Dans la nuit, des images was a free event hosted for 14 nights, from December 18-31st at the Grand Palais. screenings of over 140 different artists works were shown from 5 pm late into the night. It was such an incredible space, also kind of exciting to know that this is where the Chanel shows take place.

The Palais de Tokyo seems to be doing something with little marc jacobs, there was this amazing little old fashioned room set up inside a super modern room. This is one of my favorite museums, although this time it was not a very cohesive exhibit, it’s always worth a visit to such a beautiful space.

At Le Bon Marché artist and photographer Julie Ansiau has created a wall with a hundred little colorful felt pillows that are embroidered with new year’s offerings, as well as cases of wonderful little characters and objects. “I made a wall with a hundred ex-votos in felt. They are all embroidered with a wish on it, you’d want to make for the new year, and you buy the one that you need or that you like…They are like little pillows you can read but in fact they are offerings.” -Julie
I met up with Julie in Paris and she is so wonderful and has some amazing projects in the works that will hopefully be on exhibition in some very big shops in this coming new year. Meanwhile hurry to check them out at Le Bon Marché until the end of the year, before they’re all gone. Bon Année!

A bit more selfish than a gift guide, and mostly quite a bit unrealistic for me right now, but a lot more fun.. Here are things I am wishing I had right now.. Junya Watanabe black twist sleeve dress, Vogue Living, Flowers from Saipua, Hudson Bay Wool blanket, Built by Wendy Pippi striped top,
Elizabeth Peyton book, Postalco pass case, Proenza Schouler Large Leather PS1 bag in midnight (regardless of this being an “it” bag right now, to me it’s simply a great bag at a not so great price), A.P.C. Scottish plaid scarf, PLAY by CdG gray men’s cardigan, MM6 by Martin Margiela drawstring waist tunic, Saipua soaps, Ladyboy tie back shoes, Acne Bird short sleeved blouse, a Bonsai tree, Jamie at Home cookbook, Steven Alan navy Sabina beret, Isabel Marrant blue plaid Holly scarf, Ligne 6 Martin Margiela elastic neckline trench, Rachel Comey leather Belt, Marc by Marc Jacobs black shoes, Steven Alan navy basketweave knit vest, more flowers by Saipua.

I just discovered the work of Paris based artist Yui Taniguchi who is Tremplapin. She was featured as a newcomer in So-En magazine for 2009. I am always so amazed by these tiny incredible things people knit, I especially love those bunches of strawberries in the Confiture Bonne Maman jar. I wish her work was included as part of the upcoming Colette in-store Chalet dedicated to knitting that is up for the month of December. Hopefully we’ll see more of Tremplapin’s work in the coming year.

I love this photo of Karl in his Memphis phase. Check out that boombox behind him!

As part of a series called Future Tense created by SHOWstudio, Vox Humana is Rodarte’s contribution in collaboration with filmmaker Griffin, and featuring Jenny Lewis. It is a “Lynchian, dystopian vision of Los Angeles with a menacing twist.

’Vox Humana’- Latin for ‘Human Voice’ – examines this decidedly sinister side of their design ethos. Featuring one of the sisters’ signature (and suitably distressed) ‘slasher’ dresses in plucked and laddered mohair, a setting straight from their Californian hometown and a melancholy soundtrack sung by their grandmother in the 1940s, Vox Humana is a resolutely personal creation. Nevertheless, as with their painstakingly handwrought creations, it represents a new aesthetic with major global impact.” -SHOWstudio
Watch it here.

The New Museum has just unveiled a new addition to the Elizabeth Peyton exhibit.

Mark Borthwick is one of my absolute favorite photographers, his use of light leaking into his photos is incredible – I wish it was easier to find more of his work online. Many of Vanessa Bruno’s beautiful ads have been shot by him and he has been featured in Purple’s last couple issues.
Aside from being a photographer, he is married to the incredible Maria Cornejo (what an amazing couple!) and is an artist who experiments with experiences that reach beyond just one field, from film maker, to chef, to experience maker.. if there was a photo/audio book documenting one of his incredible dinner party experiences, which sound amazing, I would buy it in a heartbeat. See and read more about his work here.

I discovered Abelardo Morell’s work years ago when I came across an Alice In Wonderland book that he did the photographic illustrations for. The bottom image which is not part of this exhibition, but is for an Art for Obama auction, reminds me of how the book itself was photographed within the Alice In Wonderland book, and relates back to this idea of an image inhabiting an another image’s space. Projecting onto spaces has been something I’ve found fascinating ever since I saw this White Stripes video by Michel Gondry. The idea of changing a tiny room by giving it an entirely new atmosphere through projecting is something for New Yorkers with tiny apartments to think about, a new way to transport yourself from your dark apartment with a view of nothing but an ugly building’s wall, to being able to feel as though you are anywhere in the world and beyond. Abelardo Morell’s show is on view till December 6th at Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York.
via The Moment

I had been waiting for so long to see the LIVE FOREVER Elizabeth Peyton exhibit at the New Museum and then sadly I moved, but if you are in New York, go see this show! This is her first major retrospective at a museum. Elizabeth Peyton’s portraits have such a personal feel and far more sentiment and character than you find in so many major artist’s work today. If you can’t make it to the New Museum you can still see a slide show and listen to an audio interview with Peyton and curator Laura Hoptman here.

As someone who created their own doll houses with great intricate details growing up, I find this piece by Rachel Whiteread very intriguing. Best known for her casts she creates of the negative space and absence of objects and places, this piece is unique to her work, in that they obviously are not casts, but are remnants of something past. I love that each one is wired to have the ability to light up on it’s own. To read more about her and this piece check out this article from the Guardian.

A little late to be posting this since a new issue is already out, but if you haven’t picked up the newest issue of Flaunt go out and get it fast while you still might be able to find it! Artist Kime Buzzelli is featured on the cover.

Completely enchanting and brilliant work by photographer and painter Yelena Yemchuck

Years ago in school, I took a fashion + technology class and while I quickly discovered I was not very interested in combining technology with fashion, I made the most of the final project by creating the dress pictured above that would draw the movements of the wearer organically. Sadly these are the only 2 images I have, other than an equally blurry video.

Fiberglass panels fused with semi-transparent paper made a (very much Hussein Chalayan inspired) dress, that used colored pencil tipped tree branches to support the panels and give the dress its form. The wearers movements/motions were recorded by the colored pencil tips which drew on the undersides of the garments panels, visible on the outside of the dress due to the transparency of the panels. I still really like the idea of physically capturing movement and especially liked involving nature in this “technological” process.

A few months back I came across this artist Tim Knowles and loved that one of his projects involved similar ideas, but instead it was actual living trees that were doing paintings based on wind movements, pictured above.