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This May, Lane Crawford collaborates with five international contemporary artists to fuse fashion with art. Apart from the unique installations and artworks instore, a range of limited edition posters designed by Jacky Tsai and an exclusive collection of LPD New York "Team" t-shirts will be launching at all Lane Crawford stores in Hong Kong and Beijing as well as at lanecrawford.com.

Jacky Tsai Limited-Edition Print Posters

Lane Crawford Exclusive Print

5 styles with 1 exclusive print for Lane Crawford
Size: 50cm x 50cm
 

Born in Shanghai in 1984, Jacky Tsai uniquely combines Eastern-style craftsmanship with contemporary Western pop art and quickly impacted the fashion world with his iconic Floral Skull design for Alexander McQueen. This limited edition posters designed by Jacky Tsai are available in 5 different styles including 1 Lane Crawford exclusive print, total 200 pieces with 40 pieces per each style. Each poster are numbered and every number 8 will be framed and signed by Jacky Tsai, retails at HK$1,888/ RMB1,888; whilst the poster without frame and signature retails at HK$888/ RMB888.

LPD New York Limited-Edition “Team” T-shirts

Artist Collection, retails at HK$550/ RMB550 each

Black and White Designer Collection, retails at HK$650/ RMB650 each

Metallic Print Designer Collection, retails at HK$750/ RMB750 each
Sizes: XS, S, M, L, XL

In collaboration with the New York based clothing brand LPD New York , Lane Crawford launches an exclusive range of iconic LPD New York “Team” t-shirts which is in support of designers with their name and birth year printed on it. The collection features 8 artists and designers such as Andy Warhol, Alexander Wang, Dolce & Gabbana, to name a few, retails from HK$550/RMB 550 to HKD750/ RMB750 each.

Both limited edition products will be available at all Lane Crawford stores in Hong Kong and Beijing and lanecrawford.com from May 11 onwards.

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An Expression of Style

Lane Crawford invites International artists to create a unique retail-gallery experience

Lane Crawford collaborates with five international contemporary artists to fuse fashion with art this May.  This unique retail-gallery experience — that features both inspired in-store as well as animated online adventures — includes unique installations and artworks will kick off with a special in-store event at Lane Crawford ifc mall on May 9, 2013.

The five talented young artists, all with incredible artistic prowess and intriguing international backgrounds, have come together to share their “Expression of Style” vision. Lane Crawford is proud to introduce: famed Shanghainese multi-media specialist Jacky Tsai, renowned UK visual artist Shantell Martin, Japanese mural painter Que Houxo aka Questa, Hong Kong installation artist Winnie Lui and British graphic designer Mark Goss.

From May 9 onwards, a range of limited edition posters designed by Jacky Tsai and an exclusive collection of Les Plus Dorés team designer tees will be available and customers are invited to marvel at the quartet’s exclusive works that will be showcased at all Lane Crawford stores in Hong Kong and Beijing as well as at lanecrawford.com — providing an inspired, unforgettable art-meets-fashion shopping experience.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

JACKY TSAI: In-Store Installation & Limited-Edition Print Poster at May 9 Event
Born in Shanghai in 1984, Jacky Tsai relocated to London to study MA Illustration at Central St. Martins after completing a BA at the China Academy of Art. Uniquely combining Eastern-style craftsmanship with contemporary Western pop art, Tsai quickly impacted the fashion world with his iconic Floral Skull design for Alexander McQueen. Graduating in 2008, he made his mark on London’s art scene with his debut solo show in 2010 at Notting Hill’s Salon Contemporary. A dynamic artist who constantly evolves his style, the 29-year-old is now focused on taking his art to the next level, creating his blend of conceptual and elegant creations in different mediums that re-imagine concepts of beauty.

SHANTELL MARTIN: In-Store Installation & Live Illustration at May 9 Event
From London to Tokyo and New York, internationally acclaimed visual artist Shantell Martin expands conventional definitions of drawing and animation to transform visual experience in the design, fashion and music worlds. Her dazzling light projections have been featured in iconic spots such as New York’s Museum of Modern Art, megaclubs in Tokyo and Russia, and on gigantic screens at Shibuya/Harajuku crossings in Tokyo. The UK-born Martin has infiltrated popular culture worldwide — she’s been cast as herself on the TV show, Gossip Girl; interviewed on CNN and appeared on an NBC morning show; named by French Glamour as New York’s 2011 “coolest it girl”; and her hand-illustrated bedroom walls graced the cover of the New York Times home section in May 2012.

QUESTA: Window Installations

Que Houxo, aka Questa, is a Japanese street artist-turned-mural specialist. He began his career in 1999 as a painter, with a background in graffiti, and has since honed his craft on canvases, live paintings and mural pieces, with appearances and commissions around Asia and Europe. His main series of works, titled “Day and Night”, often reference flowers and urban-style art style — with results being incredible luminous installations using fluorescent paint and UV lights.

WINNIE LUI: In-Store Installations
Hong Kong-born Winnie Lui is a multi-disciplinary designer (costume, jewellery and product) as well as a fashion stylist and artist. A graduate of Fashion Communications and Promotion from London’s Central St. Martin’s, she has previously worked with jewellery designer Lara Bohinc, actresses/singers Gigi Leung and Miriam Yeung, and photographer Wing Shya. Notable, often charity-related, past works include designing a set of limited-edition chandeliers for Innermost in 2007; creating a “Mini Lui” 1000% Bearbrick for CIGE 2008 x MILK in Beijing; hosting her 2009 “Winnified Wonderland” exhibition for the Adidas Beijing Sanlitun store; and collaborating with On Pedder for a 2011 limited-edition collection.

MARK GOSS: In-Store Installation

After studying graphic design in his native London and then beginning his professional career from Antwerp in Belgium, Mark Goss is now based in Hong Kong where he works as an artist and designer.  Not limited to any particular medium but with a penchant for graphic mark-making and using found objects, Goss creates typographic and figurative images inspired by his environment and experiences.

For further enquiries or interview invitation, please contact the PR team.

Every one knows I love fashion (well, you know it from the company which I am working for now! hoho), but what you don’t know is I LOVE drawing too!

For someone like me, nothing tops when fashion meets drawing! Now Lane Crawford’s Spring/Summer 2013 Campaign interactive game, which I am so addicted to recently, gives me chances to show my art talent and passion to fashion!  Simply a few strokes with your mouse you can create your very own Lane Crawford campaign in your style.

I just can’t help but keep drawing! Here is one of my works!

This fun game just makes us so addicted that Seline just can’t stop playing too!

Want to create your own Lane Crawford campaign like us?  Visit lanecrawford.com to get started!

You can also see others’ entries from our gallery:

http://ss13.lanecrawford.com/gallery/

For more information, please contact the PR team.

Showcasing exciting stories and exhibitions, and collaborating with inspiring creatives and designers each season to create works of art is always our aspiration. This season Lane Crawford collaborates with 3 artists tying in with the Spring/Summer 2013 campaign. Last week we have talked about Mosaic Art Project, so today we are introducing to you the other two multi-talented artists - Kim Tang and Stickyline.

Visual Merchandising done by Kim Tang

About Kim Tang

Awarded “The Most Promising Young Talent” by Lane Crawford in 2007, Kim Tang has continued to fulfil his as a fashion artist and designer over the past few years and this season Tang has collaborated with Lane Crawford once again to create a unique installation.

In order to replicate the jagged angles of our campaign, artist Kim Tang created this installation utilizing dozens of acrylic fragments. Evoking dark sensibilities, Tang’s artwork juxtaposes fine craftsmanship with a jagged aesthetic to capture the mood and movement of the campaign.

Visual Merchandising done by Stickyline

About Stickyline
Founded in 2011 by Mic Leong and Soilworm Lai, Stickyline plies their trade transforming two-dimensional planes into three-dimensional forms. Stickyline has created this geometric installation from dozens of cardboard shapes for Lane Crawford’s Spring/Summer 2013 Campaign. The work mimics the dynamic lines of our campaign and captures the energy and explosive nature of this season’s imagery through eco-friendly and practical means.

While shopping the new season must-haves at Lane Crawford stores, don't miss the aesthetically pleasing visual merchandises and window displays for the amazing artists!

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To celebrate the new season, Lane Crawford collaborates with 3 artists to create special window display.  This time, we are introducing one of the talented artists -  Mosaic Art Project. 

Hong Kong Artist Karen Pow created this installation from acrylic fragments in her own style of painstakingly crafted mosaic. The installation emulates the vivacity and verve of our Spring/Summer 13 campaign. Evoking the explosive nature of the campaign aesthetic, these eye-catching installations are part of Pow’s second collaboration with Lane Crawford.

Do stay tuned for more information of the other 2 artists!

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Experience Lane Crawford’s Spring/Summer 2013 3D Scanning Campaign

                        Givenchy            Alexander McQueen      Proenza Schouler       Haider Ackermann

Lane Crawford unveils its ground-breaking first-ever 3D scanning campaign for Spring/Summer 2013.  Shot by the pioneering fashion image-maker Nick Knight, the campaign embraces technology, fashion and photography of the highest level.  Giving this latest campaign the 3D scan treatment, Knight coupled with motion capture that features this season’s campaign girl Ming Xi, rendered and animated in a futuristic way never seen before.   The campaign is launched on February 4, 2013 in key print and online media and outdoor in China and Hong Kong.

And you don't want to miss the state-of-the-art campaign video produced also by Nick Knight with 3D scanning technique:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afd0BKQi6OU&feature=share&list=UU_Vexa5lkNwUFjEVDfICnkw 

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Discover Your World of Style
Experience Lane Crawford’s Spring/Summer 2013 Campaign

(Hong Kong – January 14, 2013) Lane Crawford debuts its ground-breaking first-ever 3D campaign for Spring/Summer 2013.  Shot by the pioneering fashion image-maker Nick Knight, the campaign embraces technology, fashion and photography of the highest level.  Giving this latest campaign the 3D scan treatment, Knight coupled with motion capture that features this season’s campaign girl Ming Xi, rendered and animated in a futuristic way never seen before.  

The Technology

Fifteen years ago, Knight became fascinated with 3D scanning, a technique used in filmmaking and video game production, to capture biometric data of an object.  He has since boldly applied this technique within a fashion context, creating 3D scans of the likes of Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss and Lady Gaga. 

“We're trying to push the frontiers of what technology can do within fashion.  What's exciting is that Lane Crawford is brave enough to put their weight behind it.  It's leading by example and that's great.” Nick Knight

The Process

Ming Xi was set the challenge of posing as still as a statue, as a piece of imposing apparatus rotated around her, capturing her exact features and angles.  Every slight movement would cause glitches in the 3D renderings, which Knight found exciting.  The two-day shoot was an ongoing experiment where the outcome was often unpredictable, particularly when Ming Xi had to be motion captured, with the corresponding data mapped to the still imagery, in order to obtain the final warped animations. 

The Girl

Ming Xi has been on fashion’s centre stage since entering China’s Elite Model Look competition in 2009.  This is Ming’s third campaign for Lane Crawford and this season, she is the solo star, braving her way through a new fashion frontier of 3D scanning and motion capture. 

The Fashion

The revered stylist Katy England set the avant-garde style agenda in the nineties, working as Fashion Director at Dazed & Confused and AnOther magazine.   Pulling together four diverse runway looks that represent a polarised Spring/Summer 2013 season, including ornate honeycomb embroidery from Alexander McQueen, a boxy Proenza Schouler perforated leather ensemble, a trail of delicate chiffon contrasted with tailored trousers from Haider Ackermann and a pale blue exercise of sleek lines from Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci. 

The Team

Hairstylist Sam McKnight, make-up artist Val Garland and nail technician Marian Newman were the experienced triumvirate that came together for this shoot.  Together, they have worked as a trio with Nick Knight regularly on shoots for Vogue as well as for various fashion campaigns.

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體驗連卡佛2013年春夏季形象廣告

(香港 - 2013年1月14日) 連卡佛首個2013春夏3D形象廣告正式亮相。本次形象廣告由先鋒時尚影像師Nick Knight掌舵，內容涉及最尖端的科技、時尚和攝影領域。Knight採用3D掃描處理，並加入動態捕捉技術，以前所未有的未來主義方式將本活動主角奚夢瑤刻畫得靈動無限。

科技

15年前，Knight便開始著迷於3D掃描技術，該技術當時主要應用於電影製作和視頻遊戲製作，用以採集物體的動態資料。Knight大膽的將這一技術引入時尚界，曾為Naomi Campbell、Kate Moss和Lady Gaga等國際巨星進行3D掃描。

“我們試圖拓展尖端科技在時尚界的應用。讓人興奮的是，連卡佛也非常願意在這方面付出努力和探索，這將成為業界一個標杆，是件好事。” Nick Knight說道。

拍攝過程

在造型方面，奚夢瑤此次面臨著巨大的挑戰。她需要像雕塑一樣巋然不動，拍攝裝置圍繞在她周圍，從不同角度精確捕捉她的臉部特徵。每一個細微的移動都會影響到3D渲染的效果，讓Knight覺得極具挑戰。兩天的拍攝是一個不間斷的嘗試過程，而結果總是不可預知，尤其是奚夢瑤動作捕捉的部分，相應的資料圖會映射到靜止的影像之中，以獲取最終的動畫卷。

奚夢瑤

奚夢瑤自2009年入圍中國精英模特大賽之後，便始終活躍於時尚舞臺。本次是奚夢瑤第三次與連卡佛合作，她也是本次形象廣告中唯一的主角，通過3D掃描這一全新時尚尖端科技和動作捕捉技術另闢蹊徑。

時裝

造型師Katy England作為Dazed & Confused和AnOther magazine的時裝總監，曾是九十年代時尚前衛風格的引領者。2013春夏，她所操刀的四個不同秀場完美的詮釋了終極時尚，包括Alexander McQueen華美蜂巢刺繡、Proenza Schouler方正廓形的全套打孔皮衣、Haider Ackermann對比鮮明的精美雪紡和合體長褲以及Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci淡藍色調的俐落線條設計。

團隊

髮型師Sam McKnight、化妝師Val Garland和美甲師Marian Newman為本次拍攝再度聚首。這一黃金三人組與Nick Knight經常聯手負責Vogue以及其他時尚廣告的拍攝。

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