Monthly Archives: May 2013

Writing about about prosthetics or attempting to trace a history of the subject is quite often considered by many publications as something rather traumatic since it involves amputation. Yet this topic, viewed by many as taboo subject, goes back to … Continue reading →

Mention architectural textiles and most of us will immediately conjure up in their minds images of Russian engineer Vladimir Shukhov's tensile structures for the Nizhny Novgorod Fair in 1896, Buckminster Fuller's textile panels in modular and prefabricated pods or Frei … Continue reading →

Fashion never ceases to amaze us: one day you see vertiginous high heels on a runway, the next physically impairing evening gowns appear on the red carpet. But we hadn't seen any radioactive belts on the market yet. Well, at … Continue reading →

Between the 1920s and the ‘30s, Shanghai was one of the most prosperous and cosmopolitan cities of East Asia, a centre of business and pleasure offering a vibrant lifestyle thanks to its restaurants, cafes, cinemas, cabarets and dance halls. The … Continue reading →

3D printing lab i.materialise in collaboration with Materialise Malaysia and Japan recently launched a competition focused on redesigning your own version of traditional Japanese or Korean accessories. Participants can move from Japanese Netsuke, traditional hairpins and Korean Hanbok accessories and recreate … Continue reading →

Interviewing somebody is always a special experience on a human level because you usually end up learning a lot in a very short time about the person standing in front of you. Interviewing Cinzia Ruggeri is a bit like being … Continue reading →

I was playing with Processing and decided to merge its possibilities with another personal obsession of mine, Elsa Schiaparelli. This is the result, based on Schiap's trademark shocking pink shade and inspired by her tears dress. Who knows, maybe if … Continue reading →

As promised in yesterday's post,here's the second part of the Fashion Glossary.  Fashion Education: No fashion designer used to go to college in the past and the best way to become a tailor was starting from the lower step of the … Continue reading →

Art is a pretentious business and those of us who had the pleasure of going to certain press previews and receiving a release trying to explain the main themes behind a particular exhibition perfectly know that at times the description didn't … Continue reading →

Charles Correa is internationally considered as a major figure in contemporary architecture. An exhibition at London's RIBA entitled "Charles Correa: India's Greatest Architect" is currently celebrating his work and his role in the creation of an architecture for post-Independence India. … Continue reading →