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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Style SAIC Fashion Chair Nick Cave in Vogue

Posted by Heather Kenny on 08.24.10 at 11:51 AM

One of Caves soundsuits
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  • One of Cave's soundsuits
The September issue of Vogue, which hits newsstands today, features an eight-page spread of Nick Cave, chair of the School of the Art Institute's Fashion Department, in a variety of his Soundsuits—full-body outfits that on first glance look like a cross between a Muppet and Mummenschanz. Constructed of materials that include human hair, buttons, toys, and flea-market finds, they make "unusual sounds" and can be displayed as sculpture or worn by dancers or performers.

From September 10 to 17 there'll be a video installation of the Soundsuits on the corner of South Michigan Avenue and 23rd Street every evening starting at 8 PM. A pop-up shop featuring items like prints and T-shirts inspired by the suits (but not the suits themselves, which can cost several thousand dollars) opens from 8 to 10 PM on September 10, with a Vogue-signing by Cave from 9:30 to 10, and continues nightly from 6 to 9 PM. In the meantime there are several videos of the suits in action on the Web, including the one below, from a celebration for an exhibition of Cave's work at UCLA's Fowler Museum in January of this year.



Nick Cave's Soundsuit Invasion No. 1 in LA, courtesy Fowler Museum at UCLA from Fowler Museum on Vimeo.

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I'll have my crisp new copy of VOGUE at the ready on September 10! They won't have magazines on sale at the autograph session...gotta bring your own : )

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Posted by JohnEding on 08/24/2010 at 5:59 PM

Check this out - another great video of another great Nick Cave Soundsuit performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isyJKJaozK0…

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Posted by acanfield on 08/25/2010 at 1:51 PM

I wish I could go!! I'm in love with the soundsuits, and Cave seems so chill. I blogged about the vogue spread http://www.beautylabny.com/blog/2010/09/03/nick-cave-soundsuits-in-vogue-september-2010-furry-happy-monsters-holding-tods/

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Posted by Anne on 09/03/2010 at 5:44 PM
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