Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Genius Collaboration between an ARCHITECT (Zaha Hadid) and a FASHION DESIGNER (Karl Lagerfeld)
Two years earlier in 2007, two people I respect highly, had team up for 50th anniversary of the iconic quilted Chanel 2.55 Handbag.
They've decided to build a 2-year-travelling exhibition pavilion for Chanel, a 5,920-square-foot nomadic gallery, which started to be located in Hongkong last year in March, then Tokyo, New York city in September, then moving to London and Moscow before ending in Paris in 2010.
Zaha Hadid is known as a deconstructivist architect, who designs daringly curvaceous, highly futuristic that some of them so complex in conception that they are impossible to build. She was the first female architect who received a Pritzker Prize, one of the world's premier architecture prizes, in 2004. For Chanel, she has created a flying-saucer form made of torqued reinforced plastic panels that had never been used before in a building.
The glazed ceiling adjusts to allow for control of the interior temperature in response to the particular climate conditions of each venue city. Lagerfeld was impressed when first saw the pavillion in Hongkong at night, especially surrounded by high buildings, and thought, "This is something that has not happened before, this is really a 200 percent, 21st century event"
the pavillion in Hongkong, March 2008
“I think this exhibit is very good for Chanel, because it gives off a good image for the bourgeoisie. However, I think there was too much art in the container in Hong Kong. In New York it will be different.” Of the container itself, which has curving corridors and a dark ambience, Lagerfeld says, “This is a very overpowering structure. It is not a rectangular-box gallery where people show their work. There are no square corners. I think perhaps the artists were not told enough about how the space would look.”
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