STARWORKS GROUP is a proud supporter of The Art of Elysium’s GENESIS event. Genesis is a celebration of emerging talent bringing artists, creative thinkers, and social leaders together in support of The Art of Elysium’s programs and mission. This event has quickly become a staple within the Los Angeles community as a place for a new generation to come together and celebrate individuality and the arts. The night will feature special musical performances from Fitz and The Tantrums and Butch Walker among others, as well as a Live Art Installation and Jean Bar Compliments of Paige Denim!

The Art of Elysium is a non-profit organization, founded in 1997 by Jennifer Howell, which encourages actors, artists and musicians to voluntarily dedicate their time and talent to children who are battling serious medical conditions.  They provide artistic workshops in acting, art, comedy, fashion, music, radio, songwriting and creative writing.

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Here at the London office of Starworks Group, we have a lovely new menswear client by the name of A. Sauvage… a wonderfully modern interpretation of our sartorial behavior.

Taking the ’suit’ and all of it’s formal and traditional connotations, uprooting them and planting them back in the ground upside down, A. Sauvage offers their future customers an opportunity to mix it up or down. The collection, which is available in the UK in late July, offers a hearty interchangeable colour palette, finest tailoring and luxurious combinations of cord pants, cotton shirting and a fancy array of ties and pocket squares. Rather good for a first season.

Launching a pre-emptive strike across the next few months before Matches and Harrods receive the goods, Sauvage himself has photographed, documented, and curated a timeless series of beautiful images. The first of many within a project entitled, This Is Not A Suit. Chapter 1 can be found here and is entitled ‘Natives’. The images were released today and will be added to, from here on in… we hope you like. Stay tuned on twitter for regular updates.

The series reflects the photographer’s recent trip to LA, specifically Venice Beach and the characters he met there, each intertwining within his own life and the journey of the A. Sauvage brand.

In the images, a surfer, a baller, a skater, a stranger, all wear pieces from the forthcoming collection. And as you can see, for once they wear the suit; the suit does not wear them…after all, These Are Not Suits.

‘Handy Paul’

Harry Perry

Ron Beals

Nico

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Danny Roberts

24 year old artist, Danny Roberts from Southern California has been creating art since the age of 5.  At the age of 13, he started his own clothing line and continued with his designs until he attended college.  Now, Danny runs a site called  Igor and Andre that he updates daily for his beloved fans.

His sketches and creativity have led him to be able to collaborate with Gwen Stefani’s Harajuku Lovers, Forever21, Heutchy Shoes, Lancome, and Sundance Channel’s Full Frontal Fashion.

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SHOWstudio.com have done it again, this time with a neatly curated show centring around the opposing yet often balanced themes of Black and White.

The exhibition features artwork by Cecil Beaton, Simon Foxton, Amanda Harlech, Michael Howells, Nick Knight, Irving Penn, and Peter Saville as well as iconic artefacts from Chanel and Visionaire.

Cleverly (of course) mixing the real time show with online broadcast performances will be fashion/art stalwarts Judy Blame, Edward Griffiths and Gareth Pugh concepting and creating all from the LiveStudio in Bruton place. Objects made during the LiveStudio will then be displayed in the Shop.

In the words of SHOWstudio.com (and who could possibly say it better?), ‘Blackwhite is conceptually limitless, structured only around the most celebrated aesthetic relationship in fashion: black and white.
While the stark palette will tie the pieces together, the diverse range
of mediums and objects visually makes way for new associations
and investigations into the aesthetics of black and white.

The show includes Irving Penn’s famed portrait of Lisa Fonssagrives,
Harlequin Dress (1950), and photographs by Cecil Beaton and
Nick Knight that have never been exhibited, the show is anchored
by the elegant simplicity of black and white fashion portraiture.

Against the clarity of these carefully composed photographs, bespoke sculptures by Amanda Harlech and Peter Saville mingle among iconic fashion artefacts like Michael Howell’s ‘drained’ Union Jack, sections of floor from the infinity cove of Studio 4 at Park Royal Studios West London, Chanel Haute Couture headpieces made by Kamo for Karl Lagerfeld’s internationally acclaimed S/S 2009 show, and two of Visionaire’s earliest issues, Black and White.

Artists featured are Cecil Beaton, Judy Blame, CHANEL, Simon Foxton, Edward Griffiths, Amanda Harlech, Michael Howells, Nick Knight, Irving Penn, Gareth Pugh, Peter Saville, Visionaire.

A celebration of the new show on Friday night enticed a select group of our favourite people from the ever mingling worlds of fashion and art, including Peter Saville, Nick Knight, Fred Butler, Ed Griffiths, Philippe Garner and Kit Lee.

BlackWhite Show

The show will be open for the next six weeks, and can be found whilst sampling the delights of Mayfair and Bond Street, just duck down Bruton Street, and into Bruton Place, or click here for more info.

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(models Lonneke Engel and Doutzen Kroes)

Last night, at their home in Rockefeller Center, Christie’s Auction House hosted the likes of Salma Hayek, Miranda Kerr, Doutzen Kroes, Ted Danson, David and Susan Rockefeller, Matt Lauer, Brian Williams and Anne Curry as they all bit to save the Earth. “The Green Auction: A Bid to Save the Earth,” the first ever carbon-neutral auction, raised over $1.3 million to benefit four major environmental not-for-profit organizations:

- Conservation International
- Oceana
- NRDC
- Central Park Conservancy.

(Salma Hayek in Balenciaga)

Donated auction lots, including works by Damien Hirst (which sold for $80K) and David LaChapelle (Daphne Guinness took home his “The Rape of Africa” for $45K, following a rather intense bidding war!). The final lot, a round of golf with former President Bill Clinton, took home a whopping $80K, ending with resounding applause as the gavel struck!

(Miranda Kerr in Temperley London)

(Ted Danson, Boxer Andre Berto and the evening’s emcee Chevy Chase)

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