Monthly Archives: March 2017

The recent news about a special event regarding The Jamms (Justified Ancients of Mu Mu) and their self-imposed 23 year moratorium coming to an end this Summer in Liverpool alerted fans of Bill Drummond/Jimmy Cauty's music and art projects. According … Continue reading →

In a previous post published a long time ago, we mentioned fashion brands moving their presentations from one capital to the other in search of the perfect market. We compared this financial restlessness to the boredom and vigorous lassitude – … Continue reading →

The history of fashion features quite a few designers who created costumes for the stage and in particular for ballets. In just a few cases this collaboration produced great experiments and unique collaborations that genuinely celebrated the art of body in motion. … Continue reading →

In yesterday's post we looked at textiles created by artisans and made following timeless traditions. In the modern fashion industry with its super-fast rhythms there isn't often space for such arty pieces, but, every now and then, you get a … Continue reading →

In previous posts about the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden (The Netherlands) we looked at exhibitions revolving around knitting and unique textile artists. The museum is continuing its explorations of different fabrics with an exceptional display of chintz that opened a … Continue reading →

In yesterday's post we looked at cognitive fashion highlighting how IBM's Watson system spotted similarities and comparisons between some of the latest collections. As seen in that post, Watson must be fed with several images of fashion collections to make comparisons, … Continue reading →

Mentioning the word "technology" in connection with "fashion" will conjure up in the minds of many of us amazing and outlandish creations made with innovative systems, materials and techniques. Yet this is just one side of the fashion and technology … Continue reading →

"For me drawing means jotting down on paper a spontaneous idea which I can then analyze, check, verify and fine-tune, reducing the basics to precise and concise lines set on diagonals and parallels within geometric shapes and figures. Being a fashion … Continue reading →

It can be extremely hard and maybe almost impossible to reinvent a theme that in fashion has been done and redone far too many times.  Take punk, for example: the great rebel revolution has rarely been out of fashion and … Continue reading →

Tokyo-based artist Ei Wada – better known for his trademark sonic installations and performances with reassembled and repurposed analog recorders or television sets and for his gigs with the Open Reel Ensemble – has a passion for generating unexpected harmonies … Continue reading →