Archive for March, 2008
Chanel’s Mobile Art Pavillon in Hong Kong
Last week in Hong Kong, French fashion house Chanel officially launched its latest global power project, the ambitious Mobile Art Pavillon. Commissioned by Chanel’s Karl Lagerfeld, the futuristic mobile art gallery was designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid.
The Luxury Bookshelf
Soon it will be UNESCO World Book Day, so it felt like a timely moment to mention that - to some people - the arrangement of a book collection is increasingly as important as the contents of a book collection.
Design and The Elastic Mind
Paola Antonelli’s exhibitions for MoMA often feel like a science fair planted in a museum. Her current show is no is no exception, showcasing the fertile relationships between design, engineering science, sculpture, architecture, and computer programming.
James Jean and Prada Trembled Blossom
This Spring, phenomenal artist James Jean‘s latest collaboration with couture giant Prada has just been unveiled in the company’s flagship stores in NYC and Beverly Hills.
Music from Global Fashion Week
I have sources that continuously tracked the music used at all the global Fashion Week events; with now over 200 tracks used during Autumn/Winter 2008 and Spring/Summer 2008 shows from 50+ designers; from Paris, New York, London and Milan.
Experience the Rainbow at the MoMA
Head over to New York’s Museum of Modern Art and experience the rainbow. The “Color Chart” exhibition draws together 90 of the museum’s most vibrant work by such artists as Ellsworth Kelly, Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol, and Jim Lambie, whose floor installation brightens the MoMA’s normally stark-white lobby.
Boylen’s Competition
Sixteenth century passion never goes out of style. Scarlett Johanson’s battle for the love of King Henry VIII, played by Eric Bana, in The Other Boleyn Girl, in theaters nationwide Feb. 29. The actresses play sisters Anne Boleyn and Mary Boleyn in Philippa Gregory’s adaptation of this historical and scandalous sibling rivalry. The movie is full of style and vibrantly sexy.


















Wode Paint Boudicca & Wode Scent Boudicca

