Paul Smith is delighted to be exhibiting the work of up and coming artist Benedict Radcliffe at Paul Smith’s Mayfair shop. Best known for his love of machines, engineering, graphic design and for his fascination with consumerism, Radcliffe will be displaying a new collection of work called ‘Modern Japanese Classics & Other Works’.

What: ‘Modern Japanese Classics & Other Works’
Where: Paul Smith, 9, Albemarle Street, London
When: February 7th - 16th 2007

Tokion Magazine announces the Fourth Annual Creativity Now Conference, to be held at Cooper Union’s historic Great Hall on October 14th and 15th, 2006. This unique symposium will bring together top figures in art, design, fashion, photography, film, new media, publishing and marketing.
In the same room for the first time, the people shaping today’s popular culture will spend two days exchanging their ideas, methods and inspirations before an audience of 2,000.

[Tokion.com]

Published just one month after John Lennon’s death this Rolling Stone cover has been named the top US magazine cover of the past 40 years. Demi Moore at the height of her pregnancy on the cover of Vanity Fair came second and 1968 Esquire featuring Muhammad Ali with arrows in his body came third.
[BBC]

We completely support anyone who demonstrates a love for the art that is couture and the FT has an article detailing exactly why couture will never die.
This art - and it is an art - is about clothes, about construction. Couture adds credibility not to beauty ranges but to a house’s ready-to-wear; we trust a house that can produce the best in its field and it’s why we end up accepting it when a hem unravels or a zip sticks - because we know that really they know better, they …

It was a moment in history, the night Hugh Grant was caught with a prostitute and now Art collector Charles Saatchi has bought a painting of the place where the British actor was arrested
The modern art mogul has also bought a painting of the spot where Hollywood actress Winona Ryder was arrested for shoplifting four years ago
[bbc news]

“Fashion is still a stepchild of photography, unless it is Louise Dahl-Wolfe showing a bathing suit and making it art,” says Etheleen Staley of the Staley-Wise Gallery in New York.”