This surfaced on the interwebs. Mick Jagger briefs Andy Warhol the latest design of Jagger’s album. The Rolling Stones letterhead and Jagger’s signature lends to the authenticity of the document. Notice the direction of the brief is closed with a “Love, Mick Jagger”.

We are seeing a trend where marker drawings are playing an interesting role at fashion events in New York. This past Sunday was the closing party of the Wish You Were Here Swap in the LES, a retail pop-up project featuring goods from London’s Newburgh Quarter. At the party we noticed the London-bred artist-in-residence, Shantell Martin, decorating peoples’ faces and bodies with markers which she called Line Drawings. These animations truly seemed to echo Martin’s work. Her series of line drawings are created in sync with the energy of the live performance during the closing party.

This week marker art was seen again. For Rodarte’s latest collection for New York Fashion Week, WWD captured body art on the models’ arms and necks drawn with heavy black markers.  The marker art appears to add a mesmerizing, tribal-quality to the pieces of destroyed leather, scrap beads, and burnt knitwear that comprised of the collection. The drawings produce a darker dimension to the futuristic aesthetic which the Mulleavy sisters are known to create. The “idea that someone could ‘be scarred and still beautiful’ was the collection’s leitmotif,” as described by Style.com. One would think it’s about the clothes, but it’s interesting to see this decorative art at staged fashion events.

Photos by Shantell Martin, Style.com and WWD

Shantell Martin

Rodarte

Wallpaper featured an article on Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller, and it seems he like knows what will tantalize shoppers in London. In the past he has filled Tate Britain with bouquets and organized music concerts in the countryside. Would this work for a temporary in-store display? As I’m about to find out Deller doesn’t take his artistic mission lightly.

Clever indeed the creative strategy behind Louis Vuitton’s garden project is to coincide with their latest store opening in the retail island of Westfield in London’s Shepherds Bush.

Deller produced a temporary urban garden with full-body scarecrows to highlight the store’s opening ceremony. Carefully designed to symbolize sustainability and natural energy – the garden brings life to Louis’s latest luxury giant as well as to the usual synthetic mall environment.

Entrenched in the past year and a half with lawsuits in copyright infringement and fraudulent art, this is an interesting way to build up a luxury giant through a social cause. In parallel with economic responsibility, Deller’s botanical presentation will be donated to the Hammersmith Community Gardens Project. Do you think ‘London’s love for a good garden’ is a philanthropic act that is well suited for Louis Vuitton?

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