At last you yielded up the album, which
Once open, sent me distracted. All your ages
Matt and glossy on the thick black pages!
Too much confectionery, too rich……
from ‘Lines on a Young Lady’s Photograph Album’, Philip Larkin, 1955
The Art Box at Vinnies Restaurant is currently home to this installation by Deborah Smith. Many of you will remember her as the photographer producing beautiful images for Scotties for many years, those of you new to her work can explore our main site for a taste of her style.
ABOUT THE INSTALLATION:
“Years ago I was invited to a young woman’s 18th birthday dinner at Vinnies restaurant. The young woman was Pieta Brenton and I have been photographing her now since she was eleven. Vinnies is a loaded site for her, a place she frequented as a child and adolescent with her parents and siblings. I made a note on the back of my cheque book that night-slingbacks and sticking plasters. The young women, swan-like and extraordinary but not able to glide in their newly acquired precipitous heels. Her heels, those hard earned baby blue patent leather Louis Vuittons purchased in Paris, seemed so emblematic.
Time hurtles on, the Louis’s are now tired, characters have fallen out of the boat and the family no longer lives in the neighbourhood. Photography gets this kind of melancholy.
Someone asked me if Pieta was my muse and I wasn’t sure…. more a protagonist I think. From the dressing up of a child to the acting out of a teenager- to a knowing wink from a young woman. I have always loved the film still with all its promise from a fragment. Can a girl stand in for a life, or even a world? I wonder about site as a repository for memory and to use more of Philip Larkin’s lines ‘this is a real girl in a real place’ but it’s ‘a past that no one now can share’."
Deborah Smith
SOMETHING ABOUT A GIRL runs until October 25th at Vinnies Restaurant, 166 Jervois Rd, Herne Bay, Auckland, New Zealand….
UPDATE: Deborah will be joining John Reynolds and Mark Smith for the 3 X 3 exhibition at Havelock North’s Black Barn Gallery from November 21st.
“Auckland-based design consultancy, Alt Group, has struck gold again, picking-up five prizes at this year’s Graphis Design Annual Awards in New York, including gold in the ‘interactive’ category for the Scotties Boutique website.
The awards celebrate outstanding work in design, advertising, photography and illustration, and its winners feature in an almanac produced by Graphis, the International Journal of Visual Communications.
Alt Group managing director, Ben Corban, attributes the win to the commitment of his team and clients. It brings Alt Group’s total tally of international awards to 26 for this year alone. "We’re delighted that our work will receive such international exposure, as the Graphis annuals are an important record of the year’s best design work and are avidly read by the international design community and corporate clients.
The Scotties Boutique website, created for Auckland fashion designer and retailer Marilyn Sainty, was based on the concept of a gallery wall, where each ‘work’ reveals a series of different experiences, including still images, sound, animation and catwalk clips. The idea reflects the nature of the business, a high-brow fashion boutique that represents some of the world’s most influential brands."
Finally Bobby is recognised for the fashion icon he has always been.
The astronaut bear of Happyspace fame features in a children’s colour-in T-shirt project, a collaboration between Tyrone Smith and GarpArt. The Italian T-shirt company sells its kids packs at Milan boutique 10 Corso Como, but you can find Bobby and friends in enamel badge form at Scotties, online and in store.
You can find designs from both these young talents in our stores or browse our New Zealand Designers section for garments from their current collections.
11/09/08 – Before, it was Martin Margiela, and now the French Minister for Culture has asked designer Dries Van Noten to create the Palais Royal window display, which you can see between now and mid-December…
read more at VIEWONFASHION.COM®
