INDUSTRIE MAGAZINE

This is a unique magazine for the fashion business. It brings together contents that industry watchers may never have been able to find in one publication before. It’s like the fashion industry version of a high-school yearbook, except more stylish and elegant, showcasing the fashion industry’s stars in their best light. The rise of fashion blogs all over the net and cult films like The September Issue featuring Anna Wintour’s dauily life, means there is more interest in the fashion industry than ever before, so that’ the perfect time to launch Industrie. This will be the first and only media title dedicated to going behind the scenes to chronicle the personalities, stories and defining moments in the world of fashion through interviews with some of fashion’s biggest stars. Finally readers will find new fashion inspiration (a lot of it is happening online now) as editorial will be the main core in the magazine. INDUSTRIE Magazine will be available on newsstands during the week commencing 24 May, 2010. http://www.industriemagazine.com/

SPRINGTEN

We are just back from Springten Festival in Graz, Austria, and did not even had the flavour of spring due to the heavy rain and strong wind that characterized the weekend! But good electronic beats are still in our ears. Main happening during the 4 days festival was the anniversary of Sixteen F**cking Years of G-Stone Recordings’at Orpheum, an old charming theater. Huge (and well paid back) expectations for Kruder & Dorfmeister: an awaited, elegant and sophisticated gig with their usual savoir fair and sobriety; daylight projections, visuals, massive leds and two vocalists that warmed up the vast audience, completed the dj set. Many other artists made the festival exceptionally cool this year, such as Ebony Bones, Erol Alkann, Breakbot, Moderat, Layo & Bushwaka, Chicks on Speed, Pendulum, Autokratz, Disco Of Doom, Jahcoozi, Zoot Woman, Nano Rec. with 6 djs from Italy and the very talented Parov Stelar Band. http://www.springfestival.at/

THE MUSEUM OF EVERYTHING

A fantastic temporary museum has opened last Autumn in Primrose Hill in London. You enter through a tiny alleyway on a side street and find yourself in a huge building that began its life as a dairy and was until recently a proper recording studio. The name of the eccentric location is The Museum Of Everything and it is the only public space dedicated to outsider art in the city: a massive collection of artworks created by untrained artists, operating outside the commercial art world, in remote or impoverished communities and sometimes in mental institutions. Crammed into a warren of corridors, cubicles, shaped rooms and one cavernous double-height space, is a big exhibition of the marginalised art of the past 200 years, which has at various times been labelled art brut, outsider art, folk art, naive art, visionary art. There's a cosy tea room with wooden tables and vintage china, plus a mini retail space with a simple, handmade appeal, selling crafted things such as tea towels and badie. For those not in the know the Museum of Everything is an exhibition of what for want of a better term has been called ‘outsider art’. It’s been the smash hit of the autumn and it’s free.