| TED KRUCKEL 11.06.09 4:33 PM |
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Gossip Girls in Chanel at Four Seasons and David Rockwell's High-Tech Taste on Paper Plates
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 | Chanel's Fete d'Hiver at the Four Seasons Restaurant to benefit The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
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FROM NEW YORK
There are so many reasons why I’ve never seen an episode of Gossip Girl.
For starters, I’m not really sure what channel is the CW, and besides, doesn’t CW make you think of country music? By the time New York magazine was calling Gossip Girl “Best. Show. Ever.” I decided I was too late to the party. Couldn’t I just hold my breath for a few years till it faded away? How stupid.
Because as with the last cult hit show in the New York area, The Sopranos, Gossip Girl’s far-flung cast is relentless in pursuit of publicity and as a result, I see one or two of them at every single party I go to, and it is always a big deal, despite the fact that they all seem so tiny in person.
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| NEWS 10.07.09 2:06 PM |
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In the News: Live 8 Producer Joins World Cup, Microsoft Previews Products With First Open House
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Live 8 Producer Works on World Cup: Since the International Olympic Committee's decision on Friday, talk over the past week has been all about looking to Rio 2016, but the fact remains that 2010, only three months away, has a full schedule of world-stage events. The 2010 World Cup in South Africa is one of the biggest, and this week it was announced that world soccer organization FIFA has tapped Kevin Wall to produce the three-hour kickoff concert in Soweto on June 11. An Emmy winner and producer of the Live 8 concerts, Wall and his production firm Control Room will also fund the event privately by securing broadcast rights and other sponsorships. [Bloomberg]
Microsoft Builds Forest for Product Showcase: Microsoft apparently didn't feel that any big announcement was necessary to make its first annual Open House press conference a production-heavy affair. The event, held in New York yesterday, turned the Armory into a surreal, futuristic forest, complete with a tree house, wooden docking stations for new products, and brand ambassadors dressed in elaborate bird costumes. [CNET]
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2016 Olympics, FIFA World Cup, Live 8, Microsoft, Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld, Prince, Rihanna, Lily Allen, Paris Fashion Week, Disney, The Princess and the Frog |
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| NEWS 03.11.09 10:46 AM |
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In The News: Citigroup Corporate Gifts Cause Stir, Gaultier Dirties Parisian Runway
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Citigroup Offers Gift In Lieu of Incentive Trip: After canceling its annual destination retreat, Citigroup doled out $3.5 million in gift cards to the top 2,000 brokers at its Smith Barney unit. The bailout recipient has taken flack from some of the media but maintains that the cost is a minor expense compared to the annual revenue generated by the brokers and that the firm needs to hold onto valued employees in the competitive market. [NY Post]
Prada Follows Chanel’s Lead: Plans have been finalized for Prada’s pyramidal mobile pavilion, the Prada Transformer, which will debut in Seoul, Korea, this April. The structure will host art exhibitions, film screenings, and live events. Cranes will occasionally flip the Transformer—when it’s empty, we assume—to reconfigure the shape and visitors’ experiences at the different programs. There aren’t any plans to move the structure after its five-month stay in Seoul, unlike Chanel’s eighty-sixed touring pavilion. [Dezeen]
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| NEWS 12.19.08 1:17 PM |
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Economy Prompts Chanel to Ground Touring Pavilion
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FROM NEW YORK
Women’s Wear Daily reported today that Chanel canceled plans to send its Mobile Art exhibition to London, Moscow, and Paris. The Zaha Hadid-designed pop-up, which made its stateside appearance in New York this fall, was supposed to travel the globe through 2010.
"Considering the current economic crisis, we decided it was best to stop the project," a Chanel spokeswoman told WWD. "We will be concentrating on strategic growth investments."
This isn’t the first trouble the project has seen. Though Chanel positioned the exhibition as a showcase for contemporary artists and high fashion, many saw it as too commercial. New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff was one of them. “The pavilion sets out to drape an aura of refinement over a cynical marketing gimmick," he wrote back in October. "If devoting so much intellectual effort to such a dubious undertaking might have seemed indulgent a year ago, today it looks delusional." —Michael O'Connell
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| NEWS 10.20.08 4:02 PM |
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Chanel's Traveling Art Container Lands in Central Park
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 | Chanel's Mobile Art pavilion
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FROM NEW YORK
The Zaha Hadid-designed Mobile Art pavilion for Chanel has finally reached the United States. The touring exhibition structure opened this morning in Central Park's Rumsey Playfield, the third stop for the contemporary art container, which was first unveiled by Karl Lagerfeld in Venice in June 2007. The 20-foot-tall, 95-foot-wide piece, created by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect, houses 20 installations and pieces of artwork inspired by the Parisian fashion house's iconic quilted handbag.
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| NEWS 06.13.07 10:38 AM |
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Chanel Unveils Futuristic Design for Touring Exhibit
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Karl Lagerfeld showed off the new structure designed by architect Zaha Hadid for a Chanel-sponsored traveling exhibit last weekend. At a press conference in Venice on Saturday, the opening day of the Biennale there, the pair unveiled a model of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect's futuristic collapsible pavilion, which will house an art exhibit that will travel the world.
According to Tuesday's WWD, "The scale model of Hadid's 'contemporary art container,' a gleaming white, UFO-like structure, was greeted with spontaneous applause, led by Lagerfeld, who urged everyone to stand up to get a closer look." The exhibit will accomodate 2,000 people per day and will be open to the public free of charge. The structure will have 6,000 square feet of exhibit space.
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