Kanopy (Firm)
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, New York Fashion Week continues to steal the headlines! Miami to Manhattan, graffitied and collaged, street art has stylish impact on Donna Karan’s Spring 2015 collection. It’s a bouquet of laidback luxury from perennial favorite, Michael Kors! Kors, the king of comfort, makes sportswear classics optimistically chic for the upcoming season. Plus, Peter Som’s Pop Art prints create clean crisp summer...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
This intimate documentary follows Danny Meyer, one of America's preeminent restaurant owners, over a 12 year span as he struggles to open not one but two ambitious restaurants next to New York's Madison Square Park. Tabla and Eleven Madison Park, if successful, will join Union Square Café and Gramercy Tavern as the jewels in Meyer's crown. We follow the restaurateur and his team as they experience gut-wrenching construction delays, missed deadlines,...
3) Vegucated
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Vegucated is an award-winning documentary that follows three meat- and cheese-loving New Yorkers who agree to adopt a vegan diet for six weeks. Lured by true tales of weight lost and health regained, they begin to uncover the hidden sides of animal agriculture that make them wonder whether solutions offered in films like Food, Inc. go far enough. Before long, they find themselves risking everything to expose an industry they supported just weeks before....
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Since the beginning of the 1990s, the canvas of dance and choreography has shifted to encompass a multitude of meanings, but it always starts with one brave artistic voice and a calling - to bring a world, born from nothing, to the stage. Apart from the work itself, it is the fragile, ephemeral quality of dance that creates a bond of intimacy between a performer and the viewer. In this age of YouTube, the very act of presenting live bodies in a performance...
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, we head across the pond for London Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2015! Paul Smith’s eclectic girl is dressed to impress in easy pieces with quirky details. Go under the sea with designer Julien Macdonald at his aquatic-inspired Spring/Summer 2015 show— you won’t want to miss the diamond-studded finale bridal gown! Plus, it’s the birds and the bees and the butterfly prints at Burberry Prorsum Spring/Summer...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, Tommy Hilfiger goes west coasting along the sandy beaches of California for Spring 2014. Surf, scuba and skating cultures come to life on the runway with boldly-hued neoprene jackets and sports jerseys topped with youthful wedge sneakers. The duo behind the Rag & Bone label, Marcus Wainwright and David Neville, took a chic and sleek approach to the season, with a collection that was slightly reminiscent of...
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, we shine the spotlight on New York Fashion Week! Entitling her Spring 2015 DNKY collection “New York Nation,” Donna Karan celebrates to the eclectic make-up of contemporary urban life. At BCBG Max Azria, a carefree bohemian girl takes center stage. Plus, Tommy Hilfiger rocks the summer season by paying homage to the Beatles. Tommy gives the legendary style of the iconic Brit band an American edge.
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, for the Spring 2014 season, the design duo behind the Badgley Mischka label, Mark Badgley & James Mischka, find inspiration in the 1920's photographs of women lounging in the French Riviera by photographer, Jacques Henri Lartigue. With mermaid styles and delicate embroidery accenting gowns, it is a fashion fantasy come to life for the Badgley Mischka customer. Vera Wang taps into her sporty side, and gives...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Set against the rich, color-soaked backdrop of America's rural landscapes, Alex Mar's lyrical first work is a bold and artful documentary that braids together the stories of three young Americans who have chosen to sacrifice comforts in order to embrace the fringes of alternative religion. The subjects include Chuck, a Lakota Sioux sundancer in the badlands of South Dakota; Morpheus, a pagan priestess living off the grid in northern California!s old...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
The 1960s and '70s saw an analytic exploration of pure dance by the first generation of post-modern choreographers, such as Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, Trisha Brown, David Gordon, and Lucinda Childs. In the 1980s, a new choreographic impulse burst through this formal austerity. Dancers began to wrestle and juggle, dance to pop music and poetry, tell stories, play characters, wear elegant or outrageous costumes. The nine choreographers featured in...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, Michael Kors celebrates his 30th Anniversary with a breezy collection that touches on a Katherine Hepburn style of dressing for Spring/Summer 2014. Ralph Lauren is mad for mod! The renowned designer gives the iconic era a luxe update. Commemorate a quarter century of DKNY with Donna Karan, Rita Ora, and more, from her Spring 2014 New York show!
12) The new public
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
In fall 2006, former DJ, point guard and teacher turned first-time principal, James O'Brien, opened a small public high school in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, where 1/3 of residents live below the poverty line and the graduation rate is 40%. With infectious optimism, O'Brien and his team of eight undertook an unconventional approach and ambitious mission: Create a school with an arts-oriented curriculum that also emphasizes self-development, community...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, the Spring/Summer 2014 Calvin Klein Collection marks the 10th Anniversary collection from designer Francisco Costa for the legendary fashion house. Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara and Alexander Skarsgård sit front row! We also look back at Costa’s Spring 2004 debut show for the iconic brand. Diane von Furstenberg sends out the perfect carefree wardrobe for a modern woman's oasis getaway. Plus, don’t miss...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Ms. Silvers is a New York-based choreographer whose work has been presented in North America, the United Kingdom, and Asia. Mindy Aloff of Dance Magazine has called her "... among the most talented choreographers to emerge in the decade [of the 1980's]." Ms. Silvers' choreography has been supported by the NEA, the Guggenheim Foundation, and most recently, the Jerome Foundation. This piece features excerpts from her solo and group work as well as a...
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, we begin our world tour of the Spring/Summer 2015 collections! See the gingham, florals, and broderie anglaise on Oscar de la Renta's elegant spring runway. Carolina Herrera showcases contemporary garden styles, with photographic floral prints, techno fabrics, and mosaic evening gowns. Take a first look at the Badgley Mischka Spring 2015 runway! Plus, Monique Lhuillier debuts an iridescent, ultra-feminine...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, inspired by the Tate Museum's "Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde" exhibition, Anna Sui adds a romantic and bohemian vibe to her Spring 2014 collection. Surf's up at Peter Som! The designer puts his spin on surf culture for his Spring/Summer 2014 collection. Plus, at Creatures of the Wind, Shane Gabier and Chris Peters look to Greek mythology, particularly at Hyperborea, a paradise where the sun shines...
17) Foreign parts
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Anthropological in scope, sensuous in detail and emotionally resonant throughout, Foreign parts is an exemplary social record of Willets Point, an industrial graveyard of scrap heaps and auto shops in Queens, New York, that is scheduled to be demolished and redeveloped. Filled with scrapyards and auto salvage shops, lacking sidewalks or sewage lines, the area seems ripe for urban development. But Foreign parts discovers a strange community where wrecks,...
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, New York’s premier fashion designer, Carolina Herrera looks to the Kinetic Art movement and Venezuelan artists, Carlos Cruz-Diez and Jesús Rafael Soto, resulting in a graphically sophisticated Spring/Summer 2014 collection. After, not only a relaxing but also, an inspiring vacation in Mexico, Christian Siriano takes us to la Isla Mujeres--The Island of Women—for the warm weather season. Tory Burch gives...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, his collections have become some of the most anticipated to grace the catwalks of New York City, for Spring 2014, Alexander Wang is having a '90s moment. Men's shirting fabrics play a major role, as did Alexander Wang's logo which is laser cut onto tops, dresses and gloves. Designer Prabal Gurung is thinking about a bold, confident, colorful woman with a hint of danger; it is all about "femininity with a...
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
In this issue of Videofashion Collections, only Marc Jacobs can combine a frat party, Burning Man and a post-apocalyptic beach and come up with the Spring/Summer 2014 season’s most covetable pieces -- dark ,Victorian and richly embellished! Zac Posen looks to 19th century French actress, Sarah Bernhardt, to inspire his ultra-feminine and luxurious show. For Lacoste Creative Director, Felipe Oliveira Baptista, it is game, set and match! The tennis...