ISLAJA

More music - Finnish singer-songwriter Islaja, whose live

performance at Berlin'sClub Transmedialefestival has just

gone online atsamurai.fm.

KISSY SELL OUT ON BBC RADIO1

Saint Martin's graduate fashion designer-turned-DJ

Kissy Sell Outhas got himself a new show onBBC Radio 1.

According to theMixmagfeature the above photo was

pilfered from Kissy Sell Out is "one of the world's best

new party DJs, a sensitive Essex lad with crazy clothes

and a frantic sound."

Fromhis bioat BBC Radio1:

"Aged 22 from East London - Kissy Sell Out emerged from

the 'myspace' generation of cool nerds and sonic visionaries

and is one of the hottest up-and-coming club DJs, producers

and remixers around.

"Since graduating from Central Saint Martin's in Graphic Design,

Kissy Sell Out has already become an underground sensation.

Influences range from Sonic Youth, Scritti Politti and Swans to

Aphrodite and Mickey Finn's late 90's drum'n'bass, dance

producers such as DFA, Headman and early Daft Punk."

LV SMASH 'N' GRAB HOAX

WWD　reports　that last Wednesday morning police officers

entered Louis Vuitton's Fifth Avenue flagship to investigate

what appeared to be a break-in ...

The broken glass was in fact part of a window display created

to celebrate the launch of the new Damier Graphite collection.

The concept involved two adjacent windows: one with the bags 

in a museum-like glass case with dozens ofsecurity cameras

pointing at it; the other featuring smashed cases, sansbags, and

crisscrossing security lasers.

Here's a gratuitous picture of Pharrell at the preview of

the new line in January.

LOUIS VUITTON GINZA FLAGSHIP

I took a long overdue look at Jean Snow's blog and found

this post about the Louis Vuitton building in Ginza, which was

announced in May. It is due to be completed in autumn 2010.

The building reportedly has four below-ground and 10 above

-ground floors, with LV set to occupy floors one through 10,

and the higher levels devoted to luxury dining.

More pictures can be seen　here. The design is by Dutch

architecture firm　UNStudio, who have the following to say

about the design:

"The design for the 10 storey (54 meter tall) flagship Louis

Vuitton store in Japan aims to establish an architectural 

equivalent of the identity of Louis Vuitton in which classical 

and modern qualities are blended ...

The elements that represent the classical values connected to

the Louis Vuitton brand are implicitly present throughout the

design. These elements are to a large extent identical to the

modernity also implicit in the name Louis Vuitton, along with

the value of inventiveness.

The element that moves through all the scale levels of the

design is the leaf shape ... Leaf-shaped openings in the façade

give the building a strong identity ... 

The leaf shape can be seen as bearing a connection to the

famous Louis Vuitton monogram."

Louis Vuitton has two Jun Aoki-designed stores in Ginza

(one on Namiki Dori　and　another　that occupies one wing

of the Matsuya department store), but neither of these are

"landmark"-style stores in the mould of the Dior, Chanel,

Cartier, Armani, BVLGARI or Hermes flagships.

If you happen to be interested in knowing more about the

rationale behind these gargantuan projects, please take a look

at　this article　I penned for JC Report　on the topic back in April.

NEW FESTIVAL

Congratulations toDiane Pernet on the launch of her

new festival of fashion- and style-related film called

A Shaded View on Fashion Film. It is backed by

Jeu de Paume,a group of French institutions dedicated

to the exposition of photography and the modern image.

The festival will air during the women's collections (Sep 26-28)

in the auditorium of the Jeu de Paume space at Concorde.

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