http://www.cityist.com CITY Magazine Tue, 21 May 2013 18:44:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.cityist.com/blog/marquetry-and-blindfolds/ http://www.cityist.com/blog/marquetry-and-blindfolds/#comments Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:14:42 +0000 Laura Peach http://www.cityist.com/?p=8663 Screw, Spread, Slip, Stuck, Stab, Fall, Cross and Writhe. No, this is not a horror film description. These eight foreboding adjectives are the title for Andisheh Avini’s art exhibit now on view, through November 8, at HALF Gallery. ]]> http://www.cityist.com/blog/marquetry-and-blindfolds/feed/ 0 http://www.cityist.com/blog/yeholees-open-arms/ http://www.cityist.com/blog/yeholees-open-arms/#comments Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:59:15 +0000 Laura Peach http://www.cityist.com/?p=8616 The quiet opening of Yeholee's new shop on a calm corner of 38th Street marks a major shift in the New York fashion dynamic. Yeholee is the first designer to open a retail shop in the garment district, and by doing so, she has become a visionary forerunner, pushing the idea of local fashion forward to a reality. ]]> http://www.cityist.com/blog/yeholees-open-arms/feed/ 1 http://www.cityist.com/blog/grey-gradations/ http://www.cityist.com/blog/grey-gradations/#comments Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:13:33 +0000 Laura Peach http://www.cityist.com/?p=8223 Slicked hair and supersized blazers in shades of grey tossed over tissue tees were sent forth at the start of Duckie Brown's Spring/Summer 2011 show. A mist grey coat that floated above the runway displayed the penchant for volume characteristic of the label’s designs. Cuffed trousers abounded, in step with the season. As the models took their standing space on the risers facing the audience the vision of a garment gradation began to take form. The preppy, square, suited man slid down—by way of animal prints and crayola select leggings—into a make-do-with-salvage aesthetic, and then to boyhood innocence, with sciencey pajama-like prints of insects. By the end of the show, the model began to look if he had been dressed in the dark in Kurt Cobain’s childhood closet.]]> http://www.cityist.com/blog/grey-gradations/feed/ 0 http://www.cityist.com/blog/lead-weight/ http://www.cityist.com/blog/lead-weight/#comments Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:15:21 +0000 Laura Peach http://www.cityist.com/?p=8148 A humming bird is stuck to the wall, midflight. A turtle, spun around on its shell, futilely paddles scaly legs. A garden snake hangs limply from a nail, coiled as a dried discarded rope. An overturned octopus, tentacles casting snake-like shadows, balances with a majestic eerieness surrounded by these smaller simpler beings. This is Mark Calderon’s sculptural menagerie of little lead animals now on view at the Nancy Hoffman Gallery. Nocturne, 2008. Bronze.]]> http://www.cityist.com/blog/lead-weight/feed/ 0 http://www.cityist.com/blog/wide-open-spaces/ http://www.cityist.com/blog/wide-open-spaces/#comments Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:17:07 +0000 Laura Peach http://www.cityist.com/?p=7752 The grey and gloomy weather on Thursday didn't cast a single shadow on the country sun collection that Suzanne Rae presented for Spring. Inspired by road trips, Western films and a pure Americana, clothes for a playful prairie girl came through: lace layered, fuchsia frilled and petticoats peeking. Through a windowed wall at The Standard, a panorama of industrial river traffic and decaying dock posts poking out of the Hudson set the backdrop for models with windswept updos and quarter-wide braids, who stood on wooden risers surrounded by buckets of tall grass.]]> http://www.cityist.com/blog/wide-open-spaces/feed/ 0 http://www.cityist.com/blog/a-clue-in-the-cut/ http://www.cityist.com/blog/a-clue-in-the-cut/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:00:08 +0000 Laura Peach http://www.cityist.com/?p=7471 In a fall collection based on the Nancy Drew mystery stories, young Brooklyn-based designer Rachel Antonoff presents a full house of feminine day wear and graceful gowns straight off the pages of a detective novel. Printed tops and sassy shorts come in the distinctive shade of mustard macaroni that color the bindings of the Carolyn Keene books, yet Antonoff’s true talent is revealed in the cuts of her dresses. ]]> http://www.cityist.com/blog/a-clue-in-the-cut/feed/ 0