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Desert Designs is best known for reproducing the works of Australian Aboriginal artists Jimmy Pike and Doris Gingingara on neckties, but I have turned up a third one. Today's tie features a design by Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (c.1932-2002), one of the founders of the modern Aboriginal art movement. Susan Allan provides some background on his introduction to painting in an obituary on the World Socialist Web Site:Tjapaltjarri's art gained enormous popularity and he was ultimately awarded the Order of Australia.In the late 1950s he was employed, along with his older brother Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri and other Aborigines, to assist in the construction of Papunya settlement. This was the last Aboriginal settlement built under the Menzies Liberal government�s racist assimilation policy. According to the government, Aborigines were not ready to live as �white Australians� and had to be re-educated. This meant removing them from tribal lands and herding them into settlements.
In 1971, Geoffrey Bardon, a young teacher, arrived at Papunya. Bardon, who later described the settlement as �an unsewered, undrained, garbage-strewn death camp in all but name,� won the respect of the older men and encouraged them to paint their ancestral stories. In contrast to Namatjira�s realistic watercolours, Bardon supplied them acrylic paint and discouraged references to Western images. This approach help give birth to the unique Papunya Tula style, which is an abstract representation of tribal myths and legends that is derived from traditional ceremonial designs.
Though the website is showing only a preview of the Spring 2009, Mieke from Stephan Schneider was kind enough to send us some more shots from the collection, including the first looks we've seen from the women's line. As ever, the Schneider spring collection puts remarkable textiles together with a light, almost weightless touch.







Stephan Schneider's Spring 2009 collection will be available at B Store, South Willard, Opening Ceremony, Project No. 8 and Tres Bien amongst other places.

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The News in New York is having a seasonal sample on November 13th, 14th and 15th. Go from 10-6 on the 13th or 14th or 10-5 on the 15th for up to 75% off Band of Outsiders, Boy, Shipley & Halmos, Vena Cava, Common Projects, Clu and more. The News' sale is located at 495 Broadway, 5th Floor in SoHo.