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K11 Unites Young Creative Forces in Fashion and Art
Fascination / Imagination Kick-starts an Audacious Journey of the Senses
(21 March 2013, Hong Kong) K11 has long been providing an interactive platform to nurture emerging
talents of various art forms, showcasing their works to art lovers in Hong Kong, China and internationally.
Since 2011, K11 has partnered with renowned jeweller Chow Tai Fook for three consecutive years to
showcase young artists at Paris Fashion Week. This year, Fascination / Imagination featured some of the
brightest lights in Chinese art and fashion on 5 March at Le Pavillon Vendôme, Paris. The Paris event
presented the works by seven artist groups - fashion designer Simon Gao, “Designer of the Year” nominated
by Numéro China, Modern Weekly and K11; painter Meng Baishen, “Artist of the Year” endorsed by K11;
photographer Charles Guo; cinematographer Rain Li; installation art group LuxuryLogico; digital art
ensemble Cocho Take and figure designers Jeffrey Koh x Francesco de Molfetta and curated by Alvin Goh.
Continuing the success of the Paris show, K11 is now staging Fascination / Imagination in Hong Kong from
21 March to 12 May 2013 at K11 Art Mall featuring Simon Gao, Meng Baishen, Charles Guo and
LuxuryLogico.
Simon Gao
Featured works are exhibited at K11 Piazza (G/F)
Nominated as Designer of the Year by Numéro China, Modern Weekly and K11, Simon Gao has established
his own label “SIMONGAO” in 2009 which landed him Esquire Magazine’s Fashion Designer Award and also
the 2012 Talents Award from Vogue. Both his menswear and womenswear collections has received ample
international coverage. Simon is constantly exploring the bond between masculine and feminine. Irreverent,
exquisite and resolutely modern, His avant-garde designs fuse the frontiers of art and fashion with high-tech
fabrics and slick, crisp tailoring. His sombre colours and dynamic silhouettes are highly coveted by the city’s
art set.
Connecting the five elements of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water in a cosmic interrogation of line and form,
Simon’s ethereal mini collection of wearable art is born from his personal studies about the flow of Qi, our
intrinsic life energy. Each garment swirls around the body like three dimensional sculptures, releasing inner
forces that embrace both quietude and movement.
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Meng Baishen
Featured works are exhibited at K11 art space (L107)
Nominated by K11 as the Artist of the Year, noted Beijing-based emerging artist Meng Baishen is a graduate
of the Mural Painting Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts and has been exhibited in a number of
well-known galleries and museums in Hong Kong and Beijing. He is concerned about guiding people towards
faith and spirituality in its purest form, without partiality towards any one religion or idealism. Inspired by
classical texts and current affairs, he turns them into an embossed type before transferring the materials onto a
scroll via the rubbing of a pencil. Baishen, a rising star holding the key to the future of contemporary Chinese
art, is nothing if not painstaking, methodical and deeply passionate.
Charles Guo
Featured works are exhibited at K11 Stage of the Arts (B207)
Celebrated for his outstanding editorials that have graced the pages of magazines such as Numéro, Vogue,
Harper’s Bazaar and GQ, China’s hottest emerging photographer Charles Guo is inspired by light and the lack
thereof. Melding art, craft, fashion and technology in an utterly indulging feast for the senses, Guo’s
forward-looking energy and editorial wizardry has the power to impart magic on both the clothes and their
wearers.
With ten years’ experience under the lens, Charles’s obsession with photography sprouted at Vogue where he
worked as the magazine’s assistant art director. The job prompted him to study fashion photography at New
York’s School of Visual Arts, which kick-started a new career in photography.
LuxuryLogico
Featured works are exhibited at K11 art space (L107) and K11 Stage of the Arts (B207)
Complete liberty may be a real luxury, yet this is the very cornerstone of everything LuxuryLogico pursues.
Structured around the core cell of four artists, Chen Chih Chien, Llunc Lin, Chang Keng Hau and Chang Gen
Hwa, LuxuryLogico assumes the role of Transformers, the modular toy that can be folded and rebuilt in a
variety of forms. Pooling their diverse skills in mechanics, computing, music, sculpture, theatre design,
lighting and photography, the forward-thinking team has orchestrated numerous high-tech machine-software
interactions to produce many cunning interdisciplinary hybrid works.
Alvin Goh, Curator
With an enviable portfolio spanning many international brands, artists, celebrities, supermodels and
photographers, curator and creative director Alvin Goh is a true believer in the synergy of fashion and art. For
this fashion designer, makeup artist and creative visionary with many hats, there is no better pleasure than
watching these diverse disciplines bend, blend and blur in ground-breaking and original projects and
exhibitions across the world.
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Fascination / Imagination extension programme
Photographers of Elegance - The Séeberger Brothers 1909-1939
Date:
21 March – 21 April
Venue: K11 Showcases (G/F-L3)
Adding a French flair to Fascination / Imagination, from 21 March to 21 April, K11 plays host to a photo
exhibition titled Photographers of Elegance – The Séeberger Brothers 1909-1939. The exhibition is part of this
year’s Le French May programme, featuring selected works by perhaps the world’s first generation of fashion
photographers – the Séeberger brothers, Jules (1872-1932), Louis (1874-1946) and Henri (1876-1956).
The exhibition represents a selection of the most beautiful and iconic photos that helped to shape how ‘French
elegance’ is perceived today. Photographers of Elegance presents the history of fashion photography
illustrating the radical changes of fashion trends in the first half of the 1900s, as well as an entertaining and
nostalgic chronicle of the world of upper society during the interwar period. The photographs of the Séeberger
brothers reported stories from real life. Beyond the fashion itself, they managed to capture the effervescence of
upper class society and photograph the world of anonymous beauties such as bankers, designers, aristocrats
and celebrities including Mistinguett, Joséphine Baker, Gabrielle Chanel, Arletty, the Dolly Sisters, Charlie
Chaplin, Buster Keaton, the Rothschild, the Citroën family and more.
On the top of being a tribute to the Séeberger brothers’ work, this exhibition pays homage to fashion and elegance.
SS2013 Makeup, Styling and Fashion Workshop
Date:
13 April 2013
Venue: K11 art space (L107)
Fee:
Free of charge
Coinciding Fascination / Imagination, K11 joins forces with Hong Kong Design Institute to present a makeup
and fashion styling workshop open for public. The workshop is hosted by makeup artist Carrie Kwok who will
share with the participants tips on the makeup and fashion styling trends for the new season. Carrie has been a
professional makeup artist specializing in fashion and beauty makeup artistry for ten years now. She holds a
Diploma in Fashion Makeup Artistry and Certificate in Character Makeup by Makeup Designory, Los Angeles
in 2006. She has worked for premium international cosmetics brands as well as renowned artists and
celebrities. Carrie now focuses in teaching and training new makeup artists and fashion image stylists for
professional qualifications in Hong Kong Design Institute.
For enrolment and enquiries of the workshop, please email k11art@k11concepts.com or call (852) 3118 8070.
For enquiries, please contact K11’s Customer Service Hotline (852) 3118 8070, refer to the posters in K11 or
visit K11’s official website: http://www.k11concepts.com.
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K11
K11 is the world’s first original brand to pioneer the blend of three essential elements of Art · People · Nature.
Beginning with an urban multicultural lifestyle, the brand brings unprecedented and unique five-sense experience
to the public through the marvellous integration of multidimensional art appreciation and exchange, recreation and
reappearance of local humanity, green architectural space and people’s daily lives and pulses in mall and public
space within the unique district of K11. Since its first opening in Hong Kong, K11 has always gained considerable
international media attention on the latest moves.
– K11 not only displays a permanent collection of local young artists’ works, but also allows the public to
appreciate different local artworks and performance during shopping and leisure through the provision of
various multi-dimensional spaces. This can help enhance the communication and exchanges between
local artists and the public, nurture habits of art appreciation, and allow young artists to have more
opportunities for showcasing their works so as to foster the development of local art.
People – K11 manages, reorganizes and integrates humanity, history and geography of the adjacent regions from
various perspectives in different cities. It revitalises, regenerates and recreates the humanistic experience,
art and culture in the regions so as to create a unique K11 multicultural living area.
Nature – Various green design and technology concepts are taken into account in the interior architecture of K11
projects so as to minimize the negative impacts on the natural environment and upgrade the overall
quality of urban public premises. Designed with a garden concept, K11 features a multidimensional
natural landscape with a variety of local plants, green roof, vertical greening and urban farming, and
creates a perfect integration of natural space and local culture so that visitors feel like indulging in an
urban oasis and are inspired to consider the intimate relationship between human and nature.
Art
In the coming years, the brand and its related multicultural living area will continue the journey of creativity in
cities including Shanghai, Wuhan, Shenyang, Beijing, Guangzhou, Guiyang, Ningbo, Tianjin, Qingdao and Haikou
with various types of functional space with a total area of 1.6 million square metres.
For further information, please contact:
Weber Shandwick
Shanice Wong
Tel.: (852) 2533 9911 / (852) 9219 0007
Email: shawong@webershandwick.com
Cindy Leung
Tel.: (852) 2533 9912 / (852) 9517 7089
Email: cleung@webershandwick.com
K11 Concepts Limited
Stella Leung
Tel.: (852) 3723 0054 / (852) 6777 0587
Email: stellaleung@k11concepts.com
Monica Suen
Tel.: (852) 3273 0058 / (852) 6777 0354
Email: monicasuen@k11concepts.com
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