Posted in 'What Women Make' project, -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged -girl on the street, africa, artisans, ayse birsel, craft, craftsmanship, design, female, girlonthestreet, girls, italy, leadership, mafrique, memagazine, milan, milano, moroso, newdesign, oldmaterials, patiche, patricial urquiola, PatriciaUrquiola, tradition, what women make, whatwomenmake, women, yatzer.com on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Patrizia Moroso, creative director of the Italian design company, Moroso, created an homage to African design at Salone del Mobile 2009 and then again at ICFF, collaborating with a slew of star designers including Ayse Birsel & Bibi Seck and Patricia Urquiola. The work is nothing short of phenomenal.
Me-Design magazine says: “2009 looks set [...]
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Posted in 'What Women Make' project, -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged 'What Women Make' project, africa, aid, bambara, barcelona, casa de mali, crafts, dye, empowerment, fabric, female, feminism, feminist, femme, girlonthestreet, helping, indigo, kayes, learning, loom, mali, musodanbe, nobel peace prize, plastic bags, recycling, sewing, skills, soap making, sustainable, tourism, weaving, west africa, whatwomenmake, woman, women, yetaaso on June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How I went to a Mali culture and design expo and ended up befriending and creating a blog for an inspiring and charitable design co-op from Mali two days later in my apartment. Hugs all around.
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Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged 'What Women Make' project, africa, aid to artisans, burkina faso, chauncey, fair trade federation, girlonthestreet, goomie bracelet, mali, one world artisans, plastic, recycled, rose bere, social venture network, sustainable, west africa, whatwomenmake, zalkin on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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This piqued my curiousity (see post on top of this one). These are like Madonna ‘goomie’ bracelets in glorious African colors. Who were the women behind them -and how could I make them available from the artisan to your doorstep? I happened upon the story of Rose Bere, a woman from Burkina Faso, [...]
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Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, tagged 'What Women Make' project, feminist, ghana, ghanaian, girlonthestreet, phyllis taylor, sika, sustainable, whatwomenmake, women on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“All garments are produced in Ghana by highly skilled tailors and seamstresses. The highest standards in garment production is an integral part of Sika’s mission. We work very closely with local traders and manufacturers to produce quality garments for the international market. By generating regular income for those involved, we are able to give back [...]
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Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged chauncey, core 77, core77, craft, design, fast fashion, forever 21, forever21, girlonthestreet, h&m, milan, milano, Moustache, salone, topshop, www.moustache.fr, zalkin, zara on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
That is the question.
And in my research of exactly how to tailor make my next endeavour to fit
my passions and the times, I found this think piece at Core77 entitled Selling the Future: Design and the Financial Crisis that I think is worth a gander.
Quotes include:
“Make less. Make it better. Focus on craft.”
“Examine the thing [...]
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Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged art, collage, craft, crafts, design, etsy, girlonthestreet, girls, knit, nesting dolls, Obama, politics, quilt, woman, women on November 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I like the idea of nesting dolls as a metaphor for personality and layers of personal and social significance of an individual or an idea or both. What should you choose as the outer layer? What the public sees first would be the obvious choice, but maybe its the biggest thing about the person, the [...]
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Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, tagged Artists, barbie, bunnies, chauncey, craftsmanship, cutsey, deers, etsy, girl, girlonthestreet, girls, girly, jewelry, margaux lange, myspace, patches, patchwork, plastic, reindeer, woman, zalkin on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is the best thing I found while hunting today. There sure is a lot of useless crap and repeat offenders out there. How many deer and bunny patches can one sew onto a floral bag before noticing that this has been done, done, donedonedonedonedone. On the other hand, this Barbie extracted and abstracted jewelry [...]
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Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, tagged Artists, bare feet, blood, body, body parts, breast, bruce springsteen, designer, designers, feet, female, footprint, girl, girlonthestreet, h&m, intimacy, israel, israeli, jewish, kroll, language, liron, liron kroll, menstruation, negative space, period, photocopy, preganancy test, private, pubic, scanner art, statistics, tummy, underwear, video art, woman, women on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Israeli artist, Liron Kroll, tells the true story of being a woman through an intimate relationship with her scanner juxtaposed with the cold numbers that don’t quite cut it.
Liron Kroll, Israel
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged -girl on the street, african-american, america, americans, artistic license films, ask not what your country can do for you but what you c, barack, chauncey, chaunceyzalkin, fast food, filmmakers, flying confessions of a free woman, free gifts, girlonthestreet, inspiration, inspirational, jennifer fox, jfk, john f kennedy, laziness, no free lunch, Obama, presents, santa claus, sept 5, september 5, september fifth, woman, women, womens orgs, zalkin on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I should have more to say about this but I haven’t seen the documentary yet. I heard about it about a year ago and it drifted in and straight out of my awareness. It’s now featured on RottenTomatoes.com at 74% so I thought it would be worth noting. I want to [...]
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Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged -girl on the street, -Peter Crosby, aesthetics, america, americans, anxiety, art, Artists, barcelona, brand worship, business, chain stores, chauncey, couples, crafts, design, dreams, elections, entrepreneurship, europe, expatriot, expats, fairs, female, France, frieze, galleries, girlonthestreet, girls, high street, hype, london, london design week, moving, new york, Obama, Paris, petercrosby, publishing, Spain, stores, travel, trend, trend reports, trends, woman, women, women in business, womeninbusiness, www.friezeartfair.com, www.girlonthestreet.com, www.londondesignfestival.com, zalkin on October 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
By December 1st, my boyfriend and I will have transplanted ourselves from Paris (me) and London (he) to a cozy 45 square meter flat in Barcelona. I’ve had a tendency through the years to disclose my flights of fancy in ill-conceived rushes of enthusiasm only to later regret it. As we all know, sometimes visions [...]
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Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged black president, bold, chauncey, daft punk, debate, debates, democracy, democrats, France, french, girlonthestreet, hesitation, kanye west, mccain, music, Obama, pattern, policies, policy, posture, presence, presidential, public speaking, sensation, spectacle, speech, stuttering, zalkin on September 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I hate to say it but i think Mccain won the debate. That is my strong overall feeling. Though articulate, clear, sensible, and in my strong opinion – right – he still lost. The bottom line: Obama has got to be even more presidential – the way he was at the democratic convention – than [...]
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Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged agency, artist, chauncey, death, Ex-Fat Girl, girlonthestreet, hanpanda, jack white, japan, japanese, meg, mortality, mother, nagi noda, Ogiyahagi, Partizan, wanpan, wanwan, white stripes, woman, yuki sentimental journey, zalkin on September 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I was a little late to the news but learning of Nagi Noda’s sudden death makes me incredibly sad. Only 35 years old, so unique, so creative, so accomplished, so weird, delightful, and magical. Time is of the essence to make art and invent so get to it. I feel this urgency now more than [...]
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Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged art, artisan, Artists, asia, asian, avant-garde, bejing, China, communist, crafts, craftsmanship, Cui Xiuwen, cultural, cut, cutter, dye, expression, female, girlonthestreet, global, hidden, japan, japonism, kyoto, Li Shurui, Li Xianting, Lin Tianmiao, Lu Qing, men, National Gallery of Art, new wave, non-fiction, olympics, printing, prints, recognition, recognized, representative, self-possessed, stories, story, subversive, talent, truth, unrecognized, women, workshop, Xiao Lu, Xing Danwen, Yin Xuizhen on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just got back from Japan where I had some very special and unique experiences – for one, meeting with a man who, for Issey Miyake and for himself, experiments with dying processes employing root vegetable dyes and charcoal, coffee, various indigenous plants, layering color on pre-worn and original fabrics to varied effect working [...]
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Posted in -Rebekka Lien, Contributors, tagged asian, backpacking, camping, central park, family, fear, germany, girl, girlonthestreet, hamburg, japan, lien, metropolitan museum of art, myth, new york, rebekka, solo, Tokyo, travel, washington DC, young, youth on May 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Growing up in a non-traditional Asian family, I have always loved travel. My mother lived in Hamburg, Germany for 13 years. During that time she backpacked all over Europe, most of the time solo. When she got married, she and my father often went camping together, packing tents sometimes in sub zero [...]
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Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged account planning, ad age, advertising, african-american, black, capitalism, communications, consumer, consumers, female, gender, girlonthestreet, goods, hip hop, male, marketing, markets, middle class, mindset, moses foster, nuances, rap, research, services, strategy, white, women on May 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
What ‘market’ are you in?
If you think you’re not a market, but an individual with twists and turns, inconsistencies and nuances, think again, because the marketers are coming straight for you, tracking devices in hand.
You know that, though right? You know you’re being marketed to and for the most part, eat it right up. Give [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged asia, byblos, chanel, chauncey, couture, Dana Thomas, dior, France, girlonthestreet, Luster, luxe, luxury, massification, Paris, Radha Chadha, seine, st tropez, Starck, superrich, trends, vuitton, zalkin on March 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Chauncey writes about the current state of luxury from the French perspective. This week’s feature story on BrandChannel.com
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Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged design, furniture fair, girlonthestreet, milan, milano, salon de mobile, style, trend, trends on October 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It’s on the topic of the Design Moment and it’s published in this first issue of Terrace by the founders of the brilliant and inimitable Trace. Pick it up at your local (better) newsstand. By the way, that’s me with the hat in the lower center square.
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