stuart, David Phoenix, Catherine Malandrino, Trina Turk, & Carolina Herrara to name a few.

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The Dandy Revolution

SeanYashar.com endorses the Dandy Revolution.

For a complete study in classic formalwear, consider: BlackTieGuide.com
For a complete study in the qualities that make a Dandy, consider: www.Dandyism.net


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SYI: "The interesting irony of formal attire is that almost without exception, every aspect of the masculine evening costume derives from the sport of horseback riding." - Elegance: A Quality Guide to Menswear

The Dandy Revolution

SeanYashar.com endorses the Dandy Revolution.

For a complete study in classic formalwear, consider: BlackTieGuide.com
For a complete study in the qualities that make a Dandy, consider: www.Dandyism.net


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SYI: "The interesting irony of formal attire is that almost without exception, every aspect of the masculine evening costume derives from the sport of horseback riding." - Elegance: A Quality Guide to Menswear

Ron Arad For Kenzo

This beautiful sculpture just happens to also be a perfume bottle.

Now available in selected Kenzo boutiques, Industrial Designer Ron Arad has designed his first perfume flask for the French fragrance makers – and once again unconventionally toyed with shapes and technology. The bottle has an ergonomic form, twisting in the shape of a figure of eight, something emphasized by fine lines. It is made of a Zamac alloy and polished by hand. The unidentifiable and nameless fragrance, akin to the scent of skin, was created by French parfumeur Aurélien Guichard. The fragrance will be produced as a limited edition of 2,000.

Ron Arad’s constant experimentation with the use of possibilities of materials such as steel, aluminium or polyamide and his radical re-conception of form and structure has put him at the forefront of contemporary design. Alongside his limited edition studio work, Arad designs for many leading international companies including Kartell, Vitra, Moroso, Fiam, Driade, Alessi, Cappellini, Cassina and Magis among others.

Ron Arad For Kenzo

This beautiful sculpture just happens to also be a perfume bottle.

Now available in selected Kenzo boutiques, Industrial Designer Ron Arad has designed his first perfume flask for the French fragrance makers – and once again unconventionally toyed with shapes and technology. The bottle has an ergonomic form, twisting in the shape of a figure of eight, something emphasized by fine lines. It is made of a Zamac alloy and polished by hand. The unidentifiable and nameless fragrance, akin to the scent of skin, was created by French parfumeur Aurélien Guichard. The fragrance will be produced as a limited edition of 2,000.

Ron Arad’s constant experimentation with the use of possibilities of materials such as steel, aluminium or polyamide and his radical re-conception of form and structure has put him at the forefront of contemporary design. Alongside his limited edition studio work, Arad designs for many leading international companies including Kartell, Vitra, Moroso, Fiam, Driade, Alessi, Cappellini, Cassina and Magis among others.

Before Photoshop - Barbara Kruger

In the old days before digital photography and Photoshop were able to transform everybody and anything in something else (i.e. -Shepard Fairey's "Obey" or "Hope" posters,") art directors would have legions of staffers doing nothing but things called paste-ups: actual physically manipulated cut and pasted images they would then photograph until they got it right.

Barbara Kruger has been in our faces for years, and her graphic imagery has become a default for the commercial advertising industry (she was once a Mademoiselle magazine art director). Her exhibition of "smalls" done the old-fashioned way: forty four images, all but two black and white, none larger than 11 X 14, framed simply in black at the Skarstedt Gallery has been called Pre-digital only because they feared nobody would know what a paste up even was anymore.

Much of Barbara Kruger's graphic work consists of black-and-white photographs with overlaid captions set in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique. The phrases included in her work are usually declarative, and make common use of such pronouns as "you", "I", "we", and "they". The juxtaposition of Kruger's imagery with text containing criticism of sexism and the circulation of power within cultures is a recurring motif in the work. The text in her work of the 1980s includes such phrases as "Your comfort is my silence" (1981), "you invest in the divinity of the masterpiece" (1982), and "I shop therefore I am" (1987). She has said that "I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are and who we aren’t." Enveloping the viewer with the seductions of direct address, her work is consistently about the kindnesses and brutalities of social life: about how we are to one another.

She layers found photographs from existing sources with pithy and aggressive text that involves the viewer in the struggle for power and control that her captions speak to. In their trademark black letters against a slash of red background, some of her instantly recognizable slogans read “I shop therefore I am,” and “Your body is a battleground." Much of her text questions the viewer about feminism, classicism, consumerism, and individual autonomy and desire, although her black-and-white images are culled from the mainstream magazines that sell the very ideas she is disputing.


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