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"           Miami Heat: Swinton with Carr and Gillick. Miami Beach, Florida, is perhaps the last place you&amp;#039;d expect to find the head of a heritage brand known for Scottish cashmere twinsets (ones notably beloved by the Queen Mum), but Alistair Carr, the boyish, tattooed design director of Pringle of Scotland, looks quite content during a brief walk along the sand just off Collins Avenue in South Beach. After all, sunshine is a precious commodity in London, where he&amp;#039;s been living and working since early 2011, when he left his design post at Balenciaga to take the helm at the nearly two-centuries-old knitwear firm. Even when a company publicist whisks him from the beach to Pringle&amp;#039;s temporary store in Miami&amp;#039;s once-desolate Design District, Carr elects to stand outside, smoking cigarettes in a loose white tank, his face to the sky. He&amp;#039;s in town for just 24 hours, he says\u2014to unveil the label&amp;#039;s latest project, a range of color-block accessories and sweaters created in collaboration with the conceptual artist Liam Gillick, during the city&amp;#039;s popular Art Basel fair. He wants to take it all in. Gillick, on the other hand, a gregarious yet cerebral Brit whose color-saturated-Plexiglas and typographic sculptures and installations can be found in the permanent collections of New York&amp;#039;s Museum of Modern Art, London&amp;#039;s Tate Modern, and Paris&amp;#039; Centre Pompidou, among others, is something of a Miami Beach regular. He&amp;#039;s been coming down from New York for the art fair every December since its inception a decade ago. Today he&amp;#039;s accompanying Carr to a press conference with Pringle brand ambassador Tilda Swinton, a quick cocktail party in the store, and a seated dinner just upstairs for some 140 guests, which will feature a red-glitter-floor installation by Gillick. &amp;quot;Miami&amp;#039;s got this very contradictory feeling of being a terminus, like it&amp;#039;s the end of something,&amp;quot; Gillick says to Carr during a break from the action, &amp;quot;but also on the way to something because it&amp;#039;s such a hub.          Left: Gillick&amp;#039;s glitter-floor installation at Art Basel Miami Beach; Center: looks from Carr&amp;#039;s pre-fall line for Pringle; Right: Gillick&amp;#039;s Reimagined Projection, 2007. Also seemingly paradoxical, at least on the surface, is a partnership between a fierce intellectual\u2014Gillick refers to the mixed-leather-and-canvas totes, clutches, and iPad cases he designed for Pringle as &amp;quot;material facts,&amp;quot; not accessories\u2014and a global fashion brand, but Carr says it&amp;#039;s been a happy marriage. &amp;quot;It was like we were playing Ping-Pong,&amp;quot; he says, noting, for example, that Gillick supplied the color palette (a bold Teutonic scheme of red, pink, green, and purple typically seen in architecture) while Carr conceived the silhouettes. Perhaps the prospect was a risky one, but Carr is prone to taking such gambles (the harrowing stories he&amp;#039;s happy to share about his myriad arm and chest tattoos underscore this point). Then there&amp;#039;s the fact that, before coming to Pringle, he&amp;#039;d never designed a piece of knitwear. Yet in four short seasons, he&amp;#039;s demonstrated a, yes, artful touch in the medium, rendering the firm&amp;#039;s signature wools paper-thin and consummately modern\u2014cool. As Swinton says, &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s having to do this very delicate dance of working with not only an established house but a heritage brand, but he&amp;#039;s doing it so gracefully and so playfully. There&amp;#039;s something really alive about what he&amp;#039;s doing. &amp;quot;Yes.&amp;quot; She pauses. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s something supersonic going on with him.&amp;quot; Photos: Billy Farrell/BFAnyc.com (top); \u00A9 Liam Gillick art work (installation); courtesy of Galerie Micheline Szwajcer (artwork); courtesy of the designer (lookbook) "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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