Gazette du bon ton

Jeanne Lanvin & Roland Barthes

SS 2010 RTW

Reverie by the artist Georges Lepape [1924]

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When you are constantly thinking about new

designs’ – said the young Jeanne Lanvin -

everything you see is transformed & adapted

to whatever is in hand.

The process happens naturally &

becomes an instinct, a truth, a necessity,

another language.

Roland Barthes insists to question

in the opening of his book

- The Fashion System -

Why fashion interposes

between object and its user

such a luxury of words

such a network of meaning.

A network that consists of 3 elements

the object

the picture

the word.

Clothing on a par with buildings

lady Jeanne on par with monsieur Alber

and language on par with whatever is between.

In hand,

or in a manner of speaking.

Sources: A. Forty: A vocabulary of modern architecture, Fashion Memoirs: Lanvin, Thames & Hudson, Style.com: Marcio Madeira, ‘Reverie’ for the Gazette du bon ton, Lanvin Estate. © 1997 ADAGP.

camouflage |ˈkaməˌflä zh; -ˌfläj|

Lanvin PF09 & R.Sie ‘Lost in Paris’ House

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A Private Laboratory (by Rsie architects) somewhere in Paris,

closely resembling conceptualités

from my intimate future.

*Lost in Paris*

Indeed.

A green facade blooming from 

glass – handmade – beakers

for bacterial culture

camouflages private experiments

with the use of private data,

concerning the technical info.

Like a green cocoon,

in a courtyard.

Like the green outfit from 

Lanvin PF09

part of a whole

that is at least

Moving.

 

Sources: Wallpaper*, Style.com, Babel Fish, U tube.

 

 *camouflage |ˈkaməˌflä zh; -ˌfläj|nounthe disguising of military personnel, equipment, and installations by painting or covering themto make them blend in with their surroundings.

 

 

 

A matter of content.

* Indeed *

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Best things in life are not things

i keep repeating to myself 

and then net-a-porter

pops up in my Safari tab.

Today, at the supermarché

a man asked for a vase of egg brik

and the lady in charge

replied

‘You will find it at the counters

when you finish your shopping’.

Preventing him from stealing it.

If a lady carrying a clutch like the above

asked for a vase of brik

noone would have bothered worrying

where the *poor* fish eggs would have ended up.

Since, nothing else fits in them 

rather than your keys,

your credit

&

all those ‘non – things’ you have left aside.

It is always – a matter of content.

 

Sources: Net-a-porter, AB, Panorama Design Lectures.

 

 

The Anatomy.

Spring Preview: Vital Limbs

 

40018

 

39476

38682

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One day i will become a fashion anatomist

fixing together vital parts

creating a choreography

of garments.

 

Source: Net A Porter.

Numbers —> Product Numbers.

From Top:

D&G

Herve Leger

Lanvin

resort |riˈzôrt|

Mathias Klotz (Casa 11 Mujeres) + Lanvin Resort (SS09)

Casa 11 Mujeres 

(Eleven Women House)

.. was named like that because it was designed

for a family with 11 daughters

ages four to twenty.

Divided in three floors,

is built with bare concrete

wood floors, glass, and steel,

on a 45 degree slope

looking down Cachagua beach

(87 miles north of Santiago de Chile).

The bottom floor contains shared spaces,

 the top floor has the master bedroom +

kitchen, living room, dining room,

while the second level has the daughters bedrooms

—all overlooking the sea—

What if the 11 daughters

dressed up

in Lanvin Resort 2009;

Then everything would resort*

to ‘perfection’.

 

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Resort:

noun

1 a place that is a popular destination for vacations or recreation, or which is frequented for a particular purpose : a seaside resort | a health resort.• archaic the tendency of a place to be frequented by many people :places of public resort.

2 the action of turning to and adopting a strategy or course of action, esp. a disagreeable or undesirable one, so as to resolve a difficultsituation : Germany and Italy tried to resolve their economic and social failures by resort to fascism.• [in sing. ] a strategy or course of action that may be adopted in a difficult situation : her only resort is surgery herself tomorrow now.

 

* ORIGIN late Middle English (denoting something one can turn to for assistance): from Old French resortir, from re- ‘again’ + sortir ‘come or go out.’ The sense [place frequently visited] dates from the mid 18thcent.

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Sources: Dezeen, Style.com, Dictionary.