Monthly Archives: June 2011

Giorgio Armani stated at the end of Milan's menswear fashion week that the menswear shows have turned into a sort of spectacular circus full of useless provocations and featuring designs created without keeping the necessities of modern and ordinary men … Continue reading →

Watching a Prada catwalk show has turned in the last few seasons into a fun exercise for me, consisting in spotting where the real inspirations for the new collection came from. For the Spring/Summer 2012 season, Miuccia Prada claimed she … Continue reading →

Fashion goes round and round in circles and what was fashionable a few decades ago is bound to come back at some point like an undesirable boomerang. Shot in 1999, “Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore”, a video by British artist Mark … Continue reading →

I'm republishing today a feature I did for Dazed Digital about the Zimbabwe Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The theme of this year’s Venice Biennale is “Illuminations” and Zimbabwe has often been in the limelight for a number of reasons, … Continue reading →

"Rarely does fashion dream of producing spaces beyond representation (…). This is the secret of Rodarte: design becomes another kind of mapping," John Kelsey states in the monograph Rodarte (JRP/Ringler 2011), made in collaboration with photographers Catherine Opie and Alec … Continue reading →

"We've been looking at things like musicals from the '50s and the '60s and the masculine ideal that is represented by guys like Gene Kelly and George Chakiris, who starred in Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise's West Side Story. We … Continue reading →

It took a while yesterday for the visitors to arrive at the Pitti trade fair. So, while I was walking around the semi-deserted stands, I kept on thinking if what surrounded me was still truly necessary. At the current edition … Continue reading →

I'm republishing today a longer version of an interview with artist Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen that I recently did for Dazed Digital. Often ranking number one in the top ten of the Worldwide Press Freedom Index, Denmark established a long-standing reputation … Continue reading →

As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, let’s keep on looking at colours inspired by the works currently showcased at the Venice Biennale. The first example in this post is Pipilotti Rist. The artist – who featured a while back in … Continue reading →

If you're familiar with the work of Isreaeli artist Elad Lassry, you know how he often alters images taken from vintage magazines or film archives. Born in Tel Aviv, but residing in Los Angeles, Lassry studied film at the California … Continue reading →