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KAHALA MALL
A student put the finishing touches on a mannequin on last year's "Les Fleurs Couture" design competition.
Kahala’s
garden partyKahala Mall presents a two-week
fashion and gardening event
to celebrate spring
The sun has emerged so the timing couldn't be any better for Kahala Mall's two-week celebration "Nouveau: Everything Spring."
The shopping center will be bringing the outdoors indoors, treating shoppers to a free showcase of flowers, gardens and fashion, with landscape displays, gardening classes and demonstrations continuing through April 10.
Fashionable legend on film
Screening: "Yves Saint-Laurent: Time Regained" and "Yves Saint-Laurent: 5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris"Where: The Doris Duke Theatre, Honolulu Academy of Arts
When: 7:30 p.m. April 1, 2 and 5, and 1 p.m. screening April 1
Tickets: $5 general, $3 Academy members
Call: 532-8768
The free event opens Saturday with a "Tres Chic Garden Party" fashion show from 2 to 3 p.m. in a garden setting adjacent to Center Court. Wear your spring chapeau for a chance to win prizes. In addition, the first 100 shoppers will receive preferred seating and gift bags.
For more visual excitement, the University of Hawaii Apparel Product Design and Merchandising Program will move in to present "Les Fleurs Couture," a fresh floral costume design competition in which students will vie for a prize of $1,000. Watching the assemblages spring to life on mannequin forms is half the fun, and will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 3. Entries will be judged between 2 and 3 p.m., and the mannequins will continue to be displayed through April 4.
KAHALA MALL
Students from the University of Hawaii will be among those creating a little bit of Eden for "Nouveau: Everything Spring."
Those with green thumbs can expect to pick up tips from landscaping and garden experts such as Reliable Landscaping & Sprinklers; Steve's Gardening Service; John Groark & Associates, Inc.; Kevin J. Mulkern, A Licensed Landscape Contractor; and Big Rock Manufacturing. Company representatives will create living garden displays, complete with moss-covered rocks, ponds, patios, fountains and landscape lighting.
Additional help will be available through classes, demonstrations and discussions featuring some of Hawaii's most knowledgeable gardening enthusiasts from the Hawaii Bonsai Cultural Center, Hawaii Nature Center, UH Agricultural Diagnostic Service Center, Ikenobo Shinwa Kai, Honolulu Board of Water Supply, Kaimuki Orchid Society, Star Markets garden shop and the Honolulu Aquarium Society. Sessions will be offered 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday and April 4. The complete schedule is posted at www.kahalamallcenter.com.
For more information, call 732-7736, Ext. 13.
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Films offer closer
look at designer
"The best clothing for a woman is her man's embrace. But for the less fortunate ones, I'm there."
-- Yves Saint-Laurent
Yves Saint-Laurent was never one to hold back. At age 3, he advised his aunt that her dress and shoes didn't work as an ensemble. At 19, he began designing for the House of Christian Dior, taking over when Dior died in 1957. In 1962, he opened his own fashion house with business partner and companion Pierre Bergé. Saint-Laurent would also go on to design many costumes for the cinema, theater, opera and the music hall.
In 2002, he and Bergé closed their custom dressmaking business.
For 40 years, Saint-Laurent reigned as one of the most influential and inspired couturier of our times. His dramatic designs, emphasizing the body and a seductive elegance, and his conceptual innovations (such as the pant suit for women) have completely revolutionized women's fashion.
The icon of fashion and culture is the subject of two intimate documentaries, by David Teboul, screening at the Doris Duke Theatre at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, beginning April 1.
HONOLULU ACADEMY OF ARTS
Yves Saint-Laurent examines his work in his atelier.
"Yves Saint-Laurent: Time Regained" follows his career, from his precocious privileged youth in colonial Algeria, to his emergence as Dior's teenage protégé, and then the dazzling debut of his first line under his own name. The documentary conveys the key role he played during his nearly half-century career, leading the transition of high fashion as something for a wealthy elite, to fashion as a broad-based pop-cultural phenomenon, with the opening of ready-to-wear boutiques in 1966.
The film includes current and archival interviews from the '60s and '70s -- including appearances by Bergé, Saint-Laurent's mother, actress Catherine Deneuve, muse and collaborator Loulou de la Falaise, and admirer-socialite Lee Radziwill, sister of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy.
And, for the first time, Saint-Laurent agreed to a long interview. With great emotion, he comments on the great moments of his life, career and the encounters that marked his life.
The second documentary, "Yves Saint-Laurent: 5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris," is a record of the master at work on his final collection, from the sketch until the final modeling.
Filming in Saint-Laurent's townhouse in Paris, Teboul wrote, "In a world of mirrors and negotiated flurries, of punctilious tensions and light touches, I discovered an entire tribe of dressmakers and tradesmen, embroiderers and workshop managers, all animating, day after day, this theater of the ephemeral with its enchantments."
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