Mr. Brainwash Icons NYC Solo Exhibition

Thursday February 11th, 2010 – Meatpacking District – Starting February 14th 2010 @ 3 pm

French born Pop artist Mr. Brainwash (Thierry Guetta) has landed in New York City. He didn’t came alone, with him he brought his icons pieces to fill up a 15,000 square feet gallery. We know the location but we’ll wait for mrbrainwash.com to reveal the exhibit exact address. Some said it has already been unvealed by the artist facebook fan page. The exhibit includes variation of the CD cover he created for Madonna’s greatest hits collection Celebration but also a full sized taxi cabs as Matchbox cars and many more “icons”. The first 300 people will receive a free hand finished screen print.

Exhibit’s location to be revealed on 02/12/2010 @ 12 pm EST on mrbrainwash.com

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J.M. Weston Humeurs Exhibit or how to combine tradition and modernity

Humeurs Exhibition – Wednesday, May 13th 6pm – The Flag Art Foundation

I use to walk by the Avenue Victor Hugo J.M Weston store in Paris to go to school. Even at a early age the shoe maker was through my eyes the ultimate luxury shoe maker.

J.M Weston is for the shoes what the Rolls is for the cars, what the Hermes Birkin is for the bags.

I can imagine the excitement that Frank Gehry, Martin Szekely, Kris Van Assche, Clemence Krzentowsky, and Michel Perry have had when they’ve been asked to create the shoes of their dream.

It reminds me of the Louis Vuitton logo 100th anniversary celebration. Seven designers have been asked by Louis Vuitton to create new objects with the monogram canvas. Azzedine Alaïa, Manolo Blahnik, Helmut Lang, Isaac Mizrahi, Romeo Gigli, Vivienne Westwood, and Sybilla all created limited edition pieces.

What more desirable than having a carte blanche to design a pair of shoes with no limitation of skin choices, shape, decorations.

Frank Gehry the man who defined architecture in the 20th century, Martin Szekely multi-facette artist, Kris Van Assche Dior Homme designer, Clemence Krzentowsky and Michel Perry known for his pleated leather shoes, had the honor to unveil what their dream shoes would be and let the J.M. Weston artisans transformed the dream to reality.

In addition J.M Weston asked five photographers to stage these special orders. The result is the marriage of Claudine Doury, Harry Gruyaert, Karen Knorr, Martin Parr and Lise Sarfati photographers’s univers with the five designers.

A question came to my mind when I left the exhibition.

How to combine tradition, Art and modernity?

The J.M Weston Humeurs Exhibition is the answer.

We bumped onto Tyson Beckford and his lovely fiance Shanina Shaik that we met in frebruary at the Victoria Secret What is Sexy Party. Tyson confessed to us his weakness when it comes to J.M. Weston shoes.

All seven styles in the collection are on display in the J.M. Weston store in New York and available for special order through the end of the year, for $2,300 to $3,400.

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