the (real) day of the lords: joy division

I am a big fan of Joy Division as you know and incredibly thrilled to post these newly published images by the man who consistently photographed the band: Kevin Cummins. His private press book "Juvenes" (published by To Hell With Publishing in a limited edition of 200 - naturally completely sold out within 2 days for 200 British Pounds a pop) pushes Anton Corbijn's (Control) vision back into the arch shadows.

There are many versions of events, but then there are indisputable facts. Kevin Cummins took pictures of Joy Division from their inception as Warsaw right through until their sudden tragic demise. He lived in Manchester around the band and knew them all intimately as friends. This is not the case with the photographer Anton Corbijn, director of last year’s high-profile movie “Control”, who only actually photographed the band a couple of times. And while Corbijn’s great Joy Division imagery will always stand the test of time (that awful “Atmosphere” video apart), the photos of Kevin Cummins reveal many more sides to Ian Curtis, Bernard Albrecht, Steven Morris and Peter Hook.


Among the pictures included were these of Joy Division at the fabled Art And Furniture store on Manchester’s Chapel Walks. Here we get the chance to imagine Curtis, the JG Ballard obsessive, and band mates as if time warped to a Nineties private members club. “That place was so ahead of its time,” concurs Kevin Cummins. “The guy who owned the shop was Jonathan Silver, a contemporary of David Hockney. He had some great art in that place. I bought a framed Allen Jones screen print off him that day actually. Ian Curtis had bought his wedding suit from Jonathan’s clothes shop. His were the only places in Manc to get decent stuff and it made a great, very unrock-‘n’roll, location."

Such alternative angles on the hackneyed Joy Division myth are further revealed with the timely release of the film Joy Division, scripted by Jon Savage and directed by Grant Gee. At a talk following the first screening, Joy Division’s sleeve designer Peter Saville tactfully avoided panning 2007's Control. Offstage he’s less circumspect. “Yes, that film was not very good. It’s great there’s another better film that’s been made already.”

I just can't get enough of Joy Division!!

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Music has always been an inspiration to me in my life (needless to say in my profession too) and the visuals of a song are almost as important as the music itself... You will be thrilled like me to find out that MTV has just launched a web site where you can watch just about any video ever made - yeah, ever made!

Check out this one! Video Killed The Radio Star, literally! One of the very first videos MTV played...

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Sure go ahead, leave this site and have fun! MTV Music.

seasons best sellers

Analytics, analytics, analytics!

I have been talking about this handy tool called analytics before: it better be an important keyword in the brain of any e-commerce business owner. Google it! It can spotlight many issues as well as well functioning details on your website, but without going into details - and risking boredom among us fashionistas - here are the worldwide best sellers on idilvicefashionrocks.com, easily pinpointed, thanks to analytics:

The Godzilla Rising Sun, All Over Printed Strapless Cotton Beach Dress! The absolute best seller this season and for good reasons: It's really easy to wear and just so fresh looking! Missed to buy it? Buy it now!



Then, the runner up best seller: The DJ T-Shirt. Well yeah, it rocks! A simple Technics ear phone print around the neckline of this T-shirt did it for many of you, my beloved fashion rocks customers! Are you one of them who missed to buy it? Buy it now!




Last, but of course not least, my favorite: Punk Icon Ian Curtis of Joy Division portrait print on a 100% cotton strapless dress. This dress did so well that I have already designed a version for the Fall Winter 2008 season, an equally comfortable bat sleeve sweater dress... check it out below... wanna be the proud owner of this cool strapless Summer version? Buy it here!


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... and come back often ;-)

too many ideas for posts...

Heya!

What should I post about next? I took some time off blogging... now, the ideas have been adding up in line and I frankly don't know which one to put first...

Following posts are in line:

- Black Issue of Vogue Italia Magazine
- Oakland, the Bay Area and their stylish inhabitants
- Michael Economy, star fashion illustrator and mentor
- Hot Love: Swiss Punk & Wave 1976-1980
- Helmut Lang, Alles Gleich Schwer
- Ian Curtis, Joy Division
- Being your own ad agency (e-commerce)
- Emo in Mexico
- Current NY styles

...any preferences?