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Public School Unveils Curation at Sotheby’s

On Thursday night, the Public School boys took to Sotheby’s to unveil their curation for the auction house, bringing with them perhaps a higher dosage of leather jackets than 72nd Street and York Avenue is accustomed to seeing.   The exhibit from the first-time curators Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne will be open Monday and Tuesday and is titled “Prints & Multiples.” The too-cool-for-school guys that they are, Chow and Osborne breezed in late to their party and chatted with the evening’s crowd, mostly friends and art-world appreciators, by the bar. Chow and Osborne know Tad Smith, the chief executive officer of Sotheby’s, from his days at Madison Square Garden, when the designers did a line for the Knicks in 2014. “The CFDA had reached out to us to see if we’d be interested, and I guess Sotheby’s had reached out to them,” Chow explained. “It sort of just happened.” “The lot that we looked through was really big, but it was actually really easy,” Osborne a

The AMAs 2015 Red Carpet 'Jennifer Lopez, Selena Gomez, Kylie Jenner

The red carpet at the 2015 American Music Awards, held Sunday at Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater, had the requisite amount of sheer, sequins, and skin Add caption as well as fashion moments like Harry Styles in a floral Gucci suit, Kendall Jenner in Oriett Domenech, Selena Gomez in Givenchy and Zendaya in Ungaro. Naturally, host Jennifer Lopez donned a parade of sparkly outfits at the three-hour show,

A$AP Rocky Covers First Issue Of Johnson Magazine

In his latest interview, Rocky speaks on the passing of  A$AP Yams , his style influences, the creative process for his latest album, and more.   johnson will be released bi-annually and will cover topics including men's style, music, cars, food and interior design. The inaugural issue is already in stores across the pond with plans to sell it online worldwide later this week.

Lagos mudslide tragedy"‘We lost our siblings to greed’****Brother of the deceased

MORE than four days after four siblings were killed in a mudslide which rammed into their home in the early hours of last Saturday, the  agony of death still  hangs heavily  in the Otun-Araromi community.  The building, located at 50, Otun-Araromi Street, Orisa-Magodo- Isheri, Lagos, was besieged by sympathisers, most of whom could not hold back their tears. Owned by Mr. Okeoseye Odia, a former police officer who works with Aero contractors, the house  is situated on a valley behind Magodo Estate in Ikosi-Isheri Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of Lagos State. As at Wednesday when The Nation visited, the pains of the tragedy had yet to wear off the faces of the members of the community.  Sympathizers have not ceased thronging the building to commiserate with the bereaved family. Also, onlookers are visiting to see the scene of the tragedy where nature’s fury swallowed the lives of four young boys without warning.Nature should not

Nathan Matthews & Shauna Hoare jailed for Becky Watts killing

Becky Watts' stepbrother and his girlfriend have been jailed for killing the 16-year-old during a sexually-motivated kidnap plot. Nathan Matthews, 28, was sentenced to 33 years for murder and Shauna Hoare, 21, given 17 years for manslaughter. At Bristol Crown Court, Judge Mr Justice Dingemans said he was sure on the evidence "the planned kidnap of Becky was for a sexual purpose". Matthews suffocated his stepsister at her home in Bristol on 19 February. He moved her body to the home he shared with Hoare and in the days that followed he used tools to dismember and package Becky's body. Judge Dingemans told Hoare she had been convicted of manslaughter because she had participated in a kidnap where any "sober and reasonable person" would have known some harm would come to Becky. He said the case was of a "particularly high" seriousness "because of the planning of the abduction for a sexual purpose, the taking of the imp

Cocoa Motors' WalkCar transports passengers on a laptop-sized board

A Japanese inventor has developed the "world's smallest electric car" – an aluminium board with wheels that carries a passenger like a Segway and fits into a backpack Kuniaki Sato's company Cocoa Motors is set to launch the new personal transportation device this autumn. The lightweight aluminium board is approximately the size of a laptop and can carry loads of up to 120 kilograms.

The leopard in Savanna bush

The serenity of the environment is beyond query. There are trees everywhere. Birds can be heard chirping away. It is rural splendour at its best The big building, which houses the Writers’ Haven, is quaint. Its red brick walls glitter under the sunny day. Many, who have been there, mostly writers who need to escape the madness of the city to have quiet moments with the muse, have described it as ‘paradise in the forest’.