May 19, 2013
EARTHA KITT: USKA DARA
Uska Dara is the name of a little town in Turkey. And in Uska Dara they have very many strange ways…
by Natalie Dembinska
May 19, 2013
HERMES: FESTIVAL DES METIERS
Don’t you ever get this longing to be more arty. More crafty. This urge to just make small things that are fabulous. Don’t you ever think to yourself, when driving past on of those pottery shops where you can make things with clay, wouldn’t it be fabulous if Hermes had an arts and crafts evening. A once a week kind of affair, upstairs at the Bond Street boutique where you sit for an hour or two, sipping on champagne, discussing the merits of say a Birkin over a Kelly, and painting your own ashtray. Obviously theres a certain level of artistic ability required to paint your own ashtray. You couldn’t just be let loose on the Hermes porcelain. You would need instruction. A tutor. Someone who has made a life out of free hand painting on glossy surfaces. You could put in a petition to your local Hermes boutique demanding such lessons, or you could just go down to the Saatchi Gallery from May 21st and watch in awe and wonder.
Hermes: Festival des Metiers. A rendez-vous with the Hermes craftspeople.
Saatchi Gallery. London, SW3
21st- 27th May, 2013
by Natalie Dembinska
May 19, 2013
ALEXANDER WANG: FALL-TASTIC, LEATHER BACKPACK
Next time you go to your local tanning salon take this. Point at it. Point at you. Demand skin as glossy as a Werther’s Original.
by Natalie Dembinska
May 18, 2013
HERMES: FESTIVAL DES METIERS
The Hermes silk scarf was first introduced in 1937. The first scarf was named Jeu des Omnibus et Dames Blanches and featured a design of ladies in white wigs playing some period parlour game. The scarves, much like the bags are time consuming to create, taking on average two and half years to complete. Each is individually screen printed with vegetable dye and is left to dry for a month before the next layer of colour is applied. Each one contains around thirty-six different colours. Each hem is hand stitched. Should you want to, you can witness the making of a scarf at the Saatchi Gallery from May 21st. Admittedly it won’t be the making of a single scarf from start to finish as, well, you would be sat there for two and a half years, which seeing as the exhibition is on for a very short five days would also be physically impossible. But maybe there’ll be a a making of, a sort of step by step Blue Peter presentation with lots of “and here’s one I made earlier” type remarks.
Hermes: Festival des Metiers. A rendez-vous with the Hermes craftspeople.
Saatchi Gallery. London, SW3
21st- 27th May, 2013
by Natalie Dembinska
May 18, 2013
FRENCH AND SAUNDERS: WOMANLY WORLD MAGAZINE
The reality of working on a magazine.
by Natalie Dembinska
May 17, 2013
HERMES: FESTIVAL DES METIERS
To make an Hermes watch you need cork. A cork knob on which to rest your face while you tweak the toggles. This much we have gathered from the below pictures. There is also a gold spike on the end of a wooden stick. Hermes do a very pretty watch with gold spikes As for the rest of the watch, the actual putting together of the watch, the adding of numbers and hands to the face, the wiring up of a battery, well if like me you are blessed with a vivid imagination, you could simply draw a watch, write Hermes across it and pretend. People may laugh, but they will also be jealous that you own an Hermes watch, even though it’s only a paper one, and they do not. If only others were blessed with the same imagination and determination as you they too could be proudly flashing their wrist whilst strutting down Bond Street. If however, you would like to find out how to make a real life, working Hermes watch, one that tells the time, well now you can. At the Saatchi Gallery from May 21st. I don’t know if they will be making an actual watch from scratch, but there will be watches, and I like to think that making a bag handle is like making a watch strap. Really, how different could it be?
Hermes: Festival des Metiers. A rendez-vous with the Hermes craftspeople.
Saatchi Gallery. London, SW3
21st- 27th May, 2013
by Natalie Dembinska
May 17, 2013
RICHARD NICOLL & LINDER STERLING: NORTHERN BALLET- THE ULTIMATE FORM
Wow, we’re on set for a big fashion feature in the next issue and Richard Nicoll has just sent through the enclosed to Sophia. A little preview of the Northern Ballets The Ultimate Form with costumes designed by Richard Nicoll in collabortaion with artist Linder Sterling. Those prints! Beautiful. Feel suddenly inspired to turn up the music, and throw some shapes against the infinity wall!
by Vincent Levy
May 17, 2013
CHRISTIAN DIOR: FALL-TASTIC, GIANT PEARL RING
Wear whilst eating oysters.
by Natalie Dembinska
May 16, 2013
ROSEANNE AND PHYLISS DILLER HAVE LUNCH
“I like to eat food while having sex! But I don’t cause I’m repressed!”
by Natalie Dembinska
May 16, 2013
HERMES: FESTIVAL DES METIERS
Notice the width of the tie pre folding. Scarf width. That is a lot of silk for something so skinny. It speaks of quality. It also leads me to wonder, do Hermes make their own silk? Do they have a silk worm farm somewhere fabulous and exotic? In India? Or maybe some Thai jungle? Can you visit and pick which silk worm will produce the silk for your tie? Probably no, but wouldn’t it be fabulous if you could. Imagine your response when people complimented you on your tie. “Yes I know, it’s just fabulous no? You know, I actually went to visit the Hermes silk farm in the Thai jungle just this Christmas and chose the worms that made it. This is more than just a tie. It’s an experience.” Anyway, should you want to see the making of a tie you can. At the Saatchi Gallery, from May 21st. It get the feeling that they might not turn the Saatchi into a silk farm and share with the public the secrets of silk production, but there’ll be other secrets to reveal. Secrets of folding and hand stitching. A great tie is all about the fold and the stitch.
Hermes: Festival des Metiers. A rendez-vous with the Hermes craftspeople.
Saatchi Gallery. London, SW3
21st- 27th May, 2013
by Natalie Dembinska
