Source : Elle Décoration
Clouds by Renate Aller
source : Elle Décoration
I'd love to relax on that terrace
source : http://www.glamthings.com/
source : http://www.glamthings.com/
source : http://www.glamthings.com/
Sunday, February 27, 2011
HAUTE CULTURE : GENERAL IDEA
Latest exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris : HAUTE CULTURE : GENERAL IDEA.
Autoportraits of the artists Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson as poodles .
Conceptual art requires a great deal of patience. I always wonder why I should stand around in a museum looking at murky photos of some performance that happened years ago or reading long texts about a work that is meaningless without an explanation when I could just as well be reading about it on paper or a computer screen in the comfort of my own home. After all, this is art made to inspire thinking, not looking.
There are many rewards to be had, however, in the new exhibition called “Haute Culture: General Idea” at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, a retrospective of the work of an artists’ collective called General Idea (the name was meant to contradict the idea of the artist as genius). The three protagonists – Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson – lived and worked together in what seems to have been – judging from their output – a funhouse frenzy of creativity, producing a wildly varied body of work: paintings, photos, magazines, installations, sculptures, videos and more.
Never heard of General Idea? Neither had I, perhaps because it was based in Toronto (sorry, Canada) or perhaps because Partz and Zontal haven’t been heard from since 1994, when they died of AIDS.
Even if you have never heard of them, however, you certainly will have seen their clever transformation of the four letters of Robert Indiana’s famous “LOVE” image (first created as a Christmas card for the Museum of Modern Art in 1964, it was never copyrighted and went viral after being used as a U.S. postage stamp) into “AIDS” in a very nice ironic twist that is typical of the witty, iconoclastic art of these three.
General Idea mocked not only mass culture, but also Art with a capital A.
The trio re-created Yves Klein’s famous “Anthropometries,” for instance, by making their own version, “XXX (Bleu),” in which they replaced with their fetish poodle the naked women that Klein dipped in his signature blue paint before making them roll around on canvas (the poodle represents the Artist in General Idea’s symbology). In a copy of a Mondrian painting called “Infe©ted Mondrian,” a patch of yellow is insidiously replaced by green, a color the artist never used.
Source : http://www.paris-update.com/
HAUTE CULTURE : GENERAL IDEA
till April 11th, 2011.
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
11 avenue du Président Wilson
75016 Paris
01 53 67 40 00
http://www.mam.paris.fr/
Autoportraits of the artists Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson as poodles .
Conceptual art requires a great deal of patience. I always wonder why I should stand around in a museum looking at murky photos of some performance that happened years ago or reading long texts about a work that is meaningless without an explanation when I could just as well be reading about it on paper or a computer screen in the comfort of my own home. After all, this is art made to inspire thinking, not looking.
There are many rewards to be had, however, in the new exhibition called “Haute Culture: General Idea” at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, a retrospective of the work of an artists’ collective called General Idea (the name was meant to contradict the idea of the artist as genius). The three protagonists – Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson – lived and worked together in what seems to have been – judging from their output – a funhouse frenzy of creativity, producing a wildly varied body of work: paintings, photos, magazines, installations, sculptures, videos and more.
Never heard of General Idea? Neither had I, perhaps because it was based in Toronto (sorry, Canada) or perhaps because Partz and Zontal haven’t been heard from since 1994, when they died of AIDS.
Even if you have never heard of them, however, you certainly will have seen their clever transformation of the four letters of Robert Indiana’s famous “LOVE” image (first created as a Christmas card for the Museum of Modern Art in 1964, it was never copyrighted and went viral after being used as a U.S. postage stamp) into “AIDS” in a very nice ironic twist that is typical of the witty, iconoclastic art of these three.
General Idea mocked not only mass culture, but also Art with a capital A.
The trio re-created Yves Klein’s famous “Anthropometries,” for instance, by making their own version, “XXX (Bleu),” in which they replaced with their fetish poodle the naked women that Klein dipped in his signature blue paint before making them roll around on canvas (the poodle represents the Artist in General Idea’s symbology). In a copy of a Mondrian painting called “Infe©ted Mondrian,” a patch of yellow is insidiously replaced by green, a color the artist never used.
Source : http://www.paris-update.com/
HAUTE CULTURE : GENERAL IDEA
till April 11th, 2011.
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
11 avenue du Président Wilson
75016 Paris
01 53 67 40 00
http://www.mam.paris.fr/
Saturday, February 26, 2011
LIGHT AS A FEATHER
Make travelling a pure pleasure and save a hundred hours or .... travelling in style.
What's the secret ?
Avoid the baggage carousel . Never check a bag; you wouldn't like your latest monogrammed Goyard to be merry go rounding on those filthy gummy carousels, would you ? Another good enough reason : your precious luggage won't get lost ( no waste of time) and it will arrive the minute you land .
classy
sexy
speedy windy hairy !
Carry-ons will do the trick for a 5 day trip.
Follow the magic list :
- 2 pairs of pants ( one is your most comfortable jeans if you get adventurous for a climb on the Macchu Pichu between 2 days of heavy vital meetings about the last colour in nail polish to be determined )
- 2 skirts... just to feel a bit more lady like and a go for your Walter Steiger pumps
- 2 jackets ... to feel serious
- 5 tops ( 3 for business, 2 casual), forget about the sequined tops this time
- 1 white T-shirt ( to be worn with a jean or under a jacket for business). Thank you Gap !
- 2 cashmere cardigans ( 1 black, 1 cream colored )
- 2 colored or printed scarves ( which will give your outfit an instant dashing look )
- 3 sets of Jimmy's ( no , kidding) : one pair ballerina style on your feet for flying, one pair for business and one comfortable but trendy pair for pleasure and lounging on the top floor of the Grand Hyatt Shanghai bar
- 5 sets of silky super soft underwear ... That's my interpretation of lady travelling but good and sporty underwear from buddy Calvin will do very nicely too and being honest, far more convenient.
- 5 pair of socks and tights.
- a few pieces of inexpensive jewellery will give your figure a sophisticated and finished appeal.
- don't forget the mini umbrella !
- silky nightwear for gorgeous nights ... alone though. Snif !
and your chargers
And in your Chanel tote :
- your cosmetic kit
- your personal electronics
- a pashmina
- the whole stack of people , interior decorating and fashion magazines you can carry !
- a trench coat for a classy arrival à la Sharon Stone or lovely Audrey ( Hepburn )
- sunglasses, never forget you're a star !
- travel wallet might be helpful ( a few credit cards for shopping the 5th avenues of the world and a valid passport might open you the doors of another country )
But after all that babble, I still believe in :
- a valid passport
- a plane ticket
- a credit card
My way of travelling light ...
Bon Voyage !
What's the secret ?
Avoid the baggage carousel . Never check a bag; you wouldn't like your latest monogrammed Goyard to be merry go rounding on those filthy gummy carousels, would you ? Another good enough reason : your precious luggage won't get lost ( no waste of time) and it will arrive the minute you land .
classy
sexy
speedy windy hairy !
Carry-ons will do the trick for a 5 day trip.
Follow the magic list :
- 2 pairs of pants ( one is your most comfortable jeans if you get adventurous for a climb on the Macchu Pichu between 2 days of heavy vital meetings about the last colour in nail polish to be determined )
- 2 skirts... just to feel a bit more lady like and a go for your Walter Steiger pumps
- 2 jackets ... to feel serious
- 5 tops ( 3 for business, 2 casual), forget about the sequined tops this time
- 1 white T-shirt ( to be worn with a jean or under a jacket for business). Thank you Gap !
- 2 cashmere cardigans ( 1 black, 1 cream colored )
- 2 colored or printed scarves ( which will give your outfit an instant dashing look )
- 3 sets of Jimmy's ( no , kidding) : one pair ballerina style on your feet for flying, one pair for business and one comfortable but trendy pair for pleasure and lounging on the top floor of the Grand Hyatt Shanghai bar
- 5 sets of silky super soft underwear ... That's my interpretation of lady travelling but good and sporty underwear from buddy Calvin will do very nicely too and being honest, far more convenient.
- 5 pair of socks and tights.
- a few pieces of inexpensive jewellery will give your figure a sophisticated and finished appeal.
- don't forget the mini umbrella !
- silky nightwear for gorgeous nights ... alone though. Snif !
and your chargers
And in your Chanel tote :
- your cosmetic kit
- your personal electronics
- a pashmina
- the whole stack of people , interior decorating and fashion magazines you can carry !
- a trench coat for a classy arrival à la Sharon Stone or lovely Audrey ( Hepburn )
- sunglasses, never forget you're a star !
- travel wallet might be helpful ( a few credit cards for shopping the 5th avenues of the world and a valid passport might open you the doors of another country )
But after all that babble, I still believe in :
- a valid passport
- a plane ticket
- a credit card
My way of travelling light ...
Bon Voyage !
BEAUTY SECRETS
Beauty secrets overflow in all the magazines but I would like to share with you another kind of BEAUTY SECRETS : Audrey HEPBURN's .
This is a poem that Audrey Hepburn shared with her family just weeks before she died.
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you never walk alone.
We leave you a tradition of the future. The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, redeemed and redeemed and redeemed. Never throw anyone away.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand you’ll find one at the end of your arm.
As you grow older, you’ll discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the second for helping others.
You’ve great days still ahead of you. May there be many of them.
*****
Honesty, simplicity, freshness : beauty in other words.
So charming already .
And yet, even more breathtakingly beautiful
A GRANDE DAME.
This is a poem that Audrey Hepburn shared with her family just weeks before she died.
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you never walk alone.
We leave you a tradition of the future. The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, redeemed and redeemed and redeemed. Never throw anyone away.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand you’ll find one at the end of your arm.
As you grow older, you’ll discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the second for helping others.
You’ve great days still ahead of you. May there be many of them.
*****
Honesty, simplicity, freshness : beauty in other words.
So charming already .
And yet, even more breathtakingly beautiful
A GRANDE DAME.
Friday, February 25, 2011
I AGREE !!!!!!!!!
Coco CHANEL once said that a woman could be "gorgeous at twenty, charming at forty and irresistible the rest of her life."
LET THAT BE OUR GOAL !
LET THAT BE OUR GOAL !
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
A SPOONFUL OF COUNTRY CHARM
Week end off in the Dordogne countryside and just sharing a few pictures :
Yes, WE DRANK IT. It's so big it doesn't even carry a name !
Yes, WE DRANK IT. It's so big it doesn't even carry a name !
Did I mention that the house dates from the 16th century ?
This picture comes from a Elle Déco and could have been taken from the house I was in this week-end.
Stone walls, large fireplace, low furniture against the wall, over dimensionned lamps.
Simple and natural.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
HAUTE COUTURE TO DIE FOR !
Irresistible gowns :
Beaded dress by Jason Wu as seen on Simply Luxurious Life, one of my favourite blogs.
Pastels right from the Sixtine chapel in Rome by Elie SAAB
Source : greigedesign
Beaded dress by Jason Wu as seen on Simply Luxurious Life, one of my favourite blogs.
Pastels right from the Sixtine chapel in Rome by Elie SAAB
Source : greigedesign
A few rocks , amber black.
Monday, February 14, 2011
POUCHKINE LANDS AT LE PRINTEMPS
" LE FASHION CAFE BY POUCHKINE" , so famous and trendy in Moscow has left for the 1st time the freezing Russian temperatures for the elegant and fashionable Printemps mega department store in Paris.
Start with a Bortsch ( spicy and onctious beetroot soup), then follow with meat Pirojkis.
It won't change you instantaneously into a Russian top model but you'll savour that interesting and flavourful cuisine. And most of all, you'll be ready for a shopping spree through ALL the PRINTEMPS floors !
FASHION CAFE BY POUCHKINE
LE PRINTEMPS
64 Boulevard Haussmann
75009 Paris
01 42 82 50 00
http://www.printemps.com/
Start with a Bortsch ( spicy and onctious beetroot soup), then follow with meat Pirojkis.
It won't change you instantaneously into a Russian top model but you'll savour that interesting and flavourful cuisine. And most of all, you'll be ready for a shopping spree through ALL the PRINTEMPS floors !
FASHION CAFE BY POUCHKINE
LE PRINTEMPS
64 Boulevard Haussmann
75009 Paris
01 42 82 50 00
http://www.printemps.com/
Sunday, February 13, 2011
WOMEN IN ORIENT SEEN BY CHRISTIAN LACROIX
Detail of a garment at the exhibit L'ORIENT DES FEMMES VU¨PAR CHRISTIAN LACROIX.
Impossible to do any better than a Haute Couture Designer of the stature of Christian LACROIX to introduce the richness of Near East women through their dresses and accessories.
It is a true hymn to oriental womenfrom North of Syria to the Sinai peninsula, with 150 traditionnal costumes .
We are so far from our black dresses coming from Zara or denim jackets from H&M, from our palette of colours we call make-up and our blow-dry quickly done before work.
These women expressed their language, their geographical, social and religious marks and their own personnality through their clothes and accessories, through their intricate make-up and through their jewels.
They really went real far to enhance their beauty.
till May 15th, 2011
MUSEE DU QUAI BRANLY
37 Quai Branly
75007 Paris
01 56 61 70 00
http://www.quaibranly.fr/
Saturday, February 12, 2011
KILIWATCH : VINTAGE COVE
What a mess ! Hope this is nobody's dressing room ! .....
This is KILIWATCH : the PARIS vintage emporium.
And look at this tie rack ! Thank God my Man is not that disorganized ! I would go nuts !!!! ......
This is KILIWATCH : a heaven of clothes.
I'm kidding of course. You land there in a store without limits, going from one room to another, then yet to another treasure cove of clothes. It's just so much fun and so exciting ! You will have hours of fun hunting in that jungle with your hands as machetes to get that particular hanger with the red and black coat.
The clothes are stacked by colours, very ingenious process so that you go through all the colours.
You start at 11 am and then get so much into a Vintage transe that you forget that you're having lunch at 1pm with all the gals in rue Montorgueil.
I just told them to clean up their ass , see below !
A few rules of thumb though :
- never go with a set idea in mind, you would be disapppointed. Let your mind flow with the clothes.
- buy because it's cheap ? nope : it'll look like a dead corpse in you closet as you won't ever wear it.
- hunt ie go for what's hidden.
- have a budget in your wallet .
KILIWATCH
64 rue Tiquetonne
75002 Paris
01 42 21 17 37
espacekiliwatch.fr
This is KILIWATCH : the PARIS vintage emporium.
And look at this tie rack ! Thank God my Man is not that disorganized ! I would go nuts !!!! ......
This is KILIWATCH : a heaven of clothes.
I'm kidding of course. You land there in a store without limits, going from one room to another, then yet to another treasure cove of clothes. It's just so much fun and so exciting ! You will have hours of fun hunting in that jungle with your hands as machetes to get that particular hanger with the red and black coat.
The clothes are stacked by colours, very ingenious process so that you go through all the colours.
You start at 11 am and then get so much into a Vintage transe that you forget that you're having lunch at 1pm with all the gals in rue Montorgueil.
I just told them to clean up their ass , see below !
A few rules of thumb though :
- never go with a set idea in mind, you would be disapppointed. Let your mind flow with the clothes.
- buy because it's cheap ? nope : it'll look like a dead corpse in you closet as you won't ever wear it.
- hunt ie go for what's hidden.
- have a budget in your wallet .
KILIWATCH
64 rue Tiquetonne
75002 Paris
01 42 21 17 37
espacekiliwatch.fr
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
WHAT WOULD BE SAINT VALENTINE'S WITHOUT PETAL WORDS ?
All of us Girls are already fantasizing on the flowers, the huge "uncarryable" bouquet that our Sweetheart will hand out on Monday night.
By now, you must have understood that all those posts at the moment all very much on Saint Valentin's turf are an easy way to get a message through to our Loved ones; just let the computer open on my blog !!!!
So, after those crazy and sensual pictures of the finest Parisian lingerie, let's venture on Paris best florists territory and meet the Star of Floral Design Power, Jeff LEATHAM.
LACHAUME :
White lilies with stems the size of Russian top model daddy long legs, fiery red roses as eye catching as Louboutin skyscraper's shoe soles.
Motto : Excellence. There's nothing more easy than just one word; that one : Excellence !
LACHAUME is "Maître Fleuriste" since 1845, if you please. The pink marble, rock garden and frescoed boutique stands proudly on rue Royale.
It's serious flowers. You're in plain drama, this is a major engagement evening.
lachaume.fleurs.com
MOULIE :
Extraordinary flower arrangements giving life to all the ministry palaces and embassies in Paris; so, let's follow them, they must be good judges. Can't be because they give them a mega discount !
Been in the business since 1870.
Motto : " A bouquet is always a personal affair."
ERIC CHAUVIN :
the poetic interpretor of your tastes, colours and emotions.
Motto : unusual.
By now, you must have understood that all those posts at the moment all very much on Saint Valentin's turf are an easy way to get a message through to our Loved ones; just let the computer open on my blog !!!!
So, after those crazy and sensual pictures of the finest Parisian lingerie, let's venture on Paris best florists territory and meet the Star of Floral Design Power, Jeff LEATHAM.
LACHAUME :
White lilies with stems the size of Russian top model daddy long legs, fiery red roses as eye catching as Louboutin skyscraper's shoe soles.
Motto : Excellence. There's nothing more easy than just one word; that one : Excellence !
LACHAUME is "Maître Fleuriste" since 1845, if you please. The pink marble, rock garden and frescoed boutique stands proudly on rue Royale.
It's serious flowers. You're in plain drama, this is a major engagement evening.
lachaume.fleurs.com
MOULIE :
Extraordinary flower arrangements giving life to all the ministry palaces and embassies in Paris; so, let's follow them, they must be good judges. Can't be because they give them a mega discount !
Been in the business since 1870.
Motto : " A bouquet is always a personal affair."
ERIC CHAUVIN :
the poetic interpretor of your tastes, colours and emotions.
Motto : unusual.
Eric CHAUVIN is a master in the art of equilibrium between spectacular and emotion with a twist of charming countryside spirit. You'll fall in love with the whole atmosphere, you'll feel suddenly younger and fresher like a teenager.
ERIC CHAUVIN
22 rue Jean Nicot
Paris 750007
01 45 50 43 51
CHRISTIAN TORTU :
creator of Floral Haute Couture notably for the Chanel and Céline fashion show podiums .
Motto : sculptor.
As a kid, poking his nose in the radishes and lettuce of his father's vegetable garden, he learnt everything regarding plants.
Later on, he strongly disliked the fact that Paris florists treated flowers like dead objects : he angrily threw away the plastic wrap and the classic ribbon to embrace his darling stems with kraft paper, twisted branches and exotic foliage.
AND THE OSCAR GOES TO :
JEFF LEATHAM !
Artistic Director of the Four Seasons George V in Paris, Jeff LEATHAM is a total designer.
Motto : Bold statements with shape, color and simplicity to create a dramatic effect.
Just a mere 17 000 flowers each day at the George V ....
Almost home !
Browse through his 1st books for pure total floral bliss and breathtaking and unforgettable design essentials :
" Flowers by Jeff Leatham" and " Flowers by Design"
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