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Longchamp is delighted to announce the opening in May 2006 of La Maison Unique Longchamp, the new mooring for the brand in the USA, downtown SoHo, New York.
Longchamp's one hundredth boutique worldwide as well as its new professional trade showroom is housed spectacularly on a surface area of more than 9,000 square feet.
It will offer the full line of women's and men's fashion accessories.
The sheer volume of this 1936 building, its wide-open, single room spaciousness with high ceilings and unique structural details immediately struck the Cassegrain family, who have run the French luxury brand since its inception in 1948.
Ideally located in the heart of SoHo on the corner of Spring and Greene Streets, the space is SoHo's only two-story building.
Longchamp entrusted its interior design to the creative eye of London designer Thomas Heatherwick.
The volume of the space is brilliantly and innovatively characterized with touches of humor here and there and is in perfect harmony with the key brand values of Longchamp: chic, creativity, pleasure, appealingly fresh.
As stated by Philippe Cassegrain, CEO of Longchamp, "This project is in no way a new sales concept to be deployed the world over, It is, however, a unique architectural ensemble to be appreciated as a one-of-a-kind event."
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The Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao is the last international museum which selected the jewls and delicate pleats of Sandra Di Giacinto for its art-shop.
Graduated in sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Roma, Sandra Di Giacinto, has always been fascinated by paper, by its countless working solutions, the different ways in which it can be treated, folded, and assembled into innumerable shapes.
The designer is strongly attracted by Japanese art.
However, the pleating technique that she uses draws inspiration from ancient Greece.
Her collection of jewels is therefore minimal, light, durable and brightly coloured.
Sandra Di Giacinto's work is characterized by the constant research of new types of paper.
Recently, metallic paper has been a great source of inspiration.
Hence, soft and bright colours characterize her latest jewels, which come in shades of black and ivory, silver and gold.
All the jewels are hand-made in limited edition, with an innovative use of materials.
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The old stones breathe anew.
For the opening of her first boutique abroad the Korean designer Wooyoungmi began by immersing herself with the building, taking in the air of this ancient Parisian quartier and its history.
The walls, floors and ceilings have been stripped of all the coats and covers put up by past occupants.
Masters of restoration have then applied their art and the surfaces have recovered their original beauty.
Now they wear just voile of whitewash creating a delicate and immaculate atmosphere.
The spiral staircase, the little door and window looking out on to the courtyard have also re-found their original aspects.
Luminous areas have been restrained thus avoiding waste.
In this atmosphere of subdued lighting, one feels almost at home.
Wooyoungmi feels well and truly at home. We find, in the way she installs herself without pushing the walls, the same delicacy that characterizes her menswear designs.
Her collections continue to evolve men's wardrobes without renouncing the past.
In the same way all is thought out, accomplished, contemporary by returning to the foundations of the edifice.
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Rococo fashion reinvented by young designers. Mozart would have loved these coquettish and splendid clothes.
438 designers from all continents have sent their - often erotic - ideas for the theme "Dress up for Mozart - Rock up Rococo!".
An international jury of experts has selected 7 designers for the Triumph International Fashion Award 2006.
The public voting for the "3 Finalists" starts now on fashionoffice and lasts until 20th July 2006.
The theme of the Award "Dress up for Mozart - Rock up Rococo! Modern Tribute to Rococo Fashion" has motivated 438 designers from Germany, Austria, France, Ireland, Russia, to China and India, USA and Australia to join. More than 1,500 sketches were submitted.
Designers from Iran, Chile, Israel, Vietnam, Azerbaijan, South Africa, Siberia, Philippines, ... show with their spectacular designs the individual approach of different cultures to the theme and how Mozart is experienced in the various regions of our world.
Seductive lingerie in connection with creativity and fashion evokes surprising representations of an erotic, glamorous and elegant Madame Pompadour.
16 international fashion experts have selected 7 designers for the public voting; among the jury are Madelief Hohé, Senay Topcuoglu, Dr. Monica Kurzel Runtscheiner, Rafael Gomes
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Kresge Art Museum is pleased to present nearly twenty of contemporary artist Cat (Catherine) Chow's personal and poetic garments fabricated from the stuff of daily life.
Her "fabric" may be made of interwoven dollar bills, flat washers, one long zipper, corks, brass rings or rubber O-rings, twist ties, plastic hospital I.D. bracelets, or even dress snaps.
With exquisite craftsmanship, she creates the fabric in units of perfect regularity.
She "often finds this tedious work relaxing," she says.
"I inherited the patience from my Buddhist father and the obsessiveness from my mother." Once Chow has created the fabric, she begins the construction of the garment.
The simple, elegant shaping results in a beautifully conceived and proportioned fluidity in the finished garment.
Cat Chow was born in 1973 and received her B.A. in Theatre from Northwestern University where she became interested in costume design.
In the late 1990s she worked in a theater prop store that specialized in medieval costumes, and she learned how to make chain mail (a type of armour or jewelry that consists of small metal rings linked together in a pattern to form a mesh).
She cites highly quirky sculptors who use unexpected materials like Tom Friedman and Donald Lipski as inspiration.
She also plays guitar in a rock band
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