ANDY WARHOL’S AND QUEEN ELIZABETH

Sotheby’s is celebrating the Platinum Jubilee with a portrait exhibition of Queen Elizabeth II, and her six female predecessors, as part of a two-week series of shows and cultural events at the London auction house.

In the exhibition showing Britain’s seven queens, works will range from the famous Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I, in all her pearly and beribboned splendor, to portraits by Andy Warhol and Chris Levine of Elizabeth II.

The Andy Warhol portrait hails from the 1980s and shows the Queen as a 20th-century celebrity: the source image for the work is the official photographic portrait taken in the Queen’s Silver Jubilee year, a decade prior. It was part of Warhol’s series known as “Reigning Queens.”

Sotheby’s described the Platinum Jubilee as a “momentous cultural moment,” marking the monarch’s 70 years on the throne, and said the planned events will peak with the Summer sales at the auction house. Continue reading

LVMH THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH

Louis Vuitton, Dior, Tiffany & Co. are some of the 75 brands owned by the luxury conglomerate. As the U.S. and Europe logged double-digit growth, the company’s sales jumped by 29 percent in the first quarter, assuaging fears that the war in Ukraine would negatively impact growth and inflation.

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THE SALK VACCINE VUITTON

Nicolas Ghesquière picked one of the most famous and arresting buildings in California for Louis Vuitton’s cruise 2023 show on May 12 the Salk Institute in San Diego, very  poetic, with a views of the Pacific Ocean. Nicolas typically selects an architectural marvel as a transporting backdrop for cruise shows, fashion superman is return.
Having spent a lot of time in California, he was drawn to the idea of showing there again, and the Salk Institute was a place of wonder, very Brutalist architecture against this extraordinary and the California sunset provides endless inspiration, It is true that Stalinist structures are in fashionable.

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FASHION TRIP SHOW

On May 21, Balenciaga will unveil its spring 2023 collection in New York City, the Paris-based fashion house, controlled by Kering, announced. The venue is still unknown, but it’s the latest sign that destination fashion shows are making a comeback, as the pandemic loosens its grasp

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CATHANA LAURENT

Laurent Cathala was promoted to the position of president of the Greater China fashion business, continuing Gucci’s increased focus on the fashion sector. In addition to being based in Shanghai, he will report directly to Marco Bizzarri, Gucci’s president and CEO. Cathala will be the leader of the Greater China leadership team.
At Tiffany & Co, he served as vice president emerging markets in Dubai before joining Gucci. In the following years, he was promoted to president of Greater China and president of North Asia, positions he has held since.Cathala began his career in the Moulinex Group?
A little bit of history, Parisian craftsman Jean Mantelet invents the vegetable mill, a very simple appliance for turning cooked vegetables into a perfectly smooth mash or puree.

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FROM AZ TO MAGUGU

Despite never having met Alber Elbaz, Thebe Magugu was enchanted by his gripping runway shows for Lanvin, soigné cocktail dresses and charismatic personality, discovered via ‘Fashion Television’ once his family in Kimberley, South Africa, had saved up enough to get satellite TV.
From June through September, Magugu expanded on the print and textile research Elbaz began at AZ Factory and added signatures from his five-year-old Johannesburg brand.
Elbaz created AZ Factory with the vision of being a new kind of fashion company that embraces like-minded creative talent, and goes forward with serial guest creators and freewheeling projects.
The design of Magugu’s white blouse, skirt, and feathered hat is on all of the posters for the musee galliera exhibition, part of the mammoth ‘Love Bring Love’ tribute show that just ended last October, with 46 brands and designers creating looks inspired by Elbaz.
In addition to the flowing caftans, he also designed a white, bell-sleeved knit column modeled after an African makoti or wedding dress, as well as artfully folded African headdresses called gele, which he interpreted as ruffled bucket bags suspended from a wrist cord.

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BRITANY WOMEN AT GIVENCHY

Valérie Lebérichel has been appointed global vice president of communication at Givenchy. As of April 4, she will assume the duties previously held by Youssef Marquis, who moved to Louis Vuitton as fashion communication director last January.

Native from the city of Dinan in BrItany France, to swell the long list of BrItany women of Rance Valley as Catherine Le Yaouanc, CEO of the Franco-British Chamber of commerce in Paris and Anne-Marie Idriac former Minister of transport, and many others.

Lebérichel joins Givenchy from the Prada Group, where she was worldwide communication Director for Miu Miu since 2013. She also assumed the role of head of communications for Prada France in 2019.

At Givenchy, she reports to Renaud de Lesquen, president and CEO, who has lauded Lebérichel as a widely respected fashion professional and a natural fit for overseeing the many aspects of communication during this exciting period of development at the house. Continue reading

BIG BEN DIGITAL

The most famous clock of the world placed on Big Ben is going to be changed to become a digital clock. Indeed the French luxury group LVMH has just bought the right to put instead its new digital watch for  brand TAG.

It seems that many complaints have been registered in London. But the French group will not stop there because it also plans to put a digital clock at night on the Effel Tower which will be visible from the Samaritaine. French luxury is exported everywhere and especially in historical monuments, thus claiming the phrase of Mr. Arnault to Steve Jobs : “I sell the history of France while you, you sell technology of the moment”.

Where will the marketing of the luxury group stop one day, will they eventually be as powerful as a state? To be continued. At the time when the largest watchmaking exhibition opens on April 1st, the symbol is strong but so is the issue for the French group in front of the Richemont group.
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PARIS FASHION SELF-SATISFACTION

The online platform for the Paris Fashion Week that ended on March 8, showcasing womenswear collections for fall 2022, registered a 90 percent increase in unique visitors to 456,000; a 72 percent gain in page views to 1.4 million, and a 97 percent jump in media impact value to $260 million, according to data released by the Fédération de la Haute Couture et de la Mode.

But can we believe people who don’t even know how to buy their dot com and who have had their name stolen three times?

Anyway, I remember when give an advice on the management of the photos 20 years ago,  I said to the president, if you not manage this problem by yourself he would be nanage by others. The French fashion after this advice will only make a website ten years later.

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JITROIS LEATHER SEDUCTION

Jean Claude Jitrois is the iconic leather French designer brand! But it is not dead!!! Not at all I met him in Paris he seems to be 30 years old. That why is fashion persists over time. It is about seduction, evening, dance and movement clothes that reveal, emphasize and liberate the bodies.

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WATANABE 2022 TOKYO

Inspired by “Plight (The Spiralling of Winter Ghosts),” a collaborative album created by David Sylvian and Holger Czukay in the 1980s. Designers cut up motorcycle jackets, bomber jackets, and checked wool jackets into pieces of fabric and individual elements and spliced them back together to create new garments that were both totally different from and recognizable as the originals.

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MALION VINTAGE 2022

The Tokyo Fashion Week newcomer Malion Vintage uses vintage clothing as fabrics, cutting pieces up and repurposing them into new, unique pieces that speak to both the past and the present. Eriko Ishida and Aki Shimizu spliced fabrics with similar colors and textures in their first runway show.

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THE WHITE GLOW OF ANGELS

Fearsome grace, barely veiling the radiance of an angel! Abundance of outfits, which makes the passion of the profession vibrate. Like a silk thread that splits the moment, Dgena takes us between the shadow of the Black Widow and the sun of Josué, his Afro-European model Rapper of his state.
I look at the fashion which whispers the pure air of the iceberg which detaches itself from the Parisian streets where all the aroma of the sublime accumulates.
Strongly anchored in our planet, black for the time, and white to celebrate the purity, the designer injected the energy of the desert horizons of the cold by reworking the codes of ice and a quilting of the suburban grids, I felt the world moving, the chorus of spring days frozen for a moment.
The interplay of Yin and Yang, the necessary effect of principle and prevailing tendency, the ultimate harmony.
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DIOR TO BE A MUSEUM

After being appointed as the brand’s CEO in February 2018, Pietro Beccari undertook an ambitious project: renovating its Avenue Montaigne flagship store. This means Dior customers can eat, sleep, dress and play in this new store, which is a “game changer.”

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CHINA LUXURY SLOWDOWN

Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Jilin and Hebei provinces, which are manufacturing powerhouses, logged thousands of cases over the weekend.
The government has ordered the city of Shenzhen, which is home to top Chinese companies like Tencent and China Resources, into lockdown.  A week of home confinement is expected for the city’s 17.5 million residents, who can expect to undergo three tests in the coming days. . Factories, local transport and shopping malls, except for essential services, have all been shut down.
It’s estimated that Shenzhen attracted more luxury brands than any other Chinese city during the pandemic since the border with Hong Kong remained shut, forcing its high net worth citizens to shop locally. Some 27 brands including Hermès, Chanel and Cartier opened stores there last year.

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