JW Anderson unveils his collaboration with Converse at the Pitti Uomo In Florence this week.
This unisex footwear collection represents an improbable encounter between the iconic street style Converse silhouettes and JW Anderson’s provoking design aesthetic, creating a unique tension between style and culture.
/ by Xavier Bourgeois /
First look at the new Loewe FW17’s campaign captured by Steven Meisel.
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium is currently presenting the work of the Brussels-based Spanish artist Angel Vergara. Through performance, video, installations, drawings and paintings, the artist explores and widens the field of the pictorial act and its new possibilities.
Meet the artist Angel Vergara on Saturday 17th June at 3 p.m. at the Forum of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.
Angel Vergara: From Scene to Scene
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Brussels
10.03.17 - 02.07.17
photos Jan Liégeois - Courtesy Axel Vervoordt Gallery
/ by Xavier Bourgeois /
First look at the new Dior Homme menswear FW17’s campaign captured by David Sims.
Tate Britain presents an unprecedented overview of the impressive body of work of British artist David Hockney. Currently entering its final week, the exhibition will tour internationally to Paris’ Centre Pompidou and New York’s The Metropolitan Museum.
Gathering an extensive selection of the artist’s most famous works to date, the touring exhibition demonstrates how he continuously questioned the nature of pictures and picture-making and challenged their conventions throughout his achievements in painting, drawing, print, photography and video across six decades.
The exhibition is presented as a chronological overview and lays bare how the roots of each new direction lay in the work that came before: from his portraits and images of Los Angeles swimming pools, through to his drawings and photography, Yorkshire landscapes and most recent paintings at London’s Royal Academy and beyond.
As he approaches his 80th birthday, Hockney still continues to change his style and ways of working, embracing new technologies as he goes. This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see these unforgettable works together.
"My name is Simon, I like blue and white, stripes, the sun, fruits, circles, life, poetry, Marseille and the 1980s."
"Marseille je t'aime" is more than a traditional fashion exhibition as the artist will not only showcase his collection “Les Santons de Marseille”, but also photos, videos, sculptures and his new book. The idea is to show his work from various perspectives. So for the first time, Jacquemus got off the beaten track and produced other forms of art.
The project is a part of the Open My Med festival and is divided in two sections: “Maisons” and “Archives”at the Musée d'art contemporain, and "Images" at the Musée des civilisations et de la Méditerranée (MuCEM):
The book features poetic images created by French and international photographers, painters and contemporary artists.
For the fashion show, models walked on the MuCEM bridge wearing "Les Santons de Marseille," a collection inspired by the famous figurines, echoing Jacquemus' love for the provencale culture.
The video, for which the book is an accompaniment, shows personal and inspirational images. It will play from 13th May to 31st July.
For the sculptures, the artist played with the structure of circles and squares, which is a characteristic of his label.
"Marseille je t'aime" is an assemblage of creations forming an ode to the designer's beloved city.
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Marseille je t'aime
Until January 13th, 2018
Musée des civilisation et de la Méditerranée (MuCEM)
7 Promenade Robert Laffont
13002 Marseille
http://jacquemus.com/
Photos ©Jacquemus
/ by Souria Cheurfi /
The Belgian artist Eric Croes is holding his new exhibition 'To my old friends' at the art gallery 'Sorry We're Closed' in Brussels. His art is a juxtaposition of techniques, objects and ideas. The works of his exhibition were created by following four simple steps:
1 / Take a sketchpad
2 / Write a letter of the alphabet on each page
3 / Draw your favourite words (his 'old friends')
4 / Create a 3D assemblage of a selection of these words: one sculpture per letter.
His work invites us to feel the joy of working with our hands. However, "To my old friends" is not so much about the objects themselves; it is more about the story Eric Croes tells us through his drawings and sculptures. His art conveys a special energy: something spontaneous and emotional at the same time.
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Sorry We're Closed
until May 20th
67 rue de la Régence
1000 Brussels
Courtesy Sorry We're Closed
Photos©Hugard & Vanoverschelde
/ by Souria Cheurfi /
Starting this week, MoMu Fashion Museum Antwerp takes us back to that time when Martin Margiela was appointed creative director at Hermès in 1997. The fashion world held its breath, both universes could not have been further apart.
But the elusive Belgian gave the house the direction in which it is still going today. He did not deconstruct the Kelly bag as some feared, but he did however design the Cape Cod bracelet we all know, and introduced the vareuse shaped garments that are still, until this day, part of the Hermès collections.
There has never been anyone else in the history of fashion that built such strong identities for the brands he either worked for, or created. This is what this exhibition is about. It shows that the master of deconstruction is not that much about deconstruction, but quite the opposite.
Hermès, The Margiela Years opens March 31st until 27th of August 2017 at Momu Fashion Museum Antwerp, Nationalestraat 28, 2000 Antwerpen.
/ by Gaelle Van Lede /
Paris’ Centre Pompidou is currently presenting an exceptionally comprehensive retrospective of the work of American artist Cy Twombly.
Bringing together a vast selection of works from both private and public collections from all over the world in a chronological and cyclic arrangement, the exhibition includes many of the artist’s most iconic works. From his first works in the early Fifties marked by the primitive arts, graffiti and writing, to his last characterised by their exuberant colour schemes, it spans Twombly’s entire career. Some 140 paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs provide a clear overview of this extraordinarily rich and diverse body of work.
We went, we checked, and we were amazed.
You have one month left to do the same!
Cy Twombly
Centre Pompidou
Paris
30.11.2016 – 24.4.2017
Blooming, 2001-2008 © Cy Twombly Foundation, courtesy Archives Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio
Wilder Shores of Love, 1985 © Cy Twombly Foundation
Lemons, Gaète, 1998 © Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio
Night Watch, 1966 © Cy Twombly Foundation, courtesy Cheim & Read
Still Life, Black Mountain College, 1951 © Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio
Apollo, 1975 © Cy Twombly Foundation, courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio
Venus, 1975 © Cy Twombly Foundation, courtesy Archives Nicola Del Roscio
Sans titre (Grottaferrata), 1957 © Cy Twombly Foundation, courtesy Galerie Karsten Greve
/ by Kim Poorters /
SUPREME and LACOSTE are launching a limited co-branded collection.
It is a reedition of iconic outfits produced in materials inspired by LACOSTE archives as the diamond taffeta, pique terry or the jersey interlock and for this occasion a new branding LACOSTE L!VE x SUPREME has been created.
The capsule collection proposes 9 pieces for man, in a large color palette with symbolic LACOSTE outfits as the polo, the sweatshirt, the jogging pants, and the Harrington jacket.
This co-branded collection will be available from March 16th 2017 only in Supreme stores and online.
Our exclusive first look, Raf Simons unveiled his new Calvin Klein campaign SS17, shot by Willy Vanderperre and styled by Olivier Rizzo.
Most of us might know Harley Weir through the striking images she’s created for AnOther Magazine, i-D, Dazed & Confused, or the campaigns she shot for renowned fashion brands such as Maison Martin Margiela and Calvin Klein.
But the young photographer, who only graduated with a degree in Fine Arts from London’s Central Saint Martins College in 2010, has since also created a remarkable body of personal work characterized by a poetic approach on intimacy and beauty, and an eye for detail.
It is this personal aspect - always intriguing and esthetic, sometimes politically involved and charged but refraining from statement making and finger-pointing - that forms the center of the first solo exhibition of Weir’s work at FOAM Amsterdam.
Harley Weir - Boundaries
FOAM
Amsterdam
2.12.2016 – 19.2.2017
© Harley Weir. Courtesy the artist and Foam.
/ by Kim Poorters /
First look, Raf Simons unveiled his latest SS17 campaign, shot by Willy Vanderperre and styled by Olivier Rizzo.
First look at the new Saint Laurent menswear FW17 captured by Collier Schorr and accompanied by a film directed by Nathalie Canguilhem which sees actor Lukas Ionesco play director.
In the midst of men’s Paris fashion Week Calvin Klein and newly appointed designer Raf Simons revealed just a tip of the iceberg.
“By Appointment” is the first collection by Simon’s hand made public. It celebrates women, all women, and has the objective to make the brand accessible to all. Hence the campaign images, that are paired with the brands iconic underwear.
Quiet and delicately the drop of the collection happened. In the same way they announced the collaboration of the designer and the brand, after months of speculation last year. Less is more, both parties understand that, and that might just be the thing that makes this partnership a graceful match.
14 looks, photographed by Willy Vanderperre and styled by Olivier Rizzo, that’s all we get, and that’s all we need.
/ by Gaelle Van Lede /
First view on the latest GUCCI SS17 campaign captured by Glen Luchford.
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