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The first perfume exhibition by Chanel
Chanel Correspondences opened at the Shanghai West Bund Art Center from August 23 to September 23, 2021
The French poet Baudelaire mentioned in his poem “CORRESPONDENCES” that reality is a symbolic forest, “the fit of aroma, color, and sound.” Smell, as a sense of smell, takes only 1/4 second to reach the center of the brain responsible for storing emotions and memories from the nasal cavity, and is related to the emotions and situations perceived at that moment; after that, it will reach the brain. The rational area allows people to discern what kind of smell it is.
For Gabrielle Chanel, “perception” is the inspiration for her unique aesthetic style and the source of innovative avant-garde fashion vocabulary.
As a fashion designer, Gabrielle Chanel has conquered the fashion world in Paris and the world. She set off an aesthetic revolution in fashion, subverting the tradition of jewelry and perfume. All this not only stems from her talent, courage and diligence, but also inseparable from her extraordinary attainments in music, art, and even film, dance, literature and other fields.
In the name of “perception”, Chanel used fragrance, color and sound to create the brand’s first “Perception Chanel” perfume exhibition at the Shanghai West Bund Art Center.
The exhibition is built around the brand’s representative perfumes. The classic CHANEL N°5 perfume bottle shaped light and shadow tunnel is like a door connecting reality and dreams, walking slowly into an extremely dreamy Chanel garden and presenting it in front of you, as beautiful as an oil painting. , The visual impact is shocking enough
There are exquisite gardening flowers on the left and right. Under the unconstrained artistic creation, this trance thought that I was in the garden of which castle in Paris.
The pavilion with Chanel’s classic black and white as the main color occupies the center of the garden. The pure white wishing pool with golden double C logo also has exclusive customized gold coins. It flashes dazzlingly, which Chanel girl does not want to own
1 / Chanel No. 5# Chanel No. 5
In 2021, it is the 100th anniversary of the birth of perfume No. 5. With the staff opening with the perfume No. 5 dripping on the wrist with the test paper, there are 5 themed workshops specially set up here to uncover the creation of perfume No. 5 one by one.
2 / Ms. Coco#Chanel Ms. Coco
Entering the door of the apartment, you will receive a card written by Miss Coco from the housekeeper. The aroma is lingering, huge bookcases, crystal chandeliers, Art Deco style, full of Ms. Chanel’s personal touch, as if really crossing into Kang Peng Chanel Apartment at 31 Street
3 / Chanel’s water#Chanel’s water
It’s like being on the banks of the Seine River in Paris. You can smell the aroma when you look down through the telescope. You can also visit Duvier, Biarritz, Venice, Riviera, and Fort Lauderdale in Paris, all of which are the resorts of Ms. Chanel Zhong Yao.
4 / 邂逅#Chanel meets perfume
Encounters This blockbuster film takes the stage audition as the theme, interpreting the charm of lucky encounters, and the exhibition brings an extremely horse-grabbing audition backstage! And the CHANEL high-definition used in the filming of the commercial was also brought to the scene, and the atmosphere was full.
5 / 蔚蓝男#Chanel azure men’s perfume
Walk in here, you will enter a city built with imagination
6 / Gabriel Perfume#Chanel Gabriel
When you enter the door, you will reach the fragrance-scented bracelet, walk into a labyrinth-like space, and follow the winding path, dreamlike flowers are in front of you, and there are huge columns on both sides of jasmine, orange blossom, ylang ylang, and Gera. 4 kinds of white flowers of tuberose, you can feel the fragrance in the Gabrielle perfume bottle.
OLYMPIC GAMES PARIS 2024
DISCOVER THE COMPETITION VENUES
With the transmission of the Olympic flag during the closing ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics, France has officially become the nation that will host the next Summer Games. Paris 2024, will take place exactly 100 years after the last Summer Games in France and will be the biggest event ever to be held in the country.
Paris 2024 will demonstrate creativity and inclusiveness in terms of places, by favoring not only the traditional sports venues of the capital, but also its magnificent monuments, as well as cities in other regions of France and overseas territories.
Paris 2024 Olympics city tour
Sport and heritage will come together in unexpected ways, get ready to see:
The cities of Nantes, Bordeaux, Lyon, Nice and Marseille will host football matches – the latter also hosting sailing – and the island of Tahiti in French Polynesia will see surfing make its Olympic debut.
The appointment is made from Friday July 26 to Sunday August 11, 2024.
Gaultier Paris – Sacai Haute Couture FW2021
Jean Paul Gaultier returns to couture with a theatrical parade signed Sacai
A new era is opening within the Parisian fashion house, with the inauguration of the collaborative project initiated by the designer in March 2020. The creative controllers are entrusted this season to Chitose Abe, the Japanese designer of Sacai, who orchestrates the fall-winter 2021-2022 show.
This is a return that was expected. Remember, in January 2020 Jean Paul Gaultier gave a final round of his long and joyous creative madness (fifty years of career), at the Théâtre du Châtelet, in Paris. A farewell party like little seen in fashion. It was then the end of the shows, the merry mess, the performances … But in March 2020, the designer took everyone by surprise announcing that he was coming back with a new concept of haute couture. The French fashion designer explained to start a chapter with Chitose Abe, the artistic director of Sacai, invited for a season to rethink the codes of the house. An unprecedented collaborative project on the haute couture scene which was to be presented in the wake of fashion week in July.
This was without counting the health crisis and the successive restrictions put in place. After a year of postponement, the time has come to lift the veil on this new collaboration in which Jean Paul Gaultier says he has kept away from the creative process. The couturier made available his archives, his workshops, his walls, and Chitose Abe reinterpreted.
Madonna’s corset
In each of the silhouettes presented by the Japanese designer, we find iconic elements that have made the house famous. The corset famously worn by Madonna is reinterpreted here as a majestic quilted brassiere over a striped suit, itself redesigned as a ball gown. The mix of satin and stripes is everywhere. Likewise, it can be found cut into a trench coat or even a bomber jacket reinvented as an evening dress. The famous silhouette worn by Björk when she paraded for Jean Paul Gaultier in 1994 is revised in large proportions and edged with faux fur.
All the hybrid fashion, the technical and innovative aspects that make Chitose Abe’s work so specific are expressed in denim dresses with completely redesigned seams. High-end creations, right down to the swirling striped sweater with its tulle and tartan trains. And which underlines its potential for rebirth.
Obviously, Chitose Abe has identified all the references to Jean-Paul Gaultier that she could find – stripes, deconstruction, bombers and trench coats – and put them in the blender with her own assembly techniques. Which gave a rather … messy result.
There are still some ideas that deserve an immediate place in the fashion pantheon, including this spectacular bomber-inspired jumpsuit designed for a mad courtier, or the collection’s only truly memorable look – a superhero in an Irish sweater patchwork and matching platform boots.
In the end, the collection confirmed Gaultier’s exceptional talent – and how difficult it is to follow in his footsteps. If Chitose Abe, who is arguably one of the 20 most influential designers in recent years, struggles to impose himself, what about the others?
As the models did their final round, Abe and Gaultier came out smiling, with the former wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the text Enfants Terribles. So far they proved to be the coolest kids at couture.
YVES SAINT LAURENT – BETTY CATROUX EXHIBITION IN SHANGHAI
The BETTY CATROUX themed exhibition to pay tribute to the muse and “female clone” of YVES SAINT LAURENT will open in Shanghai in 2021
Unique temperament, inspirational muse
Saint Laurent Fashion Show
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Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art
The BETTY CATROUX themed exhibition to pay tribute to the muse and “female clone” of YVES SAINT LAURENT will open in Shanghai in 2021
The famous fashion brand Saint Laurent held a grand theme exhibition in Shanghai to pay tribute to the muse and “female clone” Betty Catroux of Yves Saint Laurent-“Betty Catroux” The unique temperament of Saint Laurent inspired the Muse Saint Laurent Fashion Exhibition”. This exhibition is organized by the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Paris in cooperation with the Saint Laurent brand. It is the brand’s exhibition of the same name held in Paris in 2020 and is once again grandly presented in Shanghai. At the same time, this is also the first time Saint Laurent has visited China after 36 years after holding a retrospective exhibition of his works in Beijing in 1985.
In 1967, Yves Saint Laurent met Betty Catroux with blond hair and a slender figure in a nightclub. Two elegant and beautiful people hit it off at first sight. In the following decades, Betty became the incarnation of the soul of Saint Laurent’s fashion. No matter how ups and downs in life and career, they are the closest friends. Until 2008, a generation of legendary fashion master Yves Saint Laurent passed away.
After each season of the Saint Laurent fashion show, Betty will select the works that best represent her personality for collection. In 2019, Betty generously donated part of her collection to the Pierre Berger-Yves Saint Laurent Foundation, and each piece of fashion has now become a beautiful work of art. Anthony Vaccarello, the current art director of Saint Laurent, planned the exhibition from these precious collections. In addition to the fashion collection provided by Betty, a series of photos, letters, videos, etc. between the two will also be presented in the exhibition.
Her vivid existence proves that the brand’s classics will last forever and remain vigorous forever.
Despite the passage of time, for Anthony, Betty, who has a unique temperament, is still the muse of contemporary inspiration for him and even the Saint Laurent brand. Anthony said, “Needless to say, Betty is the incarnation of Saint Laurent. It is a temptation, a mystery, with an almost’evil’ side, and an elusive but desirable trait, and all of these are The core of the brand halo. When you meet Betty, you will understand how important all this is.
ANTHONY VACCARELLO and BETTY CATROUX
Anthony Vaccarello was born in Brussels and is of Italian descent. He studied at the famous La Cambre fashion school in Belgium, and soon integrated the precision art of Belgium and the charm of Italian fashion in the design. In 2006, his graduation design series was in The Hyères Festival in southern France won the first prize. Subsequently, he launched the brand of the same name. Rigorous tailoring is his strength, and it also allows him to bring strong but sensual fashion lines to popular culture. He began to focus on the appearance of urban women. These women are independent and fearless to pursue what they want. In 2016, he became the brand art director of Saint Laurent. He is good at shaping a modern, elegant, low-key and rebellious femininity, which has not only become a key element of the brand’s success, but also allows him to naturally connect with Betty Catroux.
Anthony knows and knows how to interpret her unique temperament. For him, Betty is still his contemporary inspirational muse.
They share a common view of fashion and advocating freedom, but in a world accustomed to obedience and prohibition, the latter is often seen as destructive. Saint Laurent doesn’t like to follow the rules, as are Anthony and Betty.
“Needless to say, Betty is the incarnation of Saint Laurent. It is a temptation, a mystery, with an almost “evil” side, and an elusive but desirable trait, and all of these are brand halo Where the core lies. When you meet Betty, you will understand how important all this is. Her vivid existence proves that the brand’s classics are always alive and vigorous.”-Anthony Vaccarello
“I like Anthony’s attitude very much, he moved me very much. He has a real elegance, a unique charm. I like him very much, I think he captures the atmosphere created by Saint Laurent very well, the mystery Breath.” —Betty Catroux
Saint Laurent and China
Yves Saint Laurent was inspired by traditional Chinese costumes and created a splendid haute couture series, among which the winter series of 1970 and 1977 have been named in the history of fashion. The fashion designer used his works to express his respect for Chinese culture, and in 1985 he held the first Yves Saint Laurent retrospective exhibition of classic works in Beijing. Through the exhibition, the brand hopes to get closer to this country that has a multi-faceted culture and integrates modern and traditional elements, because the Saint Laurent culture is the same.
Saint Laurent culture was created by this contradictory fashion designer: he is shy, provocative, and a dreamer who is addicted to classics. Once the brand was launched in 1961, as the principal, he began to abandon those outdated laws in the fashion circle. He has always maintained his style, borrowing simple inspiration from the streets and daily life, and then turning them into magical haute couture. In 1966, his Rive Gauche Right Bank series brought great clothing pleasure to women. He likes women wearing trousers and carefully crafts the “male and female” model. For this reason, he also launched the “scandal” series, which later became the brand’s iconic style. The use of soft tailoring makes women feel more free when walking, and gives them a calm and proud posture. Yves Saint Laurent has created a series of classics: navy coats, trench coats, smoking suits, linings, tailored jackets, safari jackets…
Western art and culture have always been inspired by China, and China also occupies a special place in the history of Saint Laurent’s brand, and has had a profound impact on the brand’s style from the very beginning. And in 1985, a retrospective exhibition of the works of this French fashion house was held in Beijing. In 2017, the brand new Yves Saint Laurent Museum opened with the theme of “Asian Dreams”, demonstrating the designer’s yearning for distant dreamy countries such as China, India and Japan.
As a passionate aesthetician, Yves Saint Laurent is always attracted by the colorful Chinese culture. Before he really set foot in the country he longed for, books and art had already brought infinite imagination to this big dreamer. Over the years, his fashion collections have more or less revealed the long-term influence of Chinese elements.
GUCCI COLLECTION ARIA FW2021 SHANGHAI
Stars including Lu Han and Ni Ni attended the show, which added 13 new looks to the 100th-anniversary collection.
As the audience filed in to take their seats around a rectangular runway, “Gucci two times, Gucci two times” — the mantra by rapper Gucci Mane — was blaring over the sound system; the apposite song for the Italian luxury house’s reprise in China of its Aria centenary show.
While many Americans and Europeans have jumped to fill up their summer with travel plans enabled by rapid vaccination rollout, China has relied on a strategy of long quarantines and strict border controls for virus containment — which is to say that brands wishing to access the globe’s most formidable luxury shoppers must still go to them in their own country.
Inside the Shanghai Exhibition Centre, Gucci hung endless vintage Polaroids and old video cameras and dangling wires as the runway backdrop, lights flashing to re-create the feel of an old Hollywood red carpet.
Lu Han and Ni Ni, the brand’s ambassadors, were on hand to lend their star wattage to the night, as were singer Lucas Wong and actress Kara Wai. The show added 13 new looks to the collection originally shown in Milan for a total of 107 outfits — similarly equestrian-inspired pieces encompassing riding caps and boots, a Gucci logo corset, brightly sequined heart clutches, and lots of big, feathered sleeves.
The new creations came out as the finale and right as the walls lifted up to transform the set, revealing a lush and misty summer garden, a nod to the ongoing Gucci Garden Archetypes exhibition on display next door. Qiu Jirong, the traditional Beijing opera performer, ended the show with a dance before giving way to a party.
After sliding into a slight lull over the last 18 months — lines were no longer common sights outside Gucci stores in China — Kering’s brightest star the past few months has regained some of its luster and the urgency from when creative director Alessandro Michele first took over the brand. First with the collaboration with Balenciaga in April as part of the Aria collection and now this show in Shanghai and the new pieces, it may just bring back those throngs outside their doors.
Coach Stages Winter Collection in Shanghai, Plans Annual Show in China
THE BRAND IS PLANNING A SHOW EVERY YEAR IN CHINA, TAPESTRY ASIA PACIFIC CEO YANN BOZEC SAID
For its return to physical showcases, Coach leaned heavily into nostalgia, an idea it introduced last season, but played with strong ski references for its first stand-alone winter line.
The brand built a vintage drive-in theater at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre, where a large screen playing Coach: TV clips, falling fake snow, and roller skaters at various times broke up the show into segments.
“I’ve watched and rewatched a lot of old TV and films [during the pandemic],” creative director Stuart Vevers reflected. “I’ve gravitated toward things that give a sense of comfort and that’s what nostalgia does.”
“The way we approach nostalgia at Coach: TV, it’s surprising from the world of fashion. I think fashion is known for its polish and slickness and we deliberately have gone against that,” he said.
The show, which was later streamed on Coach’s channels, drew about 340 guests, including brand ambassador and actress Yang Zi; singers Jam Hsiao and Kelly Yu, and actors Ding Nan and Wallace Chung.
While the China event would seem to be a natural nod to the Beijing Winter Olympicswhich kicks off next February, the brand avoided any mention of the Games, which has been the target of some boycott talk in the West over Xinjiang’s cotton issue and human rights.
“It’s not a collection for China, it’s a collection for the world but that is displayed and discovered in China,” said Tapestry Asia chief executive officer Yann Bozec. “There was this notion of having people having fun and getting out in the nature.”
It has been over two years since Coach last staged an event in China but the house plans to return much more frequently from now on. In the most recent quarter, parent Tapestry Inc.’s Mainland China revenue soared 175 percent compared to a year ago and was 40 percent above 2019. In addition to Coach, Tapestry owns Kate Spade and Stuart Weitzman.
“What we would love to do with Stuart is make sure every year in May or June we will have a big fashion show in China,” Bozec said, adding, “We are already working on the concept for next year.”
Clearly China is a key focus for Coach, as it is for many brands. “[In the] next year, we will open 20 to 30 stores in China mostly in tier-three or tier-four cities, mostly in department stores and malls,” Bozec said.
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GUCCI IN SHANGHAI FOR HIS 100 YEARS
Gucci in Shanghai marks 100 years with exhibit on Michele code-breaking
Alessandro Michele has radically shifted Gucci codes and challenged fashion norms in his 6½ years as creative director of the brand founded by Guccio Gucci as a travel bag company in Florence 100 years ago.
To mark the centenary, Michele has curated an exhibition in the Gucci Garden gallery, on Florence’s Piazza della Signoria, that underlines some watershed moments in his era. Those include an advertising campaign for perfume featuring a transgender model, an all-Black cast for the pre-Fall 2017 campaign and a lipstick campaign featuring everyday faces in all their imperfections.
The exhibition will be reproduced in seven cities including Shanghai, Tokyo, Sydney and Seoul.
The 48-year-old designer credited CEO Marco Bizzarri, who tapped an unknown Michele from the Gucci design team to take over as creative director in January 2015, with allowing him leeway to go beyond the usual schemes driving the luxury business model.
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FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Alessandro Michele has radically shifted Gucci codes and challenged fashion norms in his 6½ years as creative director of the brand founded by Guccio Gucci as a travel bag company in Florence 100 years ago.
© Provided by Associated Press A view of a Gucci’s advertisement campaign selected for an exhibition to celebrate creative vision of a creative director Alessandro Michele at Gucci Garden Archetypes, in Florence, Italy, Thursday, May 13, 2021. Alessandro Michele has radically shifted Gucci codes and challenged fashion norms in 6 ½ years as creative director at the brand founded by Guccio Gucci as a travel bag company in Florence 100 years ago. To mark the centenary, Michele has curated an exhibit in the brand’s shop, restaurant and exhibition space, Gucci Garden, on Florence’s Piazza della Signoria, that underlines some watershed moments: An advertising campaign for perfume featuring a transgender model, an all-Black cast for Pre-Fall 2017 campaign, and a lipstick campaign featuring everyday faces in all their imperfections. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
To mark the centenary, Michele has curated an exhibition in the Gucci Garden gallery, on Florence’s Piazza della Signoria, that underlines some watershed moments in his era. Those include an advertising campaign for perfume featuring a transgender model, an all-Black cast for the pre-Fall 2017 campaign and a lipstick campaign featuring everyday faces in all their imperfections.
© Provided by Associated Press A view of a Gucci’s advertisement campaign selected for an exhibition to celebrate creative vision of a creative director Alessandro Michele at Gucci Garden Archetypes, in Florence, Italy, Thursday, May 13, 2021. Alessandro Michele has radically shifted Gucci codes and challenged fashion norms in 6 ½ years as creative director at the brand founded by Guccio Gucci as a travel bag company in Florence 100 years ago. To mark the centenary, Michele has curated an exhibit in the brand’s shop, restaurant and exhibition space, Gucci Garden, on Florence’s Piazza della Signoria, that underlines some watershed moments: An advertising campaign for perfume featuring a transgender model, an all-Black cast for Pre-Fall 2017 campaign, and a lipstick campaign featuring everyday faces in all their imperfections. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
The exhibition will be reproduced in seven cities, including Shanghai, Tokyo, Sydney and Seoul.
The 48-year-old designer credited CEO Marco Bizzarri, who tapped an unknown Michele from the Gucci design team to take over as creative director in January 2015, with allowing him leeway to go beyond the usual schemes driving the luxury business model.
© Provided by Associated Press A view of a Gucci’s advertisement campaign selected for an exhibition to celebrate creative vision of a creative director Alessandro Michele at Gucci Garden Archetypes, in Florence, Italy, Thursday, May 13, 2021. Alessandro Michele has radically shifted Gucci codes and challenged fashion norms in 6 ½ years as creative director at the brand founded by Guccio Gucci as a travel bag company in Florence 100 years ago. To mark the centenary, Michele has curated an exhibit in the brand’s shop, restaurant and exhibition space, Gucci Garden, on Florence’s Piazza della Signoria, that underlines some watershed moments: An advertising campaign for perfume featuring a transgender model, an all-Black cast for Pre-Fall 2017 campaign, and a lipstick campaign featuring everyday faces in all their imperfections. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
“No one would have wanted, we can say it, a transexual in the world of beauty,” Michele told reporters Thursday in Florence.
He said the campaign, featuring Hari Nef, Petra Collins and Dakota Johnson walking through a field of wildflowers, proved conventional fashion world wisdom wrong by creating “an absolutely up-to-date female imagery.”
“If fashion and the fashion market want to continue to have a stage, there needs to be some sort of movement. That campaign, in a very gentle and very poetic way, gave space and voice to a world of very different femininity,” Michele said.
Those collections include this year’s “Aria” that ends with the runway cast converging dreamily in a garden, to “Ouverture” last November, with videos by Gus Van Sant featuring an Italian actress moving through a rarified Roman landscape with her Gucci tribe.
Michele said the brand’s real-life fans defy easy description, ranging in age “from 10 to 90.”
“It has happened that someone who could be my mother’s age greets me, or that Marina Cicogna (an 86-year-old film producer) tells me, ‘When I go in the store, I find crazy things,’” Michele said.
“It is strange because (we) also manage to dress someone who is 13 years old. Not only: Yesterday a young person stopped me who had a tattoo that said “Blind For Love,” and it was not the first,” Michele said, referring to one of the popular slogans that have adorned his creations.
“Evidently it was a strong detonation of something that already existed,” Michele said of his collections. “Fashion has the great capacity to interpret and to collect what is happening now …. to narrate the exact moment.”
ALBER ELBAZ DIES AT 59 DUES TO COVID-19
ELBAZ DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER
His death, due to COVID-19, was confirmed by Compagnie Financière Richemont, his joint venture partner in AZ Factory, his latest fashion venture.
Alber had a richly deserved reputation as one of the industry's brightest and most beloved figures. I was always taken by his intelligence, sensitivity, generosity and unbridled creativity," Rupert said. "He was a man of exceptional warmth and talent, and his singular vision, sense of beauty and empathy leave an indelible impression.
Born in Morocco and raised and educated in Israel, the designer moved to New York in the mid-1980s. After a stint at a bridal firm, he landed at Geoffrey Beene, working as his senior assistant for seven years.
Elbaz came onto the international radar when he was recruited by Ralph Toledano to helm Guy Laroche in Paris in 1996, a stint that won raves, media attention and the job offer of a lifetime: to succeed couture legend Yves Saint Laurent at the helm of Rive Gauche ready-to-wear.
After three seasons, Elbaz was fired in the wake of Gucci Group’s takeover of YSL, with Tom Ford picking up the design reins. Elbaz subsequently did one season with Krizia in Milan before sitting on the sidelines of the business for one year.
He returned to the fashion spotlight last January during couture week in Paris, though he was loathe to call it a comeback. Via a humorous mini movie, he unveiled three “projects," the first of which — formfitting dresses dubbed My Body — went on sale immediately on the AZ Factory website, Farfetch.com and Net-a-porter.com, the Richemont-owned e-tailer.
Key elements of the AZ Factory project were cutting-edge “smart” fabrics, a new business model hinged on projects rather than collections, and with storytelling, problem-solving and entertainment embedded in design, distribution and communications.