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THURSDAY NIGHT IN PARIS
MY HOUSE IS YOUR HOUSE: Since discovering the DJs Aurélien Haaas and Jeff Lasson aka Get A Room! at our opening parties at W Paris - Opéra we try to catch them when we can. Their cosmic mix of electronic house, deep house, electro, disco and Balearic has put this pair right on the map for us as DJs for summer 2012. We’re told the pair will be hosting Sunday sunsets at Wanderlust, the forthcoming and brand new night-club and events space that opens next week in Paris (more details to follow in the coming week) - Balearic Sundays ahoy? We’ll soon find out….
MATCH POINT: Romain Gavras, enfant terrible of international music video directors, has released another video rife with conflict and anger for Jay Z and Kanye West’s track ‘No Church In The Wild’. Essentially it’s just a load of blokes rucking with the police, the lyrics contain more depth but perhaps the artists wanted to keep the video simple. There’s no wry social comment hidden amongst all the pow! zap! pof! like there was with the MIA ‘Bad Girls’ video but hey, it’s unquestionably a beautifully shot and precisely acted piece of work that will now join the higher annals of pop history. Look out for the performances by the elephants and horses, an animal oscar to them all.
LET’S HEAR IT FOR THE BOYS: Yes, yes, yes the women and the gowns on the red carpet at Cannes but what about the men? Here Wes Anderson, Edward Norton and Bill Murray show how versatile a tuxedo can be in expressing its owners personality: Wes, a known fan of custom-made suits, is wearing dark purple velvet with Vichy check shirt and oversized bow-tie, Edward Norton is wearing a sleek black ensemble by Dior Homme while Bill Murray is wearing a bright bow-tie that we’re told that he very proudly tied himself for the red carpet. Also wearing tailored Dior Homme on the red carpet are Ewan McGregor, Sam Riley and Walter Salles. A few styles of ‘Le Smoking’ are offered by Dior Homme but it’s the streamlined and thin collars, slim trouser and strip ties that the French maison has become known for. For W Paris - Opéra guests, the flagship Dior store where the full menswear range is carried is located at 30 Avenue Montaigne, 75008. Tel: 01 40 73 73 73
VINYL: JUST SOLD OUT
INTERVIEW: Cover artwork for the vinyl version of the new EP by Mathieu Lescop that’s still available in digital form. Need to know track: La Foret (vimeo). We interviewed Mathieu just minutes before he played a live gig inside the Armani store in Saint-Germain at the beginning of the month where he talks about his forthcoming LP, the story behind the making of the video to La Foret and the attention he puts into writing lyrics….
You re going to play for Armani tonight, how many tracks are you planning to play? Sixteen tracks and it will last a bit longer than half an hour
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INSPIRATION FOR A LAZY WEEK-END PART 2: Made for the womens surf brand pret-a-surf by Duffy Higgins and John Jaxheimer, this fashion film made it to the short-list of finalists in the Vimeo Awards 2012.
SUNGLASSES ON! Temperatures are soaring in the city which means one thing to Parisians not at Cannes - “au parc!” One outdoor destination is Square des Batignolles, the largest green space in central Paris that features landscaped gardens and architectural follies such as temples, tea-house, bridges, waterfalls and sculpted cascades. Here, Parisian folk group Captain Kid performs live for www.soul-kitchen.fr in the park….
PARIS DESIGN: LE TRABENDO NIGHT-CLUB
Today, urban music festival LA VILLETTE SONIQE kicks off in the north-east of Paris with MF Doom, Shabazz Palaces and Flying Lotus playing live but afterwards (and throughout the festival) the after parties are being held at Le Trabendo which unveiled it’s redesign last month. To celebrate both we spoke to Ahonen & Lamberg aka Anna Ahonen and Katariina Lamberg, the Paris based design duo who art directed the décor and graphic identity…
Off the top of your head, can you choose four words to describe your redesign of Trabendo? Rhythm, geometry, boldness, excitement.
How long did the project take to execute? We started the project with the interior architect Linda Bergroth in October 2011 and the opening was April 12th.
Is there anything to say about the choice of font or the choice of colour palette? For us a big inspiration were music lovers and the traditional music venue aesthetics, with the light boards screaming the names of the bands, we wanted to choose a typeface from that world. The client wanted to have something colorful and we wanted to bring the colorfulness to a second level so that it’s surprising and sophisticated. The 13 colors have been chosen from high art masterpieces.
Where is your atelier and what are you working on today? Our office is in Marais. At the moment we are working on more wall painting designs for London and Montreal, logos, visual identities and clothing prints for fashion houses.
Can you name a place in Paris that you find creatively inspiring? Any great concert, exhibition, show… Paris is full of inspiring people, events and places. For us, anyway, the inspiration often comes from trivial everyday life of Paris.
THIS WEEK-END IN PARIS: FRANÇOIS KEVORKIAN
D IS FOR DISCO: When talking about François Kevorkian superlatives start tumbling from the sky. A French DJ who emigrated to New York in the 70s, François K is a direct link to the birth of house music; he’s the DJs DJ. Before drum machines had been invented he was the session drummer on many disco tracks and DJed at the legendary Paradise Garage with Larry Levan plus Studio 54 and the Zanzibar club. Moving forward nearly thirty years and Kevorkian was part of Body & Soul the Sunday day-to-night New York club that’s one of a few key nights attributed with honing and polishing the sound of deep and soulful house music. Musically Kevorkian is a jack of all trades, there’s no sonic genre that he can’t explore and mould into a DJ set where one of his signature elements can be long, cosmic mixes between tracks that take the dance-floor on a journey or up, up and up into a frenzy. Kervorkian is known to relish playing twelve hour mixes where he really takes the floor off into outer-space but for Paris, though he’s appearing for much shorter periods of time, he is appearing twice, lucky us. First for a RedBull Masterclass Q&A with Didier Lastrade (free entry) and then again for a DJ set. For details follow the Facebook links….
SCUFF IT UP, WEAR IT IN: The must-see Parisian menswear store French Trotters has collaborated with Bleu de Chauffe, the made-in-France, eco holdall brand on a capsule range that includes a 100% desirable leather strap for your camera. Click on images to enlarge.
La boutique incontournable pour hommes French Trotters a collaboré avec Bleu de Chauffe, une marque française écologique.
The third single from the debut album ‘I Thought I Was An Alien’ by Stéphanie Sokolinski who used to be a regular at the Pop In bar that was the hub for the nu-folk scene in Paris partly due to the fact that David-Ivar, lead singer from Herman Dune, DJed and hosted the Sunday night open mic sessions there….
Le troisième single de son premier album ‘I thought I was Alien’ de Stéphanie Sokolinski ancienne régulière du bar le Pop In qui a accueilli toute la scène nu-folk à Paris en partie grâce à David-Ivar, le chanteur de Herman Dune, qui y organisait des soirées le dimanche soir.
