The Sumarie Lifestyle

SPORT LUX, QUALITY, HIGH LIFESTYLE, HEALTH, TRAVEL, COUTURE. 

SUMARIE.

Live the Sumarie Lifestyle

OWN YOUR SUMMER: BE A FEMME FATALE 

Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore! and other exhibitions....

London is an amazing city, for its fashion scene obviously but also for creativity, cultural diversity that make all our industry this great adventure.

There is a few exhibition launching this month that will make you fall in love again with the cold, the smelly old pubs and the busy brunch on the week-end.

Here is our selection, go see one or two or all of them.. that sounds like inspiration to me !

1. Isabella Blow at Somerset House

Curated by Alistair O’Neill with Shonagh Marshall and designed by award-winning architectural firm Carmody Groarke, with installations by celebrated set designer Shona Heath, the exhibition will display thematically the breadth of Isabella’s collection, a life lived through clothes. 

Somerset House, in partnership with the Isabella Blow Foundation and Central Saint Martins, 

is proud to present Isabella Blow: Fashion Galore!, a major fashion exhibition 

celebrating the extraordinary life and wardrobe of the late British patron of fashion and art.

20 November 2013 – 2 March 2014

BOOK TICKETS NOW

2. Hello My name is Paul Smith at the Design Museum

From the 15th November 2013 to 9th March 2014, London's Design Museum invites you into the world of fashion designer Paul Smith, a world of creation, inspiration, collaboration, wit and beauty. Looking to the future as well as celebrating his career to date, the exhibition will reference Paul Smith's influences and fashion designs, charting the rise of one of the world's leading fashion brands.

3. Exhibitions on Film: Bill Cunningham New York at Somerset House

Photographer Bill Cunningham has built a fifty-year career from shooting street-based portraits in New York. His eye is for fashion; his subjects range between high-profile glitterati and everyday trendsetters. Given his instinct for not just glamour but uniqueness of style, it was perhaps inevitable that he would come to photograph Isabella Blow in 1999.

4.Club to Catwalk London Fashion In the 80's at the V&A
Ah the 80's, this one has our heart!!

For a little bit more we follow their blog which is full of behind the scene explanation and a mine of inside from the 80's.

5. Only in England: Photographs by Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr at the science Museum

This exhibition shows work by two photographers fascinated by the eccentricities of English social customs.

6. The Glamour of Bellville Sassoon at Fashion and Textile Museum

The Fashion and Textile Museum, founded by 'princess of punk' Zandra Rhodes, is honouring the British couture label Bellville Sassoon. The women who wore Bellville Sasson, from Elizabeth Taylor to Jackie Kennedy and Audrey Hepburn, oozed celebrity and glamour, and this exhibit aims to focus on the clients of courture as well as the fashion itself. Highlights of the exhibition include sketches of gowns made for Princess Di with her inputs scrolled along the side. See snippets of British high fashion from the 50s with founder Belinda Bellville through to when David Sassoon and then Lorcan Mullany took over the design helm. It's bound to be an extravagent affair filled with little known tid-bits. 

Marie-Antoinette and other fashion moments...

In the research of Sumarie woman, we had a look in french history...A few days agao marks the 220th anniversary of Marie Antoinette’s unfortunate demise. You know, when she lost her head back on October 16, 1793.

Of course, her memory continues to live on in the history books and pop culture, with her decadent style popping up everywhere from Thom Browne shows to Madonna to Coca-Cola. So, to commemorate Marie Antoinette’s legacy and fashion influence, we’ve choosen up few of the most decadent editorial spreads, advertisements, and costumes—including those anachronistic pastel Converse Chucks from Sofia Coppola’s 2006 movie.

Kirsten Dunst poses as Sofia Coppola’s version of Marie Antoinette for Vogue‘s September 2006 issue, shot by Annie Leibovitz.

Cara Delevingne channels Marie Antoinette for Chanel’s Resort 2013 campaign.

Wildfox Spring 2011 Look Book “Vive La France.”

“För Sverige i Tiden” shot by Jimmy Backius for Elle Sweden’s August 2008 issue.

Styling Inspirations.... we like it black !

www.sumarie.com | Twitter | Facebook | Pinterest

Corinne Day: May The Circle Remain Unbroken

Corinne Day is a British photographer whose influence on the style and perception of photography in the early 1990s has been immense. As a self taught photographer, Day brought a more hard edged documentary look to fashion image making, in which she often included biographical elements.

Day is known for forming long and close relationships with many of her sitters (most famously Kate Moss), which have resulted in candid and intimate portraits. The most notable of these being the photographs of Moss in the 3rd Summer of Love editorial for the FACE magazine in 1990. Days approach as illustrated within the lifestyle and fashion magazines of the 1990s, came to be known as grunge and grew into an international style.

In 1993 Day photographed Kate Moss in her own flat for British Vogue. In the context of a fashion magazine the images appear to have a documentary feel about them and when published caused a certain frisson of discomfort.

Corinne was diagnosed with a slow growing, grade 2 brain tumour called an Oligo Astrocytoma in November 1996 at the Bellevue hospital in New York, after which Corinne returned to London for brain surgery at the Whitechapel hospital in December 1996. The surgeon and oncologist then gave Corinne a prognosis of 8 years left to live. Corinne was not expected to live past 2004. However Corinne outlived this prognosis by over 6 years, passing away in 2010 instead of 2004.

Book May the Circle Remain Unbroken