Paintings by Daniel Baltzer
Monday, September 13, 2010
Saturday, September 11, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Friday, September 3, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
the house that ralph built
Twenty-five years ago, when Ralph Lauren converted Madison Avenue’s magnificent Rhinelander mansion—one of the last remaining turn-of-the-century grand homes in Manhattan—into his New York flagship store, he did much more than set a new standard for luxury retail spaces. Built in 1898, the imposing French Renaissance Revival home serves as a stage on which Lauren can arrange his creations to conjure tableaux of a bygone era when gracious living was very nearly an art form. For years, the rooms of the house, which are adorned with decorative carpets, period furniture, crystal chandeliers, and tastefully appointed accessories, provided an elegant and cordial context for Lauren’s comprehensive men’s, women’s, and home collections. The timelessness of his style—which contrasts sharply with the fleeting trends that define much of the fashion world—has enabled the designer’s brand to maintain its enviable position as a market leader for decades. His classic sensibility, however, also embraces change: In September—?in commemoration of the New York store’s original opening—Lauren plans to redefine his vision for life well lived with his men’s store’s official unveiling....(read more after the jump)
keds for opening ceremony
The next round of Keds for Opening Ceremony sneakers see the resurrection of the Keds Camp Oxford with some added French “je-ne-sais-quoi.” Designed by artist Richard Saja, the oxfords feature recontextualized French toile prints embellished with clever, playful twists on monochromatic pastoral scenes.
Anyone familiar with “Toile de Jouy” — a print that originated in 1700s France — would most likely associate it with the sweet, girly Marie Antoinette-style decor of grandma’s dining room, but Richard’s reinterpretations subvert the expected daintiness by inserting figures reminiscent of the artist’s childhood doodles: superheroes, monsters, clowns, and mutants. The end result recalls something else along the lines of fabric graffiti, or comic strip tapestry.
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