devodotcom: January 2012

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE - SWEET AND SOUR

LEAN ON ME

WARHOL 1983

Robert Mapplethorpe

"Don't pay any attention to what anyone writes about you ... just measure it in inches"

WILLIAM BURROUGHS 1980

Robert Mapplethorpe

IGGY POP 1980

Robert Mapplethorpe

DEBORAH HARRY 1982

Robert Mapplethorpe

PATTI SMITH, SAN FRANCISCO 1979

Robert Mapplethorpe

PATTI SMITH 1978

Robert Mapplethorpe

MARIANNE FAITHFUL 1976

Robert Mapplethorpe

DESIGNER CAROLINA HERRERA 1979

Robert Mapplethorpe

MAYBELLE 1982

Robert Mapplethorpe

SOMEWHAT TWISTED

GEORGE BUSSEY 1979

Robert Mapplethorpe

ROBERT SHERMAN 1979

Robert Mapplethorpe

CYNDY SHERMAN 1983

Robert Mapplethorpe

ORCHID AND PALMETTO LEAF 1982

Robert Mapplethorpe

ELIOTT AND DOMINIC 1979

Robert Mapplethorpe

ALAN LYNES 1979

Robert Mapplethorpe

EVIA 1979

Robert Mapplethorpe

BABY'S BREATH 1978

Robert Mapplethorpe

DERRICK CROSS 1983

Robert Mapplethorpe

FASHION STUDIES IN BLACK AND WHITE

Robert Mapplethorpe

Styling: Kate Harrington

Carolina Herrera

Calvin Klein

Bill Blass

ANNE KLEIN

Tara Shannon - Thomas Williams

Fashion Studies in Black and White

Robert Mapplethorpe

Styling: Kate Harrington

BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL BOY

Andy Warhol's Interview March 1987

Institute of Contemporary Arts Robert Mapplethorpe 1970-1983

Robert Mapplethorpe Galerie Jurka 1979

Robert Mapplethorpe

1946-1989

Once a Great Beauty

RIVER PHOENIX - PARADISE LOST

PARADISE LOST

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT
Photograhy: Marco Franchina

'"When Norman MacLean retired from teaching, he wrote an amazing novella titled A River Runs Through It. In fact, it is labeled a Phoenix Book and is published by the University of Chicago Press. The book is a blend of sporting manual and fraternal love story. At one point, the narrator describes his brother and his ability to fly fish. "He had those extra things besides fine training - genius, luck and plenty of self-confidence. I often thought of him as a boy, but I never could treat him that way. He was a master of an art.'"

Kevin Sessums

The Rise of the Phoenix Family

Andy Warhol's Interview March 1987

THE PHONIX FAMILY 1987

TOP CENTER - HEIR APPARENT JOAQUIN (LEAF) PHOENIX

'" I know your wondering if I'll always be a part of this family or someday separate from them. I've been very lucky that we've been free to be individuals. When I'm on a movie set, I see a lot of people who don't have anybody in their lives. Oh, they have superficial friends, but that doesn't count. So every night they have to go back to their hotel rooms alone. I never want that.'"

River Phoenix

The Rise of the Phoenix Family

Kevin Sessums interview

March 1987

FROM THE ARCHIVE

For related devodotcom posts on River Phoenix
River Phoenix - Go With The Flow 2/18/11

RIVER JUDE BOTTOM PHOENIX

1970-1993

ONCE A GREAT BEAUTY

Monday, January 30, 2012

DOUBLE HEADER

1969

MEASURE OF A MAN - 1968

California Designer Don Loper

all eyes on me

RICHARD HARRIS

Currently starring on Broadway in Camelot, this poetic Irishman born in Limerick, wears his own design of rich velvet edged in black braid worn over a floral-printed chiffon turtleneck.

GEORGE HARRISON

Flared-cuff floral-print jacket

BYELE-CHURCH

polyester jumpsuit - low-slung belt

ANDREW MENYES

"Bonnie and Clyde" flavoured polyester suit

Illustrations: Fred-Eric Spione

DIVAS AND DANDIES

THE NEW HOST SUIT - PAUL RESSLER

Braid-trimmed Moire

The woman - Joanna Simon

BILL MILLER

SILK MOCK-TURTLE TUNIC SHIRT

The Woman - Anna Moffo

THE EVENING JUMPSUIT FOR THE CONTEMPORARY HOST

O'BRIEN MORRIS

French-cut velvet in brown, blue, gold and red

PAUL McCARTNEY - JANE ASHER

Moire lapelled double-breasted tux - satin tie and stickpin

REDMAN ITALY

Long six-button double-breasted jacket

tobacco worsted plaided with gold

Illustration: Harlan Krakovitz

GIG YOUNG

Mike Roth of Kuppenheimer's marine motif, chartreuse-on-beige tussah silk jacket

POLITICAL FASHION STATEMENT

THE NEHRU JACKET

Started by Feruch of Paris, the 'Nehru' is marketed in the west. Popularized by the Beatles and the Monkees, the jacket features a trim stand-up collar and long lean fitted line borrowed from the Indian sherwani or achkan - a coat-like jacket popularized by India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.

ANTIQUED BRASS TOE-PLATES

BILL BLASS

Don Lopez Collection

"There haven't been any gentlemen's clothes in the market for years."

A former dancer - Ginger Rogers partner in Lady in the Dark, Don Loper turned to design in 1946 opening a salon in Beverly Hills from where he created screen and personal wardrobes for a galaxy of Hollywood stars. He also had a hand in designing homes, hotel interiors, fabrics, children's clothing and jewelry. His name has appeared on neckties and cologne and, 1968 saw the launch of his new 'total collection.'

David Gottlieb for Gino Paoli

slacks - Dunlee

John Hampton walking suit - Leon of Paris

Paul Wattenberg design

California designer Stuart Nelson

Stitch-trimmed Nehru-collared jacket and pants with patch-pocket features

all lives on me ...
Man of the House 1968

Gentlemen's Quarterly February 1968

Photography: Leonard Nones

Saturday, January 28, 2012

WARHOL INTERVIEWS THE FUTURE PAST AND PRESENT

THE NEW SEVEN WONDERS 1989

THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA

THE WALKING GARDENS OF CHERNOBYL

THE LEANING TOWERS OF WORLD TRADE

THE HOLLAND TUNNEL

THE COLOSSUS AT COLUMBUS

THE GREAT PYRAMIDS AT THE LOUVRE

SILICON VALLEY

THINKING SMALL

Dr. Kim Eric Drexler
Master of molecular nanotechnology

Photography: Mark Trousdale

coined the term "grey goo"

from Love In A Colder Climate

JG BALLARD
The science fiction of "the body's dream of becoming a machine"

"Ballardian" Photograph: Geoff Spear

from Yuppie, We Hardly Knew Yee

CHRISTOPHER WOOD AKA TIMOTHY LEA

Photography: Geoff Spear

Yuppie, an 80's word used to identify Young Upwardly Mobile Professionals, perhaps coined as a modern alignment to "Yippie," the term created by Abby Hoffman and Jerry Rubin in the mid-sixties to identify "members" of the Youth International Party (YIP!) - a loosely organized collective dedicated to merging a new left-wing activism and the hippie counterculture during the time of America's involvement in the Vietnam war. That decade's youth-centered ideology was to spark a revolution to end the war in Vietnam, promote peace and love, and reject all -isms; including socialism and anarchism - although, with the movement's advent of free love, unity in dress and thought, extreme rebellion against authority blended with a propensity toward a communal lifestyle and collective political demands - true followers of the yippie movement shared all, and in doing so, created and adhered to a rather socialistic and oft-times, anachronistic environment. Two decades later, the Yuppie, shared keys to a BMW and tips on their individual portfolios.

THE THREE STOOGES - HAVE ROCKET WILLTRAVEL

Kobal Collection

FUTURAMA

General Motors Pavillion

New York World's Fair

BRAVE NEW CITY

LEBBEUS WOODS

UNDERGROUND BERLIN

LEBBEUS WOODS

from Goodbye to Earth

ISAAC ASIMOV

Painting: Robert Yarber

from Into The Mystic

ANDREW HARVEY

Photography: Wist Thorpe

TOWER OF POWER

Architectural concept of the year 2050

Kisho Kurokawa

This "super" high-rise building, with its height of 6,714 feet, planned near Mt. Fuji, in the district where a high possibility of earthquakes is predicted in the future, is a challenge to high technology. A buttress supports the main tower to support the stability of the building. The "dumper," which is a shock absorber, is placed at the foundation to maintain this stability by means of a computer that controls sway during earthquakes and typhoons. The buttress also contains the elevator and staircases. On the roof of the building is a port for vertical takeoff and landing, and at its base, a station for the motorcar, which - at 310 miles per hour - allows for a fifteen-minute commute to Tokyo.