We live in hard fashion times! Hermès just launched a graphic design competition with Designboom. Opening up to new prints and ideas is an incredible opportunity for new designers but also a popular maneuver from the French luxury house. With a given theme (animals, flowers, geometric design, horses, marine life) and silk as canvas, the [...]
June 10th, 2009 by kpriss — Accessories, Art & Deco, Designers, Luxury
It’s not yet official, thus making this a very important news, but the Louis Vuitton Villa will mos def become an architecture must for every fashionista imagining her dream house. The Vuitton Villa is, actually, a 960-square-foot store from Deauville, France. Privately inaugurated over the weekend, The Villa Vuitton is a simple, white fenced, white [...]
June 3rd, 2009 by kpriss — Art & Deco, Trends
Diane von Furstenberg is an eco-activist! She’s starring (sort of) in a short video aired on the Sundance Channel in support of the green High Line park project. Not too fancy, not too complicated, the warm video tries to convince us we really need that High Line park, that a suspended green ribbon can actually [...]
May 28th, 2009 by kpriss — Art & Deco, Celebrities, Designers, Issues
Karl Lagerfeld designed The Dying Swan’s most impressive costume from different feathers (3 women and over 100 hours of work into that unique Chanel tutu) The dress hits the stage at Sadler’s Wells, London June 16th and the Gran Teatro del Liceu, Barcelona September (besides Elena Glurdjidze exclusive performance for Lagerfeld in Chanel’s Haute Couture [...]
May 27th, 2009 by kpriss — Art & Deco, Designers, Dresses, Events, Quick Links
Herman Miller’s Alexander Girard will be soon available on sale chez Urban Outfitters. Alexander Girard’s iconic style can add a touch of high class design to any interior, thus making the bedding collections, cushions with various original Girard prints, shower curtains, drapes very coveted by the amateur interior designer out there. It’s pop, it’s classy [...]
May 27th, 2009 by kpriss — Art & Deco
Just the other day we talked about her famous Paris Vogue mom, today it’s Julia Roitfeld’s turn to turn our heads with some style advice. Brought by ways of photography, Julia Restoin Roitfeld’s New York home is really not a style/fashion dictionary. It’s a spoiled kid’s nest. A spoiled kid who has the looks and [...]
May 14th, 2009 by kpriss — Art & Deco, Bags, Celebrities, Cosmetics, Magazines, Motherhood, Shoes
My visions on architecture and fashion go as far as the new Prada Transformer. Being a highly praised mix of fashion, architecture and art, the new Prada Transformer actually makes me think about Chanel and Zaha Hadid’s Bag-Art Pavilion with undissimulated nostalgia and appreciation. The Prada Transformer was conceived by Rem Koolhaas as a four-in-one [...]
May 3rd, 2009 by kpriss — Art & Deco, Designers, Events, Featured
Barnaby Barford’s aesthetics could look traditional but will change the way you think about ceramic figurines forever. I always had the feeling that ceramic figurines had something innocent and pure in their static form. Always perfectly shaped, irreproachably curved, the china display is so démodé but so untouchable. British artist Barnaby Barford added a modern [...]
April 28th, 2009 by kpriss — Art & Deco
