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    Rocky – Soft Machines

    - by Marion

    Label G.U.M. and The Stimuleye present
    Rocky’s first album “Soft Machines”,
    out October 21, 2016.

    Photography by René Habermacher.
    Art Direction by Antoine Asseraf.

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    ROCKY SOFT MACHINES Cover Atwork by René Habermacher.

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    ROCKY SOFT MACHINES Artwork by René Habermacher.

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    ROCKY SOFT MACHINES Artwork by René Habermacher.

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    ROCKY SOFT MACHINES Artwork by René Habermacher.

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    ROCKY SOFT MACHINES Artwork by René Habermacher.

    styling: Rogelio Burgos
    make-up: Min Kim @ Airport
    nails: Hiro @ Jed Root
    hair: Chiao Chenet @ Airport
    retouching: Dimitri Rigas
    production: The Stimuleye

    Pre-order CD & VINYL of “Soft Machines” from Fnac here.
    Watch Rocky’s “Chase the cool” music video by The Stimuleye from their first EP here.

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    LE SAVOIR-FAIRE

    - by admin

    For latest fashion film, we headed to… a Belgian butcher shop.

    “LE SAVOIR-FAIRE” by The Stimuleye, a film for Jean-Paul Lespagnard’s #1/2015 collection,
    with music by TEPR.

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    #wrap-up #awards #alleyesonhyeres #2014

    - by admin

    #alleyesonhyeres indeed.

    For its 29th edition, the fashion and photography festival reached new heights. More sunshine, more stars, more exhibitions, more public, more.

    Here’s a wrap up of everything The Stimuleye covered in Hyères for those who missed it.

    PHOTOGRAPHY

    LORENZO VITTURI, GRAND JURY PRIZE

    Italian photographer living in London Lorenzo Vitturi is the first to win 15 000 euros donated by Chanel, for his series “Dalston Anatomy.”

    ORIANNE LOPES, SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS FUND

    Orianne wins a scholarship to attend the School of Visual Arts’ “Photo Global” program in NYC.

    VIRGINIE REBETEZ, SPECIAL MENTION OF THE JURY

    Virginie wins a Leica S2 camera.

    MARIE RIME, CITY OF HYERES AWARD

    Awarded by the votes of the public of Hyères.

    All the photographers in competition:

    FASHION

    CORALIE MARABELLE, CITY OF HYERES AWARD

    Awarded by the votes of the public of Hyères.

    YULIA YEFIMTCHUK, SPECIAL MENTION OF THE JURY

    Yulia’s collection will be carried by Opening Ceremony for the next 2 seasons.

    CHLOE PRIZES

    This year 2 Chloe prizes were awarded, each with a 15 000 euros fund:

    ROSHI PORKAR

    LISALORE FROWIJN

    KENTA MATSHUSHIGE, GRAND PRIX DU JURY PREMIERE VISION

    Kenta, who is from Japan but living and working in Paris, wins 15 000 euros given by Première Vision,
    as well as a collaboration with Chanel Metiers d’Arts worth up to 15 000 euros, and a collaboration with Petit Bateau.

    ALL DESIGNERS IN COMPETITION + BONUS

    THE FASHION SHOW

    EXHIBITIONS – UNTIL MAY 25th

    More info:
    Villa Noailles, Hyères

    BONUS

    The film directed by Antoine Asseraf & Julien Pujol about 2013 winner Satu Maaranen’s collaboration with Petit Bateau.

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    rocky

    - by antoine

    The Stimuleye presents Chase The Cool, the first music video from the first of EP of Rocky.

    CHASE THE COOL, written & directed by Antoine Asseraf & Rene Habermacher.

    Your EP is very diverse sonically – is it because you’re still experimenting, or because you refuse to choose one style ?
    Let’s say you can find in Rocky the influences we wanted to play with: House, Pop, R&B. All these musics are not so different, they all have their roots in African American music.

    Lille, Paris,… is it important where you’re from?
    No. Today you can make the same music whether you’re from Lille, Paris or Madrid. Even though it’s true there isn’t the same energy in a big city like New York as in… Paris.

    Singing in French…is it taboo for you ?
    Not at all. We’re thinking about it for the next EP.

    What’s it like playing the Olympia concert hall Jouer à l’Olympia? Inès, you mentionned you had already sung there before the Inrocks Festival…
    You can say what you want, the Olympia isn’t a venue like any other. We were lucky enough to play it twice (the first time opening for The Shoes) and it was a great experience each time. The mood is peculiar, and you always get a reaction when you tell your family you’ll play there.

    What’s your process, from writing to production ?
    There are no rules. But generally we start from a base by one of us, we push the production further and Inès tries to lay down some vocals. We go back and forth like this a few times, until we like it enough to play it to Pierre Le Ny, the Art Director of the label, who’ll put it in the trash.

    Sometimes, when he thinks the track is cool, he’ll send it Guillaume Brière (half of the The Shoes), who finalizes it and puts it on a record.
    At least that’s how we do it now. It’s simple to tell, but in fact each step comes with its share of tears and despair.

    Where did the name Rocky come from?
    We wanted a name that was cool, easy to remember, that would work in any language. This one was already part of the collective imagination, so the work was already done, which made it easy. We also liked the idea of highjacking an already ultra famous name from its origins. It never fails to trigger people to ask us about the name.

    What is the last thing which stimulated you ?
    TRUE DETECTIVE !

    Rocky by Rene Habermacher
    
    Rocky, by The Stimuleye.

    Rocky Tour Dates

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    rocky

    - by antoine

    Label G.U.M. and The Stimuleye present Rocky’s first EP,
    produced by The Shoes‘ Guillaume Briere
    Cover by René Habermacher.
    “Chase The Cool” video by The Stimuleye, coming soon.

    Rocky EP1 by René Habermacher

    ROCKY EP1 by René Habermacher.

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    all eyes on hyères

    - by antoine

    Last Hyères before it turns 30.

    For its 29th edition, Villa Noailles director and Fashion + Photography founder Jean-Pierre Blanc invited the American duo of Humberto Leon and Carol Lim, Kenzo designers and Opening Ceremony founders, to preside the Fashion Jury.

    Amidst hundred’s of applicants from 55 different countries, here are the 10 finalists they picked.

    Official lookbook by The Stimuleye.

    Hyères Festival of Fashion + Photography 2014

    Hyères 2014 - ALL EYES ON HYERES - by The Stimuleye.

    All 10 designers were selected on the basis of a dossier and a full outfit, first by art director Maida Gregory-Boina, Maria Luisa buyer Robin Schulié and The Stimuleye colleague Filep Motwary, then by the jury presidents and their guests: Jay Massacret (V Man), Eric Wilson (InStyle), Carol Song (Opening Ceremony) and actress Chloé Sevigny.
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    what the FIAC ?!

    - by admin

    OK people, fashion time’s over. It’s Art time.

    Appetite for contemporary art is always growing. The public, the collectors…everyone wants a piece of the cake.

    So The Stimuleye is proud to present, for the second year in a row in association with SayWho, the official film of the 40th Paris Contemporary Art Fair a.k.a. FIAC 2013.

    WhatTheFIAC, written & directed by Antoine Asseraf.

    FIAC, Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain, 2013 trailer, directed by Antoine Asseraf.

    For its 40th edition, and in order to accommodate the ever-growing interest in the art scene, the FIAC is expanding and taking different forms throughout Paris.

    Beyond the glass dome of the Grand Palais and the hundreds of galleries showing there, the FIAC is installing artwork accessible for free to the public in its “Hors-les-murs” (‘outside the walls’) program. Prestigious locations such as the Jardin des Tuileries, Place Vendôme, and Jardin des Plantes are joined this year by the brand new Berges de Seine left bank pedestrian embankments, running from Musée d’Orsay to Quai Branly.

    YUM.

    FIAC 2013. Photo by René Habermacher

    FIAC 2013. Photo by René Habermacher.

    FIAC 2013
    October 24-27
    Grand Palais
    & Hors-les-Murs: Petit Palais / Berges de Seine / Jardin des Tuileries / Auditorium du Louvre / Place Vendôme / Jardin des Tuileries

    WhatTheFIAC
    produced by SayWho
    creative direction The Stimuleye
    directed by Antoine Asseraf
    photography by René Habermacher
    art direction by Mathilde Nivet
    hands by Aurélie Nguyen
    voice by Lynsey Peisinger

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    fashion time – adolfo dominguez

    - by admin

    Last but not least for the fall, we had the chance to film model Andreea Diaconu alongside photographer Karim Sadli for Adolfo Dominguez…

     Adolfo Dominguez FW 2013/14, film by Antoine Asseraf, in collaboration with Karim Sadli.
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    fashion time – elie saab magic moments

    - by admin

    For the this fall, we collaborated with Elie Saab to create cinematic “magic moments” around their fashion shows.
    Cool but dramatic blue for ready to wear.
    Royal but intense red for couture.

    ELIE SAAB FW 2013/14 Ready To Wear, "STRICTLY DECORATIVE".

    ELIE SAAB FW 2013/14 Couture, "A Royal Affair".

    Directed by Antoine Asseraf
    Produced by Premices Films
    Assisted by Julien Pujol

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    valli mythologies

    - by antoine

    The Stimuleye presents a new film for Giambattista Valli’s fifth haute couture collection for Fall 2013, following last season’s Jonas Mekas-influenced film The Other Side of Paradise.

    This season, the themes are goddesses, fine porcelain and… Lee Radziwill makes a sublime and subliminal appearance.

    Giambattista Valli Haute Couture 5

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    monsieur hervé: ready to wear campaign

    - by filep

    “The story of the bandage dress is important as a fact my work storyline.”
    – Hervé Leroux, AKA Monsieur Hervé Léger

    For his first campaign, for the Fall/Winter 2013-14, Hervé Leroux chose to collaborate with The Stimuleye for creative direction: photographer René Habermacher in tandem with stylist and fashion muse Suzanne von Aichinger, bringing forward the modernity in Hervé’s timeless designs.

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    Gwen Loos and Anna Martynova intertwined in slate and black draped front dresses by Hervé Leroux FW2013.
    Photography by René Habermacher

    As you’ve read during our interview and couture atelier visit, Hervé Leroux, born Hervé Léger, is known for his talent for creating garments using traditional tailoring techniques while taking full advantage of developments in silhouette contraction-embracing modern fabrics.

    Monsieur Hervé worked as a hairstylist and a milliner before Karl Lagerfeld offered him a collaboration with Fendi, and then Chanel, as a senior assistant. Soon after opening its doors in 1985, Maison Hervé Léger became internationally famous for pioneering the bandage dresses that were about techniques of reforming the body, focusing on the three key words for femininity: curves, waist and form. The “recipe for the 90’s”, as Suzy Menkes once wrote in the Herald Tribune, was about curve-cleaving elastic bandages and a high-octane technique that defied tradition, an effect which Hervé achieved by molding his fabric to the female form instead of draping and cutting it.

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    Left side: Gwen wearing a ruby deep double V-neck viscose dress recalling Hervé's iconic bandage dresses.
    Right side: criss cross draped black silk jersey pieces. Photos by René Habermacher

    After separating from the company which bears his name and adopting the name Hervé Leroux, as suggested by Karl Lagerfeld, Monsieur Hervé recalibrated his vision of glamour, towards a modern sensuality crafted by the hands of a real artisan. Every piece of both the Ready-To-Wear and the Haute Couture collections is created by Hervé’s own hands in his new atelier on 32 rue Jacob.

    The Hervé Leroux Fall/Winter 2013-2014 Ready-To-Wear collection is about sober, soaring elegance, reflected on 50 hand-made pieces. For Monsieur Hervé, it is crucial that each piece be as specific and precise as a painting by Pierre Soulages, an important influence on the designer.

    “It’s in doing that I can find what I am looking for.”
    – Pierre Soulages

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    The cut is soft, sensually embracing the female curves, revealing the secrets of the master for both of his obsessions. The fabric is draped only to create luxurious body landscapes on his monochrome canvases, paying homage to the morphology of the body.

    Hervé creates a collection that can be referred to as a “second skin” – a fluid, easy-to-move silhouette, which slides on the body, becoming at once feminine and powerful.

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    Gwen sports a Pumpkin viscose aerodynamic dress. Photo by René Habermacher

    CREDITS
    Creative Direction – The Stimuleye
    Photography – René Habermacher
    Styling – Suzanne von Aichinger
    Jewelry – Fabien Ifires
    Hair – Panagiotis Papandrianos
    Make-up – Yannis Siskos
    Manucure – Yumi Toyama
    Models – Anna Martynova & Gwen Loos – NEXT
    Styling Assistant – Chafik Cheriet
    First Assistant Light – Laurent Pascot
    Capture Assistant – Franck Aubert
    Retouching – Dimitris Rigas
    Text – Filep Motwary
    Art Direction – Antoine Asseraf

    Thank you Versae Vanni

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    HYERES 2013 EXPRESS 04 DESIGNERS + 05 FASHION SHOW

    - by antoine

    Hyères Again. And Again.

    28TH INTERNATIONAL FASHION & PHOTOGRAPHY HYERES 2013
    HYERES EXPRESS

    A THE STIMULEYE PRODUCTION
    directed by Antoine Asseraf
    filmed & edited by Julien Pujol
    coordination Clementine Colson
    interviews Filep Motwary
    sound design Ça Va Chéri

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    HYERES 2013 EXPRESS 03 EXHIBITIONS

    - by antoine

    Besides the photo and fashion competitions, one of the Hyères festival’s strongpoints are the original exhibitions it curates. Amongst this year’s shows, Lacoste designer and 2002 Hyères winner Felipe Oliveira Baptista, up and coming photo/video/grapher Pierre Debusschere, 2001 Hyères winner photographer Charles Fréger, and ROUGH PROOF, a look at the early works of Guy Bourdin with special pieces from the private collection of Marie Laure de Noailles… of course.

    A THE STIMULEYE PRODUCTION
    directed by Antoine Asseraf
    filmed & edited by Thibault Della Gaspera
    interviews Filep Motwary
    coordination Clementine Colson
    sound design Ça Va Chéri

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    HYERES EXPRESS: PIERRE DEBUSSCHERE

    - by antoine

    Having seen his work evolve over the years, we are proud to announce Pierre Debusschere’s new project premiering at Hyères Fashion & Photography Festival, an installation featuring original photo and video, “I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.”

    Pierre Debusschere, Portrait by Filep Motwary.

    Is this your first solo show?
    I did small solo shows before but i like to think of this one as my first one because it is the first time the work has been thought of for an exhibition medium.

    How does it feel exhibiting alongside someone like Guy Bourdin?
    It is already an honour to be present at the Villa but even more to be next to Bourdin.

    Your subjects-models are worked in a way to look like paintings, what is your aim exactly ?
    The painting, the Flemish painters are a big influence for me, there is no specific aim linked to the painting besides the connection to my inspirations.
    The technique that looks like paint that you are referring to is there more in the idea layers, different layers that gives the image different steps of reading.

    Photo by Pierre Debusschere.

    Photo by Pierre Debusschere.

    Your show’s theme is beauty versus ugliness. What are your true influences? Is it connected to the work of Umberto Eco ?
    Beauty versus ugliness is one of the themes worked in this show, the idea of what is beautiful or ugly today. Yes it is linked to Eco’s work, reading his book
    on ugliness helped me a lot in this show.

    Your work is tied to the digital medium. Can you imagine yourself working in a previous era ?
    For sure I can see myself working in a previous era, it is not about digital, it is more about the medium that fits the time, the idea of NOW.

    Photo by Pierre Debusschere.

    You have created yourself a whole structure with 254 Forest, which allows you to do an original photo series, a book, an installation and a film… How important is organization to be an artist today ?

    Yes I would not have been able without my team to create the photo-series, the book, the installation, the film, the soundtrack and the website !

    It is always about Team work for me and I’m really grateful to have them besides me. Organisation is a big part of the work, even more for project like this when we created all this body of work in 2 months. Today you need to be able to react really fast because of the technology era we live in, so that’s why a team is important too !

    You need to be present on every aspect of production at the same time ! But then we can not forget sometimes that we need to disconnect ourselves 😉

    PIERRE DEBUSSCHERE

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    HYERES 2013 EXPRESS 02 DESIGNERS

    - by antoine

    The festival is about to start. In 1 hour the jury headed by Felipe Oliveira Baptista will discover the 10 designers in competition for the first time.

    A THE STIMULEYE PRODUCTION
    directed by Antoine Asseraf
    filmed & edited by Julien Pujol
    interviews Filep Motwary
    coordination Clementine Colson
    sound design Ça Va Chéri

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    7 women, 1 star goat: the capsule

    - by rene

    Experimental film. Feature film. Art film. Fashion Film.
    Greek, English, German, French, Turkish.
    For her latest project, director Athina Rachel Tsangari lets neither labels nor languages get in the way.
    Rather, she encourages pandemonium, while unleashing discipline on her 7 international actresses, and the 7 goats which co-star with them in “The Capsule.”
    As a special envoy for The Stimuleye, René Habermacher spent some time with them and the biggest diva on set: Bekos, the star goat.

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    The headmistress unleashes the beast: Ariane Labed, French but Athens-born actress known from "Attenberg" 
    and her favourite: Bekos, the beehive-tressed star-goat. Photo by René Habermacher
    The sun’s first hot rays glisten over the aquamarine waters, parted by the approaching speedboat.
    The destination: a barren island in the Aegean sea, named Hydra.
    Hydra once harbored pirates but now hosts the “classy” summer retreats of wealthy Athenian families, low-profile expatriates and not-so-low-profile socialites.
    Between dark needles of cypress trees, remnants of other times, splendid historic mansions are scattered up the amphitheatric hills framing the town.
    Built in hard labour over generations, the city-island-state of Hydra exceptionnally paid tributes to the Ottoman empire in exchange for a dose of freedom, which they turned into wealth and influence.
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    A sphinx above Hydra: Ariane Labed in midday heat on the terrasse of Tombazis manor. Photo by René Habermacher.
    It is here that one of the island’s generous patrons, art collector Dakis Ioannou, owns a townhouse and runs a project space in the town’s old slaughterhouse through his Deste Foundation. This translates into a yearly invasion of the art world glitteratti to celebrate projects by Maurizio Cattelan, Mathew Barney or Doug Aitken, to name but a few of the guest artists.
    As the boat approaches, on the far right of the jetty sits the island’s most impressive building, the Tombazis Manor, long abandoned by its family. A short but steep walk uphill through narrow stone-laminated alleys opens to the building that once housed Marc Chagall: an array of arcades, corridors and rooms, intertwined as the set of a wicked dream, its cool obscurity glacified in time. An unusual activity disturbs this idyl.
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    Between fortified walls of the mansion, shadows of the past and present terror of besetting obsessions:
    young actresses Isolda Dychauk, Aurora Marion and crawling: Evangelia Randou. Photos by René Habermacher
    
    
    By invitation of Dakis Ioannou, a film crew under the helm of Greek movie director Athina Rachel Tsangaris is attempting to interpret the egregious, violent universe of Polish artist Aleksandra Waliszewska in multiple frozen frames.
    The starting point to this project : the Deste “Fashion Collection”. After collaborations with M/M, Juergen Teller, Helmut Lang and Patricia Cavalli, it seemed to be time to work with a Greek, and who better than film maker Athina Rachel Tsangari, who has stirred some waves internationally with documentaries and fictions alike.
    The commission’s unique approach to fuse art and fashion from a art-curatorial perspective led Athina to set filming on the Island of Hydra. Not to be confused with the other Hydra, the ancient serpent-like water beast bearing several heads, with the ability for each cut off head it grew two more…
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    Clémence Poésy in expectation of the headmistress. Photos by René Habermacher.
    
    
    The last member of a cast of women just arriving from Bruxelles, unsettled and wide-awake after a sleepless journey, French actress Ariane Labed is speeding to join the set where work has begun some days ago. The role she is hurrying towards: the headmistress. Lecturing pupils in a drill of discipline and demise. They are her victims and possible trigger for her final surrender. But this not clear.
    The preparations for a key scene at the mansion’s bel étage have her co-stars lining up on the black and white checker marble floor, confessing to the mythical yet vulnerable character of their dominatrix that sit them facing, dressed in her armour. A piece by Sandra Backlund knitted from human hair.
    Routine at the boarding house: The line-up of disciples, top right Evangelia Randou, lower right: Sofia Dona.
    Each one of her disciples is to kneel in a black boarding school uniform, with neat white “col claudine”, to receive punishment or absolution:
    French actress Clémence Poésy, Russian-born ginger-haired actress Isolda Dychauk, dancer Evangelia Randou, actress Aurora Marion, director Deniz Gamze Ergüven, architect Sofia Dona, and finally Aleksandra Waliszewska, the artist inspiring this slipstream of scenes for what is going to be a trip called “the capsule”.
    Between the walls of the ancient building, a world of secluded women, whispers, secrets and violence:
    “ich will sie alle töten. Ich möchte hier alleine bleiben mit ihnen,” confesses Isolda and gets away unpunished, unlike the others.
    Their faith lays at the clicking thimble-clad fingertips of Ariane. But does it really?
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    Clémence Poésy confesses: "J’ai eu envie de mettre des bris de verre dans les chaussures d’Isolda." 
    while her dominatrix is about to get more creative with punishments. Photo by René Habermacher.
    Fragments of scenes linger like particles in the still air, lit by rays of distant light. Emotions whirl and loop in repetition.
    As the sun wanders and fades multiple times, filming continues to ever later hours and let the fictions fringes blur. The crew becomes hostage to the ancient mansion, a surreal, yarn-spinning fairy tale. Roles and reality intertwine in the fabric of a captivating Greek Gothic mystery.
    Somewhere in the mansions underbelly glows Ariane’s gown, a creation by Canadien artist Ying Gao. The ruffles of the sheer fabric move in slow motion, animated by fine tuned micro-robotics, the dress is adorning her floating silhouette in the pitch black of the vault.
    Ariane at the onset of darkness, wearing a micro-robotic geared gown by Canadian designer Ying Gao,
    for which Bekos the goat developed an immense appetite. Photo by René Habermacher.
    Ariane’s last scene ends with the day, the private speedboat waiting at the quai to take her back to Piraeus.
    Its a wrap. As the crew departs the set, the deserted mansion continues to stare over the empty promenade under an anemic moon.
    Alone, Bekos, the star-goat, pet to the headmistress, remains; saved from being served for the Easter feast, and hopefully living happily ever-after.
    One of Bekos's caprices: an endless hunger for attention, and bits and bites of the costumes. Photo by René Habermacher.
    “The Capsule” continues its journey to festivals, after Sundance the next stops:
    25th Angers Premier Plans Film Festival, France, 2013
    48th Solothurn Film Festival, Switzerland, 2013
    36th Göteborg International Film Festival, Sweden, 2013
    More information: THE CAPSULE

    Posters for The Capsule: Design by Ania Goszczyńska with artwork of Aleksandra Waliszewska
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    hanaa

    - by antoine

    It’s not everyday that an Arab woman is chosen by a major cosmetics brand as its global spokesperson…

    The Stimuleye presents “Hanaa”, a film by Antoine Asseraf & René Habermacher, starring Tunisian model Hanaa Ben Abdesslem, spokesperson for Lancôme.

    Antoine Asseraf: Where are you from, and how were you discovered ?

    Hanaa Ben Abdesslem: I was raised in a town on the sea coast of Tunisia named Nabeul. 
    I dreamed of becoming a model since I was very young.

    In 2009, I participated in a reality TV show for models in Lebanon.  There I met Sophie GalaI, who would become my manager, and in 2010 she presented me to IMG Paris, who in turn presented me to Carine Roitfeld, at the time Editor-in-Chief of Vogue Paris.

    Through her introduction to Ricardo Tisci , I was chosen as a Givenchy fashion show exclusive that same season.
       
    AA: You’re becoming an icon representing the “middle-eastern woman” in the fashion world and beyond,
    but which people are icons to you ? Can you tell us a bit about your relationship with Farida Khelfa ?

    My icons are the Tunisian women in the fashion industry, whom I admire and whose accomplishments I respect, such as Liela Menshari, Hermes window designer — she received the Golden Dido Award for her contribution to Tunisian culture and influences in world, and Afef Jenifen, who fought for Arab women’s freedom of choice and continues to defend their rights.

    Farida is a great support and she always has good advice, such as “stay true to yourself.”

    HANAA
    a film by Antoine Asseraf & René Habermacher
    starring Hanaa Ben Abdesslem
    styling Yoko Miyake
    hair Nicolas Eldin
    make up Tracey Gray Mann
    production by Clast
    postproduction by The Stimuleye
    text by Omar Khayyam
    sound by Gnawa Diffusion
    thanks Sophie Gallal

    Look 1: Dolce & Gabbana
    Look 2: Jil Sander by Raf Simons
    Look 3: Chloé
    Look 4: Stella McCartney

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    jean paul lespagnard: from b to a

    - by antoine

    B is Belgium.

    A is Africa.

    Leave it to Jean Paul Lespagnard to connect the 2 in a fresh way for his SS2013 collection.

    You can also see one of the key outfits from the collection in action, as worn by Lynsey Peisinger, in the FIAC Paris 2012 teaser…

    FIAC 2012 official teaser by The Stimuleye. Pants/overalls by Jean-Paul Lespagnard.
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    cécile bortoletti: homodiegetic serendipity

    - by antoine

    Beyond its famous fashion & photography festival, Hyères’ Villa Noailles hosts throughout the year a number of photography, fashion, design, architecture and film-related events.

    For the annual photography commission, fashion photographer Cécile Bortoletti captured the Mediterranean flora of Hyères over the course of one year, her visions now revealed to us in a new exhibition, “sur-nature”…

    by René Habermacher

    Sur-Nature exhibition poster. Picture by René Habermacher.

    Antoine Asseraf: The title of the exhibition is “sur-nature” [“over-nature”]…

    Cecile Bortoletti: It’s a contraction of “super-nature.”

    AA: But there’s also a reference to the super-imposition which takes place in some of the pictures…

    CB: It was rather complex to get a complete vision of nature around Hyères, very bountiful, luxurious…

    I live in the countryside, i take pictures of special moments, but to do something like this, like a one year long walk, I had never done. I had done a series of trees at night for a UNESCO/CNRS exhibit about black matter, with a more scientific aspect, but it wasn’t so scattered in time, with all the seasons, like this project.

    RH: What was the challenge compared to your editorial work ?

    CB: Managing time… I’ve never worked one year on a project. Even if you know the end date, the exhibition date, it’s difficult to manage it. When you work in fashion, you’re on an addict schedule, everything is last minute, very fast.

    And here i was working alone, with a lot of time, many kilometers to explore, time to think, changing weather and moods, and each time I came I thought it was better than the previous time.

    It’s a matter of stimuli. I learned many things but I was happy that it ended, it was very intense.

    Sur-Nature exhibition view. Photo by René Habermacher.

    AA: You’ve come to Hyères for a long time… did some things still surprise you ?

    CB: Now I know it much better, I can find my way, and I’ve discovered the salt marshes and its flora, with impressive survival strategies. I didn’t know about that at all, it was a bit like desert flowers…They’re emotional because they look fragile but in fact they’re tough.

    As a whole the exhibit shows the fragility of nature, because many times one week later flowers I had shot would no longer be there.

    by René Habermacher

    Cécile Bortoletti and the salt marsh flowers. Photo by René Habermacher.

    (more…)

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    Do You Wanna FIAC with us

    - by antoine

    The Stimuleye is very proud to announce the first ever teaser for one of the biggest art fairs in the world, the Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain (FIAC), in collaboration with Saywho, choreographer Lynsey Peisinger and designer Jean-Paul Lespagnard…

    DO YOU WANNA FIAC ?

    TEASER ANGLAIS FIAC 2012 from Saywho.fr on Vimeo.

    Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain
    October 18-21, 2012
    Grand Palais + various sites in Paris

    VOULEZ-VOUS FIACker ?

    TEASER FRANCAIS FIAC 2012 from Saywho.fr on Vimeo.

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    film of the season: Shangri-La

    - by antoine

    The Stimuleye is proud to announce another collaboration with Kiko Mizuhara for Vivienne Tam Fall/Winter 2012/13.

    Shot in temples in Kyoto, here is Shangri-La.

    SHANGRI LA
    a film by Antoine Asseraf
    for Vivienne Tam Fall Winter 2012/13
    starring Kiko Mizuhara

    music Ça Va Chéri
    postproduction Clast
    assistant Jack
    creative direction Hatsumi Yamada
    production Hiromi Otsuka

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    la jolla fashion film festival

    - by antoine

    the stimuleye is happy to report that, after winning the Best Fashion Award at last year’s La Jolla Fashion Film Festival for La Main Dans Le Sac, we are in the selection again this year.

    My Garden, for Vivienne Tam, starring Kiko Mizuhara is one of the 60 films selected from over 6000 in consideration…

    La Jolla Fashion Film Festival opens today at the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art,
    in La Jolla, California.

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    design parade 7

    - by antoine

    When we say “Hyères” we often mean “the fashion and photography festival” organized by the Villa Noailles.
    But we shouldn’t.
    Because for the last 7 years, there’s been another “Hyères” in Hyères :
    Design Parade.

    10 young design-ers, eye-popping exhibitions dedicated to furniture and industrial design, a special focus on the art brought back by the Noailles’ African expeditions in the 30’s, and already a spin-off event, Tapis Parade (Carpet Parade).

    Design Parade 7 visual

    Design Parade 7.
    masque dogon
    «Dege» Mask, Dogon, collected at Opti, Mali, in 1931, 'bois de tage', Musée du quai Branly.
    Tapis Parade
    TAPIS PARADE - Anémones Jekyll, François Dumas, La Chance.
    
    Fanny Dora
    Daedaleas, Fanny Dora © Charles Negre, ECAL 2011.
    francois azambourg
    Grillage, fauteuil, François Azambourg, Ligne Roset © Jean-Pierre Lemoine.

    Design Parade 7
    Opening Friday June 29th
    Until September 30th.
    Villa Noailles, Hyères
    Var – France.

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    films of the season: monsieur chypre – a short film with erotokritos

    - by antoine

    The Stimuleye is proud to announce, with the support of Vogue Italia, an “erotic fashion epic” : Monsieur Chypre.

    “HE KNOWS WOMEN, AND WOMEN KNOW HIM”

    Erotokritos, it’s a strange name for a fashion brand.
    It’s an even stranger name for a person.
    And yet, he is truly called Erotokritos Antoniadis, named after the main protagonist of medieval epic poem, a hero “born from the labors of love”.
    For 15 years, his label has been seducing women of all ages, drawn to collections that go back and forth between the sophistication of Paris and the dolce vita of Cyprus…

    Monsieur Chypre - Come and get it

    "come and get it."

    “THEY CALL HIM MONSIEUR CHYPRE”

    France and Cyprus, Paris and Nicosia, it’s a long-distance couple.
    In Monsieur Chypre, by Antoine Asseraf & René Habermacher, they come to life:
    Loan Chabanol, channeling the nostalgia of Marguerite Duras’ The Lover, plays the tormented Parisian woman, cracking at the surface,
    while Constantino Kouyialis, in his first first on-screen role, is a revelation as the seductive eponym hero, a modern day Alexis Zorbas.

    Monsieur Chypre - Octopus

    “AN EROTIC FASHION EPIC” we call it.

    “Erotic,” how could it not be with a name like Erotokritos ?
    “Fashion,” of course: stylist Michaela Dosamantes, fresh from winning Best Fashion Award at La Jolla Fashion Film Festival for La Main Dans Le Sac, mixes the season’s classic looks to capture the heroine’s transformation from “bluesy” in Vuitton to “red-hot” in Valentino.
    And “epic” ? What else do you call a fashion film 10 months in the making, taking place not only in Paris but in numerous locations in Nicosia, in the salt lake facing the Hala Sultan Tekke mosque in Larnaca, in the Almyra and Anassa deluxe hotels, in small taverns by the side of the road, or in the majestic monument carved directed in the stone, the tomb of the Kings in Paphos ?

    Monsieur Chypre - Mosque

    “HIS VOICE IS A SONG”

    All this, to the original soundtrack of Lori Schonberg and Shane Aspegren, members of Ça Va Chéri.
    (Download it here).

    So, now the tough questions.
    Is Cyprus really like this ? A little bit. Not at all. It depends how you look at it.
    It is an island of freedom in the east mediterranean, where couples from Israel and Lebanon come to escape religion. It is the birthplace of Aphrodite. You go, you decide.

    So how can I meet this Mister Cyprus ? We hear that one a lot. From women (and men) of all ages. Maybe he’s real, maybe he’s a figment of our collective imagination, our repressed desires. One thing’s for sure — we can’t give you his number.

    “ATTEMPTING TO CHARM HIM IS USELESS. HE IS THE ONE WHO WILL FIND.”

    Monsieur Chypre
    Film credits
    Fashion credits
    Goodies

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    hyères 2012 live

    - by antoine

    For the first time ever, follow the Hyères Festival 2012 Fashion Show at the Palais de Tokyo and on The Stimuleye…

    Fashion Show Production: EYESIGHT

    Fashion Show Art Direction: Maida Gregory – Boina

    Live Stream Production: Premices Films

    Live Stream Direction: The Stimuleye

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    télé hyères

    - by admin

    The Stimuleye presents Télé-Hyères…

    Télé-Hyères
    A The Stimuleye Production
    Directed by Antoine Asseraf
    Filmed by Thibault Della Gaspera & Jason Last
    Postproduction by Clément Roncier
    Interviews by Filep Motwary
    Music by Ça Va Chéri

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    hyères just a taste… jean-pierre blanc

    - by filep

    Jean-Pierre Blanc, director of Villa Noailles and founder of Hyeres Festival for 27 years.
    Photography by Filep Motwary
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    hyères just a taste… entering Villa Noailles

    - by filep

    In a few days, one more Hyères Festival will be taking place at the Villa Noailles.

    The house is an exceptional building amenity that combines amazing spaces, light, the most amazing view of the Hyères peninsula, the most romantic botanical garden, with cement paths and staircases, inside and outside whilst cubism is visible on every corner….

    photography by Filep Motwary

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    monsieur chypre – a short film with erotokritos

    - by antoine

    Exclusively on Vogue Italia

    The Stimuleye presents, a film by antoine asseraf & rené habermacher

    MONSIEUR CHYPRE
    A Short Film With Erotokritos
    a THE STIMULEYE production
    STARRING
    CONSTANTINO KOUYIALIS as MONSIEUR CHYPRE
    LOAN CHABANOL (ELITE) as MADEMOISELLE PARIS
    PARIS UNIT
    STYLING – MICHAELA DOSAMANTES
    HAIR – ROMINA MANENTI
 @ AIRPORT
    MAKE-UP – TIINA ROIVANEN @ AIRPORT
    PRODUCTION ASSISTANT – LYNSEY PEISINGER
    LOCATION – HIROMI OTSUKA
    CATERING – EROKITCHEN
    VOICE by LYNSEY PEISINGER
    MUSIC by LORI SCHONBERG + SHANE ASPEGREN
    POSTPRODUCTION by THE STIMULEYE
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    monsieur chypre: postcards

    - by antoine

    Coming April 11, 2012 to Vogue Italia.

    Monsieur Chypre

    Cypriot countryside. By Antoine Asseraf & René Habermacher.

    Monsieur Chypre

    Monsieur Chypre

    Monsieur Chypre

    "Come and get it". By Antoine Asseraf & René Habermacher.

    Monsieur Chypre

    Monsieur Chypre

    Monsieur Chypre

    Hala Sultan Tekke / Larnaca. By Antoine Asseraf & René Habermacher.

    Monsieur Chypre – A Short Film With Erotokritos

    Vogue Italia

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