http://www.gogoparis.com your insider guide to paris fashion, food, arts, gigs & gossip Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:04:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Fondation Cartier is exhibiting Beat Takeshi Kitano's work in an exclusive exhibition, Gosse de Peintre ('Painter's kid'). Kitano - best known for his arthouse films or cult TV show Takeshi's castle - is a filmmaker, actor, comedian, presenter, and now artist. This is his first ... http://www.gogoparis.com/2010/03/19/takeshi-kitano-at-the-fondation-cartier/ 48.8374748 2.3313425 An exhibition of recent and new photographs by major contemporary photographer Jeff Wall has just opened at Marian Goodman. The show includes new pictures, in both colour and black-and-white, which explore the potential for neo-realism and the 'near-documentary' in photography, elements which constitute the core of Wall's practice over the ... http://www.gogoparis.com/2010/03/17/jeff-wall-at-marian-goodman-gallery/ 48.8613396 2.3561985 London art publisher Phaidon (and btw, since last year, also publishers of France's historic cinema mag, Cahiers du Cinéma) will take over the gallery space at Artazart Design Bookstore on the Canal St Martin for 6 weeks from 6 May. You'll find the best from their fabbo catalogue, in English ... http://www.gogoparis.com/2010/03/17/phaidon-corner-at-artazart-coming-soon/ 48.8725777 2.3637772 The the first European pop-up store for the Californian skater footwear company SUPRA will open for a month beginning this Sat 20 March, at 68 rue des Archives in the Marais. Until 20 April http://suprafootwear.com/blog/ [geo_mashup_map] http://www.gogoparis.com/2010/03/17/supra-pop-up-store/ 48.8619080 2.3590269 Looking for new inspiration for your Sunday afternoons? Take your hangover down to the Prescription Cocktail Club (23 rue Mazarine, 6th) for this fun new weekly rendez-vous; you'll find a relaxed crew lounging around in pyjamas, drinking first-rate cocktails, nibbling on egg and watercress sandwiches, and playing bridge, backgammon and ... http://www.gogoparis.com/2010/03/16/mad-hatters-sunday-afternoon-indoor-cocktail-pyjama-picnic/ 48.8549881 2.3378668 If 2009 was the Year of Chanel - with a mythologizing mega-biopic starring France's sweetheart Audrey Tautou - 2010 finds Yves Saint Laurent taking a heavy coat of posterity's varnish - and tarnish!:  a gossip-y tell-all book by Marie-Dominique Lelièvre 'Saint Laurent, mauvais garçon' (Flammarion) depicts YSL as ... http://www.gogoparis.com/2010/03/16/ysl-at-petit-palais/ 48.8660507 2.3143311 WWD announced last week that Karl Lagerfeld will be shooting the 2011 Pirelli Calendar. The shoot with all the sexy top models is scheduled for April at Karl’s studio. Last year, the coveted calendar was shot by the libidinous Terry Richardson, and we’re curious to see how Karl will respond ... http://www.gogoparis.com/2010/03/16/karl-lagerfeld-to-shoot-pirelli-calender-2011/ The Maison des Arts et de la Culture de Créteil’s quality annual international performance festival EXIT opens this week. The 2010 edition presents a total of ten different performances and installations which explore the concept of how movement and technology, humans and the digital world, are connected with one another. ... http://www.gogoparis.com/2010/03/15/exit-festival-at-mac-creteil/ 48.7778587 2.4542704 Parisian couture house Carven recently named Guillaume Henry (alumnus of both Givenchy and Paule Ka) as AD and his reasonably-priced daywear is making quite a splash. Asked what the the sixty-something year old label should do to rejuvenate itself, the 31 year-old Mr. Henry replied (by text): kill couture. Carven ... http://www.gogoparis.com/2010/03/12/carven-the-comeback/ Fur! It's a wonder there are any beasties left in the trees after 4 consecutive fashion weeks saw more fluff, scale, and skin rolled out than we've seen in the last two decades. Activists screamed for Gaultier's hide, and he wasn't even the biggest offender. Viktor & Rolf, Chapurin, Valli ... http://www.gogoparis.com/2010/03/12/paris-fashion-week-fall-winter-20102011-trendspotting/