The chairs were by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec.
The candles by Danish designer Louise Campbell.
The button corsages by Hella Jongerius.
The ring came about as a concept of gold thread that must be tied on by the other and each time it is loosened must be retied by the their partner. The ring was contributed by Finnish designer and architect Ilkka Suppanen.
The concept of the dress started when the Finnish illustrator Aimo Katajamaki had finished invitations for the winter wedding with a flurry of snowflakes. Fujiwara was inspired by these illustrations and based the pattern of the dress on the crystalline pattern of snowflakes.
Can you imagine unwrapping that dress?!! The presentation has me breathless.
By Issey Miyake under the direction of Dai Fujiwara.
Their shoes were designed by Miguel Fluxa and Jaime Hayon through Camper shoes.
I've been wanting to post about this since I first read about it a couple of months ago in metropolis but well time has been eluding me...
With wedding on the brain (city hall 08.08.08 already our anniversary date soon to be 'the anniversary') and being a designer myself (as is Mr. J) this was a story of fairy tales come true.
Sure the couple in front of you is charming and radiant especially with that beautiful babe they are holding but they are a couple of incredible luck if not a very well connected duo.
Ulla-Maaria Mutanen and Jyri Engestrom's (I love their impossible Finnish names) wedding was orchestrated by a team of designers who had attended the Alvar Aalto design seminar. Dai Fujiwara, creative director of Issey Miyake was determined to create a wedding with a seven member panel of designers based on the phrase...
"It's a beautiful day."
After the success of the event Fujiwara felt it would be supernal to pass this on to another group of designers to reinterpret this phrase with another couple.
And let me tell you after all the ideas that are running through ... er uh... running away with my head I would gladly surrender to a the next group of designers. As a creative person the chance to create such an event is not just a page out of Cinderella but the chance to create an environment of ephemera and beauty on a deeply personal level.
Its just that for most, the time and money this would take to achieve floats up there in the atmosphere.
To read more about their wedding go here.
The pink scarf was Mr. J's birthday gift this year and I have to say everytime he wears it I feel a tinge of jealousy. Is that wrong?
Once billed as "The most beautiful woman in the world."
Hedy Lamarr the Austrian immigrant turned Hollywood actress was responsible along with George Antheil a composer for our world of wifi, cell phones, and gps through a patent they applied for and were granted in 1942 in a bid to help the war effort.
Beauty and brains she is my new hero!
You can here the rest of the engrossing story here.
The gorgeous and intriguing woman Lee Miller often known as Man Ray's muse...
but she was oh so much more.
Her photographs are currently on view at the SFMoMa
Some other things you might want to know
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