[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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[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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[Photo by Joe Pugliese]
The award-winning architect of the Bellagio and Horton Plaza examines inspiration, sustainable design, and the future of architecture
By Layla Revis
Art and Living: What are your favorite architectural styles?
Jon Jerde: We’ve come to the end of traditional architectural styles evolving over hundreds of years into ever-refined movements and pieces. I look more to ideas than styles. For me, the most important architecture connects to people in a very real way. Two individuals who had a profound impact on the quality of space—and who have greatly influenced me—were Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Kahn.
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For luxury housing designer Richard Landry, designer of homes for celebrities Wayne Gretzky, Eddie Murphy, Sugar Ray Leonard and Kenny G, the architect is a stage-setter, fantasist and businessman—all at onceÂ
By Morris Newman
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His museums house Hockneys, Boteros and Warhols, to name just a few. So how has Renzo Piano staked his claim as the art world’s architect of choice?
By Diane Dunne
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