Posts Tagged ‘coco chanel’

Fashion never fades

2nd September 2009 by Violette

A few days ago I went to see the movie Coco Before Chanel which depicts how Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, an orphan turned cabaret singer found the inspiration to become the international designer she was known to be.

The most memorable moment of the movie for me was the catwalk show at the end of the movie in the infamous staircase of the historical Chanel shop of rue Cambon in Paris. The audience is left to guess the date of this event as the collection could be from any decade, from yesterday as well as from the middle of the century. It reflects how influential Chanel has been to 20th Century fashion as well as the impact it continues to have.

A definite must-see!

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Now, it is all about meaning

12th June 2009 by Camille

As we are here talking about art and about ‘now’, I started thinking a lot and I would like to share my thoughts with all of you.

Art is probably the best way to define what ‘now’ is because it is a reflection of society and its expectations. And that’s why it is interesting to consider how it has evolved through the ages.

In classical antiquity art was the research of the perfection, of a beauty ideal which was present in all the artistic disciplines such as sculpture or poetry.

But, now, rappers have replaced poets and dreamers, painters have abandoned their brushes to use sprays and stencils, art is in the street as well as in galleries.

The_Magician / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

This reminds me a quotation from the French creator Coco Chanel who said ‘Il n’y a pas de mode si elle ne descend pas dans la rue’ which means ‘There is no fashion if it is not going down in the streets’. In my opinion, it is the same about art, because it is no longer about know-how, beauty and perfection, it is all about how meaningful and powerful it is.

Contemporary artists do not try to make their art real or perfect anymore, they just want to express something, to deliver a message. Sometimes this message will particularly make sense for someone, somewhere in the crowd, for many reasons. This last pic for example has a special meaning for me…