Luxury Calendar October Fashion and Design

Auctions, Antiques, Art Fairs and Design.

• UXDX is a user-experience and designer experience focused conference in Dublin, Ireland that is meant to help attendees understand how to help teams deliver successful products more quickly – Oct 5
• Frieze Art Fair London and Frieze Masters in Regent’s Park will host over 300 galleries, plus there will be public works of sculpture, including a white-enameled bronze tree and an installation of rocks and mirrors – Oct 5-8
• The 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair London at Somerset House is a platform for galleries, artists, and curators who are promoting African and Africa-related art projects – Oct 5-8
• During Frieze Week in London, at its Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction Christie’s will auction Francis Bacon’s landmark painting Study of Red Pope 1962. 2nd Version 1971, unseen in public for 45 years; for the first and only time, the artist united two of his greatest obsessions: the Pope and George Dyer, his muse and lover – Oct 6.
• That same Christie’s auction in London will also see the sale of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1982 painting Red Skull – Oct 6
• Four of Carrie Fisher’s hand annotated Star Wars scripts are going up for auction at a 3-day Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds personal property auction in LA; auction firm Profiles in History is running the sale, and the scripts are expected to sell for $30,000-$50,000 (they’re all signed by George Lucas) – Oct 7-9
• The 4th annual Short Films Walk in SoHo will see 20 showrooms hosting screenings of short films dedicated to architecture and design – Oct 11
• The AIGA Design Conference hosted by the American Institute of Graphic Arts in Minneapolis, Minnesota will see thousands of design professionals gathered in the home town of design-centric companies like Target and 3M to hear from over 100 speakers – Oct 12-14
• National Design Week in the US celebrates the role that design plays in all aspects of daily life; the National Design Awards at the Cooper-Hewitt in NYC are awarded – Oct 14-22
• The World Design Summit in Montreal is a multi-disciplinary forum tackling the theme “how design can shape the future;” designers, policy makers, NGOs and entrepreneurs will convene for the 10-day event — Oct 16-25
• At Adobe MAX in Las Vegas, coders mix with filmmakers, photographers, and musicians, in a demonstration of how the creative class utilizes Adobe software – Oct 16-20
• Amuse is an international conference focused on UX in Budapest, Hungary – Oct 18-20
• The Faire Internationale d’Art Contemporain (FIAC) is in its 44th year at the Grand Palais and Petit Palais as well as other locations in Paris; 200 modern and contemporary galleries will be in the main spaces, while others will show in the Tuileries and at the Place Vendome – October 19-22
• Contemporaneously with FIAC, Paris is also host to the Outsider Art Fair, showcasing outsider, self-taught and folk art; and the YIA – Young International Artists Fair – Oct 19-22
• The Texas Contemporary Art Show is at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston – Oct 19-22
• The Clio Art Fair in New York showcases artists without any exclusive NYC gallery representation – Oct 19-22
• The WestEdge Fair is a contemporary design fair held at Santa Monica’s Barker Hanger; there will be 150 exhibitors, lectures, a street art auction – Oct 19-22
• The Push Conference in Munich, Germany is a convening of coders and UX designers; Google and Netflix are among the companies sending speakers, and topics include conversational UI, machine learning, and information visualization — Oct 20-21
• Art Taipei, formerly the Taipei Art Fair International, is the longest-running art fair in Asia — Oct 20-23
• The theme of the 16th annual Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven is “Stretch”– Oct 21-29
• The San Francisco Fall Art & Antiques Show — Oct 26-29
• ARTBO, the international art fair of Bogota, is a key event in the art market in Latin America — Oct 26-29
• Paper Positions Munich will see 40 international galleries presenting their most significant contemporary and modern art, with the focus on works on paper – Oct 26-29
• Art Toronto is Canada’s international fair for modern and contemporary art – Oct 27-30
• TEFAF New York, the fall edition of the international fine and decorative arts and design show spanning works from antiquity to 1920, kicks off at the Park Avenue Armory with a benefit for Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital on Oct 27, and is open to the public Oct 28-Nov 1

Fashion and Beauty.

• At the MoMA, Items: Is Fashion Modern? takes over the entire sixth floor, and breaks the question down into 111 categories, featuring 350 wearable items, including flip-flops, stilettos, blue jeans, hijabs, and a down jacket – Oct 1
• Public School designers Maxwell Osborne and Dao-Yi Chow have collaborated with Moët & Chandon on the limited-edition Nectar Imperial Rose to celebrate the brand’s 10^th anniversary
• Claudia Schiffer has a new eponymous book showing case the author’s favorite fashion moments as captured by legendary fashion photographers like Richard Avedon, Patrick Demarchelier, Steven Klein, Steven Meisel, and Herb Ritts – Oct 1
• Switched On: Women Who Revolutionized Style in the 60’s by David Wills documents the women who dominated the decade’s zeitgeist and had lasting influence – Oct 3
• Sheila Metzner: From Life is a memoir from the fashion and portrait photographer, presenting her intimate family portraits in 1960s Woodstock, fashion editorials, nudes, and sacred landscapes – Oct 3
• The highly-anticipated Musée Yves Saint Laurent in Paris will be the city’s first museum of its scale dedicated to a great couturier of the 20^th century; it will be located in the hôtel particulier at 5 avenue Marceau where Yves Saint Laurent spent nearly thirty years designing his collections (from 1974 to 2002) – October 3
• Pattern Behavior: The Seamy Side of Fashion by comedian Natalie Kossar pairs beloved McCall’s vintage sewing patterns with modern captions that are deadpan and hysterically funny – Oct 3
• Houston’s MFA honors Oscar de la Renta with a survey of his 6-decade career – Oct 8
• Angela Missoni celebrates her 20 years as head of her family’s company with limited-edition jerseys and tanks sporting the number “20” – Oct 8
• SHE: Muses, Visionaries, & Madcap Heroines is a new book from the Kate Spade brand that pays tribute to female icons, including Gloria Steinem and Dolly Parton – Oct 10
• Mirror, Mirror is supermodel and actress Cara Delevingne’s first novel, about a group of four misfit teens, one of whom disappears – Oct 10
• Worn in New York: 65 Sartorial Memoirs of the City by Emily Spivack is series of essays from Jenna Lyons, Coco Rocha, Anna Sui and others that describe a special article of clothing that evokes a memorable New York moment – Oct 10
• Shoes: The Meaning of Style by Elizabeth Semmelhack explores the pressing matter of footwear. Buying, wearing shoes, and collecting shoes is for many of us a habit. But why do we choose the footwear we do? – Oct 15
• Hollywood Royale: Out of the School of Los Angeles is a series of works by Matthew Rolston, an icon of Hollywood photography who emerged from Andy Warhol’s celebrity-focused Interview magazine – Oct 15
• Dalí & Schiaparelli at The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida explores the friendship and frequent collaboration between artist Salvador Dalí and fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli; the exhibition will include a selection of haute couture gowns, along with paintings, drawings, photographs, objects, accessories and jewelry – Oct 18
• Some 50 years after the designer’s first visit to Morocco, a state-of-the-art fashion museum honoring the oeuvre of couturier Yves Saint Laurent will open in Marrakesh just steps from the Jardin Marjorelle, the enchanting botanical garden he tended. The newly constructed 43,000-square-foot Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakesh on Rue Yves Saint Laurent, designed by the Paris-based firm Studio KO, will house thousands of articles of clothing and haute couture accessories, all carefully selected by the late Pierre Bergé, Saint Laurent’s partner in business and in life – opening Oct 19
• Malick Sidibe Mali Twist offers a survey of the beloved African photographer Malick Sidibe–nicknamed “the eye of Bamako”– who chronicled the exuberant youth culture of his native Bamako, Mali in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s – Oct 24
• Sonia Delaunay: Art, Design and Fashion provides a unified vision of the modernist pioneer’s work in painting, theatrical sets, advertising, interiors, fashion and textiles – Oct 24
• Bally and musician Swizz Beatz team up for a capsule collection of sneakers and apparel featuring an exclusive print by Spanish artist Ricardo Cavolo – Oct 27
• Petra Collins: Coming of Age is the first monograph by the 24-year old photographer/model/actress/music-video director is, in her own words, “about a woman who does what she wants” – Oct 31

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