Posted on 09 November 2008
Chanel Mobile Art installation
In 1955 Madame Coco Chanel launched the iconic, quilted ‘it’ bag 2.55. Now, fifty-three years later, Chanel have decided to make the bag the center of attention once again, namely the center of a traveling exhibition entitled Chanel Mobile Art. Twenty international contemporary artists have reinterpreted the classic Chanel hand bag and designed everything from a gold quilted guitar-shaped shoulder bag to a giant 2.55 lying thrown on the floor. The exhibition opened in Hong Kong in a futuristic, curved glass pavillion designed by Zaha Hadid, which was the first stop of a two-year world tour, where the artists have smoothened the fine lines between fashion design and art. “We don’t need art, but we cannot live without it,” said Karl Lagerfeld at the opening of Chanel’s Mobile Art pavilion in New York City’s Central Park. The exhibition will move on to cities like London, Moscow and Paris.
Posted on 03 July 2008
I cant say I had some deep connection to the Chanel Winter 2008/2009 Haute Couture Collection. Nothing quite hit the spot for me. But as always Karl Lagerfeld was able to deliver a beautiful rotating presentation at the Grand Palais in Paris.
These are the only 2 looks worth noting
Posted on 10 December 2007
Eerie, disturbing, beautiful..just a few adjectives that come to mind when poring over these High Fashion Crime Scenes by Melanie Pullen. Her images are ” vintage crime-scene images,” found from the files of the LAPD and the County Coroner’s Office. She has worked with Prada, Louis Vuitton, Chloe, Gucci and Chanel.
Posted on 10 December 2007
Posted on 05 December 2007
For those of us who did not receive our invitations, we can watch the Chanel Paris-Londres Collection online tomorrow at www.chanel-live.com. Tune in tomorrow at 2:30. Of course, its not the same as being there, but it’s just like being front row but in the comforts of your own home.
Posted on 27 November 2007
An anonymous French street artist who was amongst those who pioneered the French street scene, Zevs began his work in the early ’90s as a tagger. By the end of the ’90s, he was most known for his poetic drawings of shadows in Paris, as well as “bombing” models on billboards between the eyes. In 2002, he cut out a model of a Lavazza-poster at Alexanderplatz in Berlin, and above the hole in the poster he wrote : “VISUAL KIDNAPPING-PAY NOW!”His intervention caused a stir amongst art lovers and people in Berlin. (Stealing an image from a poster in Germany is now spoken as visual kidnapping.) Zevs has also been doing what he calls ‘proper graffiti’ for many years, where he writes on dirty walls with a high pressure jet.
Currently, he has his first solo exhibit in London, at the
Lazarides gallery called “Liquidated Logos.”
Posted on 06 November 2007
Celine Chanel
Right now is the time to indulge in the extra-small purse. Realistically, nothing will really fit inside except an ID, a credit card, and chapstick. However, they are too cute to pass up. The teeny purse is perfect to accent any outfit, or to wear alongside your over-sized purse.
