Late last fall, Lousia Guinness commissioned artist Marc Quinn {as well as Anish Kapoor, Tim Noble and Sue Webster} to scale down their typical avant garde art into wearable pieces, such as jewelery.
Quinn's, and the other artists, pieces were featured in the May 2008 issue of British Vogue. Guinness says, "The challenge for them is to create something small enough to be sculpture, and then small enough to be worn."
Guinn, who decided to create a small strawberry and sprinkle it with frost to make it look as if it were frozen. The pendant comes in a polished 18k gold edition and a white gold edition. Each pendant is a collectors edition {collectively, only 20 necklaces were made}
If you happen to be in London anytime soon, the collections are on display at Browns Art Gallery on Cork St. and you can visit Lousia Guinness gallery here.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
So Good You Can Eat It
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Labels: f and art, Jewelery, Jewellery, Marc Quinn
On The Campaign Trail: Givenchy & JT
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Douglas Hannant
Douglas Hannant, a native of Illinois, relocated to New York City in 1988 after having earned a Fine Arts degree from Missouri State University. His education continued at the Fashion Institute of Technology where his inherent design talent and affinity for luxury quickly became apparent. After graduating from FIT, he had several stints in visual display before launching his first collection in the fall of 1996.
This man is gonna make me cry! He knows me! He really knows me!
From The Fall 2008 Collection
Simply Beautiful!!!
Too, much class, too much style. Did I tell you I like Mr. Hannant? Finally the man of my dreams. The man I am not ashamed to say: "I'd let him dress me any day!" Forget Modesty."We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."--- Frederick Keonig
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Jackets For All @ Bottega
At Bottega Veneta, Tomas Maier chose the jacket as the star of the show for Spring/Summer 2009. Which lets me know that menswear next spring will be nice, easy and lax {when relax meets chill} with fabrics that were unstructured, loose and comfortable bursting forward with cool cottons, crisp hues and a laidback sense of style.The silhouettes also appeared to be a homage to the late Yves Saint Laurent and his vision of Parisian masculinity: wide-shouldered, double-breasted jackets paired with roomy white cotton trousers kept the look neat yet comfortable.
"We arrived at this collection by thinking quite literally about a day in the life of a contemporary man," says Maier.
**Images courtesy of Mens Style.com
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Labels: Bottega Veneta, men, spring, spring 2009, spring trends, summer, summer trends