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Showing posts with label Metropolitan Museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Metropolitan Museum. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
WOWZA!
The drama was mind-blowing.
The best words are McQueen's own quotes on the walls throughout.“There is no way back for me now. I am going to take you on journeys you’ve never dreamed were possible.” 
"I’m a romantic schizophrenic"
Costume Institute curator Anthony Boltan, reminded us of McQueen's favorite Shakespeare quote from Midsummer's Night Dream,
The drama was mind-blowing.
The best words are McQueen's own quotes on the walls throughout.“There is no way back for me now. I am going to take you on journeys you’ve never dreamed were possible.” 
"I’m a romantic schizophrenic" 
Costume Institute curator Anthony Boltan, reminded us of McQueen's favorite Shakespeare quote from Midsummer's Night Dream,"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind..."
Sarah Burton (Creative Director at McQueen and designer of Kate's wedding dress) told of 'Lee' coming in on a Monday with a pile of mussel shells he'd picked up on the beach on Sunday...
And making a shell bustier on the spot.
McQueen (of Scottish descent) created a 'Rape of Scotland' collection to express his political anger at England and often showed up at events in tartan kilts...
There are McQueen tartan items in the gift shop and you don't have to be Scottish to buy them...
Stella McCartney studied with McQueen at St. Martins, on Savile Row and when they arrived together in Paris early days, Lee said,
Sarah Burton (Creative Director at McQueen and designer of Kate's wedding dress) told of 'Lee' coming in on a Monday with a pile of mussel shells he'd picked up on the beach on Sunday... 
And making a shell bustier on the spot.
McQueen (of Scottish descent) created a 'Rape of Scotland' collection to express his political anger at England and often showed up at events in tartan kilts...
There are McQueen tartan items in the gift shop and you don't have to be Scottish to buy them...
Stella McCartney studied with McQueen at St. Martins, on Savile Row and when they arrived together in Paris early days, Lee said, "Come on Stell, let's start my empire!"
The idea of the sublime-An unfettered emotionalism-Primativism -Naturalism-Exoticism
The idea of the sublime-An unfettered emotionalism-Primativism -Naturalism-Exoticism 
May 4 - July 31
McQueen's last Spring 2010 collection of digitally printed organic forms and patterns...
"It was an...unmissable formula...McQueen's message throughout was essentially sunk into the short dress—a steady development of his engineered sea-reptile prints, worked into a nipped-waist, belled-skirt silhouette. The colors—first green and brown, moving to aqua and blue—were exceptionally executed and swagged, and molded across panniered structures. Each dress was a work of computer-generated art crossbred with McQueen's couture-based signature cut." The Guardian
The catalog, Savage Beauty is just as sumptuous as the exhibit.
A McQueen acolyte arrives appropriately dressed...
McQueen's last Spring 2010 collection of digitally printed organic forms and patterns...
"It was an...unmissable formula...McQueen's message throughout was essentially sunk into the short dress—a steady development of his engineered sea-reptile prints, worked into a nipped-waist, belled-skirt silhouette. The colors—first green and brown, moving to aqua and blue—were exceptionally executed and swagged, and molded across panniered structures. Each dress was a work of computer-generated art crossbred with McQueen's couture-based signature cut." The Guardian
The catalog, Savage Beauty is just as sumptuous as the exhibit.
A McQueen acolyte arrives appropriately dressed...Don't miss SAVAGE BEAUTY!!!
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
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!?
Again at the Met another uncanny likeness of designer Alber Elbaz
Asking me, where was your restraint?
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!
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...
BONJOUR HM/LANVIN + MET/Haremhab + Des Gateaux & du Pain!
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Photo by Grance DoreWhile 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?
Of course Lanvin loves black too...
As does this Met preview observer draped in noir...
Lanvin designer Alber Elbaz would make a worthy portrait subject for 13th century Jan Gossart don't you think?
Can't you envision the couture sketches pinned to the wall behind his head and fabric swatches/colored threads on his work table..?
Bien sur only a 21st century designer could dream up these fantastical shoes-who knows if they bothered with shoes under all that drapery?
Back in New York a boy braves the cold with not much drapery at all. He better cover up - it's 54 degrees out there.
Bien sur only a 21st century designer could dream up these fantastical shoes-who knows if they bothered with shoes under all that drapery?opens tomorrow at the Metropolitan Museum - a spendid exhibit.
Back in New York a boy braves the cold with not much drapery at all. He better cover up - it's 54 degrees out there.BONJOUR LANVIN/JAN GOSSART!
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