STUDIO WITH M/M (Paris) - MATHIAS AUGUSTYNIAK & MICHAEL AMZALAG - PARIS - 2011

Today photographer Antony Crook steps into the studio of acclaimed graphic design and art direction team M/M (Paris) as they prep a new range of scarves inspired by the artwork on West's latest, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. The superstar commissioned M/M's Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag to create an illustrative letterset for the album's liner notes as a complement to its cover art series of five bawdy paintings by American artist George Condo. Augustyniak and Amzalag subsequently approached West with the idea to remix the artistic elements into a range of silk scarves, pairing their baroque-style letters with Condo’s images, such as a severed head wearing a crown and a naked sphinx straddling a likeness of West. Augustyniak and Amzalag have collaborated on artwork and music videos for Björk for over a decade, but working with West was an education—“a complex exploration of power,” in their words. The scarves, which measure almost a square meter in size, will be sold in a limited-edition of 250 (50 of each of five designs) this spring at Colette and www.mmparis.com. To read about the new publishing venture from M/M (Paris)








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GRAPHIC LYLYBYE - WAR - 2011

GIVENCHY - DESIGN M/M PARIS - 2011

DIARY LYLYBYE - WITCHES - 2011

DIARY LYLYBYE - ANTIQUE - 2011

Robert Mapplethorpe




Cupid & Psyche _ Musée du Louvre




Saskia de Brauw & Kate by Boris Ovini for Exhibition




Clark Goolsby - Strange/Love




Robert Mapplethorpe

GRAPHIC LYLYBYE - PUN-K - 2011

MUSIC PANDA BEAR - THE PREAKNESS - 2011

Animal Collective have teamed up with the apparel company Keep to design their own line of sneakers, which ship tomorrow to those who have pre-ordered them. Sales of the shoes benefit the Socorro Island Conservation Fund, an organization that works to preserve the the Revillagigedo Archipelago off California's coast. Each pair of pre-ordered shoes comes with a cassette tape (pictured above) that features one previously unreleased song from each of Animal Collective's four members.

Up above, stream Panda Bear's contribution to the tape, "The Preakness", named for the horse race and excuse to party that makes Baltimore, Animal Collective's hometown, just a little bit drunker once a year. With its dazed vocals and warped synthetic beat, the track is vintage Panda Bear.

The Preakness, c'est le nom d'une course de chevals qui a lieu chaque année sur l'hippodrome de Pimlico, un quartier de Batlimore, le fief du gang révolutionnaire. Doivent prendre une drôle d'allure, les chevals, avec pareille élégie défoncée stagnante à leurs trousses. Allez courrez les petits chevals, courrez !