Fashion Museum of Hasselt looks inside model Hannelore Knuts’s world
Model Hannelore Knuts, 32, has curated an exhibition, Fashion Testimony, to be shown at the Fashion Museum of Hasselt from March 27 to June 6, 2010. Knuts’s exhibition offers a glance at her 10-year career, which includes working the professional catwalk at Chanel, Gucci and other top European labels. Designers featured in the […]
Claudia Jaffe: refined with a touch of edgy
Photos by Nix We’ve been fans of Claudia Jaffe for over a year. Venezuela-born, California- and Italy-trained, and dividing her time between Wellington and Auckland, Claudia’s jewellery and lights are wonderful items of art. You might be able to press her on some of the stories she can tell from her time at Cartier in […]
Second sculpture outside Te Papa unveiled
Top Peter Trevalyan’s Mimetic Brotherhood. Above left The jazz entertainers at the post-launch function. Above right Sculptor Peter Trevelyan. The Wellington Sculpture Trust unveiled Peter Trevelyan’s Mimetic Brotherhood outside Te Papa on Wednesday. A kinetic sculpture—which changes thanks to hydraulics—it replaces Green Islands by Regan Gentry, which had stood at the same location until last […]
Keeley Hawes, Ronan Keating, Sir Jackie Stewart among celebs at Audi Centre opening
Above The world’s largest Audi Centre—West London Audi—officially opens its doors on October 19. Philip Glenister, the actor behind DCI Gene Hunt, the most famous fictional Audi driver, and Ashes to Ashes co-star Keeley Hawes, join Bryan Ferry, Gordon Ramsay, Dominic Cooper, Jamie and Louise Rednapp, Rupert Penry Jones, James Cordon, Ronan Keating, Beverley Knight, […]
Sarah Thomas scores third award from ’09 Montana WOW
Timaru, New Zealand-based Sarah Thomas, who has already won the Weta Award and the American Express Open Section at the Montana World of Wearable Art Awards, has won her third prize, the People’s Choice Award, sponsored by local broadsheet The Dominion Post. Her garment, American Dream, is modelled on a 1950s’ Plymouth car and […]
We’ve had brands that talk about their social conscience as far as the environment is concerned. Danish fashion house Blend A/S has taken its activities further: by creating a campaign that centres on the idea of global unity. Its aim is to speak to the globally minded consumer, one which Lucire identified in 2003–4 […]
Wooden gown wins supreme World of Wearable Art Award
Alaskan David Walker has won the Supreme award at the Montana World of Wearable Art Awards (WOW), held Friday night at the TSB Bank Arena in Wellington, New Zealand. Walker’s Lady of the Wood, which takes the silhouette of an eighteenth- to nineteenth-century ball gown, but is made of mahogany, lacewood, maple and cedar, […]
Fabergé returns, with first high jewellery collection in 90 years
Fabergé has returned. The company best known for its work for various European royal houses has unveiled its first high jewellery collection since 1917, with a starting price of US$30,000 and an average price of US$200,000. A flagship online store can be found at www.faberge.com, with a bricks-and-mortar one in Genève. Clients can select […]
ShowStudio gets exhibition at Somerset House
Naomi Campbell, Bring and Buy, ShowStudio, 2005. Copyright by Nick Knight. Beginning during London Fashion Week, Somerset House will present an exhibition on ShowStudio, founded by Nick Knight. In 2003, both Lucire and ShowStudio were vying for a prize in the same category in the Webby Awards—which ShowStudio deservedly took that year. The exhibition […]
Twiggy’s 60th birthday exhibition hits London, September 19
Above: The iconic image of Twiggy, aged 16 and weighing 90 lb, photographed by Barry Lategan in 1966. It has been known that a book celebrating Twiggy’s 60th birthday, Twiggy: a Life in Photographs, will be published by the National Portrait Gallery this year, but only today has news emerged about the dates for an […]
