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Colorful Experience

Sara Francia — Mon, 04 May 2009 08:33:57 +0000

Visionaire’s issues bring art closer with every cover. For their 56 issue, a special collaboration with Calvin Klein Collection gives a solar factor to their art experience.
A limited edition of 3,000 copies has brought together artists like John Baldessari, Olaf Breuning, Richard Burbridge, Ryan McGinley, Roe Ethridge, Peter Lindbergh, Glen Luchford, Alex Katz, M/M, Yoko Ono, Richard Philips, David Sims, Inez and Vinoodh. Visionaire 56 Solar can now be pre-ordered on www.visionaireworld.com

Easton Pearson Retrospective

Sara Francia — Mon, 04 May 2009 07:33:57 +0000

A survey exhibition of the Brisbane-based, internationally acclaimed fashion house Easton Pearson, which this year celebrates its twentieth anniversary, will open at the Gallery of Modern Art in August. The exhibition will feature designs drawn from Easton Pearson’s own archive, and will explore the designers’ eclectic sources of inspiration and the edgy glamour, exquisitely embellished fabrics and vibrant colours that have made them one of Australia’s most successful design teams.
Easton Pearson was founded in 1988 and has exhibited in a variety of leading Australian and international fashion festivals including, the 2008 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival – Brisbane, Rosemount Australian Fashion Week, and at Paris Fashion Week since 1998.

22 August – 8 November 2009 Gallery 1.3 and Foyer Cabinet, GoMA

Meisel Obsession

Sara Francia — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:37:58 +0000

This week, the master photographer will release his third photography book, called Three Hundred and Seventeen and Counting. Steven Meisel has photographed every single cover of Italian Vogue for the last 20 years and nine months adding up to a staggering 317!

PUBLISHED BY MALLARD / JANVIER
Essay by Raphaëlle Stopin and Michel Mallard
Bilingual, English and French
Art Direction & Design by Michel Mallard Studio
400 Pages, 317 Colour Plates, Soft Cover
21 cm x 27.5 cm
Publication date: May 1, 2009

‘Craft Punk’ at the Milan Furniture Fair

Sara Francia — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:31:49 +0000

For three days during Milan’s design week, Spazio Fendi was filled not with models parading down the runway but with young designers cutting, pleating, weaving and generally transforming materials and processes in live demonstrations, in “Craft Punk,” organized by Design Miami. Garden hoses were turned into chairs, ceramic vases were decorated by means of an old-fashioned photographic printing technique, and scraps of leather discarded from Fendi’s factories became tabletops, to name of few of the freewheeling projects on display (courtesy of The Moment).

Prada Transformer

Sara Francia — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 07:11:34 +0000

Prada has got our attention again with its latest art project. Here’s an exert from the Korean Times: ‘Italian luxury goods giant Prada unveiled its most ambitious cultural project to date, the Prada Transformer, in Seoul, Thursday. Built on the grounds of the 16th century Gyeonghui Palace in downtown Seoul, the Prada Transformer is a one-of-a-kind tetrahedron-shaped pavilion designed by renowned architect Rem Koolhaas’ Office for Metropolitan Architecture. The Prada Transformer will be the venue for events devoted to art, film, fashion and of course, the Prada brand, for the next six months. Koolhaas described the Transformer as a ‘dynamic organism’, since the steel-framed structure can be rotated into four distinct floor planes: hexagonal, rectangular, cruciform and circular, to fit the specific events. Bertelli said the choice of Seoul for the Transformer project is the company’s recognition of the importance of Asia and its rapid development of business and culture. The first event to be held at the Transformer is ‘Waist Down ― Skirts by Miuccia Prada’, featuring 65 of the most outstanding skirts from Prada’s collections since 1988. The exhibit first opened in 2004 at the Prada Epicenter, Aoyama, Tokyo, and has traveled to Shanghai, New York and Los Angeles.
Admission is free. Visit www.pradatransformer.co.kr.

‘The Future of Luxury’

Sara Francia — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:36:31 +0000

As companies like Coach, Gucci Group and LVMH report their results this week, this video from Atelier, a division of Leo Burnett, highlights some of the cataclysmic changes in consumer behaviour that will drive the luxury of the future.