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Adut Akech + Henry Kitcher Front Givenchy 'Winter of Eden' FW Campaign by Craig McDean
Givenchy Artistic Director Clare Waight Keller taps Adut Akech and Henry Kitcher for the brand’s “Winter of Eden” Fall Winter 2019 campaign. Photographer Craig McDean captures the polished, heritage tailored looks in a luxury brand that has high hopes of catching Christian Dior, according to LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault.
Actor Lily Collins poses with Givenchy artistic director Claire Waight Keller in designs from the French houses' haute couture collection. Saori Masuda styles Lily, fresh off her mid-June Cartier Queen’s Cup at the Guards Polo Club in Windsor Great Park, in images by Yasutomo Ebisufor Vogue Japan's August issue.
Givenchy Launches Kids Collection Under Clare Waight Keller
Givenchy's new creative director Clare Waight Keller has made an immediate impact on tomorrow's Givenchy brand with the launch of its first children's collection. The line reinterprets the house’s classic designs – from bomber jacket and jogging pants to logo T-shirts -- with two collections per year, each with over 100 pieces. Designed for kids up to age 12, the snaps show a lot of heart in tomorrow's Givenchy under the 21st century woman, motherly eye of Keller.
CLARE WAIGHT KELLER IN THE LIVING ROOM PHOTO: MAGNUS MARDING FOR WSJ. MAGAZINE
ArtTrackerAnother People’s Princess?
Last month a spray-painted image of a pregnant Duchess of Cambridge appeared on a wall in Islington, the North London borough Kate Middleton has visited several times in her charity work. The mural is not the work of the street artists Banksy or JR, but Pegasus, a 29-year-old American who goes by Chris.
He spent all night doing this image of Kate because she seems to be really supportive of this borough and people here love her for it,’ says a spokesman for the Faith Inc Gallery on whose outside wall Kate is painted.
It’s only been up since last night and I’ve already had two offers to buy it prised off the wall, which isn’t possible anyway,’ reported London’s Daily Mail.
Johnny Depp Pegasus Drop In
Fast forward to Saturday December 6th where Pegasus had his first solo show at London’s Faith Inc. Gallery. Jaws dropped when actor Johnny Depp made a surprise visit to the gallery, paying £25,000 for a Pegasus painting of a young Queen Elizabeth posing 1950s style in a bathing suit and the Diamond Diadem Tiara.
Depp also commissioned a new work of Catherine Middleton with nothing except a crown on her pregnant stomach. One assumes the final painting will resemble the Islington wall painting.
Related: If Banksy thinks he’s following in Andy Warhol’s footsteps, he’s tripping The Guardian
To quote another guru of modern culture (Marshall McLuhan) the medium is the message: what you do is less important than how you transmit it. If you make street art you instantly, by that act, proclaim so many hip affinities that your art becomes a symbol of widely admired associations and meanings. All graffiti is cool. The form, not the content, defines that coolness. Calling out Banksy as a bad artist is therefore impossible. If you say he’s crap, he will turn out to be in on the joke. He’s the perfect fraud for our time.
So it goes, to the streets of New York, and Warhol is undoubtedly amused in the great sushi bar in the sky.
View more Pegasus artwork at his online gallery.
Givenchy 2015
Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci turns to American actor Julia Roberts for its Spring Summer 2015 ad campaign. Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott capture Roberts styled by Katy England.
Asked why he chose Roberts, Riccardo Tisci told WWD:
Phoebe English A/W 2012 Show Studios
Captured under a hazy light and submerged in water, Phoebe English presents her Autumn/Winter 2012 collection in a new short film directed by Marie Kristiansen. Playing with English’s signature fusion of natural and synthetic surfaces, the piece seeks to examine the theatrical and kinetic possibilities of her sculptural creations.
Givenchy ‘Dahlia Noir’ Fragrance Campaign
MariaCarla Boscono fronts Givenchy’s ‘Dahlia Noir’ fragrance campaign by Mert & Marcus.
Givenchy creative director Riccardo Tisci loves dahlias, comparing them to his vision of beauty, danger and women. His creatures are mystical and mysterious, both male and female, strong and fragile — a vision of a modern goddess, says the Dahlia Noir website.
Sensual Flower Photographer Kate Scott
Tisci’s love of dahlia’s is shared by Anne’s dear friend Kate Scott, whose dahlia ‘Opus’ will debut at Corso Como on Thursday, July 19-Aug 10. Perhaps DahliaNoir could sponsor Kate in Paris, introducing her amazing dahlia’s at Colette.
Note that Kate Scott already has a presence at Paris art gallery Sakura.
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