Fashion brand at Design Miami & Art Basel Miami Beach 2021

The best fashion finds at Design Miami and Art Basel Miami Beach 2021

The Miami beach-inspired sunsets, Sol LeWitt’s kaleidoscopic artwork enveloping the interior, rippling wood furniture produced by artisans across Botswana – numerous activations, events and exhibitions are testament to the fashion brands at Design Miami and Art Basel Miami Beach. 2021. Homes including Saint Laurent, Loewe, and Fendi are all set to inspire in a city synonymous with giant art and art deco sales. Here we present the wonders of Miami’s fashion world.

Fashion brands at Design Miami and Art Basel Miami Beach 2021

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The globally famous Sho Shibuya Sunrise from Small Window The series, which begins as the world enters its second month of lockdown in April 2020, features abstract gradient color blocks, painted incoherently on the front page. The New York Times. The series was born out of daily meditation on the contrast between the steady morning sky and the increasingly chaotic news cycle. The poignant pieces include a newspaper with the headline ‘Biden Beats Trump’ accented with rectangles of optimistic color, evoking the orange sun illuminating the serene blue sky; and a front page with the title ‘Trump Instigates Mobs’, next to a bloody red rectangle, outline of the punch on paper.

A number of works from Sunrise from Small Window The series is housed in a futuristic red box in Miami Beach, as part of Saint Laurent’s ’55 Sunrises’ exhibit. The show – which includes two new artworks by New York-based Shibuya, founder of brand design studio Placeholder – commemorates the 55th anniversary of the opening of Saint Laurent’s first Rive Gauche ready-to-wear boutique in Paris. These new works are inspired by the brand’s original logo and evoke a window through which the tones of the sunrise filter.

Lowe

Loewe’s Miami Design District store, which opened in 2015 and has hosted as a gallery space for artists including Anthea Hamilton, Paul Nash, Lucie Rie and Rose Wyli, Ian Godfrey, Andrea Büttner and Anne Low, has reopened as a new space. renovated, with large-scale artwork by pioneering American conceptualist Sol LeWitt.

Graphic acrylic ribbon from Wallpaper #1138 (2004) wrapped the interior walls of the boutique’s interior in bold colours, marking Loewe’s commitment to creating a striking retail space that showcases his art and design collections. Likewise, the work of Erika Verzutti, 2021 Loewe Foundation Craft Prize finalist Takuro Kuwata, and Sir Edwin Lutyens fills the newly opened Lisbon shop in Portugal. The boutique Miami’s glass faade offers passers-by a glimpse of Sol LeWitt’s large-scale work, alongside 20 black ceramic vessels by Japanese artist Kenta Anzai.

Fendi

Designed by Peter Mabeo and produced by artisans across Botswana, the Fendi Mabeo collaboration is a ten-part collection that explores local crafts and pushes traditional techniques and materials in new directions. The collection includes Gabi-Gabi sculpture, large-scale centerpiece made of galvanized sheet metal, and remade in a smaller version in the brass table lamp ‘Gabinyana’; and the ‘Shiya’ seat, made of panga panga wood and plywood. Reaching into different experimental territory is the ‘Foro’ chair, which moves away from the idea of ​​clay objects being monoliths and instead uses materials to make the archetypal chair (an additional version is made of panga panga wood).

Viewing the works in this collaboration is like exploring a craft map in Botswana, as Mabeo enlists an extensive network of artisans to bring each design to life. ‘We’ve traveled all over the country, we’ve engaged basket weavers, metalworkers, people who practice ancient techniques, as well as our local wood and metal craftsmen,’ he explains. The human connection is key to bringing the pieces together, he adds: ‘I didn’t want to just use the material for the sake of it, but to create an opportunity to engage with craftsmen who still retain this technique, going back in time. so long.’ Author: Rosa Bertoli right