It seems Carmen Miranda, the samba singer, dancer, Broadway actress, and film star, will inspire us for many more years to come. Take a look at Etro’s new windows with flowers galore. As they say, March comes “In like a lion, out like a lamb”. Grrr…You can thank Etro’s Visual team for this show stopping window in Soho. The headdresses are created with CFD’s Silk Flowers. Hurry and go see this in person on the corner of Spring St. and Greene St.

Photo by Etro Visual

How about wearing cake icing flowers on your head? Check out Elle Fanning on this week’s New York Magazine cover. If this doesn’t make her an “It” girl, we don’t know what you have to do to be one.

Photo by New York Magazine

If winter makes you weary, fear not for display designers will be hard at work bringing Spring to mind. This is yet another beautiful display by Stylist Michael Fusco using CFD’s Silk Cherry Blossoms, Rose vines, Peonies, Hydrangeas, and Ivy bushes in Joie’s Downtown store windows in New York. Color may be all the rage this Spring but White is a breath of fresh air and really stands out among the noise.

For more information on Michael Fusco, please check out his projects and other window displays on his website at: http://www.michaelfuscostyling.com/main.

Joie Store Windows at 114 Wooster St, New York, NY

Joie Store Windows ar 429 W. 14th Street, New York, NY

Photos by Michael Fusco

We are lucky to meet all types of designers and artists everyday in the NY Flower Market. Many of them are our long-time friends who share their love of their work and their knowledge generously. Most recently, we feel honored that the Artist and Director Philip Haas, best known for the Oscar-nominated Angels and Insects (1995), chose to work with CFD to recreate Arcimboldo’s oil painting Spring in 3D form. Haas took our Silk flowers and painstakingly reworked and re-assembled each piece on his Fiberglass form, as he interpreted the original painting. Haas said he was inspired to recreate Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s portraits originally as garden sculptures. A 15 ft fiberglass version of the Winter statue exhibited at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC in September 2010, before traveling in 2011 to the Piazza delDuomo in Milan and the Garden of Versailles.

You can view the Spring Sculpture, as well as Haas’s other three seasons (made of fiberglass and other media) from February 25 through April 21, 2012,at the Sonnabend Gallery at 536 W. 22nd Street in New York.

For more info, visit www.sonnabendgallery.com.

For more on Philip Haas and his works please view his bio at http://www.kimbellart.org/haas/philip-haas.asp.

We have come across photos of the 2012 movie remake of “The Great Gatsby” leaked out onto the internet and we are excited for this epic motion picture to be released by Christmas 2012. The revival of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel seems timely since the theme of class ties in with our recent “Occupy Wall Street” moment. It may even be worth it to pull out a copy from your bookshelf and reread the classic before seeing the movie.

They say movies never compare to books. That may be so but books do not give you visuals of elaborate costumes and set design. We look forward to seeing the characters in debonair suits and 1920’s sparkly glamour. Also, from the first peeks, the garden party set already looks fabulous, and since the movie offers it, we can ogle it all in 3D.

For more information, see a January 16th NY Times article discussing the 3D feature, and for more cast photos on their set in Australia, see here.

(Photos from NY Times and the Internet)

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