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// SERIES 4 by LOUIS VUITTON //

“Series 4”, the SS 2016 collection campaign continues the visual dialogue between several artists of imagery, started with "series 1" 

Once again, the images comprise a triptych in which each section echoes and completes the other, weaving a narrative about a heroine whose multiple facets Nicolas Ghesquière wished to explore. The authors of this latest chapter are Juergen Teller, Bruce Weber and Square Enix, the Japanese video game and manga creator.

Each one expresses a point of view about the muses of a new era.

 

/ by Michael Marson /

// DEAR FRIENDS, … //

For his first solo show in Brazil, Belgian artist Rinus Van de Velde presents a site-specific work, composed of large format charcoal drawings and text captions.

Together they guide the viewer through the story he wants to tell, evoking the illusion of places, populated by characters spanning from a hallucinatory outsider living on an isolated island, to a 19th century sculptor.

Rinus Van de Velde

Kunsthalle São Paulo

São Paulo

11.12.2015 – 9.1.2016

 

 

© Rinus Van de Velde. Courtesy Tim Van Laere Gallery.

 

 / by Kim Poorters /

// COMME DES GARCONS X GUCCI //

COMME DES GARCONS X GUCCI’six limited edition scarves are now available at Dover Street Market New York, London, and Ginza.

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/ by Michael Marson /

// GIVENCHY SS16 Campaign //

Riccardo Tisci unveiled his new SS16 campaign captured by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott. Featuring an all-star cast of 27 models, the campaign reflects the theme of the Marina Abramoviç-directed New York Fashion Week show, all about "LOVE".

Accompanying images of the models, is a poem by singer Antony Hegarty, now known as Anohni: “I am a child on the river, and love waits downstream,” it reads. “A waterfall to steal my breath, and change my mind.”

“He’s a poetic person. In a few words, he said everything,” said Tisci, speaking on Hegarty’s text.

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/ by Michael Marson /

Courtesy of Givenchy

// XMAS //

 BEHIND THE BLINDS' 

100 favorite gifts for Xmas.

 

 

/ by MICHAEL MARSON & KIM POORTERS /

// SHERO //

Pirelli shot the female hero. Once naked, now dressed in the 2016 Pirelli calendar. The shero is here to stay. She was admired for her measurements. She will be known for her achievements. The shero is on fire. She inspires an uprising we are invited to join. There is no stopping her.

May the force be with us.

©Annie Leibovitz / Courtesy of Pirelli

 

/ by Rémy Russotto /

 

 

 

// MUSIC TEE by A.P.C. //

A.P.C. has a long association with music. A record label called A.P.C. (Section Musicale) was created soon after the brand’s inception and a recording studio was built at the head office at rue Madame in 1998. It is fitting that for Fall-Winter 2015 A.P.C. collaborate on a collection of print T-shirts with the following four musicians: Nicolas Godin, Étienne Daho, Paradis and Flavien Berger.

 

Available now in A.P.C. stores worldwide & on apc.fr.

 

 

/ by Michael Marson /

/ thanks to Sanel from Ulla Models /

// PARTICLE MIST //

Legendary photographer Bill Henson has released a new book featuring a collection of previously unseen photographs taken in 1976.

The series shows Henson’s recognised and celebrated style, capturing the delicacy, magnetism and celestial nature of the ballerinas, that is both bewitching and disturbing. When photographing the dancers, Henson found himself fascinated by the faces, which were ‘lost to the world, absorbed in the dance’. He was drawn to the idea of a spirit of an individual in a space.

Particle Mist by Bill Henson is available now, published by Stanley/Barker.

 

/ by Michael Marson /

// YELLOWBLUEPINK //

With yellowbluepink, Ann Veronica Janssens launches States of Mind: Tracing the edges of consciousness, a year-long investigation into the experience of human consciousness.

 Invading the gallery with coloured mist - an ongoing experiment since her first fog-sculpture in 1997 - any detail of surface or depth within the space is blurred, and the viewers’ attention drawn to the process of perception itself through the medium of light and colour.

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 “Nothing is more beautiful than a person’s own perception. I try to push it to its limits."

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On the occasion of the planned installation of two permanent sculptures for the City of Ghent, S.M.A.K. invites both the Brussels based artist and her Turkish counterpart Ayşe Erkmen to elaborate on their proposals in a duo exhibition.

Ann Veronica Janssens - yellowbluepink

Wellcome Collection

London

15.10.2015 – 3.1.2015

 

© Ann Veronica Janssens. Courtesy the Artist and Wellcome Trust.

 

Ayşe Erkmen and Ann Veronica Janssens - .A

S.M.A.K.

Ghent

31.10.2015 – 14.2.2016

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

 

 

// GENESIS //

Alexandra Beirnaerdt is a real art and fashion aficionado and for the last 20 years she has been involved in a creative partnership focusing on reflection, conception and creating visibility.

This partnership resulted in a large number of successful campaigns in the most diverse areas and today she adds another string to her bow by combining the photographic works of two artists, Ruben Tomas (US) and Gert Motmans (BELGIUM), into one exhibition "Step One".

 

 

Step One

Opening / 26 November 2015  / 7.30 pm // Exhibition 27-28-29 November 2015 2pm-6pm

Jan Van Rijswijcklaan 17

2018 Antwerpen

 

 

 

/ by Michael Marson /

 

 

 

// COMFORT //

 

Louis W. for A.P.C. has released a new short film “Comfort”, which revolves around a relationship involving two girls. The film, directed by Grant Curatola & Louis Levy, is inspired by François Truffaut’s classic 1962 hit Jules and Jim. “Comfort” stars Sasha Frolova, Zaga Skerletovic and Bruno Dicorci, all of whom have appeared in previous campaigns for Louis W. for A.P.C.

 

A.P.C.

// PHREATIC ZONES //

Cristina Iglesias brings the city plaza and London’s river Thames into Marian Goodman’s Gallery with three new horizontal sculptures, lined with bas-reliefs cast in weathered aluminum.

After large scale works in the public realm with Deep Fountain in Antwerp in 1996 and Tres Aguas in Toledo in 2014, she continues to explore the concept of the underground and the well as an allegory of life, sex and death in the contemplative setting of the gallery.

Cristina Iglesias – Phreatic Zones

Marian Goodman Gallery

London

30.10.2015 – 19.12.2015

 

 

© Cristina Iglesias. Courtesy the Artist and Marian Goodman Gallery.

 

 

 / by Kim Poorters /

// LACOSTE X PEANUTS //

After the success of their 2010 collection, Peanuts and Lacoste return with another collaboration for a seasonal set of the brand’s signature polo shirts in multiple colorways including Snoopy and Charlie Brown, interacting with the iconic Lacoste crocodile.

Available now in stores.

/ www.lacoste.com /

 

/ photo by Michael Marson /

/ feat. Vinnie from Rebel Management /

// LATE PAINTINGS //

In its third exhibition of his work, Gagosian New York presents over twenty-five paintings made by Bacon in London and Paris during the last two decades of his life.

 Different from his visceral brushwork of the 1940s to 1970s, Bacon sprayed his paint to add a chiaroscuro and refinement to his familiar figures, forever caught in a sense of primal fear. 

Francis Bacon – Late Paintings

Gagosian Gallery

New York

7.11.2015 – 12.12.2015

 

 

Study from the Human Body, 1981

Triptych, 1991

© The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved. / DACS, London / ARS, NY 2015.

Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.

 

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

// OLFACTORIES by PRADA //

No sex, no seduction. Only memories and surreal images in the new exclusive Olfactories series by Prada. I’m so glad the German Prada perfumer Daniela Andrier, also known for the refreshingly green signature Margiela Scent Untitled, speaks fluent Prada, the language of Miuccia. Get ready for a chemical trip down memory lane, through parallel universes. To great scents.

Courtesy of Prada

 

/ by Tim Devriese /

// PLATYPUS //

After the Bear, Eric Croes introduces a panoply of animals and random objects to his playful and totemesque reinterpretation of the Surrealists’ exquisite corpse drawings.

 The Platypus, once mistaken for a mythical assemblage of different animals in itself, leads the way.

 

 

Eric Croes - Platypus

Galerie Albert Baronian

Brussels

30.10.2015 – 19.12.2015

 

 

 

© Eric Croes. Courtesy Albert Baronian.

 

/ by Kim Poorters /

 

 

 

 

// Y/PROJECT SS16 //

Y/PROJECT by Glenn Martens Spring Summer 2016 , shot by Arnaud Lajeunie.

/ by Michael Marson /

// TIM COPPENS / First Campaign //

Photographer T-Bone Fletcher brings Tim Coppens’ F/W2015 collection to the streets of Harlem.

The Belgian designer’s streetwear aesthetic blends in naturally with the city’s backdrop in this first campaign.

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