FOLLOWING A HUGE BUZZ WE RECEIVED LATELY AROUND ISSUE #3 FEATURING THE POSTER BY KAWS, WE’RE SORRY TO ANNOUNCE THAT IT’S SOLD OUT! SO FOR THE ONES WHO ALREADY GOT THEIR COPY, LUCKY YOU. FOR THE OTHERS, WE WANTED TO LET THEM KNOW THAT PRINTED MATTER IN NEW YORK STILL HAS SOME IN STOCK.
AND FINALLY FOR THE ONES WHO ARE JUST CURIOUS ABOUT PARIS, LA, YOU CAN STILL ORDER ISSUE #4HERE. WE’VE GOT PLENTY IN STOCK WITH THE POSTER FEATURING THE BEAUTIFUL POEM “PUT ON YOUR GOD” BY ARIANA REINES IN COLLABORATION WITH YVES SAINT LAURENT!
IT’S A TRADITION AT PARIS, LA, THAT EVERY TIME A NEW PRINT ISSUE COMES OUT, THEN THE LAST ONE BECOMES ACCESSIBLE ONLINE FOR FREE . SO IN CASE YOU MISSSED ON PAPER THE ISSUE #3, ENJOY IT HEREALONG WITH THE ISSUES #2 & #1.
For the new PARIS, LA #4 poster the American author ARIANA REINES turns the YSL MANIFESTO itself into a poem, taking the words as her own, transforming it into an intimate declaration of “Resolute Elegence”.
As a end result, ten different versions of the poster have been realized. All coming from the orginal Yves Saint Laurent Manifesto #6.
On top, the movie describes the printing process of the poem, in one abricot color ink silkscreen.
At the bottom features the ten diffrent versions of this amazing collaboration, between YSL, ARIANA REINES, and PARIS, LA.
On the POSTER — LOST AND FOUND MANIFESTO, a tribute to the YSL woman by ARIANA REINES. On WRITING — LE RÊVE DE D’ALEMBERT, Marie Jager’s collages, accompanied by an 18th century dialogue on the theory of materialism by Diderot, create an abstract piece of poésie.On SOUVENIR — Bettina HUBBY recalls, with SEMIOTEXTE co-editors Hedi El Kholti and Chris Kraus, 10 years of art in LA’s CHINATOWN GALLERY SCENE; followed by A PORTRAIT OF PICO AVENUE, LOS ANGELES 2000-2005 by the artist AMY YAO. On ART—I’M STILL GAME: DOROTHY IANNONE reveals to Trinie Dalton the lioness inside her that once defeated the U.S. Government. On MUSIC —Clovis Goux meets French musician CHLOÉ on the occasion of her new album One in Other. On FASHION — HAIDER ACKERMANN—the hope of French fashion—speaks about Paris, Anvers, family, and friends; followed by DEAR ME, a story about seduction, sex-appeal, and self-love! On EROTISM — PAUL P. and CÉDRIC RIVRAIN celebrate the romance of flesh. On PHOTO — Marlene Marino capture the voluptuous lines of YOKO—a sphinx-like beauty from JAPAN; followed by FAR EAST FAR WEST, MONGOLIA seen like the mirror of Western America by Philippe Chancel.