Introducing: #AcneStudiosSS23. The monumental celebration of #AcneStudios' 10th year of showing in Paris. Watch the show, live from Palais de Tokyo in Paris, on Wednesday September 28th at 6:30PM CEST.
“What if I told you, you aren’t the hero in your own story but the villain in someone else’s?” In this special project for Miu Miu, artist Sophia Al-Maria offers us an old story with a new twist. Gravity ∞ Grace is a fairy tale ending (of the world) about a court jester and a royal guard who can’t agree if life is a tragedy or comedy. The pair gaslight, gate-keep and girl-boss each other in an epic battle over POV. Featuring original music by musicians Takiaya Reed and Scarlett Viney of Divide and Dissolve and starring stuntwoman Ayesha Hussain as archetypal twins, this one-minute recap formed the introduction to the unabridged story which played out during the Miu Miu Spring/Summer 2024 show in the Palais d’Iéna on October 3rd, 2023. Sophia Al-Maria’s expansive work across art, publishing, film and TV is united by an urgent question of perspective: if language and stories form our POV, how can we tell fantasy from reality?
ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK FOR CELINE EXTENDED VERSION OF “TOO MUCH LOVE” PERFORMED BY LCD SOUNDSYSTEM PRODUCED BY JAMES MURPHY ENGINEERED BY KOREY RICHEY COMMISSIONED BY HEDI SLIMANE “TOO MUCH LOVE” IS PART OF LCD SOUNDSYSTEM’S EPONYMOUS GROUNDBREAKING DEBUT ALBUM THAT WAS RELEASED IN JANUARY 2005. TO DATE, IT IS ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL SOUNDS IN INDIE ELECTRONIC MUSIC AND CLUB SCENES. CASTING, STYLING AND SET DESIGN HEDI SLIMANE MAKE-UP ARTIST AARON DE MEY HAIR STYLIST ESTHER LANGHAM CELINE LEATHER HEADPHONES BY MASTER & DYNAMIC. SPECIAL THANKS TO STELLA ROSE AND ESTHER-ROSE MCGREGOR THE BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE DE FRANCE (BNF) IS LOCATED ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE CELINE ATELIERS, ON RUE VIVIENNE IN THE 2ND DISTRICT OF THE FRENCH CAPITAL. THE BNF IS ONE OF THE OLDEST FRENCH CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS. THE CELINE 19 WOMEN SUMMER 24 VIDEO WAS FILMED IN: SALLE LABROUSTE INSTITUT NATIONAL D’HISTOIRE DE L’ART (INHA), BIBLIOTHÈQUE - SALLE LABROUSTE, REHABILITATION BRUNO GAUDIN AND VIRGINIE BRÉGAL ARCHITECTS, RESTORATION LAGNEAU ARCHITECTS, PARIS – 2023 LA SALLE DE LECTURE DU DÉPARTEMENT DES MANUSCRITS / COUR D’HONNEUR BNF / INHA / ENC – BRUNO GAUDIN AND VIRGINIE BRÉGAL, ARCHITECTS, PARIS – 2023 FAÇADE D’ENTRÉE DU 58, RUE DE RICHELIEU BNF / INHA / ENC – BRUNO GAUDIN AND VIRGINIE BRÉGAL, ARCHITECTS, PARIS – 2023 PASSAGE CHOISEUL PONT DE BIR-HAKEIM BRONZE SCULPTURE : LOUVRE MUSEUM DEPOSIT, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ART HISTORY. CHARLES-FRANÇOIS LEBOEUF DIT NANTEUIL « EURYDICE MOURANTE », 1822.
Physicality sculpts our bodies and clothes. The Victoria Beckham Spring-Summer 2024 collection investigates through construction ballet’s emotional and somatic impressions on clothes and the way the body carries them. With the dancer’s simple uniform as its point of departure, the wardrobe illustrates the intrigue movement invokes within garments and accessories. Styling: Jane How Casting: DMCasting Hair: Anthony Turner Hair tools and Products: Wella Professionals and ghd Make-Up: Fara Homidi Looks: Victoria Beckham Beauty Nails: Alexandra Janowski Music: Michel Gaubert Production: Bureau Betak Video and Live Stream: Bureau Future
Casting: DMCASTING Piergiorgio Del Moro, Samuel Ellis Scheinman Hair: Guido Palau Make-Up: Diane Kendal "Gentle Confrontation" by Loraine James "Try For Me" feat. Eden Samara by Loraine James Courtesy of Hyperdub , Warp Music & Eden Samara @setfiretoloraine "Makeshift Tourniquet" by Vegyn Courtesy of PLZ Make it Ruins & Kobalt Music Publishing @vegynvegyn Production: La Mode en Image @lamodeenimages
First Look: Introducing our Spring 2024 RTW collection, NATURA, presented at #ParisFashionWeek. “For Spring 2024, we were inspired by the simple beauty of nature through various art forms. For key collection prints, we were drawn to the lovely, unexpected colour combinations of abstract landscape colourists and mixed these with the more scientific mood of classic botanist art against clean white backdrops. We also explored the visual symmetry that is found in nature and looked to 3D naturalist sculptures for inspiration in creating detail, shape and movement. The collection direction is clean and fresh, with a strong expression of colour, sculptural silhouettes and a variety of textures. All taking their cues from expressions of our natural surroundings.” - Nicky Zimmermann, Creative Director. With thanks to: Set Creative Direction: Michelle Jank Stylist: Romy Frydman Runway Content Capture: Titre Provisoire Runway Stills Photographer: Paolo Caponetto Backstage Stills Photographer: Charles Dennington Backstage Set Videographer: Anthony Goujjane Backstage Roaming: Morgan O'Donovan, Virgile Guinard, Jonathan Bookallil, Sonny Vandevelde Art Direction: Smile Agency - Emil Vrisakis Music Composer: Mimi Xu Production: OBO Casting: The Establishment - Anita Bitton Hair Director: Damien Boissinot Make Up Director: Jodie Boland
The green mountains flare. She smiles as she climbs, wrapped in ancient linen, one foot and then the other. She looks as if a ghost had volunteered it’s bindings. She knows, all that fell a part, comes back together in the spiral of summer. Cow bells fill the air like an acid-house radio station. Part god, part banker, part sheep dog. She is moved only by the need to continue upwards. Ascension. Every fable plays upon her shoulders. The maiden exposed to the elements. Lace and fire. Brimstone and want. Denim and desire. Curled up at the edge of the earth. She is finally free. OTTOLINGER Cosima Gadient & Christa Bösch
For this season’s campaign, Thai-Swedish rap legend Thaiboy Digital and his paramour, Cartoon, venture to North Sumatra, Indonesia, to explore a world of creativity, evolution and change-making with PUMA and P.A.M. Sounds of the Sumatran Rainforest recorded via real-time, remote, cloud-based audio sensors are remixed by Tsuzing and Suda into a ‘Jungle Sonics’ soundtrack used for the film.
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