For Fall/Winter 2012/13 Pierre Balmain, the Parisian house’s secondary line, presents a glamorous wardrobe in black, white, grey and midnight blue that takes men and women with a poetic, downtown style from day into evening. The sinuous mood of the collection is set by a short black and white film shot by Martial Schmeltz, with art direction by Atelier Franck Durand. Inspired by late fifties/early sixties French and Italian films, models Melissa Stasiuk and the darkly handsome Adrien Sahores create a mating dance set to the haunting sounds of Bruno Alexiu.

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Just another reason to book a weekend in London this summer!

Serpentine Gallery revealed its plans a couple of days ago for this years´ Pavilion.  The twelfth commission in the Gallery’s annual series will be designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei.

This year’s Pavilion will take visitors beneath the Serpentine’s lawn to explore the hidden history of its previous Pavilions. Eleven columns characterising each past Pavilion and a twelfth column representing the current structure will support a floating platform roof 1.4 metres above ground. The Pavilion’s interior will be clad in cork, a sustainable building material chosen for its unique qualities and to echo the excavated earth. Taking an archaeological approach, the architects have created a design that will inspire visitors to look beneath the surface of the park as well as back in time across the ghosts of the earlier structures.
The temporary pavilion will open to the public on 1 June and will remain in Kensington Gardens until 14 October.

http://showstudio.com/project/fashion_fetish#daphne_guinness

 

Though I personally pretty much loved all the previous Tom Ford campaigns with himself starring in front of the lens, for his Spring-Summer 2012 menswear lookbook the master chose to this time stay out of the snaps. With a rather typical for him dose of saucy and sexy acts, Ford tries to provoke men to think out of the box.

Great job, Mr. Ford – as always!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

there have been so many inspiring items in milano furnuture fair this year, my favourites are the beautiful pottery and ceramics items seen on the fair and in the showrooms eg. spacio rosanna orlandi.

we featured milano in our special zeitgeist issue,have a look

http://zeitgeist.liganova.com/showroom.html

“The Corner Berlin wos proud to celebrate Sarah Burton last Friday at The Corner Berlin Gendarmenmarkt !

The cocktail reception celebrated Gallery Weekend Berlin and for the occasion, Alexander McQueen showcased 19 of the runway looks as well as some of the season’s best accessories pieces from Spring-Summer 2012 which has been displayed throughout the store.

A selection of art pieces curated by the brand has also been presented simultaneously at The Corner Berlin. These art pieces revolve around the theme of skulls which has been become part of the McQueen iconography over the years and comes exclusively from the Olbricht collection.”

We where invited and are pleased to show you some pictures in here.

“Stay hungry, stay foolish” is the advice Steve Jobs gave the Stanford graduates in 2005. And although Kasper Bjorke is none of them he takes Jobs’ advice very seriously: He divided his album “Fool” into a “Hungry Side” and a “Foolish Side” – even on CD. The first tracks on the first side are Electro-Pop groovers, graced by Jacob Bellens’ smooth voice, while the six tracks on the other side are epic Club-Anthems. “Stay hungry, stay foolish and get this album” is our advice!

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Find here the dates for next year’s exhibition…

Very astonishing art we think. Indeed you can see his interest to Renaissance Classism in his work.

“Kurt Wenner attended Rhode Island School of Design and Art Center
College of Design before working for NASA as an advanced scientific space
illustrator. In 1982, Wenner left NASA for Italy to pursue his love of
classical art.”

http://www.kurtwenner.com