ARTFULLY REFINED Chanel and Bazaar came together with the Serpentine’s Yana Peel to celebrate international female creativity
Bazaar and Chanel came together for a glamorous cultural gathering
‘It’s such a celebration of sisterhood to have everyone here during this busy time,’ said Yana Peel, the CEO of the Serpentine Galleries, who joined forces with Justine Picardie to co-host an intimate lunch at Chanel’s Salon Privé marking the launch of the inaugural Bazaar Art Week. Within these elegant surroundings, Rose Wylie was reunited with the actress Stacy Martin, who was photographed at the artist’s Kent home and studio for the magazine (‘I keep hinting that I’d like to be painted by her,’ Martin confessed with a smile). Over a carpaccio of golden beetroot, the Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid voiced excitement about her forthcoming New York project, while
Justine Simons, the deputy mayor for culture and creative industries, leafed through Bazaar Art to view the pictures from her shoot with Heather Phillipson’s work. The lunch was a welcome pause amid a full
schedule of art fairs, during which ideas were shared and creativity blossomed in what Bazaar’s editor-in-chief referred to in her speech as ‘the
shared landscape of fashion and art’. hl