Elle Muliarchyk’s new guerrilla psychic fashion video Somanambuli has gotten a lot of play on the T blog and in the paper’s Sunday Styles section lately. The video, which is shot under cover, follows a the model Meghan Collison, dressed up in magazine-worthy outfits that project various fashion stereotypes, as she visits 10 psychics around town. Muliarchyk says that she wanted to explore how our appearances influence our fortunes and indeed , the choice of clothes did seem to greatly influence the readings. (On the day she was dressed in hippie garb Collison was told clean up her act but the same fortune teller who saw Harvard in her future when she donned ladylike tweeds.) But the video also has another layer, which is more complicated and mysterious. The name “Somnambuli” comes from Elle’s idea of a sleepwalker seeing images of herself in different guises, and being unable to connect with them. She was inspired by Vladimir Nabokov’s novel “Despair” which is a sinister tale about identity and delusion.
Anyhow, my point with all this is to plug the Salon Somnambuli event that I’m working on in collaboration with Elle, my favorite online retailer subports and my favorite secret shopping place Fair Folks & a Goat. It will be the a mix of art exhibition, tupperware party and séance. We will screen the video, invite a legendary real live psychic and sell beautiful large format stills along with the clothes in the video via subports. The event will be held in the deluxe domestic environemnt of FFaG’s Upper East Side townhouse and I think it will be spectacular.
December 2, 7-9 pm
Fair Folks & a Goat
To make a reservation for the event or schedule a private viewing between Dec 2 -6
rsvp(at]fairfolksandagoat[dot]com
Great stuff.