Designers, Artists Team for Installations at MoMA PS1 Museum MOVE! Event - StyleList

Cynthia Rowley partnered with artist Olaf Breuning and some willing visitors to create these paint-spattered clothes. Photo: Jennifer Paull for AOLAll sorts of fantastical creatures prowled the halls of New York City's MoMA PS1 museum on Halloween weekend. During the MOVE! event, clothing designers and cutting-edge artists created a hive of performances and installations. Boldface fashion names like Marc Jacobs, Diane von Furstenberg, Proenza Schouler, Cynthia Rowley, Alexander Wang, and Rodarte teamed with up-and-coming artists including Dan Colen, Rashaad Newsome, and Olaf Breuning. PS1's new director, Klaus Biesenbach, stirred the art/fashion pot, tapping Visionaire magazine editrix Cecilia Dean and style writer David Colman to co-curate the event. Their goals were to forge new collaborations and pull the audience into the show. Dean and Colman paired up designers and artists, then held a series of brainstorming meetings in the museum space. Many of the creative minds compared the process to blind dating or speed dating -- with happy results. "It makes it a little more exciting to collaborate with someone you don't know. It's like an art blind date!" exclaimed Rowley. Her partner, Breuning, complimented her and confessed to StyleList, "I'm not usually a big collaborator guy. I like to do art because it's a personal thing and I enjoy doing it myself. But Remy hair since we worked very nicely together, why not [work with her again]?" Menswear maestro Robert Geller teamed with performance artist Ryan McNamara on public dance lessons, for which Geller designed the clothes. Grinning with excitement, Geller told StyleList, "We had a very quick bond." He then went on "speed dates" with dancers to prepare the costumes, ending up with oversize shorts and pants to accommodate shimmying and stretching. The experience might shape a future collection. "That kind of exaggeration is very powerful.... It broke some barriers," he cheered. Several other partnerships involved dance and movement, too. Downtown favorite Wang outfitted the performers for Newsome's "Shade Compositions" performance. Brody Condon's slow-mo dancers wore long white tunics by Rodarte. (Surely Rodarte's costumes for the upcoming "Black Swan" film will be more interesting.) Many museum goers were transformed with a stop at the Cheryl installation. Partnered with American Apparel, the art collective gave visitors "identity reassignments" with super-teased wigs, costumes, and elaborate makeup. With the heady mix of Cheryl-ed fans, performers, and the I-woke-up-chic crowd, everyone seemed to be an artist for a day. "Usually Weaving hair in institutions, there's always a distance between the viewers and what they're looking at," Dean explained to StyleList. "For us, it was really important that the viewer becomes part and parcel of the installation." "I love the performers just walking around. You don't really know who's part of it as a visitor or a performer," she said, pointing to some costumed people on a bench. "It's this whole blurring, moving installation." Visitors became true collaborators with the Rowley and Breuning experiment, one of the most popular projects. Volunteers climbed into a Rowley outfit, then stood in a wooden container while Breuning poured a gallon of Valspar paint all over them. Crimson, gold, silver, white, bright blue, carnation pink -- literally an explosion of color. Guests transformed themselves in the Cheryl + American Apparel room. Photo: Jennifer Paull for AOLPhotographers snapped action shots, with the paint dramatically splashing. The dripping clothes were then hung to dry and are now on sale at Rowley's Web site. (The paint-drenched participants got a shower.) During a test run, Rowley decided to make the outfits from denim. "We didn't want to Hair weaving have the rainbow wet T-shirt contest!" she laughed. The always game designer planned to take her turn under the bucket on Halloween. One of the volunteers, Colleen Brogan, echoed the curators' goal before getting doused. "As a spectator, I had an opportunity to actually be part of the art so I jumped at the chance," she said. After her "Carrie"-esque moment, she seemed a bit stunned. "It was smelly, wet, sticky... but I kept thinking as I stood there, 'What's the art in this?... Is it about the people who aren't used to experiencing art this way?'" "Most of the time when you're in an art gallery, you don't see the process of the art being made," she mused. "There's a distance; you're not supposed to be touching or manipulating it. But that's what this is all about and I just had to be a part of it." For news on another creative endeavor, read about AOL and the Whitney Museum's celebration of the arts.

Lights, Camera, Fashion! Ten 2011 Movies We're Excited to See - StyleList

Robert Pattinson films new scenes in Georgia for his latest movie "Water for Elephants." Splash NewsYour favorite fashion magazine cover actresses are set unreel a big 2011 with onscreen accessories that include one flowing red cape, loads of Prada, Parisian couture and, of course, Robert Pattinson. Grab some popcorn as StyleList previews 10 of the films we're most excited to see this year.Robert Pattinson in a tuxedo, Reese Witherspoon in glam circus garb, Robert Pattinson in a tuxedo... need we say more to prompt you to see "Water for Elephants"? In the big-screen adaptation of Sara Gruen's historical novel, out April 15, R-Patz plays a Depression-era veterinarian who joins the circus and falls for Witherspoon's sultry -- and married -- bareback performer. Action, passion and glamour!Mia Wasikowska stars as the title character of the romantic drama "Jane Eyre." Focus FeaturesAfter watching Mia Wasikowska fall down the rabbit hole in Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" and still manage to look gorgeous, how could we not be happy that she's returning to the 19th century for her latest film? Get ready for some serious period frocks when Wasikowska morphs into Charlotte Brontë's tragic governess Jane Eyre, in the character's latest big-screen appearance, March 11."No Strings Attached" starring Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher. DW StudiosYou're going to want to raid Natalie Portman's closet (and maybe "borrow" onscreen love interest Ashton Kutcher's clothes, too!) when you see "No Strings Attached" Jan. 21. In the film, about two friends who try unsuccessfully to have an emotion-free relationship, Portman trades her "Black Swan" tutu for a closetful of chic trench coats, party dresses and designer heels. Oh yeah, she also sports some scrubs in the rom-com -- but who wouldn't want to play doctor with Kutcher?"Lush" and "sensual" are the best words to describe "Red Riding Hood," the latest film from "Twilight" director Catherine Hardwicke. Amanda Seyfried plays red-caped Valerie, a local gal who aims to save her village from a killer werewolf. While you'll be missing Taylor Lautner, prepare yourself to be seduced by newcomer Shiloh Fernandez's tight breeches when the film is wide-released March 11.Alexa Vega as Mary in "Prada to Nada." Lionsgate"Prada to Nada" is every materialistic fashionista's worst nightmare. This upcoming romantic comedy, based on Jane Austen's classic novel "Sense and Sensibility," revolves around two affluent Latina sisters who are left penniless after their father's death. Not chinese hair only do they have to leave behind the wealthy lifestyle they've become accustomed to, but they -- gasp! -- are forced to move to East L.A. to live with their estranged aunt. Will they overcome this fashion nightmare? Find out Jan. 28.Is the Upper East Side getting even more glam? That's the word on the street (ahem, Madison Avenue) when resident "Gossip Girl" baddies Leighton Meester and Katie Cassidy, joined by Disney darling Selena Gomez, incite trouble during a seemingly innocent European vacation in "Monte Carlo." Watch for glamorous gowns, fairy-tale love affairs (one involves Cory Monteith of "Glee") and some picture-perfect Monegasque scenery come July 1. XOXOTop hats, crinoline, waistcoats... oh my! Robert Pattinson is back in his second period piece of the year May 12, alongside Uma Thurman and Christina Ricci as the dashing and dastardly heartbreaker Georges Duroy in "Bel Ami." Although R-Patz still looks sexy clad in full lace wigs tops and tails in the celluloid adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's 1885 French novel, we'd prefer it if he was more Edward, less scoundrel, thank you very much.Let them eat cake, you say? No problem! Eva Green is taking on notoriously extravagant, fashionable and socialite-esque French royal Marie Antoinette in "Farewell My Queen." Although this one-time Bond girl is about a thousand times more beautiful than Madame Marie ever was, we still can't wait to see the gorgeous 18th-century gowns she'll don -- hoop skirts, corsets and wigs aplenty -- before getting beheaded in the French Revolution, of course.Get ready to love Paris -- and French fashion -- in the springtime. Not only will Woody Allen's lace front wigs next film, "Midnight in Paris," premiere during the Cannes Film Festival, but France's first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, will make her big-screen debut in this rom-com about a family traveling to France on business. An added bonus: Fabulous fashionistas Marion Cotillard and Rachel McAdams will co-star. Ce sera magnifique!Jim Sturgess and Anne Hathaway star as Dexter and Emma in the romance "One Day." Focus FeaturesAnne Hathaway transforms from ugly duckling into swan this fall in "One Day," the cinematic adaptation of David Nicholls' 2009 novel. You'll not only see the evolution of a relationship between schoolmates Emma (Hathaway) and Dexter ("Across the Universe"'s Jim Sturgess), but you'll see Annie's metamorphosis from frumpy college kid to chic British girl-about-town in the span of two hours. The devil wearing Prada would totally be proud!