Monthly Archives: November 2014

"Modernity started out as a promise" states Jean-Louis Cohen, curator of the French Pavilion at the 14th Venice International Architecture Exhibition (until 23rd November 2014), in an introductory essay explaining the inspirations and contents of France's presentation at this year's … Continue reading →

There is always some kind of magic in the fashion events organised by curator Sofia Hedman and exhibition designer Serge Martynov. Magic is actually a term that usually appears in conjunction with the wintry season and with Christmas, two words … Continue reading →

Architectural inspirations for fashion collections do not necessarily need to come from specific buildings or projects. Installations and temporary structures created for special events can indeed offer great inspirations. Let's take for example the sand printers at the Israel Pavilion … Continue reading →

The colourful and intricately modern prints on GUNEE Homme's shirts and ties betray an art derivation. The lookbook images for the Spring/Summer 2015 collection have also got something graphic about them, while their composition with minimalist geometric figures and precise … Continue reading →

Fashion is an undoubtedly strange and complex world. In recent years, with the fast production rhythms going even faster, the industry has actually proved of being even more incoherent than we ever thought. So, while in the past as a … Continue reading →

It may be a challenge to read Dante's masterpiece, the Divine Comedy, but this great philosophical poem recounting the journey of its protagonist through the realms of the Otherworld remains a fascinating, engaging and inspiring work with political, elegiac, humorous … Continue reading →

We do live in an age of chaos and anxieties, but there are those trying to exorcise them through art and dedicated events such as Guerrilla Zoo's "Modern Panic" exhibition, currently on in London. Curated by James Elphick, the fifth … Continue reading →

The biggest mistake of many modern contemporary fashion designers is their complete detachment from an industrial context. It is an absolutely excellent idea to go and visit an exhibition or an archive to get inspiration, but, up until 30 years … Continue reading →

Despite being widely considered as art, jewellery remains an unknown field and is therefore quite often excluded from major museum collections. Jewellery thrives instead in an exhibition currently on at the Tilburg-based TextielMuseum. "Body Jewels" includes pieces by Dutch designers, some … Continue reading →

Culturally and socially speaking, clubs and discos can be considered as sensorial and avant-garde environments where creativity, performance and design combine in a radically free and anarchic way to create new languages and visual codes. The theme of the club, … Continue reading →