Monthly Archives: January 2012

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Modern Camouflage!

01/31/2012 by chicquero

Cecilia Paredes was born in Lima, Peru. The photography of Paredes constitutes and attempts to demonstrate that the body of the women – her own body – is a sacred zone, not profane, to restore its perception as something miraculous amidst the technological chaos that currently surrounds us. Cecilia is interested in using art to explore the boundaries of nature. As a photographer, she often uses her own body as a medium for presenting a dialog between the spirit and […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art, artist, background, blend, body, body paint, camouflage, cecilia paredes, cool, make-up, paint, painted, photography, prints, wall, wallpaper

Hypersonic soundsuits

01/31/2012 by chicquero

Nick Cave‘s amazing creations are part Alexander McQueen, part Andy Warhol and wholly irreverent and beautiful. He combines elements of sound, performance, color and costume to create works that even the darkest soul would find hard to resist and quite interesting. With over 50 suits displayed (surreal textiles that he wears while modern dancing), it does feels like another world. Cave uses found materials to create the suits and they range from the natural (twigs or birds) to the highly ornamental […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: alexander mcqueen, Andy Warhol, colorful, costume, embroidery, hypersonic, Jack Shainman Gallery, new york, Nick Cave, performance, soundsuit, textile

The new beginning

01/30/2012 by chicquero

Splash 2012 Calendar It’s the end of january. And as we’re all aware, 2012 is supposedly the end of the world too. Now while everyone has their own theories on how the world will end, talented photographer Tejal Patni turns things around optimistically as he believes every end leads to a new beginning. He takes this concept of new beginnings to conceptualize a calendar for fashion brand Splash. Heavily influenced by B-movie sci-fi clichés, the calendar asks: are we destined […]

Categories: Fashion • Tags: 2012, calendar, future, futuristic, models, modern, neo, photoshoot, sci-fi, splash, tejal patni

Pokémons everywhere!

01/30/2012 by chicquero

Fashion & Pokémon Well, some very creative mind decided to combine the two in the new tumblr called Fashion & Pokémon , where he sticks Pokémon’s cartoons into various fashion editorials and designer’s campaigns. The weird but really cool thing is that the Pokémon really fit right in… whether they’re posing with Daria Werbowy or just chillin’ with Freja Beha! So much fun! “Everything you can imagine is real.” Pablo Picasso >>>YOU MAY ALSO LIKE<<< Louis Vuitton pop clowns Sweaty, […]

Categories: Design, Fashion, Laugh • Tags: cartoons, Daria Werbowy, Fashion, fashion campaigns, Fashion editorial, Freja Beha, fun, models, pokémon, tumblr

Hyper-real

01/29/2012 by chicquero

Choi Xooang is a Seoul based artist who sculpts concrete bodies. This may sound kinda “whatever” at first, but we come to be surprised at his ability to grasp the world in a pathological way. Choi’s understanding of the world began with his 10-20 cm miniature figures suffering from an expansive delusion, do not realize their relative diminutiveness and tend to overstate their ability and situation. He visualizes the properties of each individual through one spreading rumor, one who […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: asian, body parts, Choi Xooang, concrete sculptures, disturbing sculptures, exaggeration, freaky, hyper-realistic, naked bodies, Seoul artist, wing

50′s me up!

01/28/2012 by chicquero

Spring Siesta Luisa Bianchin was photographed by amazing Peruvian photographer Alexander Neumann and styled by Vanessa Bellugeon for L’Officiel Paris Feb 2012. Makeup artist Sergio Corvacho and hair by Enrico Mariott were beyond essential to make a statement in a very beautiful and glamourous 50′s style! >>>YOU MAY ALSO LIKE<<< Ladylike and the other Tiiu Kuik shines in Peru My purple Sunday! Soviet Fashion Times Me gusta!

Categories: Fashion, Photography • Tags: 1950's, Alexander Neumann, beachwear, Enrico Mariott, Fashion editorial, glamour 50's, L'Officiel Paris, Luisa Bianchi, Peruvian photographer, Sergio Corvacho, styling, Vanessa Bellugeon

You are what you eat!

01/28/2012 by chicquero

“After 30 years in Paris (France), I moved to New York where I love, live and work since 2006 My main interest in life is to observe humans in urban spaces. How they work, breathe, interact, How they walk, eat and mourn Where they find the soft, the poetic, the soothing Where they hide their secrets. My purpose is not to invade but to share.” – Stéphanie de Rougé “Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: beverage, eat, family, food, fridge, inside, photographer, photography, photos, Stéphanie de Rougé

Sex, drugs & comics

01/27/2012 by chicquero

French photographer born in Toulouse and living in Saint Tropez Philippe Shangti dares everything with a disconcerting ease, fashion, decoration and photography of course. His work is amazingly flashy and provocative in psychedelic sets! Love the kinda trashy sense of humor, colors and exaggerations… it totally makes me laugh! “Philippe Shangti has the favour of contemporary art collectors and of celebrities seduced by his crazy photos. Photos which are quoted and printed in limited series.In big size, the work of Philippe […]

Categories: Fashion, Laugh, Photography • Tags: colorful, comic, cool, drugs, Fashion, french photographer, fun, Philippe Shantgi, provocative, psychedelic, Saint Tropez, sex, trashy

Smoking kids

01/25/2012 by chicquero

Smoking Kids First of all, I would like to make it clear that it’s not our intention to motivate the act of smoking, specially for kids. We don’t support it in any way. This series caught my attention in a very disturbing way, the images are very powerful, controversial and have a huge impact when you look at it. These are photo manipulations, a personal project created by Belgian photographer Frieke Janssens (no, she’s not a freak) to bring awareness […]

Categories: Artsy, Photography • Tags: Belgian photographer, Belgium, cigar, cigarrette, controversial, disturbing pictures, Frieke Janssens, retro, retro kids, smoker, smoking kids, vintage kids

Happy Birthday São Paulo

01/25/2012 by chicquero

Parabéns São Paulo - 458 years São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked among the five-largest metropolitan areas on the planet. São Paulo maintains strong international influence and is considered an Alpha World City. The name of the city honors Saint Paul. The city of São Paulo hosts approximately 90 thousand events every year, featuring arts, business, fashion and beyond. São Paulo Fashion Week (SPFW) is a fashion event, held at Ibirapuera Park, in São Paulo, notable as Latin America’s pre-eminent […]

Categories: Fashion • Tags: birthday, Brasil, brazil, city, collections, cool, designers, Fashion, fashion week, green fabrics, innovation creativity, looks, runaway, sao paulo, spfw, sustainability initiative

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New York Rooftop apartment

01/25/2012 by chicquero

Contemporary New York rooftop apartment. Austrian design house Innocad Meatpacking district, NYC Mixture of European design and New York lifestyle A tribute to Marilyn Completion 2011 “The materials and choice of colours represent both high quality standards and relaxed urbanity. Each room mirrors an immediate visual reference to the fascinating land and roofscape of New York City. Images courtesy: Thomas Schauer They say life’s what happens when you’re busy making other plans. But sometimes in New York, life is what happens when you’re […]

Categories: Design • Tags: apartment, architecture, Design, innocad, interiors, loft, luxury, meatpacking district, new york, rooftop, thomas schauer, urban

Chewy Venice!

01/24/2012 by chicquero

Chewing in Venice This is a series of installations by Frankfurt based sculpture artist Simone Decker. Her large-scale work was displayed and photographed all around the city of Venice, Italy in 1999 (yes, a long time ago). I found Simone’s work quite inspiring and captivating considering “chewed chewing gum” is seen as a bit disgusting and people avoid touching it. But by increasing the scale she has created the urge for it to become tactile as it provokes a range of […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art installations, artistic, bubble gum, chewing gum, chewing gum sculptures, cool sculptures, Frankfurt artist, italy, Simone Decker, Venice

Not a cliché made in China

01/23/2012 by chicquero

Today we are totally inspired by the Chinese Lunar New Year (specially because it’s the year of the dragon)! For this reason we were hunting for more cool stuff literally “made in China” and we found out about Chen Man. She is one of the most recognized contemporary photographers of China. Born in Beijing, in her early 20′s (such a baby with a huge talent!), she became quickly a famous artist, practicing her art into fashion photography, for editorial works […]

Categories: Fashion, Photography • Tags: advertising, Beijing, Chen Man, china, Chinese New Year, dragon year, editorial, fashion photography, young Chinese photographer

Happy Chinese New Year!

01/23/2012 by chicquero

Seventies glamour takes a trip to downtown Shanghai and the decadence of the sapphic scene in the opium dens of the ’20s. where girl meets girl, East meets West, and the spirit of ‘le smoking’ meets the knowing elegance of Chinoiserie. Getting high, delivering sapphic eroticism. Magazine: Interview Photography: Mert & Marcus. Models: Tao Okamoto, Kristina Salinovic, Fei Fei Sun, Crystal Renn, Querelle Jansen and Dinara Chetyrova Fashion editor/stuylist Karl Templer Casting by Michelle Lee View more of China Girls on Interview A bird does not sing because it […]

Categories: Fashion • Tags: celebration, china, china girls, chinese, girls, interview, magazine, marcus, mert, models, new year, opium, party, Tao Okamoto

Full of Faith

01/22/2012 by chicquero

FAITH Photography: Paul Cassidy Post and Colour Art: Cristina Durán Styling: Kattaca Art Direction: Pablo Perez Sanmartin Make-up: Vicente Oviedo for MAC Hair: José Andres Navas for Zach Photography Assistants: Eduardo Borrego, Pablo Jueguen Set Design: Q Sets Production Assistant: Belia Martin Tellado Model: Charlotte van der Sande (Delphoss) Faith and doubt both are needed – not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve. Lillian Smith >>>YOU MAY ALSO LIKE<<< Alien Dolls Full of dreams Trading Sexy […]

Categories: Fashion • Tags: cristina duran, faith, Fashion, Kattaca, mac, make-up, pablo perez sanmartin, paul cassidy, photoshoot

One of a kind

01/22/2012 by chicquero

In his youth, French artist Jaybo ran away from his house in southern France, settling in Berlin-Kreuzberg at the beginning of the 1980’s. When he founded the streetwear label Irie Daily and the cultural magazine Style at the beginning of the 1990’s, his influence on Berlin’s youth culture and fashion scene could be clearly seen. Even today, urban subculture is the driving force behind his artistic activities. Speaking of Jaybo’s incredible artwork, it seems to be tough to classify him […]

Categories: Artsy • Tags: Berlin, creativity, dadaism, french artist, graffiti, Irie Daily, Jaybo, pop art, street art, Style Magazine, surrealism

As minimal as it is

01/21/2012 by chicquero

Sky Series Eric Cahan is a NYC based photographer inspired by the sky’s color palette from sunrise to sunset! Speaking of color, I was truly amazed by the way he understands the different nuances of color, light and the way he photographs. As a devotee of contemporary art, Cahan’s influences include Mark Rothko, James Turrell, and the Light and SpaceMovement , a brand of minimalism that originated in Southern California in the 60s focused on perceptual phenomena such as light, […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: brazil, california, color palette, colorful, Costa Rica, Eric Cahan, Florida, light, minimalism, new york, photographer, sunrise, sunset

The person I know best..

01/21/2012 by chicquero

Kimiko Yoshida Self-Portraits, 2010. Born in Tokyo, Japan (1963). Lives in Europe since 1995. I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. Frida Kahlo >>>YOU MAY ALSO LIKE<<< Geometrik Pragmatic way I see art in the mirror Clown Portraits

Categories: Artsy • Tags: art, art portraits, black, costumes, face, kimiko yoshida, make-up, photoshoot, portraits, self portraits, white

Me gusta!

01/20/2012 by chicquero

We don’t need to say much about it… it’s simply Balenciaga Spring/ Summer 2012 Campaign by amazing Steven Meisel! Love the kinda messy background, lighting not to mention the effortless design pieces. Also, kudos to the models Juliane Gruner, Laura Kampman, Rosie Tapner and Kirstin Liljegren that took this campaign to the next level. Flawless! “So much goes into it. You know you’re good when it looks effortless.” Tom Zaizar >>>YOU MAY ALSO LIKE<<< It’s not just about Free […]

Categories: Fashion • Tags: balenciaga, effortless, fashion campaign 2012, fashion design, Juliane Gruner, Kirstin Liljegren, Laura Kampman, me gusta, messy background, models, Rosie Tapner, spring/ summer 2012, Steven Meisel

Diamonds, Bon Appétit!

01/20/2012 by chicquero

Jewelled hors d’oeuvres ZOYA Photography: Suresh Natarajan/ sugudhan Model: Mariana Art direction and concept: Sharon Nayak Styling: Gautam Kalra, Nikita Food styling: Indranie Dasgupta Hair and make-up: Brendon Degee Retouching Artist: Manjunath beleri Production and props: Elements Location: ZOYA diamond jewelry boutique, Delhi Ambassador Mercy: Madame du Barry would like to offer you some diamonds. Marie Antoinette: I have enough diamonds. >>>YOU MAY ALSO LIKE<<< Indian Gold Jewelry Les Promises The life you imagined Once Upon a time Windsor, drama […]

Categories: Fashion • Tags: bombay, chic, delhi, diamond jewelry, diamonds, fancy, indian, jewelry, marie antoinette, sharon nayak, suresh natarajan, zoya

Talk to my hand!

01/19/2012 by chicquero

Israeli clay sculpture artist Ronit Baranga creates fascinating, modern, spooky “little creatures”, I mean, sculptures! He puts his own spin on things and it seems that his artwork is a way too alive! Beyond cool! Well, who’s gonna guess what are they talking about or trying to reach, poke… touch (literally)? “I think people talk too much anyway. Sometimes people are talking to me and in my mind I’m just shut up, shut up, shut up… blah blah blah”… […]

Categories: Artsy, Design • Tags: bowls, clay, creepy sculptures, cups, finger, hands, Israel, modern art, mouth, plates, Ronit Baranga, sculptures, spooky, talk to my hand

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Monthly Archives: January 2012

Modern Camouflage!

Hypersonic soundsuits

The new beginning

Pokémons everywhere!

Hyper-real

50′s me up!

You are what you eat!

Sex, drugs & comics

Smoking kids

Happy Birthday São Paulo

New York Rooftop apartment

Chewy Venice!

Not a cliché made in China

Happy Chinese New Year!

Full of Faith

One of a kind

As minimal as it is

The person I know best..

Me gusta!

Diamonds, Bon Appétit!

Talk to my hand!

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