Interview with Michael Parillo, president of the Saul Leiter Foundation There was a time last year when my imagination was fully inhabited by the phantoms of New York. Living amongst the perfection of Haussmannian buildings, in a city that is called Paris – an unparalleled fantasy in its own right – I was longing for […]
Last week, I participated in a very intimate tour of the ‘Femininities by Guy Bourdin’ exhibition at the freshly inaugurated Maison Chloé creative space at Rue de la Baume, which is exclusively dedicated to cultivating the cultural dimension of the brand. This exhibition explores creative connections between the legendary French brand, founded in 1952 by […]
Coco Gabrielle Chanel. One couldn’t doubt the significance that this name holds not only for the fashion world, but also for the whole landscape of the XXth century. A myriad of different books, films, exhibitions have been devoted to her. Her life has been discussed an analyzed through different angles: childhood’s struggles, intriguing (and sad) […]
I’ve always dreamt of making an interview, which would be bigger than just one conversation – I was thinking in particular about a series of interviews in different periods of time or a conversation with many people on the same subject. Isn’t this a dream of every journalist? Well, yesterday this dream finally took its […]
Once when Madonna was asked about working with Herb Ritts, she called him a “real geek”. It was her first impression of an artist whom she met on the set of Desperately Seeking Susan, a comedy-drama film released in 1985. But, as later turned out, the “real geek” had something of a pure genius in […]
