Delectable Gucci pumps, a shell-adorned Wales Bonner jacket and a retro telephone all make the cut in this week's @anotherloves edit
"The details are not the details. They make the design," lauded designer Charles Eames famously said. A point aptly demonstrated by this week's Most Loved objects from the @anotherloves stream – immaculately rendered creations spanning jewellery, fashion and a rare Yohji Yamamoto photo book.
First up, a pair of glossy pink pumps by Gucci, complete with a kinky puff of fur and gold, angular heels. "Part objet d'art, part fetish, part Clueless – strangely compelling and the ideal way to punctuate a pair of softly tailored silk trousers this spring," says AnOther Lover Natalie Rigg.
"Barbara Hepworth, Carol Bove and Daido Moriyama meet the dark matter of the universe" is how Sion and Tiffany Phillips of London jewellery label Uribe describe their new S/S16 collection. And indeed, each piece stands like a miniature sculpture, defined by organic forms and frequently punctuated by spherical precious stones that appear like planets in the context of their linear, gold and silver surroundings.
"This jacket is one of my favourite pieces by Wales Bonner because it simultaneously manages to explore her intricately-woven narratives about black history and the modern conceptualisation of luxury while offering a garment that is completely fabulous," explains AnOther Lover Olivia Singer. "What is more aesthetically brilliant than crushed velvet teamed with cowry shell embellishment? Very little." This sumptuous piece was designed by the talented London designer in an exclusive collaboration for Matches Fashion and takes its inspiration from the Harlem Renaissance. "I like to create beautiful things, that’s one thing, but I also want to do something meaningful," the designer told us in a recent interview, and it is just this combination of factors that makes Wales Bonner's work so interesting.
Celebrated art director duo M/M (Paris) were the driving force behind some of Yohji Yamamoto’s most iconic images, collaborating with the Japanese designer over several years in the 1990s to realise his bi-annual catalogues. These saw photographers like Craig McDean, Inez and Vinoodh and Paolo Roversi tasked with bringing Yamamoto's collections to life in a wonderfully vibrant and conceptual manner. In 2001, M/M (Paris) opted to release all the images they'd created with Yamamoto in the form of an extremely collectible tome. "We realised that not everyone had seen these images, so decided it would be great to publish a little book that would be called Rewind/Forward, collecting all the images that we produced for Yohji Yamamoto," Mathias Augustyniak to Emme Hope Allwood for Dazed Digital. "That was a very peculiar side of this project – it’s rare in fashion that there is this continuity and that you are able to write a story, because fashion is about changing every six months. The idea was to close this project six years after by publishing a catalogue that would be a story for all the images that we were doing for this brand.”
It’s a shame that telephone handsets are no longer a regular feature in home décor. As the likes of Salvador Dalí's lobster phone or, more recently, Clementine Keith-Roach's amazing pink marble handset prove, the design potential of ‘home phones’ is infinite. Then there's the marvellously retro Grey series 746 telephone, a 1960s classic that has happily been revived for our modern day delectation. As Lover Daisy Woodward says, "There's something so satisfying about having to physically pick up a receiver and dial a number. It gives you a renewed appreciation of just how miraculous telephoning is – a reminder of its history and just how far we've come with the iPhones we now all take for granted. And best of all, it looks so chic."
