Cockette
San Francisco, 31 december 1969: with their first performance on stage, the performer group called Cockettes is officially born. Trough 60s hippie rebellion and political revolution of 70s by Harvey Milk, these “psychedelic drag queen” makes of freedom their flag. Self-irony, extravagance, glitter, beard, high heels and muscles: there are no rules into Cockette’s aesthetic. The continuous research into fashion, music, performance become outrageous mainstreams’ parodies, LSD’s dancing, fabulous dresses. GENDERFUCK! is their slogan: a cult is born. 30 years before, in a grey Milan, a group called Cockette (clearly inspired by the concept of San Francisco’s performers) wants to create a new way to live the night. Prepare yourself: the best techno, electro and acid house around by Max_M, Gigi LP, PierDJ and Dotknot will make you dance all night long in the big Black Hole’s dancefloor. MAIVIDEO vj-set will create psychedelic colours and fluid signs. Do you wanna dance all night long and get drunk with good music and heterofriendly people? Are you crazy and open-minded enough? OK, then Cockettes are waiting for you 
Friday, 23 November c/o Blak Hole, v.le Umbria 118 , Milan
LaRoboterie 25 aprile: MILANO
Torna a Milano la serata danzante più scatenata d’Italia: La Roboterie è il 25 aprile al Tunnel Club (Via dei Sammartini 30).
Electro, punk, synth-pop, ambient, techno&company gli ingredienti dell’evento che chiuderà la quarta edizione dell’ELITA FESTIVAL: in occasione del Salone del mobile 2009 l’Elita propone la sua “design week music festival”, all’insegna del motto SWITCH ON! cioè far luce ed affrontare la crisi globale con la creatività, l’innovazione e l’ottimismo.
A esprimere appieno questo mood ci penseranno KID606 aka Miguel Trost Depedro, anfetaminico precursore della scena rave sin dalla metà degli anni 90 e MAX_M, uno dei pochi vanti italiani sulla scena techno (e non solo) europea ed americana. Last but not least St. Robot, instancabile “electrico” resident DJ de LaRoboterie.
Ad arricchire il tutto, il vj-set curato da ANDROID, frutto di una ricerca estetica compiuta attraverso allucinati viaggi nel colore e nell’iconografia della club-culture e, ciliegina sulla torta, il light design al fluo di PERCORSI MULTIPLI.
LaRoboterie: the place to be (and get lost) è il 25 aprile al Tunnel Club. Ore 00:00…. MILANO.
YOYO CREATIVO
The “hot thing” in last fairs and events has been a 100% Spanish creation: everybody talked about Victoria by YoYócreativo. Presented in Barcelona’s Bread&Butter 09 and reproposed in MICAM MODACALZADO fairs, the stand of Spanish company Victoria created by YoYócreativo has been acclaimed like one of the best. The philosophy of YoYóCreativo aka Josep Ruà Blasco and Nelly Dominguez de Juan, could be summed in “slow innovation”. In fact, always searching for young and innovative languages, the duo of spanish interior designers don’t forget their spanish roots, lined with the conception of “slow design”. The result is a mix of simple lines, sophisticated shape, mediterrean colours and explosive creativity. In the case of the collaboration with Victoria shoes, this could happen also thanks the presence of two of the most creative and innovative illustrators right now: Marta Abad Blay and Valero Doval, both spanish but contaminated from dutch and english culture, transform space into a captivating Wonderland. Totally hand-made and unique, in opposition with triviality and pre-fabricated design: this is the new idea of the fair’s space that shows the potentiality of ephemeral architecture, but above all is the perfect interpretation of the mood of Victoria’s new collection: optimism, colour and energy are the key-words.
A Sanctuary in the heart of London
Living in London is not so good for beauty. Everybody knows it’s one of the stressfull cities in Europe, and London ladies don’t have so much time to take a break from their duties.
Thanks to God, an help is given by the “The Sanctuary“, a “ladies only spa” situated in 12 Floral Street, 2 minutes from Covent Garden. Born around 30 years ago, the spa was especially attended by female dancers of the nearby Royal Opera House looking for a nice break and invigorating massages.
Maurizio Fiorino
Maurizio Fiorino shoots.
His father, giving him a camera, said: “use it like a gun”. And so, the young Italian photographer, letting behind him never-ended universities and the suffocating Italian provincialism, shoots in all New York. His portraits are clean, without any filters, sensual: his “boys of life” are guys that we could meet everywhere, but they’re dangerously handsome. They’re also and above all auto-portraits. Seems like merciless mirrors, acting on the ubiquitous background of an urban and crazy metropolis like New York. Colours are saturated ands noisy: a little bit of “Godard yellow” knocked down on a Pasolini’s “ragazzo di vita”, trough echoes of an American underground a-là-Terry Richardson.
You can find contacts, bio and portfolio here : www.maurizio-fiorino.com
and here www.mauriziofiorino.blogspot.com
Cédric Jacquemyn
The next big thing in fashion is, without any doubt, Cédric Jacquemyn. This young student at Antwerp Fashion Academy is part of the Belgian fashion scene, one of the most interesting and creative in these years. His work is the result of research and synthesis of an explosive creativity, inspirations that comes from art (he’s also a painter) filtered trough futuristic shape and clear cuts. This seems to comes out from a suggestive dream, tickling our imagination with a strong appeal. The works for the first grade were already published in the Russian “Dazed & Confused” magazine; the second grade collection received the “sublime” comment and a prize from Walter Van Beirendonck, that is the most creative and innovative fashion designer of the last years. Here we can see a preview of his third grade collection: searching for inspiration, Cédric went to Iceland where overwhelming colours and landscapes let extreme freedom to his creativity. More on his website www.cedricjacquemyn.be.
BUGGED OUT! with Surkin+Rex teh Dog
Stanchi di festeggiare il Carnevale con la solita,triste festa in casa con tanto alcool e pochi amici? Stanchi dei soliti banali parties in maschera pseudo-Rio de Janeiro con annesso trenino a fine serata? Allora la serata che fa per voi è BUGGED OUT! – Pink is Punk!!! il 20 febbraio ai Magazzini Generali vi aspettano come sempre i resident dj VICTEAM & PINK IS PUNK, da anni una garanzia di ricerca e qualità musicale nella grigia night life milanese, e in più i Magazzini tremeranno con l’elettronica del francese SURKIN, all’anagrafe Benoit Heitz, giovanissimo dj/producer che ha remixato e collaborato con gente come, tra gli altri, BOYS NOIZE, KLAXONS e i JUSTICE (se vi sembra poco…!) Come se questo non bastasse, a infiammare il dancefloor arriva REX THE DOG aka Jake Williams, che dopo una serie di successi (primo fra tutti l’hit storica degli anni 90 “Son of the Gun” ) e aver remixato praticamente tutti (Depeche Mode, Royksopp, Mylo, Prodigy…) ritorna ringhiando ed abbaiando forte, pronto a farvi ballare fino allo sfinimento!
20 febbraio 2009 @ 11pm
MAGAZZINI GENERALI
via Pietrasanta 14 – MILANO
per iscriverti in lista manda una mail a: buggedout@pvcweb.com
La Roboterie
La Roboterie ritorna a Milano. Nato a Roma con un forte imprinting dato dalla collaborazione con dj berlinesi, l’esercito dei robot conquista le notti bolognesi e milanesi, imponenendosi come il place-to-be delle notti alternative. Il “teknoelettroproject” italiano esplora i confini tra musica e arte sperimentando molteplici modi espressivi: musica nu-rave&indie-rock, tekno&elettro, video art, performance, art show…. il 6 febbraio al Set Club, via Tullo Massarani 6 (angolo corso Lodi).
Karl Addison-Partybots
Karl Addison was born in 1982 in Denver but lived in Arizona where he studied at a graphic design school. His t-shirt and accessories business started because he “wanted to figure out how Paypal works”, but when he sees that some glamorous New York ladies were interested, Karl stopped seeing t-shirts creations like an hobby. He currently lives and works on this business in Washington and all his creations are 100% ORGANIC: he uses soy solvents, water based platen glues and so on.
Yves De Brabander
Yves De Brabander was born in 1976 in Blankenberge, a village on the belgian sea-side, but he moved to Antwerp, the coolest city of Belgium, and he still lives there. He graduated (cum laude) in photography at the KoG Hogheschool. His work draws a direct inspiration from ‘80s culture: trashy, funky, dreamy, kinky are his key-words. Now he works for fashion as well as for personal projects (e.g. “Ecce Homo”, an art/photography project for the “Culture for Tolerance Festival” in Cracow). His highlights include photos of people like Jane Birkin and Vive la Fete.
All pictures © yves de brabander www.yvesdebrabander.com
Clothes by Cedric Jacquemyn www.cedricjacquemyn.be
Anna Zaboeva – Pleasemachine
Anna Zaboeva is a shoe and accessory designer. Born in the Siberian part of Russia, when she was 15 she moved to Novosibirsk where she studied photography and cinema. After her first trip to Europe in order to attend an international film fetival, she fell in love with European culture and understood that Europe was the place to be. She went to Budapest and started to creat her funny, cool shoes. She currently studies jewelry’s design. “It’s about the life-style to live, with pleasure.” she says “ So the right name is PLEASEMACHINE!!” Her creations can be found on Dawanda. Enjoy!!
