Monthly Archives: January 2013

Fashion can be a funny business in many ways: the minute you exclude from a season the influence of a specific film or exhibition, they end up popping here and there as if by magic. Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained may … Continue reading →

Mario Bava’s films Sei donne per l’assassino (Blood and Black Lace, 1964) and Il rosso segno della follia (Hatchet for the Honeymoon, 1970) looked at visual deceptions and dichotomies between animate bodies and inanimate dummies, body alterations, fashion and death. In Blood & … Continue reading →

It is somehow always a great coincidence for a fashion designer when the theme that inspired a collection becomes popular around the same time that specific collection is showcased or arrives in the shops. This is more or less what … Continue reading →

Raf Simons and Miuccia Prada may have gone for a classic approach for the next Autum/Winter season employing natural materials, but trends are pointing towards futuristic fabrics such as neoprene and, above all, innovative techniques like bonding. Construction with bonding … Continue reading →

  There is no such thing as a “pure” sculptor, a “pure” painter, or a “pure” architect. The three-dimensional event finds its fulfilment in an artistic whole at the service of poetry, Le Corbusier Mention Le Corbusier and your mind … Continue reading →

Berlin Fashion Week kicked off yesterday and if you're in town for the event and you have time on your hands, trying to explore the local art scene wouldn't be a bad idea. If you have a limited amout of … Continue reading →

It took quite a few years, or rather decades, but in the end it happened: fashion shows and interior design go once again well together. Three years ago we wondered on this site if this could have happened calling to … Continue reading →

There are trends that come and go in fashion: one season designers may mention an artist, another an architect or a film, but there is a director who is always a staple in the fashion designer reference Bible, Luchino Visconti. … Continue reading →

After the dubious Aelita connection and a lingering obsession with Catholicism and after Givenchy announcing it was going to suspend its Haute Couture line and would not show during the Paris schedule this January, it was only natural to think … Continue reading →

Seeing architect Rem Koolhaas mobbed by photographers while receiving the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 12th Venice Architecture International Biennale in 2010, bumping into him at the British pavilion or listening to his lectures with Norman Foster and … Continue reading →