tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63722734493564864532024-03-19T14:03:08.829+01:00ParisVienneDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11605052039179989596noreply@blogger.comBlogger642125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6372273449356486453.post-41977862437777812652014-05-19T08:00:00.000+02:002014-05-19T08:43:38.484+02:00ROSHI gets the CHLOE crown<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">... I hope that you will excuse me for not writing about this definite fashion highlight earlier but I was travelling in China and Korea and could not pay attention to all that was going on fashion-wise in good old Europe. (Would you like another example of insufficient attention paying? I have been an assiduous watcher of the Euro Vison song contest, like, always, and the first time in years I don't watch it <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>BECAUSE I AM ON A PLANE</b></span> an Austrian contestant wins - absurd, right?).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Now, Hyères (yes, that's right, the <a href="http://www.villanoailles-hyeres.com/hyeres2014/" target="_blank">Festival international de la mode et de la photographie de Hyères</a>) is not the #ESC but it most definitely is a very important date on the fashion calendar and over the years quite some Austrian designers have done pretty well in the South of France. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This year's edition was no exception and saw a notable success by a designer who studied fashion at <a href="http://www.dieangewandte.at/jart/prj3/angewandte/main.jart?rel=en&content-id=1229508257447&reserve-mode=active" target="_blank">Angewandte uni's "Modeklasse"</a> - <b><u>Roshi Porkar</u></b> was one of two joint winners of the <b>Prix Chloé</b>. It was only the third time that the Prix Chloé was given to a finalist, the challenge is to create a look that reflects the aesthetics of the Paris-based fashion house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">As you can see from the images from Roshi's graduate collection, she did already bring a little bit of that Chloé twist to Hyères. So that's perfect. Another thing that should be mentioned: she has spent the past few months in Paris where she worked at Lanvin, so here we've definitely got someone <b>reaching out for the international heights of the fashion world</b>. Bravo, and to be continued ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">... c'est très Chloé ça, les silhouettes montrées ci-dessus, ne trouvez-vous pas ? Eh ben voilà. Et c'est donc tout à fait juste que la très douée créatrice Roshi Porkar, qui a terminé ses études de mode à la Modeklasse de l'Université des Arts Décoratifs à Vienne l'an dernier, ait gagné la troisième édition du Prix Chloé, décerné il y a peu au cours du Festival international de la mode et de la photographie à Hyères.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Vous voyez là quelques looks de la collection-diplôme de Roshi, et cette esthétique qui lui est évidemment très chère correspond tout à fait aux codes de la maison Chloé. Et puisque c'est exactement cela qu'on demande aux finalistes du festival, de créer un look qui reflète l'esthétique de Chloé, Roshi a gagné à très juste titre. Elle vient de terminer un stage chez Lanvin, à Paris, ce qui fait deux très grands noms dans sa poche, en quelque sorte, et l'on verra bien ce que l'avenir lui apportera ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">... well, it had to come, sooner or later: another of those infamous Gaga posts. While I've recently been going on about Kylie and Britney on <a href="http://kalteplatte.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">KaltePlatte.com</a>, I thought that Lady Gaga should make her appearance on ParisVienne.com - for obvious reasons (first things first). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So let's take a look at "G.U.Y.", Gaga's latest video which was shot in Hearst Castle in California (what a great setting THAT is). And you know what? When I was in Cali and we were travelling from San Francisco to Los Angeles, we arrived too late that day to visit Hearst Castle - so I only know it from hearsay and official images. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">When I watched Gaga's "artpop" video, I was pretty sure that the location had to be the Hearst place even though I thought it could also have been Gianni Versace's villa in Miami, which was recently up for sale (and will be turned into a hotel, is that right or am I mistaken? I was right of course, only that it <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2582544/Gianni-Versaces-Miami-mansion-reopens-luxury-hotel-Villa-Barton-G.html" target="_blank">ALREADY IS</a> a hotel, apparently).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">And why did I even think that it could also have been the Versace mansion? Because it seems like Gaga is now set on impersonating Donatella and sporting Versace looks in everyhting she does. Now of course she is the reigning celebrity testimonial #01 for the Versace fashion brand, but I wonder whether Versace also acted as sponsor for this artpoppy little film.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">So again, I will have to ask the question, where do music videos (or artpop films) stop and where do commercials start..? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">... I mean, no comment, really. Hardly any comment necessary at all. Joan Collins' very own cosmetics range? Irresistible. She's so versatile, right? One moment she sells you a chocolate bar, immediately afterwards it's her own beauty collection... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: x-small;">So convincing! I'm only wondering - what happens to her mouth when she has to say the word "skincare" for the first time after approximately five seconds? I wouldn't exactly interpret that expression as joy and glee. But then again, who cares...?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">So, are we surprised that she has "always done my own makeup for films and photo shoots" (see the little video I posted above)? Well, I am not, quite frankly. Do we believe her? We do believe her every single word. After all she pretty well is Alexis Morell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan, isn't she? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Bathing in champagne and scrubbing her luxurious body with pearls of caviar, always plotting against someone totally innocent. That's how we were brought up to imagine her (us, fashion editors growing up in the 80s that is). Alexis, not Joan of course, but is there really any significant difference? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Lovely, lovely, lovely. And just look at that marvellous nail polish, sorry, "lacquer", in the tiny little bottle that looks like a very corporate very high skyscraper in Denver. Isn't it adorable? Never mind the quality of the product contained therein, I'd almost be tempted to say. Were I not grasping for breath after hearing Mrs Collins state, in the video promoting her <a href="http://www.qvc.de/Beauty-&-Vitalit%C3%A4t.category.14908574.html?cookie=set&refine=1000337%2B4294950878&viewType=gallery&pageSize=24&rememberSortBy=&uattrmb=" target="_blank">"Timeless Beauty" line on sale via QVC</a>: "I believe that looking good and feeling great is the right of every woman. Because beauty is timeless." And so it is and shall forever be ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11605052039179989596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6372273449356486453.post-40266454525696591212013-11-20T08:00:00.000+01:002013-11-20T08:00:03.944+01:00OPENING night<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">... Vienna's 13festival, which I already mentioned because of the fashion panel that will take place later today, will also present the audience with an occasion to see Ute Ploier's first womenswear collection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The Austrian designer, who started out in menswear ten years ago right after being victorious at the Festival de Hyères, recently presented her first womenswear collection ever during Paris Fashion Week. The collection will hit store shelves in spring of 2014, Ute told me that she also ogles the option of opening a shop/showroom in Vienna at that same moment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Le festival de la mode à Vienne, duquel j'ai déjà parlé à cause de la table ronde que j'y présenterai cet après-midi, offrira aux spectateurs la possibilité de voir, pour la première fois, la collection de mode féminine créée par la spécialiste en mode-hommes incontestée, Ute Ploier.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Ute a récemment présenté sa première collection pour femmes à Paris, et cela dix ans après sa première grande réussite à Hyères, où elle avait remporté le prix du festival de la mode. Félicitations, et encore plus de félicitations pour tant de courage et de bravoure ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">... I would like to make you, my dear and long-missed readers, aware of a panel that I shall be hosting next week during Vienna's first autumn edition of the 13festival for fashion & photography. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">On Wednesday, November 20, at 4pm in the main hall of MAK Museum of Applied Arts, a panel of very competent experts will explore different facets of the challenges of exhibiting (and collecting) fashion in a museum context.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">A LOOK FROM BERNHARD WILLHELM'S GRADUATE COLLECTION, 1998</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">"Staging Fashion - Display and collection of contemporary fashion" is what we're going to talk about, and I'm much looking forward to speaking to <b>Karen van Godtsenhoven (curator at Antwerp's MoMu), Dan Thawley (editor of A Magazine Curated By), trend "guru" Lidewij Edelkoort and Christoph Thun-Hohenstein</b>, the director of MAK and host of this event. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">FROM MARKUS STRASSER'S GRADUATE COLLECTION, 2000</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There are a great many aspects that I would like us to address, ranging from the overall purpose of fashion exhibitions and the nature of their contribution to the fashion system to questions concerning the potential audience (number of visitors, main points of interest etc.). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">One of the key and core issues in this whole "Staging Fashion" discussion concerns <b>the mode of display chosen for fashion in the context of a museum</b>: How much sense do classic displays that rely on static mannequins make, which alternatives are there that we could think of?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">I am all the more excited that Karen van Godtsenhoven will also be among the participants since I recently had the occasion to take a look at an example of her work. Karen co-curated <b>the anniversary exhibition in honour of the fashion department at Antwerps's Royal Academy at "MoMu Mode Museum",</b> and I was there for the opening. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This show is a very fine example of its kind and the overall set-up is very nicely done, with a very good and clear exhibition architecture. The greater part of all clothes by fashion graduates from Antwerp are shown on mannequins, and this gives visitors the unique chance to take a closer, a very close look at these garments that had never before shown in this context before. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">This "slow mode" is a good alternative to the habitual pace of the fashion system, and I guess that's also what a museum should be: a different kind of place offering new views and more time to familiarise ourselves with whatever subject matter is on display. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">See you next Wednesday, then:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">... that was quick (and a little surprising, too): <b>Marco Zanini</b>, who we learned last week is to be replaced with Alessandro dell'Acqua at the helm of Rochas, will be the new creative director of Schiaparelli.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Elsa Schiaparelli by Christian Lacroix,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">presented during Haute Couture week in July 2013, photo: ParisVienne</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Now, this appointment also puts an end to seasons and seasons of speculations regarding the creative vision that was to be adopted for the relaunch of the "belle au bois dormant" that was Elsa Schiaparelli's fashion brand. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Diego della Valle, who is the mastermind behind all this, did take his time before making up his mind as to who would head his freshly revived high fashion brand - and there was quite a bit of name dropping before Zanini's definite appointment. In the course of these past few years we heard of Giles Deacon, Gareth Pugh, maybe even Peter Pilotto or Marios Schwab as "potential" designers for Schiaparelli.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Monsieur <b>Christian Lacroix</b>, who presented a very faithful, surrealist and rather "museum piece/theatrical costume" Haute Couture collection for Schiaparelli could hardly be considered a serious choice in the long run (Lacroix has shifted the centre of his attention from fashion to theatre, or so we hear). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Marco <b>Zanini, who has been doing rather well (if a bit puffily) at Rochas over the past few years</b> definitely belongs to a different league of fashion designers as he has shown his ability (and readiness) to familiarise himself with a creative legacy that is being handed over to him (I could find out for myself when <a href="http://schaufenster.diepresse.com/home/mode/519844/Marco-Zanini_Zurueck-aufs-Podest" target="_blank">I talked to him about his new post at Rochas, back in 2009</a>).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">What remains there to say but that I am <b>much looking forward to Zanini's first Haute Couture collection for Schiaparelli in January</b> and I definitely wish him the best of luck for his new task ...</span>Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11605052039179989596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6372273449356486453.post-31348725173132765092013-06-26T10:00:00.000+02:002013-06-26T13:14:48.561+02:00THREE THOUGHTS about fashion blogs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">... there seems to be some new momentum in the ongoing (?) debate (??) about fashion blogs, at least in Austria (I'm saying this because of <a href="http://blicablica.blogspot.co.at/2013/06/leseleiste-warum-modeblogs-nicht-doof.html" target="_blank">this</a>, <a href="http://stylekingdom.com/blog/2013/06/23/zu-welchem-zeitpunkt-haben-wir-uns-zu-hassen-begonnen/" target="_blank">this</a> and <a href="http://derstandard.at/1369363598572/Und-das-Hirn-macht-Pause?_lexikaGroup=1" target="_blank">that</a>). Alright then, let me add just three thoughts:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>One:</b> fashion blogs are indeed the most <b>self-referential</b> media I know (except for print media writing about the nearing end of all print media, of course - ha ha ha). To the point that there are some examples that are actually more about fashion blogs than they are about fashion. That is, from my point of view, an absurdity, unless these blogs actually start to refer to themselves as fashion blog blogs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Two: self pity</b> seems to be a common thing among fashion bloggers, or rather the need to repeatedly point out how many bad feelings there are and how sad that is, and yet everyone (I will have to include myself, I guess) who writes about this whole bad feeling thing just contributes to it. And, let's face it, the Internet is not a particularly happy place. When I go through some bloggers' or journalists' or just "ordinary" people's timeline on their Facebook pages or Twitter feed, it sometimes feels like there is more complaining and moaning and disliking stuff (I'm still sticking to fashion here) than there are positive remarks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Three:</b> the whole "we are doing this for free and this is so great and do you not feel sorry for us heroic bloggers" aka (pseudo?) <b>self exploitation</b> discourse is just, well, misleading. There are lots and lots of young and aspiring writers who work for free for print publications, and you'd be surprised at the magazines that are not willing to pay you ("we'd love to, but we just can't, and it'll always be good for your CV to have worked for us" ... uhm, yeah, super!). I myself worked as a "fashion editor at large" (great job title, right?) for a pretty okay mag just after its launch, and I did that for over a year, and all I got for that job was one umbrella. Of course I'd have loved to be paid, but I knew what was in there for me, and when I didn't see the point in doing that kind of job for free I stopped. Period. <b>I don't say that this is a good thing, quite the contrary of course,</b> but sadly it seems to be the way things work these days, at the beginning of a "career" in fashion writing at least. And it's the same with a blog: nobody makes you start it, as long as you like writing about fashion and have something to say and don't feel too tired/exhausted/overwhelmed to continue blogging, just go for it. And the very second it stops being fun, stop. It is not an obligation, towards noone, and it will most likely not turn you into a superstar in the world of runway shows and red carpets. It is, or should be, all about a person interested in (saying something fascinating and making a contribution to) fashion. Just saying ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Edit:</b> Two seconds after publishing this I realized that I should <b>add one more remark</b> - instead of the self-referential boredom, self pity and self exploitation, fashion blogging (just like everyhting else, basically) should be something that fills you with or adds to your already existing <b>self esteem</b>. Don't you agree that this should be the way it is? Let's try to stay on the bright side of all things stylish.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">... I was talking to some people the other day and we found out that since Vienna's annual "festival for fashion and photography" was moved to a later date in autumn, the city's fashion folk had much less occasions to meet and mingle than they usually would at this time of the year. I mean, at least if you calculate that the people attending a show with avant-garde fashion by student designers are not 100 percent identical with the luxury aficionados that invade the countless openings of new luxury flagship stores in the city centre.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Anyhow, so we were all really really happy and full of energy </b>when we went to the traditional fashion show of Modeklasse at Angewandte last week, and the same thing goes for the BA Fashion show by students of the bachelor course for fashion design located in Hetzendorf. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">First up was the show of Angewandte's fashion department, one of the highlights on Vienna's fashion calendar for sure. The air was thick and damp and heavy, but that didn't prevent us from digging the work of Bernhard Willhelm's students. There is quite a lot of Willhelmy stuff around, and a surprisingly great number of collections made me think "that's a little Margiela-ish" or "isn't that one of Miuccia's whims?" (wasn't that a little different some years ago? probably not, and I'm just imagining things - I HAVE been very busy at work lately, so that would be pretty understandable). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">There was quite some colourful stuff, quirky shoes, some valid criticism of the fashion system, and there was the graduate collection of <b>Taro Ohmae who does BEAU-TI-FUL things together with Tanja Bradaric</b> - as you, <a href="http://parisvienne.blogspot.co.at/2012/11/why-celine-when-theres-bradaric-ohmae.html" target="_blank">dear readers, should be well aware of</a>... Keep it coming, dear fellows <span style="font-size: x-small;">(does anybody know when the Willhelm era will come to its end, by the way? was this his last season at Angewandte already? I guess there's one more year to come...?)</span>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Regarding the fashion show of BA Fashion students at Hetzendorf in collaboration with the University of Fine Arts in Linz (phew! always such an effort to get *that* right...), that was quite another thing. I mean, <b>basically it should be just another chapter of the same story, which is </b>or should be<b> about about creativity and being young and a newcomer</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But sadly, there is one great difference: <b>the City of Vienna, which used to finance this very fashion course, decided (that was two years ago) that money spent on such a bachelor degree was money spent not wisely enough.</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Huh? Yeah, you understood that correctly. First they started it, and then, after three or so years, they said - that's enough, we'll pay for another three years, and then that's that. </span><b style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Quite the contrary of political farsightedness, I'd say</b><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">. Urgh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">The fashion show was marvellous, you'll find images on most Austrian fashion blogs (the same thing is true for Angewandte's show), <b>there were really original ideas in some of the collections and also on how to present fashion</b> (and shoes - with torches, lighting them, as in Isolde Mayer's case, for example; or sitting on a chair pretending to try them on as you would in a shop). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">24 collections of Hetzendorf graduates being presented at the same time, quite a challenge, and all in all pretty impressive, right? And let me express my hope that some high-ranking person from Vienna's town office was there and will be able to take the right decision for this bachelor course. I will keep you posted, you can take that as a promise ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">... <b>quelques mots en français pour terminer</b> : je viens de vous parler du festival de la mode et de la photographie qui n'a pas encore eu lieu à Vienne cette année, et des grandes attentes que le people a pu avoir à l'égard des défilés des deux universités de mode existant à Vienne. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">En ce qui concerne la fameuse <b>"Modeklasse" de l'Université des Arts Appliqués</b>, les traces de la direction artistique de Bernhard Willhelm ont depuis longtemps pu devenir manifestes - il y avait décidément, çà et là et ailleurs, une influence willhelmoise très, on va dire, bigarée.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Et pour parler de la licence ("bachelor") de mode, cours d'études dirigé par la designer autrichienne Ute Ploier à <b>l'Université de Linz mais situé à Hetzendorf</b> : cela aura été l'avant-dernière fois, tragiquement, qu'on a vu les travaux de ces jeunes gens apparemment très doués défiler car la ville de Vienne, soutien économique principal de ce cours universitaire, a décidé, il y a deux ans, qu'elle allait arrêter ce flux d'argent. Ce qui, trois ans seulement après qu'on avait démarré ce même cours, a surpris par l'absence totale de clairvoyance de la part des responsables politiques. C'est presque surprenant que l'on puisse encore être surpris par une série d'actions dépourvues de sens en politique, mais là, ç'a été fait. On verra bien l'an prochain si la décision a vraiment été prise une fois pour toutes ... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11605052039179989596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6372273449356486453.post-39461944581245999102013-05-06T22:05:00.003+02:002013-05-07T22:05:29.781+02:00FLYING fashion VISITOR, misled?<br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">... what a great occasion to revive ParisVienne, which, admittedly, I had neglected these past few weeks and months. Anyhow. There are quite some news: <b>Suzy Menkes</b> (the one fashion critic every fashion critic loves - or loves to hate) <b>was in town</b> to attend the first edition of <a href="http://www.linkjewelrysummit.com/" target="_blank">LINK Jewelry Summit</a>, hosted by the International Herald Tribune. And she wouldn't be one of the world's most prolific fashion writers, had she not seized the opportunity to check out the most luxurious and fashionable sides of Vienna at the same time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">But then of course, in a place you are not so familiar with you must rely on the obvious - and on the guides that will accompany you. As far as <i>the obvious</i> is concerned, Mrs Menkes takes a closer look at the city's new "Golden Quarter" in her article entitled <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/30/arts/30iht-fvienna30.html?ref=suzymenkes&_r=0" target="_blank">"In Seductive Vienna, a New Fashion District"</a> and is quite right when stating that <i>"</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>[w]</i></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>ealthy Russians looking to invest in bricks and mortar and a swelling number of Chinese visitors have inspired this gilded shopping area in the heart of a city that has been rejuvenated by the opening up of Eastern Europe"</i></span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">What is of greater interest to anyone warming to the city's radiant fashion scene these past few years though: Mrs Menkes then goes on to examine the local creative crowd and sets out to meet some designers. And I must say, the choices she makes are, at least in part, pretty confusing. While <b>the interest she takes in the work of Lena Hoschek and Susanne Bisovsky</b> is totally justified by repeated appearances of these designers in an international context, I find it interesting that the other names the world's most reputed fashion critic drops in her piece about Vienna are Ina Kent, Madames with a Mission, the Faux Fox fashion showroom and even Barbara Irma Denk with her 7tm initiative.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">While Vienna's vibrant fashion hot-spot that the 7th district may well be is absolutely worth being noted (and it has already been, in another piece published by the New York Times, whose "international edition" the International Herald Tribune is - see the "Shop Around" passage of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/travel/36-hours-vienna.html" target="_blank">this article</a>) and while the efforts of all the designers that set up shop there can only be admired, I do find it remarkable, and even a little shocking, <b>that Mrs Menkes wasn't introduced to one single designer whose work is aimed at the international market and who does not run a shop or showroom in town</b>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">While it is perfectly possible and even excusable that Mrs Menkes does not find the time to thoroughly prepare for a trip to a more "seductive" than actually fashion-forward Vienna, it would have been all the more important (and advisable) for whoever was in charge of showing her around to familiarise her with all facets of Vienna's fashion life.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">... if you're <b>into fashion and literature alike</b>, why not try to bring the two of them together through an appropriate choice of accessories: number one, the <a href="http://www.strandbooks.com/vintage%2Dpulp/tote%2Dbag%2Dcats%2Dprowl%2Dat%2Dnight" target="_blank">tote bag available at the wonderful Strand bookstore</a>, featuring the cover of a vintage mystery novel. Number two, one <a href="http://www.olympialetan.com/#collections/il-gattopardo.html" target="_blank">of Olympia Le-Tan's precious hand-embroidered clutches</a>, for example the "Gattopardo" variant. Up to you to guess which one costs 1,200 euros, and which one 15 dollars ... <b>la littérature et la mode</b>, c'est une combinaison un peu moins évidente que la mode et l'art, mais n'est-elle pas tout aussi convaincante. Pour tous ceux qui aiment les deux, voilà deux accessoires pour souligner vos prédilections : <a href="http://www.strandbooks.com/vintage%2Dpulp/tote%2Dbag%2Dcats%2Dprowl%2Dat%2Dnight" target="_blank">le sac "mystery novel" du fameux bouquiniste The Strand</a>, et <a href="http://www.olympialetan.com/#collections/il-gattopardo.html" target="_blank">la minaudière "Gattopardo", signée Olympia Le-Tan</a>. La différence de prix, entre 15 dollars et 1.200 euros, est bien évidemment minime ...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br /></span>Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11605052039179989596noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6372273449356486453.post-14789288181883458972013-02-12T09:00:00.000+01:002013-02-12T14:16:11.125+01:00BAKE A BAG, pack a cake<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">... as you may know if you read the sister blog of ParisVienne, <a href="http://kalteplatte.com/">KaltePlatte.com</a>, I went to New York City to attend fashion week. But of course you don't survive on fashion alone, and so I took some walks up and down Broadway and 5th Avenue to see what's happening in town. When I passed by the windows of the <b><a href="http://www.internationalculinarycenter.com/" target="_blank">International Culinary Center</a></b> (founded as the French Culinary Institute) I saw these absolutely adorable and probably very delicious handbag creations. I say <b>bravo to these students from the Cake Techniques and Design programme</b>, they sure know how to transform a fashion accessory into a sweet delicacy ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">... vous aurez peut-être vu sur mon autre blog, <a href="http://kalteplatte.com/">KaltePlatte.com</a>, écrit uniquement en allemand, que je suis allé à <b>New York pour la semaine de la mode</b>. Afin d'assurer que je ne rate pas ce qui se passe en ville au-delà de la mode, j'ai essayé de faire le plus de choses possible, de me promener, de garder, comme on dit, les yeux ouverts. C'est ainsi que je suis tombé sur la vitrine du <a href="http://www.internationalculinarycenter.com/" target="_blank">International Culinary Center</a> (qui s'appelait initialement le <b>"French Culinary Institute"</b>, vous allez en être fiers, mes chers amis français, n'est-ce pas ?) dans laquelle étaient exposés des créations de pâtisserie des étudiants d'un cours de l'institut. Et je dois dire, jamais un sac signé Chanel n'a eu l'air plus appétisant. Quelle magnifique petite trouvaille ... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: small;">... I <span style="font-size: small;">recently stayed in Be<span style="font-size: small;">rlin and found out about the <a href="http://www.stromholm.com/" target="_blank">Christer Strömholm</a> <span style="font-size: small;">retrospective <span style="font-size: small;">at <a href="http://www.co-berlin.info/programm/exhibitions/2013/christer-stroemholm.html" target="_blank">C|O Berlin</a>, which is on until early March. If you ha<span style="font-size: small;">ppen to be in town, do check out <span style="font-size: small;">these marvellous photographs <span style="font-size: small;">- as you can see, he also came <span style="font-size: small;">up with some r<span style="font-size: small;">ather unconvetional views of Paris ... lors d<span style="font-size: small;">'un bref séjour à Berlin, j<span style="font-size: small;">'ai vu l'annonce d'une grande retrospective du travail de <a href="http://www.stromholm.com/" target="_blank">Christer Strömholm</a><span style="font-size: small;"> chez <a href="http://www.co-berlin.info/programm/exhibitions/2013/christer-stroemholm.html" target="_blank">C|O Berlin</a><span style="font-size: small;">. <span style="font-size: small;">Je vous recom<span style="font-size: small;">mande vivement de vous y rendre, surtout et aussi si vous êtes <span style="font-size: small;">à la rech<span style="font-size: small;">erce de vues peu conve<span style="font-size: small;">ntionnelles de la ville de Paris ...</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">... what an exhibition highlight indeed: <a href="http://mak.at/en/program/event/nippon_chinbotsu?reserve-mode=active" target="_blank"><b>Vienna's MAK museum hosts an exhibition focussing on the work of manga artist Tokihiko Ishiki</b></a>, based on the novel Nippon Shinbotsu/Japan Sinks by Sakoyou Komatsu - open from today ... une vraie délice en termes d'exposition d'art : <a href="http://mak.at/en/program/event/nippon_chinbotsu?reserve-mode=active" target="_blank"><b>le musée viennois des arts décoratifs MAK accueillit à partir d'aujourd'hui le travail de Tokihiko Ishiki</b></a> basé sur le roman Nippon Shinbotsu/Japon en voie de disparition de Sakoyou Komatsu. C'est une vision sombre de la fin du Japon, due à des tremblements de terre ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">... you will be interested to hear that, <b>according to Austrian gallery owner Thaddaeus Ropac Paris will soon (re)claim its role as the world capital of contemporary art</b>. Ropac made this statement in an interview published by the Italian newspaper La Stampa, for which he was interviewed by Alain Elkann. The name rings a bell, well it sure should: Alain is the father of infamous Italian dandy Lapo, no stranger to the world of fashion and glamour. Ropac explicitly pointed out the <a href="http://ropac.net/contact/paris-pantin" target="_blank"><b>opening of his new art space in the North-East of Paris</b></a> as the greatest highlight of his career to date. <a href="http://www.lastampa.it/2013/01/06/cultura/gallerista-d5yT6jP9EEKkd26dnVh56L/pagina.html" target="_blank">Click here</a> to read the full version of this interesting interview ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">... vous serez sans doute soulagés, voire même enthousiasmés, par une affirmation faite par <b>Thaddaeus Ropac dans une interview concédée au journal italien La Stampa</b>. Le galeriste a été interrogé par Alain Elkann (mais oui, c'est bien le papa de Lapo, "enfant terrible" du clan des Agnelli et vedette du monde des très riches et très stylés) à qui il a confié que <b>Paris se (re)affirmera bientôt comme capitale mondiale de l'art contemporain</b>. Quelle joie ! Sinon, Ropac mentionne <a href="http://ropac.net/contact/paris-pantin" target="_blank">l'ouverture de son nouvel et très spacieux<b> </b>espace d'art à Pantin</a> comme l'une des apogées de sa carrière, vous pouvez lire le texte dans son intégralité <a href="http://www.lastampa.it/2013/01/06/cultura/gallerista-d5yT6jP9EEKkd26dnVh56L/pagina.html" target="_blank">en cliquant ici</a> ... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">... right on time for London Fashion Week (Feb. 15-19), <a href="http://www.acflondon.org/exhibitions/international-fashion-showcase-another-austria/" target="_blank">the Austrian Cultural Forum puts together a little fashion showcase</a> in the British capital (nota bene: <u>we're talking about a fashion exhibition and not a commercial showcase that actually supports sales</u>). The title of the whole thing, <b>"Another Austria", </b>is a little yawn-inspiring (we know by now that Austria is about more than yodelling and the Sound of Music, don't we?) but all in all the initiative is sure worth being mentioned. Featured fashion labels include Bradaric Ohmae, meshit and Sophie Skach (who currenty studies in London). Some lectures and a photo exhibition are also part of the deal. Watch out for <b>Monica Titton's lecture on fashion blogging</b>, entitled "From Catwalk to Sidewalk", on Feb. 26 (<a href="http://www.acflondon.org/lectures-talks-symposia/catwalk-sidewalk/" target="_blank">click here</a> for details) ...</span><br />
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information,<a href="http://austrianfashionshowcase.blogspot.co.at/" target="_blank"> click here</a> ...</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">... what <b>a ghastly example of really bad taste</b> <b>and wrong visual merchandising strategies</b>: we recently took a little walk on Vienna's Mariahilfer Straße, indulging in some pre-Christmas window shopping. When we passed by the huge Benetton flagship store I didn't even get the whole absurdity of the window display until I was made aware of the fact that there was a whole lot of "real" stuffed animals set in a winter landscape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">... quel manque de goût ! L'autre jour, nous nous sommes promenés sur la Mariahilfer Straße de Vienne après que la nuit était tombée et lorsque nous sommes passés devant la vitrine de l'immense boutique Benetton, je ne me suis pas aperçu de toute l'absurdité de cette décoration de Noël à première vue. Mais figurez-vous qu'il y a là tout un paysage d'animaux empaillés, <b>cela commence avec des marcassins de sanglier et va jusqu'aux renards (il y a même un élan, vous imaginez ?)</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Alors, pour abbrévier tout ce que l'on pourrait dire la-dessus : c'est un exemple d'un mauvais goût incroyable, de la part d'une marque mondiale qui cherche à se donner des airs de responsabilité durable. Ça ne va plus, non ? De toute façon, j'espère que Benetton nous livrera une version plus "végane" pour ses vitrines de Noël 2013 ...</span>Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11605052039179989596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6372273449356486453.post-30612091788631734612012-11-25T17:41:00.000+01:002012-11-25T17:42:54.177+01:00PARISIAN e-shop luxury<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">... Paris-based Austrian designer <b>Michaela Bürger</b> recently <a href="http://parisvienne.blogspot.co.at/2010/10/hand-in-hand.html" target="_blank">launched her first e-shop</a>, which represents a wonderful opportunity for fans of exquisite knit and crochet accessories to purchase exclusive items right on time for Christmas. Isn't that indeed a nice surprise? </span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">... Michaela Bürger, la créatrice de mode d'origine autrichienne et basée à Paris qui ne peut pas être ignorée par les lecteurs fidèles de ParisVienne, <a href="http://parisvienne.blogspot.co.at/2010/10/hand-in-hand.html" target="_blank">vient de lancer son premier e-shop</a>, ce qui ouvre la possibilité à tous les amis de son esthétique et des accessoires en tricot tout à fait inconventionnels de faire du shopping, à temps pour le comptage à rebours qui mène à Noël ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">... the first time I came across some collection pieces and, more especially, accessories created by <b>Tanja Bradaric and Taro Ohmae</b> I went like: wow, now that's rather nice. And "nice" is of course hardly the matching term to describe <a href="http://www.bradaric-ohmae.com/index.html" target="_blank">the brilliance of Tanja's and Taro's work</a>. The two of them met at Angewandte and are (in my humble opinion) on a very good course to building a reasonable structure for their fashion label. They set out to do <b>ready-to-wear as well as accessories</b> - but if it turns out to be easier to get started by doing accessories, so be it. That's a very clever approach that totally makes sense. They told me that the most important thing for them was to get production sorted in order to be able to finish all orders on time and so as not to deceive their clients (another very important point). And then, of course, there are the aesthetics of their brand and there I can only say: marvellous. Really really good. Let's be honest with ourselves - <b>who needs Céline when they can have Bradaric Ohmae</b> ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">... la première fois que j'ai vu des objets créés par <b>Tanja Bradaric et Taro Ohmae</b> (je ne me souviens plus si c'était plutôt des vêtements ou des sacs, ou les deux - mais peu importe), j'ai tout de suite été convaincu par la <a href="http://www.bradaric-ohmae.com/index.html" target="_blank">qualité exceptionnelle de leur travail</a>. Sans exagération, je trouve que l'approche de Tanja et Taro (les deux se sont connus à la fac "Angewandte" de Vienne) est vraiment magnifique et ceci, <b>et du côté création, et du côté professionnel</b>. Car si je vous pose la question légèrement ironique - "Mais qui a besoin de Céline s'il peut avoir Bradaric Ohmae ?" -, je le fais AUSSI parce que je suis persuadé que ces deux très jeunes (et talentueux) créateurs savent parfaitement où ils veulent arriver dans le système de la mode et comment s'y prendre. Quand je les ai rencontrés, on a bavardé un peu et ils m'ont assuré que la chose la plus importante, pour eux aussi bien que pour leurs (futurs) clients, c'est d'assurer que la production soit satisfaisante. C'est effectivement crucial de comprendre cela avant de lancer une marque de mode, si modeste que soit sa taille. Puis, même si le but ultime de Tanja et Taro était de créer du prêt-à-porter, ils sont préparés à mettre l'accent sur les accessoires pour l'instant si cela leur permet de rester fidèles à leur vision. Enfin bref, <b>une étincelle d'esprit pragmatique, dans le terrain pas si facile de la création, n'a jamais fait de mal à personne</b> ... </span><br />
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Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11605052039179989596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6372273449356486453.post-10609355988302763642012-11-09T08:00:00.000+01:002012-11-09T08:00:09.968+01:00FLÖGE COUTURE gems<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">... even though I hardly plan for ParisVienne to become a weblog dedicated primarily to art and design auctions, I'd like to draw your attention to yet another public sale: <a href="http://www.palais-kinsky.com/en/auction/catalogue/?Tag=4" target="_blank"><b>Palais Kinsky will host three auction days next week</b></a>, from November 13 through 15 - and as part of the Art Nouveau auction <b>two exceptional items from the history of Viennese couture</b> will be "hammered" away. We all know about the <b>outstanding importance of the Flöge sisters' couture salon</b>, and the Klimt year provided us with ample opportunities to hear about the intimate bonds between Emilie and Gustav. Now, then, <b>a complete couture dress and a blouse</b> will be auctioned on November 15, let's say this is the ideal Christmas present for everyone working on their very own private fashion collection. Wealthy though you should be: the opening bid is 17,000 € for the dress, 5,000 € for the blouse. But come on, bro, it's the Flöge sisters ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">... vous penserez peut-être que, désormais, ParisVienne se dédie exclusivement aux ventes aux enchères mais je vous assure que ce n'est pas le cas. Tout de même, tandis que de la mode vintage signée JP Gaultier est vendue à Paris, il y a <a href="http://www.palais-kinsky.com/en/auction/catalogue/?Tag=4" target="_blank"><b>deux objets tout à fait fantastiques qui sont présentés au public dans le cadre de la vente "Art Nouveau" organisée par le Palais Kinsky</b></a>, à Vienne, le 15 novembre. Si vous êtes intéressés par l'histoire de la mode en Europe et si vous avez suivi toutes les publications et expositions qui ont accompagné cette année, sous le signe du 150ème anniversaire de Gustav Klimt, vous aurez eu l'occasion de vous rendre compte du lien intime entre Emilie et Gustav. Ainsi que de <b>l'importance des sœeurs Flöge pour la Wiener Werkstätte et la mode viennoise, voire même celle de toute l'Europe, de la première moitié du 20ème siècle</b>. Réjouissons-nous donc de la vente d'une robe de couture et d'une blouse, créées dans l'atelier des Flöge. C'est le point de départ idéal pour toute collection de couture historique, et un très beau cadeau de Noël - pour tous ceux qui sont prêts à dépenser le minimum de 17.000 euros pour la robe et de 5.000 euros pour la blouse. Pas le bon moment pour se découvrir radin, hein ? ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">... the Paris-based vintage fashion specialist and auctioner <b>Pénélope Branckaert</b> organised a special sales event entitled "<a href="http://www.pbfashionexpert.com/" target="_blank"><b>Jean Paul Gaultier - 30 ans de création</b></a>", which will take place on November 12. Exhibition days to take a closer look at all auction items are November 10 and 12 (until noon). Nota bene: despite the emphasis stressed in the title of this exhibition, vintage fashion from other fashion houses (Mugler, Alaïa, Montana, among others) is also up for sale. Paris-based fashion people should absolutely visit the exhibition next Saturday, I would like to think ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">... "<b>Jean Paul Gaultier - 30 ans de création</b>", c'est le titre de la prochaine vente aux enchères organisée par la spécialiste en mode "vintage", <b>Pénélope Branckaert</b>. La vente aura lieu lundi, 12 novembre, mais les lots de la vente seront exposées toute la journée du 10 ainsi que la matinée du 12 novembre (pour plus d'infos, <a href="http://www.pbfashionexpert.com/" target="_blank">voir ici</a>). A retenir : malgré le titre qu'on a donné à cet événement, il y a aussi pas mal de créations d'autres maisons de mode (par exemple, <b>Alaïa, Mugler, Montana</b>, pour ne citer que quelques uns...) parmi les lots ... </span><br />
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Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11605052039179989596noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6372273449356486453.post-62823128409498126612012-10-08T08:00:00.000+02:002012-10-08T09:30:21.579+02:00PORN, PUBLIC ART and Virtual Space<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">omg!!! a man in the nude! in public space?</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">... an rather peculiar thing happened some days ago, and I'd like to quickly mention it here (for is it not the actual point of writing a blog that you're able to mention such peculiar things that you would like to share with the wide, wide world? absolutely!). My boyfriend, who is a <a href="http://web.stagram.com/n/slobodanka/" target="_blank">very dedicated Instagram photographer</a>, his main focus being on public art and street art and city life, took some pictures of <b>Ilse Haider's public art installation "Mister Big" </b>inside Vienna's Museumsquartier museum complex. It stages <b>a young man in the nude</b> in an interesting multi-layered arrangement (the installation comes as a foreboding of the <a href="http://www.leopoldmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/46/naked-men" target="_blank">show that will soon open at Leopold Museum, dedicated to male nudes</a> - entirely). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Now, <b>what's harmless enough for Vienna's public space proved to be too much for the user-controlled virtual space</b> that is Instagram. Sure enough, once he'd uploaded some images (where it was, however, possible to discern the surrounding public space), these visuals were instantly flagged and ended up being removed from his timeline. While I entirely understand about the necessity of controlling the nature of images uploaded to public platforms such as Instagram, I still think it's <b>quite remarkable how "real" public space and "virtual" public space can follow completely opposite logics</b> and conceptions of what is "suitable" and what isn't ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">... je voudrais brièvement vous parler de quelque chose qui s'est récemment passé sur Instagram (encore un site internet à ne pas perdre, vous allez me dire) : mon petit ami, qui se dédie avec une énergie extraordinaire à entretenir <a href="http://web.stagram.com/n/slobodanka/" target="_blank">son remarquable compte sur Instagram</a>, lequel contient des images fort intéressantes, prises de vue de plusieurs villes, d'art urbain, de graffitis, a photographié <b>la nouvelle installation d'art urbain intitulée "Mister Big" et créée par l'artiste Ilse Haider </b>pour la cour principale du Museumsquartier à Vienne.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">Or, cette installation consiste de la gigantesque ("Big") image d'un jeune homme mis à nu, fragmentée en plusieurs couches. Le tout est conçu comme prolongement dans l'espace de la ville <a href="http://www.leopoldmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/46/naked-men" target="_blank">d'une exposition qui montrera ses portes le 18 octobre dans le musée Leopold, entièrement dédiée aux représentations artistiques de l'homme nu</a> (eh ben ouais...). Voilà donc qu'au moment même où la photo de Mister Big a fait irruption sur Instagram, l'image a été signalée par les utilisateurs du site et a ensuite été annulée. Je ne vous raconte pas ceci en me méprenant sur l'importance d'un certain contrôle des images qui sont déposées sur un site internet ouvert à tous. Tout de même, la différence qu'il y a bien évidemment entre l'espace public d'une ville réelle et l'espace public du monde virtuel me frappe comme étant, pour le moins, remarquable ... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">... one word? <b>Fashion must essentially be allowed to be fun</b>, and that's why the whole fashion circus is in desperate need of people like late <b>Anna Piaggi, Anna dello Russo or Bryanboy</b>, for that matter). Fashion criticism, wise words, advertising budgets, creative editorials - all of this is fine of course but were it not for people who obviously <b>enjoy dressing up in the most outraged manner</b> (and I'm not necessarily thinking of stage costumes Gaga-style), fashion would be a rather boring hunting ground. That's also why I absolutely <a href="http://nyti.ms/OSsxjj" target="_blank"><b>adore Anna's video</b></a> advertising her H&M collection ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">... une petite pensée ? Eccola: <b>la mode</b>, elle, en dehors de tout ce qu'on peut dire là-dessus, exception faite des services de mode les plus créatifs et de son poids économique dans certains pays, <b>a essentiellement besoin de personnes comme la défunte Anna Piaggi, comme Bryanboy ou Anna dello Russo</b>. C'est pourquoi je trouve <a href="http://nyti.ms/OSsxjj" target="_blank">la vidéo d'Anna pour présenter sa collection H&M </a>absolument fantastique et j'adore le fait qu'elle sait comment ne pas se prendre trop au sérieux ... </span><br />
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