Saint Laurent Special Zine Collaboration With Artist Mitchell Syrop

Tonight, Saint Laurent will be showing its new collection in the form of a runway show meets rock concert at the iconic Hollywood Palladium. The coveted invite, which was carefully delivered to Autre's doorstep, included a special zine collaboration between Saint Laurent and artist Mitchel Syrop, who is represented by Los Angeles based gallery Francois Ghebaly. photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper

Berlinde De Bruyckere "No Life Lost" @ Hauser and Wirth in New York

Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere’s work is currently on view at Hauser & Wirth in New York. The solo exhibition No Life Lost is centered by the monumental project Kreupelhout – Cripplewood, an ambitious work composed of wax, wood, fabric, blankets and ropes, reminiscent of a decomposed stack of bones. The almost entirely dark exhibition space underlines the macabre atmosphere created by the eerie art pieces. De Bruyckere’s work is informed by traditional Flemish Renaissance paintings whose influence she translates into a contemporary psychological terrain of pathos, tenderness and repulsion. Skin-like draperies are hanging from the ceiling and hauntingly distorted animal carcasses are presented on tables and glass vitrines. The artist’s interested in the dualities of the human condition are immediately apparent to the viewer. The ordinarily repulsive vision of a decomposing animal carcass becomes alluring while the shrine-like presentation allows for a sense of quiet respect. No Life Lost will be on view at Houser & Wirth until April 2, 2016. Text and photographs by Adriana Pauly

Art From The Dark Heart of Europe: Read Our Conversation With The Dangerous and Alluring Gallery Director Harlan Levey on the Eve of Art Rotterdam →

Marcin Dudek Performance at opening of new HLP space, 2015

Harlan Levey Projects is not only one of the most exciting galleries in new art hot spot Brussels, but the gallery may also have one of the greatest and most exciting rosters and platforms in the world. On the eve of Art Brussels 2016, we have a chat with Harlan about his stint as a professional soccer player, contemporary art and more. Read the full interview here. 

John Kayser "Women" @ Farago Gallery In Los Angeles

John Kayser made photographs and films in California in the 1960s and 70s. His house and the streets of Los Angeles were stage for the private rituals that defined his obsession with female beauty. The women he captured on film performed at the heart of a photographic practice that remained out of sight while he was alive. John Kayser "Women" will be on view until March 5, 2015 at Farago Gallery, 224 West 8th Street, Los Angeles, CA. 

Rochambeau FW 2016 Runway Presentation During New York Fashion Week Men's

New York-based brand Rochambeau, designed by duo Josh Cooper and Laurence Chandler, makes no bones about being rooted heavily in hip-hop culture. Their FW 2016 presentation felt like a short if totally dope hip-hop party, using the catalyst of dueling DJs blaring ‘90s hip-hop favorites, from Gangstarr to Illmatic to Reasonable Doubt. The bass was shaking the room. The collection was inspired by the 1992 Tupac-starring film Juice, and as a result oversized sportswear figures in as the primary motif of the collection. The looks were very clean, with navy blue nylon track pants and matching nylon turtleneck as perhaps my favorite. Some were a bit safe, such as a black bomber over a black hoodie (something we all see on the street enough to not need to be reminded of it on the runway). But then Rochambeau would redeem itself with something totally unique, such as the slightly loose oversized patterned track pants, or that same pattern shown as a button down shirt under a loosely tailored varsity jacket with nice looking oversized khakis. Rochambeau has established its brand DNA and sticks to it here, perhaps paving way for more grandiose statements to come. Text and photographs by Adam Lehrer

Watch The Trailer for "So Sad Today" A Book of Personal Essays by Melissa Broder

Mellissa Broder has been at the cutting edge of the poetry world for a decade publishing titles such as Meat Heart and When You Mean One Thing and Say Your Mother. Melissa Broder always struggled with anxiety. In the fall of 2012, she went through a harrowing cycle of panic attacks and dread that wouldn't abate for months. So she began @sosadtoday, an anonymous Twitter feed that allowed her to express her darkest feelings, and which quickly gained a dedicated following. In her new book, So Sad Today, Broder delves deeper into the existential themes she explores on Twitter, grappling with sex, death, love low self-esteem, addiction, and the drama of waiting for the universe to text you back. Here she is "ballsy and beautiful, aggressively colloquial and achingly poetic" in her book trailer that's goth as fuck. Melissa Broder is the author of four collections of poems, including the forthcoming Last Sext (Tin House, 2016). Her poems have appeared in POETRY, Guernica, and The Iowa Review, among other journals. She lives in Venice, California. Click here to preorder So Sad Today. 

Gypsy Sport FW 2016 Presentation During New York Fashion Week Mens @ Skylight Clarkson

Gypsy Sport’s FW 2016 presentation shunned a runway for an aesthetic so much more powerful. Designer Rio Uribe opted for a podium of his typically streetcasted models. Once telling Dazed that he streetcasts because he wanted the label to “span all five boroughs of NYC and the different races, genders, and cultures,” the models, while all professional soccer player ripped, were of a mixed bag of racial backgrounds. Can high fashion actually be inclusive? Doesn’t that sort of go against the whole idea of luxury? Uribe doesn’t care one fucking bit. Sick clothes for culturally ignored cultures. FW 2016 menswear felt like a new high in the brand’s aesthetic. Many of the looks exhibited the brand’s pension for gender fluidity: beautifully patterned smocks, blue dresses with smartly placed zippers, and jumpers elongated up at the sleeves and cropped at the waist. But, there were also pieces a more conventional dresser would feel nothing less than confident wearing, such as the excellent denim-esque fabric sweatshirt in baby blue, wildly oversized but fitted just right. Gypsy Sport usually does a good show, but a presentation felt right here somehow. It seemed to elevate the brand beyond the early beginnings of a passive concept and into a new stage of active manufacturing of desirable products.  Text and photographs by Adam Lehrer

"The Real Thing" Group Show With Juno Calypso, Natasha Caruana, Pixy Yijun Liao and Melanie Willhide At Flowers Gallery In New York

The Real Thing, a group show at Flowers Gallery in New York, showcases the work of four female photographers who experiment with the concepts of gender, sexuality and identity. Most artists take center stage in their own work exploring their relationship with others or the construction of their own identity like Juno Calypso. The artist created a fictional persona called Joyce who she documents while performing private rituals of seduction. The elaborately staged images and outfits of the character are a commentary on the exhausting construction of femininity. Pixy Liao documents shifting power dynamics between partners in her series Experimental Relationships by constructing a fictional narrative for her partner and herself. The woman is seen embracing the partner, shielding and protecting his often-naked body, reversing ideas of fragility and helplessness often associated with femininity. Natasha Caruana also questions relationships in her series Married Man. The anonymous photographs capture different men that the artist contacted through a dating site for married people. The documentary style of the series assists in creating a sense of loneliness and alienation instead of judgment.  The artist Melanie Willhide takes a different approach to the idea of photography by creating artificial artifacts that are reminiscent of tokens passed between lovers. By using digital technology to alter the images and make them seem older the work becomes a meditation on obsolete acts of romance. The Real Thing will be on view until February 27th, 2016 at Flowers Gallery in New York. text and photographs by Adriana Pauly