The last shoot had a huge response and was part to of the brand’s relaunch. So successful that the line can now be found in every major city, at the world’s forerunning stores and is being sported by the likes of Kate Moss and Jamie Hince, Lenny Kravitz and The Pet shop Boys

Photography: Kasia Bobula

Body art: Clare Read

Here is Lana del Rey  wearing a Jennifer Behr crystal barrette – styled by Lucinda Chambers & shot by Mario Testino !

Shourouk  A-Morir and Fenton in the Lady Luxe shoot by Lucinda Chamber and shot again by Mario Testino.

Shourouk , Maryam Keyhani and Assad Mounser again in a  beautiful EARTH WIND AND FIRE shoot in Harpers,

A-Morir in Vogue Italy, shot by Steven Meisel and styled by Karl Templer,

Victoria Grant with three hats in Vogue France, styled by Emannuelle Alt and shot by Ines and Vinoodh

Swash with two features, a double page feature in French Jalouse and a smaller feature in Elle UK

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I am not an expert, though I can say that I like the raw sensuality of his sculptures . . .

Find below Dani’s press release  and if you are in Milan, go and check his work!

Galleria Suzy Shammah is pleased to present Daniel Silver’s third solo show. The London-based artist (b. 1972) will exhibit large-scale wood sculptures, marble busts and bronze statues animating the gallery environment with ambiguous and totem-like figures. Silver revises pre-existing images with formal precision, injecting conventional materials with a sensual physicality to obtain something wholly new.

The artist subjects the original material, like the trunk of a tree or a copy in marble or clay of a model sculpture, to an intense and laborious process of transformation, attaining a state of “un-knowing” that is essential to his current research. The plinths on which these works rest are fully integrated into the sculptural body, to the extent that it is possible to define them as intrinsically equivalent to the figures themselves. The artist engages with the history of figurative sculpture and his position within this tradition, challenging its conventions.

In this show Daniel Silver expresses the urge to create a realm associated with the phenomenology of remembering: the condensation and screening of memory, the contradiction between personal reminiscence and history, and the use of an aesthetic strategy which never assigns the images a final implication.

Daniel Silver at Galleria Suzy Shammah via San Fermo/Via Moscova 25 – 20212 Milan, 24 Jan – 10 Mar 2012

(January 23rd-28th - Showroom Precollection alongside Rainbowave – 24 rue Rene Boulanger 75009 Paris – Contact: Monika Tryburska)  

For this rather small but focused collection, the palette is limited to gold , silver and black and he inspiration comes from blades of grass.

Sia, whose studio is set in Ibiza, surrounded by wild plants, flowers and trees, explains that “ walking in the fields here, the grass, the wild flowers and weeds are all dry and waist high, with gone shades of yellow, black, grey and silver” She says she finds an incredible beauty in what we call ‘weeds’, and in the colours they go when they fade and die, adds that so many of these plants are far more beautiful to her when they are dead and faded than when they are alive.

She is interested in the natural patterns the weeds form, from the structure itself to where a shoot will have dense growth in places, gradually fading out to become finer,she adds that she loves the way all the stems move together in the wind and really wanted to translate this in her new collection. Another source of inspiration to her is the simplicity of African jewellery. While travelling for long periods in Africa, she has observed the way plants are often used for adornment, the simple lines of beads worn in Kenya, Ethiopia, Botswana… have always touched her as well as what she calls ” the incredible sense of rhythm brought by the way beads are strung together in coloured blocks, with sometimes lines of alternating beads between blocks of different coloured beads”.

Sia will explore further in her work those ideas with different shapes, colours and forms . We will definitely keep you posted!

Sia Taylor is currently stocked by :

Dover Street Market ( London )

White Bird and Hod ( Paris )

Graanmarkt ( Antwerp )

Maryam Nassir Zadeh ( New York )

Urban Grange Hall ( Dallas )

HP France and Tomorrowland ( Japan )

Turner Prize winner and kitsch transvestite artist Perry has, in this compact but memorable exhibition, juxtaposed his seductive ceramics, tapestries and metal-works alongside similar items from the British Museum’s permanent collection. Perry’s objets, with their tutti-frutti colours, seem to light up the dusty exhibits placed next to them, breathing new life into old bones.

Closest to Perry’s heart among all the objects on show is Alan Measles, a fifty-year-old teddy bear that has belonged to the artist since birth, and which was, the artist tells us, “‘the benign director of my childhood imaginary world”

I left this exhibition, a tender, endearing and humorous celebration of all the anonymous craftsmen in the world who have used their skills to bring us all the marvels we find in museums, mostly found in tombs when it comes to the British Museum, feeling really inspired. I enjoyed discovering the different artifacts that Perry selected and guessing which ones were part of the British Museum’s collection and which ones were the creations of Perry

“The tomb of the unknown craftsman” by Grayson Perry at the British Museum until the 19^th of February 2012