As a German I probably should be writing about Germany's Venice Biennale participation!? Just to mention it - it'll be Isa Genzken. But for fashion and art lovers Britains representative is much more interessting. Tracey Emin is known as one of the so called "Young British Artists" (YBA's). These are a group of conceptual artists, painters, sculptors and installation artists based in the United Kingdom, most (though not all) of whom attended Goldsmiths College in London. The term Young British Artists is derived from shows of that name staged at the Saatchi Gallery from 1992 onwards, which brought the artists to fame... MORE).
Besides a lot of freaky, cool, interessting and disgusting art works and her nearly winning the Turner Prize in 1999 Emin is in the fashion world famous for her collaboration with the french luggage label Longchamp back in 2004. The result of this collaboration was patchwork on mostly "les pliages" bags. I can still remember me wanting on of these bags badly. But their price outweight my little students salary. I thought it a brilliant way to stick out all the other students here carrying their little monocoloured Longchamp bags to uni "hey I got the same, but mine is just better, you know it was designed by TRACEY EMIN!!! You don't know her? Oh .... anyway. Mine's still better ;-)"
Credit: Longchamp
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