A VERY FASHIONIST GARDEN
A VERY FASHIONIST GARDEN
Where do I even begin? We traveled to New York, dressed a bit flamboyantly to get into the spirit of this year’s Met Gala, and OH MY DIOR, the Bezos are invited! But it’s already too late—they’re taking our pictures. This Sunday at Café à la Mode, we’re enjoying the Met Gala and, yes, we’ll also be talking about the controversy surrounding it. Crossing the Atlantic and returning to Paris, this past April we visited the « Cent Ans d’Art Deco" exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and strolled—as we always love to do—through this wonderful city and its terraces.
THE PERSONAL
This week I’ve been a bit all over the place, moving the printer and the computer to the house where I’m staying these days. It’s quite distracting and tiring; sometimes I lose perspective on it all. But then, suddenly, I talk to someone, I make a drawing, I watch the ripples on the canal, or I look at the giant green clouds that are the trees and I think: this is where I need to be, and this is what I should be doing. And sometimes, what you need to do is just sit and watch the ripples on the canal and feel happy about it.
I hope to make you dream and enjoy this beautiful city of Paris with me; may we walk it and devour it together for yet another Sunday.
Butter hugs, VM
CUSTOME ART
MET GALA 26
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It is difficult to talk about the Met Gala without also talking about the multi-million dollar sponsorship from the Bezos couple, which sparked anti-Met Gala protests and caused some of its most important celebrities to vanish from the event. Parallel to the main event, an independent runway emerged, organized by the Amazon labor union, along with projections on buildings and live protests right in front of the museum.
On the other hand, this year’s exhibition, Costume Art—something like "The Body and Fashion"—creates an intrepid and necessary dialogue between the body, body types, and art: petite bodies, people in wheelchairs, plus-sized bodies, pregnant women, all skin tones and colors... the collection presents all kinds of artworks from the Metropolitan’s own archives, from the prehistoric era to the present day, alongside contemporary and historical fashion designs. The truth is, art and fashion have much in common, including the fact that they are revolutionary simply by existing. It is surely one of the best fashion exhibitions to ever exist.
Returning to the controversy and playing it safe—this year, with the theme centered on the body and art, we have seen people on the red carpet who, due to their physicality, had never been part of this aesthetic and representative elite of power until now.
We are specifically talking about Aaron Rose Philip, who uses a wheelchair, and Sinéad Burke, a person of short stature, on the host committee. They have participated directly in the creation of the exhibition by lending the shape of their own bodies for the mannequins that represent their communities. Ironically, these individuals share the red carpet with the most powerful people in the world, positioning their bodies in places of power—of immense power.
Beyoncé in Olivier Rousteing
Sinéad Burke
Hailey Bieber
Aariana Rose Philip
Kendall Jenner
Paris, mon carnet d'adresses:
CANAL SAINT-MARTIN - 75019 - paris
This past April, we visited the "100 Years of Art Deco" exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs and were able to travel back to the Paris of 1925, the year the industrial exhibition that would eventually give this aesthetic movement its name was inaugurated. The collection reviewed the great milestones of the movement, with a special focus on decoration, furniture, and objects—the museum's specialty. In the final section, in the Great Hall, we enjoyed a walk inside the actual modern-day Orient Express to experience the legendary train at a 1:1 scale with real furniture, as well as view current sketches, finishes, materials, and tableware. A true five-star hotel in motion. What caught my attention most—though it’s only logical—was the study of noise and vibrations to make the stay more comfortable. Do the glasses shake much while you're dining? We didn’t see detective Hercule Poirot, which left us relieved; no one was going to die, at least not that day...
PETIT POÈME VISUEL, MAINTENANT OU JAMAIS
MON TRAVAIL: INDIGO XMAS CAMPAIGNE.
MANAGED BY ILLUSTRATION DIVISION
THE BEAUTIFUL & DAMMED PORTRAIT
THE DISCARD PILE
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