Victoire de Castellane’s Animal Vegetable Mineral

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Victoire de Castellane is the couture jewellery designer of Dior. Known for using great traditional craftsmanship with Victoire’s artistic visions of colourful life kept within the diamonds, rubies and emeralds on her mesmerizing rings and necklaces, the new exhibition called “Animal Vegetable Mineral” just opened at the Gagosian Gallery on Maifair in London. An incredible display of gem snakes and flowers rest on pools of Australian opal, reassembling micro eco-systems. The exhibition is a second solo presentation of Castellane that definitely impresses as all with it’s beauty and detailing… And here is what the designer thinks: “Well, I love to play with nature, and I love to play with family and the idea of relationships. The relation between people and nature and how we manage to live together. It’s always so complicated. It’s three worlds coming together in one world. There are three families. But in the end they are all like human beings for me, they are little human beings – my babies”. That sounds deep…

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Paris: Day 8

Ok. The first thing, today that caught my eye were the new Chanel shoes from Resort 2013. They look really great, they have a real Street Style feeling!

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That was the most “touristic” day! I went to… three museums! All of them were great, full of interesting pieces and topics!
1. Le Pinacoteque De Paris: Van Gogh and Hiroshige “Reves de Japon” and Denis Rouvre “Low Tides”
Both expositions were inspired with Japan. In the first one, were the Dutch artists paintings were compared to Hiroshige’s, we could see some big similarities between both very different artists. We are talking about the tematics and positions of objects and people in the art pieces.

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Denis Rouvre’s photographies of Japanese people after the disaster in 2011 were really great because of perfect photography skills and people. That was mine favourite exposition today!

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2. Gagosian Gallery: Rudolf Stingel
Nice, but I didn’t understand the sence of those gold “strange” things…

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And Jeff Koons

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The last but not least, Palais de Tokyo and the Chloe Attitude exhibition’s for the label 60 years.
The exposition of photos and clothes was amazing. All the dresses were awesome and I really liked the way their were presented.

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For lunch I went to Hotel Costes that’s totally the same as L’Avenue. So it must be good.

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As for a shop with GOOD things I recomend warmly La Pistacherie where you can buy every type of pistaccio and nuts, from sicilian pistachio to green pistachio.

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For the last dinner we went to L’Atelier de Joel Robuchon. It’s the best restaurant in Paris for me! And I ❤ Paris the most of all. I hate the thought, that I need to departure tomorrow… No! Paris is full of fashion, restaurants, art and it’s atmosphere is even better than NY. I am really sad to leave you, City of Love!😥
J’adore Paris…

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