Monthly Archives: June 2019

We recently looked at a sustainable menswear collection and at the sustainability trend in fabrics. The theme will continue next week at Pitti Filati where some of the yarn manufacturers involved will be presenting yarns that hope to reduce the … Continue reading →

As seen in a previous post, sustainability is a trend for the next season. Among the menswear shows that took place last week in Milan and that confirmed this trend there was Ermenegildo Zegna's. While the previous season's show took … Continue reading →

Cristóbal Balenciaga once stated that "a couturier must be an architect for the cut, a sculptor for the form, a painter for the colors, a musician for the harmony and a philosopher for the fit". A great artisan, Balenciaga was … Continue reading →

 All creative minds have their own vocabularies, so that the glossary of a fashion designer may revolve around specific shapes and silhouettes, while architects build their structural semantics via windows, doorways, floors and roofs. This truism applies to all architects … Continue reading →

Yesterday's post focused on contemporary fashion references to traditional Mexican motifs and closed with a look at bags designed in the 1960s by Bonnie Cashin. The American fashion designer visited Mexico in the '60s, but she has also got another … Continue reading →

One of the most recent fashion stories related to legal matters and copyright law is about designer Carolina Herrera being accused of cultural appropriation by, well, the Mexico government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Some of the designs in Herrera's … Continue reading →

For some artists it is very natural to use the physical body – often their own bodies (think about Cindy Sherman…) – as the main medium to make their voices heard and bring their messages forward.  This can be a … Continue reading →

Nineteen century learning botanic and biology models were often made with glass by fine artisans. Australian-born but Los Angeles-based sisters Christine, a poet and former painter and professor of critical studies, and Margaret Wertheim, a physicist and a science author, … Continue reading →

There are textile artists who seem to be more at ease when they work on small pieces and artists who effortelessly create monumental installations that can occupy large spaces. Sheila Hicks is well-versed in both: in her career she has producing … Continue reading →

The possibilities offered by technology nowadays in fashion are incredibly exciting, but there is another word that has become a sort of mantra for fashion – sustainability. Biella-based Tollegno 1900 has turned this dichotomy into the main inspirations for its … Continue reading →