vendredi 30 juillet 2010
BEAUTIFUL 1987/1988 PROTOTYPE MDVANII WITH ALEXANDRE DE PARIS WIG
This exquisite Mdvanii is from the first nearly perfected Mdvaniis made during 1987/1988 to be launched in 1989.....so many prototypes were made of all different tints of skintone, hairstyles, make-ups and even details of the body. Her first breasts were a completely different shape and bigger! (we'll show these later).... However, this one, she's very close to what finally did get shown the year she came out officially, 1989. She is a prototype and she is wearing an early Alexandre de Paris wig, one of his early designs for Mdvanii.
"Kir Royal" Dheei Resin, 1991. Photo July 2010. "Kachina Doll, Maybe" artwork by BillyBoy* & Lala, 2009.
"Kir Royal" Dheei
Resin, 1991.
Photo July 2010.
"Kachina Doll, Maybe" artwork by BillyBoy* & Lala, 2009.
The famous Mdvanii telephone handbag which is rare and inspired by Schiaparelli, of course!
"Kir Royal" Dheei Resin, 1991. Photo July 2010. "Kachina Doll, Maybe" artwork by BillyBoy* & Lala, 2009.
"Kir Royal" Dheei
Resin, 1991.
Photo July 2010.
"Kachina Doll, Maybe" artwork by BillyBoy* & Lala, 2009.
Resin, 1991.
Photo July 2010.
"Kachina Doll, Maybe" artwork by BillyBoy* & Lala, 2009.
"Kir Royal" Dheei Resin, 1991. Photo July 2010. "Kachina Doll, Maybe" artwork by BillyBoy* & Lala, 2009.
"Kir Royal" Dheei
Resin, 1991.
Photo July 2010.
"Kachina Doll, Maybe" artwork by BillyBoy* & Lala, 2009.
Resin, 1991.
Photo July 2010.
"Kachina Doll, Maybe" artwork by BillyBoy* & Lala, 2009.
NUBIAN MDVANII PROTOTYPE 1987/88 in the series of early Mdvanii ethnicities
A close up of a rare Nubian Mdvanii, with sunlight reflecting off her face and chin...
NUBIAN MDVANII PROTOTYPE 1987/88 in the series of early Mdvanii ethnicities
Amongst the many early prototypes is this Nubian Mdvanii from 1987/88. She was a sister to the Indian/Polynesian style Mdvanii a few posts ago. This doll looks darker in the shade but when hit with sunlight you can see she is a bit lighter.....her eyes are green. Nobody in the world owns one.She has a hairdo which was only released several years later....designed by Alexandre de Paris and modelled after Louise Brooks. This is an extremely unique Mdvanii.....more to come!She is posed with a sculpture from 2009 "Kachina,Maybe?" series by BillyBoy* & Lala.
Alec Jiri Stefanek Lestrade-Boy* exemplifies the Rhogit-Rhogit sensibilities
Alec Jiri Stefanek Lestrade-Boy* has always been a part influence on the dress styles of some Rhogit-Rhogit and other male dolls. His modern sense of style was always included in the designs of the dolls....
MDVANIIISM - AN EARLY RHOGIT-RHOGIT SCULPTURE. Made in 1994, he was worked on throughout the years and published in SANG BLEU in 2009
This unique Rhogit-Rhogit was made in 1994 and worked out for several years. His dark emo goth look includes a body paint and a hand-crocheted jacket. Darkly sexual, he was used in several museum shows but finalized and shown in Sang Bleu (issue 3/4) in 2009 in a 14-page layout about artists BillyBoy* & Lala, including Mdvaniiisms, BB* paintings and photos by the artists.
EARLY DHEEI DELUXE SET FROM 1991 (conceived and designed in 1987/89, started being made in 1990 and finally delivered in 1991)
"Vingt-Quatre Heures de Chic", (Twenty-four hours of Chic) this was made for Sumiko Watanabe of SW Japan and it is Sumiko who did the lovely photos. You can see this extremely rare Dheei on her blog which she has maintained for many years. The photos are used with her with permission for which we thank her:
http://sumiko-watanabe.seesaa.net/category/1464720-1.html
mercredi 28 juillet 2010
INTERVIEW WITH DIANE PERNET
PHOTOGRAPH BY ARAKI
What role did your film background have in initiating the ASVOFF festival?
I've loved cinema ever since I was a small child in pajamas watching Cinderella in a drive in. As I grew older my tastes changed to Pasolini, Visconti, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, John Cassavetes, Kenneth Anger, Guy Maddin, Alfred Hitchcock and documentaries by Errol Morris. I studied documentary filmmaking at Temple University but at that point in time I was not that much into working with a team and after a short while got into reportage photography and gradually shifted my interests to fashion design. Creating ASVOFF put the two loves of my life together, it's like making the circle complete.
How was the ASVOFF idea conceived? Was there a eureka moment?
More than ten years ago I had the idea to create a fashion film festival but at that time there was not enough material out there. Six years ago Eley Kishimoto asked me to make a road movie for the launch of their menswear collection. They designed the inside and the outside of a G10 and entered the car into the Gumball 3000 car rally and asked me to shoot the film, I called it Adventure of Pleasure, you can see it on www.asvoff.com . I showed the film to my LA collaborator at the time and he asked me if I wanted to screen it in LA. I said, sure, why not. Then a day later EGR my Mexico City contributor sent me a fashion film that he made, I liked it and I posted it to “You Wear it Well” (the name of my first fashion film festival) and the first festival was born. It was launched in Los Angeles and travelled the planet for the rest of the year. Three years ago I decided, with the encouragement of David Herman, to take the festival from a one day program to a three day program and to make it an extension of my blog, hence the name ASVOFF (A Shaded View on Fashion Film). In September 2008, ASVOFF was launched in Paris at Jeu de Paume. A eureka moment, I guess would be in 2006 when I launched my first fashion film festival at Cine Space in Los Angeles, then as a three day festival at Jeu de Paume.
The jury for the festival is impressive with jurors such as Nan Goldin, Rick Owens, and now Elisabeth Quin. What qualifications do you seek in your jurors, or do your jurors find you?
My jurors are a truly dynamic and talented group, they complement one another brillantly. They are all passionate about style and capture it in their own ways. I suspect that the jury will be filled with that positive kind of tension you need for good debate. They also bring a vast amount of experience from both sides of the camera through many lenses of creativity. To date I've approached them and not the other way around. This year's jury includes:
ASVOFF 2010 COMPLETE JURY LIST
Olivier Saillard, Fashion Historian and Director of the Musee Galliera, ASVOFF President
Mike Figgis, Academy Award nominated writer/director; films include Leaving Las Vegas and Timecode
Elisabeth Quin, film critic and a French government representative for fashion
Michael Nyman, film composer for The Piano and 12 Peter Greenaway films
Bryan Adams, photographer and musician
Dita Von Teese, performer and style icon
Fabrice Brovelli, TV production director, BETC EuroRSCG.
Paolo Roversi, photographer
Emmanuelle Castro, film acquisitions and co-production director, Wild Bunch
Daphne Burki, reporter for Canal + television
Nadja Romain, independent producer
Sara Maino, senior fashion editor, Vogue Italia
Zowie Broach, designer of Boudicca
Abdel Bounane, chief editor, Amusement magazine
Olivier Seguret, journalist Liberation
Do you personally have a favorite category of submissions?
This year the prize categories include: Best Film, Best New Talent-SAMSUNG, Beauty Prize - Shu Uemura, Best Sound and Best Acting. I won't be making the divisions that I did last year which was basically commissioned and personal work and music videos. Instead all the films will be judged equally. There are, however, films that are out of competition.
As one of the forerunners of the medium of blogging, what direction do you think blogging is headed in, and what advice do you have for bloggers?
When I started blogging in February 2005 most of the world was still wondering what blogging was. Of course political and economic blogs were already existing but for the world of fashion this was a brand new territory. I embraced the potential of the new medium by launching A Shaded View on Fashion which attracted fashion enthusiasts as far afield as Sao Paulo, Beijing and Sydney. Over the past few years there has been a subsequent proliferation of the 'blogosphere'. I am happy to have been one of the pioneers in this field. I think that it has changed fashion reporting because the majority of the bloggers are fashion consumers so they are reporting on what they love without the constraints of magazines with advertisers that must be satisfied with editorials. My advice is to keep it personal and not just cut and paste from other people's sites, original content is far more interesting. As for the direction that blogging is heading, like Twitter, it has become a requirement for all of the traditional journalists. It is also making the magazine industry rethink their own approach. More magazines are headed in the direction of books, experimenting with different kinds of papers, typeface and more reflective articles that are not based on time. Magazines will never be as immediate as the blogs but they can and will still remain valid.
In what way has fashion replaced art’s role of setting aesthetic standards for the public?
Art. for most people, is something they can only admire from a distance, in galleries and museums, books, etc. Fashion is something that they can actually buy. There have always been designers that walked the line between fashion and art, but for the most part that is really not the case. I think that the cross over has always been interesting from as far back as Elsa Schiaparelli's collaboration with Salvador Dali or YSL in the sixties borrowing prints from Mondrian, De Stijl and Picasso. Honestly, I don't really believe that fashion has replaced art for setting aesthetic standards for the public.
You are known for working between the boundaries of fashion and art. As Mdvanii is a work of art, but also a fashion icon, how do you think she fits in or elaborates on, the discourse between art and fashion?
The biggest difference between fashion and art is the fact that art is something we place around us but not on us, for the most part, and fashion is meant to be worn. They will always walk a fine line and inspire each other but I'm still not sure that we can call fashion art.
Mdvanii is to Barbie what 'haute' couture is to prêt-a-porter, she is a dream.
Diane Pernet
lundi 26 juillet 2010
Samy Jouini photographed by Tristan Savoy, July 27th 2010
Samy Jouini wears the iconic Mdvanii teeshirt, as seen by Tristan Savoy
dimanche 25 juillet 2010
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