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As seen on the New York Times : photo of the magazine by Patricia Wall, original photo by Danko Steiner Celebrating the New World, Bravely By CATHY HORYN Scarlett Johansson is a very good actress, but since we don’t need any more articles about the brand kitten’s style, let’s enjoy a big gulp of the contemporary culture provided by 032c , the Berlin-based magazine that is published twice a year. The latest issue, the 19th, is just out. I adore 032c. Many of us are feeling a little discouraged by the bombardment of stuff on the Web that doesn’t inform or surprise, and 032c is an antidote for that. It sort of destroys the notion that printed journals don’t have the quickness or relevance of blogs. No, they just have to be serious about what they do. The magazine is operated by Joerg Koch , its editor, and Sandra von Mayer-Myrtenhain, its managing editor, and many of the big fashion brands — Dior, Prada, Tom Ford, YSL — advertise there. The lineup for the current issue includes a look at ...

From: The New York Times : Karen Elson Is Dressing the Part, and Singing It By MELENA RYZIK LIFE is unfair and everybody knows it, but should you require a refresher, you need only to watch Karen Elson, the redheaded supermodel, design muse and wife of Jack White of the White Stripes , sing. There she was Monday night at Le Poisson Rouge in the West Village, performing songs from her debut album in a voice that can go from retro-breathy chanteuse to rootsy belter in a few notes. It was the fourth stop in a whirlwind mini-tour that included Nashville, where she and Mr. White live with their two children, and Austin, Tex., where she played at the South by Southwest music festival. The shows were intended to introduce Ms. Elson as more than just a pretty face, or even a pretty voice, but as an artist in her own right. At each gig she took the stage in a peach-dyed vintage gown and a 1917 Gibson Style O guitar to give a preview of her album, “The Ghost Who Walks,” which was produced by h...

From T Magazine/ The New York Times Blog : Agyness Deyn is the latest model trying to make the transition to acting, but she’s doing it via the art gallery rather than Hollywood. In “Mean to Me,” a visually sumptuous 12-minute film noir written and directed by David McDermott and Peter McGough, Deyn trades her gamine look for raven-hued finger waves and crimson lips — all the better to deliver a blow to the head of her lover (the “Law & Order” star Linus Roache), wrestle him into the bathtub, tie him up and extort a sizable check. Set in the Great Depression and named for a popular song of the era, the artist duo’s first scripted film chronicles the disastrous end of an affair. McDermott and McGough began collaborating 30 years ago, and capturing the essence of a time past has always been part of their work, so recreating the 1930s proved no challenge. Period-perfect down to its wallpaper, telephone and radio, McGough’s Art Deco Manhattan apartment provided the set. Deyn’s costumes...

Natasha Poly at Joseph Altuzarra fall 2010 show: from today's New York Times : February 14, 2010 Three Nominees for Who’s ‘Next’ By CATHY HORYN Joseph Altuzarra is a Swarthmore-educated Paris-bred son of an American mother and a French father. Prabal Gurung grew up in Katmandu and trained at Bill Blass . At 25, Alexander Wang is the hitmaker of contemporary urban fashion, his $25-million business already surpassing that of many established designers. If fashion didn’t routinely select a new group of designers to acclaim, it wouldn’t be fashion. There must always be someone waiting in the wings, the “next” one. These three designers now appear to be the leading candidates. It is clear that Mr. Wang has managed to give his collections the properties of high fashion — top models; coveted accessories; a cool, insolent sensibility — while making affordable clothes that many women, not just skinny hipsters, can wear. His show again achieved the illusion of being something more than a co...

Natasa Vojnovic in todays New York Times : Photo Michael Falco for The New York Times NO FRILLS The designer Alexander Wang with the models Missy Rayder, center, and Natasa Vojnovic in his New York studio. In five years Mr. Wang, 25, has built a $25 million company by Ruth La Ferla DON’T tell Alexander Wang that blue is the new black or that wedge-heel boots are the season’s must-have. Such airy edicts would most likely make him laugh. “No one talks like that anymore,” said Mr. Wang, whose keen sense of what young women want to wear is matched only by his no-nonsense approach to his, um, métier. “Fashion in some people’s eyes is very untouchable and super-indulgent,” he said. “For me, it’s just clothes to be worn. And at the end of the day, the point is to sell the product.” That sounds pretty hardnosed, coming as it does from fashion’s latest It Child, a lanky, tousled 25-year-old design-school dropout who, in a scant five years, has leapfrogged from toting garment bags for Vogue to ...

From the New York Times today: Joseph Altuzarra , a young designer in New York, specializes in ruched georgette dresses, priced around $2,000, which are made in France. Recently, he asked his factory there if it might simplify the ruching process to lower costs. The factory refused. “They said they would be ashamed to produce a garment that way,” Mr. Altuzarra recalled. Then he took a sample to a New York City factory to see if it might produce garments for him. “They looked at the sample and passed it around the factory and 15 minutes later said, ‘We can’t do it,’ ” Mr. Altuzarra said. “It was technically impossible for them to do it.”

From The New York Times Pulse by Karin Nelson : Photo: Samantha Rapp JAMIE BOCHERT, model and musician. WHAT I’M WEARING NOW The dress is Camilla Staerk. The belt came off a kimono-style robe from the Park Hyatt hotel in Tokyo, and the jacket and shoes are Ann Demeulemeester. I don’t wear a lot of designer clothes, but when I do, it’s mostly Ann’s stuff. STYLE CREDO I like to be comfortable. But if I’m not feeling well, I’ll dress up. I remember one time I wore this dress to Home Depot, and my heels were clicking down the aisle. My boyfriend said I was like Marisa Tomei in “My Cousin Vinny,” but you know, if you’re not feeling good, at least you can look good. MOST RECENT PURCHASES It’s a rare occasion that I go shopping. I have to be in a really bad mood and need instant gratification. Designers give me things, or I take stuff from my mom, who’s a little Italian woman from New Jersey. The last thing I bought was a tie-dyed jumpsuit from the designer Leana Zuniga. That was good. And...