UNIQLO has just released a cute new ‘Wake-up’ app, made my day! It’s an alarm featuring original music by Japanese experimental artists Cornelius and Yoko Kanno. The app also displays the time and temperature while playing one of the seven different musical selections, depending on the weather.
*To summarize the last few days – a whirlwind of events, rushed past way too quickly to digest until I was well and truly on my seven hour bus ride to London. I’ve moved to London!*
In between doing my last rounds of Hermès window displays, going to one last exhibition at Musée d’Orsay, cooking & drinking & dining (oh yes this takes time in France) and kissing goodbye the french family, I’ve somehow managed to pack the essentials into one stuffed luggage, hull it across Paris (with the help of the metro merci), and found myself on the northbound ride, staring calmly out the window at the fields of yellow flowers stretched across the countryside…
In White Drama (at the Cité de la Mode et du Design, next to Balenciaga), Rei Kawakubo dramatizes life’s big events: Birth, marriage, death, and transcendence.
“White Drama is whiteness – pure, ceremonial white of every hue. Budding flowers, layered handkerchiefs, white-flecked material, lace insets inspired by christening robes, an obi-bow belt, overcoats and tall hats redolent of the Holy Week processions in Seville, a wedding gown like the silky cocoon of an insect and fabrics, both untreated and refined, shiny and mat, opaque and sheer, which takes on a vibrant life of their own, drawing on the natural vitality of the animal, mineral and vegetable worlds.”
A film adapted from the book written by Patrick McGrath, directed by Tim Walker. Can anyone tell me where I can buy/watch this short film?
The last picture is from the COMME des GARÇONS exhibition, more quasi-monochrome flowery goodness coming your way soon!
Cristobal Balenciaga, collector of fashions is currently running at Les Docks – Cité de la Mode et du Design. A collection of more than 70 costumes and items of clothing are displayed alongside some forty haute couture coats and dresses designed by Balenciaga from 1937-1968.
“Stays and casaquins, satin torero costumes, velvet boleros, capes and mantelets, bustle dresses, cashmere stoles, lace mantillas, samples of embroidery and trimming… An invitation to enter Cristobal Balenciaga’s museum of the imagination: the traditional Spain of folklore, the black and the dark colors, the strict religious and ceremonial robes, the great masters of Spanish painting…”
Playing at Colette ce soir 5-7pm! Not a bad pick for Chanel Karl, not bad at all.
PS: Photos of Balenciaga retrospective coming very soon!