Photos by The Selby
The Selby went to visit Lucas Ossendrijver and the studio of Lanvin’s menswear, photographer Todd Selby finds a way to capture creatives in their most natural state, showcasing various facets of their work while answering interesting questions in a playful format. Let’s go to check out their inspiration photos and the chic gold elevator.
Sasha Pivovarova from Russian, who is also the face of Chanel’s Paris-Moscow collection, did some drawings for the restaging of the show.Karl Lagerfeld asked Sasha Pivovarova to illustrate on a book based on Russian fairy tales in February, and she said “My drawings were inspired by the joy of seeing fairytale characters coming to life in one of the main theatres of Moscow, the city where I was born.” We all know that Sasha Pivovarova’s major in college is art, and painting has always been her passion.
Photo by Zero + Maria Cornejo
Zero + Maria Cornejo is opening an exhibition and pop-up store in Paris hosted by the Brachfeld gallery. As part of the exhibit, a capsule collection of archive styles and a specially edited selection of pieces from the Pre-Fall 2009 Collection will be offered for sale to the public. The exhibition will explore Chilean-born designer Maria Cornejo’s unique approach to design, which has evolved since the inception of Zero in New York in 1998. It will illustrate how the simplest geometric and organic shapes – circles, tubes, triangles and rectangles - were the basis for early designs and are still at the heart of Maria’s work today. Spare, modern, architectural, minimal, feminine, and unpretentious are all words that have been used to describe Maria Cornejo’s work for Zero. High profile clients include Tilda Swinton, Cindy Sherman, and, more recently, Michelle Obama. In 2006, Maria Cornejo was honored as the recipient of a Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award. written by Daisy Jing
Brachfeld Paris︱MAP
78 rue des Archives
79003 Paris France
Event Date:June 20th 2009 - July 11th 2009
As previously mentioned, The Selby, is known for photographing creative types such as designers, artists, musicians inside their homes, satisfying an interesting niche of peeping-tom curiosity. For a recent collaborative project with the Dossier Magazine for its Spring 09 issue, The Selby has stepped outside its usual photography route and created an adorable and humorous watercolor spread, Animals in Fashion. Styled by stylist, Aya Kanai, the spread has animals modeling different fashion pieces—a macaw rocks a Herve Leger swimsuit, a penguin in Balenciaga dress and a pig is summer ready in Michael Kor’s visor and red-white-and-blue bathing suit. You can check out the paintings online at The Selby, but get your hands on a copy of Dossier Magazine for keepsake. After all, the fashion landscape is like a jungle out there, and there’s nothing like a hardcopy of lighthearted paintings to keep us from getting too flustered.
British designer Giles Deacon made his name in the fashion industry mixing superior craftsmanship with whimsical designs and popular motifs. He specializes in crafty volumes and proportions. This design sensibility carried itself over into his collaboration with Atelier Swarovski. In his fourth collaboration with the renowned crystal jeweler for Autumn/ Winter 2009, Deacon gets handy with familiar craft material, felt, and mixes them with embellished crystals of interesting shapes and sizes. The crystals are hand-stamped and hand-marked Crystallized Swarovski Elements in select colors with beautiful names such as golden shadow, light rose and peridot. Other than the usual crystals, studs, pins and cupchains also adorn the 5mm cutout felt base. The palette is dark and luxurious in cool grays and sensuous earthy browns and creamy whites. The collection is creative in its mix of medium but also extremely wearable with the recently popular minimalist trend, and definitely good news for those allergic to metals and minerals.
Fashion designer Ziad Ghanem and graphic designer Robert Boon deemed their company, Maiden Britain, a “new art collective” rather than just another fashion label. The company was founded on an interesting concept to eliminate creative limitations in apparel. The term, collective, also plays out nicely in the company as Boon and Ghanem garnered forces of creative individuals all over the world, across industries such as literary, music, art and film. The designers come from all occupations too- tailors, poets and performance artists all bond under this London-based group. Maiden Britain’s Autumn/ Winter 2009 collection is definitely your conspicuous rebel yell—daring geometric printed one-piece tight suit and oversized hooded poncho with big ethnic prints are some of the catchiest pieces in the collection. Regardless of the garment’s practicality and functionality, the collection captures the eclecticism of the art world and dynamic anarchical spirit Maiden Britain set out to represent.
Part of the initiative for the ‘Taiwan: Touch Your Heart’ theme consists of a series of short documentary films produced by Monocle detailing travel and tourism in the country, entitled ‘Touring Taiwan’. The films will run on Monocle.com as a complement to an ongoing advertorial programme in the magazine’s monthly print edition. In a statement, Matthew Farrar, managing director of Mezzomedia, the publication’s regional advertising representative, described the partnership between Monocle and the tourism board as “groundbreaking”. The second episode in the series will focus on Taiwan’s traditional culture.