Monthly Archives: January 2016

If you come from a fairly normal background and you somehow end up working in the fashion industry, you may get exposed at some point in your career and at some levels to quite incredible things that totally escape your … Continue reading →

In a previous post we looked at brands including the work of artists in a window shop or sponsoring small art exhibitions in dedicated art spaces located inside large boutiques. The question at the end of that post was very … Continue reading →

The last time we heard from Dutch fashion designer Antoine Peters he was busy reinventing the yak, a traditional 19th century Dutch garment, part of the regional dress of Zeeland, a province of the Netherlands.  Yet Peters can't stand still … Continue reading →

People visiting in the next few weeks (until 1st February) the Fondazione Prada in Milan will be able to see a film festival entitled "Flesh, Mind and Spirit" featuring a selection of 15 movies. The films were chosen by director … Continue reading →

"Logic will get you from A to B," Albert Einstein once remarked. "Imagination will take you everywhere." That's the best quote to describe the life of Ruth and Elliot Handler, Mattel founders. A recently published volume by Assouline celebrates the … Continue reading →

In a fashion industry oppressed by the concept of producing more and more collections, Valentino Pre-Fall 2016 designs posed a few questions to all those people willing to sit down and ponder about a few issues.  Maria Grazia Chiuri and … Continue reading →

While riding a rainbow-farting unicorn, Alice on acid, rather that falling down the rabbit hole, landed onto the set of Slava Tsukerman's 1982 cult film Liquid Sky. This kaleidoscopically perverse vision might have appeared in the minds of at least some … Continue reading →

Costume designers creating the garments for the latest sagas of dystopian films such as The Hunger Games and Divergent followed the sci-fi tradition that tended to divide the post-apocalyptic world in factions or classes defined by clothes in precise colours and shades. The … Continue reading →

There has been a very interesting trend at the opening of the menswear shows: rather than preview features about the collections and maybe interviews with designers to highlight their inspirations for what regarded the main themes, shapes and silhouettes or … Continue reading →

Fans of the petit point technique know that it can be immensely satisfying; if they are art fans as well, they also know that this technique can be taken to the next level as Narelle Jubelin also proves.  Born in … Continue reading →