Chloé

Chloé. Attitudes

As I said in my previous post, just yesterday I was fortunate enough to visit the beautiful city of Paris, whilst in Paris I visited the Chloé retrospective at the Palais De Tokyo. Chloé. Attitudes is an exclusive look at the house of Chloé over its 60 years. Featuring signature pieces from each of Chloé’s nine key designers – from the Maison’s progressive founder Gaby Aghion, to its present creative director Clare Waight Keller – the show is neither nostalgic nor chronological. It takes a thematic path through the very best of Chloé’s creativity, pausing at key moments within its history.
The exhibition is curated and designed by renowned exhibition-maker Judith Clark and staged in the newly refurbished galleries of Le Palais de Tokyo. The centre’s exhibition space was expanded from 8,000 to 22,000 square metres in 2012, making it one of the largest cultural institutions devoted to contemporary culture in Europe.
Having not known a huge amount about Chloé's past, the exhibition was a magnificent insight in to the past and present. The exhibition featured beautiful photographs of Chloé garments from over the years and then mannequins on display featuring different looks from the house over the years. 

The exhibition runs from 29 september  to 18 november 2012 so you haven't got long to see it but if you happen to be in Paris I suggest you take a look! 
 

Paris Je T'aime

Bonjour!

Yesterday I visited Paris with uni, it was my third visit to the city and unfortunately was only for the day. I totally feel you cannot do Paris justice in one day alone (I find it difficult to see Paris in 3 days let alone 1) in fact a lot of the time I felt like we were still in London!

We visited the Chloé Retrospective at the Palais De Tokyo which was a nice insight in to the famous house and all its past designers, there will be a post on this after! We then had lunch and strolled around the Louvre Palace and past the Jarden des Tuileries and Place de la Concorde then down the Champs Élysées for a look in the Louis Vuitton store. 

I'm hoping I can go back next Spring for my birthday with my sister as theres still so much I want to do in Paris, it still remains one of the most beautiful cities I've ever seen.

Givenchy Haute Couture

Very Irresistible!

For my vis and comm brief  I am looking at market sectors within the industry; Couture fashion, Luxury brands, bridge and diffusion brands and fast/high st fashion. I have chosen a few of my favourites from each to have a little look in to in a bit more detail! 

Here I'm going to look at some of Givenchy's best Couture pieces from recent years. Since Riccardo Tisci joined the house in 2005 he has recreated the label adding his own melancholic, often Gothic and sometimes fetishistic, design take. Since then the label and the man himself have received renowned critical acclaim. 

Wishlist

1. Jacket from Topshop 2. Gathered Wool Top from Cos 3.Cable Knit Jumper from La Garconne 

4. Blusher from Mac 5.Amos Pull on Chelsea Boots from Topshop

November Wishlist

Obviously the real thing is much longer, here is much(much) a shorter list. Looking for suitable winter clothing and you can never have too many jackets, in desperate need of blusher also! Also on wish list is to see the Disney princess pop-up boutique at Harrods feeling very festive and excited

Lanvin Spring 2013

 

 

 

                   

Lanvin

Having a quick look at some of Lanvin's latest offerings as I'm focusing on the brand for my retail and PR project. I'm going to rebrand one of their oldest fragrances 'My Sin' but I wanted to look at their ready to wear collection to make my fragrance relevant to where the house is today. 

POP!

Design, Culture, Fashion

Featuring at the Fashion and Textile museum is a retrospective look at British design, culture and fashion spanning across the 1960s, 1970's and 1980's. Focusing on these three eras as they seem to be those that have influenced modern day the most.
The exhibition takes up the entire museum space and goes through in chronological order. There is a small room upstairs (supported by High street label Oasis) featuring famous prints from the chosen eras including Richard Avedons famous portraits of the Beatles.
I loved the 60's part as I've always been a fan of the era and I think its influenced today more than anything before with music and fashion etc.
Personal highlights were the 60's sections and this amazing studded leather jacket from the 1980s.
It gave a great insight in to the time with overhead music it felt like you were delving back in to the past, especially in the 50's room set with added jukebox!
The museum also offered workshops and exclusive tours for the exhibition, which would be really interesting!

LBJ

Chanel Little Black Jacket

On top of Tim Walkers beautiful exhibition I also visited the Chanel Little Black Jacket exhibition at the Saatchi gallery. 

Featuring over 100 black and white portraits of famous faces wearing the iconic Little Black Jacket, styled by Carine Roitfeld and shot by Karl Lagerfeld. Feauturng iconic faces such as Daphne Guinness, Freja Beha Erichsen, Sarah Jessica Parker, Anna Wintour and Kanye West among many many others it surely is a modern day fashionista hall of fame. 
Set in a cool, low lit space of the Saatchi spanning over three rooms the exhibit shows how timeless the jacket is given being an iconic part of Chanels history.
The print was in no way as good a quality as that of Tim Walker but it was still beautiful in its own right. Moreover everyone received a free poster which felt nice to take away of bit of Chanel with you! (probably the closest I will ever get to a Chanel jacket)
Where the Tim Walker exhibit felt dream like and beautiful, this felt much more edgy, modern and cool. 
You can also pick up the accompanying book if you missed the exhibit priced at around £45 pounds its a bargain for the workmanship and quality of the book and little piece of Chanel you can hold on to forever!

The Little Black Jacket exhibition runs from 12th October until the 4th November at the Saatchi Gallery

Storyteller

  

Tim Walker Storyteller                                                                             

Having always been an avid fan of Tim Walkers work I was keen to visit his latest exhibition at Somerset House.               
After seeing advertisements in Elle and all over the underground I knew that I couldn't miss this.
Supported by Mulberry the exhibit is a beautiful journey through some of Tim's most beautiful pieces of work. 
Tim easily transports you to fairy tale worlds with every beautiful image, which seem like something you'd see in your dreams. With this in mind, you would expect his exhibition to portray a similar feeling, and it most certainly did.
Not only were the beautiful images hung on the walls perfectly (printed in excellent quality) but there were also gigantic props from his past shoots. The props were dreamlike and beautiful, but in another respect seemed sinister and creepy, with giant cello playing bumble bees and ginormous snails adorning the ceilings. 

The exhibit was set out beautifully with some prints mounted on the walls and others mounted in crates adding the vintage feel of Walkers work. 
From the beautiful elegant setting of Somerset House to the luxury sponsor, there were exceptionally high expectations for the exhibition and I think its fair to say that Walker delivered in beautiful style, as per. 
If you aren't already in love with Walker's dreamlike photography, you will be after this. 
And if you needed anymore reasons to visit (I can't see why you would ) Admission in to the exhibition is free!

Tim Walker Storyteller runs from the 18th of October to the 27th of January at the East Wing Galleries, Somerset House.

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flowers

minimalism.

Minimalism was an art movement that first surfaced in the late 50's then became hugely popular in the 60's through to the 70's.

Minimalism is art that is stripped down to its most raw fundamental aspects.  is simply paintings or sculpture that thrive in simplicity in both content and form. The aim of Minimalism is to allow the viewer to experience the work more intensely without the distractions of composition, theme and so on. Minimalism is still hugely recognised in the art world with more and more simplistic artists emerging, however with changing technology and the ever changing art world more and more art is becoming computer orientated with simple use of typography and graphics. 

Frank Stella

Frank Stella has had an incredibly successful career as a painter sculptor, printmaker and architect and also as a pioneer of the minimalism movement and a huge part of its success. Stella is known for his minimalist works of black squares and white lines and also well known his own skill at manipulating and altering his style making all his work different and striking in its own respect. i like how Stella can alter his style and that makes him exceptionally skilled and ensures he can keep his audience captivated, however i don't particularly like his work as i find it simple but not particularly interesting, he is talented however his work is not to my taste. 

Carl Andre

Carl Andre is a minimalist artist who specialises in sculptural work. he is most known for his grid and square format sculptures. Andre has worked from the likes of huge eye catching sculptures to intimate tile work within exhibition space. I feel that to Andre strong shapes are a fundamental aspect to his work as his work is majorly in cubes and cuboid with linear and grid formats. Andre uses wood for a lot of his sculptures and it is all imacculate and neat to keep his work simple and clean. I like Andre's work, I prefer physical sculptural minimalism work as opposed to art and paintings. 

Tony Smith 

Tony Smith was a sculptor, visual artist, architectural designer and also noted as one of the most fundamental pioneers in american minimalism architecture. 

Smith sculpted large minimalist outdoor pieces most commonly made with dark, smooth metal. Smiths work was generally made with very strong geometric shapes and we're largely made in great volume. Like Andre and most minimalism sculptors, Smith's work is very linear. 

As I previously stated i much prefer the sculptural side of minimalism so I find Smiths work particularly inspiring  Moreover the scale in which Smith works really stands out to me, if I were to be a sculptor I would much prefer to work at a scale that would be eye catching and be noticed wherever it was situated.