Mercedes Helnwein Drawings
Mercedes Helnwein was born in Vienna, Austria, daughter to renowned painter and art provocateur Gottfried Helnwein.In 2010, Helnwein began work on a new series of oil pastel drawings, developing a style maybe best described as a Technicolor hybrid between painting and drawing. Her new work, consisting of large-scale women’s faces, retain the live movement of the lines her drawings are known for, but on stepping back melt into a seamless painting.
In November 2010 her new series was shown as part of the exhibition “Temptation to be Good” at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery. The show was hosted by Beck, who has been an inspiration to Helnwein since she was fifteen, and whose song “Walls” from the album Modern Guilt, struck a deeply embedded chord with her. “I felt like he had touched some ineffable theme that is the core of what I wanted my exhibition to be about,” she said of the song.
Mercedes Helnwein currently lives and works in downtown Los Angeles and Ireland.
Pictures from Merces Helnwein
Louis Vuitton Men's S/S 2011 ft. Scott Campbell
New York based artist Scott Campbell who owns Saved Tattoo with Chris O'Donnell in Brooklyn -designed a ready-to-wear capsule collection and leather bag line for Louis Vuitton, Spring/Summer 2011.As many of you know he's the tattoo artist and good friend of Vuitton Creative Director Marc Jacobs.
Minimalism and Fashion,Reduction in the Postmodern Era by By Elyssa Dimant
"Consumers have had plenty of reasons to meditate on the new wave of minimalist fashion now in stores, namely to decide if a simple camel coat — as all the magazines suggested — is the right look for them this fall. As a trend, minimalism seemed to come out of left field this season, ubiquitous on the runways for no better reason than, well, Phoebe Philo is doing it, so it must be right.
Elyssa Dimant, a fashion historian and a former research associate at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, decided to look a bit further into the subject in her substantive new book, “Minimalism and Fashion: Reduction in the Postmodern Era” (Collins Design). Ms. Dimant examined the role of minimalism in fashion, but also looked at the broader context of its appearance in art, architecture and design, noting some surprising correlations along the way. One of the most intriguing aspects of her book is the juxtaposition of runway looks with art and sculpture, such as an organic piece by Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher opposite dresses from an unrelated resort collection by the Calvin Klein designer Francisco Costa, or a Richard Serra installation of curling metal plates next to Hussein Chalayan’s coffee-table dress from 2000.
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