Giles Deacon (@gilesdeacon_)
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Creative Director - Fashion, Art, Interiors, Costume and Character. Ideas from Atelier to Archive ,Screen to Scene & Collected Curiosities
⚡️Details of a piece made for a Californian client whose spirit is as expansive and luminous as the California landscape itself - I photographed the Canopy’s of giant Redwood trees in Big Sur , printed them onto silk georgette with a layered silk tulle with over embroidery - a nod to Stevie Nicks and the artistry of Giorgio Di Sant Angelo - grounded majesty and dreamlike freedom ⚡️ a Cosmic Dancer indeed - Thank you Christine 🤎
⚡️Summer in the City - Sir John Soanes Museum ⚡️
⚡️The Regency Aperigon Stripe from The Sanderson X Giles collection in a sun drenched pool house Cabana - it’s graphic lines inspired by both Regency Elegance and 1960s British Op -Art - a perfect place to escape ⚡️ @meghanjaydesign @sanderson1860 ⚡️
⚡️Littoral Lines After the Storm ⚡️ 😎
⚡️A Tale Of Two Lilly’s ⚡️. Runway footage a decade apart exploring the relationship of the broad shouldered court attire of Henry Tudor and Elizabeth 1st Pearl laced , celestial silhouette. Symbolism , Spectacle and structured drama in dress -Tudor ostentation and Elizabethan Myth making - untouchable and eternal - Sculptural Silhouettes and coded Embellishment - modelled by lily Donaldson 🤎⚡️👑⚡️.
⚡️Remains of the Day ⚡️. Gisele Bündchen captured by Sølve Sundsbø in 2004 .Shot in an artists house in Ealing capturing the grandeur and intimacy ,between the staged and the sincere. 🤎
🌾National Meadow Day 🌾. 🤎British Folklore - Pastoral Painting - imagined histories- allegorical creatures 🤎
⚡️A Photographer I admire, Baud Postma has an exhibition of new work at Canopy Collections in Bloomsbury “Cowboys and Flowers “ - a complex beautiful show with a focus on materiality and hand made processes has led to multiple printing stages and the final use of Photo - intaglio ⚡️ I’ve been lucky to have had my portrait taken by him also ⚡️ @canopycollections 3 Bloomsbury Place - London - WC1A 2QA
🕷️ Tate Modern’s 25th 🕷️. For Tate Modern’s 25th Anniversary celebrating a quater of a century of an institution that has platformed boundary - pushing art , feminist voices and the collision of art and life , Gwendoline performed under Louise Bourgeois ‘ MAMAN wearing a specially commissioned “Nocturne For a Spider “ gown in silk Chantilly lace evocative of a web with a collar made by a technique of “ Dentelle Soutenue “ where lace is supported by horsehair , wire and fine Tulle 🕸️. . 🧵 @gwendolineuniverse 📍 @tate 🕷️ @louisebourgeoisarchive ⚡️ @christopherwoodsdesigner 📸 @akehurstjohn
🥚Step into the Oology Portal - a wall covering born from the rarified world of Couture 🥚A nod to the Victorian art of Oology where Egg and Avian were revered Treasures 🥚 Giles x Sanderson @sanderson1860 🥚 @studio.highlands
🪶Under The Quill - 🤎FRIDA🤎