FASHION ART INSTALLATION 4 LOUIS VUITTON PARIS STORE |
Wednesday, 19 October 2005 |
Hot on the heels of Paris Fashion Week, comes a sexy installation by Italian artist, Vanessa Beecroft, for the world leader in luxury, Louis Vuitton's new Paris store. Designed
by architects Eric Carlson and Peter Marino, the glitzy new house
represents a groundbreaking architectural achievement, conceived as a
promenade of terraces in homage to the historical and cultural
importance of the Champs-Elysees as the world's most stylish promenade.
Equally
unprecedented is the integration of art and architecture, with works by
three leading contemporary artists displayed as landmarks of the house
promenade. Exclusively for the Champs-Elysees, the American artist
James Turrell created an impressive "Wide Glass" modular light
sculpture, while fellow American Tim White-Sobieski contributed a
cutting-edge video installation alongside the house's spectacular
20-meter long "traveling staircase." Meanwhile, the Danish conceptual
artist Olafur Eliasson transformed an elevator linking up directly with
the top floor of the Champs-Elysees building, which will open in
January 2006 as a permanent space of artistic and cultural expression,
into a "chamber of sensual entropy" isolated from its surroundings.
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