Wednesday, February 19, 2014

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.
 

RITA ORA in PHILIPP PLEIN


Rita Ora recently wore  a shearling  jacket from the PHILIPP PLEIN  Fall/Winter 2014  collection to attend  the 48th edition of MIDEM in Cannes

 

Joie de Vivre and Good Karma à Munich

 
 
Georgia May Jagger, Nico Rosberg, Paz Vega and Rosanna Davison among the guests at the
exclusive THOMAS SABO Party Karma Night
 
Munich/Lauf a. d. Pegnitz, February 15, 2014 

 
 
Joie de vivre, good Karma and party atmosphere: on Saturday night (15/02/2014), host and company founder Thomas Sabo invited around 1,400 friends and partners of the brand and press representatives from all over the world to the exclusive Karma Night at Munich’s Postpalast venue. The long party night was very much in keeping with the spirit of the Karma Beads –the new 2014 Spring/Summer Sterling Silver Collection jewellery line – launched only a few weeks previously. The motto of the evening: ‘Such a good Karma – THOMAS SABO celebrates life!’
In addition to the attending brand ambassadors Georgia May Jagger and Nico Rosberg, guests also
included international celebrities such as Spanish actress Paz Vega, Chris de Burgh’s daughter Rosanna Davison and English DJ Laura Whitmore. And numerous German celebrities were in attendance as well, including Sönke Möhring, Jana Pallaske, Jeanette Hain, Papis Loveday, Natasha and Jimi Blue Ochsenknecht, Nova Meierhenrich and Stephanie Stumph, none wanting to miss out on partying with the brand as ‘Good Karma People’. Adorned with her favourite jewels from the latest THOMAS SABO collections, they all presented their very own personal Karma Style.
Very much in line with the ‘Rebel at heart’ men’s collection, the one-hour concert with the band Triggerfinger created a fantastic Rock ‘n’ Roll vibe among the guests. Following the gig, the guests partied away until the early hours of the morning to the fabulous sounds of DJ Chrissi D! and with a wonderful selection of delicacies from Käfer. The evening was MC’d by hugely-charismatic presenter Alexander Mazza.
Thomas Sabo speaking about Karma Night: “I am absolutely thrilled that so many THOMAS SABO friends and partners have joined us to experience this one-off party night. The joie de vivre and the positive spirit of our new jewellery line – THOMAS SABO Karma Beads – was completely tangible:
celebrating life and infecting others in the process!”
 





 

A WORLD OF COLORS






Monday, February 17, 2014

Pop-up store Christian Louboutin

Christian Louboutin inaugure sa première boutique éphémère dédiée aux sacs
Du 11 février au 31 mai, à Paris
 


 


 
C’est dans son fief, au coeur de la Galerie qui a vu naître sa Maison il y a plus de vingt ans, que Christian Louboutin a choisi d’ouvrir le 11 Février 2014 sa première boutique éphémère entièrement dédiée aux sacs.
Après avoir proposé à ses clientes des pochettes du soir pour accompagner idéalement ses souliers, le créateur n’a cessé d’étoffer sa gamme, de développer des cuirs exclusifs, de travailler de nouveaux détails de métallerie, dévoilant chaque saison des collections qui ont petit à petit pris leur indépendance.
Tout comme la maroquinerie est devenue au fil des ans une extension évidente des souliers de la Maison, ce nouvel espace complète naturellement les premières boutiques Femme et Homme de la Galerie Véro-Dodat, faisant du Passage un lieu incontournable et la vitrine privilégiée de l’univers de la marque.
Sur les branchages printaniers qui tapissent les murs de cet écrin de 30 m ², sacs et oiseaux semblent prêts à prendre leur envol… Ou à se laisser apprivoiser.
Cinq familles emblématiques de la ligne de maroquinerie Christian Louboutin seront exposées. L’incontournable Sweet Charity, dont le noeud de métal a depuis longtemps conquis le coeur des afficionados de la marque, et le Sweety, petit format à porter en bandoulière. Le Khepira, nouveauté de l’été 2014, orné d’un fermoir en scarabée qui pimente ses lignes chics, et sa déclinaison en taille pochette. Le citadin Panettone, aux courbes doucement arrondies, dans sa version sac de jour ou portefeuille, ajouré d’oeillets ou hérissé de spikes. Le Loubiposh, qui mêle piquant et souplesse, et enfin la pochette Riviera, format idéal et couleurs contrastantes, dont le jeton de casino ferme comme un clin d’oeil le rabat en cuir.
 
 
Khepira




En exclusivité mondiale, une version irrésistible de la pochette en cuir souple Loubiposh et du portefeuille Panettone
( proposée spécialement pour la Saint Valentin )


Sweet Charity

 
Pop-up store Christian Louboutin, du 11 février au 31 mai, 8 passage Véro-Dodat, Paris 1er.
 Du lundi au samedi, de 10h30 à 19h.
 
A retrouver également sur #LetThemTalk :
Christian Louboutin Printemps/Eté 2014

 
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Sunday, February 16, 2014

Polo Ralph Lauren


"Fall 2014 is an exciting moment to share on the same runway the launch of our new Polo collection for women with our Women's Collection. I love the contrast of Polo's cool eclectic spirit with the luxury and modern glamour of Collection. Each represent my vision of the individuality and style of the world of Ralph Lauren."

                

--Ralph Lauren