Louis Vuitton Venice Maison | ILVOELV. On April 21st, 2013, next door to Piazza San Marco, the Louis Vuitton Venice Maison opened its doors to the public. Situated in the heart of the city, the Maison features a cultural space, Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia, the first in Italy and only the sixth of its type in the world. “Venice has always been special to the House” says Michael Burke, President of Louis Vuitton. “A city on a lagoon at the crossroads of East and West, it symbolizes travel and an openness to new horizons. It is also a city of art and design, which has always known how to bring together beauty, elegance and art de vivre. Upon first arrival on the calle San Marco, visitors encounter the amazing sight of a rationalist and monumental palazzo, designed by architect Brenno Del Giudice in 1936. this is followed by sculptor Napoleone Martinuzzi’s haut-reliefs, among which sit a reel of film and the Venetian lions – also used by the Mostra – symbolic references to the building’s cinematic past.
The Art of Travel. Charm-Masque-Venise. L'Invitation au Voyage - Venice Film from Louis Vuitton with David Bowie and Arizona Muse. Official Awards of the 70th Venice Film Festival. Official Awards of the 70th Venice Film Festival The Venezia 70 Jury, chaired by Bernardo Bertolucci and comprised of Andrea Arnold, Renato Berta, Carrie Fisher, Martina Gedeck, Jiang Wen, Pablo Larraín, Virginie Ledoyen, and Ryuichi Sakamoto having viewed all 20 films in competition, has decided as follows: GOLDEN LION for Best Film to: SACRO GRA by Gianfranco Rosi (Italy, France) SILVER LION for Best Director to: Alexandros Avranas for the film MISS VIOLENCE (Greece) GRAND JURY PRIZE to: JIAOYOU by Tsai Ming-liang (Chinese Taipei, France) for Best Actor: Themis Panou in the film MISS VIOLENCE by Alexandros Avranas (Greece) for Best Actress: Elena Cotta in the film VIA CASTELLANA BANDIERA by Emma Dante (Italy, Switzerland, France) for Best Young Actor or Actress to: Tye Sheridan in the filmJOEby David Gordon Green (US) AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY to: Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope for the film PHILOMENA by Stephen Frears (United Kingdom) SPECIAL JURY PRIZE to: the ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST FILM to: Ettore Scola.
CARNIVAL OF VENICE: BEST MASKS 2013. LV+campaign+1+IIHIH. L-invitation-au-voyage-louis-vuitton-14. MysobaE7a91qa7p1yo1_500. David Bowie | David Bowie's new album "The Next Day" featuring "Where Are We Now?" and "The Stars (Are Out Tonight)" available now. Culture - Changes: David Bowie as a style icon. From Ziggy Stardust to the Thin White Duke, David Bowie has created icons of fashion and inspired designers from Armani to Jean Paul Gaultier.
Katya Foreman sorts through the ever-changing wardrobe of a rock legend. As most of his rock-god peers become paunchy pastiches of their former snake-hipped selves, the ‘Thin White Duke’ David Bowie is still, remarkably, genuinely hip. David Bowie is... ,a retrospective of his style, career and mythology broke records at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) earlier this year − selling 26,000 tickets before it opened, with 311,000 visitors seeing the exhibition over its five-month run. And his latest studio album, The Next Day, is nominated for the Barclaycard Mercury Prize, alongside twentysomethings Arctic Monkeys, Foals and Laura Marling.
As his 1977 hit would have it, sound and vision are both of utmost importance to Bowie’s enduring allure. Alter egos White lines. David Bowie: Style Icon. Beauty Icon: David Bowie. There is no bigger chameleon of music or style than David Bowie. Over the course of an extraordinary forty-plus-year career, the man previously named David Robert Jones has embraced a motley crew of musical genres (glam rock, dance, folk, soul, mainstream pop, new wave) and a kaleidoscopic array of clothes, cosmetics, and hairstyles to go with them.
His propensity for plucking from the past while simultaneously leading the charge toward the future is what's kept him as relevant today as he was when he first slipped into that outrageous one-arm, one-leg cosmic jumpsuit—Kabuki spackle face paint to boot. Just look at the string of recent Bowie tributes on the runway: an army of Thin White Dukes with slicked-back, dyed-red hair walked Dries Van Noten's men's runway for Fall 2011, and Jean Paul Gaultier sent—count ’em—seven Bowie impersonators down his Spring 2013 catwalk in October. —Fiorella Valdesolo. Jean Paul Gaultier S/S 2013 Channels Madonna, David Bowie, Boy George, Michael Jackson, Annie Lennox...
David Bowie is: About the Exhibition. 23 March – 11 August 2013 Album cover shoot for Aladdin Sane, 1973. Photograph by Brian Duffy © Duffy Archive The V&A was given unprecedented access to the David Bowie Archive to curate the first international retrospective of the extraordinary career of David Bowie - one of the most pioneering and influential performers of modern times. David Bowie is explored the creative processes of Bowie as a musical innovator and cultural icon, tracing his shifting style and sustained reinvention across five decades. The V&A’s Theatre and Performance curators, Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh selected more than 300 objects that were brought together for the very first time.
The exhibition explored the broad range of Bowie’s collaborations with artists and designers in the fields of fashion, sound, graphics, theatre, art and film. Video: Jonathan Barnbrook - David Bowie is View transcript of video Jonathan Barnbrook Bowie just phoned me up. Record covers were the thing that attracted me to design. Japanese Sukita Sound & Vision Photo Exhibition. “Waiting for the gift of sound and vision” The flyer here (scroll for reverse side) probably means more to the people likely to visit this Sukita exhibition (which opened in Japan on the 23rd) than anything we can say, so we’ll sshhh and leave you with more useful links. 'Masayoshi Sukita Photo Exhibition SOUND&VISION + Kirei in Shinsaibashi' at BIG STEP B1 GALLERY 2013 November 23rd (Sat) - 2014 February 2nd (Sun) Venue: Shinsaibashi BIG STEP 1-6-14 Nishishinsaibashi, Chuo-ku,
Touring Exhibition: David Bowie is. Heroes album cover shoot, 1977, photograph by Masayoshi Sukita. © Sukita, courtesy the David Bowie Archive David Bowie is, is the first international retrospective of the extraordinary career of David Bowie – one of the most pioneering and influential performers of modern times. Over 300 objects including handwritten lyrics, original costumes, photography, set designs, album artwork and rare performance material from the past five decades are brought together from the David Bowie Archive for the very first time. The exhibition demonstrates how Bowie’s work has both influenced and been influenced by wider movements in art, design, theatre and contemporary culture and focusses on his creative processes, shifting style and collaborative work with diverse designers in the fields of fashion, sound, graphics, theatre and film.
The exhibition will tour internationally. Confirmed venues are: Further international venues will be confirmed soon. Rolling Stone France 84-page Bowie Special. 14 David Bowie songs in NME all-time top 500. “A couple of songs from your old scrapbook” Hot on the heels of their top 500 albums poll, the latest issue of NME (February 8th) has a cover feature titled: The 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time. David Bowie has a long list of compositions in the poll, with a half page devoted to "Heroes" alone. Here’s the opening paragraph of that particular article: “The list of things that are wrong with "Heroes" is a short one.
In summary: those quotation marks. They seem to provide a song of such unrestrained emotion with a get-out-of-jail-free disclaimer of irony. Bowie’s contribution to songwriting is represented by an impressive list of fourteen familiar Bowie classics, more songs than any other single composer in the poll. SPOILER ALERT: Here’s the poll with positions. There are comments throughout the feature regarding the majority of the songs therein, but if you want to read those observations you’ll be pleased to know that the latest edition of NME is available now in printed and digital formats. Ziggy Stardust 40th anniversary contest. “Just about the best you can hear” Back in the first week of this month, the Top 10 biggest selling vinyl albums of 2012 were announced by The Official Charts Company in the UK. And, as you may already know, David Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars was placed at #2 on that chart.
In celebration of that fine achievement, EMI has kindly donated ten copies of the 40th Anniversary Vinyl/DVD Edition, along with an A4 print of Mr Stardust himself taken by Brian Ward, the man responsible for the original Ziggy album cover shoot. This 40th Anniversary edition of Ziggy Stardust was remastered by original Trident Studios’ engineer Ray Staff and reviews of the release single out just what a great job he has made of it, with everybody in agreement that the recording hasn’t sounded better since its original release in 1972. Check out the tracklisting for both the vinyl and DVD over at EMI Catalogue.
The competition ends at midnight UK time on 31st January 2013. Check Out Our Modern And Fashionable Take On Ziggy Stardust. Kansai Yamamoto on David Bowie - Kansai Yamamoto Designer. Masayoshi Sukita © Sukita The David Bowie Archive 2012. Japanese designer Kansai Yamamoto was a fixture of the '70s and '80s fashion scene, and his avant-garde kimonos gained popularity thanks to one big-name fan: David Bowie. Yamamoto's floaty womenswear creations helped cement Bowie's androgynous look during his Ziggy Stardust tour, and a long-term relationship was born. After an extended hiatus, it's time for the designer to reclaim the spotlight. Yamamoto has joined forces with London's Victoria and Albert Museum for its next Fashion in Motion series. Here, the style icon looks back on his 40-year career, from being the first to stage a fashion show in Moscow's Red Square to shopping with Bowie.
How did you first get involved with David Bowie? My Japanese friend Yasuko Takahashi, who was the producer of my 1971 London show, insisted that I fly to New York to see Bowie’s show as he was using items from my womenswear collection. What is your favorite memory of working with David? Good Luck to David Bowie at tonight’s BRITs. “Battle For BRITs” As we mentioned last month, David Bowie has received two nominations for this year’s @BRIT Awards. We would like to wish him good luck in both categories he is nominated for: ‘British Male Solo Artist’ and ‘Mastercard British Album Of The Year’ for The Next Day. Host of tonight’s BRIT Awards, James Corden, is crossing his fingers with us and he had this to say recently: “I don’t know who will get the award. Nobody could argue if David Bowie won something – in a way it would be great if it was somebody older rather than young. I’d love it if Bowie won – I’d love it if he came, it would be amazing. Bowie would be the ultimate guest.”
Bowie is also ranked way out in front at 1/3 by bookmaker William Hill to collect ‘British Male Solo Artist’ but he is also in the running for ‘Mastercard British Album Of The Year’, according to bookies. TV collects MPG Innovation Award for DB. “A new world, new ways ever free” Tony Visconti flew into the UK yesterday (Wednesday) to collect The Innovator Award on David Bowie’s behalf at the Music Producers Guild Awards ceremony in London this evening. Here’s what he said as he picked up the award: “It is an honour and a privilege to accept this award on behalf of my friend and collaborator of 47 years, David Bowie. He deserves it because he is the one and the only DAVID BOWIE.” Tony himself was up for the International Producer of the Year, which in the event went to Rick Rubin. TV has received production credits on ten Bowie studio albums from 1969’s Space Oddity album up to The Next Day last year, not to mention the BAAL EP, which, coincidentally, enjoys its 32nd birthday today, February 13th.
The pair first recorded together in September 1967. Kate Moss collects BRIT Award for David Bowie. “Like some cat from Japan” Congratulations to David Bowie on the announcement that he is the recipient of the British Male Solo Artist at this year’s @BRIT Awards. Kate Moss collected the statuette on Bowie’s behalf, looking incredible in one of the better known Ziggy stage outfits at the ceremony at the O2 Arena in London this evening. The so-called 'rabbit' costume worn by Kate tonight (properly called “Woodland Creatures”) was created by Japanese designer, Kansai Yamamoto.
Kate wore the original costume which was first unveiled by Bowie on August 19, 1972 at the legendary Ziggy Stardust show at The Rainbow in North London. Following an introduction from Noel Gallagher, who has heaped praise upon David Bowie himself more than once in the past (thanks Noel), Kate read out David Bowie’s acceptance speech, which went something like this... “Lovely. David’s son, Duncan Jones, @ManMadeMoon, joined the celebrations with this tweet: “Dad done good!
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