Visioaire: dope optimists

"the couture version of a magazine..."
W Magazine

"Visionaire has allowed hundreds of artists a place to let images and ideas breathe a different air" Mario Testino





"Fashion rise and fashions set but Visionaire continues to rise with it's unperturbed new visions, influenced by nobody influencing them at all"
Karl Lagerfeldt



"Considered a must have accessorie among the fashion set, Visionaire is a seductive, text free publication that melds fashion and art."
Art In America


"Visionaire is a playground for leading designers, artists photographers and thinker's. It's a gallery in print. A cabinet of irresistable curiosities. A daring iconoclast dressed to thrill."
The New Yorker

Visionaire is one of the most stunning and breathtaking magazines in the whole world.

I for once had never seen anything else like it, until I was introduced to it a year ago by a friend. It's a multi-format album of fashion and art.

Produced in incredible small numbers, each issue goes underground, cult and sells for hundres and hundres of $ on the internet.

Each themed issue is worked on by famous and emerging artists, fashion designers, art directors and image makers.

Published 3 times a year this magazine will simple blow you away.

VISIONAIREWORLD.COM

Dope Ass Magazine: VICE

The ultimate hipster-anti-coolness-nerdy-kid-cool mag that simply kicks some serious free magazine ass. This high quality monthly glossy magazine is distributed in cool shops and cafes in some 15 countries around the world.
Founded in Montreal ,Quebec by Suroosk Alvi,Shane Smith and Gavin Mcinnes, the magazine was launched as the Voice of Montreal in 1994 with government funding to provide work and a community service. The guys decided to cut the government out and moved to New York in 1996, and lash out some white suburban angst on the world, in a most ironic way.
The content of the magazine is always known to be on the, "edgy" side to put it mildly blunt.
However it never misses the mark and always provides me with the type of laughter that has me typing LOL! LOL! on my msn.

Articles, such as The Vice Guide to Shagging Muslims and Bukkake On My Face: Welcome to the Ancient Tradition of the Japanese Facial have gotten the magazine being banned from a number of university campuses in the States
. The magazine is also famous for the extremly harsh "DOs and DONTs", section which has since been imitated by countless other magazines. The feature displays candid photographs of strangers in public places accompanied with a short piece of commentary either ridiculing or praising the person's fashion and perceived sensibility, although some DOs and DON'Ts don't comment seriously on fashion, preferring to couple unusual photos with absurd text to create a joke. We love it.

Vice has strong ties with hipster icons such as photographers Terry Richardson, Patrick O'dell, (their former photo editor), clothing line American Apparel (owned by the founders), and comedians such as Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman and David Cross. Vbs.tv, Vice's new "television" channel, is available for viewing on the internet, with the apparent intention of circumventing network intervention over content issues and allowing for a global, free of charge distribution plan to that of the magazine.

Vice's issues are usually devoted to one theme (e.g., "The Comics Issue," "The Iraq Issue") but, in 2007, Vice announced: "After umpteen years of putting out what amounted to a reference book every month, we started to get bored with it. Besides, too many other magazines have ripped it and started doing their own lame take on themes. So we're going to do some issues, starting now, that have whatever we feel like putting in them."

Vice is more than just a funny butt-fucking joke, as every issue centers amongst a series of articles with substance on topics you never knew existed. Vice never gets old, never goes mainstream, and never compromises it's humor.

http://www.viceland.com/index_int.php?country=uk

Melo, Melo, Melo

So swedes are not just only taking over the whole fashion scene and fucking it up ( in a Swedish simplistic-ikea-way) we are also taking over music (Kleerup, Robyn, the hives etc, etc).
So I am mighty exited to hear that blue-eyed soul crooner Melo is finally debuting with an album that has been a very long time coming (why do soul singers do this?). I have certainly been waiting for this album for so long that I had actually forgotten all about Melo (so sorry).
Nevertheless the forgotten wait is over and the music is poetry in my ears.
Echoing Stevie Wonder and Rasmus Faber, Melo reminds me of so many that have tried before but from a fresh point of view. So please my dope ass people support the art!

First Single 'real slow' is out now
'Off my chest' album is out today

Check out the song "Moody Melo"
http://www.last.fm/music/melo

http://www.myspace.com/moodymelo

Dope Songs: Or Song of the day

Erykah Badu - Soldier

DOPE ASS MAGAZINE

It's the ultimate fashionista mag, so let's start by dropping names.

1. Editor-in-Chief :Sophie Neophitou-Apostolou Her name sounds like a Greek, almighty and all powerful goddess. Maybe it's just the fact that she is a fashion goddess. Or maybe it's just me and the rest of the world!. Fashion director of The Sunday Times, regular contributor of;Dutch, Purple, Vogue Japan, Visinionaire, Dazed & Confused, Nova, Independent Saturday Magazine (Fashion Editor). She was voted by The Observer as one of the worlds most influential people in fashion.
2. Art Director: Daren Ellis Art director of Tate Magazine and contributor of Dazed & Confused, Arena Homme +, and the now defunct The Face (one of the worlds most influential and my favourite)
3. Photographers: This part can really go on until next year, so I've picked out some of the most regular contributors: Sam Haskins,Alasdair Mclellan,Corrine Day, Alex Cayley, John Akehurst ,David Armstrong and Richard Bush.

10 magazine is a cutting edge fashion lifestyle magazine seen through the eyes and wallet of a true fashionista. Feels needless to say that the art direction and the fashion is amazing, as 10's most valuable asset is that the magazine has a colourful personality, it dares to speak directly and very frankly to it's readers.
It's fashion with a bit more substance, it's ironic, daring and engaging.
It' definitely one my 10 commandments of fashion.

Dope Ass Magazines

We live in an overcrowded media world. The weather girls were so wrong, it is not raining men it's raining free magazines, and news papers. Everyday. Tons and tons of them.
If you live in London ( or any other major metropolitan city), you know what I'm talking about you are approached about 50 times a day by people handing them out.
And most trendy/indie/thriftstores stack a number of free-magazines that sort of just sit there looking lonely 'til someone is so bored or just curious (like me) picks them up.
If you then do this about 3-4 times a week, stacks of "dead" magazines are likely to follow.
If you then buy a number of magazines a week you end up with even bigger stacks.
So today I'm starting a magazine feature where I put my 19 years of experience of reading magazines to the test as I dive deep into the magazine jungle In hopes that you my friend(s) will not have half your flat overtaken by mags (like me).

Dope Ass Women

Women on the verge is the movie of the day.

A woman's lover leaves her, and she tries to contact him to find out why he's left. She confronts his wife and son, who are as clueless as she. Meanwhile her girlfriend is afraid the police are looking for her because of her boyfriend's criminal activities. They talk to a female lawyer, who turns out to be the lover's new lover, and everyone's path keeps crossing each other's in a very complicated and confusing manner.

written by Ed Sutton

The house of Victor & Rolf Exhibition

The House of Victor & Rolf exhibition is the first in the UK show to honour this highly influential dutch duo.
The dramatic exhibition mirrors the equally dramatic avant garde conceptual fashion, presented here in typical stylized and theatrical surrealist dream (that overtakes almost the whole Barbican gallery).

Anyone who has been fortunate enough to see a Victor & Rolf show marbles in the showstopping and surreal sence of irony each piece represent.

It's so much more than fashion, it's a subtle remark on a social phenomenon, its a cheeky comment in a dreamlandscape, it's the point where art co-exists with fashion, perfect, natural and abstract.

Highlights of the exhibition include pieces from Atomic Bomb, 1998–99, featuring a mushroom cloud-like cushioned necklines and Russian Doll, 1999–2000, in which a single model was painstakingly dressed by Viktor & Rolf until she was gasping under 70 kilogrammes of exquisite haute couture. Bells, from 2000-2001, models emerged from a smoke-filled space in clothes embroidered with hundreds of brass bells, so they were heard before they could be seen.

Mixing performance, contemporary and conceptual art, the surrealism of the Dadaists and the beautiful fashion of high couture design, the House of Viktor and Rolf exhibition is a slice of fashion heaven, presenting the unique point of view of Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren. The show runs from 18th of June o until the 21st September 2008.

The Victor & Rolf Exhibition shop is full of goodies including limited edition perfumes, specially commissioned silk scarves and an amazing book on the exhibition,.
Make sure you check it out.

The Barbican Centre,
Silk Street, London
EC2Y 8DS
0845207550
http://www.barbican.org.uk

Times:
Mon, Thur, Fri 11am - 8pm
Tue & Wed 11am-6pm
Tube: Barbican
Tickets £8/£6 (concession)


If you're still not convinced check out the AMAZING Victor & Rolf website.
http://www.victor-rolf.com

Mr brown sugar

Mr dope as voice is back from la la land it seems as he is returning from a long hiatus (too long if you ask me!), and might just be back with a single before the end of the year on J records (I love you) and an album at the beginning of 09.

The label took over D's contract from Virgin Records in 2005, where he released his critically acclaimed albums "Voodoo" (my favourite) and the original Neo-Soul masterpiece and debut album, Brown Sugar.

After the massive success of Voodoo D'angelo fell of the musical map, and appeared in the media after a serious car accident and drug related arrest.

Don't worry D, even the best of us have our dope ass moments. We Forgive you

The forthcoming release is said to feature Raphael Saadiq (we love) and John Mayer (we like).

D'angelo please send a sample towards our airwaves soon.

Dope ass D'angelo tracks

Spanish Joint

Brown Sugar

Devil's Pie

Untitled(how does it feel)

read more on: http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003818800

The original dope ass people

They drink. They Smoke. They wear fabulously outrageous clothes They do drugs, Yet somehow manage to keep positions as PR (Edina) and International Fashion & Style Guru (Patsy)
They're UN-apologetically selfish and the epitome of cool is you asked them.
We salute the original dope asses of fashion, mademoiselle Edina Monsoon and mademoiselle Patsy Stone.

Starting out as a semi successful sketch called 'Modern Mother and Daugther' in UK sketch show French & Saunders, The unforgettable characters of Edina Moonsoon and Patsy Stone went on to conquer a whole world.
The original sketch centered around a schoolgirl played by comedian French, who tries to get her homework done amidst her mother,(played by Saunders) throwing tantrums and threats.The character of Edina played by Saunders is rumoured to be based on real life PR guru's Edina Ronay and Lynn Frank who are said to have enjoyed a seriously outrageous life.Absolutely Fabulous series is available on DVD.