Innholdsfortegnelse for May 2022 i Luxury Trending Magazine

Thomas P. Campbell is a distinguished art historian educated at Oxford, the Courtauld Institute, and the University of London. He joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1995 where he organized several acclaimed tapestry exhibitions. He also served as Supervising Curator of The Antonio Ratti Textile Center, which houses the Museum’s encyclopedic collection of 36,000 textiles and is one of the preeminent centers of textile studies in the world. During Mr. Campbell’s tenure as Director and CEO at the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum gained national and international recognition not only through the dozens of exhibitions overseen by Mr. Campbell but also through conservation exchanges in the Middle East and India, loan exhibitions in China, Japan and Brazil, the launching of a biannual global museum directors’ colloquium and a…

Dr. Frank Cintamani is a Singapore-based entrepreneur and philanthropist for entertainment and the arts. Of Indonesian and Chinese descent, he has worked with some of Asia’s most prominent families on wealth planning and succession. After living in the UK for 20 years, Dr. Cintamani settled in Singapore where he launched the Asian Couture Federation (AFC) in 2013, an organization to inspire, support, and promote the best design and fashion talent both in Asia and the world. Due to his long-standing dedication to the Asian and international fashion industries, Dr. Cintamani has established several Asian regional talents, including couture designer Guo Pei. He is also one of three founders of the new fashion platform Couturissimo, launched in Paris in 2016. The platform’s objective is to invite exceptional couture designers to create…

Jill D’Alessandro is the curator in charge of Costume and Textile Arts at The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. In her position, she oversees the collection of costumes and textiles from 125 countries worldwide. As a curator in charge, she manages a collection of 14,000 textiles and costumes from Asia, Africa, Oceania, Europe, and the Americas. She is responsible for the research and development of in-house and traveling exhibitions. She is responsible for the development of the costume and textile collection including making acquisitions and overseeing de-accessioning as well as for the programming in the educational gallery and the creation of interpretative materials. In addition, Jill D’Alessandro works closely with the education department in the development and implementation of symposiums, lecture series, public programs, and audio tours. D’Alessandro earned…

As early as three years old, Brenda studied ballet with her mother before receiving her formal training at the School of American Ballet at age twelve, followed by more professional training at the Ballet Arts in New York City. “Ballet was simply a language that I spoke and an activity that I loved, yet, I never anticipated it would become my career,” she shares. During her teens, Brenda dreamed of emulating journalist, playwright, mother, and US Ambassador Clare Booth Luce who balanced arts, politics, and parenting. “I loved her famous quote, Thoughts have no sex.” She smiles. Being fascinated by ballet and dance, Brenda spearheaded the ODC/Dance, a contemporary dance and arts organization where she serves as the Artistic Director and Creator of the ODC Theater and ODC Dance Commons,…

After more than two years, one of the Bay Area’s most-anticipated annual social events of the year returned in person on Thursday, March 24, 2022. San Francisco Ballet’s La Grande Fête, the 89th Season Gala, featured the world premieres of ballets by Alexei Ratmansky, Yuri Possokhov, and Myles Thatcher, plus the stage premiere of a pas de deux from Danielle Rowe’s Wooden Dimes, one of the ballet films created during the pandemic. The celebratory evening, sponsored in part by Presenting Sponsor Osterweis Capital Management, supported the nonprofit San Francisco Ballet’s renowned artistic, educational, and training programs. The one-night-only program, curated by Artistic Director and Principal Choreographer Helgi Tomasson in his 37th and final season leading the company, celebrated the longstanding relationships the company has held with choreographers and dancers at…

Guo Pei is China’s most renowned couturier. For over 20 years, she has been dressing celebrities, royalty, and the political elite. Guo Pei was born in Beijing in 1967 to two members of China’s Communist Party; her father was a former battalion leader of the People’s Army and her mother was a kindergarten teacher. She recalls her father having thrown away her sketches and paintings as a child. Her grandmother though, a great influence, told stories of the beautiful clothes she once owned but was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. She told stories of the pleasure and beauty of embroidered flowers and butterfly wings. Guo got her actual start in sewing at the age of 2, helping her mother make clothes for the winter; this task and her grandmother’s stories…