Art Meets Fashion at Akris Exhibition in Zurich

21 May

ZURICH — The brand new Akris exhibition at Switzerland’s top design museum is a feast for the eyes and the hands, where visitors can squint at intricately printed sequins, gaze upon dozens of large-scale paintings, photos and sculptures, fondle bolts of woven horsehair, and experience 800-gram cashmere double-face melting on their shoulders. There are even 3D glasses that make Thomas Ruff’s depiction of Martian landscapes come to life on considered one of his arresting photo works — and on a silk Akris raincoat bearing the identical otherworldly topography. While timed to the one hundredth anniversary of the St. Gallen-based fashion house and peppered with historical information, the sprawling display on the Museum für Gestaltung Zurich mostly offers a deep dive into Albert...

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14 May

The ‘sexy and gross’ exhibition critiquing our pillage of

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Agent of protection, impresa of fertility and gastronomic delight of aphrodisia … Oysters aren’t wanting symbolic virtues. Unfortunately, figurative lore holds little sway against the damning impacts of human activity on marine ecosystems. As a consequence of overfishing from bottom trawling, the population of oysters has dropped by 85 per cent over the past century and today the species teeters getting ready to extinction. In Fawn Rogers’ larger-than-life series of sea personalities, these clammy curiosities are imbued with recent meaning. Yoking vital themes of extinction, eroticism and ecofeminism, her paintings are an urgent reminder of climate and human rights emergencies and an eloquent testimony to the truth of life that operates beyond our possession. “Oysters are each very fragile and highly sensual,”...

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1 May

Carla Bruni, Roger Federer Help Unveil Karl Lagerfeld Exhibition

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ALL ABOUT KARL: France’s former first lady Carla Bruni and Roger Federer turned up Monday on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s unveiling of the Costume Institute’s “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty.” The museum’s director Max Hollein, the Wendy Yu chief curator in charge Andrew Bolton and Condé Nast’s global content officer Anna Wintour headlined the morning press preview. After their remarks, lots of the few hundred members of the media flooded into the exhibition, which highlights the confluence of the late designer’s designs for Chloé, Fendi, Chanel and the Karl Lagerfeld label. The designer died in 2019 on the age of 85. Tory Burch, Thom Browne and Philip Treacy were among the many designers in the gang. Although Bruni was not doing...

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4 Apr

Inside rising photographer Gabriel Moses’ debut exhibition

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As his first exhibition Regina opens at 180 The Strand, Moses speaks with Dazed in regards to the ways by which memory – each individual and collective – inspired the show At 17 years old, Gabriel Moses spent his days making short movies about his friends on the football pitch. He would direct and shoot them according to his creative vision, after which upload them to YouTube where they'd get not more than 100 views. “That didn’t matter to me,” Moses tells Dazed. “There was a way of accomplishment in creating something that was in your head for the world to see.” Now, just three years...

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