Scenes from the weekend + Announcements

The first pictures were taken by me during the long weekend and I added pictures of my birthday gift from Dior.

I forgot to mention yesterday that I made the Ivy salad from Gwyneth's cookbook and it was DIVINE! 

I attended a cocktail yesterday evening at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts to celebrate the announcement of an important donation by my friend Michel De La Chenelière to create a children's education wing. It will increase the number of annual school visits and the museum's educational curriculum. Bravo Michel for such a generous gesture!

Finally, if you happen to live in the Paris area ( lucky you if you do!) Please drop by the vernissage by talented artist Sophie Le Guillou this week, you won't be disappointed as she creates gorgeous affiches!

O what a night with Jean Paul Gaultier!

I attended the opening of the Jean Paul Gaultier Exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts yesterday evening with my dear friend and stylist, Serge Jean Laviolette and Marie-Geneviève Cyr, a former participant of Project Runway Canada. It was a FANTASTIC night. Mr. Gaultier himself was in attendance and gave a very moving speech. The turn out was so unbelievable, attracting several thousand Montrealers.

This exhibit is not to be missed. Unfortunately, there were so many people I didn't get a chance to view it all so I'm looking forward to going back at a quieter time to really take in all the details. I'm very proud as a Montrealer to see such wonderful initiatives taken by members of the artistic community. For the event, I wore one of his jackets that I bought in New York several years ago. It is timeless. I also wore red stilettos that totally killed my feet, but that's a whole different story.

Mr. Gaultier will be making an appearance at La Baie today between noon and 2pm.

Jean Paul Gaultier in Montreal

I am looking forward to attending the upcoming Jean Paul Gaultier Exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts! The Exhibition The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with the maison Jean Paul Gaultier. It will celebrate both his boldness and refinement. 

It will be on from June 17th to October 2nd, 2011.

In connection with this exhibit you can meet the designer at Holt Renfrew this Saturday from 2 to 4 pm.

 

 Bienvenue à Montréal!

Denis Gagnon Vernissage at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

The darling of the Quebec fashion scene, Denis Gagnon had the opportunity to celebrate his 10th anniversary in business in high style, not only with the fashion show but with an exhibition of 20 works that opens Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010 to the public in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Contemporary Art Square. It is a remarkable and perhaps first-time achievement for any Quebec or Canadian designer to be fêted and exhibited at a fine-arts museum.  

The exhibition was designed with architect Gilles Saucier, not as a retrospective but to show the artistry of the designer’s recent work, Saucier said. The space is dominated by a massive inverted black pyramid suspended from the ceiling, upon which film is projected. The walls of the Square are covered in closeup photographs of his work: fringe suggesting wheat fields; a python chain for a handbag; all that intricately worked zipper. 

The Gagnon show comes after YSL, certainly one of the great créateurs of the 20th century, and before Jean Paul Gaultier, the enfant terrible of French fashion, whose work will be the subject of a retrospective here from June to October 2011.

I attended the vernissage last night and met with lots of lovely people including, the sylist Serge Jean Laviolette, fashion designer  Michel Desjardins and Donald Browne, the owner of a Montreal contemporary art gallery.

(Images and video from Montreal Gazette)