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Belle by Sigerson Morrison / Graphics
Sigerson Morrison / Supergraphics II
Tucker by Gaby Basora / Fabric Designs
Steven Sclaroff Print Ads
Sigerson Morrison / Supergraphics I
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Sigerson Morrison & Belle / Walls
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Scooter LaForge
Above: Tim Groen: Scooter LaForge, New York
Above: Tim Groen: Scooter LaForge, New York
Scooter LaForge, Artist
We all know that sex sells mascara, tabloids, cars, music, and hotels. That it sells art too, is something Scooter LaForge can tell you from experience.
Giant erections live happily with cuddly Little-Golden-Books-creatures, in a world that’s dark yet comical, figurative yet abstract, muddy yet bright. Scooter LaForge, painter/sculptor, is a man of dichotomies. He’s modest and soft-spoken in person, but certainly not too shy to pose for risqué photographs which find their way into the world through one of his X-rated tumblr blogs. Scooter’s studio is around the corner from me; in the midst of oil paint fumes, and surrounded by some canvases that had yet to find their way online, we talked.
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Koos van den Akker
Above: Tim Groen: Koos van den Akker, New York
Koos van den Akker, Designer
“This is my life’” says Koos. “Could I have made more money? Absolutely. But that would have happened at the expense of what I wanted.” What Koos wanted was to travel, to be around glamour, and have an all-round fabulous life. Talking to Koos is fun; he curses like a sailor and, being in his early 70’s now, he has no patience for false modesty—which I love.
As a handsome gay young man in New York in the 1970’s, Koos had the right age, in the right place, at the right time. Not everyone got what he was doing, but once Koos set up shop, it didn’t take long for the celebrities (of the caliber he obsessed on as a kid) to take note. When times changed business sizzled out a bit, but within two decades a new generation of fashion designers, including Marc Jacobs and Nicholas Ghesquiere, rediscovered Koos and cited him as a major source of inspiration. There is so much to talk about with Koos that I feel like I’m leaving too much out, like the celebrities, or the amazing apartments he has lived in in New York. Or how much fun Koos has had with the love of his life. Recapping seven decades in less then 2000 words just isn’t feasible; here are some of the things we did talk about.
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