The 66th Cannes Film Festival continues its charm offensive, unflinching in the face of storm and theft. And you know in your of hearts you're not above salivating at the red-carpet glamoouuuurrr! It's the way of Cannes...
Jessica Chastain in Versace at the premiere of Cleopatra...
Joan Smalls in Emilio Pucci at the premiere of Cleopatra...
Louise Bourgoin in Fendi at the premiere of Jimmy P...
a multi-colored strapless silk dress from Dior cruise 2014 by Raf Simons to the premiere of Blood Ties in Cannes, the day after it was shown up the road in Monaco.
The 66th Cannes Film Festival opened today with The Great Gatsby and—face it!—you want to see what the stars wore on the red carpet. Not just the Gatsby gang, but all the players. That's what Cannes is—loads of beautiful people swanning around in their finest designer loans. It's as much a Cannes tradition as the scowling French faces in the audience...
Carey Mulligan (with Baz Luhrmann) in Dior couture at the Opening Ceremony...
Isla Fisher in Oscar de la Renta at the Opening Ceremony...
Lana Del Rey at the Opening Ceremony...
A little exhibit at the Met has just opened (something about punk?). Here are other fashion exhibits worth a look...
Front Row: Chinese American Designers
Museum of Chinese in America, New York
April 26 - September 29, 2013
— Mary Ping curates this examination at Chinese-American designers who've found success in New York since the 80s, including Anna Sui, Jason Wu, Vera Wang, and Opening Ceremony's Humberto Leon and Carol Lim.
Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion
RISD Museum, Providence
April 28 - August 18, 2013
— The museum at the Rhode Island School of Design explores the dandy identity over two centuries. The shoe begins, naturally, with Beau Brummell and continues, curiously, through modern dandies Rick Owens and Patti Smith.
Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
July 10, 2013 - February 16, 2014
— Following its blockbuster David Bowie showcase (which remains on view through July 28), the V&A assembles 85 outfits for a major show on the outrageous club looks of the 1980s in London, an imaginative era that still informs contemporary collections.
Future Beauty: 30 Years of Japanese Fashion
Seattle Art Museum
June 27 – September 8, 2013
— The Seattle Art Museum will play host to a traveling exhibit featuring more than 100 outfits by game-changing Japanese designers, including Rei Kawakubo, Junya Watanabe, Yohji Yamamoto, Issey Miyake, Jun Takahashi, and Kenzo Takada, as well as younger names.
A Queer History of Fashion: From the Closet to the Catwalk
Museum at FIT, New York
September 13, 2013 - January 4, 2014
— This exhibition follows the extent to which gay men and women have made significant contributions to fashion for more than a century, touching on androgyny, dandyism, subculture, street styles, and drag.
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk
Brooklyn Museum, New York
October 25, 2013 - February 23, 2014
— After stops in Montreal, Dallas, San Francisco, Madrid, and Rotterdam, this retrospective chronicles the startling breadth of Jean Paul Gaultier's contributions to both pop culture and couture.
The Met Gala. It happened. Tonight. Punk! But like any other red carpet—though one where the fashion stakes are higher—it had its highs and lows. The lows, to us, were most often those who didn't even try sticking to the theme, but stepped out like they were going to a seance (Ashley Olsen) or a safari (Jennifer Lopez) or an Elizabethan court (Linda Evangelista). If punk can be seen throughout contemporary collections, as the exhibition proposes, let's see 'em! Here, your indefatigable Hint editors have gathered the great and the grisly...
Today at the British Vogue Festival, a weekend of discussions and workshops by industry grandees, Alber Elbaz spoke to editor-in-chief Alexandra Shulman on topics ranging from cake to Hedi Slimane. Here are the highlights...
On that time he sang...
"I met Victoria [Beckham] after I had celebrated my ten-year anniversary at Lanvin. I had sung that Doris Day song, Que Sera Sera, at the end of my latest Lanvin show. It was pretty bad. I started talking to Victoria not long after at an event in Asia and I said to her, 'If you can do fashion, then I can do singing.'"
On what he says to his psychiatrist...
'Why am I such I such a control freak, but can't resist cake?"
On keeping it real...
"I like first class, but I don't like first class people. I prefer the people in coach. I like fine restaurants, but prefer the taste of McDonalds. I like to be perfect, but I don't like perfection. I think it's dangerous—there is nothing after perfection. I know, I am a walking contradiction."
On serving in the Israeli army...
"I'm not very athletic, as you can see. I was very nervous, I used to come out in rashes."
On fantasy dressing...
"I want [women] to be able to get into a car, to be able to have dessert, to feel beautiful. Fashion should not be about having a second skin. It is about fantasy, about putting on a red chiffon dress, looking in the mirror and feeling amazing."
On Lanvin and love...
"A woman once said to me, 'Every time that I wear Lanvin, a man falls in love with me.' I thought, How sad, why isn't she the one falling in love? That's the woman that I want to dress."
On Hedi Slimane at Saint Laurent...
"You join a house like Lanvin or Chanel and it will go on even longer than you will. There is so much history, so it takes time to get into it. Everything has to be so instant now, but not everything is coffee. To be a fashion critic is easy. You say I love it or I hate it. Life isn't only about love and hate. Hedi's work is selling well and he's a talented designer. I wish him all the best, from the bottom of my heart."
It was obvious from the moment he stepped onto the stage a little early—mid-introduction and wearing his signature black cape over royal purple pants, looking every bit the Supreme Justice—that André Leon Talley was eager to talk to the crowd at the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF). He was there to discuss his newest book, Little Black Dress, the companion to an exhibition of the same name that he curated for the museum at the Savannah College of Art and Design, and the audience was rapt.
As he flipped through the book, Talley shared memories of his favorite moments in black, from C.Z. Guest’s 1907 Fortuny Delphos gown to the lace Comme des Garçons number Marc Jacobs wore to the 2012 Met Ball, a bold move Talley effusively celebrated. “For all the men who aspire to wear a little black dress — go ahead!” Talley said of the look, mentioning a few floor-length kilts and Moroccan djellabas tucked away in his own closet.
Throughout the evening he also revealed the stories behind some of the iconic dresses from the book—many of which had been donated by friends, including Anna Wintour. One memorable dress was borne from a trip to the Galeries Lafayette to shop “with the masses” (it ended up at the atelier of Azzedine Alaïa) while another, massive gown by Chanel made its way from the closet of Madame Schlumberger to a designer consignment shop and on to the Met Ball. While reminiscing about the lost world of the couture-collecting grande dames, he also sang the praises of new experiments in Neoprene and latex, though he’s still (not-so-patiently) waiting for them to hit the red carpet. “I am so sick of a mermaid dress with a full train, borrowed bling and a pose,” he said, offering a sassy pose of his own.
Despite the exhibition’s monochromatic focus, Talley couldn’t help but include a few pieces in navy, and even a ruby-red skirt. “Sometimes navy blue can be black,” he explained. “It’s an individual choice.” After all, as his mentor Diana Vreeland once told him, you sometimes have to break your own rules to prove your point.
a black-and-white check dress by Marc Jacobs to the New Museum Spring Gala in New York, honoring artist Christian Marclay.
You know Agent, the recurring pixelated dude in the work of M/M (Paris)? Well, he's morphed into a dog-like creature in the graphic-design duo's latest exhibition, a show of specifically three-dimensional pieces.
C'est Wouf! comprises Mise-en-abîme (2011), a miniature catalogue raisonné of M/M's artifacts atop a replica of the table in their studio. Around this nucleus are works that have either never been shown or specially created for the exhibition.
Wouf, the pixelated canine who shares his name with the exhibition, can be spotted in Carpetalogue (2012), a group of four carpets incorporating M/M's various artistic languages: drawing, geometry, photography and writing.
C'est Wouf!, April 12 - May 18, 2013, Air de Paris, 32 rue Louise Weiss, 75013 Paris
