For 30 years, Terry Jones and his i-D magazine have been at the forefront of avant garde fashion. The magazine covers are a reflection of this journey, and in celebration of 30 years Taschen has published a retrospective of these images. i-D Covers 1980-2010 features all the iconic covers to date woven with personal stories from Mr. Jones. The publication is edited by Edward Enninful, Fashion Director at i-D, and written by Richard Buckley.

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The latest offering from Ltd Tee finds German graffiti artist Sweet Uno providing a uniquely styled alphabet. As with all Ltd releases, Sweet Uno’s graphic comes in a collectible box packed with a t-shirt and a 8.5 x 11 inch print. Beginning with the Sweet Uno release, Ltd will also be including a postcard featuring prior t-shirt and print graphics.

If I say so myself, Ltd Tees are great Holiday gifts for the younger (or stylish) art fan in your family. If you agree, enter “SWEET!” at their check out for a little discount.

More images of Sweet Uno’s alphabet pack after the jump.

Boris Bidjan Saberi’s presented a mid-season fashion show at Galerie Unter in Berlin last week. Maxime Buchi, of Sang Bleu, was there. He notes, “To see a fashion designer claiming Hip Hop as their main cultural reference is unusual, but the fashion intelligentsia might have to get with the program and get used to it. First Adam Kimmel and his ghetto-burlesque, americano-centrique presentations, and yesterday, Boris’s ode to Berlin’s underground (pun intended).”

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A selection of images after the leap.

Opening this Thursday, November 18, 2010, at Panama City’s Diablo Rosso Gallery is El Placer de lo Inesperado. The exhibition features work by by Costa Rican artist Fabrizio Arrieta, whose series of paintings reinterpretates elements of menswear.

Diablo Rosso Gallery
Avenida A + Calle 7ma, Casa #11

Full look at Arrieta’s work after the jump.

New this week from YUP, Japan Fashion Now complements an exhibition now on view at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (through January 8, 2011).

Scholars have long acknowledged the significance of the Japanese “fashion revolution” of the 1980s, when avant-garde designers Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons introduced a radically new conception of fashion. But what has happened in the years since then?

Lavishly illustrated, Japan Fashion Now will be the first book to explore how Japanese fashion has evolved in recent years. During this time, Japanese pop culture has swept the world, as young people everywhere read manga, watch anime, and play video games. Japan has had a profound impact on global culture, often via new media.

With essays by Valerie Steele (“Is Japan Still the Future?”), Patricia Mears (“Fashion Revolution”), Hiroshi Narumi (“Japanese Street Style”), and Yuniya Kawamura (“Japanese Fashion Subcultures”), Japan Fashion Now explores how the world of fashion has been transformed by contemporary Japanese visual culture.

Valerie Steele is chief curator and director of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology.  Patricia Mears is deputy director of The Museum at FIT. Yuniya Kawamura is associate professor of sociology at FIT. Hiroshi Narumi is associate professor at the Kyoto University of Art and Design.

The latest from aleXsandro Palombo critiques fashions take on feminine beauty. Using top magazine titles and some of pop culture’s most beloved ladies, the illustrator manages to a balanced (humor + reality) view of anorexia and other eating disorders.

More of aleXsandro’s work here.

More images from Cartoon attack after the jump.

Joe King provides the illustrations for ROOK’s collaborative effort with Brooklyn Mint, and the Notorious BIG estate.

King gravitated towards illustration in college and has since provided graphics for Crooks n’ Castle, Osirus, Freshjive, and many more. For ROOK, King depicts the King of Brooklyn, Biggie Smalls. He has created two graphics, a stripped black and gray cartoon and a more vibrant color portrait.

View the full collection after the jump.

“Graffiti superstar and fashionista Claw Money took the time to sit down with Living Proof Magazine for an interview about her early days as a troublemaker up to the forging of her brand for ferocious females.”

Published by Rizzoli, Mika Ninagawa presents a full view of the color saturated photographs by the superstar Japanese artist. As comfortable in art as she is fashion, Ninagawa burst on the scene just a short decade ago, her stature boosted through representation by art dealer Tomio Koyama (who introduced Takashi Murakami as well).

Ninagawa’s photographs are accompanied by foreword written by Daido Moriyama, and contributions from Takashi Murakami, Antonio Marras, Anna Sui, and Midori Matsui. Moriyama notes, “Whenever I behond Mika Ninagowa’s work, I am overcome at once with an image of a transient sign of darkness that threatens a flawless midday sky, and a contrasting sense of beautiful fragility.” He’s describing a visit to the Ohara Museum of Art and the powerful pull of Ninagawa’s flood of color. Color is common theme of the book, for obvious reason, and the basis of a conversation between Moriyama and Ninagawa. Color is also the subject of Midori Matsui’s essay “Earthly Flowers, Heavenly Colors: The Aesthetic Universe of Mika Ninagawa.” Matsui also offers thoughts on Ninagawa’s “girl power,” in a second essay that helps contextualize the artists celebrity. These are cerebral entries, for sure, and they are balanced wonderfully in the book by a section entitled “Messages for Mika” – a series of short notes fashion designers like Antonio Marras and Anna Sui.

But, while the written portions are engaging, Mika Ninagawa is all about the photography. As Moriyama suggests, it is impossible not to be overcome by Ninagawa’s compositions.

© MIKA NINAGAWA, Rizzoli New York, 2010.

Images from Mika Ninagaaw follow after the jump.

Recognizing that illustration is one of the fastest growing graphic disciplines, The Beautiful presents the work of the 100 most trendy and promising practitioners. Edited by Anneke Krull, the book offers examples of illustration in both fashion and packaging design, as well as a focus on combinations of illustration and photography.

Now out from Gestalten, The Beautiful is a nice edition to the publishers graphic design centered publications.

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