Chad Knight - Something To Believe In

Proenza Schouler Presents "Snowballs" by Harmony Korine

2012-01-26T16:21:00.000-08:00

2012-01-06T17:32:00.000-08:00

Foto! Photographer Oli Rust.. very inspiring.....

2012-01-06T17:19:00.000-08:00

Click to read.. this was published by the New York Times.. September 1902.. very thought inducing!

2012-01-06T17:14:00.000-08:00

I love fashion illustration, i am going through my archives to post some of my favorite works.. these are by Manuel Rebollo!

2012-01-06T17:10:00.000-08:00

i need this in my life!

2012-01-06T16:51:00.000-08:00

some of my work from a while ago...

Picture Me Trailer (HD) - Vendetta Films

2012-01-06T16:04:00.000-08:00

2012-01-06T16:03:00.000-08:00

"Picture Me" is a documentary featuring Sara Ziff.. This is a must see for anyone who is remotely interested in fashion or modeling.. sara is a great role-model, great model and absolutely unforgettable. you can watch it on Netflix!

2011-06-16T16:30:00.000-07:00

Fashiongonerogue.com foto's:steven chee model: rose smith
I love this set! especially the second foto down! i love the colors (or lack there of) and the clever use of sexuality that pulls me in to this girls world.. plus there is a clear emotional value you can feel here.

2011-06-16T16:19:00.000-07:00

Beautiful and simple

2011-06-16T16:10:00.000-07:00

for those of you who like a tricked out dress form! i reveal to you "The Stockman"

2011-06-16T15:55:00.000-07:00

French Vogue editorial... First off let me speak to the fact that there is something so beautiful, yet so sinister about these foto's... on one hand i think this is classic vogue done right.. amazing that we have seen every one of these foto's before.. but with an adult in them. this is like going back in time only to find out that everything is the same but the bodies are smaller.. But on the other hand there is this sort of Project Monarch C.I.A sex slave thing going on thats twisting my brain!

The Grand Rapids LipDub (NEW WORLD RECORD)

2011-05-27T23:49:00.000-07:00

Stolen Girlfriends Club New World Supermarket Show

2011-04-27T20:08:00.000-07:00

Absolutely Fantastic!!!

2011-04-11T20:16:00.000-07:00

I just picked up this Surface to Air necklace! As far as I'm concerned.. they make the
best jewelry out there!

TEA A TETE by FLY 16X9 (fashion)

2011-04-11T19:42:00.000-07:00

Word

Justin Bieber - Baby ft. Ludacris

2011-04-11T19:34:00.000-07:00

If Justin Bieber did a line for Burberry.. It must be called "BIEBERRY"
Or Bieberry Bambini for the I-talians! C'mon Thats funny!
And another thing.. those of you who know me.... know that I was pretty
much the first dude you ever saw wearing Supra's.. and now they are in like
every rap and r&b video..
Damn! Blowin' up my spot.. oh well, good taste i presume..

The Making of WeSC Denim

2011-03-31T01:49:00.000-07:00

Mac Miller - Donald Trump

2011-03-31T00:51:00.000-07:00

01 - High For This - The Weeknd [House Of Balloons Mixtape]

2011-03-30T22:22:00.000-07:00

Scott Campbell interview - Part 4

2011-03-12T23:05:00.001-08:00

Scott Campbell Interview - Part 3

2011-03-12T23:05:00.000-08:00

Louis Vuitton Men's Spring/Summer ft. Scott Campbell (Part 2)

2011-03-12T23:04:00.000-08:00

Louis Vuitton Men's Spring/Summer ft. Scott Campbell (Part 1)

2011-03-12T22:58:00.000-08:00

2011-03-12T22:47:00.001-08:00

2011-03-12T22:42:00.000-08:00

Custom 1955 Ford Thunderbird! Built from a 2009 Ford Mustang.. but Damn! Can I get some of this!

2011-03-12T22:39:00.000-08:00

Alligator pillow! straight from israel.. i need these to be everywhere!

2011-03-12T22:17:00.000-08:00

White symbolizes death, it’s a necessary passage towards a new world. We return back to original, back to zero. We remove those that hide us, without any exterior decoration, we reveal the true inner self of individual. Hence, we are reborn. -Wei Ting Liang

2011-03-12T22:11:00.000-08:00

French Artist "So Me" Customizes Chanel purses at a Colette pop up shop! I wish we had a Colette here in Chicago! or at least more people that care about the coolness of fashion!

2011-03-12T22:06:00.000-08:00

No matter how old Karl gets.. he still stays current.. nice..

2011-03-12T21:59:00.000-08:00

manuel rebollo illustrations- fabulous!

FLY 16x9 film "Shadow"

2011-03-12T21:47:00.000-08:00

A Magazine Is Born - the making of Little White Lies

2011-03-12T21:46:00.000-08:00

2011-03-12T21:43:00.000-08:00

McQueen Retrospective.. tears...

2011-03-12T21:40:00.000-08:00

McQueen...

2011-03-12T21:23:00.000-08:00

Michael Kampe- Amazing design.. 23 year old from Antwerps Royal Academy.. God I wish Columbia knew what fashion is! You see, at Columbia.. the harder you work and better you become.. the more scrutiny you recieve.. instead of praise.. I would like to teach at Columbia some day.. and one thing I would do is steer young designers into the spotlight if they so deserve so

2011-03-12T21:20:00.000-08:00

Jane Whitfield Marc Jacobs right hand woman at Louis Vuitton for the past 12 years, in a village west of Versailles. The house, which was last altered in the 1870s, is tall and stone-built, made from two houses joined together. -Trendland

2011-03-12T20:57:00.000-08:00

my new thing is adding some spice to mens bags with a fresh scarf.. on bottom here is an example i found on the internet.. the top is my own louis bag with its own freshness!

2011-03-12T20:56:00.000-08:00

Coming Soon! Alexander McQueen book.. Savage Beauty! A new book out soon!

2011-03-12T20:55:00.000-08:00

Julia Roitfeld.. probably should have been the main character on gossip girl

2011-03-12T20:54:00.000-08:00

Waiting for True Blood!!! Please come back soon!

2011-03-12T20:50:00.000-08:00

Tommy Ton fall fashion week Paris..

2011-02-24T16:46:00.001-08:00

Respect

2011-02-24T16:44:00.000-08:00

some of my favorites from Julius

2011-02-24T16:43:00.000-08:00

no words....

Blading

2011-02-03T13:27:00.000-08:00

Project "glee" runway

2011-01-06T17:30:00.001-08:00

Oh my god! I just read that they are gonna do a casting for wannabe glee stars to compete in a reality tv show.. and the winner gets a multi episode guest role in season 3 of glee! Whaaaattttt???? This is gonna be nutz! I kinda want to show up to the casting and sit around the corner sipping a latte and eyeballing the fashion hell that will be there! Anybody down for that?

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2011-01-05T21:49:00.000-08:00

Christmas is one of those rare holidays for sure! but the simple creativity of making a wreath out of army men just says "damn thats clever!"

2011-01-05T21:44:00.000-08:00

Inspiration can come in many forms.. look at this space suit xray! it is positively amazing! it is soo technical! i love it when fashion meets technology.. there is only a couple real spacesuits.. but it has made soo many spinoffs! look at all the different versions seen in anime! there influence could help us redesign the suit for 2010.. if any one has fashion illustrations of a new suit.. email them to me to post.. chadknightstudio@gmail.com

2011-01-05T21:38:00.000-08:00

a lot of us fashion people ride bikes! the whole bike thing has rose up so fast! and biking has become a culture.. and lots of great fashion has come from it! even louis vuitton used bike messengers an inspiration for recent collections! this bike holder/shelf is amazing! you can buy one by contacting Chris Bigham! i dont have an addy but if i did i would post it!

2011-01-05T21:36:00.000-08:00

i know my dave would love this all leather track suit by adidas! he has the polyester version in blue and red! this is the storm trooper version!

2010-10-26T15:46:00.000-07:00

Equally as sick as we are smart!

2010-10-26T15:42:00.000-07:00

From my favorite blog.. terrys diary comes some reminders.. this dude is wearing my favorite shirt.. i bought one for both brian and i when we were 21.(i think).. this dogs name is mcnulty..
Chloe drives a prius brian! yeah she drives a black prius.. you two are made for each other.. and oh yeah.. gotta call my mom!

2010-10-26T15:41:00.000-07:00

Dan Colen- upside down mini ramp... for some reason, this just gets me

2010-10-26T14:58:00.001-07:00

http://vimeo.com/15408667 Terry + Lupe

Mary j blige and husband kendu isaacs were in the store today..i showed him a chale and belt for her to wear to her special appearance at nordstrom!

2010-10-18T13:34:00.001-07:00

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2010-07-07T14:01:00.000-07:00

Who wore it best!!! Daria? or me!

2010-06-30T13:40:00.000-07:00

Scott Campbell is Marc jacobs tattoo artist.. and for fall he inrodued his art to the runway.. tattoo'ing a new and interesting take on the monogram as well as adding his personal touch to some show bags!

2010-06-23T13:34:00.000-07:00

maybe, maybe not.. we will see

2010-06-15T16:24:00.000-07:00

HERE IS THE ARTICLE RELATED TO BELOWS VIDEO:
Before setting out in a pink S.U.V. to comb the schoolyards and
shopping malls of southern Brazil, Alisson Chornak studies books, maps and Web sites to understand how the towns were colonized and how European their residents might look today.

The goal, he and other model scouts say, is to find the right genetic cocktail of German and Italian ancestry, perhaps with some Russian or other Slavic blood thrown in. Such a mix, they say, helps produce the tall, thin girls with straight hair, fair skin and light eyes that Brazil exports to the runways of New York, Milan and Paris with stunning success.

Yet Brazil is not the same country it was in 1994, when Gisele Bündchen, the world's top earning model, was discovered in a tiny town not far from here. Darker-skinned women have become more prominent in Brazilian society, challenging the notions of Brazilian beauty and success that Ms. Bündchen has come to represent here and abroad.

Taís Araújo just finished a run as the first black female lead in the coveted 8 p.m. soap opera slot. Marina Silva, a former government minister born in the Amazon, is running for president. And over the past decade, the income of black Brazilians rose by about 40 percent, more than double the rate of whites, as Brazil's booming economy helped trim the inequality gap and create a more powerful black consumer class, said Marcelo Neri, an economist in Rio de Janeiro.

Even prosecutors have waded into the debate over what Brazilian society looks like -- and how it should be represented. São Paulo Fashion Week, the nation's most important fashion event, has been forced by local prosecutors to ensure that at least 10 percent of its models are of African or indigenous descent.

Despite those shifts, more than half of Brazil's models continue to be found here among the tiny farms of Rio Grande do Sul, a state that has only one-twentieth of the nation's population and was colonized predominantly by Germans and Italians.

Indeed, scouts say that more than 70 percent of the country's models come from three southern states that hardly reflect the multiethnic melting pot that is Brazil, where more than half the population is nonwhite.

On the pages of its magazines, Brazil's beauty spectrum is clearer. Nonwhite women, including celebrities of varying body types, are interspersed with white models. But on the runways, the proving ground for models hoping to go abroad, the diversity drops off precipitously. Prosecutors investigating discrimination complaints against São Paulo Fashion Week found that only 28 of the event's 1,128 models were black in early 2008.

The pattern creates a disconnect between what many Brazilians consider beautiful and the beauty they export overseas. While darker-skinned actresses like Juliana Paes and Camila Pitanga are considered among Brazil's sexiest, it is Ms. Bündchen and her fellow southerners who win fame abroad.

"I was always perplexed that Brazil was never able to export a Naomi Campbell, and it is definitely not because of a lack of pretty women," said Erika Palomino, a fashion consultant in São Paulo. "It is embarrassing."

Some scouts have begun tepid forays to less-white parts of Brazil. One Brazilian designer, Walter Rodrigues, recently opened Rio Fashion Week with 25 models, all of them black.

But here in the south scouts still spend most of their time hunting for the next Gisele, and offer few apologies for what they say sells.

Clóvis Pessoa studies facial traits that are successful on international runways and looks for towns in the south that mirror those genes.

"If a famous top model looks German with a Russian nose, I will do a scientific study and look for cities that were colonized by Germans and Russians in the south of Brazil in order to get a similar face down here," Mr. Pessoa said.

Dilson Stein, who discovered Ms. Bündchen when she was 13, called Rio Grande do Sul a treasure trove of model-worthy girls. A year before discovering Ms. Bündchen, whose parents are of German ancestry, he found 12-year-old Alessandra Ambrosio, now famous for her Victoria's Secret shoots.

Today, younger scouts like Mr. Chornak have taken up the mantle. With catlike quickness, he jumped from his chair and strode up behind a tall girl with a hooded sweatshirt. "Have you ever thought of being a model?" he asked a 13-year-old with light blue eyes and pimples.

The girl smiled, her metal braces glimmering.

Later, Mr. Chornak pulled up at a school where the director, Liliane Abrão Silva, showed off albums from school beauty contests. She allows scouts to visit during class breaks.

"Since I got to this school, five have left for São Paulo to become models," she said. "The girls who do not have money to go to university will have to stay here and work in the fields."

The next morning, Mr. Chornak studied the girls returning with red lollipops from recess. "There is nothing special here," he declared.

At another stop, Mr. Chornak staked out a school in Paraíso do Sul (population 8,000) with the tools of his trade: business cards, camera, measuring tape and a notebook.

The bell rang and students streamed out. Mr. Chornak stopped a tall, skinny blond girl. Within seconds he was fluffing her hair and taking her measurements, directing her to pose against the wall.

Mr. Chornak also drove to Venâncio Aires, where a billboard heralded "the land of the Fantastic Girl," alluding to a television show that featured a local girl.

At a small tobacco farm he visited Michele Meurer, a blue-eyed 16-year-old discovered while riding her bicycle to school. Timid and shy, she cried profusely the first time she went to São Paulo. The next time, she lasted six days before Mr. Chornak sent her home.

Her mother, who grew up speaking German, had never left the town until the São Paulo trip. They live in a four-room house with chickens and dogs. Michele keeps the freezer in her room for lack of space.

Mr. Chornak counsels Michele to use sunscreen while working in the fields and to watch her diet. Bursting with pride, her father enrolled her in English classes in case she went abroad.

"I want to give them a better life," Michele said tearfully of her parents.

Recently, she went to São Paulo again, where Mr. Chornak put her in a three-bedroom apartment with 11 other girls. Two weeks before São Paulo Fashion Week, Michele packed up and left.

"I am very disappointed that Michele gave up," Mr. Chornak said. "I invested a lot in her."

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World: Finding Supermodels in Rural Brazil - nytimes.com/video

2010-06-15T15:59:00.000-07:00

2010-06-03T21:51:00.000-07:00

2010-06-03T21:29:00.000-07:00

Beautiful Kate moss illustration! i still admire the old art of fashion illustration! and the new one of digital fashion illustrations that i will be working on next week in florida!

2010-06-03T21:25:00.000-07:00

YO PEEPS!!! SO LAST WEEK MY GIRLFRIEND AND I WENT TO THE Y-3 STORE IN VEGAS, AND I PICKED OUT THESE PANTS I WANTED FOR THE GYM/SKATING!!! I THINK THEY ARE AWESOME AND REALLY WANTED THEM! BUT I WANT YOUR OPINIONS! COMMENT ON THIS POST OR HIT ME UP ON FACEBOOK! IF I GET ENOUGH VOTES, MAYBE I CAN GET THEM.. CUZ SHE GAVE ME THE BIG VETO!

2010-06-03T21:16:00.000-07:00

recently i have been having a lot of panic/anxiety problems lately.. im not quite sure the reason.. however... this picture made me happy! and i agree! fuck what doesnt make you happy! nuff said!

2010-06-03T21:13:00.000-07:00

I love packaging design! It was one of the coolest things about tokyo.. but i saw this and remembered that there is always different ways of looking at things!

2010-06-03T21:09:00.000-07:00

CHICAGO FASHION ALERT!!! WHAT WENT WRONG!

I am no stranger to the fashion community here in chicago.. last week all the fashion schools in chicago had their annual fashion shows... and i have been googling them for an hour now and can't find a whisper of media coverage.. this is very sad to me! and very sad for all the desiners and their hard work!

if anyone has a good link or good foto's please let me know so i can post them here!

Liquid Mountaineering - WALKING ON WATER!!

2010-05-27T09:35:00.000-07:00

Spike Jonze's Twizzler - Lakai Commercial

2010-05-07T06:09:00.000-07:00

Huge 540 Over 19 Skateboards Stacked Vertically!!!

2010-05-06T19:42:00.000-07:00

2010-03-30T11:29:00.000-07:00

Apparently Jun Takahashi has made these black grace sculptures for louis vuitton.. i visited jun's store undercover in tokyo.. was one of the damn hardest places to find! but he is an amazing talent an designer! And if there is going to be a show bag collaboration between him and LV.. i might just shit!

2010-03-30T11:16:00.000-07:00

Having done a lot of advertising for Dexter.. i have taking a liking to Jim Fiscus.. he has a lot of cool foto's on his website.. check him out at fiscusfoto.com

2010-03-30T10:58:00.000-07:00

Googled Barbie art.... weird things i find.....also.. people really like killing barbie!

2010-03-16T17:28:00.000-07:00

Tim MacPherson foto! I want to be a kid again! well, just on the weekends!

2010-03-16T17:26:00.000-07:00

I haven't accepted it yet.. but McQueen.. rip

2010-03-16T17:22:00.000-07:00

Cast of Vices necklaces!!! I am so excited! i don't know whether i want the pen cap, the drug baggie or the klonopin.. wait, i want all three! just gotta figure out where to buy them! if anyone knows.. hit me up!

2010-03-10T08:56:00.000-08:00

This Friday come on down to the six corners to view Adam Kuehls foto exhibit! It should be a really good time.. and the foto's are amazing!

2010-02-16T11:09:00.000-08:00

A long time ago, Brian and I came up with an online magazine we were gonna call Peek.. we made a sample and tried to get it all worked out.. well with most of our big ideas.. life seems to get in the way.. However.. a new online zine called SOKO is here and is everything we ever wanted peek to be. they are on their 4th online issue now and as the trend will be to read mags on your jesus tablets or ipods.. keep this gem in mind! thy are amazing!

2010-02-16T10:47:00.000-08:00

Fotografie: Oli Rust! This guy has soo much sick foto's on his site it was hard to narrow to 5.. but take his all in.. shooting in the swiss alps i presume.. looks amazing!

2010-02-16T10:35:00.000-08:00

You may have seen her, but didn't know who she is: This is 23 year old dream weaver Lily Donaldson.... who has already done everything there possibly is to do in modeling.. but i still hope to see more of her.

2010-02-16T10:10:00.000-08:00

My good buddy Nolan has been featured in Time Out Chicago this month! He is a hero and a legend.. give him a call, just don't mention my name in the same sentence as the Astoria.

2010-02-16T10:05:00.000-08:00

Aitor Throup has released yet another vision of the future of menswear, yes his shit is nuts! But isn't that why we love him! I wish i could be at this gallery to see all the details, but whatevs' we got these snips.

KEN BLOCK GYMKHANA TWO THE INFOMERCIAL

2010-02-04T16:46:00.001-08:00

RIDICULOUS!!!

2010-02-03T15:59:00.000-08:00

I think this is not very original.. but its that whole "well i thought about it" or "I did it" philosophy.. and diesels advertising has always made those big box places look like the fucking fisher-price of fashion

Nintendo Museum Tour - Osaka

2010-01-26T09:36:00.001-08:00

I just found out that Nintendo has released a video camera for the wii that maps and follows your body as you work out! WTF! The camera and video game then tell your fat ass if you are working out correctly or not! My roommate can't touch his toes.. i would love to see virtual Mario or whoever tell him he's not touching his toes while the camera projects him on the big screen! haha also this video shows that nintendo is no stranger to superfuture products!

Jungle Brothers - Brain (Chyron Version)

2009-12-25T13:06:00.001-08:00

This was always one of my favorites.. funny but i wish i could wear a suit and drink Ketel on at the Trump.. and have them turn the lights down and play this joint..over and over

Lunchtime Laughter

2009-12-25T12:45:00.000-08:00

Lunchtime Laughter

2009-12-25T12:09:00.000-08:00

You know how we all get those Xmas tweets in the form of text message to your phone, and then ur like..shiiiittt.. should i get on this bandwagon and wish everybody a merry xmas? so apparently i have been naughty this year cuz all santa brought me was the flu. anyway.. the best Xmas text i have gotten so far 2 day is "i wish you peace, love and health blah, blah, blah.. Fuck that shit! I wish you sex, alcohol, orgasms and hope you win the fucking lottery! Merry Xmas" Now here is a girl with a positive outlook on life.

2009-12-25T11:22:00.000-08:00

Lamond and Tsaun are fucking cool ass dudes! And we have a secret organization like the one in Quantum of Solace. We have secret handshakes and a secret meeting place. And if u ever see the three of us in one place u might as well tell people that unicorns exist.

2009-12-25T10:39:00.000-08:00

Mad Men! So i am all about the mad men fashion and a revert back to men really giving a fuck about the way we dress.. And I have been planning a couple outfits myself to help support this task. Ok, but here is where you got to be careful.. i was waiting for the train in Logan when I saw 5 young hipsters all pulling off the mad men look without a hitch.. UNTIL.. i looked closer.. first thing i noticed is that these kids all looked a bit soft around the edges.. which led me to look at the shoes. (big habit of mine when being judge mental of style) only to find they were lacking a certain je nes se quois. Then right there in the hands of each of them.. Bibles! Oh, and they each had a name tag on as well. well i will be damned. so what i am trying to get at is that you gotta pay attention to your look if you are gonna get all mad menned out.. after all, you don't want to look like a bible salesman.

2009-12-25T10:37:00.000-08:00

What i like about this inspirational speech is that there is always some typos to work out..

2009-12-25T10:32:00.000-08:00

Images by Fashematics. I love and am absolutely in adoration for this young site. Not only do you get your fashion porn but you also get your video game porn and your ironic 80's/90's puns.. so.. I had an idea to print everything on this site out and cut and paste each picture onto a playing card. and we could make a playing game out of it.. that would be fun!

2009-12-25T09:46:00.000-08:00

Marc Van Dalen photo. Another grouping of naked but tasteful shots of women, my difference on this one.. and only straight men will see this, but this guy shows angles and frames that highlight a womans body in a way that so to say sets the difference between say ho-hum Victorias Secret and the Hey-Oh Agent Provocateur. The difference is in the details.

2009-12-25T09:42:00.000-08:00

I must say... this has been my line for years.. I wrote it on the inside of my great grandmothers pin case many years ago.. but i don't sleep like normal people and possibly have the wost sleeping habits among artists i know. that being said, most of the time i don't feel like i have been resting when i wake up each morning.. mostly i feel like i have been chasing something and yelling "tech support" all night.

Interval Hussein Chalayan by Fly[16x9]

2009-12-25T09:35:00.001-08:00

Another slice of awesome coming out of Hussein and Fly.. This is another example of things i would like to be a part of. I really like the terror and beauty that co-exists in this short

2009-12-23T17:35:00.000-08:00

Sick ass stuff from Oliver Trillon Photography. I know a couple of u out there are like gimme some of that!

shadow feat Louis Vuitton [ FLY16x9 presents ]

2009-12-06T20:49:00.001-08:00

Media Group FLY16X9 is behind some gripping new advancements in fashion advertising.. including Louis Vuitton. Watch this video! This is the Vuitton I want to believe in and be a part of.. I will post more from FLY16X9 soon!

Vision On Behind The Scenes l The Making of "La Demimondaine"

2009-12-06T20:33:00.001-08:00

Vision On Reel l "La Demimondaine"

2009-12-06T20:30:00.001-08:00

The world of fashion mixed media is upon us, and I am a huge fan of these new videos that are popping up! The last sweet one I saw was from he YSL fragrace commercial.. but today I have found a new one.. like making a lookbook come to life and tell a story.. just lovely!

2009-11-28T08:22:00.000-08:00

Herring and Herring