Monthly Archives: May 2022

In the last few posts we looked at architecture as an inspiration for fashion projects and, among the fashion designers inspired by this discipline, there is Iris van Herpen. The Dutch designer recently posted on her social media pages her … Continue reading →

In yesterday’s post we looked at a new collection of tiles wondering if one day we may see their geometries and colour combinations reinterpreted or applied to accessories. But you don't need to literally apply an idea seen in a … Continue reading →

Milan's Salone del Mobile is ready to return next month (from 7th to 12th June) after the Covid-19 Omicron variant alert earlier on this year prompted the organisers to postpone it. The trade show is celebrating its 60th anniversary with … Continue reading →

There's always great excitement when a new landmark is added to a city as the skyline mutates and the city is radically transformed by the activities carried out in the new building and by the people who populate it. Designed … Continue reading →

In yesterday's post we looked at Raimondo di Sangro fascination with quipus. The prince of Sansevero was known for being a rather peculiar character, an alchemist prone to experiment with different materials, human bones included. In his palace he had … Continue reading →

In a previous post we mentioned Cecilia Vicuña's quipus: Andean recording and numbering devices used to keep accounts or record events, quipus consist of knotted strings made of cotton and other fibers. For the Chilean artist, activist and poet the … Continue reading →

That German artist Katharina Grosse would have ended up collaborating at some point with a fashion house was already in the air since her colourful lunar landscapes were installed at the Venice Art Biennale in 2015. In that case her … Continue reading →

In The Age of Extremes the late Eric Hobsbawm stated: "Why brilliant fashion designers, a notoriously non-analytic breed, sometimes succeed in anticipating the shape of things to come better than professional predictors, remains one of the most obscure questions in … Continue reading →

Coming up with innovative textures is something that creative minds from a variety of fields aim for, from fashion designers to videogame developers, and, obviously, artists. Howardena Pindell has been doing so throughout her career, animating her canvases with stencilled … Continue reading →

In 1989 British artist Antony Gormley started working on a very physical project, his "Field" series. The approach behind each "Field" was the same: a local community would mould figures by hand from locally sourced clay. Throughout the years Gormley … Continue reading →