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The work of Alexander McQueen, who died in last year, is to be the subject of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. A preview of the show, which will run 4 May to 31 July 2011, was unveiled at the Ritz as part of London fashion week. The US exhibition will feature more than 100 pieces of work from McQueen’s 19-year career

The exhibition, organized by The Costume Institute, will celebrate the late Alexander McQueen’s extraordinary contributions to fashion. From his postgraduate collection of 1992 to his final runway presentation which took place after his death in February 2010, Mr. McQueen challenged and expanded the understanding of fashion beyond utility to a conceptual expression of culture, politics, and identity. His iconic designs constitute the work of an artist whose medium of expression was fashion. Approximately one hundred examples will be on view, including signature designs such as the bumster trouser, the kimono jacket, and the Origami frock coat, as well as pieces reflecting the exaggerated silhouettes of the 1860s, 1880s, 1890s, and 1950s that he crafted into contemporary silhouettes transmitting romantic narratives. Technical ingenuity imbued his designs with an innovative sensibility that kept him at fashion’s vanguard.

Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
May 4, 2011–July 31, 2011
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall, 2nd floor

I love the pictures of Ryan mc Ginley – www.ryanmcginley.com

Team is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by the New York-based photographer Ryan McGinley. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere will run from the 18th of March through the 17th of April 2010. Team Gallery is located at 83 Grand Street, cross streets Wooster and Greene, on the ground floor.

83 Grand Street
ny ny 10013

www.teamgal.com

Fashion Jewellery: Catwalk & Couture
Book Launch at Colette
Saturday March 6th, 4pm – 6pm

To mark the launch of Fashion Jewellery: Catwalk and Couture, author Maia Adams will be signing copies of her new book at Colette during Paris Fashion Week. To accompany this event, there will be an exhibition of one-off jewellery pieces specially created for Colette by the jewellers featured in the book.

Colette will be the exclusive stockists of Fashion Jewellery: Catwalk and Couture until the book’s international release on March 22nd. This event is therefore an opportunity to see and own it before anyone else!

As the first book to explore this exciting field, Fashion Jewellery: Catwalk and Couture contains in-depth profiles of 33 international jewellers, as well as details of their collaborations with leading fashion designers including Comme des Garçons, Vivienne Westwood, Yves Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen.

Packed with original interviews, the book also features specially commissioned photos and never-seen-before sketches from the likes of Jordan Askill, Alexis Bittar, Erickson Beamon, Judy Blame, Bless, Lara Bohinc, Natalia Brilli, Delfina Delttrez, Florian, Husam el Odeh and Scott Wilson to name a few…

Colette and Maia have co-invited a selection of the jewellers featured in Fashion Jewellery: Catwalk and Couture to each create a single piece of jewellery to be displayed, and sold, at Colette. If you’ve ever wanted to own a truly unique piece of jewellery, this is your opportunity to get your hands on a one-off work by some of the most creative designers working today.

more on www.thebibelotphile.blogspot.com

” Wildly feminine, cheerful, seductive and wicked at the same time. Nimbly hopping between art, fashion and illustration, the English multidisciplinary artist Julie Verhoeven (1969) has built up quite a reputation for herself over the past few years.
Her work adorns fabrics from Versace and accessories from Mulberry. It makes reference to surrealism and Schiele, to name but a few influences. And although her surname perhaps suggests otherwise, Verhoeven is English in heart and soul, almost to the point of eccentricity.
As from November 13th, Julie will be bending MU totally to her will, transforming De Witte Dame into a feminine cross between a latex cabinet of  curiosities, a Victorian boudoir and a stencilled punk bunker.

The core of Verhoeven’s work are her drawings. Not just sensual and beautiful, but also tragic femmes fatales populate her creative world. Some display a hint of Beardsley, while others have a blatant Vogue stare or a constructivist physique.
Allusions tumble over one another, easy enough to find for those who care to look. Blaring pop music and fashion, paintings and interiors, hairstyles and films, anything can nourish Verhoeven in her search for inspiration.

Verhoeven likes her women to humorously meddle with the boundaries of aesthetics, because underneath, destruction grows rampant. With a mischievous pen and a lick of paint, she reveals the deeper layers in a raw manner, in the best traditions of punk. ”

On the occasion of the exhibition, MU will publish ‘A Bit of Rough’, a book dedicated to the work of Julie Verhoeven. This publication includes an essay by critic Francesca Gavin.

Emmasingel 20 – de witte dame
NL – 5611 AZ Eindhoven
+31 (0) 40 296 1663
www.mu.nl – mu@mu.nl

Working with radical hat designer, Stephen Jones, the V&A presents an ‘anthology of hats’.
Drawn from V&A and international collections, and ranging in style and period from a 17th-century Puritan’s hat to a 1950s Balenciaga couture piece, to hats by Jones and his contemporaries including to the latest creations by young milliners such as Noel Stewart, the exhibition investigates the cultural and historic importance of millinery.
The exhibition is arranged in four main themes – Inspiration looks at the myriad of sources including historicism, exoticism and the natural world; Creation explores the techniques, materials and processes; The Salon focuses on the buying and selling of hats and the millinery shop; and The Clients which examines the wearing and etiquette of hats and features headgear worn by well known clients of some of the world’s top milliners including Audrey Hepburn, Anna Piaggi, Dita von Teese.

24 February – 31 May 2009

V&A
The Porter Gallery
South Kensington
Cromwell Road
London SW7 2RL

The House at the End of the World, 2005 – Vogue Italy – Photograph: David LaChapelle

The current retrospective at the Hôtel de la Monnaie presents his glossy, color-saturated photos in the splendid setting of this 18th-century neoclassical building, providing a nice contrast between modern baroque works and an antique setting, à la the recent Jeff Koons exhibition at the Château de Versailles.

David LaChapelle has made a career from taking surreal photographs that subvert and celebrate celebrity itself. La Monnaie de Paris‘s extensive retrospective features his portraits of, among others, Madonna, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeff Koons and Elton John

Tina Berning – NO NIPPLES. NO GUNS. NO CIGARETTES. – November 14, 2008 – February 15, 2009

Tina Berning is showing her new works ‘NO NIPPLES. NO GUNS. NO CIGARETTES.’ on the November 14th, 2008 at 2 agenten, galerie für illustration in Berlin.

In her exhibition ‘NO NIPPLES. NO GUNS. NO CIGARETTES.’, Tina Berning explores the complex of relationships between conditioned aesthetics and supposed self-determination in the established canon of contemporary images. Within her works she refers to the exemplary representation of the human body as it is spread in the media. She elutes the figures from their surroundings and shows them remaining isolated in their poses. A reinterpretation arises in the interplay of voyerism and exhibitionism. Tina Berning’s exhibition ‘NO NIPPLES. NO GUNS. NO CIGARETTES.’ will be exposed for three months at galerie für illustration.

Please join us for the opening reception on November 14, 2008 at 7pm.

Tina Berning – NO NIPPLES. NO GUNS. NO CIGARETTES.
November 14, 2008 to February 15, 2009 – Opening hours: Mon – Fri from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

2 agenten – galerie für illustration – Gartenstrasse 1 – 10115 Berlin

More of Tina Berning’s work may be found at www.tinaberning.de. Please let us know if we if we can be of further assistance at mailme@jozopr.com.

The exhibition at the Jeu de Paume, Paris (until January 4) is almost identical to that of the V & A Museum in London one year ago. Lee Miller was without doubt an extraordinary woman. Her beauty, first was surprising, since an early age to his 70 years: a pure beauty and sculptural. The men fell under her charm, Man Ray, Picasso, Robert Roland Penrose and many others.By her mid-thirties, already flooding the covers of British Vogue, Lee Miller chose to be at the other end of the camera in order to document the end of World War II. (She was one of only five female war correspondents.) Her photographs of London’s rubble & decay are amongst the finest war records. In Germany, at times her eye was cool – perhaps for self-protection – as when she photographed SS soldiers and their children, all dead by suicide. Although, when she encountered Hitler’s bathtub, she jumped in and playfully took a self-portrait. Her sweeping landscapes of the Middle East are like a lesson in geometry; and finally, the abstract female torsos she photographed can still moisten a few pants. Her knack for finding beauty in the most wretched places had quickly earned her “one of the seven most distinguished photographers.” [Vanity Fair]Lee Miller produced some of the most powerful photographs seen this century, from portraits of her friends such as Pablo Picasso, to her work as a correspondent with the US army in World War II. Beginning her own studio in Paris with artist Man Ray, she went on to work with Vogue, and in France, Egypt, and New York, being best remembered for her witty Surrealist images.

The objective of the cultural department of 080 is to bring closer the culture of fashion to a wide range of public by means of programming different free-entrance activities related with the world of fashion.Crossing project propose to cover the different areas of the fashion world and addressed a general public, curious and interested in fashion, as well as national and international fashion professionals‚ press and buyers.

CROSSING PARTICIPANTS:

CATHLEEN NAUNDORF (Germany, 1968) – Photographer
AURELIE MATHIGOT (France, 1969) – Photographer.
COCO (UK) – Illustrator.DANIEL RIERA (Barcelona) – Photographer.
DAVID URBANO (Barcelona, 1973) – Photographer.
DODI LECHIQUE (Mexico City, 1985) -Illustrator.
GAUTHIER GALLET (France, 1971-2003) -Photographer.
GERARD UFERAS (France, 1954) -Photographer.
JD FERGUSON (New York, 1968) -Photographer.
JORK WEISMANN (Austria) – Photographer.
LEILA MENDEZ (Buenos Aires, 1972) – Photographer.
MIGUEL VILLALOBOS (Venezuela) – Photographer.
RAUL VAZQUEZ (Lleida, 1981) – Illustrator.
SILVIA PRADA (Ponferrada, 1969) – Illustrator.
TXEMA YESTE (Barcelona, 1972) – Photographer.
XEVI MUNTANVA (Barcelona, 1977) – Photographer.