Champagne Baggage

A look through the most beautiful and distorted rose colored lens. . .providing insight on art, design, fashion, tasty-bits, social events, people, and anything that fuels a bubbly-cultured-good time and remember to pour your champagne at a slight slant.
-ZW

Wednesday, May 30

The 3 states I’ve lived in outside of my birth-state… sandwich style. 

http://www.statelysandwiches.com/

Sunday, May 27

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Friday, May 25


I am against museums and exhibitions in fashion. One woman said to me — ‘In my world, the world of art’ — so I said: ‘Oh, don’t you make dresses anymore?’ A thin smile and then: ‘If you call yourself an artist, then you are second-rate.’

-Karl Lagerfeld: the Telegraph, 2012

(Image: ‘Schiaparelli And Prada: Impossible Conversations’ at the MET)

I am against museums and exhibitions in fashion. One woman said to me — ‘In my world, the world of art’ — so I said: ‘Oh, don’t you make dresses anymore?’ A thin smile and then: ‘If you call yourself an artist, then you are second-rate.’

-Karl Lagerfeld: the Telegraph, 2012


(Image: ‘Schiaparelli And Prada: Impossible Conversations’ at the MET)

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Art is art. Fashion is fashion. However, Andy Warhol proved that they can exist together.

-Karl Lagerfeld: NYT, 2008

(Image: ‘Schiaparelli And Prada: Impossible Conversations’ at the MET)

Art is art. Fashion is fashion. However, Andy Warhol proved that they can exist together.

-Karl Lagerfeld: NYT, 2008


(Image: ‘Schiaparelli And Prada: Impossible Conversations’ at the MET)

Wednesday, May 23

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Botero’s Fruits, 2009, oil on canvas

(mid-week deliciousness) 

Botero’s Fruits, 2009, oil on canvas


(mid-week deliciousness) 

Monday, May 21

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Sachigusa Yasuda’s series: “Aerial”
Flying #18, Digital photograph


courtesy of the artist and Base Gallery

Sachigusa Yasuda’s series: “Aerial”

Flying #18, Digital photograph

courtesy of the artist and Base Gallery

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Kimbra - “Cameo Lover” (Live at Sing Sing Studios) (by kimbramusic)

Finally…over 2 years in the making Kimbra’s album Vows drops stateside tomorrow!

Open up your heart…

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More news of modern architecture threatening a masterpiece-seems to be a trend.

Giotto’s frescos in the Scorvegni Chapel in Padua, considered one of the most important works in Western art history.

(Image detail of the panel: Lament over the Dead Jesus Christ)

Full story

Sunday, May 20

Animaniacs episode Hooked on a Ceiling

(I remember this from childhood…minus the toga and what you have is actually a very interesting and intuitive take on one of the most famous artworks in history).

Happy Sunday night… 

(Source: youtube.com)

Friday, May 18

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The first steps in attempting to rewrite one of the 20th c. greatest urban failures: the destruction of Pennsylvania Station-here is a peak at stage one. 

(Time will tell… )