MY SCULPTURAL LADY
t the exhibition “As Seen By”, many artists reinterpret the iconic bag “The Lady Dior”. Patrick Demarchelier, Peter Lindbergh, Ellen Von Unwerth, the moroccan Majida Khattari and many more made beautiful pictures.
Others, like Liu Jianhua, Olympia Scarry, Kohei Nawa or Daniel Arsham made a sculpture out of it.
We can also find movies from David Lynch, Olivier Dahan or John Cameron Mitchell starring Marion Cotillard, and of course, Lady Dior.
I had the chance to go to the exhibit’s preview, followed by the re-openning of the Ginza boutique. It was an amazing evening.
Long trip to Lady Dior and had fun indeed.
BEEFBAR MONACO
esterday before the Grand Prix, Beefbar is again opened in Monte-Carlo. The concept is straight from the essence of good food, best quality products and richly presented dishes without any pretense, good surprise for the French.
A lavish combination of refined materials has been picked to bring it all together: soft leathers in rich warm colors – a black wood paneling so dark it resembles onyx – bronze and voluptuous amber lights to bring in earth colors into the ambiance – a combination of severe and undulating lines defining the space. All of it artfully reconciling opposites, enclosed and open, dark and light, raw and refined, box and line.
BLACK IS BLACK
asmin Noir is a flower of the imagination. It is white, immaculate, and conveys pure mystery, revealing intriguing sensuality at nightfall. A precious floral woody fragrance with ambery accents centered around one of the true perfumery jewels: the jasmin flower.
Olfactive Family: Floral Woody Sensual.Top Notes: Green Sap and Gardenia Petals. Base: Sambac Jasmine Absolute, Satiny Almond, Precious Wood, Licorice and Tonka Bean Absolute.
BURBERRY NOT BURY
URBERRY has joined a league of fashion heavyweights that includes Prada, Gucci and Louis Vuitton as a billion-pound label. ”We are the only global luxury goods brand from Britain,” the label’s finance director Stacey Cartwright told the Evening Standard. “We are unique and we are balanced across clothing and leather goods. Our other difference is our focus on digital. Shoppers can buy straight from the catwalk with iPads in stores and we now have more than 12 million Facebook fans.” Read more »
TEMPLE OF GLAMOUR
lamour has finally revealed all its secrets. The Festival de Cannes, widely chronicled as the temple of Glamour, has set up an exhibition in the Palais, which will be focused on examining the many facets of Glamour expressed in a book written by Dominique Païni.
Besides, the exhibition will deal with iconic images of silent film of the Divas and the Stars of the Hollywood’s Golden Age.
It is a transtional period as it is immortal time. Glamour engenders myths and lights up the Stars.
VIDAL DIED
ritish-born celebrity hairdresser Vidal Sassoon has died at his home in Los Angeles, aged 84. Sassoon is regarded as one of the best-known hairdressers of his generation.
The creator of the “bob” hairstyle, he was best known for his short, geometric cuts, the style which succeeded the bouffant styles trendy in the 1960s. One of his best-known clients was Mary Quant, the British fashion designer who popularised the mini-skirt. Read more »
EXCESS FOOD AND CHAMPAGNE
n International Women’s Day, Maryanne Shearer, CEO of T2, was announced as the Australian winner of the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award 2012.
In addition, Ronni Kahn, Founder and CEO of OzHarvest, received the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Tribute Award for Innovation, Entrepreneurial Skill and Contribution to the Community, an award not previously presented in Australia. Maryanne and Ronni will both fly to Reims, France, as part of their prize. Read more »
LOUBEAUTY
hristian Louboutin has announced that his footwear Brand will be expanding into the beauty market — Partnering with Batallure Beauty LLC, Christian Louboutin Beauté is the first beauty venture for the designer.
Batallure Beauty LLC in Princeton, NJ is a private company categorized under Perfumes and Colognes. Our records show it was established in 2006 and incorporated in New Jersey.
It was a bottle of bright red nail enamel which first inspired Christian Louboutin to coat the soles of his vertiginous stilettos.
Christian Louboutin Beauté promises to fully align with the luxury feel of the iconic footwear and accessories collections.
We’re curious about how his trademark red sole is going to translate here (all-red packaging or perhaps only rouge shades in the line?), but we suppose we’ll just have to wait and see.
FRENCH NEW YORKER BY DESIRE
orn in Paris, France, Priscille grew up in an artistic environment. Passionate about after her graduation, she worked as a designer specializing in French classic architecture for castles. In 2007, she decided to leave her beloved Paris to fulfill her dream in the electric New York City, where she designed Couture gowns for private clients and worked as a visual designer for projects all around the globe.
Architecture & Fashion, she worked for several years at Lecoanet Hemant Haute Couture Paris before entering the famous Parisian Interior Design School, ESAG Penninghen, to expand her sense of design. She also attended RISD and Parsons School in the US during this period.
Now, the time has come for her to launch her sophisticated new Ready To Wear & Couture brand: Read more »
MANDALA A GOLD JAIL
If you just change one letter at Mandala, you have Mandela, but it is not a jail in South Africa, only a Hotel in Berlin. (THE MANDALA HOTEL Potsdamer Straße 3 D-10785 Berlin) in Germany, of course. Don’t be surprised by the design, it is purely German. Since the reunification, Germany tends to think that they have good designers.
Penthouse
This penthouse with its loft-like feel spans 200 square meters. Windows on three sides that reach from the ceiling all the way to the floor let you look out over the entire city. Read more »
SUPER ALIMONY
upermodel Linda Evangelista has reached a child support settlement with Salma Hayek’s fashion mogul husband Francois-Henri Pinault. A trial between the former runway beauty and her French billionaire ex began in New York’s Manhattan Family Court last week, after Evangelista demanded a massive $46,000-a-month to support her 5-year-old son Augustin James, who was conceived while Pinault was briefly separated from his now-wife, actress Hayek.
During the explosive proceedings, the court heard how Pinault had allegedly told the model to have an abortion, while the businessman opened up about the difficulties Hayek had experienced while she was pregnant with their daughter Valentina, who they feared would be born with Down syndrome. The girl, now 4, was born healthy. Read more »
LANVIN HAUTE PERFUME
he New Lanvin fragrance is billed as a more mature and womanly version to its last. Like the original, the Couture edition has fruity elements like raspberry. Jeanne Couture has notes of rose, violet leaves, cedarwood, musks, peonies, and magnolias.
Flask will be sale in Northern Europe in May, and most other countries will have the fragrance by July.
Some Asian countries will start selling as September. Currently, there are no projects to sell the fragrance in the United States, in France the 100 ml. bottle will cost €76, or $100.55, and the 50 ml. version is to cost €53, or $70.15 at current exchange.
JEAN-PAUL COKELTIER
love the new Diet Coke bottles designed by Jean-Paul Gaultier . In the latest ad campaign, photographed by Stephane Sednaoui, shortly after Coca Cola named JPG, the new creative director of Diet Coke. Models play with Gaultier’s portraits.
Available only in Europe in limited edition. Would it be amazing if someone can send me a couple of bottles at the office. Why doesn’t the American market pick up on that?
This is a very creative man but we are still expecting an interview !!!
WXY
WXY shoe brand, located in Taiwan, was an accident. Well, we know there really are no accident, but the designer Joi Weng (XIN-YU WENG) implies this because she originally was a fine arts student and artist. Her life took an unexpected turn when she started working for a shoe company and after 2 ½ years she decided it was time for her to introduce her vision of “usable comfort combined with radical neutral art”
Thus, WXY was born with a basic concept idea, influenced by ”Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben” (Reverence for life) by Albert Schweitzer, which she uses as a motto, for giving thanks to the creator for all the natural beauty and gifts given to us on this planet. Color is a way to express the sentiments; yellow means power and hope, pink is sweet and comforting and grey and brown represents the earth. Read more »
DGENA, THE EUROPEAN TAVI
he was only 13th year old when she started her fashion blog and not much older when she found herself seated next to Sylvie Zavadsky at the Paris Fashion Week, but Dgena is already far wiser than her 15 years.
The Parisianwear.com teenager, whose whimsical flair and sartorial prowess stunned the fashion world, when the Parisianwear style reached nationwide fame, has come to an age which changed her perspective on an industry she once considered ‘ amazing’.
And even despite the fact that the 15-year-old is a sophomore in high school herself, her references and tastes reveal she is a far more experienced young woman than one might expect.
Today Dgena continues her audience progression in Europe: 4000 people Read more »
STARCK TAG
tarck told on air at a French radio: “I have a project with Apple”. Philippes Starck cannot reveal any details because of Apple’s “security cult”, he said. But our investigator in Palo Alto says: ‘ Starck works on a new largest Iphone and a new computer design for the Mac pro.
Philippe Patrick Starck (born in January 18th, 1949, in Paris) is a French product designer and probably the best known designer in the New Design style. His designs range from interior designs to mass produced consumer goods such as tooth brushes, chairs, and even houses…
He was educated in Paris at the “Ecole Camondo”. In 1968, Read more »
ELEVEN PARIS
he French ready-to-wear brand “Eleven Paris”, a little while back, and have since been obsessed over every item of their collection. Eleven Paris is a subversive design outfit located in the trendiest district of Paris. Their brand motto is: ‘Life is a joke’, which really sums up their core values – they are all about fun and not taking yourself too seriously.
Terry Richardson has shot the Spring/Summer campaign, of which you can see some of the images here below, entitled ‘Berlin Calling’. With Richardson’s eye for rebellion and controversial nature, it is no wonder that the two worked so well together.
The French are so creative when they are not on strike, but when they’re not on strike, they’re taking long holidays or having extra days off thanks to the 35-hour week. Read more »
MARION VIDAL
aving studied architecture (in Paris and Milan) for six years and imagined cities peopled with ephemeral structures, rooms of light, and scaffoldings of woolen veiles breezing across streets of air currents, Marion Vidal moved to Antwerp where she integrated the prestigious fashion section of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. She obtained her degree there in June 2003.
Now based in Paris, Marion Vidal has presented her collections there since 2004 under her eponymous brand. The influence of her double education is reflected in her interest in objects and materials, in the contrasting reality of strong structures that are still light, and in the coexistence of materials that are rarely allied. Read more »
JURY FOR GAULTIER
Along with celebrating his 60th birthday this week, Jean Paul Gaultier has been named in the Cannes Film Festival jury line-up. With eight other panelists, the French designer will be responsible for selecting the winner of the Palme d’Or prize – the festival’s highest honour.
And with his passion for film and a long-standing ambition to be involved at Cannes, it seems Gaultier fits the bill perfectly.
“We have a tradition of inviting people who we know are cinephiles but who are not necessarily in cinema,” said Cannes boss Thierry Fremaux.
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NO SECRET FOR VUITTON PURSE
he color most frequently associated with the brand is the chocolate brown of the famous Vuitton monogram and damier fabrics, and most of its epi and vernis leather bags tend to be made in either brights or neutrals.
The designs are classic and generally adored by women, but most of them don’t have any characteristics that make them particularly Fashion victims.
The Louis Vuitton transparent monogram started at the Louis Vuitton Spring 2012 show. Read more »
COLETTE IN NY
For those with deep pockets and/or a penchant for townhouses-turned-boutiques, today is your day: The Upper East Side’s Fivestory has finally opened.
For the past month or so, the store has been compared to everything from Colette in Paris, 10 Corso Como in Milan, and Browns in London, so naturally, expect to find brands like Balmain, Hussein Chalayan, Peter Pilotto, Thakoon, and more inside.
Distenfeld’s inspiration for the project was Paris concept shop Colette, and it shows in the impressive international assortment from European runway darlings — Preen, Mark Fast,—to lesser-known Read more »
A HERMES PIG
could not resist sharing these bright bubbly images for “World of Hermes” by Paul Graves. Graves transforms the environment of Hermès. He has created an interpretative animal from Hermes bags.
The pink cow (or pig) very creative and very original indeed. For me Hermes in latin means Horses and not pig.
But, now if I have a Kelly purse for 25 000€, I hope that I will not look like a pig!
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ALDO MARIA CAMILLO
Cerutti has chosen a new artistic director, Aldo Maria Camillo . After Zegna and Valentino, Aldo Maria Camillo will be the next Artistic director of Cerutti. Welcome to Maria Camillo.
Since 2009 Aldo Maria Camillo was the artistic director of Valentino and he contributed actively and successfully to the relaunch of the new image of the brand. Read more »
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