The Ceremony was hosted by Argentine-French actress Berenice Bejo, whose international fame exploded thanks to her role as Peppy Miller in last year’s Palme d’Or and Oscar winner The Artist.

Berenice Bejo and this year’s jury: the president Nanni Moretti, winner of the Palme d’Or in 2001, Diane Kruger, Ewan McGregor and Jean Paul Gaultier. The jury also includes Hiam Abbas, Andrea Arnold, Raoul Peck, Emmanuelle Devos and Alexander Payne.

Nanni Moretti : ” This is for me a great honor, great privilege and great responsibility to be the president of the jury of the biggest film festival in the world”

Beth Ditto singing “A Candle in the Wind” originally written by Elton John dedicated to Marylin Monroe, to whom this year’s edition of the Festival is paying tribute 50 years after her passing away. Beth Ditto did a great performance with a lot of energy and a tongue in cheek exit !

Wes Anderson officially opening this year’s festival surrounded by the “Moonrise Kingdom” cast.

French actress Frederique Bel confiding her thoughts to Frederic Fontan after the ceremony : “The opening ceremony is always a pure dream and stressful at the same time (…) As for climbing those famous stairs I try to do it several times, because the first night it’s a challenge, you tend to climb them too quickly ! It is an amazing moment to live though! ”

photos: Frederic Fontan for Antimonide

The Festival de Cannes is the most revered film festival, it has revealed many of the film industry luminaries, and it’s highest prize, La Palme d’Or has been awarded to some iconic films such as La Dolce Vita, Paris Texas, or Pulp Fiction to name just a few.

We are also very excited to try Sony’s latest digital voice recorder, the ultra slim and sleek ICD-TX50, which we will be using to interview the various personalities attending the festival this year. An incredible tool for reporters, journalists and bloggers attending this year’s most glamourous event!

In the meantime we leave you with the beautiful visual featuring Marylin Monroe celebrating Cannes 65th edition…

Peter Philips created this look for the CHANEL Cruise 2013 Show (check it out here).  The cherry tones remind me of the look we saw from Anna Sui for Spring 2012, with a high blushed cheek blended into a saturated eye.  This look is much more intense in the eyes, however played down in the natural-looking lips.  Two products in the look will be coming in December 2012 in the “Versailles de CHANEL” collection. CHANEL also created these cute little black velvet logos to stick on the cheeks of the models.

The striking imagery of the silver screen’s scenes is what makes classic cinema unforgettable. From the emotional to the action-packed, many films in cinema history are true treasure troves of brilliant visual material.

Mauritius images takes a look in front of the camera and behind the stage of many of the famous cinema classics and presents scenes, which have retained their inspiring effect on the creative mind.

Here we showcase a small selection; more is available directly from the picture agency.

Adding a touch of Parisian chic to one of London’s finest artistic establishments, French fashion house Hermès lands at number 6 Burlington Gardens with ‘Leather Forever.’

This May, you can find out exactly what makes the precious Hermès Birkin bag worth their pretty pennies, without spending them yourself! Starting out as a brand specialising in exquisite equestrian equipment, founded by a French gentleman named Thierry Hermès, the luxury power fashion house is now celebrating its 175th birthday. In a grand celebratory toast, the Royal Academy of Art are launching an expansive Hermès exhibition entitled ‘Leather Forever’, detailing the Hermès journey through form and fabric, from tough to handle calfskin, niloticus crocodile and ring lizard to perfectly seamed, absolutely iconic bags. For what would a Hermès exhibition be without its IT bags? On display are variations of the timeless Kelly and Birkin and even whimsical Pegasus satchels to long for.

In addition, Hermès have created four exclusive ‘Passe-Guide’ handbags which each have their own unique identity, inspired by the UK and Ireland. Perfect compact size, the bags embody the brand’s original equestrian vision and will be auctioned online by Christie’s. In a final good deed, all proceeds will be donated to the Royal Academy of Arts charity.

Leather Forever runs at The Royal Academy of Art from 8th — 27th May 2012.

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The story begins in 1995, when Bernadette Chirac, then First Lady of France, presented Diana, Princess of Wales, with the latest creation from the house of Dior: a handbag. And so the Lady Dior was born.

In 2011, a debut exhibition organized in Shanghai gave carte blanche to international photographers and artists to provide their own take on the bag. The show contained some fifty pieces. Next, it was Beijing’s turn. Today, Lady Dior As Seen By is crossing the East China Sea to land in Tokyo, in time for the reopening of the Dior store in the city’s Ginza district.

The exhibition will remain open to the public from April 22 to May 20, in a location a stone’s throw away from the new, completely revamped spaces.

The artists Nan Goldin, Arnaud Pyvka, Bruce Weber, Patrick Demarchelier, Peter Lindbergh, our favourites Tim Gutt & Shona Heath, Koichiro Doi and many others, set it a story and photographed it. Others, such as Liu Jianhua, Olympia Scarry, Kohei Nawa, Daniel Arsham,…, have treated it as sculpture. And on the lower floor of the exhibition space, is the series of films in which the bag shares top billing with French actress Marion Cotillard in front of the cameras of David Lynch, Olivier Dahan, John Cameron Mitchell and Annie Leibovitz. The new show boasts over one-third more pieces than the original.

Another room is given over to the history of the bag and the house, with archival imagery projected on a screen whose round form alludes to the charms that hang from the handbag’s handles: the O of diOr.

After that show wraps, the Lady Dior As Seen By exhibition will forge ahead on its global tour. To be continued…

Lady Dior As Seen By
Until May 20th 2012
WAKO NAMIKI BUILDING
4-3-1 GINZA-CHUO-KU
Tokyo Japan
Open from 11am to 8pm
Free entrance
See the pieces

Show 2012 Poster: Production Walter Van Beirendonck, Photography Ronald Stoops, Styling Dirk Van Saene, Make-up Inge Grognard, Hair Ed Moelands, Model Amélie Lens@Dominique, Outfit Markéta Martišková, Typography & Design Paul Boudens, Photography Asistant Tim Lebacq

On June 7th, 8th and 9th 2012, the Fashion Department of the Artesis Hogeschool presents its annual fashion show at Hangar 29 in Antwerp.

The graduation show of the Antwerp Fashion Department is a celebration of fashion, bringing together some 6.000 spectators from all over the world, not only to judge and/or admire the collections of our students, but also for the unique atmosphere of this grand defilé. SHOW2012 is a celebration of fashion and creativity.

The show is repeated three evenings in a row. Students from all four years show their work on the catwalk. An international jury of experts in fashion and creativity judge their collections & installations.

SHOW2012 – PRACTICAL
June 7th, 8th & 9th 2012
Hangar 29, Rijnkaai 150, 2000 Antwerp
Doors: 7PM – Start show: 8PM
Tickets: €35,00 (seats) / €12,00 (standing)
Presale at www.ticketantwerpen.be or
+32 (0)3 202 46 46.
Start ticketsale May 2nd 2012.
More info www.antwerp-fashion.be

SHOW/OFF MAGAZINE #5
Thanks to the support of Sanoma Magazines Belgium and the close co-operation with Feeling and Marie Claire, the annual SHOW/OFF Magazine will be published (inter)nationally. The magazine can be bought during SHOW2012.

This is the introduction to the short film created by the photographer/director duo Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. Using the opulent dresses of the haute couture autunno inverno 2012., it pays tribute to the fashion house Christian Dior’s decades-long history.

Versailles, which the fashion house has often used in the past as the settings for its ad campaigns and other events, has been chosen as the perfect marriage of style and Dior: it’s a love affair that has lasted many years already and is destined to last for many more.

Live performances by The bird who fell to earth, WRD & 118 STHLM. Plus Kakan and TN dj’s. FB event HERE!
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