CHANEL N°5 – THE ONE THAT I WANT

Posted on 2014-10-15

CHANEL premieres “The One That I Want,” a new campaign celebrating the iconic fragrance CHANEL N°5. The film is produced, conceived, and directed by auteur filmmaker Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge!, The Great Gatsby), with production design by Oscar-winner Catherine Martin, and features Supermodel Gisele Bündchen.

When Luhrmann directed the N°5 film starring Actress Nicole Kidman in 2004, he joined a prestigious line of directors who have collaborated with CHANEL – from Ridley Scott and Luc Besson to Kathryn Bigelow and Martin Scorsese.

Ten years ago, N°5 was the fragrance of a woman who decided to break free from it all and then return to reality, renouncing her desire. Today, through Luhrmann’s eyes, we see the N°5 woman deciding to listen to her heart. She is a modern woman who knows exactly who she is and is free to make her own choices. The film tells the story of a woman who struggles to find space for everything – herself, family, career, and love.

“The CHANEL woman can be with herself on a beach, can be with her child, can have an aspirational and fulfilling work life, and at the same time she can have a true relationship; she can have romance,” says Luhrmann. “And in the end, the CHANEL woman chooses love.”

www.chanel.com

  

ADIDAS – SOLE SEARCHING IN SOUTH AMERICA

Posted on 2014-10-15

After a tip off about a store stacked with vintage adidas SHOWstudio contributor and creator of the adidas Originals x SPEZIAL range Gary Aspden put together a team of adidas fanatics – Ian Brown, Robert Brooks and Mike Chetcuti – to travel to Buenos Aires. Photographer Neil Bedford and filmmaker Greg Bond documented the trip.

showstudio.com
www.adidas.co.uk

  

PUMA – BORIS BECKER OG

Posted on 2014-10-14

PUMA reissues the Becker OG, the classic mid top, that a 17-year old Boris Becker wore during his infamous Wimbledon win.

A classic made for the court but beloved on the streets, the Becker OG merges the best of PUMA’s performance heritage and design language. The all white leather and bright red formstripe sees the legend of Becker ready to be revived by a whole new generation.

PUMA have released a video briefly narrated by Boris Becker himself, followed by words from his son, Noah Becker, who reflects on his father’s accomplishments and what the shoes deliver beyond performance.

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ASTRONOMY PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR 2014

Posted on 2014-10-13

This year the Royal Observatory’s annual Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition received a record 1700 entries. They had images from astrophotographers in over 50 countries from as far afield as Colombia, Hong Kong, New Zealand and the Philippines. For the first time they even received a photograph taken from the edge of space! The photographs show a beautiful and diverse array of astronomical highlights from the last two years.

With the help from BBC Sky at Night Magazine and Flickr, the Royal Observatory asked the public to submit photographs in the categories of Earth and Space, Our Solar System, Deep Space and Young Astronomy Photographer of the Year. They also award three special prizes: one for photographs depicting People and Space, one for photographs taken using a Robotic Scope and one for newcomers to astrophotography, the Sir Patrick Moore Prize for Best Newcomer.

Opposite – Aurora over a Glacier Lagoon, James Woodend, 2014

Exhibition runs through to February 22nd, 2015

Royal Observatory
Blackheath Ave
Greenwich
SE10 9NF

www.rmg.co.uk

  

DEMOCRACIA

Posted on 2014-10-13

Globalization brings with it a feeling of mistrust, rejection and powerlessness towards the mechanisms of government and political power. This turns into a crisis that alters our perception of events such as social conflicts, economic crises, wars, violence, catastrophes, etc. In the face of this scenario, a group of intellectuals, artists, activists and citizens are backing a form of commitment which makes different kinds of abuse in society a central theme and which counteracts them with oppositional and imaginative social models. Often, against the cynicism that dominates global capitalism, they not only establish an attitude of protest and opposition but also generate growing interest in building a new collective action space within existing social structures, combining ideology and imagination, in order to express a will that is anti-system, anti-capitalist and anti-state through actions that try both to make visible and to undermine power.

Within this context, DEMOCRACIA explores different power structures and the status of the spectator through its work and through its public interventions in the cultural, urban and socio-political space of democratic societies. Performances which provoke subversive and critical situations that take place in the context of the city understood as a space of conflict. Political and social reflection is a constant element in DEMOCRACIA’s work, commandeering aspects of consumer culture – archetypes of mass culture – and strong theoretical foundations in which they refer to philosophers, thinkers and activists as a basis of a narrative that seeks to re-define aspects of the public urban space.

In We protect you from yourselves, DEMOCRACIA encourages the spectator to reflect on the tension and action characteristic of their practices – practices which are positioned as a crisis of contemporary contradictions between the subject and the historical context.

Exhibition runs through to November 11th, 2014

ADN Galeria
c/ Enrique Granados, 49
SP-08008 Barcelona
Spain

www.adngaleria.com

  

STEVE MCQUEEN – ASHES

Posted on 2014-10-13

For this exhibition, McQueen will present two new works. The first, entitled Ashes, 2014, is installed as an immersive projection with sound. It was shot on Super8 film with a haunting verbal soundtrack, recently recorded in Grenada. Much of the footage dates from 2002 and was taken by the legendary cinematographer, Robbie Muller. The deceptively simple film was commissioned by Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo and shown there earlier this year. At No. 11, we will be showing an entirely sculptural installation ‘Broken Column’, which acts as a pendant to ‘Ashes’.

Over the last twenty years McQueen has been the author of some of the most seminal works of the moving image designed for gallery-based presentation, as well as three films for cinematic release, Hunger (2008), Shame (2010) and 12 Years a Slave (2013). In this new exhibition, the artist’s signature is evident, yet he further extends the range of his enquiry into the image and the object. His work hovers between the specific and the universal, the literal and the abstract, evading definition and multiplying experiential and interpretive possibilities.

Opposite – Ashes, 2014

Exhibition runs through to November 15th, 2014

Thomas Dane Gallery
3 & 11 Duke Street St James’s
London
SW1Y 6BN

www.thomasdanegallery.com