When you pair an art institution—say, the Guggenheim Museum—with a fashion house host—in this case, Yves Saint Laurent—you can expect an event with distinct visual appeal. Take the centerpiece at the museum's annual Young Collectors Council Artist's ball: a 20-foot tower covered in red cloth and adorned with six rocking, tilting mechanical bulls.
They were the first thing guests noticed as they entered the museum's rotunda, which KCD, with direction from YSL creative director Stefano Pilati and Milan-based Marco Stalla, draped with burgundy fabric and JKLD lit with scarlet spotlights. Every time guests looked away from the canting kine, they were confronted by the eerie shadows of figures with curving horns bucking slowly back and forth on the walls.
The steer, as well as a couple of gorgeous arrangements of long-stemmed red roses from Kurt Rausch and a gurgling fountain, evinced a Spanish theme to echo YSL's Spain-inspired spring 2006 collection.
—Jenny Sherman
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They were the first thing guests noticed as they entered the museum's rotunda, which KCD, with direction from YSL creative director Stefano Pilati and Milan-based Marco Stalla, draped with burgundy fabric and JKLD lit with scarlet spotlights. Every time guests looked away from the canting kine, they were confronted by the eerie shadows of figures with curving horns bucking slowly back and forth on the walls.
The steer, as well as a couple of gorgeous arrangements of long-stemmed red roses from Kurt Rausch and a gurgling fountain, evinced a Spanish theme to echo YSL's Spain-inspired spring 2006 collection.
—Jenny Sherman
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