Art Basel: Day 1 – the galleries
Tuesday, December 2nd:
Woke up early, excited and ready to shoot.
::rows 1 and 2::
First stop: Photo Opt and brunch with the renowned visionary artist, Emeshel, Europe’s leading designer of luxury crystal and glass sculptures and now with her version of sex in a bottle. I wanted to see Grace Jones scream “that’s the essences of sex…” wearing her pvc outfit and her blond ponytail. One can only dream. Emeshel was poised and sweet.
I enjoyed my tasty brunch staring at the gallery where David Lachapelle would be that night. Then off to Bridge Art Fair in Wynwood.
::remiaining rows::
Art outside of Bridge. The weather was amazing so it all felt good.
I was ready for In Fashion Photo, but it was too early, so we went in for a sneak peak. Since we’d be back, we decided to go over to Photo Miami, I was not ready to walk that fair, just to pick up my passes. Design Miami looked like a party and looked really cool from outside, so it was time to get in. So we did. Cool art: the gorgeous Swarovski Crystal work by Ross Lovegrove. GORGEOUS. The crowd was a nice mix of artsy people, I ran into some of my international friends, but after a couple of glasses of the bubbly, we headed over to In Photo to see if they were ready. They were, but the place was full of paparazzi. Eww. I took myself over to David Lachapelle’s exhibit.
Ran into Naomi, found and shot David (he signed our Naomi book), ran into Leo from The Brand and went back to catch Naomi at In Fashion Photo. We did our remaining walk of all the gorgeous pictures, but ended our night with some woman being utterly and completely rude to us for no reason. You know who you are. Tisk tisk.
