Monthly Archives: February 2022

There may be wonderful jewelry pieces in museums all over the world, often displayed in galleries focused on fashion and accessory. But you may spot intriguing jewelry pieces also in archaeological museums: ancient civilisations often produced beautiful decorative pieces to … Continue reading →

Kaleidoscopes are simple, yet extremely fascinating objects – ever tried making one with a toilet paper roll, some mirror sheets and a few beads? Try, look inside it and you will immediately get lost in a sea of colours and … Continue reading →

Sometimes it feels as if we were all looking for alternative spaces to planet Earth: while some of us escape to virtual realities and the digital world, others wish to travel to other planets and SAGA Space Architects hopes to … Continue reading →

The words "fast fashion" in the last decade mainly indicated one thing – cheap garments, usually copied from designs seen on the latest runways, produced by retailers in sweatshop factories located in developing countries. But fashion is a chameleon high … Continue reading →

Hearts are ubiquitous on St Valentine's Day and if you had to look for heart-shaped accessories, heart prints and heart inspired garments in the history of fashion, you would easily end up spending months researching physical and digital archives. Yves … Continue reading →

Weekends are perfect to stop, relax and browse through archives. Check out for example the collections of sketches and illustrations on the SPARC Digital Collection, a platform by the FIT Library's Special Collections and College Archives. On the site you … Continue reading →

If you're a creative mind stuck in a rut and temporarily unable to come up with new and exciting work, try and do an exercise – break out of your comfort zone and do something impulsively by playing around with … Continue reading →

The intricate and colourful pulsating patterns and geometries of quilts often reappeared in fashion collections, while different artists recreated the quilting technique from personal and imaginative points of view. But there are quilts that could be considered as more important … Continue reading →

Louise Bourgeois is a lasting influence on many artists, but also on fashion, textile designers and yarn manufacturers. Fashion designer Simone Rocha wrote her college thesis on Bourgeois and returned to her as an inspiration for her A/W 2015-16 collection. … Continue reading →

There are infinite ways of telling time-honoured classic stories, it is indeed possible to re-read a text from a variety of points of view. You can transport, for example, famous operas in modern times and reinvent them or you can … Continue reading →