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  • Cooper Hewitt Announces Lineup of 2014 National Design Week Events Oct. 4–12

    300-Plus Design-Related Events in New York City and Across the U.S.

    Oct. 1, 2014

    Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will host National Design Week from Oct. 4 through Oct. 12. Throughout the week, the museum will offer a series of public programs in New York for students, teachers, design professionals and the general public to celebrate the important role that design plays in all aspects of daily life.

    Organizations and schools nationwide will also sponsor events, including a faculty exhibition at Minneapolis College of Arts and Design that “explores what makes us human,” a conference on interaction design in New Orleans and a tour of a fashion exhibition at the Honolulu Museum of Art, among many others. Events occurring across the country can be viewed on an interactive map.

    “National Design Week is Cooper Hewitt’s largest public education initiative emphasizing the power of design, and it has a ripple effect across the nation,” said Caroline Baumann, director of Cooper Hewitt. “It is thrilling to see people of all ages embracing the week, with 300-plus programs taking place across all 50 states.”

    The week’s events include a gala reception for the recipients of the 2014 National Design Awards on Oct. 9. For 15 years, the awards have recognized excellence in American design across a range of disciplines. The 2014 National Design Award recipients are Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar for Lifetime Achievement; Witold Rybczynski for Design Mind; Etsy for Corporate & Institutional Achievement; Brooks + Scarpa for Architecture Design; Office for Communication Design; Narciso Rodriguez for Fashion Design; Aaron Koblin for Interaction Design; Roman and Williams Buildings and Interiors for Interior Design; Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture for Landscape Architecture; and LUNAR for Product Design. 

    Cooper Hewitt’s National Design Week, the museum’s largest public education initiative, will run from Oct. 4 through Oct. 12. During the week, the museum will offer a series of public programs in New York for students, teachers, design professionals and the general public to celebrate the important role that design plays in all aspects of daily life.
     

    National Design Week Programs and Events Hosted in NYC by Cooper Hewitt (advance registration required) Are:

    Target Design Kids Family Programs

    Date: Sunday, Oct. 5
    Description: A series of free workshops where kids ages 5 to 12 become designers and make fun projects all day.
    Hours: 11 a.m.–3 p.m. (multiple sessions)
    Location: Cooper Hewitt Design Center, 111 Central Park North, New York City

    Drop In on Design: Family Programs with Etsy (2014 National Design Award Winner for Corporate & Institutional Achievement)

    Date: Monday, Oct. 6–Friday, Oct. 10
    Description: A series of free afterschool programs where kids ages 7 to 12 explore design through fun hands-on activities.
    Hours: 4–6 p.m. daily.
    Location: Cooper Hewitt Design Center, 111 Central Park North, New York City
     

    Design Tales Family Programs

    Date: Tuesday, Oct. 7, and Thursday, Oct. 9
    Description: A free literacy-based program for pre-school children and their caregivers incorporating storytelling, design vocabulary and hands-on activities.
    Hours: 10–11 a.m. and 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
    Location: Cooper Hewitt Design Center, 111 Central Park North, New York City
     

    NYC Teen Design Fair with Tim Gunn

    Date: Tuesday, Oct. 7
    Description: 300+ New York City teens learn about design careers and educational opportunities from National Design Award winners, jurors and guest designers in short mentoring sessions. Tim Gunn will deliver the keynote address.
    Hours: 4–6 p.m.
    Location: FIT, Great Hall, 227 West 27th Street at Seventh Avenue, New York City
     

    National Design Awards Winners’ Panel

    Date: Tuesday, Oct. 7
    Description: A panel discussion with 2014 National Design Award winners about their inspiration and drive as designers. Moderated by Cooper Hewitt Director Caroline Baumann, panelists include John Edson of LUNAR, Aaron Koblin, Narciso Rodriguez and Robin Standefer of Roman and Williams Buildings and Interiors.
    Hours: 7–8:30 p.m.
    Location: FIT, Great Hall, 227 West 27th Street at Seventh Avenue, New York City

     

    National Design Awards Gala

    Date: Thursday, Oct. 9 (Reserve tickets)
    Description: A gala benefit celebrating the winners of this year’s National Design Awards, which honor excellence, innovation and lasting achievement in American design.
    Hours: 6 p.m., Cocktail Reception; 7:30 p.m., Dinner & Awards Ceremony
    Location: Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers, New York City
     

    Target Design Kids Family Programs with Office (2014 National Design Award Winner for Communication Design)

    Event: Saturday, Oct. 11
    Description: A series of free workshops offering families with kids ages 5 to 12 the opportunity to become designers and make fun projects all day.
    Hours: 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. and 1–2:30 p.m. 
    Location: Cooper Hewitt Design Center, 111 Central Park North, New York City

     

    National Design Week is made possible in part by the generous sponsorship of Target.
    NYC Teen Design Fair receives additional support from the School of Visual Arts. 

    National Design Awards are supported in part by Procter & Gamble and Design Within Reach. Additional support is provided by Facebook. National Design Award trophies are created by The Corning Museum of Glass. ndagallery.cooperhewitt.org is powered by Behance. Media sponsorship is provided by Smithsonian Media.
     
    National Design Awards and National Design Week professional supporters include AIGA | the professional association for design, American Institute of Architects New York Chapter, American Society of Interior Designers, American Society of Landscape Architects, Council of Fashion Designers of America, Industrial Designers Society of America, Interaction Design Association and International Interior Design Association.

     

    ABOUT COOPER HEWITT, SMITHSONIAN DESIGN MUSEUM

    Founded in 1897, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is the only museum in the nation devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. The museum educates, inspires and empowers people through design, presenting compelling educational programs, exhibitions and publications. International in scope and possessing one of the most diverse and comprehensive collections of design works in existence, the museum’s rich holdings range from Egypt’s Late Period/New Kingdom (1100 B.C.) to the present day and total more than 210,000 objects.

    Cooper Hewitt is located at 2 East 91st Street at Fifth Avenue in New York City. The museum is currently closed, and will reopen to the public Dec. 12, following a three-year renovation project.

    For further information, call (212) 849-8400, visit Cooper Hewitt’s website atwww.cooperhewitt.org and follow the museum on www.twitter.com/cooperhewitt andwww.facebook.com/cooperhewitt.

     
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  • Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire

    Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire

    Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire
    October 21, 2014-February 1, 2015
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art
    Anna Wintour Costume Center

    2. Evening Dress, ca. 1861 Black moiré silk, black jet, black lace Lent by Roy Langford (C.I.L.37.1a) Photo: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Karin L. Willis
    Evening Dress, ca. 1861 Black moiré silk, black jet, black lace
    Lent by Roy Langford
    (C.I.L.37.1a)
    Photo: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Karin L. Willis

    As a native New Yorker who’s DNA has been imprinted with the “adoration of black clothes” gene, this upcoming exhibition targets my love of fashion in one of my favorite colors (I know it’s not a color) !

    Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire, The Costume Institute’s first fall exhibition in seven years, will be on view in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Anna Wintour Costume Center from October 21, 2014 through February 1, 2015. The exhibition will explore the aesthetic development and cultural implications of mourning fashions of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

    Mourning Dress, 1902-1904 Black silk crape, black chiffon, black taffeta The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979 (1979.346.93b, c) Photo: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Karin L. Willis
    Mourning Dress, 1902-1904
    Black silk crape, black chiffon, black taffeta
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979
    (1979.346.93b, c)
    Photo: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Karin L. Willis

    Approximately 30 ensembles, many of which are being exhibited for the first time, will reveal the impact of high-fashion standards on the sartorial dictates of bereavement rituals as they evolved over a century.

    Evening Dress, 1902 Worn by Queen Alexandra (British, born Denmark, 1844–1925) Black silk tulle, mauve silk chiffon, purple sequins The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Miss Irene Lewisohn, 1937 (C.I. 37.44.2a, b) Photo: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Karin L. Willis
    Evening Dress, 1902
    Worn by Queen Alexandra (British, born Denmark, 1844–1925)
    Black silk tulle, mauve silk chiffon, purple sequins
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Miss Irene Lewisohn, 1937
    (C.I. 37.44.2a, b)
    Photo: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Karin L. Willis

    “The predominantly black palette of mourning dramatizes the evolution of period silhouettes and the increasing absorption of fashion ideals into this most codified of etiquettes,” said Harold Koda, Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute, who is curating the exhibition with Jessica Regan, Assistant Curator. “The veiled widow could elicit sympathy as well as predatory male advances. As a woman of sexual experience without marital constraints, she was often imagined as a potential threat to the social order.”

    Mourning Dress (Detail), 1902-1904 Black silk crape, black chiffon, black taffeta The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979; (1979.346.93b, c) Photo: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Karin L. Willis
    Mourning Dress (Detail), 1902-1904
    Black silk crape, black chiffon, black taffeta
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of The New York Historical Society, 1979; (1979.346.93b, c)
    Photo: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Karin L. Willis

    Exhibition Overview
    The thematic exhibition will be organized chronologically and feature mourning dress from 1815 to 1915, primarily from The Costume Institute’s collection. The calendar of bereavement’s evolution and cultural implications will be illuminated through women’s clothing and accessories, showing the progression of appropriate fabrics from mourning crape to corded silks, and the later introduction of color with shades of gray and mauve.

    Henriette Favre (French) Evening Dress, 1902 Worn by Queen Alexandra (British, born Denmark, 1844–1925) Mauve silk tulle, sequins The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Miss Irene Lewisohn, 1937 (C.I. 37.44.1) Photo: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Karin L. Willis
    Henriette Favre (French)
    Evening Dress, 1902
    Worn by Queen Alexandra (British, born Denmark, 1844–1925)
    Mauve silk tulle, sequins
    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Miss Irene Lewisohn, 1937
    (C.I. 37.44.1)
    Photo: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Karin L. Willis

    “Elaborate standards of mourning set by royalty spread across class lines via fashion magazines,” said Ms. Regan, “and the prescribed clothing was readily available for purchase through mourning ‘warehouses’ that proliferated in European and American cities by mid-century.”

    The Anna Wintour Costume Center’s Carl and Iris Barrel Apfel Gallery will orient visitors to the exhibition with fashion plates, jewelry, and accessories. The main Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Gallery will illustrate the evolution of mourning wear through high fashion silhouettes and will include mourning gowns worn by Queen Victoria and Queen Alexandra. Examples of restrained simplicity will be shown alongside those with ostentatious ornamentation. The predominantly black clothes will be set off within a stark white space and amplified with historic photographs and daguerreotypes.

    The “Black Ascot,” 1910 Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Images
    The “Black Ascot,” 1910
    Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Getty Images

    The Museum’s website, www.metmuseum.org/deathbecomesher, will feature information on the exhibition and related programs.

    You can follow on Facebook.com/metmuseum, Instagram.com/metmuseum, and Twitter.com/metmuseum.

    To join the conversation about the exhibition use #DeathBecomesHer on Instagram and Twitter.

     

  • PFW SS15 Highlights: Agnes B

    PFW SS15 Highlights: Agnes B

    PFW SS15 Highlights: Agnes B

    Agnes B SS15 epitomizes the essence of French style – elegance, well-made with quality fabrications. While other collections may have us dreaming, women will be wearing Agnes B.

  • PFW SS15 Highlights: Gaultier, Kenzo and Dior

    PFW SS15 Highlights: Gaultier, Kenzo and Dior

    PFW SS15 Highlights: Gaultier, Kenzo and Dior

    Jean-Paul Gaultier’s SS15 collection was truly magnificent and bittersweet as this is his final prêt-à-porter show. We bid aloha to one of the most original voices in the fashion world…

    The Kenzo SS15 venue was unique indeed as it took place at a skate park also designed by Humberto Leon and Carol Lim – a true testimony to sustainability as instead of getting torn down, this venue with be used by the kids in the local community.

    Even though I am a little taller than a hobbit, I would love to wear the extra wide denim pants from this collection!

    Christian Dior SS15 may have been inspired by the past but these clothes are definitely futuristic.

  • PFW SS15 Highlights: Lanvin, Rochas and Carven

    PFW SS15 Highlights: Lanvin, Rochas and Carven

    PFW SS15 Highlights: Lanvin, Rochas and Carven

    Alber Elbaz helped Lanvin celebrate their 125th anniversary with a collection dedicated to women of all ages and all types. As Elbaz states it is time to “…forget what’s the next trend-it is time to celebrate what is good now”. Bravo !

    Rochas SS15 was all about sheer layers but the gorgeous gold coat is the standout for me !

    The Carven SS15 collection was a combination of Paris flair with New York speed – this old house has learned some new tricks.

  • HIEROPHANT ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM, ‘PESTE’, AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 25th

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    Coming on CD, LP & Digital Formats from Bridge Nine

    Italy’s Hierophant recently wrapped recording their new full-length album at MV Multimedia Studio.  Titled Peste, this 10-song album is the follow-up to 2013’s acclaimed Great Mother : Holy MonsterLP. The band said that Peste is “…way heavier, massive, and more evil than the previous one!"  Pesteis scheduled for release on CD, LP and Digital formats via Bridge Nine Records worldwide.  Album art for Peste is attached and track listing can be found below.

    Hierophant formed in 2010 and have toured relentlessly with the likes of Deafheaven, Oathbreaker, Tombs, Pelican, Cancer Bats and many more ever since. The band released their B9 debut Great Mother : Holy Monster in March of 2013, which was called ”…a searing brand of no-holds-barred dark hardcore that’s characterized by bleak, unrelenting guitars and harsh, incomprehensible vocals" by Big Cheese Magazine.

    Pre-order information and song premieres from Hierophant coming soon.

    Peste track listing:

    1) Inganno

    2) Masochismo

    3) Nostalgia

    4) Sadismo

    5) Apatia

    6) Paranoia

    7) Sottomissione

    8) Alienazione

    9) Egoismo

    10) Inferno

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    Stephanie Marlow

    Bridge Nine Records 

    Publicity

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    e: stephanie@bridge9.com

    Bridge9.com/promo for photos, logos, album covers, etc.!

  • #TBT #DSN50 #NASASocial

    Still can’t believe almost 6 months ago, I was at @nasa Goldstone…