Monthly Archives: March 2018

In the last few days the news have mainly focused on the Cambridge Analytica story. Investigations by The Observer, The Guardian and Channel 4 News in the UK and The New York Times in America unveiled a major data breach by … Continue reading →

Punk and pop – there's nothing more dichotomic than these two cultures, as the former represents rebellion and a rejection of all rules, while the latter points at a more commercial and superficially ebullient sensibility. Yet punk and pop perfectly reunite … Continue reading →

An inquisitive creative mind can see the most amazing things in the smallest works of art, even those ones made with materials that purists may dismiss as pertaining to the world of crafts.  Since it launched in 1991 in Como … Continue reading →

An architect is certainly not a couturier, yet you may argue that Albert C. Ledner's modus operandi was more similar to that of a Haute Couture creator. A high fashion designer works directly with and on the body of a … Continue reading →

In 1930 the Allied Arts and Industries and the Architectural League of New York exhibition turned to architect and managing editor of the Architectural Record A. Lawrence Kocher to present an idea for the biannual buildings display. Kocher had just started … Continue reading →

The rhythm of Chad Freidrichs' documentary "The Experimental City" (2017), about a legendary city of the future that was never built, may be described as dichotomic. The documentary – part of the Architecture & Design Film Festival (ADFF) currently on at … Continue reading →

There's that special "eureka" moment that unlocks the personality of a character or reveals something vital about a plot in all sorts of narratives and stories. In Kaspar Astrup Schröder's documentary "BIG TIME" about Danish star-architect Bjarke Ingels, the eureka … Continue reading →

There are art references that often keep on popping up on different runways. One of them is definitely Sheila Legge, Surrealist Phantom at the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London. This picture of Legge shows the artist with her head … Continue reading →

Let's continue the Hubert de Givenchy thread that started with yesterday's post with a brief focus on his connection with Audrey Hepburn.  As stated in Givenchy's obituary published yesterday, the French designer created wardrobes for many films starring Hepburn. Maybe … Continue reading →

Today it was announced that Count Hubert James Marcel Taffin de Givenchy, French aristocrat and founder of the house of Givenchy, passed away on Saturday at the age of 91 at his Renaissance chateau near Paris. One of the last … Continue reading →