Singer MIA lands the cover of Jalouse magazine for December/January 2012, along with an editorial in which she is shot by Roman Gravras in high-low Spring 2013 looks from Paco Rabanne, Armani, Kenzo , Dior, Azzedine Alaïa, Sonia Rykiel, plus Carhartt, Vans and American Apparel. Via Shedonism.
M.I.A. one of the noteworthy talents of our era launches a book simply titled M.I.A. documenting her creative life , through art and various sources of inspiration:
A documentation of her entire visual output and a telling of her story in collages, photos, and prints from her early years in art school at Central Saint Martins London through to her hugely successful three albums, mixtapes, and live performances at PS1 MoMA, Coachella, various exhibitions, installations, and music video shoots. The artwork is comprised of a wide variety of materials and media: video stills turned to stencils pieced back together to make animated installations; spray-painted canvasses scanned then made into digital collages; photographs videotaped, then run through bad computer connections to create graphic prints; artwork on nails, walls, prints for T-shirts, handmade stage costumes—anything she could find while she was touring. Also included are assorted lyrics and portions of an exclusive interview in which she discusses candidly the personal events and themes which informed her art and music at the time of each campaign. Includes foreword by Steve Loveridge, friend since her art school days and frequent creative collaborator with M.I.A.
W magazine zones in on the intersection between fashion and music in a photo shoot that matches currently hot designers with the same from the pop music world. This one of Versace Donatell with MIA is by far the best. See Kanye with the Rodarte sisters, Esperanza Spalding with Francisco Costa of Calvin Klein and Janelle Monae with Karl Lagerfeld.
Celebrity nail stylist Naja Green shares recent images of a manicure she did for M.I.A., who got her nails did for an upcoming video, directed by Hype Williams. The featured polish is Minx Nails’ “Lusion,” which has a 3-D effect in the light.
Racked has jokes about that ridiculously priced Balmain tee-shirt.–Racked
Meanwhile, will the Racked editors collapse in a sobbing heap if they’re not the first to pin down the location of Alex Wang’s first retail door?–Racked
If we didn’t include Paulina’s last name (Porizkova) in this post would you know who we were talking about? (And even now with her full government, do you still not know who she is??)–Modelina
Praying that this doesn’t turn into a Lauryn Hill part two story–Blogue via Gawker
M.I.A.’s media blitz in front of her record release continues. Nylon has her on its cover for its July/August issue, and as in other recent interviews with Complex and the New York Times, Google seems to be the biggest recipient of her rage this go round. Love her a lot, but the truth is she or someone is botching how she’s being repped right now and it’s going to take her more than a minute to clean up the messes she’s made in multitudinous aisles.
Scan above from TFS. Images from the (extremely mediocre) Nylon editorial shoot after the flip.
We highlighted M.I.A. on the coverage of Complex yesterday and mentioned that her marriage to a richie-rich combined with her incendiary politics was likely to draw heat, and sure enough, a recent New York Times profile goes in deep on M.I.A. and shines a very unflattering light on her dichotomous personality, making the backlash official with a capitol “O.” To add gasoline to the fire, via CollegeFashion, we’ve learned that M.I.A. retaliated by tweeting the phone number of Lynn Hirschberg, who wrote the story! Fire!!
M.I.A. is on the cover of June Complex magazine, gearing up the press push for her upcoming album release. And judging from the accompanying interview, motherhood hasn’t mellowed her a drop. She’s still intensely political and all in on various and sundry conspiracy theories. I’ll say this though, she is going to be taking an endless amount of heat given her politics because of who she married, a guy who is deeply monied and has been that way since birth.
On this page, she’s looking her usual smoldering self, in a design by Henrik Vibskov. Lots more images after the flip, some of which are compelling if only because she’s styled in a decidedly different way than the rebel bohemian look we’re used to seeing her sport.
We already posted some of our favorites from the MET, but I’m posting up this image featuring Alexander Wang in lieu of my giant screw-up post (since deleted), whereby I got all excited over an upcoming Alex X Gap collabo, which as a reader kindly informed me was from last year! Ugh. And I call myself a Wang groupie—shame on me!
