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The Flaunt Show

Posted on June 8, 2009
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Here is the photographic evidence of how fun and awesome the Flaunt show was on Saturday. All photos by Shawn Duffy:

Honfleur Director Amy Cavanaugh with me in Durkl sunglasses

A model from L~Shandi kicks off the show

A lesson in shapes and texture from Artistic AYA

Durkl

Taimur Baig’s/Mirza Mperial’s “Rudra” silk georgette & tulle dress

I came up to this woman and said, “I know you…?!” It’s Nakea West, a Sidewalk Style alum! Wearing a killer Alexander Wang skirt, I might add.

DJ Keenan Orr, who is pretty much too awesome for words.

It was so good. Despite road closures and the we’re-not-in-Northwest-anymore-locale, the show sold out by Friday and the place was packed to the GILLS. When I first came out on the runway (in my just-purchased Marc Jacobs dress) to welcome everyone and intro the first designer, I felt totally proud that there was NO room to breathe in the place but also bad for the folks in the back, straining to be able to see. It was really heartening to see so many people out supporting Honfleur (they’re part of the Anacostia community nonprofit ARCH) and the talented designers and photographers. I hope you’ll all go out there at some point to check out the gallery, including some of the amazing work upstairs including the hauntingly surreal work by Jean-Francois Rauzier.

Huge thanks to PR@Partners for doing hours of work for FREE on hair and makeup, to DJ Keenan, photographers Shawn Duffy and Marc Benton and to all of YOU for being there and body and/or spirit!

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Post Love for Flaunt

Posted on June 5, 2009
Filed Under Events, Men, On The Street, Only in Washington | 5 Comments

So thrilled and have to share…Lavanya really got what this show is about and what I love about fashion photography in this exhibit! From today’s Washington Post:

{photo Steve Goldenberg}

On the Go
Fashionistas, This One’s for You
By Lavanya Ramanathan
Friday, June 5, 2009

What do you do with fashion photographs that, oddly, aren’t trying to sell clothing, a way of life or desirable body type? Honfleur Gallery, arts-support organization Ten Miles Square and the blog Project Beltway make a case that such images belong on gallery walls. “Flaunt” is their exhibit featuring 20 slick and styled photos exploring fashion’s value as costume and cultural force.

Steve Goldenberg catches scruffy scenesters on K Street at rush hour; dressed in crayon-bright garb by Durkl, the men are brilliant peacocks in a gray-and-black sea of worker drones. In the background of one, a little girl shoots a look of pure disgust at the camera: The men’s fashion makes them different, and around here, that’s undesirable. A lovely blond model tromps around in designer Taimur Baig’s red carpet-ready gown, but who can bother to notice it when the model is viciously bashing a mannequin to bits?

For this show, Ten Miles Square brought in photographers Joshua Yospyn, John Ulaszek, Meaghan Gay and Goldenberg, while Project Beltway enlisted local designers, including Baig and Dana Greaves, to pair off and create these photographs. Together, the artists and designers fashioned images distinctly in the artists’ style, which explains why the dresses in Gay’s macabre photo series of seemingly perfect women barely make it into the frame.

Though “Flaunt” is about photography, there’s no better time to see it than tomorrow night, when you can also check out some of the fashions. The exhibit closes with a runway show of clothes created by the designers; upstairs, Honfleur hosts a pop-up boutique of the designers’ wares.Tickets to “Flaunt” are $10 and must be bought in advance. 8:30 p.m. tomorrow. Honfleur Gallery, 1227 Good Hope Rd. SE. 202-580-5972 or http://www.honfleurgallery.com.

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Make that Splash.

Posted on June 3, 2009
Filed Under Around Town, Men, Women | 6 Comments

Saturday was: my vintage bathing suit, sunscreen, boys in skimpy swim trunks and girls in skimpier bikinis, pinatas, hoola-hooping, and ohmygoodness people, how did I just discover alcoholic sweet tea?! All of this happened at the BYT Summer Camp, which is going to be happening every Saturday at the Capitol Skyline. The Skyline is this cool retro building with tons of modern furniture inside….and a cheesy, crap-filled gift shop that’s totally at odds with the rest of the place but is weirdly comforting in the same way you might appreciate the old-school ways of pay phones and typewriters and um, paper Metro cards. Which I still use.

I snapped my Washingtonian Sidewalk Style subject at the pool. Check out the photo and interview here. Happy Summer, Washington!

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Attend It.

Posted on June 2, 2009
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{Malinda 31 by Joshua Yospyn}

I’m pleased and excited to (finally, I know!) announce the big Flaunt Runway show coming up this Saturday at Honfleur Gallery. The gallery is part of ARCH, a community non-profit supporting development in Anacostia.

Featuring new fashion portrait work from Ten Mile Square artists:
Joshua Yospyn
John Ulaszek
Meaghan Gay
Steve Goldenberg

And a fashion show featuring designers:
Dana Greaves of Artistic AYA
Taimur Baig of Mirza Mperial
Lara Akinsanya of L~Shandi
Will Sharp and the gang from Durkl

**pop-up boutique
**wine & goodies
**music & video

Flaunt Runway Show
Doors: 8:30 p.m.
9:00 pm runway show
$10.00

Tickets must be sold in advance (sorry, it’s a legal thing due to alcohol being served), but easy enough: just call (202) 580.5972 or email arts@archdc.org.

See you there!

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