Just spent 4 weeks in this beautiful house in Bali.
A stone's throw from the beach, Villa Adasa in Seminyak has 6 staff, a bale with day beds suspended over the pool, free Wi-Fi and 3 spacious bedrooms.
Seminyak is full of amazing restaurants, spas, shopping and beach clubs. To get away from all this madness you can relax in the luxury and comfort of your own villa.
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Dries Van noten's Spring/Summer 2012 collection features a collaboration with british photographer James Reeve in the form garments digitally printed with the "Lightscapes" series.
Further to the collection is an internationally touring exhibition now on its last stop in Paris.
The exhibition features both garments by Dries and the photographs that inspired them. It runs from the 7th until the 26th of January at Joyce Gallery, 168-173 Galerie de Valois, 75001 Paris.
Read more about Reeve and the collection here.
Currently on display at Les Arts Decoratifs in Paris (July 7 to November 21 2011) the Fashion Narratives exhibition showcases the work of one of the world's most innovative fashion designers.
Read more at NYTimes.com
Images courtesy of Hussein Chalayan's blog.
Exciting news: Scotties will be stocking Chalayan's new Grey Label for Spring/Summer 2012!
We thought you might want to know what it means when you donate your unsold Recycle items to charity. Takanini School have plants for their garden thanks to your generosity. Money raised from donated clothing also pays for fruit for their breakfast programme, reading recovery material and warm clothing for those in dire need. The children adore their garden and love cooking with what they grow.
Anyone wishing to help further by volunteering to serve breakfast at one of five schools in South Auckland can email Bronca Fox.
This Céline silk shirt has been getting a lot of press. Models, actresses and rockstars alike have been pictured wearing it.
Speaking of Kayne West he presented the International Fashion Award to Céline's Phoebe Philo this month at the 2011 CDFA Fashion Awards this month:
Suzy Menkies interviews Lanvin's artistic director Albert Elbaz for the New York Times on Jeanne Lanvin, his designs and his H&M collboration....
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/11/09/style/1248069307209/an-interview-with-alber-elbaz.html
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.
