Monthly Archives: July 2016

Quite often in literary works or medical treaties, authors employed anthropomorphic metaphors that compared a town to a body or described anatomical phenomena with architectural structures, think about Thomas Mann and Venice, Walter Benjamin and Paris or volumes such as … Continue reading →

Social and political tensions are on the rise in the world and they are mainly caused by inequalities. Architecture-wise cities are an embodiment of the differences separating the poor peripheries from wealthier areas. But is it possible to find solutions? … Continue reading →

Yesterday's post closed with an irresistible gold swimsuit from the '50s. Let's start the week by elevating this metallic shade to art and have a look at an exhibition that will open in September at the Fondazione Cini on the … Continue reading →

In yesterday's post we mentioned Margit Fellegi, so, as a follow up, let's look at three examples of swimwear she created by visiting the LACMA digital archives.  The first swimsuit in this post was designed for Cole of California in … Continue reading →

Lucky ones among us are maybe heading to the beach for the holidays or the weekend. For those who are staying home, here's an inspiration to make them dream about the sea and summer: two colourful Cole of California designs … Continue reading →

"Sustainable" has become a desirable adjective in the fashion industry, though we mainly got used to hear it in conjunction with fast fashion and high street retailers trying to clean up their acts and produce collections that protect rather than … Continue reading →

Are you in Milan and desperately looking for a way to avoid the sizzling temperatures? Try something fresh, such as tonight's MA Fashion and Textile Design graduate show at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano (NABA). The third year students … Continue reading →

After recreating bizarre, unusual and quite often useless locations for the Chanel runways, Karl Lagerfeld decided to introduce the Parisian audience of the Chanel Haute Couture show to the studio where all the work takes place. The designer transformed therefore … Continue reading →

Hans Jenny coined the term cymatics in a book in 1967: this word means "matters pertaining to waves". Cymatic patterns are indeed pictures of sound: the higher the frequency, the more complex the figures, with shapes going from geometrical designs … Continue reading →

"It's a collab". Ah, how many times we heard this statement in interviews with people working in the fashion industry. Usually this abused term – collaboration – came to define a product/collection devised by a brand together with an artist, … Continue reading →