When we were asked to come up with a creative concept for Louis Vuitton’s Vogue Fashion’s Night Out out we had recent memories of some photobooth fun…We love photo booths and especially have a fondness for well equipped ones with lot’s of props to distract from any blink in the spotlight shyness.
A dream commission then to make Louis Vuitton trunkfuls of headpieces and props for their Maison Stores in Paris and London to bring our concept to life. Inspired by the accessories in their recent shows, we made origami rabbit ears, giant layered paper bows, and then inspired by general fabulousness we created trailing mohicans, explosive shoulder pads and Daliesque paper moustaches…I was forced to stop at winged visors and eye patches (an origami restraining order was enforced.) We also made super-sized LV Vogue rosettes for the Booth Attendants to wear. All fashioned from the pages of Vogue. Our most Glamorous exercise in Fashion recycling yet…
Take a Bow
The making of…
The amount of fun one can have with a paper moustache is unquantifiable
Riley. Chief Prop Master. He needs his own booth…
Foldtastic
A Small piece of shoulder pad
A bow in the making
Retro Photobooths with Louis Vuitton light boxes on top. Love this booth
Perspex LV trunk to display the props. I want. Badly.
Origami Bunny Ears and Mohican in situ
Louis Vuitton Flower Cape
Tags: Louis Vuitton, Louis Vuitton Bond Street, Paper Art, Paper fashion, Paper Headpieces, Vogue Fashion's Night Out, Vogue Fashion's Night Out London 2010
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Happy Birthday to Makeda! My wonderful assistant who is unspeakably brilliant in so many ways (on top of working fabulously, she bakes brilliantly and rocks a hat/headpiece nearly every day) – A suitable birthday honour then to be featured on the Vogue Blog. Modeling a sneak peek selection of headpieces for Vogue Fashion’s Night Out at the Louis Vuitton store. We can’t wait for Fashion’s Night Out. Lots of fun planned!
Slice of lime with that ?
Tags: Fashion Origami, Louis Vuitton, Paper Art, vogue blog, Vogue Fashion Night Out
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We’ve developed a thing for playing with paper recently. It’s nice that something so practical and utilitarian can, when artfully crafted, pleated, folded and manipulated becomes something quite spectacularly sculptural. For the Pandora Press day in the Mandarin Oriental last week we decked the ballroom with thousands and thousands of paper flowers. We have yet to calculate how many hours went into creating these but it was many…many…hundreds. Paper worker elves mushroomed and multiplied in our studio, intricately folding and finessing over Frappucinos. Thank you to Anna and all our paper helpers who held the paper forte while some of us wafted around The Secret Garden Party and Port Eliot. When Vogue Blogs it. It’s worth it.
In a very glamorous act of paper recycling we are re-using each and every paper flower at Pandora’s next event in Monaco. Sure beats the recycling bin….
Anna tending to her flowers
Makeda and Pascale’s Secret Flower Party…..
Paper Pillars
We still love lace and had bespoke Pandora panels woven in Scotland for the event
A long stretch of Gold Mirror displays Pandora’s new collection of watches
We lit golden birdcages showcasing Pandora watches with beautiful antique filament bulbs and gold flex
Cocktails in the garden from our living herb bar. Herby Wallbanger anyone?
Tags: Event Design, Pandora Jewellery, Paper Art, Paper Flowers, Press Day, Press Day Design, Quintessentially Events
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Paper artistry has been something we have been interested in for some time. There is something so intriguing about a material that can be so fragile but still so utilitarian. We have wanted to incorporate recycled paper into an event for ages, but it had to be the right event. When we were approached to design the
Elle Style Awards we immediately thought of the physicality of the magazine itself…lot’s of beautiful images on paper. What could be more delightful than using the pages of ELLE to create new beautiful forms. A very fashionable excercise in upcycling.
By using the actual physical magazine covers, shoots and articles we knew we had the means to add an authentic element of glamour and fashion. Bringing it back to the pages and the magazine but in a refreshing playful way. We decided to use the magazine in every aspect of the design from making delicate peacocks, moths and beetles as table adornments to a chandelier from thousands of covers to crazy montages that decorated the bars (and every conceivable surface). Paper dreams indeed.
Montage Galore
A “ChandELLEier”
Pretty moth garlands.
Peacocks and Butterflies on the dining table horizon.
Tags: Elle Magazine, Elle Style Awards, Event Design, Fashion, Paper Art, Quintessentially Events
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