Chanel in a Shell - U Gotta See This

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Chanel in a Shell – Gotta See!

By Amy Larocca
Published Oct 19, 2008

Clockwise, from left: assembling Hadid's Chanel pod in Central Park; a view of the
inside; Sylvie Fleury's reinterpreted handbag.
(Photo: Hannah Whitaker; François Lacour/Courtesy of Chanel (Pod interior, Fleury
work))

Karl Lagerfeld, the Chanel designer, has no problem separating fashion and art. “Fine
art—really fine—is something else,” he says. “This is the complex of many designers and
the fear of many artists. Some designers think they do Art, but they think other designers
do not.”

Regardless of your stance on that divide, you have to admit that Coco Chanel was onto
something when, in 1955, she designed the quilted, chain-strapped handbag known as the
2.55. It has retained its “It” position ever since, beloved by women from Brooke Astor to
the cast of The Hills.

In 2005, in honor of 50 years of status baggery, Lagerfeld asked twenty artists (Sylvie
Fleury and Yoko Ono among them) to create their own reactions to the 2.55. This year,
he asked the architect Zaha Hadid (winner of the Pritzker Prize and, Lagerfeld says, “a
Coco Chanel of today”) to design a movable home for those artists’ works.

The result is “Mobile Art,” a 7,500-square-foot space pod that has traveled around the
world and has just landed in Central Park, plunked down in the middle of Rumsey
Playfield. So far, it’s been to Hong Kong and Tokyo. When it’s done here, it will move
on to London, then Moscow and Paris.

Even though she’s prominent enough to have had a Guggenheim retrospective of her
work, this is, somewhat remarkably, the first time Hadid has had a building erected in
New York. “Museums have changed a great deal,” she says. “The connection between
culture and public life is critical—temporary architecture that can move around can
enrich the lives of many more people.” Particularly as the Dow plunges and Chanel
products become a bit more aspirational than they were before: The exhibit is free, and
absolutely nothing inside it is for sale.

Note: Central Park - Through November 9

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awwwwwww would love to see Sad

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Callie85 wrote:

awwwwwww would love to see Sad

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The result is “Mobile Art,” a 7,500-square-foot space pod that has traveled around the
world and has just landed in Central Park, plunked down in the middle of Rumsey
Playfield. So far, it’s been to Hong Kong and Tokyo. When it’s done here, it will move
on to London, then Moscow and Paris.

Posts: 32341 Location: Ibuprofen Palace / Glasgow

I live in Glasgow, trips to London are a one off

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thats soo neat

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Originally Posted by candlebougie
Karl Lagerfeld throws epic bash in Central Park to celebrate Chanel Mobile Art

As always, location was key. Given that Central Park is such a character in any New Yorker's subconscious, chic types were happy to share their favorite haunts.

(...)

"Bloody hell. I don't know. Anywhere is just fine," said Freja Beha. "The problem with America is that you can't drink in the park--that's what we do in Denmark. Everyone brings a big bag of beer and sits and drinks and does barbeque. You don't get to do that here. That's a bummer."

I love her Laughing

Posts: 33056 Location: Congo

That little trite!
lol

She's so hood! Laughing

Posts: 32341 Location: Ibuprofen Palace / Glasgow

that is NOT hood, it's just normal. it's one thing i love about europe, you can't drink on the streets here unless it's New Year lol.

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It's so prudish here. lol

And I was only joking ho! Razz

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^ agreed!