Sunday, November 29, 2009

The shoe love story

by Srta.Pola for El Fashionista

I took off from Tenerife to London with a .doc named Shoe Love story titillating on the Word app built-in in my head. I was haunted by the images of the Alexander McQueen show (saw it first on El Fashionista): more than an amazing fashion collection, it was the experimental sketch of a brand new species of amphibian ladies from the future –but the shoes, alas, the shoes! They were maddening up everything, as in conceptually-over-the-top. Those shoes implied a mutation, something that went beyond the simple hybrid (the anphibian creature), and reminded of that very passage that forces science-fiction into bio-genetics: I mean, it didn’t merely set out to imagine a transformation, it enacted it by operating directly on the body… I was glacing through Vogue Paris in the plane and revising mentally the caché at Style.com, the versions of Pliny the Elder and Plato on Atlantis (that many allocate in the Canary Islands, that I was leaving behind), and thought: heck, if archeologists analyze the writing of old civilizations, well they could properly examine the shoes, since they’re the fountain pens of the body, leaving traces of the self. Why was The Shoe such a key-device to figure out a civilization? What is the fascinating nature of shoes, why are they so inherent to feminity, and personality… in short: which was the missing link between the soul and the shoe?

As soon as I landed in London, I duly pilgrimed to the modern shoe sanctuary: Nicholas Kirkwood, on Morocco Street. A ravishing beautiful blond, cat-eyed like Sasha Pivovarova, passed in a hurry and I heard a heavily Russian-Eastern Europe dyed accent, that reminded me of Greta Garbo in Ninotchka… could it actually be Sasha?? When she told me her story, I thought it was even better (though i did began hating myself for leaving my iphone in the hotel). Dressed simple but very chic (Topshop tshirt, black miniskirt on black leggings), Kasia Tkaczyk revealed being a former model original from Poland, who had studied French Lit and Business in Sorbonne –“6 years in the university so as to make up for the heavy partying of my model years in Paris”, she tells me giggling. At 28, she was in charge of finance of maison Nicholas Kirkwood, Brittish god of shoes and guru of hipsters all over the world (that the Mulleavy sisters dressed the bony feet of models in Rodarte’s latest collection on NY Fashion Week, and that celebs go trotting around red carpets in Kirkwoods, are some signs of this fever). Kasia takes a Kirkwood knock-off and teaches me a new way of looking at shoes:

- See the platform? Look at the evolution of the platform: first, in the winter 08 collection, the platform draws this way in the space –then, in 09, the curve of the platform goes on to dialogue with the upper side of the heel. In these shoes, evolution went towards the light… you walk and, because of the mirroring surface on the platform, it shines back at you as you walk.

This pretty little heel on the right costs 1.100 euros, and it’s made of 36 pieces of exotics hand-sewn in Milan (Kasia has a pair, oh blessed those who work for Nicholas!). She hands me a pair to try it on, I take off my humble Mischka heels, and close my eyes when I feel the delicate touch of the skin… already standing, I don’t even feel them on, and the shinning back works its magic as I fancy myself emitting golden trails. It’s a work of art, of artisan-ship and time, and at the same time is pure vanity that makes you oh-so-tall and instant kilometer legs. Kasia must have seen my ecstatic countenance, she adds:

- At this level, of high-end fashion, it’s not about commercial products: they’re works of art.

Every angle is a space for creation: everything transforms as we step, our bodies transform and get a rush of secret energy, because shoes take us where we want to go, and they are also instruments for us to ran away from what we dislike. Aren’t shoes pieces metaphor of feminine existence?, I muttered, as I walk away from the mirror with my golden shoes flashes popping about the carpet.

Chatting with Kasia is great because it’s always fun to deal with fashion matters –so banal to the non-initiated- with utmost depth. She tells me how Asia is setting off to become a major luxury producer (see Alexander Wang's Spring 09, everything made in Asia); she tells me how exhausting are Paris Fashion Weeks for her, she barely has time to go to parties because she has to be up at 7am in the shows and talking to clients. She likes cooking shrimp soup, wearing American Apparel’s white cotton tshirts (“I was in Miami for vacation and got myself a few, they’re cloudy-soft). We talk about Gossip Girl, which we love, about McQueen (“such a major genious”, says Kasia with a hint of devotion in her feline grey-blue eyes) and we agree that Manolo Blahnik is been doing quite boring shoes for the past years… always the same heel, too lady-like. She likes Giuseppe Zanotti, but she doesn’t wear Christian Louboutins because the width is fined down and it makes it painful: “you can’t let a shoe betray you at a party”, she concludes cathegorically. For her, the best of working in fashion is expressing herself through fashion. Next year she’s getting married to a fellow Argentine guy, and she already bought her designer dress, but we can’t put THE name here because her fiancè –despite utterly illiterate in the connaissance of fashion like most boyfriends and lovers- might google it, and she adds in her Ninotchka accent: “oh I’m very traditional, I don’t want him to see my dress nor even on Google!”


Kasia tells me Rihanna has asked them for shoes, but her size is 42 and they only make till 41. I never imagined that my trip to London, and all the delirium that began with the amphibian phantasies by McQueen, would end up with me plunging in a cobweb of sweet identification with Rihanna. She can’t trot around the world on Kirkwoods because her feet are a weeny bit too big, and I can’t either because they’re so marvelously expensive! :D

Friday, November 27, 2009

Neuro-robótica

Hoy!
Nueva sesión de Garagelab, con el auspicio del Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Nación. Modera: star biologist Diego Golombek

- Silvano Zanutto: "Aprendizaje con redes neuronales y biorobots"
- Mariano Sigman: "Máquinas y mundos híbridos. Empalmando cerebros y silicio"
- Mario Munich: "Robots personales, electrodomésticos del futuro"
- Gonzalo Zabala, Gonzalo Mon, Hernán Freedman: "Nuevas interfaces hombre-máquina"

a las 18hs en la Universidad de San Andrés, 25 de mayo 586, CABA.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Barcelona Lit Style

Momentos antes de empezar una guerra de mandarinas en el palier de la maison de Ignacio Echevarría, que nos esperaba around 4pm con una botellita de licor griego, Enric se despliega horizontal para posar literalmente streetstyle en remera Gareth Pugh, una pierna Robocop, jeans -Dior- apropiadamente destroyed, chaqueta de cuero con tachas, echarpe de cashmere, gafas de anticuario y zapatillas Cosmo Kramer en el capítulo con Mel Tormé. Accesorio de otoño: silla de ruedas cromada en dos velocidades, ideal para protagonizar happenings de incorrección política por los barrios pijos de Gràcia, Sant Gervasi/Putxet.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Animalidad en la Biblioteca

Se agradece su difusión
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Jornada "Kafka biopolítico: preindividual, postpersonal"

13 de noviembre 2009
11 a 20.30 hs.
Sala Augusto Cortázar de la Biblioteca Nacional

Programa
11 - 13 hs.: Una cruza y La Partida, dos relatos póstumos

Patricia Digilio: "Continuidad y distinción en lo viviente. Animales manipulados. Seres inéditos"
Marcelo Percia: "Kafka, partida de lo neutro"

13 - 14.30 hs: Intervalo


14.30 - 16.30 hs:
Animal biopolítico

Mónica Cragnolini: "Animales kafkianos: el murmullo de lo anónimo"
Liliana Lukin:
Animalidad en "las mujeres de Kafka"

Evelyn Galiazo: "Patas arriba. Lenguaje, animalidad y animalización en los relatos breves de Franz Kafka"

17 - 18.30 hs.
Alejandro Tantanian:
Amerika: hacia un proceso de construcción escénica
Sobre el montaje de Amerika en el Nationaltheater Mannheim, Alemania


18.30 - 20.30 hs: Cuerpos, normas y devenires
Alejandro Kaufman: "Restos de Kafka"
Gregorio Kaminsky: "Kafka biopolítico: estéticas de la ley para un gobierno (de lo) bestial"


La entrada es libre y gratuita. Se entregarán certificados de asistencia.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Devota siempre de tu spam, mia carissima

VIERNES 13 de Noviembre . 23.45hs

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Monday, November 9, 2009

Yo quiero ver a Sebas y Dañel dar el sí de blanco!

---------- Forwarded message ----------

Queridxs amigxs,

Se comunicaron conmigo del despacho de Vilma Ibarra para pedirnos
mandáramos adhesiones varias a lxs diputadxs de las dos comisiones que
mañana decidirán sobre el tema del Matrimonio entre personas del mismo
sexo. Me avisan que los "católicos" están llenando las casillas de
e-mails con adhesiones en contra.
Yo me encargaré de hacerlo con el Manifiesto del GES-Germani que ya
lleva sumadas más de 530 adhesiones, en su gran mayoría de carácter
académico.
Más abajo, mando un modelo básico de adhesión que es sólo cortar,
pegar y poner la lista de diputados que les envío con este mail
(pueden agregar lo que se les ocurra o incluso mandar otra) Son muy
bienvenidas, además de adhesiones a título personal, las que puedan
enviar en nombre de sus respectivos proyectos de investigación,
institutos, facultades, organizaciones, etc.
Además mañana estaremos en la reunión de comisiones para aclarar
dudas, si lxs diputadxs lo solicitaran.
Agradecidos todxs por tu colaboración,

Carlos Figari

Para:
vibarra@diputados.gov.ar, mvelarde@diputados.gov.ar,
pazcoiti@diputados.gov.ar, nerro@diputados.gov.ar,
mtorrontegui@diputados.gov.ar, ngonzalez@diputados.gov.ar,
atomaz@diputados.gov.ar, jalbarracin@diputados.gov.ar,
mamenta@diputados.gov.ar, vbaragiola@diputados.gov.ar,
vbenas@diputados.gov.ar, gcamano@diputados.gov.ar,
mcarmona@diputados.gov.ar, ncesar@diputados.gov.ar,
lcigogna@diputados.gov.ar, dconti@diputados.gov.ar,
scordoba@diputados.gov.ar, gbgutierrez@diputados.gov.ar,
gherrera@diputados.gov.ar, miturrieta@diputados.gov.ar,
jlandau@diputados.gov.ar, mmartin@diputados.gov.ar,
cmoreno@diputados.gov.ar, coliva@diputados.gov.ar,
jpais@diputados.gov.ar, srioboo@diputados.gov.ar,
alrossi@diputados.gov.ar, fsanchez@diputados.gov.ar,
rsolanas@diputados.gov.ar, jvega@diputados.gov.ar,
jditullio@diputados.gov.ar, sstorni@diputados.gov.ar,
mareta@diputados.gov.ar, hotton@diputados.gov.ar,
saugsburger@diputados.gov.ar, ecarca@diputados.gov.ar,
hacuna@diputados.gov.ar, jarriaga@diputados.gov.ar,
cbernazza@diputados.gov.ar, aberraute@diputados.gov.ar,
fbianco@diputados.gov.ar, rcarlotto@diputados.gov.ar,
gcaselles@diputados.gov.ar, mdiez@diputados.gov.ar,
vdondap@diputados.gov.ar, pfiol@diputados.gov.ar,
egarciamendez@diputados.gov.ar
, egerez@diputados.gov.ar,
cgill@diputados.gov.ar, jgioja@diputados.gov.ar,
cmerchan@diputados.gov.ar, jobiglio@diputados.gov.ar,
mpastoriza@diputados.gov.ar, mrico@diputados.gov.ar,
mrodriguez@diputados.gov.ar, brojkes@diputados.gov.ar,
pspatola@diputados.gov.ar, ssapag@diputados.gov.ar

Asunto: Adhesión Proyecto de Ley para la legalización del matrimonio
entre personas del mismo sexo

Cuerpo del mail:

Ciudad de Buenos Aires, 09 de noviembre de 2009


Senores/as
Diputados/as de las Comisiones de
Legislación General y de Familia, Mujer, Niñez y Adolescencia
del HCDN

De mi mayor consideración:
Por medio de la presente quiero dejar constancia de mi apoyo al
tratamiento de los Expedientes 1854-D-2008 y 1737-D-2009, para la
legalización del matrimonio entre personas del mismo sexo y a su
posterior sanción favorable por parte de ambas Cámaras legislativas.
Dicha modificación contribuirá a subsanar la desigualdad jurídica
que afecta a las personas en función de su orientación sexual y
amorosa, y las priva formalmente de los derechos básicos de ciudadanía
incluidos en la Constitución argentina.

Firma/nombre:
DNI:

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Pedé: Vale mandar spam pro gay marriage a nombre de Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill, Libreta de Enrolamiento 923.457, que le va a encantar!!

pedé2: Ya estoy pensando qué ponerme en la boda; por ahora, any Dior para el civil y para la nuit, me gustaría ir vestida de la Atlántida según Alexander McQueen