Monthly Archives: February 2021

Reinventing Sardinia’s Arts and Crafts

A few years ago, the Triennale in Milan organised an event to promote Sardinian crafts. The cultural institution is now launching a new event along the same lines that will kick off next week (from 3rd March to 21st April). … Continue reading

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Industrial Inspirations: Pirelli Tyres

Milan Fashion Week is currently taking place in its digital format, but the city will try to reopen next week its museums after the closures due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The city of Milan will reboot its cultural scene with … Continue reading

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Spinning a Colourful and Optimistic Yarn: Todd & Duncan S/S 22

Coronavirus disrupted the rhythms of fashion weeks, but also of fashion fairs: Pitti Filati, for example, moved onto the digisphere and yarns producers started presenting their new collections for the Spring/Summer 22 season online. The tactile pleasure that visiting a … Continue reading

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Tailored by Weather: Marinero by Studio Adaptive Skins

Last week we looked at sustainable projects that may change the fashion industry and provide innovative ideas when it comes to the design and manufacturing stages. Fashion Scout presented during the latest edition of London Fashion Week (that was mostly … Continue reading

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Antique Textiles Inspirations

In the last few posts we looked at innovative systems to make garments, but also at recycling textiles. So let’s restart the week from there with a couple of brief inspirations – the first picture refers to the Korean bojagi … Continue reading

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From Boro to Modern Recycling & Upcycling

In yesterday's post we looked at the technicalities behind new sustainable systems for fashion manufacturing; let's continue that thread today, but look at how a Japanese company is working on the sustainability issue. Inspired by "Boro", that is a style … Continue reading

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Another Fashion Story is Possible: “Zero Waste Systems Thinking: Multimorphic Textile-Forms” by Holly McQuillan

Coronavirus has reshaped the fashion runways but it has also prompted many to realise that the industry needs a completely new frame of mind to survive and must also be reinvented if we want our planet to thrive rather than … Continue reading

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Ode to the Hyper-Dense Mega-Metropolis: “Planet City” by Liam Young @ The National Gallery of Victoria Triennial

Architects and designers often try to imagine what the city of the future will look like. Australian film director and speculative architect Liam Young tried to present his vision in a 15-minute animated short film. Entitled "Planet City", the film … Continue reading

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Non-Narrative Graphics in Space: Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze’s “How To be Enough” @ Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia

There are artists who love to fill their canvases with colours, objects, people and patterns. Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze prefers instead to create on paper large-scaled scenes characterized by minimal settings and inspired by photography, architecture and print-making. Born in Port-Harcourt, … Continue reading

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Book Preview + Kickstarter Campaign: The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn (Designers and Books)

It is always immensely exciting to do a follow up about a project we mentioned in a previous post since we can check its progress and see how it's doing. Today we announce for example that the Kickstarter campaign for … Continue reading

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