SAINT LAURENT

COLLECTION V

MARCH 4TH 2013 20H

MUSIC FOR SAINT LAURENT

RECORDED ON THE ROAD IN AUSTRALIA AND ASIA

"TIDAL WAVE '13" BY THEE OH SEES

MUSIC: THEE OH SEES

Thee Oh Sees are the latest incarnation of songwriter, singer, and guitarist John Dwyer’s ever-evolving pop-folk psychedelic group. Dwyer, who hails from Providence, Rhode Island, has been active on the San Francisco indie scene since the late ‘90s, working with several bands, including the Coachwhips, Pink & Brown, Yikes, Up Its Alive, and Swords & Sandals, among others, and he formed OCS (which is an acronym for Orinoka Crash Suite, Orange County Sound, or whatever Dwyer decided it was on any given day) initially as a vehicle for the experimental instrumentals he was producing in his home studio.

In time, OCS morphed into an actual band, and worked under the usual flurry of names, most notably as the Oh Sees or the Ohsees, and eventually as Thee Oh Sees, featuring Dwyer on guitar and vocals, Brigid Dawson on vocals and tambourine, Petey Dammit (sometimes listed as Petey Dammit!) on bass, and Mike Shoun on drums.

HAIR: ORLANDO PITA

MAKE UP: AARON DE MEY

STYLISM: HEDI SLIMANE

INVITATION ARTWORK: THEODORA ALLEN

Theodora Allen is an artist from Los Angeles, who’s paintings draw together figures and objects from discrete cultural moments in order to collapse their temporal distinctions. Working within the language of Romanticism, and engaging philosophies and aesthetics defined by these various movements, the recent works explore 19th and 20th century bohemian counter cultures — from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, to the early California Arts and Crafts movement, to singer-songwriters living in Laurel Canyon in the late 1960’s. The intimate scale and cropping of the imagery, and the emotional insistence of the touch, propose that even the most canonical subjects can be made personal and present.

Allen is currently an MFA Painting candidate at UCLA (Expected 2014). In 2011 she was in residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.