DREAMS IN COLOR

PERFUME IS A CONDUIT FOR MEMORIES. EACH PERSON WILL ASSOCIATE SOMETHING SPECIFIC BUT DIFFERENT WITH A PARTICULAR SCENT

COLORS AND PATTERNS CAN DO THE SAME. SEEING MARC JACOBS’ FW19 SHOW AT NEW YORK FASHION WEEK REMINDED US OF THE FOLLOWING ART

EDOUARD VUILLARD, THE PARISIAN PAINTER, LIVED HIS WHOLE LIFE WITH HIS MOTHER, A SEAMSTRESS. HE SAW HIS WORK AS CRAFT AND DECORATION AS WELL AS ART. THE MEDIA HE USED, THE SHAPES AND COLORS WERE AS IMPORTANT AS THE SUBJECTS. THIS GIVES HIS WORK AN ‘ALL-SURROUNDING’ STIMULUS, A BIT LIKE FASHION AND FRAGRANCE

VUILLARD’S WORKS SURROUND YOU WITH LIGHT, COLOR AND PATTERN. THE WALLPAPER AND THE FABRICS ARE AS IMPORTANT AS THE FACES. LIKE A DREAM THEY EVOKE SUBLIMINAL MEMORIES. VUILLARD DID A LOT OF COMMISSIONS FOR SPECIFIC PATRONS’ HOMES. PERSONAL, FOR THE CUSTOMER, RATHER THAN ‘THE ART MARKET’ OR ‘CRITICS’

A COMMISSION FOR ONE OF HIS PATRONS THE AMERICAN IN PARIS MARGUERITE CHAPIN: A 5-LEAF SCREEN ‘PLACE VINTIMILLE IN SPRINGTIME’ PAINTED IN MATT DISTEMPER ON PAPER IN 1911. IT IS OF THE VIEW FROM VUILLARD’S WINDOW DOWN INTO THE SQUARE

WE LIKE TO THINK THAT A SCENT IS THE CLOSEST BRIDGE TO DREAMS. WEARING A PERFUME ALLOWS OTHERS TO DREAM WITH YOU

(AFTER ALL MARCEL PROUST, THE CHRONICLER OF MEMORY, WAS AN DEVOTEE OF VUILLARD!)