Zamoc tlog
by jep 15 September 2011
Today I am so happy because I discovered the new tumblelog of Zamoc. Gems of pure research.
Launch Party #30
by davidelp 15 September 2011The Launch Party #30 took place on Wednesday July 20th with the preview presentation of the bastard, Electric and JART Spring Summer 2012 collections.
As usual Fresco distribution topped it off with their selection of Lakai and Makia products.
Now a well deserved vacation is awaiting us, except for the sales reps who will be on pre sales campaign until late September.
From now on the upstairs showroom space at the bastard store will be open almost everyday for pre-sales on appointment until Sept. 20th.
Summer books, the Milano Criminale slipcase
by davidelp 15 September 2011
Today I’m happy to suggest a good summer book. The Milano Criminale slipcase.
For those who don’t know Milano Criminale is a comic series about the Milan 70s criminal underworld. Bell-bottom trousers, mustaches, hot pursuit with glorious italian cars.
If you want to delve into the series take a tour on Diegozilla, the blog of Diego Cajelli, author of the series.
The limited edition slipcase “Milano Criminale – La città esige vendetta” contains three books of the last series and a fine art print signed by the authors.
Available at the bastard store.
Milano City Ink – Against Claustrophobia
by davidelp 15 September 2011
We met the tattoo artists from Milano City Ink about a year ago to realize a t-shirt line called Against Claustrophobia with them.
The whole claustrophobia concept stems from the proximity of their studio with the S. Vittore penitentiary compound, hard to ignore with its oppressive presence in the center of Milano.
The claustrophobia of captivity may recall the confinement of ink trapped under the skin, or an idea trapped in the mind that needs an artist to be freed.
Thus resulting in 3 graphics by Luca Natalini, Amanda Toy and Koji Yamaguchi who, for once, chose cotton instead of skin as their canvas.
Cubist dolls with naif references for the Amanda Toy artwork.
Koji Yamaguchi‘s artwork is a controversial cartoon with green rats held prisoners in a purple brain.
Luca Natalini interpretes the subjet of the collection with a suffering hearth trapped in his rib cage.
Salad Days Magazine decided to elaborate this collaboration with an interview to Matteo, who provided for design, and Attilio, who coordinated the artists’ work. You will find it on Salad Days Magazine 8, July issue.
A talk with Lorenzo Castore
by giuli 15 September 2011
Lorenzo Castore, friend and internationally acclaimed photographer, tells us about his collaboration with bastard and his projects for the future with this brief interview.
Lorenzo is represented by L’Agence Vu’ of Paris and is known, among other things, for winning the Mario Giacomelli Prize and the Leica European Publisher Award, besides having published the books Nero and Paradiso.
Since many years he splits himself between Rome, Krakow, Florence, Paris and Milan.
How did you start collaborating with bastard?
I am often lucky enough to be working on what i like with who i like. Dealing with people that are passionate about what they do simply makes my life better.
So one day Giuliano Berarducci, good friend and good photographer and very close to bastard, asked me if i wanted to do a t-shirt for them.
I had already visited bastard a few times, the place is awesome, the t-shirts very well done and Claudio and the boys are the kind of people that i like, so…
Tell us something about the photo printed on the Caged T-shirt…
During my wanderings i often end up in zoos. I love animals and although the zoo can be a very sad place, it also metaphorically makes you feel on the same level of the animal behind the bars. Who never felt that way? I almost always do. This is a lion from the Berlin zoo. He radiated a mix of wanting to break through the bars and resignation. I like the first thing better.
Tell us about your current projects, what are you working on right now?
One of the main things obsessing my days right now is a film that i co-directed with my friend and film-maker Adam Cohen.
It narrates about the life in two rooms of a brother and sister in Krakow that i used to regularly take photo of. I shared a lot of time with them during my last years living there. Their names are Ewa and Piotr, they’re in their sixties. They come from a well-off bourgeois family and they dissipated a considerable inherited fortune in a very short time. Now they live with no electricity and i can tell they have lost interest in the world.
We’re trying to make a movie on non-sense, on the mysterious beauty of life even when it becomes impossible, on a relationship made of repulsion and mutual necessity between siblings. It will be called No Peace Without War; it’s becoming more complicated everyday but i won’t get my peace of mind until it’s close enough to what it has to be.
La Pina on Shedonism
by davidelp 15 September 2011
The girls at Shedonism couldn’t wait for the official release in fall 2011 of RaGazza Ladra, the collection designed by La Pina for bastard, so they had to swing by the bastard store to admire the entire collection.
And La Pina was physically there for presenting her work. The girls took the opportunity to ask her questions regarding life, work, her passions and obviously the RaGazza Ladra clothing collection.
You can read La Pina’s answers on La Pina itw on Shedonism.
Zamoc exhibit at Dispenser
by vecho 15 September 2011
Maybe due to his recent trip to California Luca Zamoc, our painter friend with a hefty talent, reveals a colorful world of his own snapping out of the misty, monochromatic reality that he was known for.
Unbelievable? Visit his new website updated with the latest works, among which the bastard store murales that later became a t-shirt.
Want to see his work with your own eyes? You just lucked out, as his exhibition is grand opening on Friday, April 29th (7pm through midnight) at the Dispenser in Viale Faenza, 12 Milano.
During the show he will be performing some live painting together with Mosone, Sea and 2501.
Appartamento Lago
by davidelp 15 September 2011
Who wouldn’t want an awesome, fully furnished, apartment downtown?
Lago gives birth, in different cities in Italy, to homes furnished with their products. These apartments, that are inhabited and lived daily by regular people denominated “tenants”, as well as private homes, are used as showrooms in special occasions.
The Lago apartment in Milano, with the occasion of design week, asked us for a little bastard style…
Pink is Punk love Tropical Pizza
by MAS™ 15 September 2011
The wonderful Land of OZ…
by MAS™ 15 September 2011
…meaning what Olimpia Zagnoli has in her mind.
Olimpia, well known illustrator here and overseas for her vintage graphic aestethics and her nice color palettes, in this recent interview narrates about a more or less recent past, the present in constant turmoil and about an all creative near future.