From December 11 to May 6 2012, the Groninger Museum will present the exhibition entitled Azzedine Alaïa in the 21st Century. This exhibition displays the most fantastic Alaïa fashion creations of the last ten years. Alaïa is one of the last major couturiers still active. The exhibition is a follow-on to the overview of his work shown in the Groninger Museum in 1998, which was subsequently displayed at the Brant Foundation in New York in 2002.

Inside peak at the cover of a zine, a publication by Autre for a special screening of CAPUT, a film by Harmony Korine starring James Franco, at Miami Basel with photographs by Harmony Korine and Adarsha Benjamin. Design by Nicole Poor

Inside peak at a zine for a special screening of CAPUT at Miami Basel with photographs by Harmony Korine and Adarsha Benjamin. Design by Nicole Poor.

Photograph from Galerie Lumière des Roses

On December 13 (December 5 in France), Because Music/Elektra will release Stage Whispers, a double-LP of live and unreleased material from Charlotte Gainsbourg that follows up October’s Terrible Angels teaser EP. Paradisco was written and produced by Beck, and features drum programming from ex-Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti/current the Samps member Cole M.G.N.

Charlotte Gainsbourg – Paradisco

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Elena Anaya from Pedro Almodovar’s latest The Skin I Live In for Band of Outsiders’ label Boy, Fall collection. Shot at the Sheats/Goldstein Residence in Beverly Hills, CA.

New Spring/Summer 2012 collection by London based designer Gabriella Marina Gonzalez entitled Your Heavy Heart Presses Against the Dusk.

In this small, luminous memoir, the National Book Award–winner Patti Smith revisits the most sacred experiences of her early years, with truths so vivid they border on the surreal. The author entwines her childhood self—and its “clear, unspeakable joy”—with memories both real and envisioned from her twenties on New York’s MacDougal Street, the street of cafés. Woolgathering was completed, in Michigan, on Patti Smith’s 45th birthday and originally published in a slim volume from Raymond Foye’s Hanuman Books. Twenty years later, New Directions is proud to present it in an augmented edition, featuring writing that was omitted from the book’s first printing, along with new photographs and illustrations. [New Directions....]