Chanel at the Grand Palais yet again

The show was held in the Grand Palais de Paris which had been transformed into a French brasserie with red booths, bar stools and waiters for an added effect. Popular models Cara Delevingne and Kendall Jenner both took part in the show in tweed and a 60s ensemble. As the models arrived on the runway, they were taken to a booth with fruit juice, bowls of olives, baskets of croissants and lemon tea. Lagerfeld's designs included silk shirts, knee length skirts and blazers.

The images below are just some of the photos taken at the Chanel show at Paris Fashion week for the A/W 2015 collection. 

Chanel at the Supermarket

'At Paris Fashion Week 2014 (A/W), Chanel turned the Grand Palais into the world's glitziest supermarket complete with 500 Chanel-branded products in packaging designed specially for the show.' 

As shown in the link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLDUXZ4X5b8

Everything that was part of the supermarket was branded Chanel, from wine to cheese, crisps to cereal. 

In terms of the clothes themselves, there were candy-coloured tweed coats, metallic jeans, glittery tops, leather tracksuit bottoms and quilted cropped jackets. 

Karl Lagerfeld (creative director of Chanel) certainly did it again and pleased the crowd. What an amazing atmosphere and experience it would have been to be sat there watching the show.  

Zoolander 2 takes over Valentino

At Paris Fashion Week earlier this year, Zoolander 2 took over the Valentino show. Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson who play Derek Zoolander and Hansel in the original 2001 Zoolander film, took their turn on the catwalk for Valentino. Ben appeared in an electric blue suit-and-tie with a navy trenchcoat and Owen in a light blue pyjama set with white trainers and a blue trenchcoat. 

The audience did not see that coming and were taken by surprise when the two Hollywood Stars were seen strutting their stuff right in front of their eyes. What a fabulous and unexpected show. 

Click the link below to watch the Zoolander stars make the Valentino catwalk their own. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upCXMyqksgQ

Zuhair Murad Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2015

Zuhair Murad is a fashion designer who I have recently come across. I was looking on WGSN at different designers and catwalks for Spring/Summer 2015 which is when I saw Zuhair Murad's collection which I absolutely loved. I loved the different styles and colours of each dress that came onto the Catwalk. He includes embroidery and a lot of sequins to make his collection stand out.

WGSN. (2015). Zuhair Murad. Retrieved from http://www.wgsn.com/libaccess.hud.ac.uk/catwalk_gallery/#gender=2&season=0&city=0&show=17396.

Hepworth Art Gallery

Hepworth is an art gallery in Wakefield, Yorkshire. The Hepworth is a member of the award-winning tourism agency, Welcome to Yorkshire. 

The Hepworth is another place that can entertain the whole family. Different activities at the Hepworth include The Code Club, Art Pods, Baby Brave, Plaster Piece, Toddler Tuesdays, Felt Making and Creative Carving. Exhibitions include The Hepworth Family Gift/ Hepworth at Work, Sculpting the Line/ British Sculptors as Printmakers, Lynda Benglis, The Follies of the Youth and several others. 

There are two different collections at the Hepworth: Wakefield's Collection and The Gott Collection. Wakefield's art collection consists of over 5,000 pieces of work, some by British Artists Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. 

The Gott Collection was assembled in the 19th Century by John Gott. This collection has 1,200 images, consisting of 65 watercolours, 315 drawings, 749 prints and 50 double-sided letterpress pages from a book. 

Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

Figure 1

Figure 1 is an image of Whitworth art gallery (a university art gallery), located in Manchester. The art gallery is suitable for all members of the family with historic exhibitions to contemporary commissions, via events outdoors and in. They have 55,000 pieces of artwork and some of their collections include Historic Fine Art, Modern and Contemporary Art, textile, prints, wallpaper and sculptures as shown in the images below.

Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty Exhibition

Between the 14th March and 2nd August 2015, pieces of Alexander McQueen's work will be showcased in London at the Victoria and Albert Museum - the world's greatest museum of art and design. The exhibition will show the late designer's work from his 1992 MA Graduate collection to his unfinished A/W 2010 collection. The images below were taken from the exhibition which look absolutely amazing.