60 VISIONAIRE SIXTY RELIGION - GUEST EDITED BY RICARDO TISCI - GIVENCHY - JUNE 2011

We are pleased to announce the release of VISIONAIRE SIXTY RELIGION, Guest Edited by Riccardo Tisci in collaboration with Givenchy. “Visionaire Sixty Religion was a truly important moment of reflection for me,” Riccardo says. “Made, in my mind, by some of the most important creative forces of our moment and some of the people I love the most, this collection of work celebrates religion, inner truths, inner dialogues, moments which words cannot quantify.”

Stephen Gan, Cecilia Dean, and James Kaliardos felt that the collaboration was a particularly invigorating one: “Working together with Riccardo and experiencing his process reminded us of the energy and charge we felt when we first conceived of Visionaire, and why we continue to create a publication that is evolving, experimenting, and transforming.”

RELIGION is Tisci’s meditation on the theme of “religion” as depicted by photos and art commissioned and curated by Tisci specially for this issue. Images are featured in black and white with gold pages. Independent of any divination, the issue’s theme draws inspiration from “religion” as a synonym for obsession, ritual, worship, apparition, and the celebration of humanity.

Visionaire Sixty Religion comes as a leather-wrapped 228-page hard- bound book. Inspired by a church altar piece, the case’s split doors open to reveal the black-on-black stamped book cover inside a black plexiglass lined interior. Contributors to Visionaire 60 include Marina Abramovic, Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, Lara Stone, Paolo Canevari, Franca Sozzani, Karl Lagerfeld, Carine Roitfeld, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Mario Testino, Jefferson Hack, Patti Smith, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Nick Knight, Katy England, Kate Moss, Yann Vasnier, and many many more.

The limited edition offering will be on sale June 2011. For more information, stay tuned to
http://www.visionaireworld.com/index.php





Lea T by Giovanna Battaglia and Pierpaolo Ferrari

LANVIN - FALL 2011 - PARIS

An inordinate number of the Autumn/Winter 2011 Parisian collections seem dedicated to the indecipherable, indelible and iconic idea of French chic. That is, of course, Alber Elbaz's leitmotif at Lanvin - although his is a chic without the stuffing, raw-seamed and pre-washed. A chic with some edge, indeed.

DIARY LYLYBYE - KITTEN - 2011

Elizabeth Peyton - Kurt with cheeky num-num 1995






Kurt Cobain





James Franco
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Pete Doherty


For Nathalie...
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MUSEE DE LA VIE ROMANTIQUE - HÔTEL SCHEFFER RENAN - PARIS

The House of the painter ary Scheffer (1795-1858)

Located in the heart of the Paris district called The New Athens, this property was built in 1830 on a piece of land previously owned by the Abesses Montmartre, next to Comte Chaptal's. It remained in the Scheffer-Renan family till it was transferred to the City of Paris in 1983, to become the Museum of the Romantics, dedicated to the arts and litterature of the first half of the XIXth century. It is one of the few remaining artists homes, dating from the early days of King Louis-Phillipe's monarchy.
The ground floor displays keepsakes, furnitures and portraits, previously owned by the writer George Sand (1804-1876) and bequeathed by her grand-daughter Aurore Lauth-Sand to the City of Paris in 1923.
The upper floor offers highlights of Ary Scheffer's art (portraits, historic and religious paintings...) among other artfacts of Romanticism.
Each Friday Ary Scheffer would entertain prestigious guests in his working studio opening to the left of the passage - when arriving : George Sand, Chopin, Delacroix, Rossini, Liszt, Pauline Viardot, thiers....The opposite studio was used by his brother the painter Henri Scheffer, as well as assistants and pupils. These twin studios facing north, on each side of the paved courtyard, are used nowadays to show two temporary exhibition each year.



Musée de la Vie Romantique
16 Rue Chaptal
75009 Paris
01 55 31 95 67




























Thomas Couture Portrait of Maurice




Arie Johannes Lamme, The garden of rue Chaptal, 1865

JORDI LABANDA - ARTIST - 2011

Jordi Labanda - Richard Avedon, "Marella Agnelli"










Jordi Labanda - Diane Arbus "Superstar at home"








Jordi Labanda was born in Mercedes in Uruguay to Catalan parents, but has lived in Barcelona since he was three. He studied industrial design in the city and began his career as a commercial illustrator in 1993, with a style inspired by the fashion illustrations of the fifties and sixties, 19th-century French portrait artists and very urban art.







Jordi Labanda - Steven Klein, "Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie"











Jordi Labanda - Helmut Newton "Raquel Welch"










Jordi Labanda - Cecil Beaton,"Portrait of Dame Edith Sitwell"





http://www.jordilabanda.com/

FASHION WEEK PARIS - CHANEL & COLETTE - 1er MARS AU 10 MARS 2011 - PARIS

La Fashion Week parisienne, c’est une semaine de folie pendant laquelle Paris vibre de toutes parts. Défilés, présentations, happenings, cocktails et soirées…rythment les jours et nuits des people et modeuses. Une effervescence que la maison Chanel et la boutique « hype » parisienne Colette ont bien compris. Afin de ravir ce microcosme fashion, Chanel et Colette s’associent dans la mise en place d’une boutique éphémère de 200m², du 1er au 10 mars, aux numéros 336-340 Rue Saint Honoré. Une collaboration originale où l’on retrouvera des silhouettes Chanel de la collection printemps-été 2011 mêlées à celles de jeunes créateurs. Bien sûr les produits que l’on retrouve habituellement chez Colette (bougies, compilations) et les griffes les plus pointues (Eres, Maison Michel…) seront également invités dans ce magasin géant. Chaque jour la boutique éphémère proposera une animation « customisation » du sac Chanel par un artiste (André, Soledad, SO-ME…), ou une animation nail bar. Pour le reste, on vous laisse la surprise d’une rencontre à la fois fashion, artistique et musicale.

















Soledad Bravi





Soledad Bravi
http://www.soledadbravi.com/

BALENCIAGA - FALL 2011/2012 - PARIS

Balenciaga Fall Winter 2011 2012 Womenswear by music lylybye






The last time we saw flowers at Balenciaga was ages ago, but even if you recall Spring 2008's orderly bouquets, they didn't look anything like the mix of exotic, colorful blooms and reptiles we saw on the first looks to hit the runway today. The shape, a below-the-knee skirt with an easy drape in the front (it was more structured in back), was new for Nicolas Ghesquière, too—longer, looser, and less restrained than usual. The jackets he showed them with were dramatic with a capital D, knit as they were from giant ribbons of faux leather, a favorite material of late. In Ghesquière's words, "The season is a game of proportion, zooming in on textures, the way seeing things with a loop [a magnifying glass] can give you different, shifting points of view. It's a bit surrealist."