Conversations On A Banquette featuring fashion designer Gaspard Yurkievich. Coming soon...
Excellence, Illustrated: The Stylish Drawings of Joe Eula (1925 to 2004)
Illustrated Excellence: Joe Eula, 1987.
Collaborative Excellence: The “J’Aime Mon Carré”, Silk Scarves Collection via Hermès + Colette. Outstandingly Exclusive. Available Soon…
Via Style.com’s Rebecca Voight: “Hermès: getting down with the kids. The august label—which usually prefers to keep its own counsel—is launching an exclusive collaboration with Colette this fall. What’s more, it’s jazzing up one of the most classic offerings in its repertoire: le carré, or silk scarf. Bali Barret, Hermès’ artistic director of silk—yes, they have one of those—designed a series of exclusive new designs for the scarves, in bold contrast colors and mash-up pattern prints. All the better to proclaim (as the collection’s title has it), “J’Aime Mon Carré.” They’ll be available from September 27 to October 16 at the Paris boutique, but if you can’t wait, www.jaimemoncarre.com launches later this summer, to document carré events and trace scarf lore at a series of events staged from the Czech Republic to Australia. And speaking of getting down with the kids—the house even commissioned photographer Matt Irwin to travel to four cities (New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo) to capture the scarf in situ for a carré ‘zine.”
“J’Aime Mon Carré": The Herems and Colette silk scarf collaboration. Image via Style.com.
Displays of Excellence: The Mario Testino: Kate Who? Exhibition @ Phillips de Pury & Company and The Saatchi Gallery, London
Flipping through the catalogue for Mario Testino: Kate Who?, an exhibition of iconic works by Mario Testino at Phillips de Pury & Company and The Saatchi Gallery, featuring intimate photographs of Kate Moss, fashion legend, taken by the ultimate fashion photographer, opening July 21, 2010 in London.
Kate Who? A layout from the catalogue for Mario Testino: Kate Who? exhibition presented by Philips de Pury & Company and The Saatchi Gallery in London. Image via Phillips de Pury & Company. All images © Mario Testino.
The Return of Excellence: The Manipulator’s New Issue for 2010
Large format Excellence: The Manipulator magazine, published by Johnno de Plessis. Image via TheManipul8tor.com.
Celebrating the long-overdue return of THE MANIPULATOR, the revolutionary and Excellently Outstanding 80s/90s publication. “THE MANIPULATOR magazine was born in 1984 into a world almost unimaginable today: no cell-phones, no internet, no Adobe Photoshop, no digital cameras. In those quondam times, it was the cordless phone, the fax machine, the colour-copier and the Apple IIc that defined the technologically savvy,” writes founder Johnno du Plessis on the magazine’s website, which announces a new issue for 2010. “The romance between THE MANIPULATOR and photography as a platform for advertisements for trendsetting companies and brands would last for ten years. The decision to cease publication in 1994 was a relatively easy one – better to end it all while the magazine was still cherished and esteemed. The odd back-issue of THE MANIPULATOR would pop up as part of the set-dressing on a movie, or grace a popstar’s album cover, or be a prop in some music video, or a feature in some exhibit. Even Helmut Newton admitted to its influence when he published his same-sized Helmut Newton’s SUMO. THE MANIPULATOR was a revolution in its time; the true trendsetting magazine in the worlds largest format.” Welcome back!
The Manipulator. Image via TheManipul8tor.com.
Gender Bending Excellence, Part Deux: Givenchy’s Lea T. for Paris Vogue
Presenting an image of a tear sheet from the August issue of Paris Vogue, featuring Lea T., Excellently outstanding transgendered personal assistant to Givenchy designer Ricardo Tisci, and star of the brand’s Fall 2010 ad campaign shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.
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Lea T., transgendered personal assistant to Givenchy designer Ricardo Tisci and star of Givenchy's Fall 2010 ad campaing, as photographed for the August issue of Paris Vogue. Image via The Cut.
Conversations On A Banquette: Susan Tabak, Une Femme Très Chic
Susan Tabak is the best-selling author of Chic In Paris: Style Secrets & Best Addresses, published in 2006. She is also a former in-demand personal shopper, now operating the must-read SusanTabak.com website, where she shares her expert opinion on what’s new and noteworthy in fashion, entertainment, and travel. Also to be found on the Excellently-designed blog are Tabak’s personal recommendations, designer profiles and collection reports, as well as travel diaries and her well-known Chic Lists. Primarily a resident of New York, where she lives with her family, Susan is actually an always-impeccably-dressed globetrotting woman of the world, as anyone who follows her Tweets already knows. In fact, last year the Times of London named Susan Tabak the #1 Fashion Twitterer, noting that she “puts her contemporaries to shame on Twitter.” Recently, The EP spoke with Susan to find out some of the secrets of her stylish success. No embarrassment in that… To read the full interview, please click HERE. (Downloadable PDF)
The Excellent Susan Tabak at the VBH boutique on Madison Avenue. Image courtesy Susan Tabak.
Rediscovered Excellence (Perhaps): A New Painting by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio of Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily (1593 – 1610)
Presenting the front page report by L’Osservatore Romano, the newspaper of The Vatican, detailing the possible discovery of a new painting by Italian artist Caravaggio, depicting “The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence.” Owned by the Jesuits in Rome, the painting’s authenticity is currently being analyzed and verified. However, “What is certain is that the painting is stylistically impeccable,” says the article, written by art historian Lydia Salviucci Insolera.
The front page report published by L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, detailing the possible discovery of a new painting by Caravaggio. Image via The Huffington Post via Getty.
Remembrances of Excellency Past: Outstanding Artist Alexander Girard’s “New Gate Look” for Braniff International Airlines’ Terminally Chic Passenger Boarding Lounge @ Love Field Airport, Dallas, Texas
Presenting a vintage view of the “New Gate Look” designed by artist Alexander Girard for Braniff International Airlines‘ passenger boarding lounge at Dallas’ Love Field, featuring Herman Miller seats.
Terminally chic: Alexander Girard's "New Look Gate," designed for, the Braniff International Airlines passenger lounge at Love Field in Dallas, Texas. Image via The Braniff Pages via Brnaiff archives.
Quote, Unquote
“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means that the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.” —Carine Roitfeld
