Hermès the spring/summer 2015 collection designer Véronique Nichanian offered up the following verse in her decades long sartorial sonnet at Hermès:
A manifesto of prints.
Solar, cavalier charm.
Supple elegance. Continue reading
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Category: Its Saturday
4/18/15 O&A Its Saturday- Anything Goes: Tina Turner – Live In Amsterdam
Tina Turner’s amazing three-night stint at the Amsterdam Arena in September, 1996, where she performed all her biggest hits in a spectacular visual production. Continue reading
It’s Saturday Anything Goes: Legend Of Extraordinary Dancers Episode 7 and 8
O&A NYC Magazine continues to present the Legend of Extraordinary Dancers series, commonly called The LXD, the web series from 2010- 2011. The good versus evil dance series features two groups of rival dancers: The Alliance of the Dark the villains and The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers, the heroes, who discover they have superpowers referred to as “the Ra” through their dance abilities. Continue reading
4/4/14 O&A Its Saturday- ANYTHING GOES: Louis Vuitton Spring 2015 Women and Men Fashion Shows
Louis Vuitton is about travel, and Nicolas Ghesquière is shouldering the responsibility for that. Time-traveling is contemporary fashion’s reality. The way women and men slip so easily between decades, amalgamating their favorite pieces, and never being specific about one date or the other, is exactly how we dress now. Continue reading
3/28/15 O&A Its Saturday Anything Goes: The League Of Extraordinary Dancers -Episode One – The Tale Of Trevor Drift
The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers, commonly called The LXD, was a 2010–2011 web series about two groups of rival dancers: The Alliance of the Dark who are the villains and The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers, the heroes, who discover they have superpowers referred to as “the Ra” through their dance abilities. The entire story takes place over hundreds of years, beginning in the 1920s up to the year 3000. Continue reading
3/21/15 O&A Its Saturday Anything Goes: Patti LaBelle Live! One Night Only
Patti LaBelle Live! One Night Only filmed and recorded at New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom in 1998. The live album released in September 1998 earned LaBelle the Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance. Continue reading
3/7/15 O&A Its Saturday- Anything Goes: Music From Empire
Empire, the fox musical drama television series, is breaking records every week. The hour-long family drama created by Lee Daniels and Danny Strong and starring Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson, centers around a Hip hop music and Entertainment company, Empire Enterprises. One undeniable aspect of the show’s success is the music. Fox’s senior VP of TV Music Geoff Bywayer said to expect the fictional musical world to collide with the real musical world; “We want to make the world of ‘Empire’ almost feel like a real music-breathing entity.” Continue reading
2/28/15 O&A Its Saturday Anything Goes: Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic at the Brooklyn Museum
By Walter Rutledge
Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic at the Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn,is an overview of the artist’s prolific fourteen-year career featuring sixty paintings and sculptures. The works represent Wiley’s signature portraits of everyday men and women of color set in the style of the Old Masters. Wiley has replaced the European aristocrats depicted in those paintings with contemporary black subjects, drawing attention to the absence of African-Americans from historical and cultural narratives. Continue reading
2/21/15 O&A Its Saturday: Pat Cleveland
Pat Cleveland is a trailblazing international model. One of the first black supermodels she rose to prominence in the 1970’s. Cleveland was a muse to the designers Halston and regularly opened his fashion shows. She also regularly appeared in the shows of Yves Saint Laurent and Stephen Burrows. Continue reading
2/14/15 O&A Its Saturday Anything Goes: Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Saint Laurent is a 1992 documentary produced 10 years before the closure of Yves Saint Laurent haute couture. It provides the look at the life and career of the legendary designer. O & A salutes fashion week with a look at one of the industries most celebrated couturier. Continue reading
