Arts
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As you probably know, I love editorial design, fashion magazines and photography. I was thus very pleased to visit the outstanding exhibition “Harper’s Bazaar. First in Fashion ” at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris two weeks ago. This exhibition was great because it tells the history of Harper’s Bazaar and how this magazine…
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Yesterday I visited the exhibition “Otto Freundlich, The Revelation of Abstraction” at the Montmartre Museum, in Paris. This exhibition was gorgeous, whether it is on the scenery or how each creation was explained. It was a very intimate exhibition, and it conveyed the messages that this incredibly talented artist shared to the world throughout his…
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Editorial design is a mix of several arts, disciplines, and creations. It combines writing dexterity, typography, image design, photography, colors and shapes. It embodies a word, a text, a thought. It is a message. I have loved magazine and newspaper’s editorial design for as early as I can remember. I love how words are shaped…
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Creativity takes many forms. It is a way for each of us to express ourselves and to exteriorize our ideas, our thoughts; it is a visible poesy composed with our most intimate poems. One form of creativity that I particularly appreciate is interior design, because it is an artistic and visible print of our own…
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A few years ago, I wrote an article about the opening of the Atelier des Lumières in Paris, an innovative and immersive art gallery that projects digital exhibitions of famous artists directly on its walls. The same concept will be declined in Bordeaux in Spring 2020, and this new digital art place will be called…
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Several months ago, I wrote an article about the beauty of fashion illustration and how it was used in recent British Vogue covers. The January 2020 issue of Vogue Italia paid a strong and meaningful tribute to fashion illustration, by using exclusively fashion drawings instead of photography in the entire magazine, from the cover to…
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I love fashion editorial and ad photography. I enjoy observing how a fashion ad campaign is designed, what it conveys, and what story it tells. Nonetheless, most importantly, I love how the photographer interprets the campaign, how he embodies it, how he translates a concept, ideas, into beautiful yet impactful images. And how he tells…
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My very first post on photography in this blog was about Sebastiao Salgado, this incredibly talented photographer whose work is exclusively in Black and White. But beyond his technical talent, Salgado is first and foremost, a photographer who conveys strong and powerful messages through his photos. He uses the beauty of his talent and of…
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Fashion illustration is beautiful, unique, and very personal. I often evoke my love for photography in this blog – fashion photography included, but I do also have a strong love for fashion illustration because it gives another angle and dimension to fashion. It is timeless and increadibly personal. It invites to…
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Talent is a gift no one can describe, imitate, or deny. It is within a person, it expresses itself naturally, spontaneously, and it does not have any limits. It blossoms and it perfects itself throughout years and time. It is unique, singular… almost endless. This ode to creativity, in this post, will…