Ksubi Eyewear & Kane Skennar. A Fashionable Match.

In addition to their apparel and eyewear, Australian fashion brand Ksubi combines fashion, culture, art and music. Their irreverent runway antics at Australia's Fashion Week (like releasing live rats onstage) their late night parties, published books, art installations and music events distinguish them from other fashion brands.

Supermodels Strip Down For Alas & Piggott & LOVE Magazine

Conde Nast UK's LOVE magazine is a bi-annually fashion forward publication that launched in February 2009. Filled with edgy and artful photography by such well-known photographers as Terry Richardson, Mario Testino, Josh Olins, David Sims, Sølve Sundsbø, Juergen Teller, Angelo Pannetta and of course, Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, the magazine is light on editorial and heavy on nude models.

Stunning & Sexy Silver C-Prints By Guido Argentini

above: Sandy Silver Cover, 1995

Photographer's Limited Editions is offering photographer Guido Argentini's stunning and sexy silver series c-prints (say that ten times fast) from his collectible book and series, SILVEREYE. The six available images shown below are limited to 3 editions each, measure a large 47" x 47" and cost approximately $9,000.00 USD a piece.


above: Sandy Silver Laying Down, 1995

above: Sandy Silver Butt, 1995

above: Sandy Silver Prayer 2, 1995

above: Giulia Silver 4, 2006

above: Sandy Silver Heart-Shaped, 1995

Buy any of the limited edition C-prints shown above here.

About the photographer:

Born in Florence, Italy Guido Argentini studied Medicine for three years at the university of Florence before turning to photography as a career. At 23 he decided to turn his passion into a profession and started to shoot fashion and beauty. Since 1990 he has lived in the USA, in Los Angeles.

His work has been published by some of the leading magazines in the world such as "Marie Claire", "Men'sHealth", "Panorama", "Playboy", "Vogue", "Max", "Maxim" and many others.



In 2003, Guido Argentini's first book, shown above,"SILVEREYE", presented an exquisite series of studio and landscape nudes. That work was a reflection of the artist's great personal passion for sculpture and dance.



above: Publisher Te Neues created several lovely calendars for 205 from the SILVEREYE series.

In his second book, "PRIVATE ROOMS", 2005, Mr. Argentini offers an entirely different type of personal journey, one where eroticism and beauty are clearly inseparable. Within these pages, we are invited to take a glimpse into a unique 'feminine universe'.

This second book is the result of ten years of photographs, all taken in the intimacy of closed rooms, ancient villas, modern apartments, many hotels, from the most elegant five-star locations enriched with luxurious velvets and four-posted beds to the most squalid insignificant hourly-rate motels furnished with cheap plastic chairs and worn-out wallpaper. A universe where all these rooms become the theaters of the artist's self-directed voyeuristic fantasies.



His latest book, "REFLECTIONS" was published in 2007. A vast collection of photographs of women looking at themselves in mirrors: a sort of unconscious research about the woman who studies herself, falls in love, and gets lost in her own image.



Check out or purchase several of Guido Argentini's Books and Calendars

Guido Argentini's site

Designers Type Dirty: 450 Typographical Tart Cards

A different form of 'sexting', if you will, is this fabulous project between Wallpaper magazine, St. Bride Library and Type in the "Sex Issue" of wallpaper magazine.




They asked over 400 designers to create their version of Tart Cards (the biz cards that London prostitutes use to advertise their wares) by finding the 'sex' in typefaces. The 450 cards designed vary in cleverness, style and of course, fonts. Some use the font as a graphic or a sexual image, others use the name of the font as a double entendre or a pun. In any case, they are fun to look at, but will be NSFW in some industries and definitely not for those under 18 years of age.

Here are a few of my personal favorites:














and although I'm not a fan of the design, I had to include this one for obvious reasons:


Along with a selection in Wallpaper Magazine's Sex Issue, all 450 cards can be viewed on their site here.


Wallpaper Magazine's Sex Issue: Type Tart Cards

About the project:
Tart cards are the means by which many London prostitutes advertise their services. Step into almost any central London phone box and you can contemplate up to 80 cards inviting you to be tied, teased, spanked or massaged. Even if a police crackdown, the internet and the increasing use of mobile phones suggest their days are numbered, tart cards are still so pervasive they are now regarded as items of accidental art and have something of a cult following. Once on the periphery of design, tart cards have influenced the work of many mainstream artists such as Royal Academician Tom Phillips and Sex Pistols designer Ray and Nils Stevenson. In conjunction with St Bride Library and Type, Wallpaper asked designers – from students to superstars – to find the tart hiding in every type and create their own graphic numbers. The cards will also be on show at KK Outlet*, London, from 22 June. The over 400 cards will include designs by Erik Kessels, Anthony Burrill, Neville Brody, NB:Studio, Spin, Value and Service, Fernando Gutiérrez, Ian Wright and Noma Bar.

Below is the invite to the show:


In among this plethora of brilliant, witty graphic designs we would like to highlight the serious issue that lies at the heart of the world of tart cards – the plight of trafficked women in the sex industry. It is a subject touched eloquently on by Mike Dempsey of Studio Dempsey, who is a volunteer at the Helen Bamber Foundation which helps rebuild lives broken by human rights violations. While our exhibition is an ode to the graphic qualities of the tart card phenomena, Dempsey's design is a pertinent reminder of the sinister world that lies beneath every card.
--Wallpaper Magazine

*KKOutlet is a shop, gallery and communications agency. It specializes in making, presenting and selling innovative communication solutions. It is the London office of Amsterdam communications agency, KesselsKramer. The exhibition runs from 22- 29 June 2009

See all 450 cards here.

The Brilliant Editorial Photography Of Massimo Gammacurta

Photographer Massimo Gammacurta not only takes nice photos like hundreds of still life and fashion photographers, but his concepts turn his pieces into more than just still lives and product shots, they become narratives or statements. Several blogs have written about his 'fashion weapons' shots for Style Monte Carlo Magazine, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Below are some of his editorial photographs, but be aware that the last campaign shown in this post is R-rated or NSFW.

His shots for Surface magazine's Scary Movies Story made reference to movies such as The Exorcist, The Shining and Clockwork Orange with black and white still lives:






For a feature on Anorexia, he took such mundane food related items as toast and a glass of water and with the simple alteration of adding holes, he visually defined the illness.




Photos for his series "Sweet Fashion, Lick Your Way To Success" he turned luxury brand icons and logos into lollipops:





Prevously mentioned, his Weapons Story for Style Montecarlo Magazine took beauty products and grouped them together as still lives that mimic guns, grenades and bombs in shape:




But one of his most artistic editorials may offend some who have a sensibility to overt sexuality. Sex In The City; The Sunglasses Story features various designer sunglasses as a voyeuristic window, with the images behind the lens revealing certain sexual activity in an otherwise public city setting.






About the photographer (courtesy of Feature Shoot):



Conceptual still life photographer Massimo Gammacurta was born in Rome, Italy. Influenced by the futurist art movement, the graffiti culture, and Fellini and Pasolini films, he has shot stills and portraits for a host of publications and advertising such as Details, Forbes, Style Montecarlo, XXL, Nike, Lexus, Wieden & Kennedy, and Surface Magazine. In November 2007, Massimo was nominated as one of the winners of the Surface magazine Avant Guardian tenth annual. Massimo also won PX3 in Paris public choice awards, first and second place in Still Life at The international Color Awards, was in American Photography 24, took first and second place in Still Life at the International Photo Awards (IPA), two silver awards at the Creativity Awards, first place at PDN Pix Digital in Beauty/Fashion, and he has also has been included in the Luerzer’s Archive as one of the 200 Best Advertising Photographers worldwide.

www.gammacurta.com

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