Eye| Hillary Petrie @ Egg | Anselm Reyle for Dior | Kanye West in Paris

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Egg Collective designer Hillary Petrie has lived in this charming New Orleans apartment with her roommate, architect John Kleinschmidt, for nearly four years. Design Sponge has lots of pictures of the apartment in an editorial meaningfully titled ‘What I Love Most About My Home Is the Light’.

The images reinforce the fact that when you have great architectural details and amazing light, minimalism is often the best design approach. Silly us worrying about where the technology cords go in that lovely ‘think tank room’.

The all-girl furniture design crew Egg Collective insists that their designs are rooted in architecture and are more about functionality and form than about following green trends. Citing pre-Danish modernism and French Art Deco styles, the collective views furniture design “as a microcosm of the whole that is architecture.”

The Egg Collective girls first met in wood shop while in architecture school in St. Louis. Upon encouragement from a professor, the ladies teamed up to begin creating innovative furniture pieces centered around ideas and creativity, not commerce and mass production. Following a particularly nasty series of storms in St. Louis, the Collective used fallen sycamore trees from local parks to create a series of limited edition side-table lamps that have since generated consistent buzz. via Planet

Kanye West Paris Debut

Kanye WestStyle.com reports that a surprising number of designers turned out for Kayne West’s debut show in Paris. Silvia Venturini Fendi and her daughter Delfina Delettrez Fendi attended, along with Azzedine Alaïa, Dean and Dan Caten, Olivier Theyskens, Jeremy Scott, and the Olsens.

The reviews didn’t go well, and the Tim Blanks review seems to be among the most balanced and fair.

The context was impeccable—soundtrack and staging exactly what you’d expect from someone whose 360-degree vision has been responsible for some of the best albums and concerts of the past decade. The clothes? Heavy might be the operative word: zippers in excelsis; suede and leather high- performance clothing; beading, crystals, and appliqué weighting jackets and tops. And more fur than you’d want on a night when the mercury hit the roof in Paris… .  There isn’t a fashion designer alive who could match his music. But tonight’s show suggests that conquering his new medium is a work in progress.

Roger Vivier Sp 2012

Christian Dior Art Project

Anselm Reyle with a metallic Lady Dior.Christian Dior’s Art Project WWD

Perhaps following the success of Marc Jacobs’ art collaborations at Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior unveiled a ‘vivid’ accessories line in collaboration with German ‘contemporary art star’ Anselm Reyle (see website.)

The accessories will first appear on Nov. 28 at a Dior pop-up shop in the Miami Design District for a three-week run during Art Basel Miami Beach. The gleaming accessories will arrive in select Dior boutiques worldwide on Jan. 9.

“It’s young and modern. There’s a lot of energy,” Delphine Arnault, deputy general manager at Dior, said Monday during an exclusive preview of the project at LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton’s headquarters on the Avenue Montaigne, where products were installed amidst black lacquer shelving and colored mirrors.

The Daily Shoe | Louis Vuitton

T Magazine showcases the best new shoes, right off the runway in The Daily Shoe.

The giant carousel that Marc Jacobs installed on the stage at Louis Vuitton might not bring the Broadway musical to mind had Jacobs not given us “A Chorus Line” at the Lexington Armory in New York for his own collection. And strengthening the link between one show and the other were the extremely pointy shoes at Vuitton today (see those at Marc Jacobs). Here, a slip-in heel with a silver toe and the shiniest multicolored straps.