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from him is a real piece of art, a mirror made of a silicium-carbide-based
ceramic that is more expensive than gold. For Quai Voltaire, he made two
three-meter-long tables—one for writing, one for sketching—in white Corian with
metal stripes. They face each other in the over-20-meter-long space that I made
from three rooms. What else is in this vast room?There is also a huge sofa by
Amanda Levete and two of the most beautiful coffee tables I’ve seen in years,
from Established & Sons, the British-based design company that Stella
McCartney’s clever husband, Alasdhair Willis, heads. He does expensive limited
editions like Kreo but also cheaper versions. Chanel
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£10,000, and they are both beautiful. And I have chairs by the English designer
Tom Dixon, two sofas by the French designer Jean-Marie Massaud and my favorite
statue, Serenity, by Elie Nadelman. What is the appeal of all these pieces?We
live in a period of revivals—post Bauhaus, post ’70s, post ’60s, post whatever.
What I like about the things I’ve bought from Kreo is that they have a voice
only from now. The art that I think is genius is Conceptual art, Land art. My
favorite artist is James Turrell, and that’s not for the living room. So you
enjoy contemporary art, too?I love it, but not at home. At home I want only
books.Chanel Coin
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photos on your walls here in Paris?There are no walls, just glass walls, glass
windows, glass doors. It’s a glass box. You push one button and 50 doors—25 on
each side—open at the same time and you have the library. On one side there are
reading books, on the other side art books. It is like a flawless spaceship
flying over Paris, because at the end you have these big windows with a view of
the Seine, the boats and the Louvre.? It’s a very strange feeling, like life is
short and the day is nothing because it is so enchanting. You get dressed and
undressed and the day is over.
You are famous for your love of books.Art is something you feel. You don’t
have to own it. But I’m a slave to my books. I’m not a bibliophile. It’s the
inside that is interesting to me Chanel Purse
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huge photography studio next door [on the Rue de Lille] with a bookshop in the
front part [stocked with beautiful books on art, fashion, design, decoration,
photography and gardens plus a selection of international art magazines] that is
doing very well. In fact, I have three houses—I mean, I have three houses right
there [around the Quai Voltaire] and other houses elsewhere. I turned a
nine-room apartment into a huge suite only for me, with a kitchen to warm up
things that people can bring when I call. I have no servants in there when I’m
home. Nobody. I want to be alone, like Garbo. My studio next door is a huge
place, and there is an apartment over there for guests. My library there has
almost 60,000 books. When I leave my apartment where I stay for the night, I
have a town house for lunch and guests and books next door Chanel Gst .
All these places are three minutes from one another. A town house for lunch—I
like that.I’m a guest in my own house. I hate the smell of cooking. And in this
little town house, you know what I am doing with the decor? It’s called the
French house because I am mixing 18th-century furniture with French Art Deco by
Louis Süe and André Mare. You would never give up the 18th century completely,
would you? No, it lives in me, but I don’t have to live in it. In New York, you
are living in the 21st-century design of John Pawson, who did the interiors of
the Gramercy Park building. Architecture is also very important to you.Today,
modern art and architecture—what is the difference? Architecture is conceptual
art, in a way. The drama of contemporary art is that it errs on the side of too
much pretentious thinking, too much talking, not enough action.? People like
Turrell don’t explain. You just get the message.You had a collaborative hand in
the architecture of the Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion, Zaha Hadid’s glamorous
space-age gallery, whose gentle sweep of gleaming white arched panels is an
abstract evocation of the iconic chanel gst
bag handbag.Zaha did more than I did. And yes, it is the best object of the
show, like a walk-in Brancusi. Zaha has destroyed the dryness of the
post-Bauhaus aura that covered the world, all those ugly buildings and airports
that came after the genius of the original movement. What have you liked about
the artists in the show so far?The Japanese artist Tabaimo, who made a huge well
[rimmed in black quilted leather and inhabited by video images of fantastical
swamp life], is my favorite. I like Yoko Ono’s Wish Tree [covered in red
blossoms to which visitors are invited to attach white strips on which they’ve
written their own wishes]. It’s like decoration, with an unpretentious
lightness. But I thought there were too many objects for the space. It will be
different in chanel price
list New York. Another spring, another love—even if it’s fall. Life is about
change, and art is about change, too.
“The range is ethical and it's about trying to combine the ideas of style and
conscience. For me it's been brilliant being a part of something whereby I
wasn't directed and I wasn't a commodity, because it's very much something that
I'm going to have to build and work really hard on myself.”In between her many
side projects, she still finds time to walk the runways. Models starting out
today have notoriously short careers, but at 33 she remains in demand among
designers, particularly those who exhibit at Couture Week in Paris. The drama of
the catwalk is one of her favourite elements chanel
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excitedly, striking a dramatic pose to illustrate her point. “You're trying to
interpret a fantasy in a very physical way and you really are playing a
character. I've played men, dead people, famous people, historical icons, and
it's no mean feat. It's quite an insular experience even though the crowd is in
front of you and there's an expectation. With Marks & Spencer, my job
initially felt quite a lot harder because I was playing myself. And I've never
actually done that because being a model I was able to hold back quite a lot of
myself. There was this feeling of self-preservation which was incredibly
important. So smiling in front of a camera and being on the telly…”She trails
off with a shrug that suggests that this very different type of exposure is more
unnerving than any couture show. However, her Chanel
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family and friends back home what her job actually entails. Her mother, a
nursery teacher and father, a foundry worker had always been supportive of her
career, but many of the arty European magazines she has been featured in didn't
appear on the shelves of the newsagents in Walsall.With the M&S campaign,
suddenly she was getting proud texts from her mother saying she'd seen her
daughter on a billboard, and her father even went into his local branch of the
store to ask if he could get one of the posters from the window once they'd
finished with it. “He said they looked at him like he was a dirty old pervert!”
she says with her trademark squeal of laughter. “But he got it. I think I've
gone a bit floppy hanging up in the garage.”Her father had always told her she
was beautiful, but she'd never believed him, and even when a model scout echoed
his words she refused to accept it. But today, as one of the most successful
models on the planet and a spokeswoman for her industry, O'Connor's finally come
to recognise her beauty, to be comfortable being judged by it, and to embrace
it.
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