Remember Pong on Atari, Pac Man or Missile Command on the Atari 2600? Super Mario Bros on the Nintendo NES? Alex Kidd on Master System, Sonic on Megadrive, Metal Slug on the Neo Geo, Tekken on Playstation? What about Space Invaders, Street Fighter II, Time Traveller, Outrun…? This fun, interactive exhibition traces the history of video games via a chronological presentation of 40 or so years of technological genius!
Until 7 Nov.
Musée des arts et métiers, 60 rue Réaumur, 3rd. Tue-Sun, 10am-6pm (Thu 9.30pm).
http://museogames.com/
Andrea Crews’ Pigalle space (10 rue Frochot) will be closing next Sat 31 July, before reopening in September in a secret new address… www.andreacrews.com/
A page turns for influential fashion maven Maria Luisa Poumaillou. Her multi-brand store set up in 1988 is closing its doors for good on Sat 7 Aug, less than a year after inaugurating a new space on the corner of rue Rouget de Lisle and rue du Mont Thabor, (and just around the corner from the original space rue Cambon). Maria Luisa has said she’ll now be concentrating on ‘contemporary sales platforms’: department stores and online. Fashion director of the Printemps, and with a magnificent ’shop in shop’ there on the second floor, she’ll also continue selling her astute selection of designers (Alaia, Balenciaga, Jil Sander, Margiela, Christopher Kane, Marios Schwab…) via the website the.corner. www.marialuisaparis.com/
Here’s the trailer for Notre Jour Viendra (Our Day Will Come), the first feature by up-and-coming French director Romain Gavras, starring Vincent Cassel and Olivier Barthelemy. Gavras’ last two video clips, ‘Stress’ for Justice, and ‘Born Free’ for M.I.A. have been notable for a hard-core, dystopian view of humanity (the film shares the powerful ‘red hair’ element present in the M.I.A. clip).
In cinemas 15 Sep 2010 www.notrejourviendra.com
J’aime mon carré, ‘I love my scarf’. Hermès are launching an international campaign promoting their silk scarves to the young and groovy. Countries as far afield as Australia and the Czech Republic will hold special events to celebrate the who and the how of the mythical scarf. There’ll be a magazine by UK photographer Matt Irwin, with art director Dean Langley and stylist Francesca Burns. They travelled to New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, to create a fanzine around 4 girls and their lives and loves – friends, lovers, places, and of course, their scarves. www.jaimemoncarre.com the website will launch soon listing and reporting on all the events taking place around the planet, as well as a link to the recently inaugurated Hermes Facebook page. And then there’s a superb collaboration with Colette with 4 limited-edition scarves ‘Hermès for colette’, on sale in its own special orange box on the first floor of the concept store from 27 September to 16 October. www.colette.fr/
The award-winning French agency TBWA produced this horny ad promoting condom use (Protect yourself!) for the association AIDES, and released earlier this year.
‘Magazine’, one of the city’s most important, and enduring!, free titles covering fashion, art and the creative industry at large, is moving to the newsstand! That’s right: you won’t be able to read it for free any more over your tuna tartare on the terrace at the Palais de Tokyo, or scoop up a copy leaving Colette. The new version is a quarterly (15 Sep, 15 Dec, 1 March, 15 June) and on stands September 15 for 5€. It will be fatter (160 pages), glossier, and packed with even more of the kind of trend sensitive fashion and lifestyle info and photos that has made the free version so compelling.
A new summer destination has popped up on the roof of department store Galeries Lafayette. Designed by Patrick Jouin and Sanjit Manku, the simple, elegant outdoor restaurant boasts a panoramic view over the Paris rooftops. The fresh and tasty cuisine, from Fumiko Kono (with desserts signed Pierre Hermé), has a Japanese twist, and includes mains like monkfish with lemongrass, baby leeks and shiso, 15-20€). And the menu’s best deal might be a glass of champagne (Philippe Gonot Brut réserve) for just 7.50€.
Tue-Sat, noon-6pm. Open until autumn. www.galerieslafayette.com/
The quirky Spanish shoe brand will open its fifth Paris space in September, near Opera (following in the footsteps of Uniqlo and the new Apple Store). Star Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will take care of the interiors, inspired by a previous collaboration with Camper that he developed around his Bouquet Chair (Moroso) for Camper’s Regent Street store in London. (e.hodges) www.camper.com
The Swedish fashion brand is scheduled to launch a second Parisian space during Fashion Week in October, opposite the Bonton flagship (3 rue Froissart) in the Northern Marais. The 200 m2 space will become the brand’s flagship, over their Palais Royal store, opened in 2008. (e.hodges) www.acnestudios.com
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