truth and beauty Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 Designer Anna Sui claims to have channelled Jimmy's Edward Burne-Jones tapestries in her New York Fashion Week collection : http://www.styleite.com/runway/anna-sui-spring-201/#0 I know my Burne-Jones and saw JP's tapestries at the Tate : I think there is more than a degree of artistic licence in this claim ! But who's to argue ... I love a bit of Pre-Raph influence in fashion so all is good .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenog Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 Nice original post, T and B. Yes, I recall you saying that you attended the exhibition. I wonder if Ms Sui mentioning Jimmy was to help with the publicity for her show. I suppose a Pre-Raphaelite influence would work well with her clothes because she usually does 'floaty' type stuff, doesn't she? I am sure Jimmy tried to sell one of his tapestries at a London auction house, but it didn't make the reserve price of £1m. The sale was because the tapestry was too long for the walls in his new home. Designer Anna Sui claims to have channelled Jimmy's Edward Burne-Jones tapestries in her New York Fashion Week collection : http://www.styleite.com/runway/anna-sui-spring-201/#0 I know my Burne-Jones and saw JP's tapestries at the Tate : I think there is more than a degree of artistic licence in this claim ! But who's to argue ... I love a bit of Pre-Raph influence in fashion so all is good .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truth and beauty Posted September 13, 2013 Author Share Posted September 13, 2013 Hi Kenog Yes, I think great PR going on there ! I also saw the story about the attempted sale of the tapestries - a shame for him that he didn't meet the reserve price but what a bonus for everyone else : there was no missing them because of the way the Tate displayed them, and that exhibition had a massive audience. I think the whole exhibiton has gone to New York now, or will do soon .. hopefully they're showing the same approach in the way they're presenting them. If I were less cynical I would love to think that those images really did inspire a fashion collection ... umm, but I'm not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aen27 Posted September 13, 2013 Share Posted September 13, 2013 Thanks for adding this here, truth & beauty, for it's connection to Jimmy and I also love the work of The Fool. It has inspsired my own designs. I would have loved to have seen Apple Boutique. Marijke Koger was behind most of the designs and murals. Her work is also being featured in a hippie exhibit at the MFA in Boston that I would love to see before it ends in November. Jimmy is rarely remember for his deep interest, so this is very nice to hear. I would have loved to see the exhibit at the Tate. I have new book on Burne-Jones called The Last Pre-Rahaplite, where Jimmy is mentioned briefly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenog Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 T&B Here's an excerpt from an up to date Anna Sui interview where she talks about JPP's tapestry. "... Jimmy Page’s Tapestry I was so excited when I saw the show in London. They hadn’t had a major show of pre-Raphaelite paintings since the ’70s and I thought, “This is incredible.” My favorite piece was (Led Zeppelin guitarist ) Jimmy Page’s tapestry and I thought about how sophisticated these guys were that they had the foresight to collect pre-Raphaelite and Art Nouveau. George Harrison and a lot of the rock stars of that era (collected) so that’s why I mixed the rockstar and art. Even some of the sports jackets I did with Art Nouveau lines; all the cuts were Art Nouveau. It looked like it was a color contrast but if you look closely you saw those lines. It was fun playing with that.." Source:- http://blog.sfgate.com/chronstyle/2013/11/07/anna-sui-the-designer-talks-her-new-fragrance-her-pre-raphaelite-spring-and-la-nouvelle-boheme/#17596101=0 Designer Anna Sui claims to have channelled Jimmy's Edward Burne-Jones tapestries in her New York Fashion Week collection : http://www.styleite.com/runway/anna-sui-spring-201/#0 I know my Burne-Jones and saw JP's tapestries at the Tate : I think there is more than a degree of artistic licence in this claim ! But who's to argue ... I love a bit of Pre-Raph influence in fashion so all is good .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strider Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Designer Anna Sui claims to have channelled Jimmy's Edward Burne-Jones tapestries in her New York Fashion Week collection : http://www.styleite.com/runway/anna-sui-spring-201/#0 I know my Burne-Jones and saw JP's tapestries at the Tate : I think there is more than a degree of artistic licence in this claim ! But who's to argue ... I love a bit of Pre-Raph influence in fashion so all is good .. That's so cool you got to see the Tate exhibit, T & B. I know a few others who were lucky enough to attend before it closed in January...which was really too short a window, in my opinion. It should have been exhibited for a year. Noticed in the article you linked that they couldn't get two sentences in before misspelling Jimmy's name. Doesn't anybody know how to proofread anymore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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