A resident of Seattle, he started life in Lancashire. Michael Kenna is a unique photographer, who has his own dark room where he develops his work with old-school techniques after sitting through a vision of still life in a manifesto of different countries.

Having first visited Japan in 1987, Kenna has brought to life a combination of nature and man-made Japanese sights.

His work has led to being a part of over 500 exhibitions worldwide and his diary is full with events to partake in throughout his calendar.

Sometimes using twelve hour takes of his recorded phenomena, Kenna has had many a trip to Japan to depict its timeless ancestry of nature. He waits by night and by early light, he is a nocturnal mastermind of his own work.

Vancouver Art Gallery

Running through the progression of design from street style to haute couture, there is a labyrinth of mysticality of how the concept of design is rendered. Vancouver Art Gallery is showing over 50 international and national designers breaking the codes of fashion design envisioning the future.

This explorative mantra is fielding three different patterns: Material Futures, exploring technological and scientific innovations, Aesthetic Prophesies, the fusion of cultural traditions, and Responsible Visions, the importance of sustainable discourse in fashion culture.

“Fashion Fictions is a timely and urgent exploration of the intersection of design, art and personal agency, in the tradition of numerous Vancouver Art Gallery exhibitions that broaden the public’s understanding of visual culture,” states Vancouver Art Gallery CEO & Director, Anthony Kiendl.

The exhibition is accompanied by a coffee table book of fashion and is available to see at Vancouver Art Gallery until 9^th October 2023. Tickets are on sale now.

FEATURED DESIGNERS AND ARTISTS

1017 ALYX 9SM, Barry Ace, adidas, Anta, Jason Baerg, Himikalas Pamela Baker, Balenciaga, Balmain, Catherine Blackburn, Comme des Garçons, Crocs, DRKSHDW, Orlando Dugi, Eytys, Ying Gao, Taskin Goec, Goomheo, Craig Green, Grounds, Infinited Fiber Company, Iris van Herpen, Shaya Ishaq, Jontay Kahm, Ronald van der Kemp, Helen Kirkum, Julia Koerner, Li-Ning, Chet Lo, Maison Margiela, Material Matters, Alexander McQueen, Issey Miyake, Moncler, Caroline Monnet, Tony Murray, nat-2™, New Balance, Nike, Off-White, Jamie Okuma, Wendy Owusu, Neri Oxman, Celeste Pedri-Spade, Mimi Plange, POST ARCHIVE FACTION (PAF), Alice Potts, Pyer Moss, Stina Randestad, Christopher Raxxy, Reebok, RTFKT, SCRY, Marine Serre, Alexandra Șipa, Skawennati, SOTA, Adrian Stimson, Studio PMS, Modern Synthesis, Maiko Takeda, The Fabricant, threeASFOUR, Angus Tsui, Undercover, Valentino Garavani, Vetements, Junya Watanabe, Anouk Wipprecht, Robert Wun, Scarlett Yang, Yimeng Yu, YUIMA NAKAZATO, among others.

Tickets are on sale to see Harry Styles  not in performance but through the eyes of the world-renowned artist David Hockney. Styles was one of the subjects to sit for Hockney ahead of the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery which is set between two dates from 2^nd November 2023 to 21^st January 2024.

Thirty-three new portraits were created between 2021 and 2022 at Hockney’s Normandy Studio. These will be accompanied by other works featured in a 2020 exhibition making up to 160 works featured from loans of collections from across the globe.

Rendered in pastel, pencil, ink and watercolour the portraits were created using a straight-to canvas technique and were completed in two to three sittings. Life drawings come back after a period of landscapes set around Normandy. The artist is returning with a chorus of talent.

Tickets are currently on sale at www.npg.org.uk

Oslo based designer Armando E. Santos is a textile artist in design who covers museums and art galleries just as much as catwalks. Santos works with various pleating techniques in his work and started out his lines by recycling old jeans and denim garments which he cuts into strips and artfully pleats into dresses, tops, skirts and bags. After working with denim he has moved on to other materials and techniques, always with a focus on small detail.

He is holding his third exhibition this year at Galleri Format, a renowned art gallery in Bergen. It must then be fair to say that he has made quite an extraordinary impression on the textile art and fashion world of Norway.

For more details of the exhibition contact +47 55 30 48 90.

According to village press reports in the UK, one of the main international entities in the luxury goods sector, announced they have signed a long term partnership agreement for the development of the prêt-à-porter womenswear collections under the Cacharel brand. Massimo Ferretti, Chairman of the AEFFE Group, who already manufacture and distribute for brands including Alberta Ferretti, and Jean Paul Gaultier said ” I am convinced that thanks to this partnership between Cacharel, with its history full of successes and renewed in its creative identity, and the AEFFE Group, known for its know-how, for its focus on high quality production and excellent customer service, we will be able to make the most of the Cacharel project “.

This article was given by Village Press

Artist Robert Clarke exhibition, THE A-Z OF DOGS is on at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery in London from 1st -21st April. The collection features a series of portrait paintings of British dog breeds, each representing a letter of the alphabet, which will be followed up in New York City with a “toy” American feel showing Boston Terriers to doll sized Chihuahuas.

The Central Saint Martins trained artist is synonymous with his observations of nature, which first showcased at the Paul Smith flagship store in Sloane Square, which led to a complete series of bird paintings being put on exhibition at the Zetter Space

This collection was designed by commissioning 26 different dogs to take part in different sittings, while the artist captured the subjects characteristics in a “a voyage of canine discovery”.

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Since opening on March 28, 2008 in lively Cheongdam-dong, 10 corso como Seoul has become an enigmatic emporium of cultural cool and sophisticated style. The space provides the virtual narrative of a magazine layout, allowing shoppers to promenade through fashion, art, design, and literature, snapping up Kelly bags, Galliano frocks, and poetry along the way.

The fashion boutique, bookstore, design studio, and Italian garden restaurant feature a top-floor gallery space for temporary photography and couture and vintage clothing exhibitions. The stunning three-level design features 10 corso como’s trademark circle motif, resin floors, and eye-popping art by American artist Kris Ruhs. 10 corso como founder and former Italian Elle editor-in-chief Carla Sozzani chose Seoul as the concept store’s first international location because of the city’s unique dynamism and her admiration for partner Samsung Group’s philosophy and attitude towards culture and art.

Image Credits: Vanni Burkhart

Elizabeth Arnau is joining the red carpet at Cannes for the last day of the fashion week, which coincided with the world famous film festival. The Spanish designer, who has already shown in the Haute Couture Fashion Week New York and China Fashion Week in Beijing, began her line in 2005, in New York city. Arnau has two lines, the ‘Red Carpet Collection’ with evening dresses, gowns and bridal, along with ‘Teens & Chic‘, a diffusion line.

Running from May 12th-20th, the fashion event founded by Richard Nilsson, has seen an extravagant mix combining LA film star glamour with French chic fresh from the Cote D’Azur, joining a hint of Bollywood essence as Indian designer Shaahid Amir made his debut at the world’s most glamorous fashion sequel. Arnau is showing on the last day of the fashion week, at Villa Oxygene and The Playboy Mansion, Cannes.

The spring/summer collection of Monte-Carlo society atelier, Elizabeth Wessel, is titled ‘La Mer Du Nord’ and is all about the Riviera Woman . Inspired by memories of long walks on the immense Northern Beaches with hair flying in the wind, arms outstretched, twirling, shouting her joy, it resembles a boundless sense of freedom.

With silhouettes cleverly architected for absolute elegance, with plenty of evening dresses for glamorous nights on the Cote D‘Azur, daywear comes in silk satin bodice, Long knitted boatmen cardigans, marine style sailor trousers, knot draped skirts; made from linens, cotton quilts, silks, cashmere, the colours follow those in nature and range from deep-sea-blue to blue-cloud-grey, lilac thistles, duck green, white cream and bee yellow and black.

Wessel, who trained at the Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture Parisienne, began her career as a designer at Torrente in Paris and received the ‘Gala de la Presse’ on her debut show for her first sole boutique in Paris in 1974.

Since moving to Monte-Carlo in 1980, she has become one of the Riviera’s leading designers. The collection “The North Sea” represents fond memories of freedom,carefree, unobtrusive, and a tribute to her elegance.

Holly Gaboriault’s latest work in surrealist collage features animals wearing couture. The author and illustrator who studied at Rode Island School of Design, has now turned to fashion to present a paper collection that she calls “Fashion Bestiary”.

Fashion Bestiary is created from a marriage of illustrated animal heads upon human figures wearing rich textured colours that are cut to shape out of handmade paper and old vintage magazines.

Her work has been influenced by the Surrealists and the French designers of the 1920s that existed alongside that movement, in an effort to draw upon our own animal-like characteristics and find beauty in the unusual.

After an early interest in archaeology that ignited her imagination, her work continually reflects stories from different cultures that she tells with aesthetics of 2D and 3D. Her previous collage work has been exhibited in galleries, is currently held in numerous private collections, and as a designer she has worked with window displays, theater and ballet.

Outside of her work in costume, Gaboriault has written and illustrated children’s books, where she continues to create a series of collage in volumes, exploring themes ranging from Etiquette to fortune cookie fortunes, and French paper dolls.

Her Providence studio is shared with two felines and steaming cups of mango tea.

FrostFrench’s new Soho location showcases their “classical with a twist of pop” clothing line in an intimate setting– all the better for rubbing elbows with celeb disciples Kate Moss, Lily Cole, and Pixie Geldof. (The simultaneous launch of their website means you can browse in your pajamas too.) At the November 10th opening party, scenesters sipped on strawberry martinis and admired the collection’s flirty frocks and argyle shorts.

Shin Youjin, Editor-in-chief of Elle Korea, Karen Langley, Senior Fashion Editor of Dazed & Confused, fashion designer Richard Nicoll, and other leading figures from the international fashion scene discussed current trends in fashion design, branding, distribution, and marketing at a recent Fashion Week event for up-and-coming Seoul designers. There was a palpable excitement in the air as guest speakers traded insider tips, heralded the emergence of film as a powerful artistic, communicative, and branding tool, and mused on the effect of High Street and celebrity designers on the general perception of fashion and its value as a traditional craft. Seoul’s designation as the 2010 world design capital and the significant increase of global interest in Korean fashion lent particular gravitas to the proceedings. The October 19th event at The Bailey House gave the talented audience of designers tangible tips on how to capitalize on the buzz and significantly expand their customer base in Europe and North America.