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Monday, January 17, 2011

Drop it Like it's Hawwwt!!

0 comments Posted by pece at 5:27 AM

Sales are finally over, and the SS collections are starting to drop, slowly, slowly, slowly. Dover Street Market has just re-opened its doors for the season with an inimitable line-up of designers showcasing their collections. I adore Dover Street Market; it's like falling down into a couture-filled rabbit hole. You never know who you might spot, and it's undoubtedly got the best VM in London. Check out Alber Elbaz's winning design for his space in the store. Checkmate, sir.

This is awesome: the New World Archive space, Flight of the Dragon Empress, designed by Michael Costiff. Totally dying to get my hands on a true Native American war bonnet (back left).

Also loving:

Hussein Chalayan space, inspired by traditional Japanese puppet theatre. Amazing, the symmetry here.

The sneaker space designed by Michael Samuels

Get down and see for yourself!

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

HM LANVIN + MET/Haremhab + Des Gateaux & du Pain

0 comments Posted by pece at 4:12 AM

Has this happened to you?

You go to the museum (in this case yesterday at the Metropolitan's new exhibit of Haremhab, the Egyptian general who became king) and all you notice is the elegant flat tums!

All you can think is, Oh why did you wolf down those divine chausson aux pommes in Paris?

A tough contest -
Between an elegant flat tum or an elegant chausson aux pommes...

Fortunately the first time you went to Des Gateaux et du Pain they were ferme! It was a mardi bien sur...

The flat tum won out that time...

All you got was a sneak peek into the open cuisine doorway...

Miam?

Or miam-miam? A second visit was more successful...

Les viennoiseries d'or at Des Gateaux are pretty darn irresistable...

And the interiors...

Are so darn elegant...

An Egyptian from Haremhab's time could easily have designed it...

I'd planned on tasting the prize-winning chausson aux pommes (according to Le Figaro) but the chausson aux agrumes (Pâte feuilletée au beurre frais et sel de guérande caramélisée, crème au jus et zeste de citron et pamplemousse) made my heart beat...

So fast I couldn't hold the camera still
munch munch
miam-miam

Was it worth it?

If it meant not looking as svelt and nubile as these Egyptian beauties?

Particularly with the HM Lanvin collection opening this Saturday!?

Oh why did I give in to temptation?

What would YOU have done?

Again at the Met another uncanny likeness of designer Alber Elbaz

Asking me, where was your restraint?

How will you fit into my gowns this Saturday?!

God only knows...

There are so many museums to visit-don't miss this one in Paris by going on a Tuesday. Mais faites attention!

They have FOUR video screens hidden by the cash register to catch undercover pastry sleuths. They let me off this time...

Do visit the Met's new expo too.
And what will you be doing this Saturday?

BONJOUR HM/LANVIN + MET/Haremhab + Des Gateaux & du Pain!

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Lanvin Spr'11/Jan Gossart 1532

0 comments Posted by pece at 5:57 AM

Photo by Grance Dore

While Sunday surfing I came across this arresting photo by Garance Dore of Lanvin's Spring 2011 collection...

Yesterday I went to a press preview of the Jan Gossart exhibit at the Met - can you see where this is headed?

Lanvin's fabulous flowie drapery...

Has Alber Elbaz been looking at Neatherlandish painting?

Or is it just me that sees...

These complex draperies...

Repeated in these paintings of Jan Gossart?

Scrunched...

Red pigment was such a rare commodity for artists back in the 13-14th century - vermilion or cinnabar was usually reserved for the most exquisite of painted subjects like the virgin. But here the artiste has deemed himself worthy of the finest. Is that why I see RED everywhere?