Monthly Archives: February 2012

Paris Fashion Week starts today, so I’m republishing here a piece I did for another publication about the historical Paris-based malletier Moynat returning with a new shop and a new graphic look to the French capital.  Founded in Paris in … Continue reading →

The announced Schiaparelli-Prada exhibition at the Met has by now caused so many people to jump on the Schiap bandwagon that this train – that has mainly been populated in the last decade by a few dedicated fans, researchers and … Continue reading →

News about the Oscar results are by now all over the Internet, and while I’m pretty happy The Artist got the award for Best Costume Design (costumes by Mark Bridges), I’m even happier that two Italians, Dante Ferretti (production designer) … Continue reading →

On Saturday I started a sort of Dutch thread, so let's continue it at least for another day with a post that features some pictures of Conny Groenewegen's installation that I took during the latest edition of the Pitti Filati … Continue reading →

If all the images about the new collections showcased at the various fashion weeks got your creativity going, but you don't have the skills to make proper clothes or the money to buy the fabric, move from yesterday's post and … Continue reading →

I'm republishing today an interview I recently did for Zoot Magazine with Dutch designer Winde Rienstra about the inspirations for her new collection showcased during Amsterdam Fashion Week.   There’s a strange architecture, sculpture and digital fascination in the creations … Continue reading →

I'm republising today a feature I did for another publication about a retrospective at Tokyo’s Mori Art Museum celebrating one of the most vital and visionary Korean women artists, Lee Bul.    Lee Bul is among the most important Korean … Continue reading →

I'm republishing today an interview I recently did for Zoot Magazine with the curators of a London-based exhibition celebrating new Korean fashion designers. Exploring how designers reinvent and reshape the human body also thanks to new materials and techniques is … Continue reading →

Quite a few journalists may have replaced their traditional notebooks with digital devices at fashion weeks, but paper still remains a best friend in many cases. There is another quite obvious category of people in the fashion industry who uses … Continue reading →

There are still quite a few fashion designers out there who are into enchanting their audiences with some kind of spectacle when presenting their new collections, hoping to take them to another and more fantastic world during their shows. Yet … Continue reading →