4 M's: Montreal in May = Mutek & Michal

If you happen to be in Montréal in May, check out one of my favorite music festivals, MUTEK, which celebrates its 10th anniversary of bringing electronic and experimental artists to perform in the city.
Dope line up this year, including Moderat which features Apparat (whom I saw in Berlin - he's amazing!), and Modselektor. Last year, I did a piece on Mutek for CBC which featured an interview with my 'friend' and Montréal's own, Tim Hecker, who performed his set in a pitch black, sold out theatre. When it's good, MUTEK offers up shows that are a fantastic realization of the meeting point of art and music.

"Immaterial Box" by Michal Rovner
Also, in Montréal in May, contemporary art gallery, DHC, continues to uphold high curatorial standards by bringing by displaying an exhibition of work from American-Israeli artist, Michal Rovner.

SS09 Gucci Campaign- Vibrant Color, Mick Jagger Lookalike

Photographers: Inez & Vioodh Matadin
(Disclosure: The music in this video is CHEESY and spoils the images. Play on MUTE, or experience the wrath of fromaggio to the max!)


Puts me in the Spring mood for bold prints, luscious color combinations (purple, green), and posing dramatically in the fields with my friends... too bad talented photographers, Inez and Vinoodh, are never around to take stunning photos of us!

Blamma Blamma Balmain!!

The Telegraph just published the above photo with a caption about how stars are all over the Michael Jackson-inspired Balmain, exaggerated-shoulder, military jacket. Funny how a trend trickles to common folk too... I have found myself selecting superwide shouldered jackets from secondhand clothing racks myself. Last week at the Montréal Academy of Art and Video Awards, (where my best friend picked up an award for his amazing video!!!), I saw two Fine Art students wearing impressive - albeit goofy - coats mimicking the above ones. Leave it to the art kids to figure out how to make a zany trend wearable.

Giovanna Fan Club

Forget Spring, it feels like Summer is already here. I celebrated by wearing the most bizarre of outfits; I felt like (the awesome) Susie Bubble, blissfully mismatched and happy. Susie, whom, by the way, gave a very generous shout out in her blog, Style Bubble, to formerly-based-in-Montréal fashion journal, WORN, edited by my friend, Serah-Marie, in Toronto. Holler! Serah-Marie's asked me to write for WORN in the past but I was too busy at the time. However, it's fun to read fellow Montréalers work in the journal.

Also of note today, The Sartorialist included a post today covering one of my favorite style goddesses, Giovanna Battaglia, who is the editor of l'UOMO Vogue (Italian Men's Vogue). She looks fantastic in every shot he included but this is one of my favorites, in which she wears her confidence better than anything else. Beautiful!