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- 10/20/2017
- by Colleen Kratofil
- PEOPLE.com
Olympia Le-Tan, you win the wedding gift game for, like, ever. The French handbag designer gifted Kim Kardashian with a chic book clutch (the style is pretty much her claim to fame) that features two very familiar figures. The front of the bag reads "Mr & Mrs West, A Love Story," and has an intricate, embroidered portrait of Kim and Kanye West from their May 2014 wedding. (We mean, does it get any cuter than that?) Mrs. West brought her custom clutch to Variety's 2015 Power of Women Luncheon in New York City, where she is one of five ladies set to be honored. (Kim covered the mag's annual Power of Women issue alongside actresses Lena Dunham, Glenn Close, Rachel Weisz and The View's Whoopi...
- 4/24/2015
- E! Online
A sheer delight—and a custom piece, too! Continuing an elegant style streak kicked off at the Time 100 Gala three days before, Kim Kardashian hit the red carpet at Variety's "Power of Women" lunch on Friday, April 24, in NYC, where she stunned in a sleek, cream ensemble. The reality star and mogul, 34, teamed high-waisted white pants with a sleeveless, shawl-collar coatdress, all by Narciso Rodriguez. In her hand, she carried a custom Olympia Le-Tan book clutch that adorably read, "Mr. and Mrs. West: A Love Story." [...]...
- 4/24/2015
- Us Weekly
Your favorite childhood fairytales just got a grown-up new look! Paris-based designer Olympia Le-Tan has released a collection of Disney Princess-inspired handbags, including designs that hark to the film releases of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Peter Pan. While the collection would cost a pretty penny—certain designs run up to over $1,600—we can't help but fantasize about having every one of these amazing book clutches and crossbody bags in our closets. While Olympia Le-Tan also commands a ready-to-wear line for women, the brand is most known for its line of lust-worthy book clutches and minaudières. Disney collection aside, the brand has...
- 11/18/2014
- E! Online
New York, Paris, London—no matter which Fashion Week you had your eye on this season, it was hard to deny the overwhelming amount of book clutches that were sweeping the street style scene. The trend really became a force to be reckoned with in the fashion world when Kate Spade released her collection earlier this year with titles like The Great Gatsby, I Married Adventure and bestseller The Single Girl. While these perfect purses may look like something you can check out of a library, they can actually cost up to $2,000—like this Olympia Le-Tan piece. Now here's the great news: This is a fun Diy project and we're going to show you how! What you'll need: A hardcover book...
- 4/8/2014
- E! Online
Michelle Williams just seems to get more and more adorable with each passing year. She takes fashion risks, but they're calculated and almost never backfire on the 31-year-old actress.
At Saturday's (Feb. 25) Independent Spirit Awards, Williams picked up Best Actress honors for her turn as Marilyn Monroe in "My Week with Marilyn." But she also attracted a lot of attention for her unorthodox ensemble: a shorts suit and a clutch made to resemble an edition of J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye."
The suit was from Louis Vuitton's pre-fall 2012 collection and the bag was by Olympia Le-Tan. She carried a similar Le-Tan bag to the Baftas on Feb. 12.
Her speech was also adorable and, reports the New York Times, the best received of the event:
"I wore my own clothes, which were not very good," said Williams of her first Independent Spirits experience a decade ago. "And I cut my own hair,...
At Saturday's (Feb. 25) Independent Spirit Awards, Williams picked up Best Actress honors for her turn as Marilyn Monroe in "My Week with Marilyn." But she also attracted a lot of attention for her unorthodox ensemble: a shorts suit and a clutch made to resemble an edition of J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye."
The suit was from Louis Vuitton's pre-fall 2012 collection and the bag was by Olympia Le-Tan. She carried a similar Le-Tan bag to the Baftas on Feb. 12.
Her speech was also adorable and, reports the New York Times, the best received of the event:
"I wore my own clothes, which were not very good," said Williams of her first Independent Spirits experience a decade ago. "And I cut my own hair,...
- 2/26/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
In Spike Jonze’s inspired new stop-motion short, the felt figures on the covers of old books come to life after hours in Paris’s historic and beloved Shakespeare and Co. bookshop. In Mourir Aupres de Toi (To Die By Your Side) Macbeth’s skeleton falls for one of Dracula’s beautiful victims, but true love (or lust; very tough when you don’t have a body) has to overcome dangerous tumbles into Moby-Dick and Faulkner’s Sartoris. The charming film (co-directed by Simon Cahn) was inspired by designer Olympia Le-Tan’s embroidered clutch bags. When Jonze asked her to create a Catcher in the Rye wall…...
- 10/24/2011
- James on ScreenS
Watch The other day we checked in on Spike Jonze's new stop-motion short film, Mourir aupres de toi (To Die By Your Side), and showed you a behind-the-scenes video of Jonze -- and his collaborators Simon Cahn and handbag designer Olympia Le-Tan -- while they pieced together the artist's latest creation. Now the full short is available to watch online below. But first a little background from Nowness: "The project started after Jonze asked for a Catcher in the Rye embroidery to put on his wall and the plucky Le-Tan asked for a film in return. Enlisting French filmmaker Simon Cahn to co-direct, the team wrote the script between Los Angeles and Paris over a six month period, before working night and day animating the 3,000 pieces of felt Le-Tan had...
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- 10/21/2011
- by Erik Davis
- Movies.com
Why Watch? It’s from Spike Jonze. There’s no reason you should need to know more about it, but in case you’re curious, this inventive short film (which channels a few of the old Merry Melodies shorts set in libraries) was born out of a partnership between Jonze and artist/purse designer Olympia Le-Tan. With co-director Simon Cahn, Jonze tells the stop-motion story of a skeleton and a young woman from the covers of two famous novels, falling in love and getting into trouble. Vibrant and sweet, it’s a must-see. What does it cost? Just 7 minutes of your time. Check out Mourir Auprès de Toi for yourself: Mourir Aupres De Toi (2011) Spike Jonze: Mourir Auprès de Toi on Nowness.com. Trust us. You have time for more short films. And now, for you other filmmakers out there, a word from our sponsor:...
- 10/21/2011
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Check This... The Spike Jonze co-directed with Simon Cahn stop motion short film ‘Mourir Auprès de Toi,' (To Die By Your Side) inspired by the work of fashion designer Olympia Le-Tan.
Here is a interview with Spike Jonzes on how the film came about:
How did the film come about?
I met Olympia in Paris through friends of mine. She was just starting to make the bags for her friends. She had a bunch of the scraps in her bag, all of the cut-out pieces of felt. I just loved it. I loved all the artwork she picked, the texture of it, the stitching of the felt. We joked about making a film and just went for it. It was this thing with no schedule, no pressure and no real reason to be—other than just that we thought it would be fun.
Did you write the story together?...
Here is a interview with Spike Jonzes on how the film came about:
How did the film come about?
I met Olympia in Paris through friends of mine. She was just starting to make the bags for her friends. She had a bunch of the scraps in her bag, all of the cut-out pieces of felt. I just loved it. I loved all the artwork she picked, the texture of it, the stitching of the felt. We joked about making a film and just went for it. It was this thing with no schedule, no pressure and no real reason to be—other than just that we thought it would be fun.
Did you write the story together?...
- 10/21/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Flicks News)
- FlicksNews.net
I haven't heard much about Spike Jonze's new short film Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side). The short is a charming felt cut-out stop-motion animated film that Jonze co-directed with Simon Cahn. The film was inspired by the work of fashion designer Olympia Le-Tan, and the full short is available online to watch.
The film is entertainingly fun, and it's no surprise that it was very well made. After all Jonze is a talented director who has fun making the films he works on. Here's what he had to say about the short and how it all came about...
I met Olympia in Paris through friends of mine. She was just starting to make the bags for her friends. She had a bunch of the scraps in her bag, all of the cut-out pieces of felt. I just loved it… We joked about making a film and just went for it.
The film is entertainingly fun, and it's no surprise that it was very well made. After all Jonze is a talented director who has fun making the films he works on. Here's what he had to say about the short and how it all came about...
I met Olympia in Paris through friends of mine. She was just starting to make the bags for her friends. She had a bunch of the scraps in her bag, all of the cut-out pieces of felt. I just loved it… We joked about making a film and just went for it.
- 10/21/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
We've featured several short films from director Spike Jonze before like his love story I'm Here, and Scenes from the Suburbs, a collaboration with the band Arcade Fire. Now we have yet another spectacular short film from the filmmaker who brought us such films as Adaptation and Being John Malkovich. Titled Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side), the lovely stop-motion animated short was co-directed with Simon Cahn and is based partly on the work of fashion designer Olympia Le-Tan complete with cut-felt characters that come to life from book covers from the Shakespeare & Company bookshop in Paris. Here's Spike Jonze's Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side) from Nowness (via The Playlist): Whimsical, peculiar and generally charming, this is yet another great notch on Jonze's filmmaking belt and the filmmaker says, "For this one the feeling definitely started with the handmade aesthetic and...
- 10/21/2011
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
It.s remarkable that since his career launched somewhere around 1991, the prolific Spike Jonze has only directed three feature films. I still say .prolific. because the man is a whirlwind when it comes to cranking out short films, music videos, skateboard videos and assorted side projects. His latest, a short he co-directs with Simon Cahn, can be seen on Nowness.com. We have it here: Set in a Parisian bookstore after hours, the short is a sort of Toy Story for novels, where the inhabitants of some classic works come to life once the shopkeeper has left for the night. It.s titled Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side), and it.s far more surreal and tragic than any Pixar work. It is inspired by designer Olympia Le-Tan's handbags, believe it or not, and is far more sentimental than Jonze.s Where the Wild Things Are.
- 10/21/2011
- cinemablend.com
It's been months since we heard anything about Mourir Auprès de Toi (To Die By Your Side), the stop-motion animated short film that Spike Jonze co-directed with Simon Cahn, based in part on the work of fashion designer Olympia Le-Tan. The short features cut-felt characters animated as if they've come alive from the covers of books on a shelf; the setting is the famed Shakespeareand Company [1] bookshop that sits on the south side of the river Seine in Paris, right by Notre Dame. The short is a gorgeous little piece of work; it is pretty and sad and completely absurd. You can see it in full after the break. (Note that it is also vaguely Nsfw due to some, uh, skeleton sex.) Jonze says of the short, I met Olympia in Paris through friends of mine. She was just starting to make the bags for her friends. She had a...
- 10/21/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Spike Jonze's latest film is a tender skeleton love story, done in felt stop-motion animation.
"Mourir Aupres de Toi" or "To Die By Your Side" takes place at the famous Parisian bookstore Shakespeare and Company. After the lights dim, the covers of books like "Moby Dick," "Dracula" and "Macbeth" come to life. Jonze made the film in collaboration with Olympia Le-Tan (who creates small clutches just like the felted books you see in the film).
Apparently, according to Nowness the project began when Jonze asked Le-Tan for a Catcher in the Rye embroidery for his wall, and Le-Tan asked for a movie in return.
“I love getting performances from, telling stories about and humanizing things that aren’t human,” Jonze said.
Watch the film below:
Spike Jonze: Mourir Auprès de Toi on Nowness.com.
"Mourir Aupres de Toi" or "To Die By Your Side" takes place at the famous Parisian bookstore Shakespeare and Company. After the lights dim, the covers of books like "Moby Dick," "Dracula" and "Macbeth" come to life. Jonze made the film in collaboration with Olympia Le-Tan (who creates small clutches just like the felted books you see in the film).
Apparently, according to Nowness the project began when Jonze asked Le-Tan for a Catcher in the Rye embroidery for his wall, and Le-Tan asked for a movie in return.
“I love getting performances from, telling stories about and humanizing things that aren’t human,” Jonze said.
Watch the film below:
Spike Jonze: Mourir Auprès de Toi on Nowness.com.
- 10/20/2011
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Via Vulture, here's your chance to see "Mourir Auprès de Toi" ("To Die By Your Side"), the new film from "Being John Malkovich" and "Where the Wild Things Are" Spike Jonze. After premiering at Cannes' Critics Week and playing earlier this summer at the IFC Center in New York, Jonze's stop motion short found an online home at Nowness.com.
The film was co-directed by Simon Cahn and "created" by French designer Olympia Le-Tan, who makes the felt book covers that inspired the animation. Jonze apparently asked Le-Tan for a piece, and she agreed on the condition that he make a film as the payment for it. 3,000 pieces of felt later...
Spike Jonze: Mourir Auprès de Toi on Nowness.com.
The short definitely has Jonze's trademark combination of peculiar beauty and low-brow humor. Old Paris bookshops and oral sex jokes; I love it.
This is Jonze's second awesome short of the year,...
The film was co-directed by Simon Cahn and "created" by French designer Olympia Le-Tan, who makes the felt book covers that inspired the animation. Jonze apparently asked Le-Tan for a piece, and she agreed on the condition that he make a film as the payment for it. 3,000 pieces of felt later...
Spike Jonze: Mourir Auprès de Toi on Nowness.com.
The short definitely has Jonze's trademark combination of peculiar beauty and low-brow humor. Old Paris bookshops and oral sex jokes; I love it.
This is Jonze's second awesome short of the year,...
- 10/20/2011
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
Here's a rather, um, life-affirming little short by "Where the Wild Things Are" helmer Spike Jonze, in which the skeleton of Macbeth tears himself off the cover of his own book to jump the bones (literally) of Mina Harker on the cover of "Dracula." Complications ensue, Herman Melville is involved.
We guarantee you've never quite seen a short film like this, which is animated entirely using 2-D handcrafted felt puppets designed by Olympia Le-Tan, who also wrote the script. Olympia has specialized in making book cover reproductions using this style.
Shot at France's Shakespeare and Company bookstore, the initial live-action segment features her father, Pierre Le-Tan whom movie fans may recognize as the illustrator for the covers of several Whit Stillman DVDs on the Criterion Collection, such as "Metropolitan" and "Last Days of Disco."
Jonze himself voices Macbeth, and French singer Soko lends her voice to Harker as well as...
We guarantee you've never quite seen a short film like this, which is animated entirely using 2-D handcrafted felt puppets designed by Olympia Le-Tan, who also wrote the script. Olympia has specialized in making book cover reproductions using this style.
Shot at France's Shakespeare and Company bookstore, the initial live-action segment features her father, Pierre Le-Tan whom movie fans may recognize as the illustrator for the covers of several Whit Stillman DVDs on the Criterion Collection, such as "Metropolitan" and "Last Days of Disco."
Jonze himself voices Macbeth, and French singer Soko lends her voice to Harker as well as...
- 10/19/2011
- by Max Evry
- NextMovie
Earlier this spring, in the midst of its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival Critics Week sidebar, a sneak preview popped up online for "Mourir Aupres de Toi," a short film collaboration between director Spike Jonze and designer Olympia Le-Tan. Jonze has been busy since with a plethora of projects including music videos for the Beastie Boys and Kanye West and Jay-z, that we kind of forgot about this. But the full-length short is now available to view in the comfort of your own home/office, and it's certainly worth clicking on during your next coffee break. Debuting over at Nowness,…...
- 10/19/2011
- The Playlist
Where the Wild Things Are director Spike Jonze and collaborator Simon Cahn teamed up with handbag designer Olympia Le-Tan for a new stop-motion video, Mourir aupres de toi (To Die By Your Side). The animation is set in Paris' well-known bookstore, Shakespeare and Company — the location where James Joyce was first published by Sylvia Beach, the store's founder. The duo collaborated after Jonze admired her handiwork and asked Le-Tan to create a Catcher in the Rye embroidery for him. Le-Tan agreed, but requested one of Jonze's famed videos in return. In the video, pieces of book covers come to life and fall in love. You can catch a glimpse of the project in the teaser vid, which shows that Le-Tan and Jonze used a lot of felt for this piece. Is there anyone...
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- 10/18/2011
- by Alison Nastasi
- Movies.com
Heads up, Spike Jonze fans. Fresh from its premiere at Critics Week at Cannes, Jonze's new short film -- "Mourir Auprès de Toi" -- premieres this Friday at the IFC Center in New York. The short will play before every regular feature at the theater for two weeks. Here is a little background on the project and a plot description from the press release:
"A collaboration between Jonze ('Being John Malkovich,' 'Adaptation,' 'Where the Wild Things Are') French designer Olympia Le-Tan and filmmaker Simon Cahn, the whimsical, humorous and poignant 'Mourir Auprès de Toi' was inspired by Ms. Le-Tan's accessory designs-embroidered felt adaptations of first editions of classic books. 'I just loved them and loved the world she was making,' Mr. Jonze explained "So I asked if I could have one. And she said yeah, if you want to make a film for it.
"A collaboration between Jonze ('Being John Malkovich,' 'Adaptation,' 'Where the Wild Things Are') French designer Olympia Le-Tan and filmmaker Simon Cahn, the whimsical, humorous and poignant 'Mourir Auprès de Toi' was inspired by Ms. Le-Tan's accessory designs-embroidered felt adaptations of first editions of classic books. 'I just loved them and loved the world she was making,' Mr. Jonze explained "So I asked if I could have one. And she said yeah, if you want to make a film for it.
- 6/7/2011
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
Updated through 5/21 — with awards announcements.
As noted last week, with support from the 4+1 Film Festival, we're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Critics' Week with a free retrospective of some of the greatest films screened over the past 50 editions. What follows is a roundup of what the critics are saying about the films screening this year.
"Jonathan Caouette's film Tarnation — created for $300 (£185) on his iMac out of old Super 8 videos and family photos — created a stir at Cannes in 2004 for its original visual language," begins Charlotte Higgins in the Guardian. "In his latest he returns to Tarnation's material: his rich but intensely difficult family life. At the heart of Walk Away Renée is a road trip he takes with his mother, Renée, from Houston to New York State, as he helps her transfer from one assisted-living facility to another. Renée, who received electric shock therapy from the age...
As noted last week, with support from the 4+1 Film Festival, we're celebrating the 50th anniversary of Critics' Week with a free retrospective of some of the greatest films screened over the past 50 editions. What follows is a roundup of what the critics are saying about the films screening this year.
"Jonathan Caouette's film Tarnation — created for $300 (£185) on his iMac out of old Super 8 videos and family photos — created a stir at Cannes in 2004 for its original visual language," begins Charlotte Higgins in the Guardian. "In his latest he returns to Tarnation's material: his rich but intensely difficult family life. At the heart of Walk Away Renée is a road trip he takes with his mother, Renée, from Houston to New York State, as he helps her transfer from one assisted-living facility to another. Renée, who received electric shock therapy from the age...
- 5/21/2011
- MUBI
A making of video for Spike Jonze and Simon Cahn’s animated short film Mourir auprès de toi (To Die Next To You) has found its way online. The stop-motion film entirely handmade from felt will premiere May 18 in the Cannes Film Festival’s Critics’ Week. The idea for the animation was apparently inspired by French designer Olympia Le Tan and her line of designer clutches. You can see photos of the purse, and of Swinton carrying it, on the Olympia Le-Tan Tumblr.
Also check out Simon Cahn’s official website.
Via IndieWire
Mourir Aupres de Toi teaser (www.flix.gr) par Flixgr...
Also check out Simon Cahn’s official website.
Via IndieWire
Mourir Aupres de Toi teaser (www.flix.gr) par Flixgr...
- 5/16/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
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