Monthly Archives: December 2022

Among the usual bleak reports arriving from all corners of the world, last week there was one piece of news that was instead as sweet as a pile of rainbow-coloured gummy bears. A while back a California girl asked Los … Continue reading →

We tend to think that everything has already been done in all sorts of fields – from art to fashion, design and film. Yet, deep down, we know that this is impossible as creative minds will always keep on producing, … Continue reading →

At the beginning of December, the winners of the Environmental Photographer of the Year competition were announced. Divided in different categories, the competition is organized by CIWEM, an environmental and water management charity, and WaterBear, a free streaming platform dedicated … Continue reading →

Sumptuously monumental. This is how the exhibition "The Love of Couture – Artisanship in Fashion Beyond Time," kicking off today at Hong Kong's K11 Art & Cultural Centre at K11 MUSEA, can be summarised. Curated by K11, a group founded … Continue reading →

In Edmund Burke's 1757 essay A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, the author stated that the sensation of the sublime is "not pleasure, but a sort of delightful horror; a sort of … Continue reading →

In yesterday's post we looked at an exhibition featuring art influenced by video games. For decades fashion has been inspired by iconic video game characters or elements borrowed from famous games, sprite graphics and even glitches. There have been both … Continue reading →

At the end of yesterday's post we wondered if, one day in a not so distant future, there may be exhibitions accompanied by intriguing gaming experiences. We may not be able to provide an answer to that question, but, in … Continue reading →

Fashion usually sets trends, but there are also rare times when it just ends up catching up with them, like in the case of NFTs. As non-fungible tokens exploded into the art world after Christie's record setting auction of Beeple's … Continue reading →

The year is coming to an end and some events for 2023 are already being launched, among them the pioneering Sónar festival in Barcelona. Now celebrating its 30th anniversary, the festival will take place from 15th to 17th June (tickets … Continue reading →

You wonder if consumers destroying Balenciaga products on TikTok or urging on multiple posts on social media to boycott the brand, finally convinced the fashion house's creative director Demna Gvasalia to apologise about the fashion house's recent disturbing campaign.  Today … Continue reading →