This fascinating exhibition Fairy Tale Fashion could be seen at Museum at Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City. This place is not on usual touristic tracks. Moreover the entrance is free of charge. Finally it is not pure art, but art that you can actually wear. I do believe that haute-couture is art assimilated. So if you are looking for an exhibition out of the box in NYC – this is the perfect place to go.

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Going to Whitney museum and seeing Frank Stella’s 100 art works on my first day in New York City was a real slap! I have known mainly his graphic work, but he is much more 3D than I thought. This is what impressed me the most.

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Xavier Veilhan, one of the leading French artists, made a brilliant film Vent Moderne [Modern Wind], glorifying architecture, geometry, man and nature.

What I like about video and art films – is that they give you a large field to train your imagination and your ability to interpret chains of images. This is what you could fully expect from VENT MODERNE. Villa Noailles situated in the South of France is a perfect decoration for the film. This villa was built almost 100 years ago and from my perspective is still more modern than even. Villa was hosting many avant-garde artists in the first half of 20th century and it still keeps their spirits and inspires artists. Many Ray had realized a surrealistic film taking place in Villa Noailles and funny enough Xavier Veilan dialogues with Man Ray through VENT MODERNE by using same shapes (cars, black spheres, men and women doing their exercising).

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