Mario Wagner for The Box at The Standard, Hollywood
Feb 22 2012
The Box at The Standard, Hollywood is an ever changing gallery for some of the art world’s best and brightest. Up to bat this month is German artist Mario Wagner and they just don’t come better or brighter than him. Mario’s concept for The Box is layered, intricate, ephemeral, and just plain fun to look at. We sat Mario down to discuss his inspiration: The Standard:...
Tomokazu Matsuyama and The Standard Go Global ... Snow Global
Feb 22 2012
Tomokazu Matsuyama’s work is both wild and controlled, figurative, yet abstract, steeped in Japanese iconography – both ancient and contemporary – but also specifically American, cowboys and indians, bucking broncos, and Jackson Pollock. We saw this and thought … let’s make snow globes together. And thus it was born, a unique edition of 30, 8” tall...
The Standard Grill's Dinner with Oscar
Feb 22 2012 / by stan d'arde
If you’re anything like me, you’re already planning your trip out to Los Angeles this weekend for the pinnacle of awards season, The 84th Academy Awards. (Don’t forget to book your room at The Standard, Hollywood!) If you’re NOT packing up your latest designer fashions and you’re staying in New York City for the big event, we’ve created a very special...
So What Did You Miss at NY Fashion Week?
Feb 21 2012
Life always boils down to the moments, glorious blurry moments that fade so quickly into the ether. So before they’re gone, or in case you missed it … Our top moments from New York Fashion Week, Fall/Winter 2012.
Dita Von Teese...Up, Dirty, One Olive
Feb 21 2012 / by stan d'arde
You and I have been friends for quite some time now, and if you know anything about me, you know my affinity for a martini. Check out my new logo if you don’t believe me! My mantra for life is “Up, Dirty, One Olive,” but I digress… With Valentine’s Day having fallen smack dab in the middle of NY Fashion Week last week, it was only natural that we called...
Desert Nights with Rachel Goodrich, Sotto, and Billy McIntyre
Feb 20 2012
Desert Nights at The Standard, Hollywood is what Southern California is all about, the nights are warm, the company is warmer, and the music is fantastic. Rachel Goodrich: We’re pleased as plumbs to have Rachel Goodrich back this month for the second installment of her three month residency. For those who don’t know her, check out this interview where she discusses the...
Song of the Week: "Love me Tonite" by Fern Kinney
Feb 17 2012
This week’s song is a sultry down-tempo disco track from the early 1980’s by one-hit wonder Fern Kinney. Kinney shot to fame in the late 70’s with songs such as “Together We Are Beautiful” and “Groove Me” but it was “Love me Tonite” that caught our ear.
Aeroplane and Wolfram for President!
Feb 17 2012
This Sunday at Le Bain, Nouveau York goes Euro with Wolfram and Aeroplane to celebrate President’s Day weekend. While Aeroplane tours the USA with a new record In Flight Entertainment and will perform for the first time at Le Bain, Wolfram has been a beloved regular and one of our favorites. Both have become emblematic artists of the Dance music scene by modernizing the Euro Sound. Does...
The One Night Standards Now Own Milk Studios
Feb 17 2012 / by stan d'arde
Last night, the internet almost suffered a technical meltdown due to the frenzy of the world clamoring to keep up with real time news from TONSIL HOCKEY, our end of fashion week throw down against (soured) Milk Studios. In true Milk fashion, they arrived in grand fanfare, rolling down Washington Street about sixty peeps deep, led by Theophilus London and all dolled up in what looked like...
Holding The Fort: LA's Anti-Institutional Institution, Ooga Booga
Feb 16 2012
Tucked into a teeny second floor retail space surrounded by the scalloped, neon roofs of LA’s old Chinatown, Ooga Booga has over the past decade carved out a niche for itself as an anti-institutional institution. Steeped in a low-key, post-punk ethos, the store is a noted destination for zines, where one can just as easily expect to find a $500 handmade artist’s book (and...
Crying Over Spilled MILK (studios)...
Feb 16 2012 / by stan d'arde
As some of you already know, tonight, The Standard, New York is facing off with MILK Studios on the rink at the hotel in a fierce bout of TONSIL HOCKEY. I know what you’re thinking, but it’s not that. This is going to be a bloodbath. A fashion massacre. A death so icy cold that the team over at MILK will want to take a summer vacation in Antarctica. (I don’t really...
Stan D'aily Designer Interview: Johan Lindeberg
Feb 16 2012 / by stan d'arde
At the tail end of fashion week (listen to NYC breathe a collective sigh of relief), our favorite Swedish designer, Johan Lindeberg, allowed me to run my fingers through his beard and ask him the questions that every designer has been trying to avoid… After fashion week I’m going to … After Paris fashion week I’m going skiing with my daughter Blue.. Probably...
What The Models Are Listening To
Feb 15 2012
This is not a thinly veiled excuse to look at pretty models. It’s a serious ethnographic exercise in the matching of personal musical taste against those of the physically blessed. These are real models with real iPods listening to real music as they dash between shows. Turns out they don’t just listen to Right Said Fred’s seminal, “I’m Too Sexy,” on...
Watch Tom Sachs' Kubrick Homage / Color Documentary
Feb 15 2012
There’s a mini-trend hitting the art world right now: playing cards and studio manuals. Ryan McGinness made special edition playing cards and a studio franchise manual. And now Tom Sachs has made playing cards and a studio manual, although Tom’s manual uses the medium of film. Directed by Van Neistat (a Standard brother), the mini-doc delves into what we soon learn as...
Cole Haan and Nike Made a Shoe You Can Wear on the Moon
Feb 14 2012
How serendipitous with all the talk of Moon Colonies that Cole Haan and Nike would join forces to create the LunarGrand Wingtip - a shoe that blends Cole Haan’s traditional construction techniques with Nike’s Lunarlon cushioning system. To clarify, the cushioning makes it extremely lightweight, motion enhancing and cushiony, thus making one feel like you are walking on the...
Stan's D'aily Designer Interview with Waris + Exclusive Ben Watts Video
Feb 14 2012
You may have seen the Boo capsule collection by House of Waris premier this week. It’s for sale at The Standard Shop NYC. We also hosted the launch party at The Standard, New York (see all the fun pics here) AND to put the polish on the gold, we have an exclusive video by fashion photographer, Ben Watts, made as part of the “You’re My Boo” video series which includes...
The Coveteur: Behind the Scenes at Milk Studios
Feb 14 2012
The scene at Milk Studios (The Standard’s fashion week frenemy) is where it’s at. Before (and after) finding your seat, it becomes a little game of “I Spy,” spotting the who’s who of the industry. While chaos ensues backstage – models scramble to get ready in time for first-looks and photogs fight for their shot – the presentation area fills up with...
Watch Tavi Gevinson Perform at The Standard, East Village
Feb 14 2012
It felt more “Halloween” than “Fashion” at The Standard, East Village last Sunday during the screening party for “Cadaver,” a new animated short directed by Jonah Ansell. Waitresses in lab coats served dry-iced vodka cocktails and cadaverous red cakes in glass jars. One would think the stars of the film, Hollywood legends Christopher Lloyd and Kathy...
From Desert Nights...With Love
Feb 14 2012
In our book, nothing says I LOVE YOU more than a good old fashioned mix-tape. You remember making these: agonizing over the tracks, recording songs off the radio, trying to get everything in just the right order, painstakingly handwriting out all the tracks on notebook paper. Making one of these babies was a lot of work but it was so worth it. Because you know what it meant when you...
Stan's D'aily Designer Interview: Chris Benz
Feb 14 2012 / by stan d'arde
On Monday night, pink-haired designer Chris Benz took over fashion week, starting off with an incredibly luxurious showing of his A/W 12 collection. Glamour like that doesn’t come easy. Later in the evening, he took the party over to The Standard, East Village’s Penthouse where friends like Ed Westwick and Jessica Szohr stopped by to congratulate him. He took a moment to speak...
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