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September 8 – September 21, 2011 Nicola Formichetti and Gage/Clemenceau Architects will celebrate their collaboration with BOFFO Building Fashion 2011 on the first day of New York's Fashion Week.
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Nicola Formichetti + Gage/Clemenceau Architects Fashion designers submit a creative brief outlining the desired concept for their collaboration. Architects with built portfolios are invited to submit design proposals for the fashion designer of their choice. Each fashion designer was presented with three - five nominations of qualified design proposals, chosen by a jury compiled by BOFFO, Architizer and industry professionals including:
Faris Al-Shathir The fashion designer makes the final selection with whom they choose to collaborate. Each fashion designer should acts as the creative director or “client” of the architect in the process of their collaboration. BOFFO awards each architect with $20,000 to fund the production of their installation. Architects are responsible for the construction of their installations. The installations be operated by the fashion designer with the assistance of BOFFO. All merchandise displayed or sold is the responsibility of the fashion designer. |
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Ohne Titel & EASTON + COMBS |
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The Lake & Stars & SOFTLab
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Nicola Formichetti & Nicola Formichetti and Gage/Clemenceau Architects will celebrate their collaboration with BOFFO Building Fashion 2011 during Fashion's Night Out on the first day of New York's Fashion Week. Mugler creative director and stylist to Lady Gaga Nicola Formichetti will open his first retail installation in TriBeCa selling pieces from his jewelry line, t-shirts, hoodies and even including iPhone and iPhone cases. "This is the oppurtunity to look directly into my head. Visitors get to see my work with Mugler and collaborations with magazines, as well as the work I've created with Lady Gaga. It's everything I love, in one store" says Formichetti. Mark Foster Gage, principal architect of Gage/Clemenceau Architects describes the installation as, "a faceted, robotic, mirrored chapel that through millions of reflections, produces a stunning environment to view fashion in suprising new ways."
Above: A sequence of Gage/Clemenceau Architects’ shifting robotic mirrors reflect Nicola Formichetti’s vision. |
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the Council of Fashion |
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Special Thanks
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Irene Neuwirth & TheVeryMany |
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Presented by
Founding Partner
Material Sponsor
Supported by
the Council of Fashion
Media Sponsor
Beverage Sponsor
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Special Thanks
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Patrik Ervell & Graham Hudson |
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Schedule
Nicola Formachetti &
Irene Neuwirth & TheVeryMany
Patrick Ervell & Graham Hudson
The Lake & Stars
Ohne Titel & Easton + Combs Location
57 Walker Street Hours
Monday – Saturday, 12pm – 7pm |
Every year the art world goes to Miami to celebrate what has become the most important art festival in the United States. BOFFO was happy to represent NY Arts by bringing three performance based artists to perform in front of a large audience at Lords Hotel in South Beach. Entertaining hundreds of people, from NYC and abroad, Alexcalibur and H.U.N.X. provided a memorable visual spectacular on stage, while Damaris Drummond produced a more subtle performance floating in water. |
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BOFFO Building Fashion explores the intersection of architecture and fashion through installation and exhibition design by pairing fashion designers with architects to build temporary installations. Each installation reappropriated the HL23 Tin (former sales office), providing a unique glimpse into the vibrant work of New York’s next generation of fashion designers and architects.Fall 2010 Installation Schedule:
09/09 – 09/19 Simon Spurr + COLLECTIVE 09/09 – 11/15 Supima Garden designed by konyk architecture pc Location
Emerging from a 38.5 foot-wide site amid the railbed of Manhattan’s reborn High Line Park and the art galleries of West Chelsea, HL23 is the first freestanding building by the celebrated vanguard architect and theorist Neil Denari. Rising between the city and a spur in the High Line, HL23 offers proof to the notion that great architecture often arises from the most challenging site − and that idea had no better testing ground than in Manhattan.
The Building Fashion Installations reappropriated the HL23 Tin. Designed by Spilios Gianakopoulos with Pandiscio Co., the HL23 Tin is adjacent to HL23 and nested beneath the High Line Park on over 5000 sqft of outdoor space. Extending HL23’s dedication to green architecture, the Tin is a well crafted converted trailer, fitted with full custom interior furnishings and a landscaped exterior inviting street traffic to the previously abandoned site.
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Our contribution to Housing Work’s ‘Design on a Dime’ is designing and donating furniture and art for one of the fifty interior vignettes for this year’s fundraiser. We are happy to be presenting the work of six artists and designers collaborating to create one of a kind pieces to furnish the room; Jessica Angel, Faris Al-Shathir, Andrew Schles, and Gregory Sparks, with contributions by Jen Poueymirou and Arden Wohl. The designers are creating a dining room inspired by 17th century Flemish masters Vermeer and De Hooch with all the furniture made from shipping palettes and found materials; which exemplifies the concept of design on a dime. The goal is to use less than 15 percent of new materials in fabrication of these pieces while maintaining a cohesive collection of furnishings. The finishes are non-toxic and eco-friendly. The collection will include a dining table, six dining chairs, a side board table, a chandelier, three murals, fruit bowl, and a little roundie table. We are excited to contribute to such an honorable cause as well as the Housing Works organization that supports artistic and creative new talents.
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57 Walker Street, New York - September 8, 2011
HL23, New York - November 15, 2010
New York, NY - August 10, 2010
Brooklyn Heights, New York - September 3, 2009
515 West 23rd Street, New York City - July 18, 2011
We're always looking to work with talented new artists, architects, designers, and performers to make great ideas happen.
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BOFFO fosters collaborations between artists, designers, communities, theorists, and the media in the exploration of contemporary subject matter that inform and educate the public, through innovative, participatory programming.BOFFO is the conduit between the emerging and the established, the obscure and the adored, the profound and the profane. BOFFO is always on the move, repurposing spaces, and all projects are open to the public. Boffo is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, based in New York City. |
StaffFaris Al-Shathir – Co-Founder, Executive Director, PresidentFaris is a designer and curator based in New York City. Faris holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Art in Art from Rhodes College. Faris has worked as an interior designer and architect for several years, working in the United States and abroad. Faris has curated exhibitions for the University of Pennsylvania School of Design and the American Institute of Architects San Francisco Chapter, and has assisted with exhibitions at the Slaught Foundation and the Storefront for Art and Architecture. Faris has received a presidential commendation for his work with the AIASF, a traveling a fellowship from UPenn, and academic awards and recognitions from Rhodes College and the University of New South Wales. Gregory Sparks – Co-Founder, Associate Director, SecretaryGregory is an artist/designer, working in New York City. The importance of the relationship between culture and the tangible objects produced is what informs and inspires his work. His working process is centered on meticulous and labor intensive installations and drawings. He creates work that strives to make products of value and beauty from mundane origins. From turning bleached copy paper into a sculptural window garden to redefining goldfish excrement as culturally significant product, his mission is to highlight process and the cultural reverberations that are produced. He received his bachelors and masters degrees in Landscape Architecture from Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania and has continued studies in art and design at Parsons and New York University. He is orginally from Honolulu, HI and now lives in Los Angeles and New York. |
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Jessica Angel |
Sculpture
Rory Baron |
Performance
Michael Alan |
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