Fresh Faces, New Spaces

 

Spring fever makes us lust after the new, and Rebecca Bloom sets her sights on things artistic – fresh, mind-expanding, at times inscrutable, but always inspiring.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wandering about the Gallery at Hermès, I cast an appraising eye over “Still Moving: The Film and Media Collections of the Museum of Modern Art,” a multimedia presentation of selected images from the book of the same title. Guests included Henry Duarte, Jim Deutsch, Merle Ginsberg, Russell Ferguson, Karen Marta, Edgar Arceneaux, Glenn Kaino, Corey Calter, Kevin West, and Jenny Chase Bernstein. Looking around, all I could think was how chic this fashion house truly is. Sure, Kelly and Birkin are names that firmly reside in my fashion lexicon, but I never appreciated the craftsmanship and classicism behind those fab orange and brown wrappings. In a culture with the attention span of a toddler high on sugar, Hermès has remained true to its vision and, in celebrating film’s forefathers, embraces the future….