My first question is: why didn’t someone think of this before?
Forget the usual swimsuit lineup, almost everyone looks fantastic on a bike. It must be something about engaged muscles and coordination. For it’s 2010 calendar, the Swiss Institute in New York, has produced Artists on Their Bicycles New York 2010, in a limited numbered edition of 500. The usual subjects are proudly represnted from February’s Collier Schorr to Pierre Huyghe, for November and David Byrne and Cindy Sherman in December . My personal favorite is October’s Ryan McGinley who always creates a stir wherever he goes. The calendar, edited by Emma Reeves, Gianni Jetzer and Design Li, Inc is photographed by the incomparable Lukas Wassmann (http://www.lukaswassmann.com), a young Swiss photographer who lives between Berlin and Zurich who has one of the best takes on the genially absurd I’ve seen in years.
The Art of Biking
Tags: Cindy Sherman, Collier Schorr, David Byrne, Design li, Emma Reeves, Gianni Jetzer, Inc., Lukas Wassmann, Pierre Huyghe, Ryan McGinley, The Swiss Institute
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You’ve come a long way Barbie!
Grainy grey Monday morning in Paris and guess what flashes on my computer. A Christmas gift idea from my friend Mandi Lennard, London PR extraordinaire. Who knew that Comme des Garçons’ Rei Kawakubo has a “Jungle Flowers nonsense theme” for the holidays? Well all the CDG fans in Japan, of course, as this Platinum Label Collection Barbie, dressed in a the nonsensical Jungle pixelated rose print gown by Rei, was a sell out last week over there. And now it’s available at Comme des Garçons stores all over the world and at London’s Dover Street market, of course. For those not into dolls, there’s wallets, T’s, scent, Artek chairs and snowballs.
Tags: Barbie, Comme des Garçons, Dover Street Market
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If The Shoe Fits
Fashion detectives on your mark. Match the shoes to fit this gallery of stylish suspects:
Colette asked J.M. Weston—French footwear doesn’t get any more classic—to produce a mini collection of shoes—10 in all— designed by André, Gildas Loaec and Masaya Kuroki of Kitsuné, Olivier Zahm, Olympia Le Tan, Joséphine de la Baume and the Cazals. The result is available by special order at Colette from October 11-17.
Tags: Cazals, Colette, Gildas Loaec, J.M. Weston, Joséphine de la Baume, Kitsuné, Masaya Kuroki, Olivier Zahm, Olympia Le Tan
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1+1 = More Fun
It’s a sunny Monday morning in Paris, but it’s raining collaborations. First off, Sonia Rykiel is H&M’s next guest designer. Expect a selection of lingerie in store on December 5 and a Spring 2010 collection of her stripey knitwear hits on February 20. And don’t forget Jimmy Choo spikes for H&M on November 14. That’s just about when Rei Kawakubo’s Beatles bags will hit London’s Dover Street market.
Yes, Kawakubo’s Comme des Garçons’ has signed a deal with Apple Corps Ltd, (the company which manages The Beatles’ musical catalogue and image, for a collection of bags under The Beatles/Comme des Garçons label available at DSM and at Gyre in Tokyo in mid-November. WWD reports the deal is long term and might extend to T-shirts.
And because news always comes in threes, Kitsuné, the elegant Paris classics label from DJ’s Gildas Loaec and Masaya Kuroki, moves into Colette today. Boutique Kitsuné Maison is a gingham-covered pop-up shop at the store featuring Kitsuné record label’s CDs and clothes for classically funky men and women through October 3.
Tags: Colette, Comme des Garçons, Gildas Loaec, H&M, Jimmy Choo, Kitsuné, Masaya Kuroki, Rei Kawakubo, Sonia Rykiel, The Beatles
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Carven Green
Elle magazine is one of the things that makes Paris fashion go round, so it’s fitting that Superfluparis would start on a Friday, the day Elle hits the stands. For those far form the hexagon, but ever in need of a Paris style fix, here’s what the world’s biggest fashion weekly has to say about la mode a few days before Paris Spring 2010 fashion week.
Tags: Carven, Elle, Givenchy, Guillaume Henry, Hermès, Ladurée, Ludovic Alban, Paule Ka, YSL
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