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HYERES 2012: PALAIS DE TOKYO AWARD & LIVE STREAMING
-For the first time, Paris’ Palais de Tokyo contemporary art center will allow everyone to experience LIVE! the fashion shows of the Hyères International Fashion & Photography Festival, during a special event with The Woolmark Company and the Galeries Lafayette group.
On April 28 2012, guests and public at the Palais de Tokyo will participate, through direct commentaries by fashion journalist Daphne Burki and interaction between Paris & Hyères, in the immediate selection of a public prize for their favorite designer.The event will unfold in the salle Epstein, a mythical projection room in the Palais de Tokyo, built by the Cinémathèque Française in the end of the 1980’s, and given a second life after 20 years of abandon.
Those who cannot attend at Palais de Tokyo will be able to follow the fashion show live on The Stimuleye.
PUBLIC AWARD
Villa Noailles/Palais de Tokyo
Saturday April 28th, 8:45 PM C.E.T.
Salle Epstein of the Palais de Tokyo
Paris 16th Arrondissement.All times C.E.T. (GMT + 2)
19:45 Cocktail by invitation
20:45 Doors open to the public + beginning of broadcast Paris – Hyères
21:00 Fashion show begins, with on-site commentaries by Daphen Burki:
10 designers in competition
2 winners of 2011
10 special looks for Chloé
22:30 Palais de Tokyo Public Prize Award00 -
contest: beyond the wall
-For the 27th edition of the Hyères Fashion + Photo Festival, The Stimuleye presents choreographer Lynsey Peisinger’s PILLORY, a performance/video/installation hybrid.
Submit your 30 seconds maximum video before April 1st for a chance to have it featured in the installation, which launches April 27th at the 2012 Hyères Fashion + Photo Festival, next exhibits by Yohji Yamamoto, Jasons Evans, and Inez van Laamswerde + Vinoodh Matadin.
Imagine what lies beyond the wall of the PILLORY installation.
All submitted videos must be
no more than 30 seconds long,
from one angle/point of view,
and submitted before April 1st, 2012.Fore more info and video guidelines: contest@thestimuleye.com
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HYÈRES is TOMORROW: RAF SIMONS
-“I do think the main thing when you start with what you want to do, is to find an audience.
And to find an audience, the main thing is to start up a dialogue with them and to find out what they want.”
Raf Simons speaks with The Stimuleye on Hyères. Contestants get ready for the next edition, register before 26th of November, and send your entry before the 5th of December!
Mister Raf Simons likes it sharp but prefers his pictures in blur. Sequence by Antoine AsserafRAF SIMONS: With my exhibition at the villa, I wanted to show the form of extremity that can be the start of something and still be successful.To me it’s really important for the generation who enters into this context to realise what kind of platform this is. I think it’s enormous. The amount of press that is there and the staging of the garments on a super high level.
We selected 10 contestants out of 50 (of initially 800 entries), together with Christopher Kane, Michel Gaubert, Maida Boina and Jean Pierre Blanc.It was not easy. We had for each entry one single silhouette, which is complicated to judge with the dossier that is “flat” and has yet to be developed.I did see there were people who were working on their collection, from the moment they were chosen to the moment it went on stage, and there were people who did not. That showed also in the final result: the ones who had been working on, got better.
It was quite a discussion within the jury. We were not unanimous about the winner. There were mainly two, but there was clearly already a third person [Emilie Meldem] that all members of the jury found interesting to mention, so we had to decide to vote, which is also the honest way I think. when you start discussing like “yeah maybe less people like that and more like the the other, but let’s still make the winner the one that less people like”- I think that is not correct.Hyères Alive - Award Ceremonies
“Refined sensibility” – I think the winner [Léa Peckre] stood out for that at the end.
The second price [Céline Meteil] won for its purity. In relation to lots of other things the jury members thought that one was attracting because of the purity and of its honesty: to take one thing and kind of concentrate on that. One material, one process, one kind of shape. But it worked. It had something quite controlled at the same time something not too forced, not trying to be too special. Because we had quite some people who tried to be really special and it also went wrong. -
NEXT: RICHARD GRAY
-What was the last thing that stimulated you?
“This picture of Isabella Blow at her wedding in 1988 to husband Detmar. A troubled woman from another place.”
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NEXT: MAREUNROL’S
-“The last theater performance which we saw about a Latvian poet Imants Ziedonis directed by Alvis Hermanis. It has left a great impression on us.”
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NEXT: SANDRA BACKLUND
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“Some of the people I met during the festival of Hyères really managed to give me some new input…
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NEXT : ATHI-PATRA RUGA
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Can I name five…1. Joanna Newsom’s new Album
2. My partners blog : “skattie what are you wearing”
3. my decision to cut down on the alcohol.
4. x-box…a godsent.
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next: MATT PYKE
-It’s a strange one but I’ve been learning tennis for two years because I needed to learn a sport.
I won my first tennis match last week —it’s a completely different way of using your arm then clicking a mouse.
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next: PANDELIS CHANDRIS
-“The same thing stimulated me for the last 20 years and I do not know what it is…”
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next: YELLE
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…our new light installation for our live show.
3-part interview and exclusive photo shoot coming soon.
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Next: EFI SPYROU
-“The tales interwoven with the remains of memories, carved by lights and shades into a living space that no longer exists.”
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next: dimitris papaioannou
-A quote from Rumi, the Persian sufi, translated by Coleman Barks:
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