Stockholm Fashion Week - S/S 2014

Last week saw the latest installment of Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in beautiful Stockholm, Sweden.  While relatively small in number, Swedish brands and the Scandinavian aesthetic have proven to be a powerful force in the contemporary fashion world. Often characterized by unwavering minimalism, monochrome palates and cutting edge designs, this year’s group of designers are a testament to the longevity of the country’s influence. 

From global brands like Cheap Monday and Tiger of Sweden, to lesser known favorites like Back and House of Dagmar, here are some highlights. 

Back 

House of Dagmar

Erïk Bjerkesjö 

Tiger of Sweden

This Halloween season experience your deepest fears as they manifest in Alone: An Existential Haunting.

With your help, artist Devon Paulson and producer Lawrence T. Lewis want to scare you to pieces with their new haunted house concept. No prosthetics, no fake blood, no chainsaws, no clowns, no tattered hospital gowns - besides those of us who lurk inside, the only thing you will be confronted with is your own mind. Each guest will be immersed in total darkness with a flashlight and will have to come face-to-face with what scares them, along with some surprises lurking in the dark.

Fundraising campaign has begun for Los Angeles-based ‘haunted house’ attraction hell-bent on offering a unique, psychological horror experience based on enhancing guests’ own fears. 

For the true connoisseur of terror, check out more in this video and visit the Kickstarter page to donate!

Louche Berlin

London’s minimal electronic powerhouse is finally coming to Berlin. 

On August 31, 2013, Louche will set up shop in the newly opened Chalet Club (below) housed in an amazing 150 year old building. 

San Soda will be there, as will Simoncino. Definitely not a party to miss. You can find out more info here. 

Until then, check out this amazing new Louche podcast by Paris’ Jacques Bon: 

http://www.louchemusic.com/podcasts/louchepodcast111jacquesbon.mp3

We are digging the Celine Winter 2013 accessories. 

We recently stumbled upon the work of Maxime Ballesteros, a photographer living in Berlin, and have become very intrigued by the work he is doing along with his partner, Jen Gilpin. Jen co-produces Don’t Shoot The Messengers, a fantastic Brvtalist approved fashion line, along with designer Kyle Callanan. Maxime contributes the images for the line and collaborates with Jen to create a strikingly bold aesthetic. 

Here are some shots from Maxime’s exhibition “love me, i’m trying” at Seven Star Gallery in Berlin.

 

Below are images from the Don’t Shoot The Messengers SS13 lookbook:

We recommend checking out Possession at Cinefamily next Friday, July 5th at Midnight.

Capturing the energy generated when two people whose lives are so intensely fused and woven are forcibly split, Possession is an emotional nuclear explosion. If all we were given were its operatic and shamanistic performances by leads Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill, its impossible-to-describe music by Andrzej Korzynski, and its masterful, hyper-kinetical ballet of camera choreography — all delivered with the force of a long-repressed traumatic memory — then Possession would already be the best film about divorce ever filmed. But when the angels and demons of our inner nature are literally incarnated in phantasmagorical form — the kind requiring the talents of Oscar-winning creature FX master Carlo Rambaldi (who, instead of making a cutey-pie “E.T.”, concocts a tentacled Lovecraftian octo-sex-demon) — you have the kind of explosively cathartic and entertaining experience that leads to movie-lover nirvanic bliss. Welcome to Possession, your new favorite movie.
Dir. Andrzej Zulawski, 1981, 35mm, 123 min.

Visit Cinefamily for more information and tickets.

40 years in the making…cult legends Goblin will be performing for the first time in North America! 

The Italian Soundtrack Kings will perform all of their classic cuts, including scores from Deep Red, Suspiria, Tenebrae, Dawn of the Dead, Phenomena, Sleepless and other songs that are milestones among prog rock followers, including songs from Roller, Il fantastico Viaggio del Bagarozzo Mark, and most recently Back to the Goblin. Other famous scores never performed live anywhere will be included on this tour. - via EarBuddy

They will be performing in Los Angeles at The Egyptian Theater October 22nd. The night will also include a screening of Deep Red.

 

Once a Year by photographer Axel Hoedt documents participants of the annual Fasnacht Carnival in south west Germany. 

The Swabian-Alemannic carnival, known as Fasnacht, Fastnacht or Fasnet, is a custom in south west Germany when the cold and grim spirits of winter are symbolically hunted down and expelled. Every year around January and February processions of people make their way through the streets of Endingen, Sachsenheim, Kissleg, Singen, Wilfingen and Triberg dressed up lavishly as demons, witches, earthly spirits and fearful animals to enact this scene of symbolic expulsion. Photographer Axel Hoedt captured the embellished disguises of the revellers in a mixture of still life, polaroid snapshots and classical studio shots. The earnest poses away from the carnival revelry and established clichés remind the viewer of what a carnival used to be, ample amounts of merrymaking laced with sinister undertones. - LN-CC

You can purchase a copy on the LN-CC website.

Seinfeld gets brvtal.