This June, filmmaker Bruce LaBruce and German jeweller Jonathan Johnson unite once again for a bold new venture—the LOVE HATE jewelry collection. This collaboration, fourteen years in the making, dives into the duality of emotions, blending LaBruce’s cinematic flair with Johnson’s craftsmanship.
The duo’s creative journey—from Niagara Falls to LaBruce’s hometown of Port Elgin—imbues the pieces with a sense of movement, fluidity, and understated rebellion. With 47 pieces crafted in brass, recycled sterling silver, and customizable gold, each design merges accessibility with artistry, all produced in Hamburg.
Just launched this week, the LOVE HATE collection marks the latest chapter in a long-standing partnership, with more past collaborations set to follow.
This is a collection where art, emotion, and craftsmanship collide. A celebration of contrasts—embracing both sides.
Check out the pieces, and shop the full collection after the jump!
“I don’t have children: everything I have belongs to my films, starting with myself”.
Filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar goes back to his first films to make a complete review of the most iconic looks of each of his works: A journey that starts in 1980 with ‘Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls on the Heap’, goes through his long period of collaboration with Jean Paul Gaultier (in ‘Kika’ or ‘Bad Education’) and the appearances of Marc Jacobs or Chanel garments in the iconic roles of Penélope Cruz in ‘Volver’ or ‘Broken Embraces’ or the Balenciaga dress that jumped straight from the haute couture catwalk to ‘La voz dormida’ with Tilda Swinton. Check out Pedro and Vogue España above!
I guess we could have gotten a bit more creative when it came to being cringe on the internet… because if we had – we’d be living Anzhelika Protodyakonova‘s life! She’s an influencer from Russia who shot to social media fame after photos of her huge eyebrows went viral. They sort of look as if a pair of ‘Deal With It’ GIF sunglasses had a child with WARIO‘s honkin’ brows.
GOOD FOR HER! Her mother likely told her she could grow up to be anything she wanted – and she literally did just that! Check out more of Anzhelika’s snatch’t chonkay brow look after the jump!
Gays, take NOTE! This is how you get your money’s worth from Photoshop when tweakin those selfies…
Shashaeile is a South Korean influencer and has taken social media by storm with her highly edited and almost otherworldly photos. Unlike typical influencers who make subtle tweaks to enhance their images, Shashaeile goes all out, crafting a look that’s both “surreal and eye-catching.” Uh huh!
Her photos often feature an impossibly tiny waist, exaggerated curves, elongated limbs, tiny head, and a doll-like face with features that seem to change from post to post.
Look, if I’m gonna do a photo edit, I need a tiny lil head and long Nicole Kidman-salad-fingers with massive cartoon bazungas! It’s just to my taste, and it’s my body and that’s that on that.
» Posted By omg team On Friday, August 9, 2024 | category: Art, Q&A
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This summer saw the US release of documentary filmmaker Kevin Hegge’s latest feature TRAMPS!, which looks at the dissolution of the UK punk movement and how fashion and art transformed in the early ’80s via the flamboyant movement that became known as the New Romantics.
In addition to streaming, this month also marks the release of special edition Blu-ray release of the film, stacked with special features, including an unedited interview with fashion stylist and iconoclast Judy Blame, who’s passing in 2018 left a cavern in London’s fashion scene.
The New Romantics movement gave rise to gender-bending pop stars such as Boy George and performance art drag-terrorists like Leigh Bowery. Tramps! charts how this motley crew of club kids took the anti-establishment ideologies formed by punk while swapping out ripped rags for ostentatious glamour. Using the clubs as their catwalk, the New Romantics traipsed through a post war London looking like queens, but living on the dole.
Although the movie looks at youth culture in the early ’80s, Hegge’s documentary translates to any era of young creative people, struggling to make ends meet and create art in an increasingly aggressive and precarious economic world that we live in.
Tramps! was met with rave reviews. Website Loud and Clear says about the film:
“The closing film at this year’s BFI Flare Festival, TRAMPS! is less a documentary and more an audio-visual whirlwind. Right from the beginning, composers Matthew Sims and Verity Susman (and the film’s exemplary sound department) produce a blistering wall of sound. It’s electric and almost industrial, correlating with the synths later used in the 1980s to generate synthpop and conquer America. But it’s also loud and abrasive, as radical as the strong, flamboyant and charismatic personalities that Hegge focuses on.”
Also a long-time OMG.BLOG contributor, Kevin Hegge interviewed LaBruce back in 2021 for the release of this twincestuous feature Saint Narcisse, so we thought we’d flip the script and reach out to get the legendary LaBruce to chat with Hegge about the film.
Its a busy time for LaBruce as well, whose newest book The Revolution Is My Boyfriend was published in June. Meanwhile, BlaB’s latest salacious film, The Visitor, which was met with rave reviews, is being distributed by Utopia’s label Circle Collective in the UK, the US and Canada, and will be released this fall.
TRAMPS! was released June 18 in the United States via Good Deed Entertainment, and is now available to stream on your favorite platform. You can find the Blu-ray edition here.
Read on after the jump for the full Q&A between Bruce LaBruce and Kevin Hegge!
