RANKIN: UNFASHIONABLE
The first thing you notice leafing through the new monograph of Rankin, the fashion photographer who co-founded Dazed & Confused with Jefferson Hack, and then went on to found Hunger magazine, is how uneven his work is.
Eugene Rabkin is the founder of stylezeitgeist.com. He has contributed articles on fashion and culture to The Business of Fashion, Vogue Russia, Buro247, the Haaretz Daily Newspaper, and other publications. He has taught critical writing and fashion writing courses at Parsons the New School for Design.
How Premium Mediocre Fashion Conquered the World
Last year the blogger Venkatesh Rao coined the term “premium mediocre.” He was referring to a segment of economic activity largely dreamed up by marketers to give the consumerist masses an illusion that they are consuming luxury, when they were doing nothing of the sort.
Andy Warhol at the Whitney Museum
My relationship to Warhol’s art has been full of tension. I used to hate it – the obviousness of it, the surface, the refusal to say something serious.
StyleZeitgeist Guide to Moscow
If you haven’t been to Moscow, the simple advice is get on the plane and go (you’ll need a visa).
Egon Schiele and Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Foundation Louis Vuitton
When Foundation Louis Vuitton opened several years ago in Paris, it joined a slew of those manufactured by the newly minted patrons of the arts who have made such incredible amounts of money that they could build not private collections but entire museums; people like the fashion designer Miuccia Prada (Fondazione Prada in Milan) and the real-estate moguls like Eli Broad (the Broad in Los Angeles).
Caravaggio at Musée Jacquemart-André
It’s one of those things you find out about and your jaw drops to the floor.
In the Name of What? Interview With The Culture Ltd.
The Culture Ltd. is the new underground clothing label designed by Misaki Van Kampen.
Fashion Week Ramblings S/S 2019 – Women’s
Paris greeted me and the rest of the fashion circus with incredible weather – a rarity in my recent memory, as usually I find myself dying of heat or freezing to death.
Bacon / Giacometti
This has been another marquee year for the European titans of mid-century art.
Chiharu Shiota: Under the Skin
I don’t remember the first time I encountered the work of Chiharu Shiota, but I remember being immediately drawn to it.