Monthly Archives: March 2021

It is always a pleasure to follow a project from the early stages till its completion. In a previous post published in October 2019, we announced that Prato's Museo del Tessuto (Textile Museum) had launched a crowdfunding campaign on Eppela under … Continue reading →

Let's continue the technology thread (pun intended…) that started yesterday with a focus on 3D printing on fabrics. In the previous post we looked at two projects by Yuchen Zhang about textiles and conductive threads, but the designer and educator … Continue reading →

What will happen to artisanal techniques in the future and what kind of impacts will new technologies have on crafts? There are no certain answers to these questions and to the ever-present dilemma about crafts and technology, but, there have … Continue reading →

There is a textile piece made by multidisciplinary artist and designer Jacob Olmedo that incorporates densely appliqued opaque oblong beads. Olmedo posted a brief film of the textile on his site to show how the beads – that at times … Continue reading →

Appropriation in fashion is – unfortunately – very common, but at times it is accompanied also by geographical ignorance as proved by a recent case involving Tory Burch and a Portuguese sweater. A few weeks ago a woman contacted Ricardo … Continue reading →

A while back H&M and Nike issued statements on their sites about forced labor being used to produce cotton in China's Xinjiang province. Human rights groups and activists and United Nations rights experts previously accused China of using mass detention … Continue reading →

There are artists who can turn into an inspiration for both fashion and jewellery designers. Regina Cassolo Bracchi, better known simply as Regina (her name means "queen" in English), one the least known artists of the 20th century, is a … Continue reading →

"There is no new design, because good lines and shapes are timeless", Elsa Peretti (1940-2021) One of the stars of the documentary "Halston" (2019) by Frédéric Tcheng is definitely Elsa Peretti, the Italian-born jewellery designer and philanthropist who first joined … Continue reading →

Fashion weeks moved to the digital space with Coronavirus and, while that allows also ordinary people to enjoy the shows, the traditional four weeks of runways in New York, London, Milan and Paris have turned into an excruciatingly long runway, … Continue reading →

Coronavirus brought to a halt most cultural activities, but also prompted us to realise the potential of digital events. Quite a few theatres all over the world started organising digital shows that can be enjoyed from home, at times from … Continue reading →