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5 Jul

Vetements Creates Costumes for Madonna Tour

SHOWTIME: Vetements’ Guram Gvasalia has created the stage costumes for Madonna’s upcoming tour, he revealed via Instagram on Wednesday. The post showed a photograph of the pair together, seemingly hard at work, crouched over a screen. He thanked the performer. “Designing your costumes was such a privilege and an honor,” he wrote. “Seeing you're employed, seeing your drive and determination is so inspiring; now I understand why you're who you're. You might be a fighter, you're an icon, you're the QUEEN!” Madonna’s “The Celebration Tour,” intended to have a good time her 4 a long time in music, was initially attributable to start on July 15 in Vancouver and include 84 dates in North America and Europe, before its start was postponed...
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3 Jul

SCAD Lacoste Puts Christian Lacroix Costumes on Display

ON STAGE: SCAD Lacoste, the French branch of the Savannah College of Art and Design, is staging an exhibition of costumes created by Christian Lacroix at its SCAD FASH Lacoste museum space in Provence over the summer. The exhibition, which opened Saturday and runs through Nov. 1, features 40 costumes created by the designer for a production of Henrik Ibsen’s most famous play, “Peer Gynt,” on the Comédie Française, France’s oldest theater company. Lacroix began a daily collaboration with the general public theater troupe within the ’90s, and has created the costumes for quite a lot of productions through the years, winning two Molière awards for his designs. “Embellished with exuberant colours and wealthy details, his work is synonymous with elegance and might...
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23 Jun

Maison Lesage’s Artistic Director Designs Costumes and Decor for

DRESS REHERSAL: For Maison Lesage artistic director Hubert Barrère, the June 21 premiere of “Zémire et Azor,” the opéra-comique — a genre of French opera with dialogue in addition to sung segments — might be culmination of a childhood dream. “It’s something I all the time desired to do,” he told WWD ahead of June 21 premiere of this performance for which he designed the costumes and décor on the invitation of Opéra Comique director Louis Langrée. Written by 18th-century composer André Grétry, the story loosely follows the plot of the Beauty and the Beast and was adapted to Queen Marie-Antoinette’s tastes, with Zémire because the daughter of a merchant from Ormuz, Iran, who picks a rose from the garden of cursed...
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19 Jun

Carolina Herrera’s Wes Gordon to Design Costumes for Recent

Wes Gordon will design costumes for the Recent York City Ballet this fall on behalf of the Carolina Herrera brand. Gordon is the only real dressmaker participating on this 12 months’s fall gala, which may also mark the kickoff for City Ballet’s seventy fifth anniversary 12 months. Previous NYCB fall galas have focused on premiering recent works from rising choreographic talents alongside costumes from essential fashion designers. Given the corporate’s significant anniversary, this 12 months’s event will as a substitute stage two works which are elemental to City Ballet’s history. With that, Gordon will envision recent costumes for Balanchine’s 1970 work “Who Cares?” The George Gershwin-scored piece was created as a jazzy, hell-of-a-town type homage to Recent York City’s bustling energy. For its...
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