Art history’s influence on perfume ads of the past and present.
I don’t have any tattoos, but I’ll admire a good one when I see it. I recently visited the exhibition “Tattooed New York” at the New-York Historical Society (see it if you can!) and thought of all my fellow aromaphiles when I saw this photograph.
The artist is Rose Hardy and the woman wearing this elaborate image is Zoe Brown. The photographer is Nicole Reed.
Fantastic, right?
I’ve been meaning to post about this event for ages; better late than never, I suppose!
I made a field trip to the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum with some co-workers one afternoon back in the spring. As soon as we entered the Museum, my nose went on high alert. We had just cut through through a courtyard garden, but the smell I noticed was something inside the building, even though it was “outdoorsy,” like damp grass and freshly turned earth.
I asked a passing staff member what I was smelling, and she filled me in and pointed me in the right direction to read the wall text pictured above. For its Design Triennial exhibition (this year’s theme: “Beauty”), the Cooper Hewitt commissioned artist Sissel Tolaas to create a “smellscape.” Its subject was Central Park.
Continue reading “Art and Fragrance: Sissel Tolaas at the Cooper-Hewitt”
Advertisement for Tommy Hilfiger’s Tommy Girl, 1990s.
There’s nothing I love more than a well-researched and well-executed fragrance/art/fashion collaboration…and there’s nothing that annoys me more than a collaboration that, well, isn’t very well-researched.
Continue reading “Things That Make You Go Hmmm: MCMC x FUZZCO E.d’E. Black and E.d’E. Blue Perfumes”
Back in May I visited the exhibition “Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971” at the Museum of Modern Art. I was preparing to write a short piece about the show as a freelance assignment (see here!) and I ended up enjoying Ono’s early conceptual art more than I expected to.
Continue reading “Yoko Ono and Fragrance, Part 2: “Smell Pieces””
TINSEL CREATION 