Beauty without Irony

'Fashion against AIDS' event @ Colette

More photos from the FAA campaign

DAA and H&M join forces for 'Fashion against AIDS'

We've had to keep it top secret for over one year, but now we're allowed to tell the world about it: together with H&M and a host of artists, designers and musicians we proudly present the new AIDS awareness collection 'Fashion against AIDS', that will be in 650 H&M 'Divided' stores in 27 countries from January 31st!
The participating artists are: Katharine Hamnett, Henrik Vibskov, Jade Jagger, Chicks on Speed, Tiga, Timbaland, Rihanna, Justice, Scissor Sisters, Good Charlotte, Ziggy Marley, My Chemical Romance, Rufus Wainwright and The Cardigans. They all designed unique prints for a T-shirt, minidress or hoodie, made of certified organic cotton and for sale for a price that ranges between 13 and 40 euros. 25% of the sales price (which is about the same as the net proceeds after expenses) will be donated to future AIDS awareness campaigns, to be coordinated by DAA and US organisation YouthAIDS, who we selected to be the other beneficiary of this project.
H&M will produce a special FAA webpage that goes live on January 17th on www.hm.com, there'll be advertisements in magazines and bus shelters, we made video clips with 8 of the artists (type 'Fashion against Aids' on Youtube and you'll see them there) and there'll be launch events in New York (with Rihanna), Toronto (with Tiga), Berlin (with Chicks on Speed) and of course Antwerp (with a host of top DJ's and supermodels), where DAA are based.
We want to take this opportunity to wish everybody a wonderful 2008!

Modo Bruxellae Award & Catwalk Show

Heaven in Turino

On 10 November, during the last night of ARTISSIMA, (the International Fair which put Turin on the global contemporary art map), Vertice Boutique on via Roma 339, will host “The Poetry of Memory”, Heaven Tanudiredja’ first Italian exhibition. The young Indonesian fashion designer will exhibit his wearable sculptures in custom-made installations in the shop window and in the boutique itself. Heaven will be officially introduced to the press and public during the vernissage and cocktail party.

With this event, the first of a series, Vertice wants to promote the idea of style as innovation and creativity. Heaven Tanudiredja’s outfits push the limits of fashion design towards art. His creations are not driven by financial gain and have no boundaries. This is the core concept Vertice wants to spread.

Two different points of view lead to the Vertice Award. On the one side the role of Turin in terms of culture, as one of the key cities for emerging art. On the other, the decision to begin a partnership with ITS (International Talent Support), the yearly contest organized by Barbara Franchin and EVE in Trieste, considered one of the most reliable incubators of new talents in the world. Each edition of ITS is the result of a constant and passionate search for young talents.
The Vertice Award, the first of many, wants to add a touch of Turin to ITS’ core mission of exploring new ideas.

Heaven Tanudiredja, winner of the first edition of the Vertice Award , is a student at Hogeschool Antwerpen, the prestigious Belgian art school whose alumni included designers such as Martin Margiela, Dries Van Noten, Ann Demeulemeester and Bernhard Willhelm.
Heaven is a patient and meticulous designer, who makes outfits that are similar to sculptures by cutting, bending and assembling materials. His artistic approach is based on paying close attention to feminine shapes. The collection he is presenting at Vertice, entitled “The Poetry of Memory”, takes inspiration from Elsa Schiaparelli’s work and from Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s wrappings. He blends all these elements and creates a novel. Heaven represents a woman looking for a future, she escapes from the memories of her past. The installation designed for the Vertice window display will also have new elements that will be revealed on the night of the vernissage. Heaven will surprise the audience, as he always does.

The Poetry of Memory
Wearable Sculptures

By Heaven Tanudiredja, Vertice Award winner at ITS#SIX, 2007
9 -10 November
Vertice
Via Roma, 339 - Turin

For further information contact:
Press Office: Manuela Spiga or Alessandro Offer
Tel. +39/040/3220970, Fax +39/040/3221245
email:pressoffice@itsweb.org
go to: www.itsweb.org

SLOW by Marina Yee @ Z33

Marina Yee (°1958, Temse and one of the earliest supporters of the concept behind Beauty without Irony) feels the need to have us dwell upon the beauty of things around us. She creates at a slow, more conscious pace.
With this attitude she places herself outside her original environment, that is to say, outside the regular fashion circuit.

Under the title SLOW, Marina Yee created six installations for Z33 – five of which video-installations – that illustrate her consciously chosen attitude. It is about a global attitude, each reference to the fashion world is missing here. With the visual material Marina Yee made and collected over the years, but never showed, she wants to shed a different light on everyday objects. At a slow and sensory pace, the audience can discover and experience the esthetical value of those things.

In dialogue with her own installations Marina Yee presents works of other artists that are a source of inspiration to her own work. The exhibition shows existing works of David Claerbout, Lionel Estève, Ann Veronica Janssens, Anish Kapoor, Mariëlle Soons, Léon Spilliaert, Anu Tuominen, Luc Tuymans, Carole Vanderlinden and Hans Wuyts & Leon Vranken. Johan Mangelschots, Florence Mascia and Erik Verdonck were commissioned to create new work for the exhibition SLOW in Z33.

David Claerbout (B), Lionel Estève (F), Ann Veronica Janssens (B), Anish Kapoor (UK), Johan Mangelschots (B), Florence Mascia (B), Mariëlle Soons (NL), Léon Spilliaert (B), Anu Tuominen (SF), Luc Tuymans (B), Carole Vanderlinden (B), Hans Wuyts & Leon Vranken (B) and Marina Yee (B).

SLOW by Marina Yee @ Z33, from November 25th 2007 till February 10th 2008

Z33, Zuivelmarkt 33
3500 Hasselt, Belgium
t: +32 (0)11 29 59 60
e: info@z33.be

Antwerp Designer stocksales

Ann Demeulemeester

We know that a lot of you have been waiting for this for a long time and here it is again: the list of Antwerp designer stocksales! Whether you're looking for an outfit, shoes, fabrics or accessories, with a bit of luck you can find lots of goodies for a very affordable price.
Tip: be there early and wear easy to remove clothes, decent underwear and slip-on shoes or boots, so you can try on everything in comfort even if the fitting cabins are full.
We are wishing all of you lots of fun shopping and thank you for supporting Belgian designer fashion!

Kindest regards,

Ninette Murk & Javier Barcala

MintRed PR
Bredabaan 260
B- 2170 Merksem-Antwerp
Tel. + 32-3-237.33.82.

Note for the press: if you publish this list, please credit MintRed (www.mintred.be)

AF Vandevorst
October 24th from 9 AM until 6 PM
October 25th - 26th from 10 AM until 6 PM
October 27th from 11 AM until 6 PM
Indiënstraat 8
2000 Antwerpen

Dries Van Noten
October 24th - October 27th from 1 PM until 6 PM (until 8 PM on Friday October 26th)
Godefriduskaai 36
2000 Antwerpen
info@driesvannoten.be

Chris Janssens
October 24th - 27th from 12 AM until 6.30 PM
Mechelsesteenweg 161
2018 Antwerpen
www.chrisjanssens.com
antwerpfashion@chrisjanssens.com

Hilde Frunt and Sigi (stocksale and presentation collection winter 2007 - 2008)
October 27th - November 4th from 11 AM until 6 PM
Huybrechtsstraat 27-29 2060 Antwerpen
T: +32 (0)3-272 51 29
www.sigi.eu
www.hildefrunt.com
info.@knit.cc

Anna Heylen (clothing and fabrics)
October 17th - 23th (closed on Sunday October 21th) from 1 PM until 6 PM
open until 8 PM on Friday October 19th
Frankrijklei 107 (2nd floor)
2000 Antwerpen
anna.heylen@skynet.be

Ann Demeulemeester
November 7th - 8th from 10 AM until 7 PM
November 9th - 10th from 10 AM until 6 PM
Bvba 32
Populierenlaan 34
2020 Antwerpen
T: +32 (0)3-830 52 72
info@32.be

Véronique Branquinho
October 25th from 10 AM until 9 PM
October 26th - 28th from 11 AM until 6 PM
Nationalestraat 123
2000 Antwerpen
T: +32 (0)3-233 66 02
www.veroniquebranquinho.com
veronique.branquinho@jamesnv.be

Violetta & Vera Pepa / Michaël Verheyden
October 25th - 27th from 11 AM until 6 PM
Tel +32-(0)3- 238 00 21
Nationalestraat 24, 1st floor (showroom)
2000 Antwerpen

Annemie Verbeke
October 26th - 27th + November 2nd - 3th from 10:30 AM until 6 PM
Emiel Banningstraat 18
2000 Antwerpen

Bruno Pieters (fabrics, clothing, accessories and knitting wool)
November 1st - November 2nd from 10 AM until 6 PM
November 3th from 11 AM until 4 PM
Aalmoezenierstraat 2 (1st floor) 2000 Antwerp
T: +32 (0)3 485 87 35
bruno@brunopieters.com www.brunopieters.com

Fragile (pregnancy fashion)
October 24th - 26th from 10 AM until 6 PM
Van Diepenbeeckstraat 10 K
2018 Antwerp

Tim Van Steenbergen
October 26th -October 28th from 11 AM until 6 PM
Sint Michielskaai 9
2000 Antwerpen

Clochard de Luxe by Idriz Jossa (exclusive collection items, t-shirts, sweaters, shirts...)
Sunday October 28 from 12 PM until 6 PM
Hungaria Baron d'Eynattenstraat 6
3000 Leuven

Louis
AF Vandevorst, Annn Demeulemeester, Balenciaga, Lanvin, Martin Margiela, Rick Owens, Véronique Leroy and Raf Simons
November 2nd, 3th, 9th and 10th from 11 AM until 6.30 PM
Lombardenstraat 2
2000 Antwerp

Bruno Pieters

Designers against Aids opens new online store at DaWanda.com

From now on, DaWanda -the online marketplace for handmade products and individual styles- will offer exclusive collection pieces and limited special editions from Designers Against Aids (DAA).
As a special highlight, DaWanda will offer a limited number of handmade cell phone accessories from star designer Bernhard Willhelm, electro-pop singer Peaches, eco-designer Noir, the chart-breakers Scissor Sisters and graffiti legend André, aka Monsieur A. Painting, pasting, sewing and crocheting, the artists have created individual items from the heart, and all proceeds will go to DAA to support its fight against Aids. The products include a cell phone fishnet charm by Bernhard Willhelm, which alludes to its German origins, and a metallic cell phone pouch by Peaches, whose beaver decoration symbolizes her home country of Canada.
DaWanda is a European marketplace for individual lifestyles. The portal www.dawanda.com, which was launched in December 2006 for designers, craftspeople and other members of the creative community, offers a selection of over 25,000 handmade products from more than 3,500 vendors. Customers desiring even more individuality can personalize select products in the DaWanda Style Lab, designing their own unique creations.
Designers Against Aids is a project established by the non-profit organization Beauty Without Irony to draw the attention of the international media and general public to the topic of Aids.
Net proceeds from the sale of the collection pieces will be used for projects that increase awareness of HIV/Aids among young people in industrialized countries.
http://en.dawanda.com/shop/designersagainstaids

Jean Claude Wouters & Marc Jacobs @ Bloomingdales

A SEASON FOR ART - ARTRAGEOUS

Belgian artist Jean Claude Wouters has led a varied creative life.
For ten years he devoted himself to dance, including work with Maurice Béjart and Lindsay Kemp.
He performed under the names Jan Six’ and Jean La Tache.
He made experimental and documentary films; was selected for the Cannes film festival and winning awards at the Prague Festival (1993) and San Francisco International Film Festival (1994).
All along painting and photography have remained constants in his creative life.
Exploring the subject of portraits, he devised a provocative and innovative technique; through a process of photographing and re-photographing combined with the random play of reflected daylight, he produces a portrait stripped of all descriptive elements. All that remains in the final print is the slightest trace, almost abstract.
At first the eye perceives a void, a blank slate, but the viewer who takes the time to delve into the subject will gradually discern a luminous apparition, with moving contours, a hypnotic and dreamlike image, intensely present. Recognisable, and yet host for the ethereal. Mystic and sensual. Bewitching.
One senses a link with the portraits of the Flemish primitives, a major source of inspiration.
This work has been exhibited, together with nudes (echoes of the artist’s work as a dancer) in New York (Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery) and Tokyo (Marunouchi Gallery).
As part of « A Season for Art – Fall /Holiday 2007 » created by Bloomingdales – an event which brings together fashion and artists – Jean Claude Wouters was chosen by the cult designer Marc Jacobs to accompany his displays in the store’s Lexington Avenue windows from August 28th – September 10th, 2007.
A portrait of Marc Jacobs and three female nudes - echoing the designer’s silhouettes – dress the space and attract the eye, questioning the world of appearances.
Reintroducing – and questioning - the notion of immanence into the world of fashion known for its « perpetual motion ».
Inevitably the perception of Marc Jacobs’ designs in the windows will be altered as a result.
Also on display will be a landscape and a crystal vase - Chinese antiquities and worn photographs, redrawn and painted in oil.
This event coincides with New York Fashion Week and the reopening of the renovated Marc Jacobs area in Bloomingdales and launches « A Season for Art » which will conclude at the end of December.
Some of the other participating artists include Vanessa Beecroft, Zoe Bradley, Mika Ninagawa, Roxy Paine, Fred Tomaselli and Kara Walker.
Bloomingdales work on this event is partnering with The New Museum Of Contemporay Art in Soho, that will soon reopen - the project is designed by the Japanese architects Sejima + Nishizawa / SANAA studio
For more information please visit the website: www.jeanclaudewouters.eu

Malick Sidibé @ Fifty One in Antwerp

“LOS SABENA CLUB”
Vintage and modern prints

September 7th – October 27th

Opening 6 september 18-21 h

This year Malick Sidibé (°1935, Mali) was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Biennial of Contemporary Art of Venice. He is not only the first photographer, but also and maybe more importantly the first African artist to receive this honor. The jury describes Malick Sidibé as “the undisputed master of his photographic generation”.

Fifty One Fine Art Photography has been working very closely with this exceptional photographer for over 10 years. Since the beginning of our collaboration we have been convinced of his pre-eminence. We have represented him with vigour and we will continue do to so in the future.

It all began for Malick in 1955 when he undertook an apprenticeship with Gérard Guillats’ Photo Service Boutique. Three years later he started his own studio, Studio Malick, in Bamako (capital of Mali). Originally he specialized in documentary photography, his focus was on the youth culture of Bamako. He followed the Malian youth. In the seventies he turned more to making studio portraits.

It wasn’t until the first meeting on African photography in Mali in 1994 that his work became more internationally appreciated. Since then his work has been shown in the Fondation Cartier in Paris, The Guggenheim in New York and Bilbao, the National Portrait Gallery in London, … In 2003 he was also the first African photographer to win the Hasselblad award for Photography.

During the exhibition Los Sabena Club’ we will not only be showing modern prints, but also vintage and unseen prints. We kindly invite you for a drink at the opening on the 6th of September to have a chance to appreciate this amazing work.

For more info please contact : info51@pandora.be

FIFTY ONE celebrates its 7 years from June 16th – July 27th, 2007
MALICK SIDIBE: Vintage & Modern prints : opening September 6th, 2007
PARIS PHOTO : November 15th - 18th, 2007
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ZIRKSTRAAT 20
2000 ANTWERPEN
BELGIUM
T:32-3-2898458
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E-MAIL:51@PANDORA.BE
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