Thanks to the imagination of Marco Zanini, the creative director invites extravagance into the here and now. For two years he’s reworked the inventions of the style pioneer that Elsa Schiaparelli was. She who played with the divided skirt created by Paul Poiret, who created the trompe-l’oeil sweater, she who dared introduce zippers into an...
When Martin Margiela was active in the 90s, the artist took particular interest in turning one man’s cheap into everyone’s treasure; taking mottled objects from flea markets, Martin then transformed them into clothing for an egalitarian intelligentsia that liked playing with contentious undertones and subtle jabs in the fashion realm. In other words, do-it-yourself in...
First appearing in Paris in the latter half of the 19th century, the tanktop became a bonafide fashion item throughout the postwar decades – assuredly sensual. Marlon Brando sported a simple white one in 1951 in “A Streetcar Named Desire”, very lightweight and tight-fitting, particularly indented both in front and behind the neck, giving tenfold...
For three days, last July 22nd to July 24th, to the masterful rhythm of François Tajan’s gavel, Artcurial disbursed over 1,000 lots of collector watches, jewelry, and Hermès Vintage bags. This special rendezvous in Monaco has affirmed its status, year after year, as one of the most anticipated annual sales events. The 2014 edition allowed...
For their fourth participation in the Biennale des Antiquaire in Paris, Dior Jewelry is unveiling their new fine jewelry collection: Archi Dior, designed by Victoire de Castellane. This designer who got her start at Chanel alongside Karl Lagerfeld is exploring a new vocabulary at Dior Jewelry through the collection’s 44 pieces, that of Architecture. She...
Loyal to a one of a kind aesthetic, bearing the quintessential of Italian savoir-faire, the brand’s jewelers created this beautiful blue topaz release for us within the infallible Horsbit Cocktail Collection. Connoisseurs and amateurs of Gucci’s creations alike will find in these pieces a great refinement of expression imbued with a modernity that the Italian...
Indeed, this new collection is in some ways an homage to the legendary creator of Chanel, through the eclecticism and the audacity that characterize the collection’s different themes. They all bear evocative names like “Charleston”, “Broadway”, or “Morning in Vendôme”, all of which are cultural references tied to the “Café Society” a literary and artistic...
Celebrated by bands like Queen in “I Want to Ride my Bicycle” or Kraftwerk with “Tour de France”, the greatest cycling contest in the world first kicked off on January 29th, 1903. The original tour would start in Montgeron and end in Paris. Some of the stops along the way included Lyons, Marseilles, Toulouse, Bordeaux, and Nantes. The Parc des Princes in Paris...
Pre-Raphaelite painting, an iconographic emblem of the 19th century, is the common thread for Valentino’s couture collection. Silhouettes inspired by this British art movement nourished by Italian “quattrocento” that, when thought through the label’s prism of aristocratic aesthetic, acquire a grandly romantic aura. This collection was presented at the Solomon de Rothschild hotel; it’s sophistication...
A game of fabrics, graphic cuts, and volume effects… Hussein Chalayan’s message for Vionnet is loud and clear: return Vionnet’s genius to the place it deserves. Indeed, Madeleine Vionnet is at the origin of the invention of the “coupe en biais” and “drapé” techniques. These couture techniques have proved a veritable goldmine to the greatest...
