LACOSTE L!VE enlists the help of illustrator Micah Lidberg (of Kansas City, Missouri) to L!VE-en up their trademark polos for Autumn/Winter 2012. It’s ironic that its a winter collection given that Lidberg’s prints pop with summery colour in trademark cartoonish depictions of dinosaurs, crocodiles and lush tropical greenery
Following the death of Donna Summer last week, LOVE asked Fabrizio Viti – Louis Vuitton’s Shoe Style Director and major-league Donna Summer fan – to give us his top ten tracks in tribute to the late queen of disco. Here’s Fabrizio’s own ‘Greatest Hits’ compilation listing, alongside his own memories of Donna… 10
Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950 There’s nothing Brits like more than frocking up royally – hence the fact a dozen London collections end with a roster of knock-em-dead evening dresses (crinolines optional, but preferred).
Image by Laziz Hamani © Cartier 2012 Aldo Chipuro was a legendary jewellery designer who spent five years in the Seventies making key innovations at Cartier. One of his best loved, and most widely imitated creations was the Juste Une Clou line, which launched in 1971. Juste Une Clou translates as just a nail, which pretty tidily sums up what the collection was.
Personally, I find the peeping-eye heart logo of the Comme des Garçons PLAY range mildly terrifying, redolent as it is of the Vermicious Knids in Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka and the Great Glass Elevator (a fine work of fiction if you’ve never had the pleasure of reading it). But I am in the minority: hence the reason Comme are adding a trio of fragrances to the Play line for summer, in black, green and red colourways
Louis XIV built Versailles to assert his might. Simple as. For good measure he threw Nicolas Fouquet, his Superintendent of Finances, in prison due at least in part to the splendour of his chateau, Vaux-le-Vicomte (an early forerunner of Versailles).
After the first (rapidly fading) glimmer of London summer over the weekend, the last thing any Brit wants to think about is winter. But, if you’re going to muse over snow-dusted mountaintops you may as well do it in style – and it rarely gets more stylish than Moncler.
By Dennis Morris’ own admission, his images are more famous than his name. But Morris prefers to let his work do the talking – hence the reason his discussion at Soho members club Apartment 58 on Friday was quite so exceptional. This was the first time Morris had talked a public audience through the creation of some of his seminal images, including album covers for Bob Marley and the Wailers, portraits of Sid Vicious and the asprin-styled logo of John Lydon’s Public Image Limited
Impossible Conversations is definitely my topic of conversation for the week – especially with the news that, very soon, you’ll be able to buy not only new Prada but new Schiaparelli, given that Tod’s chief exec Diego della Valle announced that the label shuttered by Elsa ‘Schiap’ back in the fifties will relaunch next year. The revitalised Schiaparelli will include demi- couture clothes and, of course, lines of accessories and fragrance.
Ossie Clark, Aeroplane, 1969 To say that photographer and filmmaker Jim Lee has lived a full life is an understatement. He shot seminal pop-rock bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who during the sixties. He created daring and often controversial campaigns for clients like Ossie Clark, Yves Saint Laurent and Gianni Versace — not to mention working with a young Anna Wintour, then an assistant at Harpers & Queen .
