—Brittany Adams
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After the success of the Double Club in London, Paris was an obvious target for another of Prada’s cultural interventions. The 24 h Museum was exactly that, an imposing exhibition space constructed inside the Palais d’Iéna for all of one day. Prada’s collaborators this time were the art provocateur Francesco Vezzoli and Rem Koolhaas’s design team AMO, who mimicked the traditional museum setup with a central gallery of classical “sculptures” (photographic images of ancient statues mounted on Perspex, with contemporary features superimposed). There was even a monumental techno-goddess in the grand stairway of the Palais, à la the Winged Victory at the Louvre.
The 24 h Museum opened last night with a party that was a work of art in itself. First, there was a dinner for 120 or so, in the central gallery. As party guests began to arrive and the gallery’s metal grill doors were briefly closed, it became clear that we were actually in a huge cage. That fit right in with the conceptual mind games Vezzoli and his patron Miuccia Prada play so well. Super-chef Alain Passard, who specializes in extraordinary vegetariana, did the menu. I tasted a hibiscus reduction for the first time in my life. Entertaining (on a grand scale) footnote: All the tableware, glasses, and cutlery apparently came from Miuccia’s home. After dinner, there was a disco in the Salon des Refusés, the room where museums would traditionally store things that were rejected from exhibitions. Kate Moss directed the music—Dexys Midnight Runners, David Bowie, George Michael, the hits of your (or at least her) life.
It’s easy to imagine the Herculean effort that went into making the 24 h Museum happen. That’s power. But it looks like power is Prada’s theme this season. The shadow cast by Miuccia’s star-injected men’s show last week is a long one. She got another celebrity turnout last night, from Polanski and Deneuve to Salma Hayek and Diane Kruger, with a smattering of art world stars. Still, the ever-contrary Vezzoli said, “This is a night when romanticism trumps power.” Mind you, it was romance with a twist. The artist also claimed inspiration from the Oedipus complex. It was his mother’s eyes that were superimposed on every statue.
—Tim Blanks
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Even the world’s biggest stars aren’t exempt from criticism—especially from their daughters. “This one time, she said to me, ‘Mom, that [outfit] is totally inappropriate. No one will take you seriously as a director—you can’t wear that,’ ” Madonna said last night at the Ziegfeld Theatre, where the Cinema Society was hosting its second New York screening of her Wallis-and-Windsor biopic W.E. If clothes make the director, they also make the star—and according to Andrea Riseborough, who plays Wallis Simpson, it was the fashion of the film that helped her bring to life the character she plays on screen. “There was one brooch that reminded me so much of the Duchess—it actually belonged to her,” she told Style.com before the screening. “It was kind of evoking her spirit throughout the whole filming.” Maybe it was a good luck charm, too: This morning, costume designer (and longtime Madonna stylist) Arianne Phillips was nominated for an Oscar for her work.
Directing done, it’s back to the day job for Madonna. She’s currently preparing for her Super Bowl halftime performance. “I am really nervous,” she admitted. But as one of her stars, actor James D’Arcy, reminded us, she’s a pro—it’s her partners who should be nervous. “Dancing for one of the most famous dancers in the world with very little dance experience—that was the sweatiest it got,” he said of filming one of the movie’s sequences. “At one point, I made myself dance with her for three seconds just to say I had danced with Madonna.”
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In the onslaught of fashion hype and fancy-dress events that characterizes awards season in Hollywood, red-carpet fatigue is all but inevitable. Happily, T magazine’s Golden Globes dinner party Wednesday night—a low-key affair without the usual arrivals gauntlet of popping flashbulbs or clipboard-wielding harpies—offered a welcome antidote.
For the second year in a row, the party, hosted by Sally Singer and Jacob Brown, was held at the Gardens of Taxco, an old-school Mexican restaurant in West Hollywood that’s more kitschy than glamorous. Taxco’s signature quirk is that there are no menus; instead, waiters recite, at length, florid descriptions of every dish served. After one minutes-long spiel had been delivered, Jake Hoffman, who’d been canoodling with Shiva Rose, joked, “Can you go over that again? I wasn’t listening.”
With an eclectic, multigenerational guest list—among the attendees were Hoffman’s parents, Dustin and Lisa, Geena Davis, Les Moonves and Julie Chen, Jessica Chastain, Sasha Spielberg, Miranda Kerr, Judy Greer, and Martha Plimpton—the overall vibe was more “family dinner” than “industry event.” During the evening, a few of the kids occasionally ducked outside for cigarettes, including Elisabeth Moss, who’d come with her mom. Asked what she’d be wearing to the Globes, the Mad Men star, looking vintage va-va-va-voom in a formfitting white Cushnie et Ochs dress, said, “Oh, I won’t be going to the Globes this year—we weren’t eligible because we skipped a season.” Instead, the actress will be packing for her upcoming five-month stint in New Zealand, where she’ll be making a film with director Jane Campion.
Had Moss hung around a few minutes later, she could have collected some travel tips from Flight of the Conchords‘ Bret McKenzie. In town to accept a Critics’ Choice Award for his songwriting work on The Muppets, McKenzie compared notes with Rashida Jones, who plays a hard-nosed TV exec in the film. “I manhandled Kermit!” laughed the actress.
As the dinner plates were exchanged for tequila shots, Singer table-hopped to ensure all were enjoying themselves. Stopping at McKenzie’s booth, she inquired if the music was too loud, to which the comedian replied, “No—it’s perfect.”
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Concord, MA (PRWEB) January 16, 2012
Quilters Way announces both the launch of its new e-commerce site (http://www.QuiltersWay.com) and The Quilters Way Kit Designer (http://www.QuiltersWay.com/KitDesigner), a revolutionary tool available for free on the new site. The Quilters Way Kit Designer enables anyone, beginner to expert, to easily design custom quilt kits online and share them with friends on Facebook or via Twitter, email, or embeds. Friends and families can even collaborate across distances and design a quilt kit together.
Quilters Way also today announces The Kit Designer Makes it Easy to Fall in Love Again contest to be awarded on Valentines Day.
The Quilters Way Kit Designer
The Kit Designer allows quilters to quickly select a quilt pattern from among many different styles (beginner, jelly-roll friendly, etc.) and sizes (from crib to king) and by simply dragging and dropping fabrics, they can design their own unique quilt kit, live, right in their browser.
When satisfied with the quilt kits design, the pattern and all the selected fabrics can be added with a single click to a Quilters Way shopping cart saving not only time, but money as the fabrics are added in just the quantities called for by the pattern (in units as small as 1/8th of a yard).
Quilt kit designs can also be printed, saved and shared with friends on Facebook or via Twitter, email, or by embedding the Kit Designer on blogs and websites. Friends in turn can: provide feedback and encouragement; continue working on the design themselves; or continue collaboratively working together by making changes and sharing it back and forth.
The Quilters Way Kit Designer fulfills a many-year dream of mineto give quilters the artistic freedom to select their own pattern and fabrics while still enjoying the convenience and savings of quilt kits. The Kit Designer was created with the long traditions of quilting in mind understanding that quilting is often an endeavor shared with friends and family, says Jane Barnett, Owner of Quilters Way. The opportunity for long-distance collaboration on wedding and other group projects is what excites me the most about this new tool. Friends and family can play with pattern and fabric choices, get feedback, refine their picks and with a click of a button, order just the quantities they need to complete the quilt.
The Quilters Way Kit Designer Makes it Easy to Fall in Love Again Contest
Would you like to give a unique gift this Valentine’s Dayto a loved one and yourself? How about a custom quilt kitor quiltyou create just for your Valentine? Or would you rather design a quilt kit with your sibling for your parents? Or design and sew a quilt together with your parent? All of these unique Valentines Day gifts are possible thanks to the Quilters Way Kit Designer.
This is why The Quilters Way Kit Designer Makes it Easy to Fall in Love Again contest begins today. Each time someone shares a quilt kit they designed in The Kit Designer between today and February 13, 2012, they can also submit an entry into the contest. On Valentine’s Day 2012, one of these entries will be randomly selected and awarded a free queen-sized quilt kit (of their own custom design) valued at up to $ 200. The more sharing, the more chances to win!
About Quilters Way
Quilter’s Way is a friendly, modern quilt shop located in Concord, Massachusetts that delights in sharing a quilter’s love of fabric, tradition and community with you on your terms: no matter your skill level. Although we carry many supplies useful when sewing for the home, clothing or crafts, Quilter’s Way specializes in all things “quilting” — the revolutionary Kit Designer, quilt classes and workshops, quilt patterns, pre-cut fabric bundles and jelly rolls, notions, and over 3,000 bolts of high-quality cotton fabric. We offer only products that we would use ourselves, which are now also available in our online store at QuiltersWay.com.
To learn more, visit http://www.QuiltersWay.com.
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