London exhibit probes parallels between architecture and fashion

London exhibit probes parallels between architecture and fashion. By Suzy Menkes. International Herald Tribune. 04.28.08. 

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"The idea of designers and architects working together is nothing new, from the Tokyo store collaboration between Prada and Rem Koolhaas to Hussein Chalayan's techno virtuosity in morphing dresses into chairs. But "Skin + Bones, Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture" (at the new Embankment Galleries in London's Somerset House until Aug. 10) is something else: a fascinating study of how the two crafts have run separately but on similar lines over the last 25 years." (Suzy Menkes)

"And I am curious to see what is happening five years from now" (Brooke Hodge, curator of Architecture and design at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles)

As Banks Change, So Does The Art

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As Banks Change, So Does The Art. By Clara Ferreira-Marques. International Herald Tribune. 04.22.08. 

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"The shift to contemporary art also fits with a need to bring collections into the corporate structure, where they are used to reflect the brand. It is also a way to keep spending in check" (Clara Ferreira-Marques )

"It is about competition and it's about showing they are sophisticated and modern" (Prue O'Day, director of the art advisory firm Anderson O'Day,)

"Businesses have become more outward-looking. They have been forced to keep in touch with generation X, generation Y" (Chris Turner, chairman of the London arts committee at the law firm Clifford Chance)

"We see art as connecting us with new ideas, artists representing the new generation. It is very easy in some professions to get a bit remote from what is going on" (Chris Turner)

"It is not a museum we are buying for, it is an active business" (Alistair Hicks, an art adviser at Deutsche Bank)

"They don't necessarily see it as an investment. It's an investment in terms of bringing energy into the building and making people look - and look twice." (Prue O'Day)