What do Elizabeth Taylor, Olivia Rodrigo, Marge Simpson, and Sofia Coppola all have in common? Of course, they\u2019re all cultural icons\u2014and furthermore, they\u2019ve all been spotted wearing one of Chanel\u2019s iconic tweed skirt suits. As of yesterday, they have another connecting thread: they\u2019re some of the many muses who helped inspire artist Tom Sachs\u2019s heady, humorous new project\u2014an ersatz Chanel store nestled along Centre Street in New York\u2019s Soho neighborhood.<\/p>\n
Sachs worked with fashion historian Colby Mugrabi to curate the show, titled 31 Rue Cambon. Together, they built a simulacrum of the iconic Parisian retail location out of humble materials from the outside in. Inside, the wares hanging in the exhibition create a Chanel store complete with dresses that are all made of plywood that has been painted and manipulated to evoke tweed, embroidery, and other highfalutin textiles and ornamentation. Accessories like the iconic flap shoulder bag are there, too\u2014plus shoes, jewelry crafted from Legos, and other commonplace ephemera. It is a cheeky celebration and subversion of consumerism, both an homage and a send-up of the ridiculous world of luxury goods.<\/p>\n
\u201cI consider everything in here to be a sculpture,\u201d Sachs said, standing outside the \u201cshop\u201d during a preview yesterday. \u201cThe clothes\u2014you can’t wear them. They’re sculptures in the spirit of Claes Oldenburg’s The Store<\/a> from 1961. You know, a hamburger you can’t eat, a TV you can’t watch, and a dress that you can’t wear. But there are these beautiful sculptures.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What do Elizabeth Taylor, Olivia Rodrigo, Marge Simpson, and Sofia Coppola all have in common? Of course, they\u2019re…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1149,8861,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-344650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-art","tag-chanel","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}