Monthly Archives: June 2012

Bruno Munari already appeared in a previous post on this site, but he came back to my mind again after seeing a recent fashion collection. Actually it wasn't just Munari, but some images from his volume Original Xerographies (1977). Munari … Continue reading →

In the last two years graphene caused a lot of excitement among scientists. The strong and thin carbon material discovered in 2004 by Nobel Prize winning scientists Professor Andre Geim and Professor Kostya Novoselov at The University of Manchester, seems … Continue reading →

Nicholas Roeg's film The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976 – with thanks to Kutmusic for passing me their own archival copy for the screenshots in this post) will be screened again across Great Britain as part of the Made … Continue reading →

There are not hundreds, but millions of fashion adverts all around us, yet contemporary campaigns often end up offending or disappointing consumers. This was the case for example with the recent Harvey Nichols campaign for the department store sales that … Continue reading →

Announced a few weeks ago, the renovation of the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow and its move to Gorky Park has taken centre stage in the architecture section of many design magazines and publications. Founded by Russian socialite … Continue reading →

In a previous post on this site I extensively wrote about a photographic exhibition, "Creating the Look: Benini and Fashion Photography", at Sydney's Powerhouse Museum that focused on Bruno and Hazel Benini's work. Born in Italy but migrated to Australia … Continue reading →

In a way it was meant to happen. In fact, you could read it as a natural progression and not as the perverse plan of a mutant alien being in search of new worlds to infest and infect like a … Continue reading →

We have seen in previous posts how specific comics reappeared in some of the current fashion collections. Indeed there seems to be a real comic/illustration and fashion trend at the moment. Comme des Garçons recently launched for example a capsule … Continue reading →

Memory is one of the main themes that often reappears in art installations or photographic projects displaying some connections with fashion and reusing textiles and second-hand clothes. Most of us maybe automatically think about Christian Boltanski’s installations with discarded clothes … Continue reading →

Museums all over the world have developed what could be defined a terrible addiction for fashion, organising one exhibition/event after the other in the (often vain) hope to acquire a younger generation of visitors with very little interest in the … Continue reading →