Recently a new magazine for and from within the luxury industry has seen its premier: Exhibition magazine. Each issue will be dedicated to one specific theme. This first issue focuses on Lipstick. It explores this theme from various points of view like for example; Lipstick as an abstract object, from a feminist point of view, from an industrial angle, sensually, revealing/concealing or in a political sense.
The theme this first issue of Exhibition magazine is devoted to does remind us of some of the Warmenhoven & Venderbos autonomous works. You can find fragments of this work here: |Lipstick| |Traces 1| |Traces 2|
Photos: Exhibition magazine | Creative Directors: Edwin Sberro & Gaël Hugo | Editor at large: Boris Ovini | Exhibition magazine website
The below video shows highlights from the ‘Stillness at the Speed of Light’ exhibition which was on show in May 2010 at The Vinyl Factory in Soho, London. The Exhibition showcased the extraordinary alchemy between light artist Chris Levine and pop/fashion icon Grace Jones. Chris Levine is the latest in a line of artists who worked with Grace Jones. He managed to make a step forward in the line of all the extraordinary iconic images of her which where created by other artists, like for example Andy Warhol and Keith Haring, by creating a stunning 3D portrait series using the lenticular printing technology.
Photos Chris Levine | Grace Jones | video: Delmar Mavignier
“How You Look At It” is a short fashion film directed and created by Poppy de Villeneuve. The movie is an intriguing cross over and melting between cinema and online viral fashion advertising.
De Villeneuve is a British photographer based in New York. Her father is Justin de Villeneuve, the Sixties fashion photographer who discovered Twiggy, and her mother is the model Jan de Villeneuve. Poppy herself began modelling at the age of 17 but found it “boring” so took up photography instead. She studied at the London College of Printing, and since graduating has worked for publications including Vogue and Dazed & Confused. She also exhibits her work regularly.
Nowness on the film and its director: “Summer in the city: a bustling, stifling and less-than-calming experience. But even in the midst of blaring car-horns, sweltering commuters and dizzying throngs of irritable pedestrians, there’s a pocket of peace to be found in every metropolis. Such moments of sweet escape provide the inspiration for the How You Look At It film.”
“Poppy de Villeneuve (who has shot for Vogue, Jalouse and Nylon, among others) and starring rising Chinese fashion model Liu Wen, who was recently signed as the first Asian face of Estee Lauder. To create her moment of blissful cool, De Villeneuve took to the serene spaces of New York’s Asser Levy Recreation Center—a turn-of-the-century bath house, replete with Art Deco pool—where, in a heat-induced reverie, a Norma Kamali clad Wen is joined by former Sopranos regular and actor in the Martin Scorcese-produced HBO series Boardwalk Empire Edoardo Ballerini, for a sensual, teasingly ambiguous swimming lesson.”
Video: Poppy de Villeneuve | backstage photos by fashion blogger Hanneli | source: Nowness/luxury group LVMH
