Monthly Archives: March 2015

It is always great to meet an old acquaintance in an unlikely place. This is exactly what happened while we were at Brighton University. The old acquaintance in question is the Brooking Collection of Architectural Detail, currently exhibiting a few … Continue reading →

Brighton is maybe more known for its pier and laid-back atmosphere, but it has actually got a vibrant fashion department at the local university. Irenebrination will be heading today to the School of Art, Design and Media at the University … Continue reading →

The catwalk stunt is now the rule: we have seen it happening during the latest fashion weeks on Valentino's runway where the Zoolander actors closed the show and at Vivienne Westwood's catwalk show that ended with Boardwalk Empire’s Paz de … Continue reading →

In Michael Anderson's Logan's Run, the main characters live in a supposedly utopian city. When Logan and Jessica escape the futuristic and computer run society in which they are trapped, they embark on a journey of discovery that leads them … Continue reading →

Five years have gone since Irenebrination wished for a better integration between the scientific and creative disciplines for example via a fashion shoot in a scientific research laboratory. Since then lots of things happened and now it is not a … Continue reading →

Architects and designers often wonder in which ways they can improve the life of ordinary people and it's not rare to see lectures and debates about this question that doesn't seem to have a simple answer.  Yet Caritas Vienna and … Continue reading →

In yesterday's post we compared dynamic movements in contemporary fashion with works by the Futurist painters. Let's continue the thread with a little variation keeping the future theme, but thinking about the static condition in fashion (as much as this … Continue reading →

Being focused on the present and the future we often forget how much we depend from the past. Consider our current fascination with luxury sportswear and high-tech dynamic clothes (in some cases not even meant to be used as performance … Continue reading →

There are catwalk shows that you can dissect and analyse in different ways and then there's Miu Miu's. The last show of the Paris runways, it usually arrives when all the people in the industry need some rest, as Miuccia … Continue reading →

Upon seeing some of the first images of Valentino's A/W 2015 collection portraying black and white striped designs, people with an architectural frame of mind would immediately start thinking about the black and white motifs adorning Medieval churches in the … Continue reading →