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Posted by Jason Urban on February 18th, 2010 | (Thanks for the tip, Kathleen Hudspeth!)
Printeresting fashion news… Cynthia Rowley produces knock-offs of her own designs for Gagosian. The reproductions are quite literally photographic representations of the front and back of her runway designs which are then sewn together as a wearable garment. They are also available as unsewn bolts of fabric for a slightly lower price. This is a bizarre and fascinating exploration of authenticity. Limited edition multiples, photographic approximations of the original, being sold by a renown art world insider for a fraction of the cost of the actual garment with the consent of the fashion designer.
Is it art or fashion? Is it real or fake? Did Rowley and Gagosian cook up this idea while walking through the New Museum’s Urs Fischer show? Is it just a publicity stunt to get a post on Printeresting.org? Hmmm… all valid questions that will likely go unanswered.
 Cynthia Rowley for Gagosian, Silk and Feather Tufted Dress, 2010
Photographic representation of runway style printed on garment and sewn into a dress, One size, Edition of 100, $320.00
 Here is the completed garment a photo of the front and a photo of the back sewn together.
If you’re interested in this story, you can read more at Style.com. Here’s a quick excerpt…
“The product of a runway show is really a photograph,” Cynthia Rowley remarked last night at the launch of her new capsule collection for gallerist Larry Gagosian’s Gagosian Shop. “Yes, it’s great to experience the show in person, but what you’re left with is an image, with a front and a back. And within hours, those images are public. I thought, why should people wait six months to buy this? I’ll make it available now.” So she took a page from Duchamp and Warhol and appropriated herself. Using photographs of the fronts and backs of her highly textured Fall 2010 designs, presented only hours earlier, Rowley created her own reproductions—literally printed, cut out, sewn together again, and ready to purchase. Even bags were re-created as printed totes. “I am really eager to see what else we can re-create as a print,” says Rowley. “Jewelry? Underwear? Shoes, even? Why not in the future?”
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Posted by Jason Urban on October 30th, 2009 | For the digital printmakers out there…
(Thanks to Lee Turner at Hole Editions for the tip.)
Posted by Jason Urban on August 26th, 2009 | 
Don’t let the “sold out” sign fool you, Chris Cannon has more of his Master Printer t-shirts. If you’re interested, contact him through Etsy.
Posted by Jason Urban on August 11th, 2009 | It seems a bit unfair to declare an end to CMYK jokes without weighing the ramifications. Think of the t-shirt industry! In these times of economic hardship, would we at Printeresting be right in striking a blow against the healthy and thriving economy of print fashion?
 
Continue reading CMY Not?
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Posted by Jason Urban on July 9th, 2009 | For those still mourning, Threadless is rereleasing its MJ-inspired Tees…
 Eating Brains, Throwing Shapes by Aled Lewis
Posted by RL Tillman on April 28th, 2009 | Maybe you can’t afford professionally-customized surgical masks. But don’t let a pandemic stop you from hitting the streets in style…print your own!
In the midst of the 2003 SARS epidemic, Allen Bukoff stamped up these informative promo items for Ohio rockers Tin Huey:
…What’s stopping you?
Posted by RL Tillman on April 28th, 2009 |
Posted by RL Tillman on March 19th, 2009 | Laura Price at Art in the Age sent us an outraged email today. Art in the Age-Rage! You must go read this excellent rant, and then come back here.
…Back? OK. If you didn’t actually go over there, the key point is that Burger King has established a faux-street artist apparel collaboration program called “Burger King Studio: Have it Your Way Tees.” AITA blogger Robin is upset about this. Outraged, even (but in a post-structuralist way):
I can now assert that Jean Baudrillard is spinning in his grave. Burger King killed the Philosophy Star? This is truly simulacra at its most perverse. A corporate project in screenprinter’s clothing has subsumed the original medium, both in practice and theory. I have as much interest in seeing an exhibition of Burger-raped artists or visiting a Disney World kiosk as I have in eating my own hand. It would be like attending a funeral for all of the values I truly believe still exist in the world… To the Burger-curated artists and the art director behind this project (probably not so unlike myself and people I know), I challenge you to take the high road. Take back your squeegees and brushes before it’s too late, and you’ve become what ate you.
Now, I’m sympathetic to the sentiment expressed here. But “Burger-raped artists” is a mental image I did not need, Robin!
Robin is too scrupulous to link to BK-Studio, but I am a corporatist pawn, so here’s the site. And here’s my opinion: no matter what they wear, or where they eat, the following people will never be cool:
…I mean, that guy’s belt doesn’t even fit!
On a more serious note, I don’t think I fully share in the outrage. Is there a substantial overlap between Art in the Age patrons and the bros who buy these BK shirts? Is Burger King actually going to “subsume an original medium”?
Generally, I find this kind of attempt at cred-appropriation to be hilariously misdirected. Interesting creative subcultures always make it to the mainstream. Corporate cash-ins always miss the mark by a wide margin. Really: who do they think they’re fooling? As for the artists who “sell out”… well, they have a right to hack their wares, and we have a right to snicker at them.
So am I under-reacting? Or should we just laugh at this? After all, we know when the King has no clothes.
Posted by RL Tillman on February 12th, 2009 | It’s not just Lincoln. Today would have been Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday, if he hadn’t been killed by a mutant finch in the Galapagos Islands.
In commemoration, download and print a crummy gray beard and wear it all evening (preferably outside the house).
Posted by Jason Urban on January 10th, 2009 | From revolution to establishment. Commercial potential in socialist-style. If anything, it’s all too predictable.
As written in the NY Times…
The Saks slogan, “Want It!” is printed in lettering similar to the graphic designs of Rodchenko, the Russian graphic designer who was one of the founders of Constructivism. The images, largely realized by Cleon Peterson of Studio Number One, Mr. Fairey’s design company in Los Angeles, depict the season’s trends in black-and-white images with geometric slashes of red, some of them shown on models posing as if they are champions of workers’ rights. An ad for a slouchy bag, for example, tells shoppers to “Arm Yourself,” while a style of relaxed, cropped shorts are described as “Brave Pants.”
(Via OMG Posters)
UPDATE: Another thought… are you supposed to wear your “Brave Pants” when eating an “Angry Whopper?” First major advertising trend of the new year: heavy-handed use of strong adjectives.
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