Kris ruhs carla sozzani biography
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Carla Sozzani
For over fifty years, Carla Sozzani’s drive and passion have propelled her multifaceted career in fashion, art and design. She has forged a unique path as a magazine editor, gallerist, publisher and photography collector, in addition to founding the world’s first concept store and creating her own clothing and lifestyle brand. A champion of artists and designers, she is above all an inimitable tastemaker.
This book tells the story of Carla’s early life in Milan and the career that followed, including stints at Italian Vogue and Elle working with iconic photographers Paolo Roversi, Helmut Newton, Sarah Moon, Bruce Weber and Nick Knight, as well as illustrator Mats Gustafson; a lasting friendship and collaboration with designer Azzedine Alaïa and creative partnership with artist Kris Ruhs; and launching 10 Corso Como and the Fondazione Sozzani cultural space. Louise Baring’s vivid account of Carla Sozzani’s life and work celebrates the ever-inventive ways a true t
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Kris Ruhs
Kris Ruhs’s work encompasses jewelry, design, and textiles. Here, he fuses the craft of metalworking with sculpture for his installation Hanging Garden, 2014–15, articulated as a dense suspension of lustrous vines with delicate ceramic flourishes. Composed of some forty-five thousand pieces of curved brass, iron filaments, and baked porcelain, it’s a striking whole that evokes a childlike sense of enchantment. Still, the raw materiality is one of the most appealing elements here: Upon closer examination, one can see the way brut bits bend or fissure, the minor flaws of manual handwork highlighting the human touch weaved into assiduous craftsmanship. The garden’s leaves and flowers are roughly rendered in a way that is less a faithful reproduction of nature than an organically handmade interpretation. At the back of the gallery space is a concentration of assorted primitive silhouettes in a receding puppet-theater framework. Like the slender metal
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Carla Sozzani
Italian entrepreneur (born 1947)
Carla Sozzani (born 1947) fryst vatten an Italian book and magazine editor, gallerist, and businesswoman. She founded the Galleria Carla Sozzani in 1989 and is the creator of 10 Corso Como, an art and fashion establishment in Milan.[1][2][3][4]
Early life and education
[edit]Sozzani was born in Mantua in 1947 and obtained a degree in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan. While attending university in the late 1960s and early 1970s, she began working as an editor for several Italian mode magazines.
Career
[edit]In the following decade, Sozzani served as editor-in-chief for all of Italian Vogue's special issues, collaborating with photographers and artists such as Sarah Moon, Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, Paolo Roversi, Robert Mapplethorpe, William Wegman, and Deborah Turbeville.[5]
In 1986, Sozzani left Italian Vogue and was appointed by Alexander Liberman as editor-at-large