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"Christian Dior and Chinese Artists" Exhibition

By ArtZineChina

he Ullens Center for Contemporary Art presents the exhibition "Christian Dior and Chinese Artists" starting November 16th, 2008 in Beijing.

Twenty-two Chinese commissioned artists were presented at the event, included: Wang Du, Zhang Huan, Huang Rui, Li Songsong, Zhang Dali, Xu Zhongmin, Liu Jianhua, Lu Hao, Wang Qingsong, Yan Lei, Zhang Xiaogang,Wen Fang, Shi Jingsong, Wang Gongxin, Shi Xiaofan, Liu Wei, Rong Rong & Inri, Tim Yip, Qiu Zhijie and Ma Yangsong.

Over one hundred Dior Couture pieces were sent directly from Paris to exhibit at the UCCA, among which includes the “New Look” which is one of the most influential Couture pieces in the history of fashion, designed by Mr. Christian Dior (1095 – 1957) in 1947. After years of variations, the exhibition combines contemporary Chinese art pieces inspired by Dior’s most prominent codes, such as Tailleur bar, Façade avenue Montaigne, Dior perfume, Lady Dior, and portrait of Mr. Christian Dior etc., with Couture pieces designed by Dior Couture ingenious Artistic Director, Mr. John Galliano.

The originality of this project relies on an unusual layout that brings the visitor to the heart of the Chinese art scene. The works reveal a unique process of confronting Eastern and Western cultures in a futuristic perspective.

The exhibition will be held at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Arts until January 15th, 2009. Images of the art works from the exhibition are as follow:


Huang Rui, Timeless white cloud, Installation, black and white artificial pearls, iron threads, 13m x 3m x1.8m

Li Song, Light bag, Installation, neons, 3m x 6.6m x 6.4m

Liu Wei, Fragments, Installation, steel, Iron, painting, 10mx10mx260cm

Lu Hao, Illusion 1947, Installation, fiberglass, wood, artificial flowers, 400x500x70cm

Ma Yansong, the DIOR boutique

Qiu Zhijie, Three pools mirroring the moon, Installation. steel, stones

Rong rong and Inri, Untitled 1-5, Photography, Hand colored silver gelatin print, 130x150cm x 5

Shi Jinsong, Design. gene, Installation, inox, couteaux, flechettes, 2m - 4-5 diameters

Shi Quentin, The stranger in the glass box, Photography, media injek print on archive paper, 190cm x 112cm

Tim Yip, Floating Leaf Garden

Wang Du,Image Making, Carpet, New-Zealand wool 800x600 cm

Wang Gongxing, Synchronization, Video installation, 13x11m

Wang Qingsong, Nutrition, 照片，Photographie, C-print, 2008,160x300cm

Wen Fang, Hole In The Wall，Hope In The World, Installation, bricks, 800x240x30 cm

Xu Zhongmin, U-walk, Installation, inox, plexiglas, fibre de verre, lumières, moteur, 1200cm x 100cm x 300cm

Yan Lei, Sparkling-Marylin en Dior, Oil on canvas, 180cm x 250cm

Zhang Dali, AK47(L1), Painting, acrylic on vinyl, 225x300cm

Zhang Huan, North Star n.2, Painting, ash on linen, 168cm x 336cm x 17cm

Zhang Huan, North Star n.3, Installation, silkscreen mounted on carved antique wood door, 300cm x 238cm

Zhang Huan, Giant n.3, 2008, Mixed installation, cow skin, steel, wood and polystyrene foam, 1000 x 460 x 420cm

Zhang Xiaogang, Worker Peasant Businessman Student Soldier, Sculptures, Bronze

Zheng Guogu, Oxyder pendant 2000 ans -Dior，Installation, acier, 1m x 30cm x 1m

Celebrities and Artists, from left to right: Wen Fang, Li Songsong, Yan Lei, Shi Xiaofan, Ma Yansong, Huang Rui, Zhang Dali, Shi Jinsong, Zhang Xiaogang, Wang Qing Song, Liu Jianhua, Wang Gongxin, Ye Jintian, Xu Zhongmin, Qiu Zhijie, Inri, Rong Rong

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Li Song - Light bag Installation - Christine Dior Events | ArtZineChina.com | 中国艺志

Li Song - Light bag Installation - Christine Dior Events | ArtZineChina.com | 中国艺志

By ArtZineChina

he Ullens Center for Contemporary Art presents the exhibition "Christian Dior and Chinese Artists" starting November 16th, 2008 in Beijing.

380 honorable guests and top notch society luminaries attended the gala evening which marked the opening of the exhibition starting

November 15th, 2008 in Beijing. Lead by Mr. Bernard Arnault, (Chairman and CEO of LVMH and Christian Dior), Guy and Myram Ullens, Mr. Sidney Toledano, (President and CEO Christian Dior Couture), Mr. Claude Martinez, (President and CEO Christian Dior Parfumes) and Mr. John Galliano (Artistic Director of Dior Couture), the exhibition opening was celebrated and witnessed with some of the most important guests and celebrities from across 18 countries.

Top celebrities from across the world also came to celebrate this special occasion for Dior and the Ullens Center. They were Charlize Theron (spokesperson of Christian Dior “J'adore” Fragrance), Marion Cotillard (the new face of Lady Dior bag), Eva Green (spokesperson of the Christian Dior “Midnight Poison” Frangrance), Maggie Cheung (Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival), Michelle Yeoh (Best Actress at the BAFTA awards), Ms. Mylène Jampanoï (spokesperson of Diorsnow). Other Asian top celebrities includes, Zhao Wei, Chen Kun, Li Bing Bing, Lin Chiling, Tang Wei, Chang Chen, Hidetoshi Nakata, Han Chae Young, Shawn Yu, Vivian Wu, Tan Yuan Yuan, Zhang Jing Chu, Gao Yuan Yuan, Yundi Li, Lv Yan, Du Juan.

The world of Christian Dior Couture and Chinese Contemporary Art stepped hands in hands at this night of celebration, fashion and Chinese Contemporary Art to mark the beginning of The “Christian Dior and Chinese Artists” exhibition. The exhibition will be held at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Arts until January 15th, 2009.

Here are some pictures from the opening:



Left to right: Mr. Bernard Arnault, Charlie Theron, John Galliano, Mr. Sidney Toledano

Left to right: Maggie Chen, Charlie Theron, John Galliano, Mr. Bernard Arnault

LVMH Group

Li Bing Bing

Left to right: Lin Chi Ling, Hidetoshi Nakata

Fei Pei (Center)

Left to right: , Mylène Jampoi, Marion Cotillard

Ye Jintian and Liu Jianhua

Left to right: He Hong Jie and Chen Anni

Left to right: Tang Wei, Chang Chen

Left to right: Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Chen

Zhang Jing Chu


Left to right: Chang Chen, Michelle Yeoh

Zhao Wei

Left to right: Zhang Huan, Lin Chi Lin

Left to right: Du Juan, Fei Pei

Christian Dior

Christian Dior

Christian Dior

Christian Dior

Shi Jinsong, Design. gene, Installation, inox, couteaux, flechettes, 2m - 4-5 diameters

Yan Lei, Sparkling-Marylin en Dior, Oil on canvas, 180cm x 250cm

Zhang Xiaogang, Worker Peasant Businessman Student Soldier, Sculptures, Bronze

Wen Fang, Hole In The Wall，Hope In The World, Installation, bricks, 800x240x30 cm

Christian Dior

Display in the exhibition

Christian Dior and Zhang Dali, AK47(L1), Painting, acrylic on vinyl, 225x300cm

Display in the exhibition

Li Song, Light bag, Installation, neons, 3m x 6.6m x 6.4m

Wang Gongxing, Synchronization, Video installation, 13x11m

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Jane Aldridge - Sea of Shoes

Jane Aldridge - Sea of Shoes
Video sent by mrjyn

Jane Aldridge is calm, composed and homeless. Includes 'Teen Vogue' and 'French Glamour,' and hundreds of blogs, whose readers track her every footstep--Jane is unfazed, but not immune to scrutiny. This featureless includes shiny 'boot-y' from her closet [recognizable to readers of 'Sea of Shoes'--her industry-watched blog, described here as, 'One of the most popular blogs on the Internet']. Most hits in a day? [61,000]. Kenya West 'boot-y call'? [Yes, but not what you're thinking. rapper, turned fashionable Sofa was all 'businessperson.] Gumshoes? A confirmation! Exotica-gardenias compressible freethinkers sideshow Paris [Frankincense], Jane's shoes artfully parked in their own showroom, her bedroom closet. [I have witnessed grown women, teenage girls, and not a few men comment SOS, combining bliss, agony, deep-green envy, and obeisant supplication, with the rare Jerry Springer-reject thrown in for kicks.]

Jane, with insight beyond her years, and an easy Texas laugh appropriate to them [due in part to her mother, Judy--former model, current retailer: 'Atlantis Vintagecredits Mom for inspiration and early initiation by Kabuki.

This three-minute clip [accompanied by awful techno], conceived as an human interest peek into Jane's closet,finds Jane flipping absurdity into Zen pancakes Cocksure, not cocky, Jane [with a twinkle] begins, 'If I were a shoe...,' selecting a chic '09 Alaïa 'Maryjane on Steroids' and anthropomorphizing it with only a modicum of detectable bullshit into that which would normally define superfluity, but which here transforms a teenage puff-piece, tabled in Dallas, into a real fashion remote from Trophy Club, where suburban student Jane turns into 'Shoeshine' Superhero--"Shoestring J"!
~Myrwyn

Spring Cleaning (A FAQ of sorts)

Though my assistant Jean assures me that it is not Spring at the moment, I'll ignore him. It's Spring tonight. Anyway- I was looking through a printout- on quilted paper, of course- of search terms used to find my "blog." Some of them are particularly amusing. I am not a compulsive list maker, but I made a list. It's a FAQ of sorts. By the way, there was about two million search terms asking if my daughter is my daughter. I won't dignify them with an answer:

1. "Jane Lagerfeld."
I am afraid that my daughter's name is "Jane Aldridge", not "Jane Lagerfeld." Actually- she was recently featured with her mother in that magazine of Anna's recently. I'm quite proud of her. Anna's trying to make friends with Jane, because Anna thinks she is "cool" and "hip"- she's been looking up this "David Lynch" trying to work out who he is. It's vaguely cute, in a middle-aged way.

2. "Karl Lagerfeld no glasses."
You abomination. It's sheer blasphemy to want to see me without my sunglasses! What sort of sicko would want to do something like this?

3. "Anna Wintour Lesbian."
My Coco. How many sickos and weirdos read this blog? I can already imagine them- their fantasies of I, Karl Lagerfeld with my glasses off and Anna making out with Cathy "Ohio" Horyn in a bikini. Sick.

4. "Juicy Couture Ghetto"
Go away from my blog, please.

5. "Women making love."
You know, I used to think that gay men read this blog, but I'm more and more convinced that 90% of my readership are actually lesbians.

6. "Diane Pernet is creepy."
Not nearly as creepy as you, you lesbian-glasses-off-Juicy-Couture-Ghetto-creep.

7. "Don't mess with a feminist."
Well now. Who said I wasn't a feminist? Is this a threat, hmm? Chanel can track you on the internet, you know. I have lawyers. Lawyers carry guns these days.

8. "Does Karl Lagerfeld speak English."
No.

9. "Does Karl Lagerfeld fear someone else can design better than him."
No.

10. "Every woman I couldn't love."
Maybe you're gay, hm?

11. "Hannibal Karl Lagerfeld."
Why hello there, Clarice.

12. "How to make love with the girl of my uncle."|
That, my dear, would be called inscest and is frowned upon in most parts of the world.

13. "Is Anna Wintour a lesbian."
See above.

14. "My heart still yearns for your letters."
Get over it. It was in the past. Move on. The past is for losers.

15. "Why can't I show affection."
Maybe you're a sociopath!