Acne in London

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The new Acne Studios boutique in London on Pelham Street 93 have just opened! It’s the newest store of this Swedish label that has it’s own, unique touch- concrete, marble and pink velvet sofas! The store is already supplied with Acne’s Pre-Fall collection that I simply love! Till now I remember the warm atmosphere of New York SoHo Acne boutique, with great customer care and amazing wardrobes… The new hot spot of fashion is for sure the Pelham Street 93.!

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Fashion is Art, Art is Fashion

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Fashion was and is and will be influenced by art and design. How? In geometry, form, fabric, color, flower detail, a paint spot. The Louis Vuitton SS13 was all influenced by Daniel Buren geometric installations. The most dirty punk collection of AW13- Saint Laurent- had the flower motives from Yves Saint Laurent private collection of furniture. Givenchy Pre Fall 13 collection add by the way print similarities to the CH07 by Hans Wegner armchair! In this crazy art world of trends, changes, cults, everything has it’s replacement. If we talk of Eames chairs I think of a Givenchy SS13 dress and Jil Sander AW12 coats that are so lite and delicate. Just like Ray and Charles Eames furniture! Oh, and my less known to most interest are of course furnitures and specifically- chairs!

 

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From Rome With Love

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I’m in Rome for a while and I have a real spring blast! Flowers, warm weather, art, beautiful architecture… So Dolce Vita! On the Spanish Stairs the flowers already bloomed. It’s so warm I just can’t describe it! On Via Condotti the Prada and Dolce Gabbana already have new fresh windows… It’s just amazing. And the buildings around… These religious details and paintings on the ancient walls of houses, fruits, greenery (this building that is whole in leafs is mind blowing!) and lots of orange around. My favourite colour!

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Porcelain Pretty

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Porcelain figurines are usually kitsch but still very beautiful. So why shouldn’t the porcelain topic be shown in fashion? And if we can say that everything is in fashion, then there is no problem with that! Staffordshire figurines had always these amazing flower details. Spanish, for example Liardo, is advanced in hand made 3D elements like tiny flowers in baskets, embroiderment on the Geisha’s kimono and other artistic fantasies. And here I’ve taken my own pictures when I was in New York from Metropolitan Museum of Art! (These are all very mind blowing!).20130415-105853 AM.jpg20130415-105906 AM.jpg20130415-105917 AM.jpg20130415-105930 AM.jpg20130415-105942 AM.jpg

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Meadham Kirchhoff, London based label known for very kitsh collections, had a surrealistic collab with Nicolas Kirkwood- ornamented and kitsch sandals full of embroidment, flowers, colours and ribbons. Kept in mostly in pastel colours they look like cakes on feet! That’s a bit fairy tale like, but this is how it is. Who else from London thought of porcelain as a inspiration? Queen of prints, Mary Katrantzou and her archival collection. The dresses had 3D prints with tea pots, flowers, jewels- like if Katrantzou was redrawing all the porcelain figurine features. That’s so porcelain fantastic!

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Fei Feng (the graduate from Central Saint Martins) was inspired for her new haute couture collection with Ming dynasty vases and the splendor of Chinese wedding. The highly crafted detail like these flowers that move on air, or trees around the dress. Ok. Everything looks in reality ugly. And not practical. And hilarious. But still, I think it’s all very spectacular, if we have in mind that Fei did all these dresses handmade. And it matches the topic!

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Ron Mueck’s Hyperrealism

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Ron Mueck is an Australian hyperrealist sculptor working in the United Kingdom. His sculptures that look like real people thanks to a really advanced technology, are going to be presented in Foundation Cartier in Paris and possible will have even bigger exhibitions. This hyperrealistic art is known for real looking like human faces in amazingly big sizes, whole bodies with a mind blowing area and proportional to real people’s scale figures shown in different actions!
Some of the most known art pieces by Mueck are The Woman in Bed, The Newborn and The Man’s Face. Unfortunately, I will not see it (😭) becuse it’s gonna be much later in Paris, so the last thing to do, is to see it in IPad…

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