Filed under: chanel, fashion | Tags: art; fashion; chanel; christian dior; grace kelley; victoria and albert museum; glamour; yves saint laurent
There’s to be a glorious (and I am sure glamorous) style icon Grace Kelly exhibition in London at the Victoria and Albert Museum in April 2010. Called, appropriately, “Grace Kelly: Style Icon”, the exhibition will feature garments and accessories modeled by the actress when she was a Hollywood starlet as well as after she married Prince Rainier of Monaco. The collection will feature both public and private pieces; pieces fans and fashion devotees will recognize as well as private memorabilia.
Fifty outfits in total. Fifty beautiful amazing pieces. I only ever hope to have a collection one day when fifty of my own pieces can be considered style-icon worthy. There’s this gorgeous black chiffon from Rear Window and the gown she wore to the 1955 Oscars, where she won Best Actress.
Also in the collection are pieces by Branell of New York, her civil marriage wedding outfit, the “original Hermes Kelly bag, Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Dior, etc.
The collection is on loan from Monaco.
Yes, I will except tickets at any time.
http://boxwish.com/US/profiles/blogs/grace-kelly-exhibition-coming-in-the-new-year
Somewhere between my third and fourth glass of wine at last month’s Sculpture Objects and Functional Art (SOFA) show, I turned a corner to come nearly face-to-face with Chanel.
I quickly developed a newfound hatred for glass cases as the one encasing the vintage Chanel jewelry collection was all that prevented me from slipping a gold cuff, possibly touched by Coco Chanel herself, around my wrist. The next step would have been to figure out how to kick off my heels and run past the cheese platter and cracker samples and out of the Navy Pier exhibition hall. So I decided to keep it classy and just drool in front of the case instead. (more…)
