White Drama

The French fashion curator and critic Olivier Saillard talks about the “White Drama”, an exhibition showing the complete Comme des Garçons S/S 2012 collection, created by master artist Rei Kawakubo.
A rare chance to see one of the most standout shows of the season, at Paris’ Docks, Cité de la Mode et du Design museum until October 7th 2012.

White Drama referred to all the important stages in life – birth, adolescence, marriage and death. Watch the collection -only full screen

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Canned Air from Paris by Kirill Rudenko.
Notice the contents list (2nd image).
Found here. Order here.

Touristique

Touristique is a series of illus­trated posters based on major cities. By Moxy creative House / Via

Cabaret de L’Enfer

The front door of Cabaret de L’Enfer in Paris, one of the world’s first theme restaurants. The above 50′s photo by Robert Doisneau studio.

Find more on Paris cabaret ghost show and early visual media here.

Extending

A sleek and elegant extension to Universite Paris Diderot by Paris based architects Antonini and Darmon. An extra reason for liking this extension is the contemporaneity of it!  In other words : we dont have to be traumatised once more with  post-post-modern, post-neo-classical (see, Athens,London, Belgrade, etc) and any type of mediocre forms that claim to be ‘respecting’ the original building. Extensions are different than the original bulding by default! Conservationists give us a break !

Check out the architec’ts site for more pictures. Via Subtilitas

The Couture Collection

Suites from the Parisian hotel La Maison Champs Elysées, re-designed by the Belgian fashion house Martin Margiela. The designer created 17 hotel suites called the Couture Collection, also a restaurant, a smoking room, a bar, and the reception area of the historical part of the building.

The photos above are from the  Curiosity Case Suite (pix 1-4) , a room with black painted walls and black stained parquet oak floor. The following two photos are from  the White Cover suite (pix 5+6) , where all objects and furnishings are draped with loose, white covers. And the final three photos are from the Lost Mouldings suites (pix 7+8) and the corridor (pic 9).

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monolith on extasy

A mysterious black box @the streets of Paris is turning into an all-singing all-dancing extravaganza with the push of a button, demonstrating the ‘Escape Service’ by French rail company Voyages SNCF.
Check last year’s campaign for it’s “Welcome Service”, here.
Found here. Link to video.

Zoo Project

Zoo Project  @ Cévennes, France. Artist’s identity is a mystery

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Derriere

Derriere restaurant @Paris, decorated as a deserted French baroque house. Found here.

M/M Ink

Advertisement for M/M Ink eau de parfum, a perfume inspired by the scent of Asian ink, created by M/M advertising agency, Paris, France. Found here.

Aesop @ Saint Honore

The new Aesop store  in Paris, designed by architectual studio March.

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Fouquet’s Barrière Hotel

Facade design and renovation of the Fouquet’s  Barrière Hotel in Paris,  by architect Edouard François.  These randomly sticking out windows reminds me of  studio Rolf

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3 years in 3.22 min

3 year time lapse video made of 45.000 photos, featuring the destruction of EDF tower and construction of Sequana Tower in Paris.
Found here. Pics, here. Link to video, here.

suburban brute

Housing buildings in Ivry sur Seine, outside of Paris, built from 1971 to 1980 by brutalist architect Jean Renaudie. More, here.

Pocket of Active Resistance

“Pocket of Active Resistance” from the French architect Stéphane Malka is an insurrection from within the Arche de la Défense, where the unoccupied space inside the monument is filled with a structure of apartments. Each apartment is made from recycled materials and has the manufacturing cost of 3000€. According to Stéphane, places like the Arch are an abominable waste of space, considering the overpopulation of the planet, and therefore they should be reclaimed and inhabited.Found here.

bubbles

Women sailing over the streets of Paris inside giant plexi bubbles, from Melvin Sokolsky‘s “Bubble” fashion photo series published in Harper’s in 1963. More, here.