Monthly Archives: February 2016

In 1969 the Milan-based publishing house Edizioni del Naviglio, released 27 pochoir prints of Sonia Delaunay's early Haute Couture designs. One of the prints included in the portfolio showed an Art Deco piece from 1923, an ensemble called "Robe Zig-Zag" that … Continue reading →

In between the Leviathan-like collections seen at Gucci and Prada during Milan Fashion Week came the puzzling situation at Moschino: leaving behind (at least for the time being) McDonald's uniforms, Barbie clothes, roadworks, Super Mario and other assorted pop shenanigans, Creative Director … Continue reading →

In the early '70s Italian architectural group Superstudio developed a series of objects that they called "Istogrammi di Architettura" (Histograms of Architecture).  The istogrammi consisted in bare volumetric compositions with neither scale nor program, and they were also presented in … Continue reading →

As seen in a previous post about Prada's A/W 2016 menswear and Pre-Fall 2016 collections, the fashion house constructed via these designs a long and multi-layered story. Yesterday afternoon Miuccia Prada added to it another chapter with the A/W 2016 womenswear collection.  … Continue reading →

The world is populated by all sorts of human beings, yet, you could argue, though different one from the other, most of us are "futurists". We indeed constantly live surrounded by a digital world; we greedly wait for innovative technologies … Continue reading →

In the mind of architect, photographer and entrepreneur Fokion Zissiadis Iceland is a work-in-progress, that is a country still being shaped by natural elements, with mountains and rocks sculpted by water, wind and fire. Harsh, desolate and wild, Icelandic vistas … Continue reading →

In a previous post we looked at traditional Japanese techniques such as kasuri and sakiori reapplied to contemporary collections. It looks like such techniques may actually be turning into fashionable trends come the next Autumn/Winter season. Indeed, during London Fashion … Continue reading →

New York Fashion Week was a bit of a dull affair with not many notable collections. At times critics complained of the derivative ideas seen on the runways, but London has sadly revealed more borrowed moods than we could imagine. … Continue reading →

The eyes of the fashion industry may be focused at the moment on the catwalk shows for the next season, but there are other equally interesting fashion appointments to take care of. For example, if you're in Melbourne this week … Continue reading →

Hate it or love it, you can't deny that fashion offers something that other disciplines may not give you – the chance to analyse it from various points of view, from the merely superficial to the creative, the arty, anthropological, … Continue reading →