Style File Blog: Interview with Linda Fargo, Bergdorf Goodman’s SVP of women’s fashion and store presentation and David Hoey, BG’s senior director of visual presentation:

Every merchandiser in the world is confronted with the same quasi-existential question. In the words of Linda Fargo, Bergdorf Goodman’s SVP of women’s fashion and store presentation: “We’re always like, ‘How do you show handbags?’ “

read the whole interview here: style.com/stylefile

A covetable limited edition, this is a collector’s handbound tribute to the elaborate and spectacular windows at Bergdorf Goodman. The best of a decade’s worth of displays, legendary for their artistry, detail, and sly visual jokes. (Januar 2011)

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The exhibition runs from Wednesday 21st September – Friday 29th October at Annroy Gallery.

Annroy
110-114 Grafton Road
Kentish Town
London
NW5 4BA
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Todd Selby is a portrait, interiors, and fashion photographer and painter/illustrator. He began taking pictures of creative people – artists, designers and musicians for example Stephen Powers/artist or Alexander Wang/fashion designer at their home places or working spaces in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Tokyo, Sydney, and London. Todd’s first book “The Selby Is In Your Place” will be released in May 2010 by Abrams.

source: The Selby

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“The challenge to destroy the own creation is more than bitter for a designer. Even in the everyday life, acts of destruction are taken as the definite contrary of a creative process. To destroy something which has been created with your heart and soul? Never!

I want to show with my book, that there are options to apprehend the destruction not only as an absolute destruktive act, but as a possibility to use it aware and conceptual for the creative workflow. By accepting the dissolution of a material or abstract array as a creative method, debilitating habits and logics can be questioned within the creative process. This way of the unscheduled and spontaneous enables innovation. In my book I’m analyzing the relation of chaos, order and destruction. I want to expose the role of the destruction within the creative process on the basis of the work of established artists and designer like Duchamp, Arp, Tinguely, Burrughs, Rainer, Carson or Gehry.

The design and the structure of my book equate to my appeal to dare destruction and innovation finding a new arrangement: Forget everything you know and work with the things you don’t know.”

Sabine Kost

33,20 Euro, ISBN: 978-3-937982-23-6

Order the book via merzundsolitude@brocom.de

alx @ liganova