Vetements, Fall 2017 Menswear, Paris If anyone had Demna Gvasalia down as purely a streetwear revolutionary who shot from nowhere to lead a youth cult, then they’d have been taken aback by the sight of the silver-haired madame in dark glasses, fur coat, and a pencil skirt who stepped off the escalator at the Centre… Continue reading Vetements, Fall 2017 Menswear, Paris
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Hood By Air Menswear Spring 2017, Paris
Hood By Air Menswear Spring 2017, Paris Hood By Air makes things difficult. These images were shot days after its Spring 2017 show in Paris, a frenzied cruise in semi-darkness through a gay sauna in a seedy part of the Marais that culminated in a synchronized swim in the hammam’s subterranean pool (don’t think: Busby… Continue reading Hood By Air Menswear Spring 2017, Paris
Vetements Spring 2017 Ready To Wear, Couture Season Fall 2016, Paris
Vetements Spring 2017 Ready To Wear, Couture Season Fall 2016, Paris The Gvasalia brothers, Demna, the designer, and Guram, the business brains behind the Vetements phenomenon, pulled off a coup for the fashion credibility of Paris with a show in the Galeries Lafayette tonight. On many levels, it was an event which satirically contravened half… Continue reading Vetements Spring 2017 Ready To Wear, Couture Season Fall 2016, Paris
Balenciaga, Ready To Wear, Paris, Fall 2016
Demna Gvasalia for Balenciaga, Ready To Wear, Paris, Fall 2016 “How do you persuade a woman to wear a two-piece suit who is not the German Chancellor?” asked Demna Gvasalia, who has spent the last six months looking into the Balenciaga archive and methodically thinking through how the essence of Cristóbal Balenciaga can be relevant… Continue reading Balenciaga, Ready To Wear, Paris, Fall 2016
Resort 2016: Louis Vuitton by Nicolas Ghesquière
Louis Vuitton by Nicolas Ghesquière, Resort 2016, 2015 The Resort season has turned into a mini architecture tour. Karl Lagerfeld set up Chanel operations at Zaha Hadid’s Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul on Monday. Raf Simons will show Dior at Pierre Cardin’s south of France home next week. And today Louis Vuitton had over 800… Continue reading Resort 2016: Louis Vuitton by Nicolas Ghesquière
Fall 2015, Ready-to-Wear: Christian Dior
Christian Dior, Fall 2015, Ready-to-Wear, Paris, 2015 Throbbing Gristle’s “Hot on the Heels of Love,” the piece of music that soundtracked the Christian Dior show today, has a chilly, slaphappy Fifty Shades quality that seemed tailor-made for a collection whose animal essence was fulsomely described by Raf Simons as “something more liberated, darker, more sexual.” Something… Continue reading Fall 2015, Ready-to-Wear: Christian Dior
Céline Fall 2015 Ready-to-Wear
Phoebe Philo for Céline, Fall 2015, Paris, 2015 There is allegedly no such thing as coincidence, so presumably there’s some meaning to the fact that Phoebe Philo was showing her new Céline collection on International Women’s Day, even though she conceded that she was very conscious of walking a line between the responsibility that has been bestowed… Continue reading Céline Fall 2015 Ready-to-Wear
Bookshop: Librairie des Archives, Paris
Librairie des Archives Bookshop 83 rue Vieille du Temple, 75003 Paris info@librairiedesarchives.com, +33 (0) 142 721 358 Librairie des Archives is an independent bookshop in Paris specialising in fine art, decorative arts and design, fashion and jewelry. The bookstore is located in the historic district of the Marais, close to Centre Pompidou, the Picasso museum (which is… Continue reading Bookshop: Librairie des Archives, Paris
Publishing: Shelter Press
Shelter Press is a Paris / Brussels based independent publishing company founded in 2011 and run by the publisher / graphic designer Bartolomé Sanson and the artist / musician Felicia Atkinson, from the fundaments of Kaugummi Books (2005-2011). Their publishing program focuses on contemporary art, writings, and experimental music through art books, mutliples and records.… Continue reading Publishing: Shelter Press
Galleries: Yvon Lambert, Paris
Gallery Yvon Lambert, 5 rue Violette, Paris For over 45 years the Yvon Lambert Gallery, has played an important role in the representation and support of the most innovative artists of our time. Founded in 1966 by the art dealer and collector Yvon Lambert, the gallery has a strong tradition of presenting artists’ projects that… Continue reading Galleries: Yvon Lambert, Paris
N° 5 Culture Chanel, Palais De Tokyo, Paris
From May 5th until June 5th, 2013 Palais de Tokyo in Paris will house the N° 5 Culture Chanel exhibition as part of its Guest Program. This exhibition has once again been entrusted to Jean-Louis Froment, the curator of the previous editions of Culture Chanel, held successively in Moscow’s Pushkin State Museum for Fine Arts,… Continue reading N° 5 Culture Chanel, Palais De Tokyo, Paris