Monthly Archives: June 2018

Memphis Milano has been a constant fixation of many fashion and accessories designers in the last seven years or so: as you may rmember, Bill Gaytten took inspiration for Dior's Autumn/Winter 2011-12 Haute Couture collection from the design movement. The thread continued in Sergio … Continue reading →

Leading architectural Vietnamese practice VTN Architects (Vo Trong Nghia Architects) has been experimenting with natural and local materials since it was founded in 2006. The practice has one main principle – working on each project as if the Earth had … Continue reading →

Let's continue the woven architecture thread that started yesterday with a brief focus on another project on display in the Arsenale spaces at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice. The project in question consists in a natural woven wicker … Continue reading →

In other editions of the Venice Architecture Biennale there were definitely more projects that tackled the intersection between architecture and other disciplines, including fashion and textiles in particular. At the 16th International Architecture Exhibition there are fewer ones and among … Continue reading →

The fashion industry was shocked when yesterday it was announced that designer Kate Spade, 55, was found hanged in her apartment at 850 Park Avenue, New York. Born Katherine Noel Brosnahan in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1962, she attended the … Continue reading →

There are quite a few exciting finalists in the various categories of the current edition of London's Graduate Fashion Week (from 3rd to 6th June), yet there is an institution that has already won – Edinburgh College of Art (ECA). … Continue reading →

Architect and professor Riccardo Blumer is known for being also an an inventor and creator of machines. In his practice Blumer often looks at architecture and geometry in connection with the human body, even though in more recent years he has … Continue reading →

As seen in a previous post the Nordic Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice attempted a dialogue between humankind and nature. Lithuania went for the same aim, albeit in a different format, through a series of projects reunited … Continue reading →

In the past editions of the Venice Architecture Biennale there have been projects that featured living entities inside a pavilion or that were inspired by biology. The Nordic Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition (on until 25th November) moved along the … Continue reading →

The first impression visitors get upon entering the Pavilion of Switzerland at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice is definitely not surprise, but alienation. The most striking features you spot while walking along one corridor are indeed a series … Continue reading →