The Frankie Shop opened store at Shibuya Tokyo with photography exhibition of Olivier Kervern
From October 23 to November 1, the Frankie Shop presents the work of photographer Olivier Kervern alongside a select edit of its FW26 collection at Parco Shibuya, Tokyo. The event marks the first time The Frankie Shop is directly available in Japan.
Founded by French-born Gaëlle Drevet in New York in 2015, The Frankie Shop has since expanded to locations in Paris and Milan. Equal parts ease and structure, Parisian and New Yorker, The Frankie Shop has become known for its bold tailoring, textural contrasts, and subtle subversion of fashion codes without losing an eye—and a feel—for wearability. Drevet designs for women who bring clothes to life with their own presence. If the world today feels more turbulent, the current collection amplifies a woman’s natural confidence as she moves through it. Shoulders sharpen and silhouettes increase in definition. Material and color lend support: leather, cashmere, angora, shearling and faux fur underpin a palette of forest green and cool greys, occasionally broken by accents of teal, red, yellow, and chartreuse. No one really believes that style and strength can be bought and worn. The Frankie Shop never asks us to pretend: it dresses a woman for the life she is already living.
A love for photography and a commitment to showcasing it have inspired the brand from the start. On display at The Frankie Shop pop-up in Parco Shibuya Tokyo are one hundred photographs by Olivier Kervern, taken over the last fifteen years across Italy, Iran, the USA, France, Argentina, South Korea and Japan.
Olivier Kervern is self-taught, contemplative, and precise. No formal method or subject matter drives his work, which spans portraiture, still life, and landscape. The artist is drawn to terrain vague, by which he means something like the abandoned spaces that he re-visions through his lens into the cool and candid images seen here. The rubble blocking the foot of a stairwell is no longer debris awaiting cleanup, but a formal element offsetting the nude statue to its right. The vacant lot that once hosted a building is now a stage for shadows cast by a structure out of frame. We see a bouquet of flowers without a giver or receiver—only an idle pair of scissors. And we see all of this because the photographer has already seen it for us.
Olivier Kervern, born 1977 in Fontainebleau, France, is a Paris-based photographer. These photos were taken with a yashica 124 medium-format camera. Each 6 x 6 cm black-and-white contact was hand-printed by the photographer in his Paris home. The Frankie Shop will issue a limited edition book of the work in conjunction with its showcase in Parco Shibuya Tokyo.
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