Sacai, spring-summer 2012 fashion show, Salle des Tirages – Hôtel d’Evreux, Place Vendôme
Orlando Milan of IVO MILAN, Padua, with Rosy Biffi of BIFFI and Carla Sozzani of 10 CORSO COMO, Milan
Photographers in action
Overview of the Esplanade des Invalides
Showroom Rick Owens, 7 bis, Place du Palais Bourbon
Trading Museum Comme des Garçons, 54 Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré
Boutique Issey Miyake, 11, Rue Royale
Photographs by Sari Milan
The apostrophe in the name stands for the strong paternal feeling that Yohji Yamamoto has for the Y’s line. This line is only second to his first line of clothing, the one which bears his whole name, in the sense that is yet “another” line. The product makes use of recurring themes, like asymmetries and cross cuts and the quality fabrics draw upon the erudite Japanese textile culture.
With the Y’s line, Yohji translates his daring poetic projects into the everyday more freely than in the first line. In fact, these are reworked in a less austere, more usable and practical way.
Re-dimensioning the abstract stylistic forms that have made him famous, Yamamoto makes space for colour, so frequently avoided in favour of strong monochromatic themes like black, white and red, which enhance and metabolize more complex tailoring work. These are also present in Y’s, but simplified and with volumes sensibly contained, creating attractive silhouettes for a younger audience, yet always mature enough to incorporate refined exoticism.
Yamamoto never presents the Orient in a quaint or traditional style, but rather as a mental place where Western clothing styles are fused and transfigured through edge-to-edge cuts, textile weaves and the imbalances of Japanese aesthetics.
Frayed houndstooth,
dry outwear in soft boiled wool faded unevenly,
and then, crisp fabrics,
shirts printed with worn newspaper
and spartan denim, ennobled by the unusual shapes of jeans, make up a part of the varied and original selection for the current season.
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Overviews, new outfits and details that can be seen from a close view from the Padua boutique.
A real and evocative point of view, to make the acquaintance of the complex new collections of the autumn-winter 2011/2012 catalogue.
Daniela Gregis jacket, t-shirts Cauliflower, pants Pleats Please and boots Trippen
Bags Craig-New Zealand
T-shirts hung Cauliflower – Issey Miyake
Silhouette Cauliflower – Issey Miyake
Cauliflower and Pleats Please – Issey Miyake landscapes
On September, 30, Friday, at rue du Faubourg St. Honoré, 54, the new Rei Kawakubo’s concept store has been opened. The following words, said by the members of the staff of the famous designer are interesting to read, in order to understand the idea that leads the Trading Museum:
Museums can be of many kinds and be founded for many purposes, such as recreation, study, education, tourism and even for civic pride.
Trade has probably existed in one form or another for about 150.000 years. The realm of trading is where mankind’s most significant meetings take place, bringing together all kinds of people, randomly and deliberatly.
Trading Museum Comme des Garçons is a space where the two above mentioned notions come together.
We hope to create a world where there is a reason and story behind all the goods we collect, show, display and or sell.
It will be a place where shopping is not the only objective. It will be a shop where “just looking” will be encouraged and merely being inspired can also be the aim.
A retail space beyond trends, outside fashion, where the barriers between trading and museum come tumbling down.
On this occasion, until October 29th, the Trading Museum present “Simulacrum and Hyperbole” series 2, the multimedia installation by Katerina Jebb, worldwide famous photographer, known for her co-operations with many personalities of international stardom and and for her particular interpretation of the so-called “society of the spectacle” and the mass aesthetics.
During the opening, the new perfume by Comme des Garçons was also launched.The essence, contained in a paradoxical waste bottle, represents a metaphoric invitation to reconsider the many objects that we don’t normally consider.
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How great it would be, if we could use teleportation!
Apart from its many advantages in terms of freedom, costs and pollution, this mean of transport would make it possible for us to go and spend one day in Tokyo, in order to see the unmissable exhibition of two important international artists, such as the legendary photographer Irving Penn, and Issey Miyake, the most important modern fashion designer.
The exhibition is called “Visual Dialogue“.
The title clearly pays homage to the cooperation of the two artists, that started almost accidentally in 1983, when Vogue America sent Penn to Japan, to portray Miyake’s work. To the fashion designer, Penn’s images were a real discovery.
As Miyake himself admits, explaining the reasons of a relationship that lasted until Penn’s death, in 2009, his pictures were well beyond the mere visual reproduction of Miyake’s clothes. They were able to see these items from a fresh viewpoint and enhance their visionary power. What Miyake saw inspired him to produce new items, establishing a sort of visual dialogue that was challenging for both artists.
Having “discovered” Penn, the Japanese designer decided to ask him, with absolute freedom, to present his new collections.
Their artistic collaboration is well known, both artists have been exhibited by important modern art museums and galleries. Together, they produced many books and catalogues, but also posters, that have always been shown at their exhibitions.
With drawings, prints, feature and animated films, starting from September,16 to April, 8, 2012, the 21_21 Design Sight gallery will celebrate the extraordinary experience of these great artists. Really unmissable!
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