In her
The Cut essay, Ratajkowski explains how she had come across Prince’s painting of her by chance at the Gagosian gallery. When she tried to buy the piece, she was told that a Gagosian employee had already bought it for himself.
After contacting Prince’s studio directly, she was able to obtain a second ‘Instagram painting’ of herself, featuring a photo from her first appearance in
Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue.
Despite being paid $150 for the shoot and a “couple grand” when the issue was published, Ratajkowski and her boyfriend at the time bought the painting for $81,000. When they broke up, she paid her ex $10,000 for a smaller “study” that Prince’s studio had given her.
The grand prize will not be awarded until September when (travel-permitting) hopefuls will meet with a soon-to-be-announced jury of starlets. In the meantime, the LVMH-owned retailer 24S and Canadian platform SSENSE will be working with a select number of designers on exclusive capsule collections to whet the industry’s ferocious appetite.
“To all the late nights and the doubting thoughts! It makes going forward and trusting my vision much more worth it,” Bianca Saunders wrote in an Instagram post this morning, thanking her mum “for always telling me to do what I want regardless of it being outside the box”. Similarly, the New Yorker turned London designer Conner Ives gushed “what I am doing right now I’ve dreamed of since I was 5 years old. It was me in my mom’s closet – pretending I had made all of her clothes. Inspecting my handiwork. Living out a fantasy that I had my own label”.
Total Solar Eclipse of the century,” reads a longer synopsis.
“As the new moon obscures the sun and gradually dims its light, Usagi and Chibi-Usa encounter Pegasus, who is in search of the chosen Maiden who can break the seal of the Golden Crystal. Meanwhile, a mysterious troupe called the Dead Moon Circus appears in town who’s nefarious plan is to scatter the nightmare incarnations known as Lemures, seize the ‘Legendary Silver Crystal,’ rule over the moon and the earth, and eventually dominate the entire universe,” it continues.
Ever since the first season of the anime aired in 1993, Naoko Takeuchi’s epic story about a group of interplanetary superheroines (and school girls), who fight against villainous queens and ‘death busters’ to protect the spacetime continuum, has sparked countless spin-offs, films, and even a make-up collection.
According to the
South China Morning Post, Ivanov said on the show: “Becoming a member of a boy band is not my dream as I can’t sing and dance. I hope the judges won’t support me. While the others want to get an A, I want to get an F as it stands for freedom.”
In a video shared by the
Produce Camp 2021 YouTube account, Ivanov said: “Dancing and singing everyday… I’m really exhausted and a bit regretful.” Though, as he celebrated his birthday during training, he added: “On one hand, I wanted to leave. On the other hand, I wanted to stay. It’s nice to have new friends. Still, I want to go home.”
In a horrifying, Orwellian plot twist, the upcoming auction for an NFT of a drawing by Jean-Michel Basquiat will allow the winner to destroy the original artwork.
The thirst for NFTs – intangible, digital artworks, or “non-fungible tokens” – has already recently resulted in a piece by Banksy being set alight in order that its value (reportedly upwards of $95,000) be safely confined to the digital realm. Now, Basquiat’s
Free Comb with Pagoda (1986) is the latest potential casualty of collectors’ iconoclastic desire to acquire art as exclusive digital assets at the expense of the originals.
The mixed media work on paper by the legendary artist will be sold on OpenSea marketplace, where bidding starts at one ethereum (the equivalent of around $2,500). At the winner’s discretion, the physical drawing may then be “deconstructed”, thereby conferring status on the NFT as the “only remaining form” of the work.