Osklen’s Opening of Oskar Metsavaht Ipanema’s Photo Exhibition at Art Basel
To celebrate Oskar Metsavaht Ipanema’s photo exhibition during Art Basel, Sue Hostetler, Carlos de Souza, Vik Muniz and Addison O’Dea were on hand to host the bash at Osklen’s flagship store in Miami Beach.
Oskar Metsavaht Ipanema:
“In the attempt to freeze the elements of style that permeates every collection I design for Osklen, I constantly photograph things that surround my aesthetics beliefs. These images must be beautiful portraits of what I wish to create, what I wish to transmit through fashion and design. They are the result and also the source of my inspiration. This series of my photographs from Ipanema are the opportunity to share the moment before they become decodified to design, to fashion, they’re my moment of pure art” says Oskar Metsavaht, Creative Director of Osklen.
Oskar Metsavaht has been recognized as one of the forerunners of the movement for sustainability, bringing the market the idea of “new luxury”. His work was defined in a deep study research by the Word Wild Foundation (WWF- UK) as a “Future Maker”. In 2011 for the first time a brand from south hemisphere was recognized as luxury, Osklen was awarded as ’emergent luxury brand of the year’ Founder of the E-Institute, a non-profit organization located in de Janeiro, dedicated to the promotion of human sustainable development, he was also named in 2011 as a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.
Guests including Lisa Anastos, Sig Bergamim & Murilo Lomas, Jason Binn, Marianne Boesky, Coco Brandolini, Lady Liliana Cavendish, Charles de Viel-Castel, Cecilia Dean, Andrea & Guy Dellal, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Fairfax Dorn, Waldo Fernandez, Carolina Ferraz, Isabella Giobbi, Rachel Hovnanian, Nelson Leirner, Bebel Gilberto, Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Ghislaine Maxwell, Nazare Metsavaht, Carlos Mota, Alexia Niedzielski, Ernesto Neto, Carolina & Luis Pastore, Coralie & Dennis Paul, Elizabeth Von Guttman, among others were able to join Oskar Metsavaht Ipanema’s for his first exhibition in the U.S. Guests enjoyed music by Sean Souza and shopped with 20% of Osklen’s sales for the evening being donated to the Brazil Foundation.