Monthly Archives: September 2017

The Jury of the 74th Venice International Film Festival – chaired by Annette Bening, and comprising Ildikó Enyedi, Michel Franco, Rebecca Hall, Anna Mouglalis, David Stratton, Jasmine Trinca, Edgar Wright and Yonfan – awarded yesterday night the Golden Lion for … Continue reading →

If you happen to be in Venice for the Art Biennale, the Film Festival (closing today) or you just happen to be visiting the place as a tourist and you like textiles and installations employing different materials in quirky ways, … Continue reading →

Raf Simons presented yesterday during New York Fashion Week the second installament of his American "experiment" at Calvin Klein. We don't know yet if this will be a trilogy or a series, but that explains the reason why the S/S … Continue reading →

New York Fashion Week officially begins today, even though it sort of kicked off yesterday. Most articles about it mainly mention the fact that Rodarte and Proenza Schouler decamped to Paris in July in time for the Haute Couture season; … Continue reading →

McDonald's workers went on strike for the first time in the UK on Monday 4th September, US Labour Day. Workers were protesting over their wages and asking a rise to £10 an hour, an end to zero-hours contracts and union … Continue reading →

All eyes may be on the North Korea-United States relations after Pyongyang carried out on Sunday its sixth and most powerful test of a thermonuclear bomb thought to be five times more powerful than the device dropped on Nagasaki during … Continue reading →

Classic domain names/web addresses followed by the traditional .com are starting to look old and, in the last two years a few companies have been adopting their name as their web address in a .brand format. After all, if your … Continue reading →

The inspiration for the architectural project highlighted in yesterday's post came from biology. This discipline can undoubtedly inspire fashion, after all we have seen in previous posts how the shapes, silhouettes and configurations of some modern creations sometimes do have … Continue reading →

In yesterday's post we looked at robotic interventions in garment manufacturing, but architecture is actually among the disciplines that in recent years have been constantly experimenting with robotic fabrications. In a previous feature we looked for example at the Elytra … Continue reading →

New York Fashion Week is kicking off next Thursday and, while anticipation grows about new collections, questions and doubts remain about the future of such events and of the industry in general. Things are indeed changing at a very fast … Continue reading →