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December 5, 2008A weekly roundup of the latest from the T Web siteNow Online | T Holiday, 2008 By Nathan Lump 
In a season that’s usually long on tradition, the new Holiday edition of T, “The Reinvention Issue,” is all about fresh starts. Beginning with our cover stars, the Hollywood power couple Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes (the magazine’s print edition has two different covers, half featuring Cruise and half Holmes), it’s a riot of redux, from an essay on great moments in reinvention (from Jesus to J.F.K.) to an article on the new and improved Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis. Elsewhere, there’s a look at the ever-changing homes of Karl Lagerfeld, a resort town in Kenya that’s gone all dolce vita and dinner with the design remasterer Martino Gamper. Our originals portfolio spotlights the cultural creatives of Japan, the most innovation-obsessed country on the planet, while the photographer Camilla Akrans chimes in with a new spin on Carmen Miranda, and Erwan Frotin completely retools T’s annual gift guide. Now that’s change we can believe in. ADVERTISEMENT  By JONATHAN S. PAUL  Stylish staples are good guy gifts, but sometimes the basics feel too basic. Ray-Ban has souped up its standard-issue Caravan sunglasses with an 18-carat yellow gold-plate finish and gold-colored mirrored lenses. Each frame is numbered, and only 1,000 are available in North America. And talk about a limited edition: Kiosk’s new mini-exhibition shop has only one mint-condition 1944 green canvas water bag on sale. Good thing there’s plenty of other cool vintage gear available, curated by Andy Beach of the Reference Library blog. By ANDREW GENSLER  Last spring, the relatively obscure El Guincho (né Pablo Díaz-Reixa, a native of the Canary Islands) played a sizzling set at Williamsburg’s Union Pool, twiddling sampler knobs with his left hand while simultaneously playing live percussion with his right hand and foot, shaking the full house with a potent potage of Latin beats, tripped-out techno, tribal chants, Afro-Caribbean percussion and infectious melodies. For his excellent new album, “Alegranza,” he spent an entire year studying the ethnomusicology of island nations and collected thousands of samples from places as diverse as Jamaica, Hawaii, Madagascar, Trinidad-Tobago, Cuba and, of course, the Canary Islands. By JENNIFER KIM  The holidays are always a good excuse to deck yourself with a little more fa-la-la-la-la than usual. I have had my eye on certain pieces from Balenciaga and Pamellato, but I’m not sure if I’ve racked up enough points with Santa to be getting one of those in my stocking. This gold-plated hematite bracelet from Lauren by Ralph Lauren, however, is simultaneously gutsy (chunky links) and glamorous (a dash of crystal) and comes at a price even a Scrooge could appreciate. By JORDAN HRUSKA  The New Zealand-born photographer Carlo Van de Roer recently paid a visit to the ophthalmologist, saying he had been seeing clouds in his eyes. The occurrence wasn’t completely abnormal for Van de Roer as of late; for the past month, he’s been taking portraits of people’s auras, a pseudoscientific phenomenon discussed by migraine sufferers and W.E. Butler alike. Comment of the Week
“madbadcat graphics,” with an important, and potentially unanswerable, question: “Why is Naomi Campbell art?” | Spotlight: Dispatches from Art Basel Miami Beach Joseph Cayre’s Midtown Miami development, still in the building phase, is the site of an exhibition this week curated by Shamim Momim and Nate Lowman.  Pimped-out cars are so last year. This time around, the trailer is having a moment.  The impish Swiss artist Olaf Breuning ramped up the raunchiness with an abstracted, 150-ton sphinx-like sand sculpture of a reclining woman.  As the annual cultural circus pitched its tents again in Miami, we caught up with the retail impresario to talk about the state of the design industry. |
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