[Marion Cotillard at the 2008 Academy Awards. Courtesy Jean Paul Gaultier]
Catching up with high fashion czar Jean Paul Gaultier
It was a career-making dress—for the woman who wore it, Marion Cotillard, and the man who designed it, Jean Paul Gaultier. When the French actress walked the red carpet and later accepted the Oscar for Best Actress at the 80th Annual Academy Awards this February, dressed in a la petite sirène gown of ivory crepe embroidered in silver thread, it catapulted Jean Paul Gaultier, l’enfant terrible of French fashion, from a figure of cult status known mostly to the cognoscenti into the rarefied realm of designers whose names, signatures and styles are globally recognizable, even outside of the world of fashion.
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[The living room of a suite in Putman’s new Hong Kong hotel, The Putman. Photo © Andrée Putman]
French doyenne of design Andrée Putman illustrates that life is best lived not in black, white, or gray, but rather in rich contrast
By Claire Naa
Upon opening the door to Andrée Putman’s office in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, visitors are immediately blinded by the light shining through the space’s playfully constructed design of glass openings and windows. Seated behind a black desk is a tall woman dressed in a stark white suit, her ash blond hair billowing slightly in the breeze from a nearby fan. The window behind her allows the light of day to shine gleefully on an elegant necklace—an item, the woman explains, that she has worn every day since she unearthed it at a flea market and replated it with white gold.
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[Katsuya Restaurant, Brentwood, CA. Courtesy of Starck]
Checking in with ubiquitous designer Philippe Starck
By Lynn Morgan
He transforms the ordinary. Hundreds of objects we touch, use, and work with every day have been reimagined and redesigned in Philippe Starck’s vision. From the Microsoft optical mouse and the cult-object Alessi juicer to a Tokyo skyscraper, the Paris-born designer-turned-architect is the best-known advocate of New Design, the aesthetic that blurs the distinction between the utilitarian and the artistic.
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Mario Buatta reminds that a light heart can often be the key to success
By Diane Dunne
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