WEARABLE ART
A lot can happen over dinner. If it wasn’t for a small Japanese restaurant in Paris, the forthcoming Viktor & Rolf survey exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria [NGV] might never have come to fruition. “It’s even not a famous or trendy place,” says Thierry-Maxime Loriot. And yet it was here that the French-Canadian curator and former model bumped into Dutch fashion mavericks Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren.
WAYS OF LOOKING
For a week in March 2013, within the vast Beaux-Arts-era Vanderbilt Hall of Grand Central Station in New York City, the space came alive at twice-daily intervals with a group of some 60 Alvin Ailey School dancers performing to the sounds of a live harpist. But this was no ordinary flash mob, like the kinds of wedding proposals often seen on YouTube.
JONATHAN ZAWADA x JAMES STREET
Recent news reports about Queensland’s retail landscape might have been heavily focused on the newly revamped Pacific Fair on the Gold Coast, but if boutique, curated designer shopping is your preference then James Street is the must-visit destination.
LOEWE’S DISOBEDIENT BODIES
Given his unique play on silhouettes – think, for example, of the oversized shapes shown in Loewe’s spring 2016 collection – artistic director Jonathan Anderson is set to curate an exhibition, entitled Disobedient Bodies, at the Hepworth Wakefield gallery next year.