Monthly Archives: January 2015

One of the main inspirations for Dior's Haute Couture collection by Raf Simons was David Bowie. The iconic artist actually appeared on quite a few menswear runways in the last few years: at times designers displayed a fascination with his Ziggy … Continue reading →

It is inevitable if you have studied the history of fashion, if you're an academic or a fashion writer with a solid knowledge in this subject, to feel a sense of uneasiness when watching a catwalk show in the company … Continue reading →

For some fashion designers taking inspiration from films can be extremely tricky. One of the most dangerous pitfalls of the cinematic inspiration is the fact that it can easily result in garments that borrow very literally from specific scenes and … Continue reading →

It is always exciting to follow the career of different designers and see what they are up to a few months after you interviewed them. The last time Irenebrination's readers met Samuel Gassmann he was a cufflink designer. The good … Continue reading →

Introducing a successful innovative, useful and functional product on the market can be tricky nowadays, but, if like fashion and graphic designer Penter Yip you manage to do so, you can bet you will win over many fans. Penter founded … Continue reading →

We live in times in which we are quite often confronted by monumental pieces in museum and art spaces, their size, bright colours and intriguing shapes immediately striking our eyes, filling our field of vision. Yet, faced by an object … Continue reading →

Fans of Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos will be thrilled to hear that MGM MACAU will soon present the first exhibition of her work in China.  The first woman and the youngest creative to exhibit her work in the Palace of … Continue reading →

It is always a good exercise to keep your fashion history memories going, trying to spot where certain inspirations and ideas from the current collections may have come from, but it is equally intriguing to try and identify correspondences in … Continue reading →

There is a lot of talk in fashion about merging male/female elements in the same garments and generally uniforming genders. The same discussion about genders, you could argue, has been going on in the art field for decades. Hannah Höch … Continue reading →

In a previous post on this site we looked at the work of Nukeme, a Japanese designer incorporating glitches in his knitwear and digitally printed pieces. Glitches may actually turn into a fully-fledged trend this year: Viktor Horsting and Rolf … Continue reading →