The Iconoclasts

 

^{Prada The Iconoclasts returns for its third chapter during the international fashion weeks. Three of cinema’s most acclaimed, visionary costume designers take over the visual identities of three Prada flagship stores. They each bring their refined sense of filmic style and drama. Prada New York Broadway will be transformed by MICHAEL WILKINSON + TIM MARTIN between February 12th to February 19th.}

ARIANNE PHILLIPS dresses the Prada Old Bond Street, London store from February 20th to February 24th.

And during March 5th till March 11th, Paris’ Prada Faubourg Saint Honoré store will host the legendary MILENA CANONERO. This step towards collaborating with costume designers is a natural evolution for Prada The Iconoclasts, which previously invited leading fashion editors. Prada is not only committed to the experimental encounter between fashion and other worlds, but it continues to be moved by cinema’s most brilliant auteurs.

 

 

MICHAEL WILKINSON + TIM MARTIN:

“Miuccia Prada’s Spring/Summer 2015 collection inspired us to imagine a party to end all parties. The end of disco. An After Party for New York’s most elite, the most avant-garde, a place where people strut and swagger, uptown meets downtown, celebrity meets street style. Each character is an individual, each is a non-conformist, each parties like it’s 1979. No one wants to leave, because, if they do, the fantasy will vanish.”

 

ARIANNE PHILLIPS:

“Fashion, like film, is about dreaming and telling stories so this seemed like a natural conversation for me to have with the very inspiring and beautiful Spring/Summer 2015 collection.”

MILENA CANONERO:

“I imagined interpreting the Prada Spring/Summer 2015 collection through the filter of the five elements and their interconnection. Like feng shui, the ancient Chinese philosophy inspired by Taoism that teaches us to harmonise our surroundings with the environment and nature, I felt this philosophy was appropriate to this specific, rich and varied collection by Miuccia Prada. Drawing on my background in film, photography and painting, I sought to reinterpret the collection through the four elements – water, fire, air and earth – and create imaginary situations that culminate in the fifth element, human love.”

MICHAEL WILKINSON + TIM MARTIN

 

 

MICHAEL WILKINSON and TIM MARTIN recently created WilkinsonMartin, a company at the intersection of film, design and fashion.

Building on their respective careers in film costume design and architecture, WilkinsonMartin consults, designs and directs high-end fashion and product ranges, along with art-based projects in the fashion world.

The company combines over 25 years of Martin’s architectural and interior design experience with Wilkinson’s singular costume design expertise from designing over 30 films (including 300, TRON, AMERICAN HUSTLE, MAN OF STEEL, the upcoming BATMAN VS SUPERMAN and Jennifer Lawrence’s JOY.)

Michael Wilkinson is an award-winning costume designer. Variety magazine recently included Wilkinson in their BELOW THE LINE IMPACT list of filmmakers that have significant impact in their field of expertise. Michael has been nominated for an Oscar and a BAFTA Award, and has won Costume Designers Guild Awards, Saturn Awards, a Hollywood Film Festival Award and a Hamilton Behind the Camera Award. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), and the Costume Designers Guild (CDG). He has been a speaker at LACMA, Comic-Con, UCLA, the Director’s Guild of America, AMPAS and numerous other events.

Tim Martin’s background as architect and exhibition designer involves high-end production, innovative construction, and new technologies and materials: a perfect cornerstone for the spirit of WilkinsonMartin. Previous clients include California Academy of Sciences, Presidential foundations, J. Paul Getty Museum, Australian Museum, and Natural History Museum of Los Angeles. Along with running a private practice, previous positions held include Senior Designer at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

 

 

ARIANNE PHILLIPS

 

 

ARIANNE PHILLIPS is one of the most unique Costume Designers working today, a gifted visual artist who brings her exemplary eye to film, fashion and music of which for the past 20 years she has worked seamlessly.

Best highlighted and often blurring the lines between film and fashion in her 17 years of collaborating with Madonna, which has included such diverse projects as 5 album covers, numerous magazine editorials; over twenty music videos; London’s West End Theater production of UP FOR GRABS; the film SWEPT AWAY; as well as the Award winning costumes for the singer’s past 5 world tours: 2001 DROWNED WORLD tour, 2004 REINVENTION tour, 2006 CONFESSIONS tour, 2008/2009 STICKY AND SWEET tour, and 2012 world tour for MDNA.

As a Costume Designer for film she has been recognized twice with Oscar nominations 2006 for Jim Mangold’s WALK THE LINE, her second Oscar nomination in 2012 for Madonna’s directorial debut of W.E. of which she was acknowledged by her colleagues with The Costume Designer Guild Award. Additionally she was nominated for a BAFTA for her work in Tom Ford’s directorial debut of A SINGLE MAN.

In 2014 she was nominated for a Tony Award for her designs for the Broadway production of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH.

Her career as a Costume Designer includes notable films such as:

3:10 TO YUMA starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale; Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz’s KNIGHT AND DAY as well as ONE HOUR PHOTO; GIRL, INTERRUPTED; THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT; IDENTITY; HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH;

TANK GIRL and THE CROW.

Arianne’s most recent release of Matthew Vaughn’s KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE, reuniting Phillips with

Mr. Colin Firth, as well as Sir Michael Caine and Samuel L. Jackson. Along with the release of KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE, Arianne partnered with MR PORTER to create and design the first “Costume to Collection” authentic merchandising, counting KINGSMAN as truly the first shoppable film continuing Arianne’s conversation with film and fashion.

In between film, fashion and music projects, Phillips also works as a freelance fashion editor/stylist, collaborating with photographers for such publications as V Magazine, Interview, Italian Vogue, LOVE, and W Magazine, to name a few.

MILENA CANONERO

 

 

MILENA CANONERO is one of the originators of the success of Italian figurative culture in the film world.

Her work as a costume designer is recognized in the world over through her collaborative efforts with the great masters of cinema.

The most memorable include Stanley Kubrick’s BARRY LYNDON, Hugh Hudson’s CHARIOTS OF FIRE, Alan Parker’s MIDNIGHT EXPRESS, Francis Ford Coppola’s THE GODFATHER PART III, Sydney Pollack’s OUT OF AFRICA, Warren Beatty’s DICK TRACY, Louis Malle’s DAMAGE, Sofia Coppola’s MARIE ANTOINETTE, Roman Polanski’s CARNAGE, Wes Anderson’s THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL and many others, earning her numerous awards.

Milena also designed sets and costumes for Barbet Schroeder’s film Single White Female and for the Italian theatre version of Amadeus, directed by Roman Polanski, as well as numerous other operas and plays for the Metropolitan Opera House, the Vienna State Opera and La Scala directed by Otto Schenk and Luc Bondy.

 

 

 

HARLEM RENAISSANCE

 

 

PRADA ICONOCLASTS PRESENTS EDWARD ENNINFUL’S ‘HARLEM RENAISSANCE’

During Milan Fashion Week on the 20th of February, the night of the Prada show, a new chapter of The Iconoclasts opens with Edward Enninful’s original vision for Prada women’s and men’s Monte Napoleone stores, inspired by the energy and original thought of the ‘Harlem Renaissance’.

Prada’s The Iconoclasts series launched in 2009, when four leading fashion editors took over the visual identity of Prada stores in four fashion capitals around the world. Alex White re-dressed the New York Broadway store, Katie Grand cast her vision over London’s Old Bond Street, Olivier Rizzo transformed Milan’s Via Monte Napoleone store and Carine Roitfeld brought her fashion point of view to the Avenue Montaigne Boutique in Paris. Each applied their distinctive styling and storytelling vision to the presentation of the collection, a creative collaboration within the world of fashion at the most creative level.

An electric time of artistic explosion and cultural exchange for the African American community in the United States in the 1920s, the ‘Harlem Renaissance’ represented a new creative spirit. Stars such as Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Josephine Baker and Ella Fitzgerald were born, and the air buzzed and fizzed with jazz and ideas.

Taking this spirit of creativity as his cue, Enninful’s Prada women’s store will be filled with a cast of black and white mannequins dressed in Prada SS14 and archive looks – guests at an imagined 1920s club – complete with glittering artdeco bar, evoking the atmosphere of Harlem. The men’s store will host a cast of black and white mannequins dressed in Prada SS14 and archive pieces, set amongst game tables, 1920s food and cocktails, and the strains of a jazz blues trio. New fashion images shot by Emma Summerton and Enninful will be presented in both stores.

“Miuccia Prada’s work always begins with a conversation. Drawing from this notion, I looked to the ‘Harlem Renaissance’ for the SS14 instalment of The Iconoclasts series. As the ‘Harlem Renaissance’ was a period of original thought – when creative minds inspired and embraced a new cultural identity – I felt that this was an appropriate narrative to incorporate into this season’s Prada collection”, explains Edward Enninful of the project.

The Milan installations will be on display until February 24th. Two days later, Enninful’s vision for Prada’s new Saint Petersburg store will be unveiled.

Information about future iterations of The Iconoclasts series will be released soon.

 

 

 

PRADA ICONOCLASTS: ‘HARLEM RENAISSANCE’ BY EDWARD ENNINFUL

Milano, 18 febbraio 2014 - Il 20 febbraio, durante la settimana della moda di Milano, Prada presenta un nuovo capitolo del progetto ‘Iconoclasts’. Per questa edizione, Edward Enninful interpreterà gli spazi Prada donna e uomo di via Monte Napoleone ispirandosi all’energia creativa e allo spirito dell’ ‘Harlem Renaissance’.

Nel 2009, quattro famosi fashion editor si erano occupati dell’identità visiva dei negozi Prada in quattro capitali della moda, applicando il proprio senso dello stile e del racconto alla presentazione della collezione Primavera / Estate 2009.

Alex White aveva dato il via al progetto ‘Iconoclasts’ con un personale allestimento dell’Epicentro Prada di New York, seguito da Katie Grand, che si era dedicata al punto vendita londinese di Old Bond Street, e da Olivier Rizzo, che si era concentrato sul negozio di Via Monte Napoleone a Milano. Infine, Carine Roitfeld, aveva concluso il ciclo di appuntamenti interpretando il negozio parigino di Avenue Montaigne.

Negli anni ’20, l’ ‘Harlem Renaissance’ ha rappresentato un momento di esplosione artistica e culturale per la comunità afroamericana degli Stati Uniti. Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Josephine Baker ed Ella Fitzgerald sono alcuni dei nomi di spicco di un periodo in cui nell’aria si respiravano un nuovo spirito creativo e musica jazz.

In entrambi gli spazi Prada di via Monte Napoleone, manichini bianchi e neri - ospiti di un immaginario club anni ’20 – saranno vestiti mixando capi della collezione Primavera / Estate 2014 con look d’archivio.

Il negozio dedicato alle collezioni femminili sarà trasformato in un bar art-déco, con un’atmosfera in stile Harlem, mentre tavoli da gioco e un trio jazz blues animeranno lo spazio uomo. All’interno di entrambi i negozi saranno presentati alcuni scatti di un servizio fotografico realizzato da Emma Summerton e Edward Enninful per l’occasione.

“Il lavoro di Miuccia Prada nasce sempre da una conversazione. Partendo da questo concetto ho esplorato, per l’edizione 2014 di ‘Iconoclasts’, l’ ‘Harlem Renaissance’, un’epoca di pensieri originali in cui menti creative ispirarono e fecero propria una nuova identità culturale, e mi è parso un universo appropriato per presentare la collezione Prada di questa stagione”, spiega Edward Enninful parlando del progetto.

L’allestimento sarà visibile fino al 24 febbraio. Due giorni dopo, il progetto prenderà vita all’interno del nuovo negozio Prada a San Pietroburgo, per poi proseguire con successive tappe nel corso dell’anno.

 

KARL LAGERFELD store

 

KARL LAGERFELD WILL BROADCAST THE EXCLUSIVE STORE OPENING

LIVE ON KARL.COM AND ON THE KARL LAGERFELD FACEBOOK PAGE.

The first KARL LAGERFELD store located on 194 Boulevard St Germain will open its doors

to the public on March 1st with a very private celebration in the presence of Karl Lagerfeld the

day before.

Affirming its digital connection after the brands online launch in January 2012, KARL LAGERFELD will broadcast the exclusive store opening live on karl.com and the Karl

Lagerfeld Facebook page.

On February 28th all fans and followers of the fashion house are invited to virtually join

this exclusive event on www.karl.com and on www.facebook.com/karllagerfeld from

8.30 PM – 11PM CET.

Three cameras set in the KARL LAGERFELD STORE will allow followers to experience the

event virtually. The celebration will be attended by fashion editors, celebrities and Karl

Lagerfeld himself and a Twitter wall will allow the viewers to actively take part in the event

and ask questions @KarlLagerfeld using the #KarlLagerfeldStore which will be randomly

answered live during the evening.