Fashion
Monki Tales
“Once upon a time, an unexpected chemical reaction in an old weavery released a batch of plump black Monkis into the sky. Soaring high from the still smouldering chimney, the tiny creatures floated into the illusory universe known as the Monki World.”
The Monki story is a wild mix of amazing adventures of butterflies, windmills, willows, sails and mysterious chemicals. With the combination of fashion, graphic and storedesign, Monki follows a comprehensive and unique creative concept, in which the little black monkies take a central part as the source of inspiration.
This unusual design follows through from the homepage, to the stores, to the smallest detail in the Monki collection, which can be described as a flirt between expressive Tokyo streetstyle and the fresh Scandinavian fashion sense. The young label offers affordable clothing for girls, who want to express their individualism, independancy and fantasy. With unique collaborations between national and international designers and exciting events, they want to create gloomy but sweet Monki stories.
After already having 26 stores in Scandinavian countries, the first store in Germany will be the 515 m2 flagshipstore in Hamburg, opening this November. So put on your rollerskates and get ready for the story that is waiting to be told in Hamburg!
To experience more of the collection, visit www.monkiworld.de
Monki Flagshipstore
Mönckebergstraße 22
Hamburg, Germany
Fashion
True Blue
Jean Paul Gaultier remixes vintage sculptural linerie with Levi's® jeans and jackets on the Paris catwalk
After their SS 2010 Menswear partnership, Jean Paul Gaultier and Levi's® collaborate on key silhouettes from the SS 2010 Womenswear collection to hit selected stores in May 2010.
Talk about the re-emergence of the lingerie as outerwear trend and the sculptural glory of that Jean Paul Gaultier’s pink satin conical bra comes back to mind. A seminal ‘90s moment in the history of fashion, it cemented the fashion-forward reputation of the Queen of Pop and troubled the dreams of many.
A lifelong Levi's® jeans wearer and a denim fan, Jean Paul Gaultier remixed iconic Levi's® designs with vintage lingerie constructions in his S/S 2010 Womenswear collection on show in Paris on Saturday, creating silhouettes which are rigorously structured in design, lovingly crafted and free in spirit.
On the catwalk, dark denim turned into a mini-midi juxtaposition skirt and workwear- inspired dungarees – part modern Rosie the Riveter and part boudoir - with conical bra tops, reinforced and lined with flesh tone bias tape reminiscent of old school corsetry.
www.jeanpaulgaultier.com
www.eu.levi.com
Fashion
Rock Spirit,
Industrial Soul
John Richmond unveils his first boutique in France: a 1300 m2 Flagship Store located in the heart of Paris.
The opening of this imposing flagship store in Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore is part of a strategic plan for market expansion, organized by Saverio Moschillo who runs the brand together with John Richmond himself. This brand new store in Paris will join ones that already exist in Milan, Capri, Porto Cervo and Kiev. The Paris store introduces the brand’s new philosophy, express through new architecture, exquisite art installations, futuristic layouts and effective merchandising.
John Richmond worked in collaboration with french architect Christophe Pillet to create a new, exclusive vision of luxury, by using noble materials and unique details such as black smoked glass plates and chrome steel hangers. The distinctive tattoo design, sprayed on mirrors or inlayed on the floor in precious marbles, creates a continuous visual connection embodying the designer’s famous rock spirit and unveiling the industrial soul by being displayed in an unusual, high tech setting.
John Richmond
Rue de Fabourg Saint Honore 62
Paris, France
www.johnrichmond.com
Art
American Youth
American Youth is a curatorial project from Hedi Slimane, about the representation of youth, and the birth of counter culture, in America from the 50s until now. This November, the respected photographer and designer will release a limited-edition box set, which includes 11 movies, chosen by Hedi and illustrated with his photographs. It has been edited by the French film company MK2.
All three images: Hedi Slimane,
courtesy Art and Commerce
Rebel Without a Cause - Nicholas Ray
Who's That Knocking at My Door -
Martin Scorsese
Woodstock - Michael Wadleigh
Zabriskie Point - Michelangelo Antonioni
Permanent Vacation - Jim Jarmusch
Rumble Fish - Francis Ford Coppola
Last Days / Mala Noche - Gus Van Sant
Boys Don't Cry - Kimberley Peirce
Mysterious Skin - Gregg Araki
Wassup Rockers - Larry Clark
American Youth
Limited-edition box set (2,500 copies)
Price: € 149
Release date: November 2009
Art
Tribute to Isabella Blow
Next month marks the one-year anniversary of her tragic death, but the influence of Isabella Blow, the legendary fashion editor and muse, continues undiminished. In June, the Blow de la Barra gallery near Brick Lane, East London opens an exhibition of work by artists who drew inspiration from her short, vibrant life. The exhibition takes the title 'I'm no Angel' from one of the films of Mae West, surely a fantasy choice for the starring role in an Isabella biopic. Many of the contributors are Blow's close friends from the fashion and art worlds, including Tracey Emin, Mario Testino and designers Philip Treacy, Giles Deacon and Alexander McQueen. Blow co-founded the gallery with her husband Detmar and curator Pablo Leon de la Barra in 2004, with the aim of supporting up-and-coming international artists, one of her great passions.
'I'm no Angel' runs from June 24th to August 1st, 2008
www.blowdelabarra.com
Fashion
Versace in Rio de Janeiro
Donatella Versace backstage with P. Diddy, Dirty Money and Isabeli Fontana
Donatella Versace celebrated Fashion Rocks this weekend in Rio de Janiero Brazil. Kicking off her stay on Friday evening, Donatella Versace hosted, together with Vogue Brazil, the Governor and Mayor of Rio, a charity 'Fashion Rocks Rio Solidario dinner' in honor of photographer Mario Testino's new book – Mario De Janeiro Testino. The Versace co-hosted charity dinner, held at Rio's Copacobana Palace, benefits the Brazilian Children's organization, 'Rio Solidario', and attracted many international and Brazilian VIPS from the worlds of fashion, music, art, politics and society.
Donatella Versace, Riccardo Tisci, Guest and Mario Testino
The main 'Oi Rio Fashion Rocks' event was on Saturday, bringing the best of fashion and music on stage. Held at the glamorous Jockey Club of Rio de Janeiro, Donatella Versace joined the Fashion Rocks' line-up, (sponsored by Oi - Brazil's biggest telecommunications company) with other international fashion brands such as Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs and Givenchy as well as four important Brazilian designers Lenny, Alexandre Herchcovitch, André Lima, and Lino Vilaventura.
Donatella Versace on stage
Versace opened Fashion Rocks with a fashion show capsule of the latest men and women's FW 0910 collections, accompanied by international acclaimed music artist P.Diddy. They were then followed by paired fashion designers and musical acts that included: Mariah Carey, Grace Jones, Ciara, Estelle, Stop Play Moon (Brazilian group) and Lino Vilaventura (Brazilian Group).
Versace also dressed Brazilian model actress and host of Rio's Oi Fashion Rocks, Fernanda Lima for the evening.
P. Diddy and Donatella Versace
on stage
www.versace.com
Fashion
Les Chaussures
de 'Monsieur'
Viktor & Rolf launch their first shoe collection for 'Monsieur' for fall 2009
Viktor & Rolf seek to reinterpret the male shoe. Inspired by the fine tailoring and sartorial wit of the British gentleman, both the trainers and formal shoes have been redefined. The traditional formal shoe creates the basis of the Autumn/Winter 2009 collection. The collection dismisses convention with minor yet canny alterations. A metallic shine reminiscent of the iridescent glow of the beetle shell highlights a classic lace-up and loafer to a stunning effect of brushed painted patent leather. A seemingly anonymous formal black lace-up is twisted with a blue crepe rubber sole. Chic boots and derbies have a subtle contrasting piping.
Just as the trainer has moved from the sports arena to popular culture, Viktor & Rolf extend this dynamic ascent combining the properties of the brogue with the street style of the sports shoe. Intact are the defining rubber sole and high-top aspect of the trainer. However, the brown leather upper evokes the essence of the brogue with its perforated patterning and wingtip detail. Inspired by the puffer jacket, the quilted trainer suggests comfort and protection. Available in blue or mandarin this urban trainer comes in a new high-tech nylon.
This first collection of shoes captures the essence of Viktor & Rolf’s view on menswear: a unique mix of relaxed and elegance.
Fashion
Haltbar SS2010
On Thursday October 1st, German label Haltbar presented its SS2010 collection during Paris Fashion Week.
The German word 'haltbar' translates as 'durable, solid, lasting,' which perfectly describes both their project as well as the spirit of their work. Haltbar cooperates with small family- and handicraft businesses in order to use and preserve existing infrastructure, knowledge and heritage. In return, Haltbar provides new ideas, visions and a modern eye on traditional products.
Haltbar only produces clothing and uses items that:
are of solid and high quality material and manufacturing,
are handmade or include handmade elements,
are able to deal well with fading or wearing out of materials,
are up to date, yet timeless,
will hopefully become favorite basics.
Art
Homeland
American artist Larry Sultan’s photography collection, Homeland, is soon to be seen in an exhibition in Andreas Murkudis in Berlin. The exhibition includes large-scale works from Sultan’s new series of staged photographs taken in everyday, suburban landscapes. The artist’s 13-piece portfolio will also be on display in order to supplement the larger prints and provide a more complete perspective on the Homeland collection.
Larry Sultan, Antioch Creek, 2008.
Courtesy Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
For his latest body of work, Larry Sultan hired Mexican day laborers as actors and subjects in his photographs, which he staged on the outskirts of Southern Californian suburbs. He found these illegal laborers outside a nearby strip mall where hundreds of men wait day by day to be picked up for hourly work. Sultan directed the men’s actions and gestures, drawing from his own memories of home life as well as his interpretation of the laborers’ individual experiences as exiles. The photographs romanticize the terrain of the suburbs and charge the activities of day laborers, which are rather mundane in nature, with metaphorical meaning: carrying food to a potluck, stringing lights on a tree, rowing a boat on a river.
Larry Sultan, Meander, Corte Madera, 2006. Courtesy Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
For the artist, the settings of the photographs are deeply reminiscent of the terrain he sought out as a child: empty fields behind malls and scruffy borderlands of the LA river that ran behind his parents’ house in the San Fernando Valley. The artist describes it as follows: “In my own past, these places represented a small and vanishing patch of paradise that existed just outside of the boundaries of property and ownership; a free zone that eased my (adolescent) uncertainty and provided a safe place away from the judgments of others.“
Larry Sultan - Homeland
September 24th – October 31st 2009
Andreas Murkudis
Münzstrasse 21
10178 Berlin
Fashion
Guerilla Shopping with Comme des Garçons
Comme des Garçons recently opened up its first Guerrilla Store in the United State, in downtown Los Angeles. The space, a former bank, feels more like a kitchen or a walk-in refrigerator. It will be open for one year and will stock both old and new Comme des Garçons collections including a few limited edition pieces made exclusively for the store by proprietors Brett Westfall and Tak. Both owners have strong interest in skateboarding and fixed gear bicycles. Some special items for the shop will be a CDG Guerrilla store skateboard and T-shirts, shoes such as Vans and Converse, and many more fun items relating to the culture of LA and California. The store will also carry Westfall's brand, Unholy Matrimony and jewelry by Sonia Boyajlan. Rei Kawakubo has also made tops for her CDG collection out of Westfall's paintings.
Comme des Garçons Guerrilla Store
125 West 4th Street
Suite 106
Los Angeles, California 90013
Open MON-SAT 12h-20h SUN 12h-18h
www.guerrilla-store.com
Fashion
Le Carré Hermès
Hermès launches a new book to celebrate the history of the scarf.
Book cover “Le Carré Hermès”
Each Hermès scarf tells a story: this volume is their anthology. Created as an artist’s book, it transposes the scarves instead of merely picturing them. It magnifies their charm while preserving their ethereal grace. It narrates, through images and text, the existence of the now mythical silk twill “carre”. The iconography, playful and poetic in turn, varies between full pages, cut-outs, transparencies and various visual effects, guiding the reader through a richly coloured, perfectly drawn narrative world. According to Pierre-Alexis Dumas, Artistic Director at Hermès, Josè Alvarez “observes Hermès’s scarves like a lovesick aesthete. By dedicating this atypical book to them, he has realised a very old dream and made an impossible project a reality. This is neither a historical monograph about the scarves nor a catalogue raisonnè of their two thousand or so designs - why pin butterflies that were made to fly?”
Hermès, Collection Autumn/ Winter 2009
A multitude of themes, styles and inspirations are expressed in a single language: the scarf. Horses, sea, travel, cultures, nature, music... all are evoked with simplicity, harmony and sensual lavishness. Behind each theme a tale waits to be told...
Fashion
Spijkers & Spijkers
Spring/Summer
10
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars” (Oscar Wilde)
The twinsisters Spijkers in their own designs, SS10
Referencing the hallowed words of Oscar Wilde, Spijkers en Spijkers looked at the stars this season and created a whimsical collection based on celestial bodies, slumbering dreams and effervescent hope. “Pandora’s box” the Greek Myth and the classic German 1929 movie that carries the same title is the inspiration for the SS2010 collection of Spijkers en Spijkers. The 1920’s icon Louise Brooks in her role as Lulu embodies a modern translation of the mythical character Pandora and became the Muse for this collection.
Fashion
Just Be Causse
French glove-maker Causse opens it's e-boutique internet site
Founded in 1892, Causse makes its gloves from scratch in the workshops of its factory in Millau, Aveyron, France. Manufactured according to traditional methods, the gloves are hand-cut in the most luxurious lamb, peccary, python, ostrich and crocodile skins.
Causse has been working in collaboration for many years with French luxury goods manufacturers, including Chanel, Hermes and Louis Vuitton, whose gloves are manufactured in the Causse workshops. In 2006, Causse was awarded the "Living Heritage Company" label by the French government for its remarkable, rare know-how handed down through many generations. The company is now the last which still makes its gloves in the former French glove capital of Millau.
Worn today by Karl Lagerfeld, Madonna and Kylie Minogue, Causse gloves can be found in Tokyo, New York, London, Moscow and in its Paris boutique, designed by architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte, at 12 rue de Castiglione. Since September 2009, it has been possible for customers to have a selection of the company's most emblematic models delivered directly to their homes, thanks to the brand-new e-boutique internet site:
www.causse-gantier.fr
Art
Anyone but me, Anywhere but here
The project "Anyone but me, Anywhere but here" has been built on the relationship and the sometimes disloyal exchange between past and present and shows the fascination for objects, the propensity towards reason and connections as well as the motivation to always create new situations and change the natural order of things.
Starting from a missing scene in Antonioni's film "The Eclipse", Olivia Mihaltianu, visual artist, and Olah Gyarfas, the designer of cutting-edge label Rozalb de Mura are revealing a private world, a laboratory of life-style and holiday culture.
Anyone but me, Anywhere but here
until 9th of November 2008
Contemporary Art Gallery of the
National Brukenthal Museum
6, Tribunei Street
Sibiu, Romania
www.brukenthalmuseum.ro
Fashion
Diesel Black Gold
Fashion
Zegna Conquers the World
Ermenegildo Zegna opens new stores in Hong Kong, Signapore and Mongolia
Hong Kong
This month Ermenegildo Zegna unveils its first Global Concept Store in Hong Kong, Greater China, designed by Peter Marino, the architect of modern luxury. Located within the cities refined shopping district at Number 1, Peking Road the store covers 674 square metres of luxury retail.
The Hong Kong Global Store will be the fourth of the Peter Marino concept stores for Ermenegildo Zegna to open, and the first to feature the new Z Zegna store concept.T he fabrics created at the Lanificio Ermenegildo Zegna since 1910, in Trivero Italy, have been a pivotal inspiration for the store design. Peter Marino stated, “Ermenegildo Zegna is a historic brand, known for the unrivalled quality of its woven textiles. I used this imagery throughout the design. The action of the weaving machines heavily influenced me in intertwining stainless steel threads throughout. The entire compartmentalization of products, each with their own shade of wood, makes up one whole House of Zegna, a brand that is a rising star in today's world of luxury."
Interior Global Concept Store, Hong Kong
Ermenegildo Zegna is also the first Italian luxury menswear brand to open a store in Mongolia this October. The tradition that links Ermenegildo Zegna to the Mongolian territory started in 1984. Gildo Zegna CEO was in fact part of the first foreign delegation to visit this region in a quest to source the world’s finest cashmere. This was the start of the Ermenegildo Zegna Cashmere Trophy awarded for excellence in natural fibres. Since then, the ongoing mutual respect and quest for quality has continuously characterized the relationship of the Ermenegildo Zegna Group with the local producers.
Mongolia
This month Ermenegildo Zegna also unveils its new flagship store in Singapore. Located within the ION mall in Orchard, the new store covers 470 square metres of luxury retail, within the cities latest shopping destination. The store is designed by architects Gianmaria and Roberto Beretta of Studio Beretta in Milan.
Signapore
Fashion
Marni: Shop
the Runway
Marni, the eclectic women’s clothing and accessories line designed by Consuelo Castiglioni, opens its first Virtual Store in new markets: Norway, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Croatia, Israel and Tunis.
In addition, Marni launches 'Shop the Runway', the exciting new area of the Marni Virtual Store, which gives the option to view the Milan Runway Show and buy the exact fashion items of Marni Fall/ Winter 2009-2010 directly from the video.
The special technological feature has been developed by YOOX Group, the global internet retailing partner for the leading fashion brands that has created and manages the technical and logistic infrastructures of the Marni Online Store, already accessible for customers in several European markets, USA and Japan since 2006.
Now for sale online is the Marni Winter Edition 2009: Eccentric, individual, timeless - a modular wardrobe complete with accessories. Easy adaptable pieces. Cool and idiosyncratic, in true Marni spirit.
For the capsule collection Marni Winter Edition 2009, a video was made by Consuelo Castiglioni in collaboration with Rohan Wadham, a young video artist from London.
Screenshots from the video by Consuelo Castiglioni and Rohan Wadham
Fashion
Louis' Lovely Labels
Louis Vuitton introduces a new collection of small leather goods: "Label"
This new collection is inspired by the old trunks labels that Gaston-Louis Vuitton used to collect. Gaston-Louis Vuitton has always had a passion for travels. He was notably fascinated by the trunks and the numerous labels sticked on it (hotel labels, cruise labels, customs labels…) which revealed the trunk story and the travels made by its owner. Thus, it is in homage to his passion that Louis Vuitton launches these “Label” small leather goods. To accentuate the reference to history, Louis Vuitton decided to work on the 2 iconic and historical canvas of the Maison (Monogram and Damier).
All: © Louis Vuitton / Philippe Jumin
Art
The Home and the World
Hermès presents the works of two acclaimed Indian photographers Raghubir Singh and Dayanita Singh. With over 55 rare photographs on display, The Home and the World reveals the social complexity, modern contradiction, and natural magnificence of the country of India through the lens of two photographers of two very different artistic visions. The images offer a profoundly personal and intimate voice describing their perception and recognition of an evolving country.
Located on the second floor of Hermès at Berlin Friedrichstrasse 171, The Home and the World will be open to the public from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Monday through Saturdays.
"The Home and the World"
Mezzanine at Hermès
From 22nd October – November 2008
10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Mondays through Saturdays
Friedrichstrasse 171
Berlin
www.hermes.com
Fashion
G-Star Raw Nights
www.g-star.com