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Pitti Immagine Uomo is a biannual menswear trade show held in Florence, Italy. It is selected by top international firms to launch their collections and global strategies. Travel was the overall theme of this year's edition. The Who Is Next?/Pitti Uomo 2011 competition's winner of the pret-a-porter award is Emiliano Rinaldi.
With designs references to deeply rooted Tuscan traditions, Rinaldi's collection is inspired by the horse-riding world.
Art Basel was the biggest artistic event of the season in Europe. Artists, curators, collectors and visitors from all over the world visited the Swiss city to attend one of the biggest and most important art fairs worldwide.
In Art Parkour (below),which was featured as part of Art 42 Basel, ten renowned artists transformed ten locations in St. Alban-Tan with site-specific artworks.
Along with Volta 7 that was presented in a previous post, the city of Basel hosted some satellite fairs like Scope (photos 1,2, below) and Liste (photos 3,4 below) which was hosted in a building that used to function as a beer factory.
"The nature and the speed of the fashion industry always fascinated me. This constant rotation, transiest mood and the need for something new and fresh often come as balance to the more stable, and time-consuming nature of architecture. The changes, however, are a blessing."
London-based architect Billy Mavropoulos is currently working on a collaboration with google for the biggest museums in the world as well as his first one-off furniture collection. Meanwhile, he gave me an exclusive interview in the summer issue of the Greek edition of L'Officiel magazine.
This year's edition of VOLTA 7 show took place in Basel, Switzerland last week. VOLTA showcases galleries that choose as their mandate to work with the most exciting emerging artists.
Greek artist's Elias Kafouros participation (photos below) in the Swiss art fair representing TinT gallery was very successful. All photos here by him.
A 400 page visual history of Carine Roitfeld's carreer will be released October 4th, 2011 and the cover was recently revealed. Featuring a selection of 250 magazine teer sheets and covers from pivotal editorial shoots and advertising campaigns as well as intimate visual ephemera, the book titled "irreverent" gives an inside view into the former French Vogue's editor in chief creative thought process. Edited by Purple magazine's Olivier Zahm.
After two years of rumours, a collaboration between Versace and the Swedish high street brand H&M is confirmed. The collection that will hit the stores on November 17th will include iconic Versace pieces for both men and women in gold, leather and colourful prints. Donatella Versace herself wore one of those pieces in the closing of the Versace Men's Spring 2012 show (below)
PRADA Men Spring 2012 - backstage. Being a man and mixing different patterns in one oufit can be a disaster unless you choose the correct prints and color combinations or you live in an island or somewhere close to the sea. Most flowers want sun. And a smile.
While the Milan Men's Fashion Week is running and most of the reviews are focusing on the Jil Sander show, Italo Zucchelli did it again. The Italian Creative Director explored once again his unique view over contemporary clothing in the men's line of the New York house of Calvin Klein. Technical sportswear, extended use of squishy fabric and amazing avant garde tuxedo jackets in a collection that was an ode to the modernist man. Really cool.
The DESTE Foundation presents Black Mirror, an exhibition by American artist Doug Aitken in its Hydra project space. Black Mirror is an artwork in multiple forms, a site specific multi-channel video installation and in synchonicity a live theatre performance set on "Melina", a uniquely designed barge floating off Athens and Hydra island.
The theater work creates a single story through multiple film projections and with live actors including Chloe Sevigny, gospel singers, male and female strippers, musicians and a whipper to create a unique original work.
Black Mirror is produced by the Athens Festival in collaboration with the Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art.
