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30 May

Singapore Fêtes Andrew Gn and Retrospective at Asian Civilizations Museum

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Fashion, Featured
SINGAPORE — “Welcome home, Andrew.” Signing off a profile within the exhibition catalogue of “Andrew Gn: Fashioning Singapore and the World,” the words of writer Tan Siok Sun embodied the sensation within the Asian metropolis because the Paris-based designer, who’s deemed “Singapore’s best fashion export,” made his homecoming. “This exhibition celebrates Andrew [Gn’s] profession as a global and Singaporean designer. It explores how Andrew and his body of labor further the notion of a world Singapore, a small Singapore but [a nation that] punches above its weight,” said Asian Civilizations Museum and Peranakan Museum director Kennie Ting. “And it celebrates Andrew’s unique ability to craft objects of great beauty from the mixing of materials, motifs, silhouettes and sensibilities drawn from East...
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27 May

With Singapore Retrospective, Andrew Gn Begins a Latest Chapter

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Fashion, Featured
Andrew Gn is prepared for his close-up. As he celebrates 28 years in business, the Paris-based designer is the topic of his first major retrospective, “Andrew Gn: Fashioning Singapore and the World,” on show on the Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) in Singapore until Sept. 17. He’s working on a biography, to be published next fall, and is in talks to bring the exhibition to institutions in the USA, France and the remaining of Asia, including China. “So it should be about five, six years of my life. It’s like engaging myself in a James Bond movie,” he says, with considered one of the booming laughs that punctuate his conversation. Gn is sitting on the mirrored Gio Ponti dining table in considered one of...
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13 Apr

Talking Screens, April 14-20, 2023: Zemeckis Retrospective | Kelly

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“Who Framed Roger Rabbit” in Robert Zemeckis retrospectiveTalking Screens, A Week In Chicago Film, April 14-20, 2023 A highly selective view of one other tumultuous week of Chicago film programming, highlighted by an outstanding recent film by an American great. Such easy, shivering surfaces: “Showing Up,” Kelly Reichardt’s beautiful and slyly wicked comedy, her ninth feature, explores, with minimalist remark, a single figure’s tribulations and ministrations across a confined time period. Opens Friday, April 14 at River East and Landmark Century.Most notable of revival and repertory attractions: the Music Box’s Robert Zemeckis retrospective fills out the approaching week, details below and here.“How To Blow Up A Pipeline” is director Daniel Goldhaber’s meta-adaptation of Andreas Malm’s philosophical manifesto that’s not a how-to-book...
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26 Nov

Sybilla Retrospective Reflects on a 4-decade Profession in Fashion

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Beauty, Featured
Sybilla Retrospective LONDON — Sybilla Retrospective The Sala Canal de Isabel II, an exhibition hall in Madrid, Spain, that resembles a lighthouse from the surface, is shining a highlight on the work of native fashion designer Sybilla, who rose to fame within the ’80s with minimal avant-garde designs. The retrospective, titled “The Invisible Thread,” is the designer’s largest exhibition thus far, running until Jan. 15, and curated by her friend Laura Cerrato Mera. It should include greater than 80 pieces of Sybilla’s designs, in addition to catalogues, catwalk show footage, lavish invitations, press clippings and artifacts for example the designer’s four-decade profession. The exhibition space is split into five sections across five floors — “The Basting Thread,” “The Warp Thread,” “The Weft Thread,” “The...
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