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Blue Jeans Quilts

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My mother is going to make me a quilt out of my old blue jeans. Any idea where we can find a pattern?

The ones I’ve found online just aren’t doing it for me.

What is it about the patterns you’ve seen that you don’t like? Do you want a casual looking quilt or do you want something more formal? Do you want to include pockets and other features of the jeans? Most of the denim quilts that you will see are either frayed-edge quilts or quilts that are made of fairly large simply blocks. Because denim is heavy, it’s difficult to make quilt blocks with lots of small pieces — all the seams make it too heavy. Unless you are using an assortment of different colored denims, these quilts can also be very low contrast which makes any pattern and secondary pattern in the blocks difficult to see. While it’s difficult to mix denim with regular quilter’s cotton fabrics, denim can be mixed successfully with flannel and combination denim/flannel quilts can be very pretty.

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If you leave some more details, I’ll check back and try to help you find a pattern.

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Hard Tail clothing – Behind the Brand with Dick Cantrell

Ever wondered what the history behind Hard Tail clothing is? A clothing line whose logo symbolizes wings – wings which symbolizes the previous life of Dick Cantrell, owner and creator of Hard Tail Forever clothing.

In 1970 before moving to San Francisco Cantrell was a U.S. air Force Fighter pilot, with his poised under pressure and determination outlook he has become one of today‘s biggest sportswear lines owner in the world.

Shortly after leaving the air Force, Cantrell opened his first apparel store called London Britches, a jeans boutique in San Francisco. This then led to another store in San Francisco called Rag shop in Honolulu. Following that Cantrell went to opening 17 more stores across the country, he then moved from denim and expanded into boutique and basic apparel.

Cantrell married Patty, his buyer and co-founder of Hard Tail Clothing. The couple wanted to be stay at home parents and decided to sell their stores.

Cantrell started to itch for the apparel industry after a while once again. He stated to sportswear Magazine that he asked his wife Patty “What would you say if we went back into retail?” She responded with “Why would we want to go back to that –when we’ve already done it?” he recalled an instance when a friend had asked him to review his apparel line. He did, and thought it was horrible. He went into giving him some pointers and eventually his friend told him to “just do it all on his own” because he saw how happy it made him and that was the beginning of Hard Tail Clothing.

The major success for Hard Tail clothing was a lucky break at a huge textile trade show called magic. Cantrell got on the waitlist for a booth and fortunately he was able to display the beginning of Hard Tail clothing. The rest is pretty much history!

In 1991 the Cantrells launched Hard Tail Forever, with the idea that both men and women need before and after workout clothing for the gym. Hard Tail clothing gives off an easy-going, laid back feel – much like the California lifestyle Cantrell and his wife lead. Hard Tail clothing delivers fashion and comfort all in one with tattoo-inspired designs, edgy embellishments and form-fitting styles.

Hard Tail clothing can be found through various high-end boutiques and stores, including www.Haute-body.com and currently has a flagship store on the Santa Monica Promenade.

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Andy Warhol

Childhood

Andy Warhol was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the fourth child of Ondrej Warhola and Ulja, whose first child was born in their homeland and died before their migration to the U.S. His parents were working-class immigrants from Mik (now called Mikov), in northeastern Slovakia, then part of Austro-Hungarian Empire. Warhol’s father immigrated to the US in 1914, and his mother joined him in 1921, after the death of Andy Warhol’s grandparents. Warhol’s father worked in a coal mine. The family lived at 55 Beelen Street and later at 3252 Dawson Street in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The family was Byzantine Catholic and attended St. John Chrysostom Byzantine Catholic church. Andy Warhol had two older brothers, Jn and Pavol, who were born in today‘s Slovakia. Pavol’s son, James Warhola, became a successful children’s book illustrator.

In third grade, Warhol had chorea, a nervous system disease that causes involuntary movements of the extremities, which is believed to be a complication of scarlet fever and causes skin pigmentation blotchiness. He became a hypochondriac, developing a fear of hospitals and doctors. Often bed-ridden as a child, he became an outcast among his school-mates and bonded strongly with his mother. At times when he was confined to bed, he drew, listened to the radio and collected pictures of movie stars around his bed. Warhol later described this period as very important in the development of his personality, skill-set and preferences.

Early career

Warhol showed early artistic talent and studied commercial art at the school of Fine arts at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (now Carnegie Mellon University). In 1949, he moved to New York City and began a successful career in magazine illustration and advertising. During the 1950s, he gained fame for his whimsical ink drawings of shoe advertisements. These were done in a loose, blotted-ink style, and figured in some of his earliest showings at the Bodley Gallery in New York. With the concurrent rapid expansion of the record industry and the introduction of the vinyl record, Hi-Fi, and stereophonic recordings, RCA Records hired Warhol, along with another freelance artist, Sid Maurer, to design album covers and promotional materials.

Campbell’s Soup I (1968)

1960s

His first one-man art-gallery exhibition as a fine artist was on July 9, 1962, in the Ferus Gallery of Los Angeles. The exhibition marked the West Coast debut of pop art. Andy Warhol’s first New York solo Pop exhibit was hosted at Eleanor Ward’s Stable Gallery November 6-24, 1962. The exhibit included the works Marilyn Diptych, 100 Soup Cans, 100 Coke Bottles and 100 Dollar Bills. At the Stable Gallery exhibit, the artist met for the first time John Giorno who would star in Warhol’s first film, sleep, in 1963.[citation needed]

It was during the 1960s that Warhol began to make paintings of iconic American products such as Campbell’s Soup Cans and Coca-Cola bottles, as well as paintings of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Troy Donahue, Muhammad Ali and Elizabeth Taylor. He founded “The Factory”, his studio during these years, and gathered around himself a wide range of artists, writers, musicians, and underground celebrities. He began producing prints using the silkscreen method. His work became popular and controversial.

Among the imagery tackled by Warhol were dollar bills, celebrities and brand name products. He also used as imagery for his paintings newspaper headlines or photographs of mushroom clouds, electric chairs, and police dogs attacking civil rights protesters. Warhol also used Coca Cola bottles as subject matter for paintings. He had this to say about Coca Cola:

What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coca Cola, Liz Taylor drinks Coca Cola, and just think, you can drink Coca Cola, too. A coke is a coke and no amount of money can get you a better coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the cokes are the same and all the cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.

New York’s Museum of Modern Art hosted a Symposium on pop art in December 1962 during which artists like Warhol were attacked for “capitulating” to consumerism. Critics were scandalized by Warhol’s open embrace of market culture. This symposium set the tone for Warhol’s reception. Throughout the decade it became more and more clear that there had been a profound change in the culture of the art world, and that Warhol was at the center of that shift.[citation needed]

Campbell’s tomato Juice Box (1964)

A pivotal event was the 1964 exhibit The American Supermarket, a show held in Paul Bianchini’s Upper East Side gallery. The show was presented as a typical U.S. small supermarket environment, except that everything in it from the produce, canned goods, meat, posters on the wall, etc. was created by six prominent pop artists of the time, among them the controversial (and like-minded) Billy Apple, Mary Inman, and Robert Watts. Warhol’s painting of a can of Campbell’s soup cost $1,500 while each autographed can sold for $6. The exhibit was one of the first mass events that directly confronted the general public with both pop art and the perennial question of what art is (or of what is art and what is not).[citation needed]

As an advertisement illustrator in the 1950s, Warhol used assistants to increase his productivity. Collaboration would remain a defining (and controversial) aspect of his working methods throughout his career; in the 1960s, however, this was particularly true. One of the most important collaborators during this period was Gerard Malanga. Malanga assisted the artist with producing silkscreens, films, sculpture, and other works at “The Factory”, Warhol’s aluminum foil-and-silver-paint-lined studio on 47th Street (later moved to Broadway). Other members of Warhol’s Factory crowd included Freddie Herko, Ondine, Ronald Tavel, Mary Woronov, Billy Name, and Brigid Berlin (from whom he apparently got the idea to tape-record his phone conversations).

During the ’60s, Warhol also groomed a retinue of bohemian eccentrics upon whom he bestowed the designation “Superstars”, including Edie Sedgwick, Viva, Ultra Violet, and candy Darling. These people all participated in the Factory films, and some like Berlin remained friends with Warhol until his death. Important figures in the New York underground art/cinema world, such as writer John Giorno and film-maker Jack Smith, also appear in Warhol films of the 1960s, revealing Warhol’s connections to a diverse range of artistic scenes during this period.

Attempted assassination

On June 3, 1968, Valerie Solanas shot Warhol and art critic and curator Mario Amaya at Warhol’s studio. Before the shooting, Solanas had been a marginal figure in the Factory scene. She founded a “group” called S.C.U.M. (Society for Cutting Up Men) and authored the S.C.U.M. Manifesto, a separatist feminist attack on patriarchy. Over the years, Solanas’ manifesto has found a following. Solanas appears in the 1968 Warhol film I, A Man. Earlier on the day of the attack, Solanas had been turned away from the Factory after asking for the return of a script she had given to Warhol. The script, apparently, had been misplaced.

Amaya received only minor injuries and was released from the hospital later the same day. Warhol however, was seriously wounded by the attack and barely survived (surgeons opened his chest and massaged his heart to help stimulate its movement again). He suffered physical effects for the rest of his life. The shooting had a profound effect on Warhol’s life and art.

Solanas was arrested the day after the assault. By way of explanation, she said that “He had too much control over my life,” following which she was eventually sentenced to three years under the control of the department of corrections. After the shooting, the Factory scene became much more tightly controlled, and for many this event brought the “Factory 60s” to an end. The shooting was mostly overshadowed in the media due to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy two days later.

Warhol had this to say about the attack: “Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there  I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. People sometimes say that the way things happen in movies is unreal, but actually it’s the way things happen in life that’s unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it’s like watching television  you don’t feel anything. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television. The channels switch, but it’s all television.”

1970s

Andy Warhol and Jimmy Carter in 1977

Compared to the success and scandal of Warhol’s work in the 1960s, the 1970s proved a much quieter decade, as Warhol became more entrepreneurial. According to Bob Colacello, Warhol devoted much of his time to rounding up new, rich patrons for portrait commissions including Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, his wife Empress Farah Pahlavi, his sister Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, Mick Jagger, Liza Minnelli, John Lennon, Diana Ross, Brigitte Bardot, and Michael Jackson. [citation needed] Warhol’s famous portrait of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong was created in 1973. He also founded, with Gerard Malanga, Interview magazine, and published The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975). An idea expressed in the book: “Making money is art, and working is art and good business is the best art.”[cite this quote]

Warhol used to socialize at various nightspots in New York City, including Max’s Kansas City; Serendipity 3; and, later in the ’70s, Studio 54. He was generally regarded as quiet, shy, and a meticulous observer. Art critic Robert Hughes called him “the white mole of Union Square.”

1980s

Warhol had a re-emergence of critical and financial success in the 1980s, partially due to his affiliation and friendships with a number of prolific younger artists, who were dominating the “bull market” of ’80s New York art: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, David Salle and other so-called Neo-Expressionists, as well as members of the Transavantgarde movement in Europe, including Francesco Clemente and Enzo Cucchi.

By this period, Warhol was being criticized for becoming merely a “business artist”. In 1979, unfavorable reviews met his exhibits of portraits of 1970s personalities and celebrities, calling them superficial, facile and commercial, with no depth or indication of the significance of the subjects. This criticism was echoed for his 1980 exhibit of ten portraits at the Jewish Museum in New York, entitled Jewish Geniuses, which Warhol who exhibited no interest in Judaism or matters of interest to Jews had described in his diary as “They’re going to sell.” In hindsight, however, some critics have come to view Warhol’s superficiality and commerciality as “the most brilliant mirror of our times,” contending that “Warhol had captured something irresistible about the zeitgeist of American culture in the 1970s.”

Warhol also had an appreciation for intense Hollywood glamour. He once said: “I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They’re so beautiful. everything‘s plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.”

Sexuality

Many people think of Warhol as “asexual” and merely a “voyeur”; however, it is now well established that he was homosexual (see biographers such as Victor Bockris, Bob Colacello, and art historian Richard Meyer). The question of how Warhol’s sexuality influenced his work and shaped his relationship to the art world is a major subject of scholarship on the artist, and is an issue that Warhol himself addressed in interviews, in conversation with his contemporaries, and in his publications (e.g. Popism: The Warhol Sixties).

Throughout his career, Warhol produced erotic photography and drawings of male nudes. Many of his most famous works (portraits of Liza Minnelli, Judy Garland, and Elizabeth Taylor, and films like Blow job, My Hustler, and Lonesome Cowboys) draw from gay underground culture and/or openly explore the complexity of sexuality and desire. Many of his films premiered in gay porn theaters. That said, some stories about Warhol’s development as an artist revolved around the obstacle his sexuality initially presented as he tried to launch his career. The first works that he submitted to a gallery in the pursuit of a career as an artist were homoerotic drawings of male nudes. They were rejected for being too openly gay. In Popism, furthermore, the artist recalls a conversation with the film maker Emile de Antonio about the difficulty Warhol had being accepted socially by the then more famous (but closeted) gay artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. De Antonio explained that Warhol was “too swish and that upsets them.” In response to this, Warhol writes, “There was nothing I could say to that. It was all too true. So I decided I just wasn’t going to care, because those were all the things that I didn’t want to change anyway, that I didn’t think I ‘should’ want to change… Other people could change their attitudes but not me”. In exploring Warhol’s biography, many turn to this period the late 1950s and early 1960s as a key moment in the development of his persona. Some have suggested that his frequent refusal to comment on his work, to speak about himself (confining himself in interviews to responses like “Um, No” and “Um, Yes”, and often allowing others to speak for him) and even the evolution of his Pop style an be traced to the years when Warhol was first dismissed by the inner circles of the New York art world.

Religious beliefs

Images of Jesus from The Last Supper cycle (1986). Warhol made almost 100 variations on the theme, which the Guggenheim felt “indicates an almost obsessive investment in the subject matter.”

Warhol was a practicing Byzantine Catholic. He regularly volunteered at homeless shelters in New York, particularly during the busier times of the year, and described himself as a religious person. Several of Warhol’s later works depicted religious subjects, including two series, Details of Renaissance Paintings (1984) and The Last Supper (1986). In addition, a body of religious-themed works was found posthumously in his estate.

During his life, Warhol regularly attended Mass, and the priest at Warhol’s church, Saint Vincent’s, said that the artist went there almost daily. His art is noticeably influenced by the eastern christian iconographic tradition which was so evident in his places of worship.

Warhol’s brother has described the artist as “really religious, but he didn’t want people to know about that because [it was] private.” Despite the private nature of his faith, in Warhol’s eulogy John Richardson depicted it as devout: “To my certain knowledge, he was responsible for at least one conversion. He took considerable pride in financing his nephew’s studies for the priesthood”

Death

Warhol died in New York City at 6:32 a.m. on February 22, 1987. According to news reports, he had been making good recovery from a routine gallbladder surgery at New York Hospital before dying in his sleep from a sudden post-operative cardiac arrhythmia. Prior to his diagnosis and operation, Warhol delayed having his recurring gallbladder problems checked, as he was afraid to enter hospitals and see doctors. His family sued the hospital for inadequate care, saying that the arrhythmia was caused by improper care and water intoxication.

Warhol’s grave at St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery

Warhol’s body was taken back to Pittsburgh by his brothers for burial. The wake was at Thomas P. Kunsak Funeral home and was an open-coffin ceremony. The coffin was a solid bronze casket with gold plated rails and white upholstery. Warhol was dressed in a black cashmere suit, a paisley tie, a platinum wig, and sunglasses. He was posed holding a small prayer book and a red rose. The funeral liturgy was held at the Holy Ghost Byzantine Catholic Church on Pittsburgh’s North Side. The eulogy was given by Monsignor Peter Tay. Yoko Ono also made an appearance. The coffin was covered with white roses and asparagus ferns. After the liturgy, the coffin was driven to St. John the Baptist Byzantine Catholic Cemetery in Bethel Park, a south suburb of Pittsburgh. At the grave, the priest said a brief prayer and sprinkled holy water on the casket. Before the coffin was lowered, Paige Powell dropped a copy of Interview magazine, an Interview t-shirt, and a bottle of the Estee Lauder perfume “beautiful” into the grave. Warhol was buried next to his mother and father. Weeks later a memorial service was held in Manhattan for Warhol on April 1, 1987, at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York.

Warhol’s will dictated that his entire estate with the exception of a few modest legacies to family members would go to create a foundation dedicated to the “advancement of the visual arts“. Warhol had so many possessions that it took Sotheby’s nine days to auction his estate after his death; the auction grossed more than US$20 million. His total estate was worth considerably more, due in no small part to shrewd investments over the years.[citation needed]

In 1987, in accordance with Warhol’s will, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts was founded. The Foundation not only serves as the official Estate of Andy Warhol, but also has a mission “to foster innovative artistic expression and the creative process” and is “focused primarily on supporting work of a challenging and often experimental nature.”

The Artists Rights Society is the U.S. copyright representative for the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for all Warhol works with the exception of Warhol film stills. The U.S. copyright representative for Warhol film stills is the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. Additionally, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has agreements in place for its image archive. All digital images of Warhol are exclusively managed by Corbis, while all transparency images of Warhol are managed by Art Resource.

The Andy Warhol Foundation released its 20th Anniversary Annual Report as a three-volume set in 2007: Vol. I, 19872007; Vol. II, Grants & Exhibitions; and Vol. III, Legacy Program. The Foundation remains one of the largest grant-giving organizations for the visual arts in the U.S.

Works

Paintings

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By the beginning of the 1960s, Warhol was a very successful commercial illustrator. His detailed and elegant drawings for I. Miller shoes were particularly popular. These illustrations consisted mainly of “blotted ink” drawings (or monoprints), a technique which he applied in much of his early art. Although many artists of this period worked in commercial art, most did so discreetly. Warhol was so successful, however, that his profile as an illustrator seemed to undermine his efforts to be taken seriously as an artist.

Pop Art was an experimental form that several artists were independently adopting; some of these pioneers, such as Roy Lichtenstein, would later become synonymous with the movement. Warhol, who would become famous as the “Pope of Pop”, turned to this new style, where popular subjects could be part of the artist’s palette. His early paintings show images taken from cartoons and advertisements, hand-painted with paint drips. Those drips emulated the style of successful abstract expressionists (such as Willem de Kooning). Warhol’s first Pop Art paintings were displayed in April 1961, serving as the backdrop for New York Department Store Bronwit Teller’s window display. This was the same stage his Pop Art contemporaries Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist and Robert Rauschenberg had also once graced. Eventually, Warhol pared his image vocabulary down to the icon itself to brand names, celebrities, dollar signs and removed all traces of the artist’s “hand” in the production of his paintings.

To him, part of defining a niche was defining his subject matter. Cartoons were already being used by Lichtenstein, typography by Jasper Johns, and so on; Warhol wanted a distinguishing subject. His friends suggested he should paint the things he loved the most. In his signature way of taking things literally, for his first major exhibition he painted his famous cans of Campbell’s Soup, which he claimed to have had for lunch for most of his life. The work sold for $10,000 at an auction on November 17, 1971, at Sotheby’s New York a minimal amount for the artist whose paintings sell for over $6 million more recently.

He loved celebrities, so he painted them as well. From these beginnings he developed his later style and subjects. Instead of working on a signature subject matter, as he started out to do, he worked more and more on a signature style, slowly eliminating the hand-made from the artistic process. Warhol frequently used silk-screening; his later drawings were traced from slide projections. At the height of his fame as a painter, Warhol had several assistants who produced his silk-screen multiples, following his directions to make different versions and variations.

In 1979, Warhol was commissioned by BMW to paint a Group 4 race version of the then elite supercar BMW M1 for the fourth installment in the BMW Art Car Project. Unlike the three artists before him, Warhol declined the use of a small scale practice model, instead opting to immediately paint directly onto the full scale automobile. It was indicated that Warhol spent only a total of 23 minutes to paint the entire car.

Warhol produced both comic and serious works; his subject could be a soup can or an electric chair. Warhol used the same techniques silkscreens, reproduced serially, and often painted with bright colors whether he painted celebrities, everyday objects, or images of suicide, car crashes, and disasters, as in the 196263 Death and Disaster series. The Death and Disaster paintings (such as Red Car Crash, Purple Jumping Man, and Orange Disaster) transform personal tragedies into public spectacles, and signal the use of images of disaster in the then evolving mass media.

The unifying element in Warhol’s work is his deadpan Keatonesque style artistically and personally affectless. This was mirrored by Warhol’s own demeanor, as he often played “dumb” to the media, and refused to explain his work. The artist was famous for having said that all you need to know about him and his works is already there, “Just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.”

His Rorschach inkblots are intended as pop comments on art and what art could be. His cow wallpaper (literally, wallpaper with a cow motif) and his oxidation paintings (canvases prepared with copper paint that was then oxidized with urine) are also noteworthy in this context. Equally noteworthy is the way these works and their means of production mirrored the atmosphere at Andy’s New York “Factory”. Biographer Bob Colacello provides some details on Andy’s “piss paintings”:

Victor… was Andy’s ghost pisser on the Oxidations. He would come to the Factory to urinate on canvases that had already been primed with copper-based paint by Andy or Ronnie Cutrone, a second ghost pisser much appreciated by Andy, who said that the Vitamin B that Ronnie took made a prettier color when the acid in the urine turned the copper green. Did Andy ever use his own urine? My diary shows that when he first began the series, in December 1977, he did, and there were many others: boys who’d come to lunch and drink too much wine, and find it funny or even flattering to be asked to help Andy ‘paint.’ Andy always had a little extra bounce in his walk as he led them to his studio…

Warhol’s first portrait of Basquiat (1982) is a black photosilkscreen over an oxidized copper “piss painting“.

After many years of silkscreen, oxidation, photography, etc., Warhol returned to painting with a brush in hand in a series of over 50 large collaborative works done with Jean-Michel Basquiat between 1984 and 1986. These were influential for his later work.

Warhol’s The Last Supper cycle was his last series, possibly his largest and seen by some as “arguably his greatest”. It is also the largest series of religious works by any U.S. artist.

Films

Warhol worked across a wide range of media painting, photography, drawing, and sculpture. In addition, he was a highly prolific filmmaker. Between 1963 and 1968, he made more than 60 films , plus some 500 short black-and-white “screen test” portraits of Factory visitors. One of his most famous films, Sleep, monitors poet John Giorno sleeping for six hours. The 35-minute film Blow job is one continuous shot of the face of DeVeren Bookwalter supposedly receiving oral sex from filmmaker Willard Maas, although the camera never tilts down to see this. Another, Empire (1964), consists of eight hours of footage of the Empire State Building in New York City at dusk. The film eat consists of a man eating a mushroom for 45 minutes. Warhol attended the 1962 premiere of the static composition by LaMonte young called Trio for Strings and subsequently created his famous series of static films including Kiss, eat, and Sleep (for which young initially was commissioned to provide music). Uwe Husslein cites filmmaker Jonas Mekas, who accompanied Warhol to the Trio premiere, and who claims Warhol’s static films were directly inspired by the performance.

Batman Dracula is a 1964 film that was produced and directed by Warhol, without the permission of DC Comics. It was screened only at his art exhibits. A fan of the Batman series, Warhol’s movie was an “homage” to the series, and is considered the first appearance of a blatantly campy Batman. The film was until recently thought to have been lost, until scenes from the picture were shown at some length in the 2006 documentary Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis.

Warhol’s 1965 film Vinyl is an adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ popular dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange. Others record improvised encounters between Factory regulars such as Brigid Berlin, Viva, Edie Sedgwick, candy Darling, Holly Woodlawn, Ondine, Nico, and Jackie Curtis. Legendary underground artist Jack Smith appears in the film camp.

His most popular and critically successful film was Chelsea Girls (1966). The film was highly innovative in that it consisted of two 16 mm-films being projected simultaneously, with two different stories being shown in tandem. From the projection booth, the sound would be raised for one film to elucidate that “story” while it was lowered for the other. The multiplication of images evoked Warhol’s seminal silk-screen works of the early 1960s.

Other important films include Bike Boy, My Hustler, and Lonesome Cowboys, a raunchy pseudo-western. These and other titles document gay underground and camp culture, and continue to feature prominently in scholarship about sexuality and art. Blue Movie a film in which Warhol superstar Viva makes love and fools around in bed with a man for 33 minutes of the film’s playing-time was Warhol’s last film as director. The film was at the time scandalous for its frank approach to a sexual encounter. For many years Viva refused to allow it to be screened. It was publicly screened in New York in 2005 for the first time in over thirty years.

After his June 3, 1968, shooting, a reclusive Warhol relinquished his personal involvement in filmmaking. His acolyte and assistant director, Paul Morrissey, took over the film-making chores for the Factory collective, steering Warhol-branded cinema towards more mainstream, narrative-based, B-movie exploitation fare with Flesh, Trash, and Heat. All of these films, including the later Andy Warhol’s Dracula and Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein, were far more mainstream than anything Warhol as a director had attempted. These latter “Warhol” films starred Joe Dallesandro more of a Morrissey star than a true Warhol superstar.

In the early ’70s, most of the films directed by Warhol were pulled out of circulation by Warhol and the people around him who ran his business. After Warhol’s death, the films were slowly restored by the Whitney Museum and are occasionally projected at museums and film festivals. Few of the Warhol-directed films are available on video or dvd.

Factory in New York

Factory: 1342 Lexington Avenue (the first Factory)

The Factory: 231 East 47th street 1963-1967 (the building no longer exists)

Factory: 33 Union Square 1967-1973 (Decker Building)

Factory: 860 Broadway (near 33 Union Square) 1973-1984 (the building has now been completely remodeled and was for a time (2000-2001) the headquarters of the dot-com consultancy Scient)

Factory: 22 East 33rd Street 1984-1987 (the building no longer exists)

home: 1342 Lexington Avenue

Home: 57 East 66th street (Warhol’s last home)

Last personal studio: 158 Madison Avenue

Filmography

Main article: Andy Warhol filmography

music

In the mid 1960s, Warhol adopted the band The Velvet Underground, making them a crucial element of the Exploding Plastic Inevitable multimedia performance art show. Warhol, with Paul Morrissey, acted as the band’s manager, introducing them to Nico (who would perform with the band at Warhol’s request). In 1966 he “produced” their first album The Velvet Underground & Nico, as well as providing its album art. His actual participation in the album’s production amounted to simply paying for the studio time. After the band’s first album, Warhol and band leader Lou Reed started to disagree more about the direction the band should take, and their artistic friendship ended.[citation needed]

Warhol designed many album covers for various artists starting with the photographic cover of John Wallowitch’s debut album, This Is John Wallowitch!!! (1964). Warhol designed the cover art for The Rolling Stones albums Sticky Fingers (1971) and Love You Live (1977), and the John Cale album Honi Soit in 1981. In 1975, Warhol was commissioned to do several portraits of the band’s frontman Mick Jagger while in 1982, he designed the album cover for the Diana Ross album Silk Electric.[citation needed] One of his last works was a portrait of Aretha Franklin for the cover of her 1986 gold album Aretha, which was done in the style of the Reigning Queens series he had completed the year before.

Warhol was also friendly with many recording artists, including Deborah Harry, Grace Jones, Diana Ross and John Lennon – he designed the cover to Lennon’s 1986 posthumously released Menlove Ave.. Warhol also appeared as a bartender in The Cars’ music video for their single “Hello Again”, and Curiosity Killed The cat‘s video for their “Misfit” single (both videos, and others, were produced by Warhol’s video production company).[citation needed] Warhol featured in Grace Jones’ music video for “I’m Not Perfect (But I’m Perfect for You)”.

Warhol strongly influenced the New Wave/punk rock band Devo, as well as David Bowie. Bowie recorded a song called “Andy Warhol” for his 1971 album Hunky Dory. Lou Reed wrote the song “Andy’s Chest”, about Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Warhol, in 1968. He recorded it with the Velvet Underground, but this version wasn’t officially released until the VU album appeared in 1985. He recorded a new version for his 1972 solo album Transformer, produced by Bowie and Mick Ronson.[citation needed]

Cover of copy no. 18 of 25 cats Name [sic] Sam and One Blue Pussy by Andy Warhol given in 1954 to Edgar de Evia and Robert Denning when the author was a guest in their home in the Rhinelander Mansion.[citation needed]

Books and print

Beginning in the early 1950s, Warhol produced several unbound portfolios of his work.

The first of several bound self-published books by Warhol was 25 cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy, printed in 1954 by Seymour Berlin on Arches brand watermarked paper using his blotted line technique for the lithographs. The original edition was limited to 190 numbered, hand colored copies, using Dr. Martin’s ink washes. Most of these were given by Warhol as gifts to clients and friends. Copy #4, inscribed “Jerry” on the front cover and given to Geraldine Stutz, was used for a facsimile printing in 1987 and the original was auctioned in May 2006 for US $35,000 by Doyle New York.

Other self-published books by Warhol include:

A Gold Book

Wild Raspberries

Holy Cats

After gaining fame, Warhol “wrote” several books that were commercially published:

a, A Novel (1968, ISBN 0-8021-3553-6) is a literal transcription containing spelling errors and phonetically written background noise and mumbling of audio recordings of Ondine and several of Andy Warhol’s friends hanging out at the Factory, talking, going out.[citation needed]

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again) (1975, ISBN 0-15-671720-4) according to Pat Hackett’s introduction to The Andy Warhol Diaries, Pat Hackett did the transcriptions and text for the book based on daily phone conversations, sometimes (when Warhol was traveling) using audio cassettes that Andy Warhol gave her. Said cassettes contained conversations with Brigid Berlin (also known as Brigid Polk) and former Interview magazine editor Bob Colacello.[citation needed]

Popism: The Warhol Sixties (1980, ISBN 0-15-672960-1), authored by Warhol and Pat Hackett is a retrospective view of the sixties and the role of Pop Art.

The Andy Warhol Diaries (1989, ISBN 0-446-39138-7), edited by Pat Hackett, is a diary dictated by Warhol to Hackett in daily phone conversations. Warhol started the diary to keep track of his expenses after being audited, although it soon evolved to include his personal and cultural observations.

Warhol created the fashion magazine Interview that is still published today. The loopy title script on the cover is thought to be either his own handwriting or that of his mother, Julia Warhola, who would often do text work for his early commercial pieces.

Other media

As stated, although Andy Warhol is most known for his paintings and films, he has authored works in many different media.

Drawing: Warhol started his career as a commercial illustrator, producing drawings in “blotted-ink” style for advertisements and magazine articles. Best known of these early works are his drawings of shoes. Some of his personal drawings were self-published in small booklets, such as Yum, Yum, Yum (about food), Ho, Ho, Ho (about Christmas) and (of course) Shoes, Shoes, Shoes. His most artistically acclaimed book of drawings is probably A Gold Book, compiled of sensitive drawings of young men. A Gold Book is so named because of the gold leaf that decorates its pages.

Sculpture: Warhol’s most famous sculpture is probably his Brillo Boxes, silkscreened ink on wood replicas of Brillo soap pad boxes (designed by James Harvey), part of a series of “grocery carton” sculptures that also included Heinz ketchup and Campbell’s tomato juice cases. Other famous works include the Silver Clouds helium filled, silver mylar, pillow-shaped balloons. A Silver Cloud was included in the traveling exhibition air Art (1968-69) curated by Willoughby Sharp. Clouds was also adapted by Warhol for avant-garde choreographer Merce Cunningham’s dance piece RainForest (1968).

Audio: At one point Warhol carried a portable recorder with him wherever he went, taping everything everybody said and did. He referred to this device as his “wife”. Some of these tapes were the basis for his literary work. Another audio-work of Warhol’s was his “Invisible Sculpture”, a presentation in which burglar alarms would go off when entering the room. Warhol’s cooperation with the musicians of The Velvet Underground was driven by an expressed desire to become a music producer.[citation needed]

Time capsules: In 1973, Warhol began saving ephemera from his daily life correspondence, newspapers, souvenirs, childhood objects, even used plane tickets and food which was sealed in plain cardboard boxes dubbed Time capsules. By the time of his death, the collection grew to include 600, individually dated “capsules”. The boxes are now housed at the Andy Warhol Museum.

Television: Andy Warhol dreamed of a television show that he wanted to call The Nothing Special, a special about his favorite subject: Nothing. Later in his career he did create two cable television shows, Andy Warhol’s TV in 1982 and Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes (based on his famous “fifteen minutes of fame” quotation) for MTV in 1986. Besides his own shows he regularly made guest appearances on other programs, including The Love Boat wherein a Midwestern wife (Marion Ross) fears Andy Warhol will reveal to her husband (Tom Bosley, who starred alongside Ross in sitcom Happy Days) her secret past as a Warhol superstar named Marina del Rey. Warhol also produced a TV commercial for Schrafft’s Restaurants in New York City, for an ice cream dessert appropriately titled the “Underground Sundae”.

fashion: Warhol is quoted for having said: “I’d rather buy a dress and put it up on the wall, than put a painting, wouldn’t you?”[cite this quote] One of his most well-known Superstars, Edie Sedgwick, aspired to be a fashion designer, and his good friend Halston was a famous one. Warhol’s work in fashion includes silkscreened dresses, a short sub-career as a catwalk-model and books on fashion as well as paintings with fashion (shoes) as a subject.[citation needed]

Performance Art: Warhol and his friends staged theatrical multimedia happenings at parties and public venues, combining music, film, slide projections and even Gerard Malanga in an S&M outfit cracking a whip. The Exploding Plastic Inevitable in 1966 was the culmination of this area of his work.

Theater: Andy Warhol’s PORK opened on May 5, 1971 at LaMama theater in New York for a two week run and was brought to the Roundhouse in London for a longer run in August, 1971. Pork was based on tape-recorded conversations between Brigin Berlin and Andy during which Brigid would play for Andy tapes she had made of phone conversations between herself and her mother, socialite Honey Berlin. The play featured Jayne County as “Vulva” and Cherry Vanilla as “Amanda Pork”.[citation needed] In 1974, Andy Warhol also produced the stage musical Man On The Moon, which was written by John Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas.

Photography: To produce his silkscreens, Warhol made photographs or had them made by his friends and assistants. These pictures were mostly taken with a specific model of Polaroid camera that Polaroid kept in production especially for Warhol. This photographic approach to painting and his snapshot method of taking pictures has had a great effect on artistic photography. Warhol was an accomplished photographer, and took an enormous amount of photographs of Factory visitors, friends.[citation needed]

computer: Warhol used Amiga computers to generate digital art, which he helped design and build with Amiga, Inc. He also displayed the difference between slow fill and fast fill on live TV with Debbie Harry as a model. (video)

Producer and product

Warhol had assistants in producing his paintings. This is also true of his film-making and commercial enterprises.[citation needed]

He founded the gossip magazine Interview, a stage for celebrities he “endorsed” and a business staffed by his friends. He collaborated with others on all of his books (some of which were written with Pat Hackett.) He adopted the young painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, and the band The Velvet Underground, presenting them to the public as his latest interest, and collaborating with them. One might even say that he produced people (as in the Warholian “Superstar” and the Warholian portrait). He endorsed products, appeared in commercials, and made frequent celebrity guest appearances on television shows and in films (he appeared in everything from Love Boat to Saturday Night Live and the Richard Pryor movie, Dynamite Chicken).[citation needed]

In this respect Warhol was a fan of “Art Business” and “Business Art” he, in fact, wrote about his interest in thinking about art as business in The Philosophy of Andy Warhol from A to B and Back Again.[citation needed]

Dedicated museums

Two museums are dedicated to Andy Warhol. The Andy Warhol Museum, one of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, is located at 117 Sandusky Street in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the largest American art museum dedicated to a single artist, holding more than 12,000 works by the artist.[citation needed]

The other museum is the Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art, established in 1991 by Andy’s brother John Warhola, the Slovak Ministry of Culture, and the Warhol Foundation in New York. It is located in the small town of Medzilaborce, Slovakia. Andy’s parents and his two brothers were born 15 kilometres away in the village of Mikov. The museum houses several originals donated mainly by the Andy Warhol Foundation in New York and also personal items donated by Warhol’s relatives.[citation needed]

Movies about Warhol

Dramatic portrayals

Warhol (right) with director Ulli Lommel on the set of 1979′s Cocaine Cowboys, in which Warhol appeared as himself

In 1979, Warhol appeared as himself in the film Cocaine Cowboys.

After his passing, Warhol was portrayed by Crispin Glover in Oliver Stone’s film The Doors (1991), by David Bowie in Basquiat, a film by Julian Schnabel, and by Jared Harris in the film I Shot Andy Warhol directed by Mary Harron (1996). Warhol appears as a character in Michael Daugherty’s 1997 opera Jackie O. Actor Mark Bringleson makes a brief cameo as Warhol in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997). Many films by avant-garde cineast Jonas Mekas have caught the moments of Andy’s life. Sean Gregory Sullivan depicted Warhol in the 1998 film 54. Guy Pearce portrayed Warhol in the 2007 film, Factory Girl, about Edie Sedgwick’s life. Actor Greg Travis portrays Warhol in a brief scene from the 2009 film Watchmen.

Gus Van Sant was planning a version of Warhol’s life with River Phoenix in the lead role just before Phoenix’s death in 1993.

Documentaries

The 2001 documentary, Absolut Warhola was produced by Polish director Stanislaw Mucha, featuring Warhol’s parents’ family and hometown in Slovakia.

Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film is a reverential four-hour 2006 movie by Ric Burns.

Andy Warhol: Double Denied is a 52 minute movie by lan Yentob about the difficulties in authenticating Warhol’s work: http://www.myandywarhol.eu/videos/videos1.asp

See also

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Andy Warhol

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board

Painting the Century 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900-2000

The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh

Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art in Medzilaborce

Andy Warhol Bridge in Pittsburgh.

Bodley Gallery

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Further reading

“A symposium on Pop Art”. Arts Magazine, April 1963, pp. 3645. The symposium was held in 1962, at The Museum of Modern Art, and published in this issue the following year.

Bockris, Victor (1997). Warhol: The Biography. New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 030681272X. 

Colacello, Bob (1990). Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-016419-0. 

Dillenberger, Jane D. (2001). The Religious Art of Andy Warhol. New York City: Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 0-8264-1334-X. http://books.google.com/books?id=KemglT-1jSIC. 

Doyle, Jennifer, Jonathan Flatley, and Jos Esteban Muoz eds. (1996). Pop Out: Queer Warhol. Durham: Duke University Press.

Garrels, Gary (1989). The Work of Andy Warhol: Discussions in Contemporary Culture, no. 3.. Beacon NY: Dia Art Foundation. 

Guiles, Fred Lawrence (1989). Loner at the Ball: The Life of Andy Warhol. New York: Bantam. ISBN 0593015401. 

James, James, “Andy Warhol: The Producer as Author”, in Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties (1989), pp. 5884. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Koestenbaum, Wayne (2003). Andy Warhol. New York: Penguin. ISBN 0670030007. 

Krauss, Rosalind E. “Warhol’s Abstract Spectacle”. In Abstraction, Gesture, Ecriture: Paintings from the Daros Collection. New York: Scalo, 1999, pp. 12333.

Lippard, Lucy R., Pop Art, Thames and Hudson, 1970 (1985 reprint), ISBN 0-500-20052-1

Livingstone, Marco; Dan Cameron and Royal Academy (1992). Pop art: an international perspective. New York: Rizzoli. ISBN 0-8478-1475-0. 

Michelson, Annette (2001). Andy Warhol (October Files). Cambridge MA: The MIT Press. 

Scherman, Tony & Dalton, David, POP: The Genius of Andy Warhol, HarperCollins, New York, N.Y. 2009

Suarez, Juan Antonio (1996). Bike Boys, Drag Queens, & Superstars: Avant-Garde, Mass Culture, and Gay Identities in the 1960s Underground Cinema. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.

Watson, Steven (2003). Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties. New York: Pantheon. ISBN 0679423729. http://www.factorymade.org/. 

Yau, John (1993). In the Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press. ISBN 0880012986. 

External links

David Cronenberg speaking about the work of Andy Warhol on UbuWeb

Warhol Foundation in New York City

Time Capsules: the Andy Warhol collection

“Andy Warhol”. New York City: Museum of Modern Art. 2007. http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O:AD:E:6246&page_number=1&template_id=6&sort_order=1. Retrieved 2009-01-23. 

Warholstars: Andy Warhol Films, Art and Superstars

Pop Art Masters – Andy Warhol

Art Directors Club biography, portrait and images of work

Bauman, Joe; Angelyn Hutchinson (2007-12-17). “Andy Warhol Didn’t Sleep Here: The Utah Hoax”. KUTV. http://www.kutv.com/content/blogs/new/story/Andy-Warhol-Didnt-Sleep-Here-The-Utah-Hoax/KmQ0TW_un0W46d0h0kLvEg.cspx. Retrieved 2009-01-23. 

Berens, Stephen (Fall 2002). “Responses to Warhol Retrospective at MOCA”. X-TRA (Los Angeles: Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism) 5 (1). http://x-traonline.org/past_articles.php?articleID=157. Retrieved 2009-01-23. 

“Warhol, Soup Cans, Cowboys” (Studio 360 radio program, December 10, 2005)

exhibition of 10 statues of liberty in Gallerie Lavignes bastille, Paris 1986

The Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art – city of origin

Andy Warhol at the internet Movie Database

Andy Warhol makes a digital painting of Debbie Harry at the Commodore Amiga product launch press conference in 1985.

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Andy Warhol

Artworks

Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962)  Marilyn Diptych (1962)  Green Coca-Cola Bottles (1962)  Shot Marilyns (1964)  Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1966)  Big Electric chair (1967)  Campbell’s Soup Cans II (1969)  Portrait of Seymour H. Knox (1985)  Camouflage Self-Portrait (1986)

Films

Sleep (1963)  Screen Tests (19646)  Blow Job (1964)  Eat (1963)  Batman Dracula (1964)  Empire (1964)  Taylor Mead’s Ass (1964)  Vinyl (1965)  Poor Little Rich Girl (1965)  beauty No. 1 (1965)  beauty No. 2 (1965)  More Milk, Yvette (1965)  eating Too Fast (1966)  The Velvet Underground and Nico: A symphony of Sound (1966)  Salvador Dal (1966)  Chelsea Girls (1966)  I, a Man (1967)  Lonesome Cowboys (1968)  Blue Movie (1969)  L’Amour (1973)

Books

25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy (1954)  a, A Novel (1968)  The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975)  Popism: The Warhol Sixties (1980)  Diaries

Milieu

The Factory  The Velvet Underground  Warhol Superstars

Miscellaneous

15 minutes of fame  Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board  Interview

Museums

The Andy Warhol Museum  Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art

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The Velvet Underground

John Cale  Sterling Morrison  Lou Reed  Maureen Tucker  Doug Yule

Willie Alexander  Angus MacLise  Walter Powers  Billy Yule

Studio albums

The Velvet Underground & Nico  White Light/White Heat  The Velvet Underground  Loaded  Squeeze

Live albums

Live at Max’s Kansas City  1969  Live MCMXCIII  Final V.U.  The Quine Tapes

Compilations

VU  Another View  What Goes On  Peel Slowly and See

songs

After Hours  All Tomorrow’s Parties  European Son  Femme Fatale  Here She Comes Now  Heroin  I Heard Her Call My Name  I’ll Be Your Mirror  I’m Waiting for the Man  Lady Godiva’s Operation  new age  Pale Blue eyes  Rock & Roll  Run Run Run  Sister Ray  Stephanie Says  Sunday Morning  Sweet Jane  The Black Angel’s Death Song  The Gift  There She Goes Again  Venus in Furs  White Light/White Heat

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Women What you think about your body

Whether pear or Apple-shaped, short or statuesque, post-childbirth sloppy or plain fed up of feeling everything‘s heading south, what counts more than how you’re built is how you present yourself.

No matter what’s in style, knowing what looks good on you can be the difference between fabulous and frumpy. Do you lunge for the newest fashion, run out to get the hottest trend? It’s great to be fashionable, but sometimes there’s a fine line between fashionista and fashion victim.

Instead of obsessing over the weight that won’t go away, with strategic dressing you can learn how to make friends with your body again, with the right clothes. Learn the clever art of ‘illusion’ dressing – project the positive and your negative bits will look less in comparison.

Good bust? Emphasise it, great legs? show them off, the same applies for every key body zone.
Good Foundations – Ditch those skimpy g-strings and non-complimentary bras – they make wobbly bits worse. At least 50% of women wear the wrong bra size. In contrast, well-fitting underwear give any woman va-voom, controlled curves.
 
Be happy in your skin and enjoy being a woman whatever shape you’re in. Chances are if you give the impression your figures fabulous, others will think so, too!
Curvy: There are many patterns that can camouflage weight a rule of thumb is that if you are curvy, you’ll want to wear one bigger, bolder print.

If you want to minimize curves, hips and thighs, stay away from pants that are tapered or slim.
Petite: If you are petite, bigger prints can overwhelm you, so go with smaller prints and patterns.
Wear V-neck shirts; the open neckline makes your neck appear longer, and you’ll appear taller. Avoid horizontal stripes. Vertical lines such as pinstripes will give the illusion of being taller or thinner.
Tall: Wide-leg slouchy trousers or jeans look best on taller individuals, and they’re a great way to accentuate your waist to appear slimmer.

Accessories
This can make or break an outfit. They can turn a drab trouser suit into something enviable; they can turn a drab T-shirt and jeans into the hottest outfit at a get together. Start with shoes to make a great impact. Heels can do wonders for many. If you want to add height, try wedges and if you want to make your ankles look lean, avoid ankle straps on shoes as those will cut you off in the wrong place.

Just because ankle straps can make your ankles look chunky doesn’t mean you should simply give up and throw on a pair of boots. Be careful with boots if you are concerned about your calves. Wear tall boots that end just below the bend of the knee. Never wear boots that cut you off mid-calf.

Remember, a great pair of shoes isn’t the only way to kick an outfit into high gear.
buy accessories, such as handbags that coordinate with your height and size. If you’re petite, the oversized clutch may overwhelm you; go for the trendy ‘day clutch.

If you are taller or curvy, the midsized to oversized clutch can balance you out. Wearing dark colours or monochromatic colour schemes in any colour can camouflage your weight. However, if you want to avoid looking boring, you need to break it up with some fun accessories.

Wearing wrong size clothing 85% of women wear wrong size clothing?
It’s true, there are so many negative body images that we all buy into from the fashion world, film industry and pop music industry and in time we start believing that this is how we should look!

With every season that goes by we are bombarded with the latest must-haves and we rush out and buy them without thinking are they right for my body shape, life style and personality?
How many times have we rushed out to buy something we’ve seen in a magazine, only to get it home, try it on and thought Why don’t I look like that picture in the magazine? And why doesn’t it compliment my body?

Fashion magazines may be full of waif-like models with fragile, stick thin limbs and bodies as flat as boards; women are actually designed to have curves. Its natural, its feminine, it’s sexy and most men (88%) say that they prefer curvy women to those with a ‘perfect body’. The question is what is the perfect body?

When it comes to looking good, it’s NOT your size or shape that matters, it’s the FIT of your clothes. Really understanding your shape will make shopping much easier. Wearing the right size clothes is not about following the latest fashion or fads; it’s about choosing what actually suits your own personality and style and what makes you feel comfortable and confident.

How you look does affect how you feel about yourself, your performance in life and how others’ perceive you. The old saying ‘not to judge by its cover’ may be true, but in retrospective, ‘you never get a second chance to make a first impression’ always sticks in people’s minds.
You’ve probably seen at least a few people wearing too-tight clothing that reveals every imperfection on those areas that would best remain hidden — hello, Lycra bike shorts! You probably don’t want to emulate that look if you want to dress to impress.

You will need to stay away from clingy jersey-knit dresses and tops that show every dimple and bulge. Choosing fabrics that are heavier in weight or lined would be much better. If you are in love with a semi-sheer dress or one without a liner, consider getting a throwback to yesteryear: the old faithful slip. One of the most important things to remember when it comes to style is maintaining a posture.

Feeling confident about what you’re wearing is the most important fashion tip out there. If you feel good about what you have on, it will show in your attitude and smile, and that is really all that matters.
To help with posture, you are advised to invest in a good, supportive bra.
Finding a bra that fits and one that is ill-fitting can make the difference between good and poor posture, confidence and insecurity, well-fitting clothing or a dishevelled look. That (correctly fitted bra) alone can make you look 10 pounds thinner.

Wearing the wrong size bra?
Thousands of women are wearing the wrong size bra. A woman’s bust size changes over time due to such things as lifestyle, pregnancy, age and monthly cycle. It’s a natural variation but many women take none of this into consideration and continue buying and wearing the same size bra for years.

Bras can also stretch by as much as 4 inches across the back over as little time as 9-12 months so what was the perfect fit then, may well be nowhere near the perfect fit now!
The bra should feel comfortable to your taste and be matched to your activity level and lifestyle. Here are some tips to help you understand the way a bra fit can be determined rightly or wrongly.

Right fitted size bra

A properly fitted bra should feel snug around the ribcage, anchored to the body just below the shoulder blades.
The band should be level front to back and should not ride up or dig.
The shoulder straps should be secure but comfortable as most of the support should come from the band.
The cup should be filled but not overflowing.
The underwire should encircle the breast, resting firmly against the ribcage and the center of the bra should be between the breasts.
The underwire should never rest on top of sensitive breast tissue and should stay in place when your arms are raised.

Wrongly fitted size bra – too small / large

Bra straps/sides digging into the shoulders/rib cage. (Too small)
Red marks, chaffing and indentations (Too small)
The breasts are bulging out of the top or bottom of the bra. (Too small)
Abnormal back ache or shoulder pains (Too small/large)
Bra rides up at the back (Too large)
Straps keep slipping off (Too large)
Front panel standing away from the chest cavity (too small/large)

Dress Your Age
You need to know what works for your age which will save a lot of trouble when shopping for clothes. Most college students don’t want to dress like a middle-aged woman; most middle-aged women should avoid dressing like a teen, even if they are in great shape and look good for their age.
Here are some suggestions on what you should and should not wear, based on your age:

20s & 30s: You’re young enough to pull off almost any trend, so go for it, as long as you’re comfortable in it and you don’t find yourself tugging at it to make it fit you.

40s & 50s: Go for the classics that will last you season after season, like a great statement coat. It’s time to invest in fabulous handbags and shoes that show off your personal style.

60s & Up: Keep your look polished with classics, but don’t be afraid to throw in some bold colour and metallic extras.

Posture
STOP SLOUCHING!
Most People Have Poor Posture, round shoulders. Posture is more than just the alignment of your body. It gives signs about your attitude on life and yourself!
Bad posture can make you look insecure, depressed and uncomfortable. When you stand tall and erect, you show that you are; Confident, Stylish, Comfortable, and Cool with Yourself

GOOD posture can make you look at least 5-10 pounds slimmer INSTANTLY!
So Stand Up Straight!

 

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KT Kingston is an essay writer about fashion and it’s culture. His background interest is the arts of Humanities. He has more interesting articles that covers women’s issues and the effects of fashion clothing industry see more at http://www.sovacollection.com

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It is the story of Bhaskar Sanyal (Naseruddin Shah), the agitator leftist leader, as feared for his single-handed ability to dispute the most commanding of leaders as he was cherished for his political integrity. & of Sooraj (Ajay Devgn)who increase from the backward classes – with anger in his heart & management on his mind. Of Brij Gopal (Nana Patekar), who shunned every political ambition even as he continued to mentor & guide the younger generation of leaders while the battle got bloodier by the day? It is the story of Prithvi Pratap (Arjun Rampal), heir to a commanding political legacy and impatient to seize the top position. A man with a heart of gold ingots but who is all brawn. A man whose uncontrollable passions bring his family to the brink of political extinction. & of Veerendra Pratap (Manoj Bajpai), whose lunge at the throne was thwarted even as he was within striking distance of it. A man who believes he was born to rule, & who will now stop at absolutely nothing to claw his way back to the top. Of Indu Sakseria (Katrina Kaif), the princess – attractive, passionate, greater. She had only one passionate love. Little did she be acquainted with that her individual happiness was dependent on the changing electoral fortunes of her love, & that even a slight transfer in the faultiness of supporting negotiation would cause a devastating earthquake in her personal life? Of Sarah Jean Collins (Sarah Thompson), who came from one of the bloodiest and most violent places of earth? Who escaped from there, bruised, hurt, & fell in love with a soul-mate who shared a similar legacy &, it is the story of Samar Pratap (Ranbir Kapoor), the ultimate outsider only to turn into a master of the craft of political warfare. Of the bloodiest of finishing battles in a war alien to his character. It is the story of a fiercely foughtelection campaign, where money-power & corruption are the accepted norms, & where treachery & exploitation are routinely used weapons. That rises from their soul threatens to envelope all that they hold precious. Until eventually, in the crescendo of increasing violence, the line between good & evil blurs, making it impossible to distinguish leading actor from villains.Raajneeti is the story of Indian democracy. & its ugly bottom. It is about politics. & outside. It stars Ajay Devgn,Naseeruddin Shah, Nana Patekar, Arjun Rampal, Manoj Bajpai, Katrina Kaif and Ranbir Kapoorin principal roles. The film is scheduled for release on May 28, 2010.

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Where can I find inexpensive jeans?

I know im picky, but when it comes to jeans, I want them to be perfect because i get a lot of use out of them. I want mid-rise. Light wash. Flare. Low or ultra low makes them feel like they are falling off.

I dont want to have to pay $90 for a pair of jeans.
I get a lot of wear out of them and that is why I am so picky.
These are the stores/sites i have tried:
JCpenny
Ross
Target
Walmart
American eagle
Abercrombie
Hollister
Hot topic
Gap
Old navy
Wet seal
Charlotte Russe
Lei (website)
levi (website)
arizona (website)

i need a size 14/15 (juniors sizes).
As you can see, im picky, and, i really do need a good pair of jeans. Especialy before school starts.

Yeah I was about to say Wal-Mart or Target.

Hollister and American Eagle charge way to much, and the jeans look like something found in a dusty attic.

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