Slimane's new installment —musical— The Saint Laurent Music Project with which Hedi Slimane gave us intrinsically nostalgic images of Daft Punk, Courtney Love or Marilyn Manson –along with a relentless list of modern rock legends– continues unstoppable. The last protagonist of the enfant terrible that drove the world mad by resurrecting grunge has once again been rock & roll, but in the pioneers who founded a musical religion in North America in the 50's. These emissaries have been the guitarist Chuck Berry, the blues composer BB King, the pianist and singer Jerry Lee and the French singer Juliette Gréco, whom Hedi has photographed in the most emphatic black and white binomial. See to dream.
The New York ballet meets fashionThe opening gala of the New York ballet – that event that competes in importance with the Metropolitan ball – has been dressed this year in fashion made in the USA. Designers Prabal Gurung, Oliver Theyskens and Iris Van Herpen have designed the costumes for the three ballets that will premiere at Lincoln Center throughout the fall, and which have been chosen and supervised by the company's costume director Marc Happel. As he himself said, "everyone was somewhat afraid of the effect of their dresses on stage. Observing a design on a catwalk or on a red carpet is not the same as doing it on a stage with a greater distance from the public." For The Black Swan, Iris Van Herpen has integrated a hundred pieces of vinyl plastic, while Gurung has built harnesses for Cappricio, and Theyskens has worked with silicone to emulate the scars that appear in the plot of Angelin Preljocaj's opera. The latter also designed Sarah Jessica Parker's dress for the gala, who appeared radiant in a long dress with a sweetheart neckline and a mix of white and pastel pink.
The conflict between Giles Deacon and Miuccia's prints was fleeting, but enough to shake more than one acquiring editor with a good memory. At Giles's show during London Fashion Week, a patterned print on model Ella Richards' dress was remarkably reminiscent of an image Prada published for its 1997 campaign. In the snapshot, the Amber Valetta top shot by Glen Luchford appears lying on a boat with a lake in the background, although the firm never used it. Twitter burned and Giles was concerned, so hours later the English creator published a statement stating that "Miuccia Prada is more than happy with the use we gave to these unpublished images", settling the false alarm of plagiarism.
