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.

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Posted by Joelle in Art, Design, Exhibitions

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.

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Posted by Joelle in Luxury, New York

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.

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Posted by Joelle in Design, Exhibitions, New York

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.

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Posted by Joelle in Art, Fashion, New York

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.

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Posted by Joelle in Fashion, Music, New York

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.

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Posted by Joelle in Art, Exhibitions, New York

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.

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Posted by Joelle in Film, New York