Monthly Archives: March 2014

You may have already seen online various images showing one of the latest projects by Zaha Hadid Architects – the City of Dreams Hotel Tower in Cotai, Macau. Designed by Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher, the building was commissioned by … Continue reading →

Many of the Spring/Summer 2014 collections promise to take you to exotic paradises, with prints of palms, fronds and tropical sunsets populated with pink flamingoes. Yet the word "exotic" assumes different meanings and can point not just towards tropical paradises, … Continue reading →

During Milan Design Week Kvadrat is going to present an armchair that will make many Adventure Time fans dream about floating in the cloud-like land of the Lumpy Space. Yet the armchair in question was inspired by a real landscape … Continue reading →

A while back I did an interview with an Italian designer and asked him about the knitwear in his collection. He replied me in a a rather vague way, so I asked him if he had used an Italian historical … Continue reading →

Somehow you feel like tragicomically laughing at the state of our very sad and rather mad world. By pure coincidence I recently heard that House of Fraser may be start selling soon a childrenswear collection by a Glasgow-based streetwear brand … Continue reading →

There has been a lot of talk in the last few weeks about Yves Saint Laurent as the new film shot by Jalil Lespert and chronicling the life of the couturier from 1957 on, was released this year (note – … Continue reading →

Mention Soviet posters and your mind will immediately conjure up images of hammers and sickles, workers struggling and the rising sun of the revolution. But posters can have different aims and objectives and, while some may be interpreted as symbolic … Continue reading →

It can be hard choreographing ballets derived from traditional literary texts, but it may be even harder working on choreographies revolving around real stories of physical and psychological extremes. Yet Marguerite Donlon is not scared.  Donlon created as her 34th … Continue reading →

In March 1959 the Italian edition of Grazia magazine launched a series of touring catwalk shows open to the public in collaboration with the cotton mill Legler. The shows included sixty dresses created by famous Italian designers. All the garments … Continue reading →

The late Agostino Bonalumi is definitely among the artists who may provide fashion designers with interesting inspirations. Readers of this site may find some connections between him and Paolo Scheggi. A master of abstract art and a friend of Piero … Continue reading →