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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.
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.
PARIS DESIGN: La Chance is a new Parisian based furniture and lighting design company that launched its debut collection during Tom Dixon’s MOST at Milan Design Week last month. La Chance favours objects that show their inner working and structure while Jekyll and Hyde is a concept that asked designers to create two versions of each - “the Jekyll version features prime colours and shiny finishes while Hyde is in monotone or natural materials, like brushed metal and oiled wood,” reads the company communication. Founded by Gallic duo Jean-Baptiste Souletie, 28 and Louise Breguet, 27, La Chance brings together international talents including Pierre Favresse whose ‘Magnum’ table is featured here. A lecturer at Les Arts Décoratifs Favresse is seen as an ambassador for the ‘nouvelle vague’ in current French furniture design.
Jekyll: Matte walnut or black lacquered tabletop, Carrara marble legs, black structure
Hyde: Matte birch or blue lacquered table top, birch legs, blue beige or black structure
APC 5 x Bands T-SHIRTS
PRINTED MATTER: It’s little known but Quentin Delafon, the ex frontman of French synthpop band The Teenagers, designs many of the prints on T’s and sweatshirts at APC. Also, in 1998, founder Jean Touitou had a working music studio built at the French labels head quarters and a stream of musicians both recording music and working at APC (sometimes both at the same time) has ebbed and flowed in and out of the doors ever since. Four bands who have found their stories entwined with that of APC have collaborated on t-shirts; Paradis, Connan Mockasin, Veronica Falls and The Rapture (images above) have been cast in cotton and the T’s are available until the end of August from all APC stores.
SNAPSHOT: Aigle
SINGING IN THE RAIN: The Aigle flagship store opened two weeks ago but celebrations were ongoing last night in the 135m2 space on 33 Avenue des Champs Elysées that includes a ‘boot bar’ where every model including the limited editions are displayed. Guests were treated to canapé’s and champagne under a hanging installation of Aigle’s signature Wellington boots.
Le flagship store Aigle a ouvert il y a deux semaines mais les célébrations continuaient la nuit dernière dans l’espace de 135m2 au 33 avenue des Champs Élysée qui comprend un ‘boot bar’ où tous les modèles, éditions limitées comprises, sont présentés. Les invités étaient accueillis avec des petits-fours et du Champagne sous une installation suspendue constituée des légendaire bottes Wellington.
Aigle Wellington facts: The French brand created the first rubber Wellington in 1853 after a leather model worn by British aristocrat the Duke of Wellington. Aigle has one factory in Châtellerault, France. Sixty stages of production are needed to make each pair of hand-made boots.
La marque française a créé la première Wellington en caoutchouc en 1853 d’après un modèle en cuir porté par le Duc de Wellington, aristocrate britannique. Aigle possède une usine à Châtellerault, France. Soixante étapes de production sont nécessaires pour fabriquer chaque paire de bottes faites main.
BOY, TAKE MY HEART, ROCK MY WORLD
FASHION EDITORIAL: Shot by Parisian photographer Edouard Plongeon for the new issue of Japanese bi-annual Commons & Sense. The issue is unavailable in Paris which is why we’re happy to share the images on www.theswitch.fr. The model, American Miles Mcmillan, is currently ranked No.29 in the models.com index, is a favourite at Dior Homme but in this shoot is wearing Givenchy menswear spring-summer 2012 styled by Marine Braunschvig. Adore.
Cliché pris par le photographe parisien Edouard Plongeon pour la nouvelle édition du magazine bi-annuel japonais Commons & Sense. Vu que le numéro n’est pas disponible à Paris, nous sommes heureux d’en partager les images sur www.theswitch.fr. Le mannequin, l’Américain Miles McMillan, qui occupe actuellement la 29e place sur l’index de models.com, est l’un des favoris de Dior Homme, mais a revêtu pour ce shooting du prêt-à-porter Givenchy printemps-été 2012 - stylisme assuré par Marine Braunschvig. Idolatrie.
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FASHION PRESS PREVIEW
ISSUE #28: Photographed by Damien Blottière and styled by Beth’s own stylist Frédéric Baldo with Yoko Miyake, DEdiCate’s fashion director. The new issue of the Parisian based lifesyle magazine contains interviews with Felipe Oliviera Baptista from Lacoste, Sebastien Tellier on his new album, Buraka Som Sistema and the Kitsuné Team. Out Tuesday 24th April at OFR Systems, Paris and widespread on Thursday 26th April…
Photographié par Damien Blottière et conçu par le propre styliste de Beth Dito Frédéric Baldo assisté de Yoko Miyake, voici DEdiCate le nouveau numéro du magazine parisien de lifestyle avec des interviews de Felipe Oliviera Baptista de Lacoste, Sébastien Tellier, Buraka Som Sistema et l’équipe de Kitsuné. Le mardi 24 avril chez OFR et dans les kiosques parisiens dès le jeudi 26 avril….
ALL ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR HENRY
A ten year veteran of presenting his menswear collections at Paris fashion week, Danish born designer Henry Vibskov has created, and written much of, a 240 page book dedicated to imagery and visions from his fascinatingly twisted and surreal world. The book, published by Gestalten will be released in May and contains hundreds of photographs and collages of Vibskov’s work. More images after the jump…
