HOMMAGE À ALAÏA

Akio Nagasawa Gallery Aoyama in Tokyo presents “Hommage à Alaïa,” an exhibition of original Aurore de la Morinerie drawings for fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa and his brand ALAÏA.

This exhibition combines works for which she printed monotypes originally made for Azzedine Alaïa onto Japanese washi paper, as well as works that were previously shown in the ”Azzedine Alaïa” exhibition at the Palais Galliera Musée de la mode de la Ville de Paris in 2013.

All items on display are shown for the first time in Asia. In conjunction with the exhibition, the book "Hommage à Alaïa" will be published as a limited and numbered edition of 900 copies. Next to works shown in this exhibition, the book features a text by Olivier Saillard.

French artist and illustrator, Aurore de La Morinerie graduated as a fashion designer from the Ecole supérieure des Arts appliqués Duperré, in Paris. At the same time, she attends class of calligraphy and Chinese painting during several years.

Her success as a fashion illustrator is confirmed in the beginning of the 1990’s. She works for Hermès, Alaïa, Chanel, Cartier, Omega, Maison Martin Margiela, Rick Owens, H&M, Aesop, Lancel, Tiffany, Nieman Marcus and Le Printemps department stores… And is a regular contributor to French newspaper Le monde and its weekly supplement issue, the New York Times T Magazine, the American and British issues of Harper’s Bazaar, French ELLE, AD, …

In 2011, the Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris - Palais Galliera commissionned her a series of monotypes to illustrate the catalogue of the exhibition Azzedine Alaïa.

Ten works of her series on Azzedine Alaïa are part of the permanent collection of the Graphic Arts of the Palais Galliera.