Monthly Archives: February 2011

In the last few weeks I have expanded my researches about the “cooling suits” moving from the Soviet KV0-9 water-cooled insulation garment used by astronauts during their training and mentioned in a previous post. While looking for further similar suits, … Continue reading →

 In previous posts I explored the influence of geometry and figures such as triangles and tetrahedrons in fashion, but today I would like to briefly look at uniform polyhedra. A uniform polyhedron is an isogonal polyhedron with regular polygons … Continue reading →

New York Fashion Week has officially started, but the debate is rife not only about reducing the number of people invited at catwalk shows (considering also that twenty minutes after the designs are presented on a runway, they usually end … Continue reading →

Reading about court life always proves very inspirational from a fashion point of view, no matter if the court in question is the Elizabethan, the Tudor or the Medici court. A new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, provides … Continue reading →

New York Fashion Week kicks off tomorrow, but the rush to find more connections between film and fashion in the collections for the next Autumnal season has already started a few days ago. Sofia Sizzi (who worked at Gucci, Calvin … Continue reading →

In yesterday’s post I looked at menswear tailoring from Japan, so to complete the thread I started on Saturday, let’s have a look at Japanese footwear brands and designers. The first one for today’s post is the Chausser brand. Chausser's … Continue reading →

In yesterday’s post I looked at the transformations Japanese designers brought into fashion in the last 30 years through avant-garde and experimental creations. Following that thread I would like to briefly focus today on Japanese menswear tailoring and look at … Continue reading →

Fashion has gone through dramatic transformations in the last 30 years. The greatest changes to the fashion system were probably brought by the Japanese wave. Kenzo and Issey Miyake gained international acclaim in the '70s and, in the following decades, … Continue reading →

Seeing the nine students from the MA Fashion Artefact course at London College of Fashion putting the final touches to their designs is definitely an experience that awakens the senses. Sight, smell and touch are indeed stimulated by the elegant … Continue reading →

There is so much talk about fashion and film in the industry at the moment. Sadly many of the videos (or "films") recently produced do not have any real cinematic value, but are essentially sequences of stylish shots and close … Continue reading →