Monthly Archives: January 2017

The world is currently and understandably worried about US President Donald Trump's travelling ban. But, a few months ago, soon after he was elected, the members of the American (and global) LGBT community expressed their concerns about their rights, with … Continue reading →

The attention of the world is currently on US President Donald Trump who provoked global chaos, outrage and confusion at the weekend after he signed an executive order banning people from seven predominantly Muslim nations – Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, … Continue reading →

In yesterday's post we looked at Iris van Herpen's Haute Couture S/S 17 collection and mentioned some of the works that may have inspired her by architect Philip Beesley, who has become a close collaborator of the fashion designer throughout … Continue reading →

Digital design has offered many creative minds like architects and fashion designers the chance to become reborn fabricators and craftsmen, driving manufacturing from their computer desktops. Architect Philip Beesley and fashion designer Iris van Herpen are two pioneering examples, it is therefore … Continue reading →

In their Haute Couture A/W 2016-17 collection Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren savaged and repurposed scraps of designs from their previous collections and recombined them together to create new garments. The duo continued along the conscious couture thread for the S/S 17 … Continue reading →

Spotting inspirations in fashion collections can be an exciting exercise, since it allows you to learn more about future trends, but also helps you to (re-)discover a wide range of subjects going from arts to science and technology. Yet it … Continue reading →

In the last few posts we have looked at collaborations between fashion houses and streetwear brands. But during the menswear shows in Paris there was also another kind of collaboration, or rather, a tribute that brought us back to a … Continue reading →

 A drunk man, they say, uses a lamppost for support rather than illumination. This sentence could be rephrased and adapted to describe the current fashion trend for collaborations between various brands, employed not to introduce genuinely revolutionary ideas, but a cult … Continue reading →

Quite often when lecturing to fashion students you get asked about specific aspects of the industry and it is not rare to find yourself discussing inspirations, plagiarism, appropriation and, well, collaboration. Many students actually display a strong interest in collaborations, … Continue reading →

One of the most bizarre things that may happen to you if you work in the fashion industry is how, upon seeing a collection on a runway, as a review and critic you may start guessing in your mind where … Continue reading →