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Slide 3: VISIONAIRE is a multi-format album of fashion and art produced in exclusive numbered limited editions. Since its inception in the Spring of 1991, Visionaire has offered a forum for works by both famous and emerging image-makers from around the world including artists, photographers, filmmakers, personalities, writers, and fashion designers. Published 3 times a year, Visionaire features a different theme and format with each issue. Artists work in collaboration with Visionaire to produce their personal interpretations on a theme, and are given unparalleled freedom to push Visionaire’s original formats. Visionaire has collaborated with corporate sponsors such as Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Hermès, Tiffany & Co., Shiseido, Sony PlayStation, The GAP, Lexus, MINI Cooper, and more.
Slide 5: Looking haughtily over it’s shoulder to Fleur’s Flair, Visionaire rolls up it’s sleeves, cups its hands to it’s mouth, flexes its muscles…oh I could go on all day…and whispers, “the eyes have it.” -David Bowie Visionaire has allowed hundreds of artists a place to let images and ideas breathe a different air. -Mario Testino Fashions rise and fashions set but Visionaire continues to shine with its unperturbed new visions, influenced by nobody, influencing them all. -Karl Lagerfeld Visionaire is a creative playground for leading designers, artists, photographers, and thinkers. It’s a gallery in print. A cabinet of irresistible curiosities. A daring iconoclast dressed to thrill. -The New Yorker …the couture version of a magazine… -W Magazine Considered a must-have accessory among the fashion set, Visionaire is a visually seductive, text-free publication that melds fashion and art. -Art in America The idea of a publication that changes format and continually morphs and redefines itself is intriguing. -Variety I’m always proud to be involved with something that expresses a creative vision. -Marc Jacobs, InStyle
Slide 6: 18 FASHION SPECIAL / LOUIS VUITTON Artists, photographers, and image-makers give their personal interpretations of clothing selected from the collections of forty-five of the world’s most innovative and influential fashion designers. The images are packaged in a deluxe monogrammed portfolio designed and produced specially for Visionaire by Louis Vuitton.
Slide 7: Helmut Lang by Nan Goldin Yves Saint Laurent by Mario Testino Azzedine Alaïa by Jean Paul Goude Comme des Garçons by Craig McDean
Slide 8: 24 LIGHT / GUCCI Guest edited by Tom Ford Twenty-four large-format transparencies, created by twenty-four artists, are self-contained in a super-sleek, fully-functional Plexiglas light box – the first battery-operated publication.
Slide 9: Christopher Bucklow Roni Horn Thomas Ruff Sam Taylor-Wood
Slide 10: 31 BLUE / LEVI’S Thirty-one large-format, poster-size images depicting the color blue and Americana come sewn into a custom-made limitededition Levi’s turn-of-the-century One-Pocket sack Coat.
Slide 11: Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin Sharon Ellis Marcus Piggott and Mert Alas Glenn Brown Cover Justine Kurland
Slide 12: 32 WHERE? / HERMÈS A custom-made Hermès travel pouch, designed by Jean-Louis Dumas himself, houses fifty-five silver-edged postcards by artists and image-makers of real and imaginary destinations.
Slide 13: Andreas Gursky Lauren Greenfield Pedro Almodóvar Wolfgang Tillmans Karl Lagerfeld Bruce Weber Gregory Crewdson Fabien Baron
Slide 14: 38 LOVE / TIFFANY & CO. Artwork and tokens of love were inserted by hand into 4,000 vintage novels making each issue an actual one-of-a-kind object and a true labor of love. Each issue comes with a silver heart designed by legendary jeweler Elsa Peretti.
Slide 15: Steven Meisel Richard Phillips Kylie Minogue Tim Noble & Sue Webster
Slide 16: 39 PLAY / SONY PLAYSTATION Sixteen filmmakers, photographers and video artists create original films in the form of flip books housed in an all-black titled case.
Slide 17: Baz Luhrmann Wong Kar-Wai Craig McDean Peter Lindbergh Imaginary Forces Steven Klein Spike Jonze Tony Oursler Steven Meisel
Slide 18: 41 WORLD / GAP The issue began with a chain e-mail requesting a glimpse into “your part of the world.” The issue features images from a fifteen year old in upstate New York and a twenty year old in India to famous and established artists and photographers from around the world. The two-hundred-page book is delivered in a limited-edition orange corduroy GAP bag designed exclusively for Visionaire
Slide 19: Craig McDean Hiro Scott Lightner Mario Testino Fabio Merguhalo Hiroji Kubato Mario Sorrenti Christy Turlington
Slide 20: 42 SCENT / IFF Visionaire teams leading visual artists with the professional “noses” of International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (IFF) to create 21 original scents in numbered glass vials
Slide 21: Space by Zaha Hadid Perfumer Sophie Labbe Heat by Philip-Lorca deCorcia Perfumer Christophe Laudamiel Success by David Bowie Perfumer Christophe Laudamiel Cold by Mario Sorrenti Perfumer Vera Degen Drunk by Gus Van Sant Perfumer Laurent le Guernec Fetish by Peter Saville Perfumer Pascal Gaurin Noise by Hedi Slimane Perfumer Olliver Polge Mother by Kate Moss Perfumer Christophe Laudamiel Softness by Vanessa Beecroft Perfumer Domitille Bertier Strange by Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Richard Burbridge Perfumer Loc Dong
Slide 22: 42 SCENT / IFF Visionaire teams leading visual artists with the professional flavorists of International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (IFF) to create original tastes in the form of 12 strips that dissolve on your tongue.
Slide 23: YOUTH by Bruce Weber Taste: Cherry licorice ART by Thomas Demand Taste: Adhesive spray an d glue stick MOMMY by Yoko Ono Taste: Condensed milk LIFE by Gary Hume Taste: Fresh soil LUXURY by Ferrian Adria Image Sølve Sundsbø Taste Fresh pin cone tips FEAST by David Sims Taste: egg and chips GUILTY by Heston Blumenthal Image Richard Phillips Taste: Leather and Chocolate ADRENALINE by Jenny Holzer Taste: Jet fuel and metal ORGASM by Vik Muniz Taste: Chocolate and truffles EXOTIC by Nobuyoshi Araki Taste: Mango, orange blossom and pepper
Slide 24: 52 PRIVATE / LOUIS VUITTON Photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott travel the world to shoot the private moments of the men and women who inspire them. Marc Jacobs designs a gold LV monogrammed case to house the 200-page book.
Slide 25: Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony Marc Jacobs Christy Turlington Rainer Lil’ Kim Donny Lewis Lizzie Jagger Drew Barrymore Naomi Campbell
Slide 26: 53 SOUND / MINI COOPER Ten visual artists create 10 12-inch vinyl picture discs containing 2 hours of sound content created by over a hundred musicians, sound artists, writers, and personalities. The issue also contains a MINI Clubman Vinyl Killer, a toy car with a needle and speakers that plays the records.
Slide 27: SIDE A Nick Knight Inev van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin Mario Sorrenti Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott Robert Longo SIDE B Peter Saville Ryan McGinley Cindy Sherman Wim Delvoye Raymond Pettibon Contributors include: Musicians David Byrne, U2, Michael Stipe, Courtney Love, Laurie Anderson, Cat Power, Adrock, Lee Ranaldo, Antony & the Johnsons, Thurston Moore & Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), Malcolm McLaren, Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian, Andrew WK, Danger Mouse; Artists Yoko Ono, Cerith Wyn Evans, Helmut Lang, Christian Marclay, Doug Aitken, Robert Wilson, Gary Hill, Sylvie Fleury, Vito Acconci, Mariko Mori, Carl Michael Von Hausswolff; Bands The Knife, Littl’ans, Unkle, Animal Collective, SunnO))), Gang Gang Dance; DJ’s Paul D. Miller (DJ Spooky), miss kittin, Trevor Jackson, Towa Tei, Nigo, Hiroshi Fujiwara; Fashion designers Karl Lagerfeld, Alexander McQueen, Stefano Pilati; and many more...
Slide 28: Vogue USA Vogue Paris German Vogue Vanity Fair Time Magazine Billboard The New Yorker Variety V Magazine The New York Times The London Times New York Post
Slide 29: USA Today In Style USA W Magazine WWD The Independent Magazine WWD New York Magazine Art in America Beaux Arts Le Temps The Telegraph The Globe PRESS With each new issue, Visionaire generates interest among the international press. From fashion magazines like Vogue to art publications like Art in America to newspapers like The New York Times, Visionaire reaches millions of people.
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