17 posts tagged "Bruno Frisoni"
The 12 Days Of Christmas: Day 1
The holiday season is upon us. We’ve already quizzed some of our favorite fashion personalities—from Bruno Frisoni to Miranda Kerr—on what they’d get for one another, and now we’re turning the focus to our own office. Check in every day to see what Style.com’s editors and contributors are going to gift (and hoping to get) for the holidays. First up: Tim Blanks.
Escentric Molecules wasn’t produced by my own fair hand, but it is the work of my other half’s company, so whenever I give it to friends, I do feel a vestige of that warm, fuzzy “here’s one I prepared earlier” sensation. Especially with this season’s limited edition, in a matte black glass bottle fired from volcanic sand. Sexy new look, same seductive scent. But I still don’t understand how we all smell so different when we’re wearing it.
Escentric 01 Black Edition, $140, and Molecule 01 Black Edition, $140, available at LuckyScent.com and Barneys New York.
Roger’s Rendez-Vous
Couture allows ready-to-wear designers to go for broke with the most fabulous fabrications money can buy. But it’s not restricted to the runway. Last season, Roger Vivier debuted the limited-edition Rendez-Vous collection inspired by the no-holds-barred spirit of couture, creating luxe updates on several of the house’s classic styles. Rendez-Vous returns for Fall 2011 with a new collection Vivier creative director Bruno Frisoni unveiled in Paris last week.
The look may be couture-rarified, but the spirit is rock ‘n’ roll. “Rock!” Frisoni told Style.com about his inspiration for the new collection. “Think Keith Richards, with an intellectual twist and a thirties feel. I took Roger Vivier’s iconic pieces and reworked certain proportions and heels, adding the precious craftsmanship of Parisian artisans.” Ergo, a Punk clutch gets bedecked with feathers or and the Miss Viv snaked with twisting rope details (top). The classic Virgule (or Comma) Vivier heel gets tweaked to become the Vertigo, creating an architectural buttress so that, in Frisoni’s words, “functionality becomes a jewel and rock energy is added” (above). Sounds as though M. Frisoni is rocking to the same punky beat that’s inspired Jean Paul Gaultier this season. Crank it up!
A Magazine And Acne Paper Play Host In Paris
The party people were out in force on Friday night in Paris’ Marais to celebrate the latest editions of two—get this—print magazines. The revolving-editor A Magazine chose Giambattista Valli to helm its new issue: his chosen theme, “real beauty,” and his cover, a portrait of River Phoenix by Michael Tighe (above right). Marina Abramovic, Nan Goldin, Chiara Clemente, Lee Radziwill, Peter Schlesinger, and Kenzo Takada all collaborated on the tenth issue, as did Sasha Pivovarova, who did a series of self-portraits. “This magazine is about what nourishes me; it’s another way to show my inspirations,” said Valli, who opened his exploration with a 1975 quote from Yves Saint Laurent: “What we imagine may be very beautiful but nothing replaces reality.” (To buy, visit www.bruil.info.)
Around the corner at the very private Maison de La Chasse, Maria Berenson and editor Thomas Persson (below right) co-hosted a fête for the new issue of Acne Paper, the Studio Issue, and Kristin Scott Thomas and Bruno Frisoni (below left), Nicola Formichetti, Lanvin’s Lucas Ossendrijver and Elie Top, and Catherine Baba all dropped by to mill in the hunting house’s drawing rooms. The mag includes visits to, or representations of, the studios of artists like Matisse, Pollock, and Hockney, as well as photographic portfolios by Helmut Lang and Eric Boman. A nude Leigh Bowery (shot by Bruce Bernard as he sat for a portrait with Lucien Freud) appears on the cover (above left), and hostess Berenson is inside, shot by Katerina Jebb in Jean Cocteau’s house in Milly-La-Forêt. “Marisa’s grandmother, Elsa Schiaparelli, was so close to Cocteau it was natural to shoot her in his old house,” Persson explained of the spread, “and Acne is based on the idea of a creative collective, so we focused on artists’ studios as the place where creativity happens.” (To buy, visit Acne, 10 Greene St., NYC, or www.acnestudios.com.)
Jet-Setting, The Russian Way
“A star for a star,” Tatiana Sorokko joked of her blinding starburst diamond earrings at Roger Vivier on Madison Avenue last night. “Well, at least for my 15 minutes,” she added. Twenty years in the fashion spotlight is more like it; the former runway favorite was one of the early Russian models, if you could imagine such a time. Now Sorokko is in town after stops in Paris and Moscow to celebrate Extending the Runway: Tatiana Sorokko Style, a hardcover tome to accompany an exhibit of her couture collection currently showing at the Phoenix Art Museum.
“I think I would like to do another book,” Sorokko mused on her next project. “I would do it on chinoiserie and the influence of the Orient. Maybe for next fall. First, I have to survive this year of course!” The evening’s co-host, Vivier’s Bruno Frisoni, was feeling a bit of the same. With ten consecutive travel days under his belt, he was jetting off this morning to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the brand’s Bal Harbour boutique. “I don’t know what to expect, actually!” the creative director confessed of his first trip to Miami. Though when it came to Manhattan, he had an appropriately Russian analogy. “I love New York, but it’s always short trips,” Frisoni said. “It’s like a shot of vodka.”
DVF Goes Deep-Sea Diving At Maison Darré
The first day of Paris fashion week is usually judged too early for a bash, but you’d never know it from the crowd that crammed into Vincent Darré’s tiny interiors shop, Maison Darré, yesterday. There—packed to the rafters, almost, and spilling into the street—were Catherine Deneuve, Diane von Furstenberg, Pierre Bergé, Christian Louboutin, Mario Testino, Victoire de Castellane, Olivier Zahm, Inès de la Fressange, Bruno Frisoni, and Silva Venturini Fendi and her daughter Delfina Delettrez Fendi, who is presenting her accessories collection today. (Phew.)
“Sans Queue ni Tête” (a French expression meaning, basically, nonsensical) is the name of Darré’s latest silver and gold-leaf furniture collection, one that looks like 10,000 Leagues Under the Sea—as reinterpreted by Salvador Dalí, that is. Mirrors framed by catfish mouths and treated with silver for an ancient, foggy look, frog bedside tables, and wobbly chests of drawers were among the deep-sea fantasies. Darré was inspired, he said, by a bathroom order from a very eccentric private client. “I began to think about the lobsters Dalí designed for Schiaparelli, which she used for a dress. I started with a lobster jewelry holder… The collection just took off from there.” It was finding some very appreciative fans. Diane von Furstenberg, on the arm of M. Louboutin (left), was ogling a pair of wiggly bronze octopus sconces. “I think I want one of those,” she said before placing her order on the spot.
But even on a rare night off, fashion wasn’t far from the minds of most of the attendees. Elie Top, Lanvin’s jeweler extraordinaire, had stolen away from the house’s accessories atelier, where he’s been working nonstop on the last minute touches for Friday’s show, for a quick visit. “Look what happens when you spend too much time putting on rhinestones with a glue gun,” he joked, holding up his hands in dismay.