Live Music Show - Andrew Bannis of Fab Africa

British designer Andrew Bannis, who is currently living and working in Buenos Aires, presents some of his favorite songs!

Curated by Andrew Bannis

Total Runtime: 0:47:57

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Andrew Bannis is the creative director for two labels, Fab Africa and Dadda. He's traversed Europe and Africa and now finds himself working from Buenos Aires, where he's hoping to unite Latin America with Africa in his new collection. Here are his go-to videos that inspire.

1. Grace Jones - Love You to Life
Anybody that knows what´s what has seen the one woman shows of legend. This represents Grace of today, still with the poppingly sexy drum & Bass licks. Plus of course the sultry vocals.

2. Sylvester and the Weather Girls/Two Tons of Fun - Be Grateful
Because we all have to really be grateful that Sylvester had the nerve to pull it off! Disco never died in my opinion. Nothing else can break down a dancefloor! The vocals, the backing....Yes, GO HEAD Y'ALL!

3 Su Su Bobien - Set Free (718 Sessions WMC 08')
Su Su Bobien proves once again that there is most certainly something wrong with the music industry by giving life with this performance. Sublime and divine vocals, for house music devotees!

4. The Martinez Brothers @ 718 Sessions
A few years back and old friend introduced me to the house music stylings of the M.B´s. When you watch this clip, you wish you were there. The energy comes over. This is the way house music, should and must be done. They were both about 18 and 15 at time.

5. Robert Glasper - Always Shine (Feat. Lupe Fiasco And Bilal)
Robert Glasper, Lupe, and Bilal keeping David Letterman on the Zeitgeist. Unlike myself admitedly. Glasper got to me unsually late. Now I am hooked.

6. Gangstarr - DWYCK feat Nice and Smooth
There are soooo many Hip-Hop clips you could post. I love this one for the bad-ass beat and the extraordinary rhyming ability for G.U.R.U. What a moment in time.

7. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Brooklyn Zoo (Wu-Tang)
This song is great for times when you are in a long, long ATM line and the machine stops giving money when it's your turn. LOL. The song, the production, the video? It's just everything and and then some. R.I.P. my mentor ODB. Thank for showing us that not giving a damn is important.

8. Fela Kuti & Egypt 80 - Bonn - "Beasts of No Nation"
Starting from part two because of the incredible vocal, both parts should be atched. This song is an anthem to me and sums up the political situation both then and now globally. The lyrics burn with fire and intention. Tell me? What happened in Libya? LOL!

9. The Lijadu Sisters in rehearsal and conversation (circa 1979/1980)
Staying with Nigeria. This is a gorgeous and rare clip of the beautiful and elegant Ljadu Sisters. If you do not know them GET TO KNOW THEM! Especially their classic track "Orere Eligbo," which destroys all dancefloors....Nigerian music. Genius and underated as usual. SUPPORT THE CLASSICS.

10. Prince Lincoln - Hereos Just The Same
Oh this a lovely dancefloor stepper, from the hugely missed Prince Lincoln. His voice is so special and he deserved way more credit. It will come in time. The album this song derives from is a must have. Saluting all the heroes of reggae of no longer with us, but whom left a massive contribution to music.

11. Burning Spear - Foggy Road
When the the road is foggy. Play this clip. Burning band, Burning Spear. You want to be be in the band, you want the t-shirts they are wearing. You even want Spear's jacket. This is the word and the message.

12. Patti Labelle - Isn't It A Shame?
Well it is a shame it is all over. Final clip Patti Labelle showing not only her superior vocal ability, but also, her holy ghost, church level, Olympic floor routine. She is the only person I have seen with flawless vocals whilst rolling on the floor. LOL!

Collection - Betsey Johnson 1980s Fashion Shows

The soundtracks! The neon! The innovation! A look at some of the best moments in the beginning of Betsey Johnson's career: her first fashion shows.

Curated by Whitney Weiss

Total Runtime: 0:20:00

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Betsey Johnson (born August 10, 1942) is an American fashion designer best known for her feminine and whimsical designs. Many of her designs are considered "over the top" and embellished. She also is known for doing a cartwheel at the end of her fashion shows.[1] Johnson is the second of three children born to Lena and John Johnson. She has an older sister, Sally, and a younger brother, Robert. Johnson took many danceclasses, which inspired her love of costumes.[2] Following her graduation from high school, Johnson studied at the Pratt Institute and then later graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Syracuse University[3] where she was a member of the Alpha Xi Delta women's fraternity.[4] After graduation, she spent a summer as an intern at Mademoiselle magazine.[1]

Johnson's fashion career started after she entered and won the Mademoiselle Guest Editor Contest. Within a year, she was the in-house designer for Manhattanboutique Paraphernalia. Johnson became part of both the youthquake fashion movement and Andy Warhol's underground scene, along with The Velvet Underground,Edie Sedgwick and Lou Reed. In 1969, she opened a boutique called Betsey Bunky Nini on New York's Upper East Side. Edie Sedgwick was her house model and Johnson designed the clothing Sedgwick wore on her last film, Ciao! Manhattan.[citation needed]. In the 1970s, Johnson took control of the fashion label "Alley Cat" which was popular with the rock 'n roll musicians of the day. In her first year, her debut collection for Alley Cat reportedly sold $5 million in volume.[5] In 1972 she won the Coty Award.In 1978, Johnson started her own fashion line.[6] In contrast, her second collection did not sell well, leaving her with 3,000 pieces of spring clothing and insufficient funds to stage a 1981 fashion show to sell them and Johnson opened a retail store in the SoHo area of New York City.[3] As of 2011, she has more than 65 stores worldwide.[citation needed]

In 2002, Johnson was inducted into the Fashion Walk of Fame. Her bronze plaque held one of her original sketches. In 2003, she expanded her line for 2004 to include handbags, accessories, hats, and scarves. [7]In 2008, Johnson was a contributor to Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna's book Cherry Bomb.[8][9] The National Arts Club awarded Johnson the 2009 Medal of Honor for Lifetime Achievement in Fashion.[10] She once described her style as a formula: "Take a leotard and add a skirt."[1]

On April 26, 2012, Betsey Johnson, LLC filed voluntarily for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.[11]In 1968, Johnson married Velvet Underground's John Cale but divorced him less than a year later.[12] Following her split from Cale, she relocated to San Francisco, California and New York City.[13][14] In 1975, Johnson gave birth to her only child, a daughter named Lulu. Lulu was born immediately after Johnson did a children's wear collection show.[15] In 2006, Johnson's granddaughter, Layla, was born to Lulu.[16]In 2002, Johnson was diagnosed with breast cancer.[17] Ultimately, she underwent a lumpectomy and radiation treatment.[18]

Doc - Boss Women: Anna Wintour

One of the world's most influential fashion magazine editors, Anna Wintour, gets followed around by the BBC for a doc on her life in and outside of the office.

Curated by Whitney Weiss

Total Runtime: 0:48:57

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Supposedly ferocious, incredibly influential, and...mother of two, Anna Wintour is known as the inspiration for the evil boss in "The Devil Wears Prada" AND as one of fashion's most perserveering voices. She's climbed up the ranks, saved publications from falling into irrelevance, and become a figurehead in fashion. This documentary looks at her daily life, gives slight insight into why she is so feared/respected.

From Wikipedia:

Anna Wintour, OBE (born 3 November 1949) is the English-born editor-in-chief of American Vogue, a position she has held since 1988. With her trademark pageboy bob haircut and sunglasses, Wintour has become an institution throughout the fashion world, widely praised for her eye for fashion trends and her support for youngerdesigners. Her reportedly aloof and demanding personality has earned her the nickname "Nuclear Wintour".

She is the eldest daughter of Charles Wintour, editor of the London Evening Standard. Anna became interested in fashion as a teenager. Her father consulted her on how to make the newspaper relevant to the youth of the era. Her career in fashion journalism began at two British magazines. Later she moved to the United States, with stints at New York and House & Garden. She returned home for a year to turn around British Vogue, and later assumed control of the franchise's magazine in New York, reviving what many saw as a stagnating publication. Her use of the magazine to shape the fashion industry has been the subject of debate within it.Animal rights activists have attacked her for promoting fur, while other critics have charged her with using the magazine to promote elitist views of femininity and beauty.

A former personal assistant, Lauren Weisberger, wrote the 2003 best selling roman à clef The Devil Wears Prada, later made into a successful film starring Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly, a fashion editor believed to be based on Wintour. In 2009 she was the focus of another film, R.J. Cutler's documentary The September Issue.

Art - Martha Rosler Reads Vogue (1982)

Rosler deconstructs the messages in Vogue and its advertising

Curated by Jason Forrest

Total Runtime: 0:26:06

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Martha Rosler

1982, 25:45 min, color, sound

In this live performance for Paper Tiger Television's public-access cable program in New York, Rosler deconstructs the messages in Vogue and its advertising. Rosler looks at the institutional slants of the magazine industry and the fashion industry's reliance on sweatshops.

With Paper Tiger Television, NYC. This show was made by Diana Agosta, Pennce Bendes, Shu-Lee Chang, Dee Dee Halleck, Esti Marpet, Vicki Golson, Mike Penland, David Shalan.

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Martha Rosler is an American artist. She works in video, photo-text, installation, and performance, as well as writing about art and culture. Rosler’s work is centered on everyday life and the public sphere, often with an eye to women's experience. Recurrent concerns are the media and war, as well as architecture and the built environment, from housing and homelessness to systems of transport.

Her work and writing have been widely influential. She has lectured extensively nationally and internationally and has taught art at Rutgers University, where she was a professor for thirty years, and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany.

She serves in an advisory capacity to the departments of education at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art and the Center for Urban Pedagogy (all New York City). She is on the board of the Van Alen Institute, in New York City, and is a former board member of the Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, New York. She is a regular lecturer at the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York.

Rosler's son is the graphic novelist Josh Neufeld;^[1] they have collaborated on a number of projects.

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