“Juicy Couture’s new fashion video directed by Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Candice Swanepoel, Natasha Poly and Isabeli Fontana move to Blondie’s ‘Rapture’ while flaunting the bright palette and flirty silhouettes of Spring 2013.”

Isabeli, Natasha, and Candice have all the rhythm in the new Juicy video choreographed by our Creative Movement Director Stephen Galloway. Can’t express how great the music choice is as well.

—HK

Rachel from New York Models
(photo by Hannah Kuo) 

—Hannah

Kaitlyn from New York Models
(photo by Hannah Kuo) 

—Hannah

John Clang, Martin Parr, and Wassink Lundgren’s three solo projects are exhibiting at Pekin Fine Arts from November 3rd to December 3rd, 2012. Please stop by in you are in the area!

Pékin Fine Arts
No. 241 Cao Chang Di Village
Cui Ge Zhuang, Chaoyang District
Beijing, China 100015
http://www.pekinfinearts.com 

Opening Hours:
Tuesday to Sundays: 10am to 6pm
Monday by appointment only 

—Hannah

Jo Ratcliffe recently directed this video for Jimmy Choo’s capsule collection with Rob Pruitt.  The collection reminds me a lot of… basically everything about Lisa Frank. In 1997, a period where I would undoubtedly sell my soul for a Lisa Frank puppy sticker, my mother gifted me a their digital timepiece with interchangeable straps. It is probably one of my favorite things ever, even up until now. It no longer shows the time, the most of the rainbows and clouds have faded on the purple plastic strap, and I lost all of the other straps. Yet I still have it alongside of my other not-nearly-as-awesome watches and it’ll always be my most treasured timepiece.

See below image of the Jimmy Choo x Rob Pruitt Leopard Print Pony Slippers with the Lisa Frank leopard folder. Can a nine-year old ask for a $700 accessory to go with his/her colorful waterfall unicorn backpack? Yes.

—Hannah

Song of the day is Sutphin Boulevard by Blood Orange. Have been listening to them all of last month and this month. Just makes me wanna jiggle little bit everywhere.

—Hannah

Here are some photographs from the opening night of the Edward Hopper Retrospective. Philip-Lorca diCorcia is part of this group show that opens to the public on October 10th, 2012 to January 28th, 2013 at Grand Palais in Paris.

—Hannah

Check out Pedderzine Uncatalogued!

—Hannah

 A few of my favorite pieces from New York Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2013… plus the entire Rodarte collection!
(Images via Style.com) 

—Hannah

Alena at our office in her hat.
(Photo by Hannah Kuo) 

—Hannah 

Gorgeous Alena Blohm from Marilyn.
(Photo by Hannah Kuo) 

—Hannah

Couple of months ago, I assisted Clang in building his Tumblr page. Couple of weeks ago, Clang built, literally, David Karp’s Tumblr page on the streets of NYC with the people at New York Times Magazine. As a leisure blogging connoisseur at young age, I’ve been blogging before blogging was even a word. That might be an overstatement but let’s just say I’ve had my fair share of the digital revolution.

At the tender age of 8, my mother introduced me to internet forums (known as BBS) and chat rooms. This was during (the verge of) pre-internet predators era, so she let me roam free but still under a pseudonym to protect my little, wee, gentil, identity: whackoz@hotmail.com. The letters H and Z were added because the my orignal choice was already taken.

After I got over the whole talking to strangers thing, I started to build my own webpages by putting pictures of all of my favorite things on one page, with some links that takes you to other pages with more of my favorite things on it. It was something that looked like any of Cory Arcangel’s The Year In The Internet or whatever this would generate. Soon enough, Geocities and Angelfire were blocked by the Great Firewall of China, so I had to migrate to ExPages. This led to a period of time where I, like many other tweens using the internet, was obsessed with avatars, GIFs and glitter graphics… or more so, “Dollz”. See The Doll Palace for examples of dollz. My favorite was the ‘N SYNC and Backstreet Boys dollz. Still can’t decide between the two. Anyway — thanks to Tumblr, its massive population of users born in the leighties and early nineties, and blogs like fuck yeah 1990’s, gifparty, none of these memories are to be forgotten.

During adolescence, it’s always way better to express your emotions with written words rather than gothic gifs… which is why we migrated to the melodrama mecca known as LiveJournal. These posts generally range from one paragraph to thirty-nine paragraphs about how much our life sucks and the things we would do if it doesn’t stop sucking.

For those whose lives have gotten better, moved on to Xanga, for those who weren’t ready to move on, remained at LiveJournal. From 2002 to 2005, I was running back and forth between my personal website and Xanga. After a few years of hustling for eProps and comments, I decided to dabble in Blogger (formerly known as BlogSpot) by creating a blog titled Words of Opposed Meanings, intended to share thoughts and inspirations from my constantly self-contradicting mind. As you can see, due to the authenticity of my self-contradiction, there are still no posts as of today. (But hey… stay tuned, you never know!)

I remained blog-less for a while to now, a proud owner/contributor of two personal blogs, our cat’s blog, and theCollectiveShift blog which you are reading right now. All of them are powered by Tumblr. That was not message from the sponsor in any way, it’s true.

(See below for NYT Mag David Karp/Tumblr article shot by Clang.)

—Hannah

johnclang:

The New York Times Magazine - July 15, 2012 Issue

PEACE, LOVE AND TUMBLR/ David Karp

Photographs by Clang, P. 22

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/magazine/can-tumblrs-david-karp-embrace-ads-without-selling-out.html?pagewanted=all

Behind the scenes: http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/we-built-a-tumblr-page-irl/

Nils from DNA.

(Photo by our office manager Marcus Morris)

Ben and Logan from DNA.

(Photos by our office manager Marcus Morris)

—Hannah