At Jil Sander, Creative Directors Lucie and Luke Meier created a collection that was strong and defiant – a reflection of how we want to dress in the current climate. Frills and frippery were eschewed for sleek, boxy silhouettes and a whole lot of black and white. Loud pops of colour were delivered via graphic …
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Not just the effect of the heavy velvet curtain backdrop, but there was a dramatic slant to spring 2025, even when the looks were rendered in pastels. Roughly half of them were head-to-toe black (plus slate grey and burgundy) or heavily incorporated it. A perfect recipe for true fashion lovers whose love for the inky hue …
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Lucie and Luke Meier pursued a darker, more powerful vision at Jil Sander today. Backstage they called it a reaction to the world environment. They took their cues from the work of the Canadian photographer Greg Girard, who was in the audience. His images of 20th-century cars and motel rooms appeared as prints, the former on …
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https://vimeo.com/1004738665?share=copy When he started creating the work for his new exhibition, Owen Kydd says he set out to create images that were “anti-cinema…doing everything that cinema wasn’t.” That meant no projector, no dark room. Just a monitor on the wall, he explains, “that sort of looked like a photograph.” Read more
The Fondation Beyeler is devoting a comprehensive solo show to the internationally renowned artist Jeff Wall (b. 1946). It is the first such show of his work in Switzerland in almost two decades and has been created in close collaboration with the artist. Since the late 1970s Wall has contributed significantly to establishing photography as …
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Something exciting is coming to Vancouver’s Chinatown, and we’ve got all the details. Meo, a new cocktail bar, is opening soon and will combine coy and playful ’70s-inspired nostalgia with inventive cocktails, small bites, and intimate seating. This new restaurant is brought to us by the team behind award-winning restaurants Bao Bei Chinese Brasserie and …
Mystery pervades the portraiture of Canadian artist Karel Funk. Based in Winnipeg, each of the subjects within his photorealistic paintings are disinterested in the viewer’s gaze, emblematic of their facial and bodily orientation. Rather, Funk bypasses the human figure by utilizing the fashion portrayed in his artwork as a focal point to probe into the …
Tim Gardner is a master of juxtaposition. Take his 2012 pastel-on-paper work Nick and Tobi on Ferry. It’s a meticulously detailed portrait done in a classical style, the kind you might find hanging in a great hall (or, yes, in an art gallery). Except the men are dressed in baseball caps and sweatshirts, they are …
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Yorkshire Artspace have cut the ribbon on a new exhibition space at their Persistence Works site, which they say will help make Sheffield “a national destination for art”. The new venue opened with an exhibition by Sheffield-taught painter Paul Housley, which finishes this Saturday. “A Playground in the Factory” is Housley’s first exhibition in the …