Monthly Archives: September 2019

The Facebook event "Storm Area 51, They Can't Stop All Of Us" started in July as a joke. The organisers of the raid, scheduled for today, 20th September, urged alien and UFO enthusiasts to gather in the area of the … Continue reading →

In the last few months quite a few designers have expressed their concerns about environmental issues and the impact of the fashion industry on our planet, with companies trying to find new ways to be more sustainable. During London Fashion … Continue reading →

There are different ways to look at a runway: if you're a critic, one of the most obvious is reading the collection notes to learn more about the inspirations or the materials used in a specific collection. Yet there is … Continue reading →

Visitors stepping into the first floor of Milan's Palazzo Reale will find themselves surrounded by a futuristic world made of lights and minimal geometries. This is Nanda Vigo's own sci-fi universe.  The artist and architect is currently being celebrated in … Continue reading →

In the last few posts we looked at how nature can offer great inspirations to creative minds. While yesterday we explored the creative possibilities offered by shape-shifting creatures, let's move on today and examine the colour-changing capabilities of chameleons. We … Continue reading →

In yesterday's post we looked at plants as the starting point for a fashion collection, but nature is full of wonders that can provide wonderful inspirations. For example, at the beginning of September the crew of the research vessel E/V … Continue reading →

Fans of photography and nature may be familiar with Karl Blossfeldt's volume "Art Forms in Plants" (1928) that features 120 plates of plants captured in extraordinary detail. The book was the result of a series of experiments: from 1898 and … Continue reading →

For long seasons (or maybe years…) New York Fashion Week was a commercial affair of monumental proportions with just a few occasional designers trying to raise their voices about key social and cultural issues. Things changed with this season, though, … Continue reading →

Fashion works in cycles, so, if you stick around long enough, you're bound to see something coming back at some point. And so it happened that while there were (obvious) echoes of Bonnie Cashin on Coach's runway during New York … Continue reading →

The runway show evolved in different ways during New York Fashion Week, from presentations in shops to special events held in theatres and arenas (more about that in another post), to open air shows to reconnect with New York's architecture … Continue reading →