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Zegna Taps Stefano Pilati
Ermenegildo Zegna has hired Italian designer Stefano Pilati to rev up its core men’s line and runway show, plus re-invent and ignite its Agnona women’s wear franchise.
This confirms a report in today’s WWD that the former creative director of Yves Saint Laurent was headed to the Italian men’s wear powerhouse.
Zegna said Pilati would start on Jan. 1 as creative director of Agnona, and head of design at Ermenegildo Zegna, with responsibility for that brand’s fashion show as well as for the Ermenegildo Zegna Couture collection.
John Cage would have been a hundred years old tomorrow. Scratch that: Cage is a hundred. He remains a palpably vivid presence, still provoking thought, still spurring argument, still spreading sublime mischief. He may have surpassed Stravinsky as the most widely cited, the most famous and/or notorious, of twentieth-century composers. His influence extends far outside classical music, into contemporary art and pop culture…
Click-through to continue reading Alex Ross on The John Cage Century: http://nyr.kr/R3iv43
Photograph by Vincent Mentzel 1988/Hollandse Hoogte/Redux.
#nowplaying in the NME Office: ‘There’s No Other Way’- Blur
“It’s in the trees, it’s in the leaves’. New Bloc Party track- ‘Day Four’.
Backstage beauty: Electric hues, metallic shadows, and bold lips reigned supreme at the Dior couture show. Learn how to get the look here »
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“Make love to the canvas” — Bob Ross
PBS continues with its remix series. This one was done by Symphony of Science’s John D. Boswell for PBS Digital Studios.
PBS first remix, of Fred Rogers, is here.
And since I just surveyed one of the younger FJP set to see if she knew who Bob Ross was, and the answer was no, let me just say he was an awesome companion when you were home sick from school. You can learn about him here. — Michael
I’m a 90’s kid and I totally know who Bob Ross was. Michael is spot on—Ross was a “home sick from school” necessity. OJ, Kleenex, ‘The Joy of Painting.’
I hope PBS keeps it up with these remixes!
—Daisy
