Monthly Archives: August 2012

In the last few posts we looked at (fashion and) architecture and, since the Venice Architecture Biennale is slowly yet relentlessly approaching, let's continue the thread by rediscovering a Finnish designer who injected a bit of architecture in her designs, … Continue reading →

Italian fans of the Architectural Association (AA) Visiting School workshops will be delighted to know that this October the school will stop in Rome for an exciting series of lectures. Hosted from 17th to 26th October, the programme – directed … Continue reading →

The picture in this post was taken in 1955 by Richard Avedon for Harper's Bazaar and I find it perfect as a follow up to yesterday's post since the latter looked at spiral structures in architecture and fashion, while this … Continue reading →

Spiral structures such as a banal spiral staircase – even though the one in this picture is not banal at all being the one inside Glasgow's Lighthouse, Scotland's Centre for Architecture and Design – can be incredibly inspiring and lead … Continue reading →

Yesterday's post moved from a summer mood, so let's continue the thread today by looking at inspiring sea shell colours. As you may know, while the colour of the actual shell depends from specific genes, it can also be influenced … Continue reading →

This is a very quick project that moves from a typical summer mood (today it's the height of summer in Italy), but also from two specific inspirations, Schiaparelli's 1938 insect necklace and an illustration by Franco Molteni taken from the … Continue reading →

The vapid fashion brouhaha surrounding the London Olympic Games with their opening and closing ceremonies mainly focused on the best and worst British products of mainstream music, fashion and culture, made me sit down and ponder why specific subcultures that … Continue reading →

So the closing ceremony “fashion extravaganza” we were promised (the day after the London Olympics opening ceremony…) finally arrived last night when a group of models were given the honour of walking down the stadium runway recreating the moods of … Continue reading →

The Edinburgh Book Festival opened yesterday and, as a tribute to rebel writer Alexander Trocchi who took part in it in 1962, I'm republishing an article I did for American magazine Erasing Clouds in 2002 when I was also working … Continue reading →