KnittaPlease is knitting graffiti at The Standard in celebration of NY Fashion Week 2009. Emphasizing the intersections of textile art, design, craft, street culture and the DIY movement.
When the yarnbombing collective first began tagging in 2005, their art responded to the mass-produced. By inserting the handmade into a landscape of concrete and steel, they were cheekily adding warmth to our urban fixtures. Now Magda Sayeg, KnittaPlease founder, works to redefine a craft that has been relegated to the stuffy attic of people's brains and dismissed by a limited vision for knitting's purpose, its function, its practitioners. Sayeg's work repositions this granny pastime in public spaces, streets formerly dominated by a hard, masculine public art culture. The fuzzy tags invoke entirely different connotations than spray paint does, antagonizing expectations and initiating dialogue about community-driven art.
This is the second installation by Knitta a Standard hotel, the first was at The Standard, Hollywood in 2007.
This super-soft cream colored, limited edition organic cotton
t-shirt with florescent pink ink is available only on shopthestandard.com The Standard's logo is re-imagined by KnittaPlease in "stitches."
<p>KnittaPlease is knitting graffiti at The Standard in celebration of NY Fashion Week 2009. Emphasizing the intersections of textile art, design, craft, street culture and the <span class="caps">DIY</span> movement.</p>
<p>When the yarnbombing collective first began tagging in 2005, their art responded to the mass-produced. By inserting the handmade into a landscape of concrete and steel, they were cheekily adding warmth to our urban fixtures. Now Magda Sayeg, KnittaPlease founder, works to redefine a craft that has been relegated to the stuffy attic of people’s brains and dismissed by a limited vision for knitting’s purpose, its function, its practitioners. Sayeg’s work repositions this granny pastime in public spaces, streets formerly dominated by a hard, masculine public art culture. The fuzzy tags invoke entirely different connotations than spray paint does, antagonizing expectations and initiating dialogue about community-driven art.</p>
<p>This is the second installation by Knitta a Standard hotel, the first was at The Standard, Hollywood in 2007.</p>
<p>This super-soft cream colored, limited edition organic cotton <br />
t-shirt with florescent pink ink is available only on shopthestandard.com The Standard’s logo is re-imagined by KnittaPlease in “stitches.”</p>2009-09-08T17:39:12-04:00the-standard-loves-knittaplease-t-shirt8879772wear2009-10-29T15:03:45-04:00KnittaPlease for The Standard, T-shirt2009-10-29T15:03:45-04:00Standard Hotels2009-09-08T17:39:12-04:00manual023792032shopifydeny4Womens S/M125.008879772Womens S/M2009-10-29T14:22:55-04:002009-09-08T17:42:01-04:00manual023792102shopifydeny6Mens M/L225.008879772Mens M/L2009-10-29T14:22:55-04:002009-09-10T15:00:15-04:0018216492188797722009-09-10T15:00:15-04:00http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0012/9452/products/knittachick.jpg?12584038832009-09-10T15:00:50-04:0018216572288797722009-09-10T15:00:50-04:00http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0012/9452/products/knittadude.jpg?12584038832009-09-11T12:24:33-04:0018249322388797722009-09-11T12:24:33-04:00http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0012/9452/products/IMG_7352-1.jpg?12584038832009-09-11T12:25:10-04:0018249342488797722009-09-11T12:25:10-04:00http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0012/9452/products/IMG_7417-1.jpg?12584038832009-09-11T12:24:50-04:0018249332588797722009-09-11T12:24:50-04:00http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0012/9452/products/IMG_7386-1.jpg?12584038832009-09-08T17:52:39-04:0018115562688797722009-09-08T17:52:39-04:00http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0012/9452/products/KP_TheStandard.jpg?1258403883