Sharon Haver - FocusOnStyle.com art posts

The Jewelry of Van Cleef and Arpels, Timeless Iconic Design on Display

Must See:“Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels” at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Brad Boles and I popped by the Van Cleef & Arpels exhibition preview and I cannot encourage you enough to pay a visit to the Cooper-Hewitt Museum if you are in NYC! The timeless design and breathtaking quality of the jewels presented is one of the most magical events that you don't want to miss. Here's what Brad says... -- S.H. For more then century, the remarkable history of Van Cleef & Arpels has been intertwined with the lives of many of the greatest personalities of our time. Each has enhanced the other and set the stage for the display of some

Sally Bass Wearable Art- Jewelry to Covet

The bolder the better to wear and admire I caught up with wearable art designer Sally Bass in Jackson Hole this summer and thought there is no time better for you to discover her amazing, unique one-of-a-kind jewelry than right now! Her bold and striking creations are perfect to gift yourself or to someone who has everything. Sally Bass Sally Bass jewelry is not for the fashionably shy. Many of the large-scale designs are so distinctive, or as she puts it --there are no ordinary production pieces here-- that you you may also want to keep the jewelry on permanent display as a work of art for your home when you are not wearing them. READ: More about Art The

Art Exhibition in Paris- Vincent Gagliostro Case Installation Opening

An art show not to miss in Paris Without exception, Vincent Gagliostro has been a multi-talented fine artist as well as coveted, award winning art director and friend. It was at Vincent's coaxing that I started my career as a fashion stylist. He is also the art director responsible for the current FocusOnStyle.com. It is with great honor and praise that I share Richard Nahem's invitation with you. Please do not miss this exceptional event. --S.H. Vincent Gagliostro | (1)case | Galerie NeC I cordially invite you to the opening of my partner Vincent Gagliostro's new installation, Case, Thursday, October 21 from 6PM at Galerie NeC, 20 rue des Coutures Saint Gervais, 3d arr. Case, Thursday, October 21 from 6PM

Wearable Art For Your Feet by Japanese Shoe Designer Tetsuya Uenobe

In Their Words: An interview with the man who sees an animal on every shoe Back in my early club days one of my most coveted pair of shoes was a pair of Tokio Kumagai black suede pumps with funny, little whiskers jutting out all over. At a time when Japanese designers like Rei Kawakubo for Comme des Garçons and Yohji Yamamoto were the must-have uniform for the downtown art set, Tokio Kumagai designs-- particularly the shoes-- were right in step. Often extraordinary and whimsical, the shoes shared the Japanese minimalist fashion aesthetic of the time that still looks modern. The most iconic being most a pair of mouse flats long before Marc Jacobs turned a rodent into a chic

Rick Owens Furniture As Art Still On View at Salon 94 with Pavane for a Dead Princess

Designer Rick Owens transforms the Studio 94 gallery into Pavane for a Dead Princess, a contemporary sleeping quarter based in part on his own Parisian home. Pavane for a Dead Princess, is Rick Owens' first presentation of furniture design in the United StatesRick Owens' design vision melds archaism with modernism, brutal beauty with uncompromising luxury, whether in his collectible cool chic clothes or sterling foray into home design. Inspiration not to be missed: In an Inspired by French composer Maurice Ravel’s composition for solo piano written in 1899 and presented by Salon 94 and Rudy Weissenberg, the centerpiece of the bedroom interior by Rick Owens is a towering Spanish alabaster headboard above a low-lying bed, a monumental composition that dominates

Prettypretty Chairs are pretty wiggy

Hair chairs for your kookiest indulgences If you have more wigs than Dolly Parton has gone through in a lifetime, you might just start to want to look at them as potential art rather than pile of beauty roadkill. I love to look at the obvious and see it in so many different and unique ways that nothing is ever expected, whether it be art or the way are inspired by the ordinary to make to extraordinary. PRETTYPRETTY Anna Pouf Furniture designer Dejana Kabiljo of the Viennese design brand, Kabiljo Inc. sees and designs “objects for all of us with little fetishes, bad habits and compulsive actions.” The materials are carefully researched and subdued to a series of experimental processes

Humor Chic

Witty, cheeky, brilliant, and VERY fashionable It's funny how the fashion flock can sometimes take themselves so seriously. Add some tongue-in-cheek insider observations and it's Humor Chic! Karl Lagerfeld and Vivienne Westwood aleXsandro Palombo (yes, the a is small, the X is a capital as is the P to represent the Latin symbols for Pax Christi) likes to think of himself as the father of fashion satire. He has just the right amount of wit and whimsy to poke a very manicured finger right back at the fashion industry and have them smile all the better for it with Humor Chic, the world's first Daily Society Portrait blog. Palombo is a global foot soldier (Prada or Dior Homme, I wonder)

Mr. Brainwash releases new print, portion of proceeds to benefit Haiti

Mr. Brainwash releases new print, portion of proceeds to benefit Haiti Share | January 20, 2010 Categories: Art

Fashion as Furniture: Dressed Chairs make your room as pretty as you

Found art finds fashion pretty enough to sit upon We all know that we've done this at least once! You can't believe how much you are madly in love with your new purchase. You purposely leave it strewn across a chair, just to kvel over like a doting grandmother. There are those of us who have a cherished pair or two of gorgeous, yet impractical, shoes put blatantly on display to ogle, like an artful vignette under our nightstand. Others have a nightly ritual of laying out the next day's outfit, complete with accessories to be both prepared and admired in the process. So why not take that same fashion inspiration and lavish it upon our furniture? Rooms.ge chair dressed

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The Joy of Fashion: Good Fun, and Art in the Mix

Fashion’s Night Out- Downtown fashion and art scene… Last night was Vogue’s “Fashion’s Night Out,” a city-wide shopping event with hundreds of shops staying open til 11pm, providing music & cocktails to not only get customers motivated to shop, but to also remind them of the joy of fashion itself. And with the state of today’s economy, it was a rather refreshing and well-planned initiative to get people excited. I didn’t personally see many cash registers buzzing, but what I did love was the communal air it gave the city of New York, where the streets were filled with well suited crowds of people, all out for a good time and a good cause. After spending the early morning &

Tinko’s Take: Dagger in Dubai

Glamour, mysticism, and the power of queens… Dagger, series of pictures whose inspiration is very diverse, from the comic book mysticism of Indiana Jones to the glamour of perfume advertising, to the powerful pictures of queens makes its way to Dubai. It started when I found a beautiful object in a souk in Taroudannt, Morocco. Like a beautiful girl wearing rags and living in the street, the bottle was a beautiful object containing a bad perfume and destined to be sold among dust covered batteries and soap bars in a dimly lit shop. The idea came to sublimate the object which had a potential for beauty and to empower the women who held it. By holding the dagger, the women

My Love for Boys is very, very good…

In a Blonde Haze/My Love for Boys… The artist Vincent Gagliostro, our art director, my friend, and the one you want to blame for hiring me on my first stylist shoot a century ago, has collaborated with artist Susan Shup on a brilliant video art film called, "In a Blonde Haze/My Love for Boys.” The video’s title is based on a line from Le Livre Blanc by Cocteau, "as far back as I can remember and even at the age when the mind still has no power over the senses, I find traces of my love for boys". The sleek and edgy video is in concert with the Slick 2008 art fair in Paris this weekend. Info: "In a Blonde

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