Last June when I told you all about the F/W 2011 Emilio Pucci collection, I promised that you will see me in those pieces. Here you go, Pucci goes Wies’n! Last week, I was invited to an Oktoberfest party and this was my look.:
High waisted suede skirt and wool and cashmere-blend intarsia sweater, both by Emilio Pucci, Palais pumps by Yves Saint Laurent, choker by Dolce & Gabbana and clutch by Louis Vuitton.
LoL, Sandra
Photos: © Sandra Bauknecht
Vintage Versace printed silk shirts are hotter than ever. The colorful and bold Versace staple is being discovered and sought out by a new generation of pops stars, such as Lady Gaga, and style hipsters. The trend was also evoked in many runway collections these past few seasons as seen at Dolce & Gabbana and Céline among others. In celebration of this renewed appreciation, Versace has re-issued a limited number of classic printed silk shirts. No one can do Versace better than Versace.
Versace re-issued three different women’s styles, which are available now in all Versace boutiques worldwide as well as selected department stores and special boutiques/e-commerce sites for CHF 1100 each. You can shop the silk shirts by clicking here.
LoL, Sandra
Photos: Courtesy of Versace
For my German based readers:
The new SI Style with my monthly fashion column is available from today.
This time, I am telling you more about my recent trip to New York City during Fashion Week where I ran into Ed Westwick at the Tommy Hilfiger Men’s S/S 2012 show.
You will also find some great travel tips.
Get your issue now!
LoL, Sandra
Photos: © Sandra Bauknecht
An incarnation of sobriety and elegance, Prada presents its new Galleria bags in classic shapes. The new accessories capsule collection is named after the brand’s first, historic store.
A tribute to the heritage and research that Prada enhanced since 1913 in accessories design and material research, thus making – amongst others – centred crocodile and ostrich become iconic materials.
In order to further highlight the uniqueness of these products, that are available in some select worldwide boutiques, Prada will provide some colour variations of ostrich and crocodile exclusively on a Made to Order basis.
Saffiano leather starting at € 1.600.-
Ostrich leather starting at € 5.980.-
Crocodile leather starting at € 22.260.-
Which one is your favourite?
LoL, Sandra
Photos: Courtesy of Prada
Today, I have an exciting photo shoot in the afternoon, you will soon know all about.
My casual look today: Grey dress by Blumarine, egg-shaped cardicoat by Stella McCartney, blue scarf by Gucci, Boston bag by Céline and biker boots by Miu Miu.
Wish me luck!
LoL, Sandra
Versatile and individual to wear, the Fatal dress by Wolford is the ultimate highlight in every suitcase. The fully seamless tube dress, that is wrinkle-free, offers many styling possibilities and can be adapted to suit any occasion. Using different draping and clever gathering new looks are always created again and again.
Furthermore, this Wolford classic was created for the F/W 2011 season in different bicolour variations – for maximum styling freedom with reversal effect: as a dress with draped bust, as skirt with a wide belt around the waist, as a mini dress with top…
Tips and tricks on ways to wear it can be found in a video styling guide by clicking here.
Available online or in Wolford stores for €145 / £125.
LoL, Sandra
Photos: Courtesy of Wolford
It is official, fall is here now. Nature is changing and so is our wardrobe. I love the colour combination of purple and green and hope that you will like it, too!
My look: Sleeveless dress by Missoni, sweater by Gucci, necklace by Lanvin, Kelly bag “So Black” by Hermès, tights “Matte Opaque 80” by Wolford, ring “Diorette” by Dior Haute Joaillerie, watch by Roger Dubuis and suede shoes by Yves Saint Laurent.
LoL, Sandra
Photos: © Sandra Bauknecht
Travel expert Kuoni and globetrotting consultant Thomas Erber have collaborated to present “Kuoni No.1”, a travel bag made of premium Barenia calfskin, created by the Swiss label “Van Astyn“ in association with Thomas Erber and Peter Nitz. It comes in an edition of 20 individually numbered pieces and is an object that ages with its owner and gracefully absorbs the traces of experience over many years of travels.
The bag is available exclusively for € 1890 at colette in Paris and through Kuoni Concierge in Zurich (+41 58 702 65 55). If you like it, you will have to hurry as there are only a few left.
LoL, Sandra
Designer Peter Nitz with me
Photos: © Sandra Bauknecht, © Alain Nathan for the still life pictures
The reason for my trip to Milan this week was the opening of “O’Clock – time design, design time” with Officine Panerai as the main partner. The exhibition is curated by Silvana Annicchiarico and Jan van Rossem, with a special exhibition design by Patricia Urquiola that analyses the relationship between the concept of time and design, on display at Milan Triennale from 11th October 2011 to 8th January 2012.
The works on show describe the way in which some 80 international designers and artists have interpreted or represented one of the fundamental themes of our culture, that of time.
Patricia Urquiola has also created for Officine Panerai the installation “I mondi di Officine Panerai” (The worlds of Officine Panerai), presented here for the first time, in which eight watch models recount, as protagonists, the design of Panerai. The installation, positioned at the end of the exhibition, is open from 11th to 23rd October and consists of eight models in as many display cases, in which the watches are presented in a setting that skilfully blends humour and poetry and create the effect of a time tunnel which appears to possess a soul, that of time.
If the link between the concept of time and a brand of high-end timepieces is obvious and immediate, the same can be said of the connection between Panerai and the world of design. The Radiomir and Luminor, created in the 1930s and 1940s for the Italian Navy frogmen commandos, have become icons of fine watch-making since their launch in the 1990s.
Damien Hirst, Beautiful Sunflower Panerai Painting
On the occasion of the exhibition the famous British artist Damien Hirst is premiering two works, made using the spin painting technique and using dials from Panerai watches and household gloss on canvas: Beautiful Sunflower Panerai Painting and Beautiful Fractional Sunflower Panerai Painting.
“I love Panerai”, declared the British artist. “The watches are timeless and I made this spin painting using black Panerai watch faces without hands in the pattern of the seeds in the head of a sunflower – I hope the painting makes you think, we are here for a good time, not a long time.”
Damien Hirst, Beautiful Fractional Sunflower Panerai Painting
© 2011 Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved DACS,
Photos: by Prudence Cuming Associates
By the way, Damien Hirst has included Panerai watches on several occasions in the past in his works: a Panerai watch is painted on a table next to medicines and a skull in “Skull with Watch” from 2005 and is physically present in the installations “The Tranquility of Solitude (for George Dyer)” (2006), and “Killing Time” (2008).
Gomitolo Clock
Carlo e Benedetta Tamborini
Diamantini & Domeniconi, 2008
courtesy Diamantini & Domeniconi
A cotton-knit cover; almost as if to suggest a subtle link between the technique of measuring time and the art of weaving.
One of my favourite art works is the following, created with different pieces of furniture:
The bug – Time Machine
Patricia Urquiola
site-specific, 2011
Time has always been an obsession for humanity in that it is the least controllable and modifiable element. The strongest limit to be overcome and on which technology and progress can intervene least of all. Dealing with our being limited, with a deadline, which we can try to extend, but not avoid. Dealing with eternity and the impossibility of experiencing it. The curiosity of being able to foresee or read the future, the primary search of every civilization, which perpetuates itself in continuous unlikely and unfound attempts, based on foundations comparable to beliefs. Power linked to a supposed control of time, by means of forecasts, surveys, readings, premonitions, the study of cycles, the creation of systems, genetic analysis, preventative tests, séances, oracles, reading of cards, bones, animal guts, the hand, the stars. To be able to make money on the stock market, to know society’s moods, the opinions of the decision-makers, to create consensus, prevent, anticipate, control. The final solution? Invent a time machine just like the train, the car, the airplane and the spaceship were invented.
Further and further away, faster and faster, in less time, but always and only in the present and space.
The bug is a worm, an insect, something unforeseen, an error, an act of nature or something artificial, like a metaphor for the impossibilty of total control of time.
Patricia Urquiola
Patricia Urquiola in front of her time machine
Patricia Urquiola with me
Poster Plants
Oscar Diaz
2011
courtesy Oscar Diaz
A piece of white paper with a paper tree with branches and a vase filled with green paint. The special material used to make the poster causes the green paint to be absorbed at regular intervals by the branches, so that the plant can „grow“ in the space of a few months.
Domino
Albin Karlsson
2005
courtesy Albin Karlsson
Dominoes arranged into the symbol of infinity fall one after the other in a chain reaction, to then rise again as if controlled by an invisible hand, ad infinitum.
Clock
Christiaan Postma
2008
courtesy Christiaan Postma
At 3:00 on the clock’s right side, the word THREE will appear, fading out as time passes; then, at about 3:30, the word FOUR will slowly begin to emerge.
Eternity
Alicia Eggert, Mike Fleming
2010
courtesy Alicia Eggert & Mike Fleming
30 clocks and 36 black hands for the hours and the minutes move so as to form the word Eternity every 12 hours and only for a few secons on a white acrylic panel.
Givenchy
Riccardo Tisci
2011
courtesy of Sandra Bauknecht
This one was a little joke…got you? But sometimes clothes are pieces of art.
My look for the exhibition opening: Black and white dress and ruffled jacket with zipper detail by Givenchy, suede pumps by Yves Saint Laurent, stay-ups “Bonny Dots” by Wolford and cocktail ring by Dior Haute Joaillerie.
“Life can only be understood backwards; but must be lived forwards” – Sören Kierkegaard
LoL, Sandra
Suryia Hill to the right with me, Photos: © Sandra Bauknecht
In Galleria del Corso in Milan: in the space formerly occupied by the Excelsior cinema, the Gruppo Coin has opened the new luxury concept store EXCELSIOR with 4000 sqm dedicated to fashion, food and design on seven floors, built by renowned French architect Jean Nouvel.
The flow of technological reflections takes visitors through a multisensorial shopping experience, from the basement (the Eat’s Store) to the top floor, the home of the luxury accessories. Customers can shop a large selection of beauty products, enjoy the patisserie Ladurée, a Tiffany store and fashion brands such as Givenchy, Chloé, Valentino, Holly Fulton and Proenza Schouler. Believe me, you could spend the whole day in this shopping temple!
LoL, Sandra
Designer clothes
Beauty temple
Olfactory bar
Ladurée
Photos: © Sandra Bauknecht