TIAGO BESSA, REFLECTION ON IDENTITY
The young Portuguese designer designs a first committed collection that makes them one of the finalists of the Hyères Festival 2023 at Villa Noailles. Focus on a talent to follow. “Hermaphrodite” is the name of Tiago Bessa’s graduation collection that explores the concepts of gender and inclusion. A critical and personal exercise on the social […]
MAN RAY AND FASHION
After the Cantini Museum in Marseille in 2019 and the Luxembourg Museum in Paris in 2020, it is the turn of the Fashion Museum in Antwerp to show the fashion photographs of Man Ray, confronted this time-here, to the creations of contemporary stylists and photographers influenced by the work of the Surrealist, such as Martin […]
LOUIS VUITTON SETS UP SHOP IN PALM SPRINGS
As an expression of the House’s unparalleled know-how and craftsmanship, Louis Vuitton continues its invitation to travel through a campaign that highlights the Art de Vivre collections. From trunks to lifestyle accessories and Nomadic Objects, the French label infuses its conventions, tradition, and French art of living into a colorful short film. Set on the […]
THE AESTHETIC EMOTIONS OF CHLOE LE DREZEN
The French photographer, nourished by the sensibility of beauty, explores the transformative power of make-up, light, and composition in her photographs and limited-edition zines. Chloé Le Drezen has been fascinated by photography since the day she picked up her father’s camera as a child. Since then, this native of Nantes has never stopped learning photography […]
ALAÏA, BACK TO SOHO
The emblematic district of SoHo, where Azzedine Alaïa opened a first space and launched its global success in the 80s, welcomes again the French-Tunisian designer. At the entrance of 2023, the House opened a new boutique at 149 Mercer Street. “New York has always been one of the creative hearts intimately linked to the history […]
THREE FILMS TO WATCH AT CANNES
As always, a lot of good people are expected on the Croisette for the second half of May, from Martin Scorsese’s big comeback with Killers of the Flower Moon, to the stunning casting of Wes Anderson’s new film, Asteroid City. Among a rich and eclectic selection, between regulars and newcomers, three films particularly attract our […]
RILEY KEOUGH, ACTOR, DIRECTOR, PRODUCER
The actor, who plays the lead role in the Prime Video series Daisy Jones and the Six, presents, with Gina Gammell, her first film as a director, War Pony – Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival 2022. What if Riley Keough is the new icon of American independent cinema? In 2015, in a motel […]
NEMANJA NIKOLIC : Double black
The Serbian artist Nemanja Nikolić (1987) embarked on a strange journey back and forth between still and animated images in his project Double Noir, initiated in 2016. Using still images from eighteen films starring Humphrey Bogart, he drew, with white chalk on a blackboard, fragments of sequences that he photographed, before erasing them to compose […]
FRANZ ROGOWSKI, THE EUROPEAN
He radiates Disco Boy, the first film by Giacomo Abbruzzese, Silver Bear at the last Berlin Film Festival, in which he plays the main role. Portrait of a sensitive and mysterious actor. We met him as a refugee in the occupied Marseille of Transit by Christian Petzold (2018), or as a passionate lover in Ondine, […]
SIMON MARTIN : Evanescence / Florescence
Painting as an evanescence, a breath, a murmur, a memory, an apparition… It is such a florescence, a germination or a flux that, in its flows of blue, yellow, and pale roses, the painting of Simon Martin appears to us. “Here and there, repentances and drips, sub-layers and contours are left visible,” says Horya Makhlouf, […]