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Monthly Archives: November 2011
World Design Capital 2012
It was Seoul in 2010, this time its Helsinki, which World Design Capital acknowledges to host the design gala for its 2012 edition.
Set up by the International council of Societies, World Design Capital recognizes a global city that has utilized designs to improve social, cultural and economic conditions, after every two years.
As its Helsinki this time, so the city will be seen hosting an incredible program of 300 events, project showcases and design initiatives that have improved the everyday lives of the city’s inhabitants – commencing in January 2012 to continue throughout the year. The events will also include WDC Design Gala and Helsinki Design Week, as well as, monthly forums, and over 90 exhibitions covering many aspects of art and design.
Over the year, the event will accentuate on the attempt to create new processes for urban development and will demonstrate the ways in which design and nature can work simultaneously.
Pam & Arch SS
Indian designer label Pam & Arch is all basking in glory, as it waved the city of London from the iconic London Tower Bridge – a colorful exhibit.
The London based label by Pamela and Archana, recently, showcased their Spring Summer 2012 collection at the very first fashion show that took place on the long walkway of London Towers Bridge – along with 15 top designers from 5 different continents.
The collection paid homage to prints, playing with the label’s signature prints and an interesting mix of colors. The collection revolved around tribal and ethnic inspired look with details like loose draping, embroidered appliques, tribal motifs and fringes. The collection used the fabrics like soft jersey, soft satins and chiffons, creating a bunch of dresses.
The color palette varied from shades of nature like yellow and greens marrying from regal purple and gold.
Fashion Diaries
Clothes are very important et it enhances one’s personality. International brands like Vero Moda, ONLY, Pieces et Jack & Jones that are already doing modishly well in Europe steps in la Indian market to commemorate the launch of their blog, aptly titled bestsellerfashiondiaries.To launch this a-la-mode blog, coveted designer Little Shilpa was roped in to style avant-garde looks from la brands’ newest collection. Shilpa created free-spirited, bohemian, quirky et grungy art installations using la clothes et accessories from la brands.
La dramatic et highly grungy art l’installations were placed across three floors of their flagship store at Linking Road en Mumbai. “I have given a fresh European look avec a burst of colours et played around with la ensembles. I have also done a mix et match of dynamic prints and polka dots et amalgamated avec laces that gifted la mannequins a human soul,” expressed la concepteur convoité who is famed as she showcases fashion in la form of art.
Jadau Carnival
The ace Jewellery designer and former international tennis player Falguni Mehta came up with her innovative carnival collection titled riot of color. The collection was launched under her brand Jadau jewellery. Riot of color which refers to festivity defines the exciting and lively spell of parties, weddings, Christmas and the New Year.
With an endeavor to match the temperament and atmosphere of the ending year Jadau had very playfully engraved vivacious combination of rubies, turquoise and emeralds in its pieces. The creation assures to give an eclectic touch to the mood and the outfit worn.
However the designer suggests classic understated yet grand designs of necklaces of multiple single lines with matching dangling earrings, Haars and long necklaces like a long chain of emeralds.
Otturatore
OTTURATORE one of the world’s elite and expensive Swiss labels of timepieces introduced by the legendary de GRISOGONO creator Fawaz Gruosi, has brought a new dimension of ingenious fineness to the art of horological complications.
The centerpiece of the extraordinary presentation by Otturatore is a high-performance mobile “sequencer” screening three original de GRISOGONO innovations. This masterpiece comes to be the first in-house creation. It unveils the fortitude of the brand which in concern to its legitimate innovation is ready to eschew the beaten track.
Fawaz Gruosi keeps the outline of the dial simple and the one flaunting the timepiece can decide which indication he desires to confer with using the OTTURATORE mobile dial which immediately functions accordingly while hiding the other three applications. A blend of the dials modish lines created with an odd intricate along with superlative technical features, useful functions, subtle detailing and striking demonstration exemplifies a modern rococo and baroque approach making the piece honored as the world’s first sequential rotating dial mechanism.
Otturatore initiated in the year 2008 is a portrayal of an imaginative, intricate and demanding apparition. It’s obtainable in five varied models out of which two are exclusively displayed only at the de GRISOGONO boutiques.
Ragas of Fashion
Musical incantation took over the space of Hyatt Regency, New Delhi when designer Payal Jain showcased her latest collection, ‘Raga’, all inspired by Indian ‘ragas’, signifying musical melodies.The collection is an endeavour to romance with myriad human moods, emotions and hues, in a poetic tapestry of silhouettes, forms and textures. Sequined jumpsuits, chic cocktail dresses, long sensual gowns, full flowing exotic evening ensembles and elegant saris draped with romantic corsets, comprise the collection.
The palette of colors ranges from delicate creams to passionate rouges and finally dark and glamorous blacks. The textiles used are a vast and versatile medley of decadent textured silk jerseys, iridescent crepe georgette, voluminous silk taffeta, delicate stretch lace, elaborate appliquéd jersey and sequined silk shantung.
fashionfad’s fashion feed on Sonali Mansingka Louis Vuitton in India Janet Jackson Debuts Chivas Studio The Making Blog on Anish Kapoor and more…
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Dirty Corner
Anish Kapoor is a British sculptor of Indian origin. Born in Mumbai, he has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to study art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design.
He started his international career during the early 80’s and immediately got noticed because of its offbeat characters from that period. The optical illusion is a major emphasize of his works. The game between inside outside and being empty and dark is also a ‘non space’. We exist in relation to space and time; therefore Anish plays a game between space and darkness. Accordingly what follows are the large-scale installations inside which one can walk in semidarkness. The passage from light to dark represents a return to the maternal womb, to the place of origin.
This show in the Fabbrica del Vapore consists of the monumental site-specific installation Dirty Corner, created specially for this occasion. Kapoor has always acted within a metaphysical conception which can be seen in the way the sculptures become an integral part of the space and generate silence around them. The site-specific installation Dirty Corner is fully occupies the “cathedral” of the Fabbrica del Vapore. This installation – realized with the backing of the Galleria Continua, the Lisson Gallery, and the Galleria Massimo Minini – consists of a huge steel volume 60 metres long and 8 metres high which the visitors can enter. The entrance is goblet-shaped; the interior and exterior surface is circular and has only a minimum contact with the ground. The work will be progressively covered with some 160 cubic metres of soil.
Kapoor’s work is collected worldwide, notably by the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Tate Modern in London; Fondazione Prada in Milan; the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; the Guggenheim in Bilbao; the De Pont Foundation in the Netherlands; the Moderna Museet, Stockholm; the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan; and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. Kapoor has also received several important awards like Premio Duemila at Venice Biennale, Turner Prize and also has been awarded Honorary Fellowships by the London Institute and Leeds University , University of Wolverhampton and the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Once again, Kapoor’s poetics embodies the unity of opposites: empty/full, dark/light, male/female, positive/negative, material/ephemeral. Becoming one with the red earth that covers the long cylindrical sculpture in Milan metaphorically emphasizes a unitary
conception of the world.
Posted by : Amal Kiran Jana from Milan at 03:55PM
LV Travels to India
The Indian sense of exoticism is what West seems all smitten by these days. Louis Vuitton’s travel shoot featuring mystic land of Rajasthan is the latest in series – revealed under its new digital platform lately.
Capturing the spirit of the land of India in its purest essence, the Louis Vuitton Travel Collection for L’ame du Voyage (The soul of the Trip) catalogue showcases their core collection pieces instead of seasonal ones.
Aesthetically shot by ace photographer, Carter Smith, across the length and breadth of Rajasthan, the shoot features LV classic trunks, scarves and bags in sync with India paraphernalia. The Scarves covering the basket of a snake charmer to the bicycle carrying LV bag, to elephants loaded with vintage trunks, the travel shoot beautifully amalgamates the mysticism of India with classicism of Louis Vuitton.
