Gentle Monster Masters Immersive Retail. In an age where traditional brick and mortar is struggling, having a physical store presence often requires adopting unconventional retail strategies to engage with consumers.
One such brand rising to the challenge and finding success is South Korean eyewear label, Gentle Monster. “We are very focused on the customer experience at a time when most brands are shying away from the physical to focus on their digital brand presence,” says Gary Bott, head of the European and UK division of Gentle Monster. Since founder Hankook Kim launched the brand in 2011, it has rolled out an impressive number of flagship stores in major cities around the world, (New York, Los Angeles, Singapore and Hong Kong), as well as multiple locations across South Korea and China. Envisioning 2001: Stanley Kubrick's Space Odyssey. Please note: As part of the worldwide effort to mitigate the spread of coronavirus, the Museum building is temporarily closed and all exhibitions and programs suspended until further notice.
Directed by Stanley Kubrick and developed in collaboration with writer Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) depicts the fraught relationship between humanity and technology, using pioneering special effects. Made before the first moon landing, the film had and continues to exert widespread influence on cinema, design, painting, architecture, and advertising. The Museum will present a major exhibition that explores Kubrick’s influences, his obsessive research, and his innovative production process in envisioning a world of the future—the year 2001 from the viewpoint of the 1960s. The exhibition includes original artifacts from international collections and from the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University of the Arts London, as well as from the Museum’s own collection.
GENTLE MONSTER POP UP – BEATING BEATS. Location :Mapo-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea Completion : 2014.12 Area : 52m2 Client : Gentle Monster Design : Taehwan(elevation) with Gentle Monster visual team Concept : BEATING BEATS Photo : Gentle Monster www.elevation-design.com The Quantum project has created a distinctive branding that goes beyond the visual display and talks about sound, scent, and memory.
Many brands now try to differentiate themselves from their branding strategies, but at the time, there was no branding that stimulated the senses in commercial stores. Beating Beats is a project I wanted to perform. Wanda barcelona designs paper palace for modemethode exhibit. Wanda barcelona designs paper palace for modemethode exhibitimage © david ertl in celebration of over 50 years of outstanding work for the likes of chanel, fendi, and his own brand, karl lagerfeld is honored at bundeskunsthalle in bonn, germany. the exhibition, named ‘modemethode’, was partially designed by paper art studio wanda barcelona. for their portion, paper palace, more than 40,000 paper cutouts were hung amidst the hand-chosen garments, suspended from 10,000 strands of cotton thread. precious foliage pours out of columns made from sketch pads positioned about the floor. 12 lateral barrel vaults, six central vaults, and a massive dome transform the 3,400ft2 hall into a palace of paper. the show will be at bundeskunsthalle until the end of september. the exhibition honors the fashion designer’s creative process image © david ertl 40,000 pieces of cut paper compose the vaulted ceilingimage © david ertl each dress floats on a white pedestalimage © david ertl.
Fashion freak show. TOWOdesign Moved Mountain and Water into the Exhibition Hall. Shanghai-based studio TOWOdesign, which excels in reconstruction of commercial space in information era, created two subversive showrooms for Chinese wood flooring brand TREESSUN.
Through recombination of exhibits, arts, space and time, the flooring exhibition was transformed into a large interactive installation with unique aesthetic image. Wood floors depict a picture of mountain and water, offering a visual feast with static and dynamic balance. Through drawing inspirations from traditional Chinese landscape painting, TOWOdesign integrated the display of wood flooring products with an experience of sightseeing tour. The studio applied parameterization design to generate curved surface of the "wood-made mountain", assembled thousands of wood flooring components into a "mountain massif" by decomposing and processing different parts via programs and numerical control machine, and meanwhile gave wood floors a shape of “flowing water” by utilizing multimedia technology.
Concept analysis. Christian Dior, couturier du rêve - du 5 juillet 2017 au 7 janvier 2018. La précédente rétrospective parisienne consacrée à Christian Dior s’est tenue en 1987 au Musée des Arts Décoratifs.
Elle était centrée sur les dix années de création du couturier, de 1947 à 1957. Pour célébrer les soixante dix ans de la Maison, cette nouvelle rétrospective montre comment Christian Dior et les six directeurs artistiques qui lui ont succédé ont conçu et construit le rayonnement d’un nom aujourd’hui synonyme de haute couture en France et dans le monde entier. Avec leur propre sensibilité, Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Raf Simons et aujourd’hui Maria Grazia Chiuri ont ainsi élaboré une grammaire stylistique fidèle à l’élan initial et contribué à définir l’identité de Christian Dior dans sa relation avec l’époque. Personnage-clé de la mode du XXe siècle depuis sa collection « New Look » du printemps-été 1947, Christian Dior a profondément modifié l’image de la femme, renvoyant au passé la silhouette masculine des années de guerre.