BRIDAL issue



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ART & ARCHITECTURE
Questions for Bassam Fellows interview Iké Udé

BON APPÉTIT
Lucien interview Danielle Brown

BUSINESS OFF THE WALL
Questions For Aaron Schwartz

FASHION
Badgley Mischka interview Iké Udé
La Vie En Rose photography Andrew Matusik

FASHION LINGERIE
Suite 1940 photography Ben Oliver

KULTURE & ART CINEMA
Anthony Hopkins Not Brain Surgery interview Brandon Judell

KULTURE & ART PAINTING
talking with Marlene Dumas interview Odili Donald Odita
Johan Falkman A Dance-Macbre Around The Autopsy Table interview Magnus Sjöholm

KULTURE & ART PHOTOGRAPHY
Daniel Malcolm interview Koan Jeff Baysa

SHELTER & DESIGN FLORAL DESIGN
Questions for Olivier Guigni

TRAVEL & LEISURE
"Brazil? With my hair? Never!!" Diane von Furstenberg

aRUDE comment

"We see more and more brides realizing that her wedding really is her opportunity to be a star," comments Badgley Mischka wisely in this, our Bridal issue. In the fairy climes of the blessed flaunts dreamily the bride. The bride is a rare organization: demanding, requiring a rather lengthy investment of time, and not least capital, to actualize triumphantly.

This issue is not so much about the bride as it is about Beauty tendencies, such that compel us to create and indulge a world of fantasy and imagination. In this sense, most creative endeavors have that Beauty sensation and hyperrealism.

Olivier Guigni, whose medium is primarily flowers, unfailingly designs one of the most opulent, exquisite sculptures, however ephemeral. Self-taught, he designed, for fifteen years, flowers for Pierre Cardin, before relocating to New York where has two charming flower salons.

The creative team of Bassam Fellows design furniture for the lucky few. And one discerns that the brilliancy of these stunning objects is obtained from the marriage of their creator' two disciplines, Scott Fellow (American) being a fashion designer, while Craig Bassam (European) is an architect.

Johan Falkman, in his exalted portraits of Swedish doctors, all stalwart experts in medical pathology, gives faces to these often unrecognized men and women, and in so doing nobly imbues them with artistic immortality in the presence of death.

The queen of fashion, Diane Von Furstenberg, finds inspiration in travels to foreign climes such as Brazil.

Marlene Dumas, the prolific South African artist who has ceaselessly honed and perfected her medium, has the character and vision to reflect the complexity of the world as seen through her imagination and reflected in her painting. And the esteemed British actor, Sir Anthony Hopkins, reveals the most profound character from within his own medium, himself.

Thus, in the fairy world of the gifted, to such imaginative rapture, lives eternal our most exquisite, rarified fancies—driven by the “Beauty” tendencies of passion and re-birth that fan the flames of talent.

- Iké Udé

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