Monthly Archives: December 2013

Yesterday's post mentioned the Museo Frida Kahlo in connection with the Superfertile + Wixárika collaboration. A cpouple of the pieces resulting from this collaboration are indeed currently exhibited in a room under Frida Kahlo's bedroom and studio, and some readers got in touch to … Continue reading →

Collaborations are extremely popular in the fashion industry, even though they often consist in a prominent and powerful fashion brand or label teaming up with somebody famous, like a hip artist or a trendy celebrity. Superfertile’s Creative Director Kali Arulpragasam … Continue reading →

Fans of DIY fashion rejoice and get ready to shop not for presents but for fabrics this Christmas. A year after releasing the pattern for Giles Deacon's "Troubadour" dress, SHOWstudio's Design Download is announcing a new project by experimental Jonathan Anderson … Continue reading →

Restricting colour and form to make sure their compositions included only vertical and horizontal lines and primary colours was one of the main aims of the artists representing and supporting the Dutch De Stijl movement. Among them there was also … Continue reading →

Classic Christmas ballets are usually plot-driven and inspired by fairy tales, but there is a plot-less ballet on at the moment at the Royal Opera House in London that, though inspired by something unusual, is equally sparkling, magic and glittering … Continue reading →

British-American Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, better known as Joan Fontaine, died in her sleep last Sunday at her house in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. Born in Japan in 1917 from British parents, Fontaine started her career in 1935 when she debuted … Continue reading →

Taking its title from Lou Reed’s 1972 album, the exhibition "Transformer: Aspects of Travesty" organised in 1974 at the Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Switzerland, and curated by Jean-Christophe Ammann, entered history for being among the first ones to explore the relationship between … Continue reading →

"It is a pity, but today there are no more fashion illustrators," Yves Saint Laurent stated in 2007, adding, "For however much I admire photographers, I have to admit that their work is done to the detriment of the design…In … Continue reading →

Yesterday's post celebrated an Italian fashion magazine from the '40s through its cover by René Gruau. Let's continue the thread for another day by posting two rare sketches by Gruau from my archive. The first shows a revisitation by the … Continue reading →

It's easier to create your own fashion archive when you have friends scouting things for you. This issue of Italian monthly magazine Bellezza from February 1949 is the latest addition to my personal archive. It arrived via Silvia Petrucci Dal … Continue reading →