Each year the French Ministry of Culture and Communication invites a leading contemporary artist to develop an installation which investigates the
architectural space of the Grand Palais in Paris.  Following Anish Kapoor last year, Daniel Buren is the latest artist to conceive and execute a temporary, site-specific installation to fill the expansive glass-domed hall.  “Excentrique(s), travail in situ” is a rainbow forest of transparent, sunshade-like plastic saucers that absorbs and reflects the natural light pouring onto the glassy, multi-colored canopy to bathe the ground with colorful spots

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With finals and graduation over and highs in the 90s in Austin, it’s officially summertime.  Tommy Ton is one of my favorite street style photographers and Harper’s Bazaar tapped him to shoot an editorial in Santa Monica.  The photos reflect California’s laid back essence and capture the carefree frivolity of summer

Chanel surfboard—doesn’t everyone have that hanging in their garage?!

Sinead Leonard’s army of female warriors. Rock on

Interview featured an editorial and interview on Stella McCartney, showcasing some of her microprint Spring/Summer 2012 dresses.  Photographer Craig McDean imbued the images with a feeling of fantasy, layering shots of flowers on top of the model.  McCartneys latest project was designing the UK uniforms for the upcoming Olympics—Team USA you have some competition!

Shot by Karl Lagerfeld, Carine Roitfeld styled quite the cast of characters for a series of 113 images that showcases Coco Chanel’s Little Black Jacket.  The roving exhibition kicked off in Tokyo and is traveling to eight different countries, one of them being New York from June 8-15 at 18 Wooster St

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Kidult is a French street artist who has made himself famous for his actions in the streets of New York and Paris—most notably, the graffiti of high end luxury shops.  Self described as l’enfant terrible, he uses a spraypaint extinguisher to attack in a crude yet simple and straightforward way.  He specifically targets stores like Céline, Colette, Hermès and Louis Vuitton because he believes they make graffiti “luxurious and superficial, pointless.  They try to intellectualize the practive by eliminating its crude essence, and that’s too bad.”  Most recently he tagged the Marc Jacobs store off Mercer, who instead of creating chaos decided to capitalize on the opportunity and turn it into a marketing strategy: “Art by Art Jacobs at Marc Jacobs Collection”.  Cleeeeever.  I’m interested to see who Kidult gets next

The Costume Institute Gala at the Met was last night and keeping with the new exhibit, Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations there were many Prada frocks and shocking Pink Schiaparelli nods.  Some of my favorites:

Carey Mulligan in Prada

Lana Del Rey in Joseph Altuzarra

Rihanna in Tom Ford

Scarlett Johansson in Dolce & Gabbana

Dree Hemingway in Uniqueness for Topshop

Karolina Kurkova in Rachel Zoe

Queen Anna in Prada (duh)

Renee Zellweger in Pucci

Gisele in Givenchy Couture

Camilla Belle in Ralph Lauren

and my favorite favorite favorite of night was Beyonce in Givenchy Couture

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