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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Crossroads Celebrity Concert

Here are a few photos from the Crossroads Celebrity Concert I worked on last week at the Grand Ole Opry. Collin Raye (country), Kallen Esperian (opera), and Lawrence Hamilton (Broadway), were the the three guest celebrity artists. They are truly NICE people...what a joy to work with. And they were SO great with the children. The concert was absolutely WONDERFUL!! Way to go Crossroads Children's Chorus!

Collin Raye, Kallen Esperian, Lawrence Hamilton and the Crossroads Children's Chorus

(l to r) Kallen Esperian, Lisa Byrd Thomas, Russell Davis- pianist, Stephen Hatfield - Conductor, Martha Wright - Director

Collin Raye

Our dressing room at the Grand Ole Opry House. Star treatment!!

Hours and hours of rehearsal with members of the Nashville Symphony

Collin Raye & Me

Style File: Chainsawing Their Way Into The Windows Of Barneys

Style File

Chainsawing Their Way Into The Windows Of Barneys

Jul 19th 2011, 19:57

Last night, the chainsaws were going full-throttle at Barneys New York’s midtown window display studio. The six artists who make up Paintallica—roughly an art-world supergroup, comprising six more or less core members and a variety of guest stars, who join forces every so often to install themselves in a space and not leave until a piece is completed—were hacking away at giant tree trunks, which are to end up, eventually, in Barneys’ 60th Street windows. The artists and the retailer invited Style.com in for a peek behind the scenes.

The occasion for the displays: the debut of Adam Kimmel’s collaborative collection with workwear wonks at Carhartt. The collection will share one window with the Paintallica creation and one with a piece being installed by California artist George Herms. Both Dan Attoe (above), the de facto spokesperson for Paintallica, and Herms are Kimmel stalwarts. Last season, Kimmel collaborated with Attoe on a Pacific Northwest-inspired collection, as well as a film to screen alongside it. And Herms (below is one of the grizzled, grand old men of American art who modeled the collection Kimmel showed at Pitti Uomo in 2008, and later appeared in his lookbook.

“He was working a few years ago on a line based on the Beat generation. Tony Shafrazi said, you know, Adam, one of these guys is still wandering around the hills of California, so he sent him out to Dennis Hopper and Dennis sent him to me,” Herms explained. For his window, he is creating saturated collages, culled from magazine images, over which he’s laying melted metal sculptures he calls “barbecued moon rocks” (below). At a party tonight for finishing touches before the windows go up on Thursday, Herms will be barbecuing smaller versions made from DVDs over hot plates.

Paintallica’s, too, was in the early stages of completion at the beginning of a long night. “It’s a lot of improvisation,” Attoe admitted. “It’ll come together as we’re working on it.” The department store display is a new medium for the artist, as it is for Herms. “This is our first store window,” said the outdoorsmanly Attoe, who befriended Kimmel over chopper-riding, four-wheeling, and shooting. “I don’t know if it’ll be a recurring thing for us—I kinda doubt it.”

—Matthew Schneier

Photos: John Aquino

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Style File: Mirror, Mirror, On The (Shop) Wall

Style File

Mirror, Mirror, On The (Shop) Wall

Jul 19th 2011, 19:30

Tribeca’s first “mirrored cave/performance space” touches down just in time for New York fashion week. It’s the new pop-up shop for Mugler, creative director Nicola Formichetti revealed last night at BOFFO’s annual benefit. The New York nonprofit runs the Building Fashion program, which connects designers (those without retail spaces of their own) with architects and provides funds and space for temporary, week-long stores. (Last year, the project brought Richard Chai, Waris Ahluwalia, Siki Im, Simon Spurr, Heather Huey, and Supima to a secluded space in West Chelsea; this year, Patrik Ervell, the Lake & Stars, Irene Neuwirth, and Ohne Titel, along with Mugler and Formichetti, will set up shop in Tribeca.) BOFFO’s designers past and present crowded the benefit last night, which honored fashion’s favorite stylish architect, Peter Marino. “This year is just another example of how much architecture and fashion can achieve together in collaboration,” Spilios Gianakopoulos, the chair of Building Fashion, said of the new participants. “Looking at the proposals [from architects], it’s just overwhelming what can be done with a lot of creative vision. We had over 300 total proposals for all five designers”—including, he added, 120 for Formichetti.

What will you find there? “All of the designers I collaborate with,” the designer revealed. “It’s a kind of shop/museum kind of thing. Stuff from Japan, special pieces, panda bears…” Of course, the “performance space” designation beggars the question of whether Mugler’s biggest fan, Lady Gaga, will put in an appearance. No word from Formichetti, though he did let slip that he’s off to the heartland today to shoot her latest video. “Nebraska,” he revealed. “Where’s that?”

—Matthew Schneier

Photos: Clint Spaulding / Patrick McMullan

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