The EDITORIAL ~ Un dimanche à la campagne

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

  Sasha Pivovarova by Mikael Jansson for Vogue Paris November 2010

Image Source: fashion gone rouge

The CAMPAIGN ~ Lou Doillon for Vanessa Bruno

Parisian fashion designer Vanessa Bruno for her Autum Winter 2010 collection  transposts us to a whimsical world. Her video "Day for Night," is directed by Stéphanie Di Giusto and playing on vanessabruno.com. For the third time fashion muse Lou Doillon- she already performed in Autum Winter 2009/2010, Spring Summer 2010 - captivate us. The video is video is hypnotizing. A movie like a poem.

Day For Night
Directed by Stéphanie Di Giusto, with Lou Doillon et Valentine Fillol Cordier

Day for night captures a mysterious fugitive impression of vital strength which is deployed in the darkness of the night.

In the light of day, it becomes sensual and delicate.
Valentine Fillol Cordier has a sort of power over nature. She makes the trees quiver and the wind rages.

She carries in her wake flowers and petals of the tree of life.
Day breaks, Lou Doillon appears.

Valentine goes through the night and encounters Lou who brings forth daylight.

A hovering magical moment on the surface of water. Lou sings a haunting melody. Her voice rings out and brings peace to the storm in the night.
With Lou and Valentine all the feminin ambiguities start moving. Catlike and delicate, embodied but secretive...

After this soft and sensual parenthesis, the race between the two women, between night and day, between Lou and Valentine, becomes a liberation.

Lou sets off for the sun.

With Day for Night, womanhood goes with masculin coats wrapped around soft sensual dresses. Colors are like dawn and dusk...
Here Vanessa imposes the group "Efterklang" a bewitching folk music. Then the sensuality and emotion of Lou's song which she has composed. The movie sets off with " The books".

Day for Night is an emotion. A movie like a poem. A collection that is strong and slightly erotic.

Source: As published by Vanessa Bruno press.

The ARTORIAL ~ Reine

These amazing photographs by the talented Bernard Tartinville (France) look so much like18th century paintings. It's hard to believe that these are photographs and not paintings. So decadent and detailed and beautiful. There’s been a lot of talk of Marie Antoinette (due to the recently released movie) the beautiful Queen of France who became a symbol for the wanton extravagance of the 18th century monarchy, and was stripped of her riches and finery, imprisoned and beheaded by her own subjects during the French Revolution that began in 1789.

As I use to, I want to evidence the close relationship between fine art, fashion and photography. The result is a feast for the eyes.

The MUSTHAVE ~ Winter Cocoon

Airiness. Similar to soft refuges. Warm and soft. Voluminous and intricate like a nest. As dense as a cloud. Sea-sponge effect. Delicacy and lightness. 

Love it. 

The MUSTHAVE ~ Camelot

So I've been doing a little research. That we will all need to keep us warm and fashion forward this fall. From Paris to New York, camel is dans l’air this fall 2011. A real love story....Make sure you get a fawn-colored coat or borrow a camel coat from your boyfriend!

  

The ARTORIAL ~ Surreal Reveal

Minimalist but still wonderful shoot by photographer Richard Burbridge staring the true natural beauty Miss Sara Blomqvist in an accessory summer 2010 editorial for New York Times Style magazine. 

Captured by Richard Burbridge with whimsical makeup by Peter Philips, who is Chanel’s global creative director of makeup."Using photographs by Man Ray as a springboard, Philips, who is Chanel’s global creative director of makeup, stripped down the idea of a beauty image to its naked core".

Chanel bags, Rick Owens jewelry and Fendi lingerie. Reminds me of these Man Ray works.

The INTERIOR ~ Coco

Coco Rocha has opened up her two-bedroom Gramercy Park, Manhattan apartment for this shoot with Vogue. She bought it three years ago and shares with her husband James Conran. On her walls are teapots she collects from "from all the different places I have been to for photo shoots — from Morocco to Michigan”.

There's a photo of Rocha, who explains it was a wedding present from Steven Meisel — "I’ve never liked hanging my model photos in my home, but this is an exception because it almost looks like a painting”. On a table, a handbag piggy bank, which Rocha says is one of her favorite things: “I love how at first glance it looks like a YSL bag, but when you take a closer look you realize it actually reads, 'yove saved la rent' It’s genius!”. Then some of Coco photos that I like the most.