Until early November, 37 artists – 14 sculptors and 23 photographers – of the Monegasque National Committee of the International Association of Plastic Arts at UNESCO are exhibiting their works to the Jardin Exotique as part of the ninth edition of the “When the sculptures bloom …”
The opening ceremony on September 7 was attended by Mayor George Marsan, local elected representatives André J. Campana, Deputy Mayor and delegate to the Jardin Exotique, Henri Doria and Claude Bollati, Minister of the Interior Minister Patrice Cellario, representing HE Minister of State Serge Telle, and National Councillor Eric Elena.
All guests were able to discover the sculptures arranged in the open air in the upper part of the garden, as well as the work of the photographers inside the Louis Vatrican greenhouse.
Like last year, a competition was organised to distinguish the work of an artist-sculptor and that of an artist-photographer. A first jury composed of Françoise Gamerdinger, Deputy Mayor for Culture, André J. Campana and Isabelle Lombardot, Director of the Higher School of Sculpture-Pavillon Bosio, awarded the Mayor’s Prize to Hervé Nys for his sculpture Cartus.
For photography, Karine Tomaselli won the Director’s Award for the Jardin Exotique, nominated by a second jury composed of two professional photographers, Gaëtan Luci and Adrien Rebaudo, and Jean Marie Solichon, Garden Director.
Until November 5, the exhibition is accessible with a ticket to the Jardin Exotique, and allows the public to combine an artistic discovery and a botanical visit of this unique place entirely devoted to succulent plants with a panoramic view of the Principality.
Philipp Plein with rapper Future at New York Fashion Week. Photo: Edward James/ Indigital.tv
This weekend at New York Fashion Week, Monaco scene regular Philipp Plein birthed his Spring/Summer 2018 collection (Men’s and Women’s collectively) in signature Plein fashion, with an over-the-top runway spectacle and party.
Burlesque artist and fashion icon Dita Von Teese splashed around in a crystal martini glass, rapper Future performed, Nicki Minaj sat front row and later performed at the after party. With a stellar and diverse casting featuring supermodels and Victoria’s Secret angels Adriana Lima and Irina Shayk, hip-hop duo Rae Sremmurd, Instagram discovered model Matthew Noszka and singer Teyana Taylor, the German designer wrote us a dark twisted fairytale.
With “Good Gone Bad” as a theme, Philipp Plein’s recurrent graphic on T-shirts, T-dresses and crop tops was a BDSM gagged and bound cartoon princess embellished with sequins and crystals in usual Plein fashion.
Playing further into the bondage theme, there were lattice leather strap cage skirts and dresses in black and white with daisy appliqués over top gothically romantic gowns and brocade ballroom skirts. Plein staples such as embellished jeans, spiked heels and sneakers, anoraks and moto jackets got the “Good Gone Bad” treatment with embroidered and crystal embellished woodland creatures surrounded by phrases such as “Baby Light My Fire”.
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The Plein logo and leather daisy chokers brought the looks together along with some standout accessories such as a black leather S&M bear backpack, a daisy pacifier, girly frilled socks that played well in contrast to the danger do not touch factor of the spiked pumps, and oversized satin bows sashes as belts.
For men, Plein stuck with his classics and updated a few. Mixed in with the 5-figure alligator motorcycle jacket, distressed and/or embellished jeans were two stand out looks, a bomber jacket that closely resembled a thermal blanket was paired with metallic silver waxed jeans and white high top sneakers giving the impression of a very fashion forward astronaut, while the other look a metallic silver waxed denim jacket paired with similar jeans and Chelsea boots gave the vibe of a punk space cowboy.
While many either not familiar with Philipp Plein or not a fan of him will dismiss this collection as being way too risqué and off the mark for them, for sure his millions of clients and fans worldwide will love this collection because one thing Philipp Plein does not do is compromise his vision, something that has gotten him exactly where he is today, with a global empire.
Philipp Plein’s store is at Centre Commercial Le Metropole, 17 Avenue des Spelugues.
TMC, the Monegasque national broadcaster, has confirmed that Monaco will not participate in the forthcoming 2018 Eurovision Song Contest, joining Turkey, Luxembourg and Andorra on the list of countries that will not take part in the contest, to be held in Portugal.
Monaco made its debut at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1959 and has won the contest once, in 1971, with Severine‘s “Un banc, un arbre, une rue”. Even though the Principality won the competition, it did not host the event the following year. Monaco competed in every single edition of the contest religiously from 1959 to 1979.
Monaco withdrew from the competition in 1980 and did not return to the contest until 2004 when the semi-final system was introduced in the Eurovision Song Contest. Monaco continued participating in 2005 and 2006. The country failed to qualify to the grand final on all three occasions and withdrew from the contest in 2007 and has not returned since.
The last time Monaco graced the Eurovision stage was 11 years ago, namely in 2006 when Severine Ferrer treated viewers to the tropical sounds of La coco dance.
The 2018 Eurovision Song Contest is scheduled to be held on May 8, 10 and 12, 2018, in Lisbon. The final list of the 2018 Eurovision participating countries is expected to be released by the European Broadcasting Union later during the year.
