EVERY YEAR around this time, when the holidays are over (the memories of fairy lights and sequins fading) we're back at work and it's a brand new year, we become hopelessly drawn to winter white.
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA-BASED artist, Anna-Wili Highfield, creates the most magical hand-painted paper sculptures. Formerly a scenic painter at Opera Australia, Highfield created her first sculpture, a fairy wren, in 2008
The editorial comes ahead of the COSTUME INSTITUTE’s retrospective exhibition, Charles James: Beyond Fashion, opening next month at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Maja, Ola, and Esmerelda are all pictured wearing paper dresses and jewelry created by Rhea Thierstein.
Artist, designer, and teacher , Matt Shlian, may have failed math and algebra, but his curiosity and ‘affinity for geometry’ lead to the art of paper folding, or ‘paper engineering’, as he refers to it.
It all began with this astonishingly lovely handmade flower wreath, published here, over three years ago, created by mixed media artist & designer, Dana Barbieri, which lead to the intricate and exquisite [previously published] Chanel 2009 couture show, over a year before that; and then in 2011, came the astonishing work of artist Jo Lynn Alcorn for Perrier-Jouët . . .
. . . always adore the details best — a perfume collection or the way it is displayed, luxurious bouquets artfully arranged, the books in cases and the photographs and artwork in frames — these and other personal and creative flourishes tell the most about a place, and few have more glamour than hervé pierre ...
. . . happened upon these beautiful and incredibly handmade paper flower wreaths that bring back memories of the intricate paper flower tiaras in the chanel spring 2008 couture show and are perfect for a frosty january morning . . .
Have been completely caught up in the brilliantly creative and exquisite bleached flower cut-outs and sculpted paper blossoms strewn about the walls, tables, and floors of the all-white space of the Chanel Spring 2008 Couture show.