Monthly Archives: December 2012

Post-Christmas features often include suggestions about what to wear on New Year's Eve. Yet, quite often, daydreaming about a special party frock by picking it out of old magazines or exhibition catalogue makes you feel much better than actually going … Continue reading →

Looks like two years after calling for a futuristic and scientific approach to fashion on this site, designers are finally catching on. The universe and the cosmos have indeed been on the mind of quite a few designers in the … Continue reading →

New York's MoMa is currently celebrating Pier Paolo Pasolini with a cinematic retrospective organised in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna that started in December and will end in January 2013. The retrospective is completed by a series of events, … Continue reading →

If you're reading this, you should be extremely happy: you're alive even though you've gone/you're going through a major global financial crisis; you have survived the announced 12-12-12 and 21-12-12 apocalypses and went unscathed through another Christmas dinner with obnoxious … Continue reading →

I don't usually boast about Christmas presents for two main reasons – too many people out there can't afford to buy anything for their dearest ones and I usually favour presents not directly linked with fashion. Yet I felt this … Continue reading →

Depending on where you are at the moment, 26th December may be Boxing Day, St Stephen's Day or the Second Christmas Day. So today it's still technically a secular or religious holiday, but, unfortunately, marketing laws and consumerism turned this date into … Continue reading →

Quite a few posts on this site were dedicated in 2012 to yarns. Hopefully such features proved that the world of yarns has some wonderful arty and at times even architectural surprises behind it and helped readers understanding how important are … Continue reading →

Previous posts on this site explored the inspirations that early silent hand coloured and stencilled films may provide to fashion designers. At the beginning of December, The Guardian also published on its site a lovely example of such films, the … Continue reading →

If, like me, you were utterly disappointed by the mainstream being definitely more celebrated than the subcultures and the underground during the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympic Games, you may have rejoyced last week when the … Continue reading →

Getting inspired by the past and mixing traditions with technology without copying or simply renewing previous garments by iconic designers is definitely the key to build a better fashion industry. But while some fashion designers are struggling to understand this … Continue reading →