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HONG KONG – Yesterday, ARTINFO ventured into the world of numismatics,Bape, discovering a strange and exciting land of niche collectibles. But today we are being even bolder, delving into what some might argue is an even narrower, more specific pursuit: timbrophily! Stamp collectors the world over received a jolt of excitement on Saturday when Hong Kong postage auction house Phila China brought the hammer down on a toasty timbrophilic lot at $1.3 million, a new record in the already-sizzling Chinese stamp market.

The cause for excitement was a complete and immaculate set of 25 green horse-and-dragon stamps commissioned by the Chinese Empress Dowager in 1886 for Taiwan's first postal service. While individual stamps from the series have sold for outsize sums in the past, Saturday’s offering is the only known complete sheet. "I couldn't believe they came to us," Phila China founder Anna Lee told the Wall Street Journal.

Despite the Empress Dowager’s considerate commission, Taiwan residents decided not to use the stamps, since the island was barely populated at the time and items were mailed only rarely. Instead, they used them as railway tickets, a gesture that prefigures Marcel Duchamp?s reworking of common postage stamps, which he often affixed to prints before signing his name along the top.

Demand for Chinese stamps has soared in recent years, paralleling trends in the Chinese traditional-art and decorative-art markets. However, the market still has a ways to go before it can challenge all-time global records: the most ever paid for a single stamp is believed to be the $2.3 million forked over in 1996 for an 1855 Swedish three-skilling stamp printed on yellow-orange stock instead of the correct green stock. If Chinese collectors continue to bid with such determined ferocity, however, and such choice goods continue to appear on the block,The North Face, the market may reach that level soon.

UsMagazine.com: You’re twin sisters fronting a band! Any sibling rivalry?

Kaleena: It was incredible but, yes, also a little dautning to share our creative process with the world. Everyone in our band has a very unique situation, but the bottom line is that we all sacrificed a lot to be part of it. That’s what we showed our fans: we face difficulties, but music is our life, and that’s what drives us forward.

Kaleena Goldsworthy: Of course we have our tiffs every now and again — we’re sisters! But I wouldn’t consider it rivalry. We both want what’s best for the band and for the music. We have one rule: the songwriter has the final say. 

US: So how do you make the transition from your normal, everyday life at the garden center to being rock stars, playing to thousands of people?

US: So how do your alter egos play out on stage? 

Kaleena: Do we ever! Our rehearsal space is actually in one of the barns. We literally hose it off and rehearse there. It’s nice in the summer, but I don’t even want to know what it will be like in the winter. You can see your breath!

Kaleena: We do ‘Poker Face,’ and I love that no one knows what it is until we get to the chorus, and then they all start cheering. When we cover a song, we rework it and make it our own. We are constantly on the hunt for songs that are epic sounding that we can do in a big way.

US: You’re best known for your original music, but you also do some great cover songs. Who is your favorite artist to cover?

Kaleena: What a way to end it! I feel like all of my college career was a lie, but it was the most redeeming thing that show has ever done. When that backdrop moved behind Brody Jenner, tears came to my eyes. It was perfect.

Kaleena: We are like superheroes! (laughs)  I teach voice lessons to little kids, and I gave a mom our CD and she was like, ‘I had NO idea!’ I feel like it’s this Lois Lane/Superman effect. Playing music is our dream job and we have our alter egos. Sure, we work our day jobs but music is who we are. 

Kayleigh Goldsworthy: One of our friends has this really elaborate explanation. He says, ‘picture Fiona Apple, Tegan and Sarah and Jimmy Eat World in a blender, served in a pretty glass by the pool.’ I like that one, but we really do have our own style. 

Kaleena: We did a tour in Greenland, and then another in Germany. And last October we spent a month in the Middle East. Regardless of our political views, being able to give back to the heroes who are actually out there on the front lines is beyond rewarding. When we were in the Middle East we were actually staying where the troops were deployed — where even their families can’t visit them. We flew onto a carrier ship and played to 3,000 people one night. It’s nice to know that we can do what we do, play our music, and improve somebody’s life or at least take them to a different place for a little while. That, to us, is so epic. 

US: Speaking of reality shows, you’ve already had your own reality web series!

US: Was the experience intimidating?

Kayleigh: I want a sideshow! I know the circus thing is big for a lot of people right now, but I want you to feel like you’re at Coney Island. You’re not just going to see a band, you’re going to be entertained.

Kaleena: I think Lady Gaga and Pink are doing a fantastic job of bringing shows back. They stole our idea! (laughs) It’s more of an experience and less of simply seeing someone up on stage. No one wants to pay to see some poor people walk on stage with their guitars singing ‘I’m poor just like you.’ People pay to be entertained, and we want to offer that escape.

By Ian Drew for UsMagazine.com. To read more of Ian’s blog, click here, and don’t forget to follow him onTwitter.

US: So how would you describe your sound to someone who hasn’t heard your music?

US: If money wasn’t a factor, what would your “dream show” be like?

Kayleigh: You know, we grew up listening to Genesis and Pink Floyd, and with those bands it never felt like just going to a concert — you are going to a show! And I think what Kaleena and I sat down and tried to figure out is what to do so that when you see us, you are seeing something different. Obviously, we don’t have the necessary funds to create our dream show yet, but we are doing what we can to get there.

US: Any favorite Lady Gaga songs to cover?

Kayleigh: Syracuse is known for their cover bands and blues bands, so it’s really hard to get attention as an original group. We were really lucky because our local newspaper and their website, Syracuse.com, decided to do an online reality show as we were recording Ghosts, and it really helped us get attention.

Kayleigh: Well, I love Taylor Swift! I would say Lady Gaga is my favorite to cover, though.

US: You also did two international tours for the troops, right? 

US: Do you ever use the garden center for band practice?

Kaleena: Our cello/synth player’s father owns Chuck Hafner’s Garden Center, and four of us work there.

What’s with The Scarlet Ending? The Syracuse-based indie-pop band comes up seemingly out of nowhere, finds one of their songs on The Hills and is suddenly opening for The Fray and Rufus Wainwright. Next thing you know, Ben Harper starts coming out to their shows, and then they do two tours for the troops overseas! What’s their secret? Usmagazine.com recently caught up with the gang (made up of twin sisters Kaleena and Kayleigh Goldsworthy, Jon Tedd, Aaron Garitello, Jess Hafner, and Nick Streeter), as they gear up for their U.S. tour to support their haunting new album, Ghosts (on sale now!), to get the full skinny on their 10-year history and just what their beef is with today’s top pop stars. Want more of their action? Visit TheScarletEnding.com.

US: Your song, ‘The Way We Used to Be,’ was featured on The Hills. What did you think of the series finale?

US: I know that you are all at different stages in your life. Do you have normal jobs when you’re not out on tour?

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PS: After the touring for my stuff finishes at the end of September, then I will throw myself back into Radiohead, working more on material that we are writing at the moment. I would hope to find time and the right situation to come back and do some dates but also look forward to doing some Radiohead dates back here as well.

PS: It’s something I’m learning about, really. It has its fun moments. It certainly sheds a different light on yourself as well. That whole sense of actually moving on and learning more about yourself, yeah. It’s a good process to go through. It’s all part of the same grand plan, isn’t it? From a performance point of view, it’s all stagecraft; it’s just learning a different kind of stagecraft.

PS: Who knows? We don’t know yet. We’re still working on it.

PS: That side is so difficult to know until we’ve finished. It’s still all five of us on there and each one is always a reaction to the last record, anyway. It is difficult to know until you’ve actually finished it, until you’ve made all of your final decisions because it can change quite radically at the drop of a hat. 

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 PS: Really, no. I think Thom found something that is very appropriate for him. You define your own style, something that is authentically you. You watch Thom or anyone else in the band over the years find that in themselves, I suppose that’s what I’m trying to do to become a singer-songwriter.

US: And by the way, when is the next Radiohead record due?

US: Did you find that you wrote the lyrics first or did you write the music?

PS: I suppose if you’re suggesting musically on the whole, Radiohead operates on a much larger picture, if you like. Musically, there is a lot of space and you have these delicate layers, delicate detailed layers all on top of each other, and in the middle of that I suppose there’s me, which is a different side of me from what’s emerged in Radiohead. It filled something that is identifying me in there, which I don’t think would be a very appropriate thing for me to do in Radiohead.

US: Do you like being front and center as opposed being in the back with the drums?

UsMagazine.com:  You’ve been with Radiohead for so long, and this is your first solo album. What was the process of getting it off the ground?

US: Did you meet Kate Hudson, by the way? I heard she was backstage hitting on Thom — per a lot of stories out there.

PS: The music very much came first. Odd words and odd lines would come at the same time as the music, but actually the complete lyrics took a lot more grasping than that. There’s as much music in words themselves — if you do them well — as there is with another instrument on there. You just have to find something that ultimately makes sense for you and also something that sits well in the arrangement. 

US: OK. This record has the same brooding vibe; it’s got the darkness to it but very poetic at the same time. How is it different from the stuff that you’ve done with Radiohead?

US: I know I was at Coachella, I thought that was an amazing show, too. That was in April.

US: That was some story here, I don’t know. What are the future plans for the album, tour, everything else you’ve got going on? What else is up?

PS: We did Bonnarroo, and that was a very memorable show. It was the longest we ever played in one show. I think it was about just over two-and-a-half hours. At the time it seemed like a mammoth task. I suppose that actually we’ve done the majority of our touring in the States. When you’re touring around, you’re in a country for a week at most, and coming to America where you’re here for a couple of months at a time and then immerse yourself in that country and all of the different nuances of it, I think that by the end of the tour you feel fairly rooted here.

While Radioheadphiles scratch their heads in bewilderment, not knowing quite what to do with themselves while their heroes take their time recording their next studio album, the band’s drummer Phil Selway is not using the break to take any vacation time. Oh, no: The married dad of three is finally releasing his long-awaited solo disc, the gripping Familial, tomorrow — and chatting with UsMagazine.com all about it! See below, where he gives me an update on the project, how Radiohead’s next offering is starting to shape up, and if Kate Hudson REALLY made a move on Radiohead singer Thom Yorke at Coachella this past April (don’t get TOO excited). 

US: Great. Anything you can tell me about the Radiohead stuff? Obviously we are all dying to know!

US: Did you sort of break with the other guys? I know Thom was working on his solo stuff. You are still in the studio working on Radiohead stuff, right?

US: You’ve been touring a lot to support the disc overseas. Any big Radiohead shows that prepared you for that? 

US: Did you get any pointers from Thom about taking over the singing duties?

PS: That’s where we had to follow The Pixies. That raised our heartbeat a little bit.

Phil Selway: It was something that has been at the back of my mind for a while. I just got to the point where I’d written enough of these pieces that things have kind of been falling into a bigger body of work, which had very much of my character in it. It didn’t feel appropriate to do in Radiohead, and I was about to turn 40, so I think that makes you go through the process of reflection of all your accumulated experiences and any ambitions that you had. 

PS: We are. And the way we work is that we work for short, intense periods because we want to have time away. The time away from Radiohead allows us to all go off and do other stuff, which is great. We haven’t sat down and discussed and said, ‘well, I think it would be really healthy if we all did solo stuff.’ I think we all just listened to each other’s requests and supported them and tried to make them happen as much as possible.

PS: Really? No! I missed that and didn’t hear about that.

With the support of Prince Sixte-Henri de Bourbon, a descendant of Louis XIV, the CDV is trying to preserve the Sun King’s palace from the scandalous intrusion of contemporary art and is making a rather unusual legal argument: seeing Louis XIV as the "author" of the château, the organization claims that intellectual property rights prevent his work from being altered or distorted. This reasoning is challenged by the fact that the Château of Versailles is a public institution belonging to the people of France that is overseen by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication.

The principal sponsor of the show is the Qatar Museums Authority, whose three national museums do not have contemporary art collections. But the Qatar royal family and its head, Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, are voracious collectors of contemporary art, having acquired Damien Hirst?s stainless steel and glass cabinet, "Lullaby Spring," in 2007, in a £9.7 million ($19.3 million) purchase that set a record price for a work by a living European artist sold at auction. It is not known whether the Al-Thani family owns any works by Murakami.

The exhibition will display 22 works by Murakami in the château and gardens, including 11 pieces created especially for the occasion. One of his psychedelic flower sculptures, "Flower Matango," will be featured, along with other sculptures, paintings,Tiffany, and installations. Although the exhibition will not include any pornographic works by Murakami, the organization Versailles mon amour ("Versailles, My Love") has cited such works in order to rally others to its effort to prevent the exhibition from taking place.

At the root of the CDV’s objections is an urge to protect classical French heritage from what the organization sees as the nefarious effects of globalization and Americanization, which it argues promotes inferior aesthetics and is motivated by commercial interests. The president of the national site of Versailles, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, told Agence France-Presse that the protests come from far-right circles who are nostalgic for pre-Revolutionary France.

While opponents of the exhibition are offended by the clash between the Japanese pop artist’s aesthetic and the classical harmony of the château,Ed hardy, Aillagon finds the exhibition to be an interesting juxtaposition of two art-world celebrities — Murakami and Versailles — who, he argues, may not be as far apart as they seem. He told a a local blog, "You know, the Hall of Mirrors [in Versailles] is a kind of manga, a comic strip for the glory of the king’s reign."

VERSAILLES, France – The Coordination de la Défense de Versailles (CDV) doesn’t pull any punches when expressing its opposition to the upcoming exhibition of Japanese Pop artist Takashi Murakami at the Château of Versailles. Having been formed to press (unsuccessfully) for the cancellation of a Jeff Koons show in the palace in 2008, the organization now condemns what it calls "the veritable ‘murder’ of our heritage, our artistic identity, and our most sacred culture."

Consumer-generated content is a must now in the marketplace, he says, and in no demographic is it more important than with teens. “We know consumers, especially teens, rely on their friends. They trust their friends more than marketers, and that is more genuine and effective.”

It is taking marketers at big retailers a little time to adjust to the new dynamic, Boylson says with a laugh. “We put things in logical order, but teens want to mix and match and put together unique looks. They’re not bound by a set trend statement or rules,” he says.

“There are kids who are influencers and care about what’s on trend, and other kids emulate them,” adds JCP’s chief marketing officer Mike Boylson. “The thing about the haul videos is teens go on shopping trips and videotape themselves shopping. They are the next-generations bloggers. They are becoming fashion authorities with huge followings.”

At the 77 Kids stores, the pint-size consumers can pose for photos that they can customize with graffiti-style messages,Calvin Klein, or have outfits beamed onto their likeness in a special mirror that also will introduce them to some animated characters.

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Annie St. John, a soon-to-be high school senior in Michigan, already bought cardigans and skinny jeans for the new season, using the J.C. Penney $1,000 gift card the company gave her in exchange for her sharing her purchases in her popular “haul” YouTube videos.

“For the past few seasons, we’ve been talking about interactive clothing and toylike apparel, everyday costumes — like tutus, hoodies with ears or a tail in the back. It’s all about using imagination for kids,” says Khalym Schell, children’s editor at trend analysis company Stylesight. “All this makes kids excited to buy clothes. And how you sell a garment is winning the parent over and winning the kid over. It’s the product and the experience.”

NEW YORK – Stores and manufacturers always try to court kids during the all-important back-to-school season, but now that engagement means interactivity, not a flier with coupons or a catalog full of smiling children clutching notebooks.

There’s a story to be enjoyed whether or not a purchase is made, he says, and it’s intended as a parent-child bonding experience. “Parents are always trying to understand how their children think. We think this is something parents will enjoy and can share with their child.”

The original thought at Ralph Lauren was to do an online fashion show, following an existing successful model for the young adult line Rugby, but that didn’t necessarily capture the “family spirit” that the children’s line aims for, David Lauren explains. Hence “The RL Gang: A Fantastically Amazing School Adventure,” which features a really well-dressed cast of characters.

She says she shopped on her terms, knowing that other teens rely on her to be discerning and informative when she shares what’s in her bags with the camera. “I never end up putting together a whole outfit. I find what I like and I grab it. … If someone else is watching me, they might see something I like and think it’ll work for them, too, but I also talk about quality and price. I brag about how little I spend. I mostly do haul videos to help lower the cost for a lot girls,” says St. John.

Kids want shopping to be fun, and they want clothes and shopping experiences with personality. Today’s class of kids doesn’t want anything cookie-cutter.

Even the little ones want to have a say in their wardrobe — and the two moms who came up with the SwitchittZ encourage that creativity and the pride children feel showing off their look to others.

“I think they (kids) absolutely are making a statement about themselves. Younger kids are showing growing independence by making their own wardrobe choices and also communicating a bit of their personality and style to others,” says Angela Cosentino, co-creator.

What’s likely to come next with all these fashion fans — young and old — is to get them involved in the product development process, allowing them input to come up with an assortment a retailer will already know they’ll like, says JCP’s Boylson.

She adds: “It really makes sense. The market had been slow. Hitting up kids is the best way to bump up sales.”

And the industry is responding with creativity: Ralph Lauren Childrenswear, for example, has drafted an online storybook that allows young shoppers to choose the outfits off the backs of their favorite characters. The American Eagle-owned 77 Kids, which launched online in 2008, now has new brick-and-mortar stores with life-size MP3 players that allow kids to play DJ. J.C. Penney gave away shopping sprees to popular “haulers” — teens who show off their shopping hauls on video — if they’d come into its stores and report back about the merchandise to their loyal fans.

Younger kids might not be plugged in yet, but they still want to play. A new T-shirt brand called SwitchittZ provides interchangeable, easy-to-attach pieces — sort of like patches — with a variety of characters, props and scenery so kids can tell different stories with their shirts each time they wear them.

Kids are taking fashion cues from movies, TV, magazines and, just like any hip parents, from the street, says Betsy Schumacher,Christian Dior, chief merchandising officer of 77 Kids. That has made them very savvy shoppers who want to look cool and express individualism.

“Back to school has become a bigger event,” agrees David Lauren, senior vice president of advertising, marketing and communications for Polo Ralph Lauren. “It’s its own form of a holiday. It’s an opportunity to do something new and different, but there’s also more competition, though, and you have to think out of the box.”

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