Hedi Slimane's collaboration with Prada

When Hedi Slimane quit from Dior Homme, he kept expressing his huge artistic talent through photography. The former artistic Director of Dior Homme will work with Prada this time and has shot Prada Homme's Spring/ Summer 2009's ad campaign.

Louis and Claude, sons of Paul Simonon, bassist of The Clash are his new models for this campaign. Hedi Slimane respects his black and white's style in these shots that we should see everywhere quickly.

To learn more : http://www.hedislimane.com/ and http://www.prada.com/

Christie's glamourous' sale of photographs in NY

Marilyn Monroe by Richard Avedon in 1957 in New York. ©D.R

On 16 and 17 December, Christie's NY will sell glamourous photographs from The Constantiner Collection. This collection gathered by Leon and Michaela Constantiner is beautiful. Avedon, Newton, Penn, Warhol, Lindbergh's photographs of fashion icons and sex symbols of Kate Moss, Stéphanie Seymour, Monica Belluci or Madonna, next to Marilyn Monroe and James Dean will be offered to the buyers.

The sale is estimated to reach between 7,5 -11 million dollars. Among these 320 lots, there 5 great themes. Helmut Newton's oeuvre is showcased through fashions photographs, Playboy's archive's cliches, « Sex & Landscapes » 2002's exhibitions polaroïds shots.

The second big theme is "A Golden Era of Elegance", with illustrations from the 30's to today with Irving Penn or Richard Avedon's pictures with the famour Stéphanie Seymour's shot, estimated to reach between 85 000 and 128 000 €.

Third main section of the colelction: Hollywood, which emphasizes cinema icons such as James Dean, Ava Gardner, Faye Dunaway, Marlene Dietrich, Raquel Welch or Charlotte Rampling. Marilyn Monroe, absolut icon, will be the star of this sale with photographs by Andy Warhol and Richard Avedon.

New York City will highly be in that sale as well with photographs of the big Apple by Karl Struss or Hiroshi Sugimoto.

We'll all be looking forward to getting the results of it !

To learn more: http://www.christies.com/

Mexico City Gets New Contemporary Art Museum

MEXICO CITY—A new contemporary art museum, the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), has opened in Mexico City, the Art Newspaper reports. The museum joins a cultural center, several other museums, and a national library as part of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

The 270 million peso ($20 million) contemporary art museum, which boasts 3,300 square meters of gallery space, was designed by leading Mexican architect Teodoro González de León. It will house international exhibitions and installations, and chief curator Guillermo Santamarina hopes it will become the home to Mexico's largest public collection of contemporary art.

Graciela de La Torre, the former director of the Museo Nacional de Arte of Mexico, will head the new museum. She raised 90 million pesos to fund MUAC's opening exhibitions, which include Cantos Civico, a sprawling installation by Miguel Ventura that includes walls carpeted with swastikas and dollar signs. MUAC will have only rotating exhibitions, to be drawn from its permanent collection as well as loans from other institutions. The museum's annual budget is not yet confirmed.

To learn more: http://www.artinfo.com/

Unlimited Chanel

Chanel has launched a new collection of accessories. Entitled Unlimited, this chic new range of bags shows "Paris, 31, Coco, Chanel...."'s prints inside and outside, which I find really classy.


To learn more: http://www.chanel.com/

John Cale to Represent Wales at the Venice Biennale

"Although John Cale is best known as a founder of the band the Velvet Underground, it was announced last week that he will represent the Welsh Pavilion at the contemporary art Venice Biennale. Born in Wales, Cale studied music at Goldsmiths College in London before traveling to New York, where he created the Velvet Underground with Lou Reed. He also collaborated with musicians such as Patti Smith, The Stooges, and Happy Mondays, as well as having a solo career.

Cale's work at the biennale will be a collaboration with artists, filmmakers, and poets, with the main focus of the piece on his relationship with the Welsh language. Cale said he was "surprised and honored" to be chosen to represent Wales. He added, "It offers an occasion to address certain pernicious issues in my background that had lain dormant for so long. There are certain experiences uniquely suited to the exorcism of mixed media, and I am grateful for this opportunity to address them."Alun Ffred Jones, heritage minister in the Welsh assembly, said, "John Cale is a bard in the widest sense — an artistic craftsman whose work is firmly rooted in Wales's cultural history."

To learn more: www.labiennale.org/en

Have we judged Victoria Beckham too fast ?

Have we made a mistake judging Victoria Beckham an annoying and tasteless mother ? Given the tone and aesthetics of the new video of her collection, we can wonder.


After the critical acclaim that her collection received during the New York's Autumn Fashion Show, Victoria Beckham put her collection of dresses on sale on December 4 2008 in Selfridges, the exclusive department store of London (and other selected shops in the world such as Harrod's in London, Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Gooman in New York).


The video relates a lot to the ads she did with Marc Jacobs (a bag on the model's head), but the quality of it and the funny background make it interesting enough... We'll see who will want to wear the dresses though.

Sophia Kokosalaki: 10 years anniversary

Sophia Kokosalaki celebrates her 10 years' anniversary"career". For this special occasion, the fashion designer has picked up 10 Summer creations and 10 Winter pieces that she did in the past.

Since 1999, Sophia Kokosalaki has become the master of the little black dress and her works on materials such as leather for instance, made her one of the most respected fashion designers. She's Greek but went to Central St Martins' School in London. We all remember Björk's Medulla album's cover and her performance at the opening ceremony of the Olympics' Games in Athens.

So happy birthday Sophia !

To learn more: http://www.sophiakokosalaki.com/