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Tim & Tilda's dreamscapes

One of high-octane duos of fashion editorials strikes again:world famous photographer Tim Walker teamed up withandrogynous style icon, Anglo-Scott actress Tilda Swintonin a staggering editorial for the...

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simplicity as a virtue

Broadly experienced British designer Margaret Howellknows what women want: she started making men's shirts to her own designs back in 1972 opening hernamesake wholly-owned first shop in 1980 when...

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let your hair down, Rapunzel!

The plot of 200-year-old German fairy tale 'Rapunzel', the girl locked in a tower by a witch who used her ultra-long hair as a rope for a prince to climb up and rescue her, has been widely used and...

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visual tale of a gothic aesthetic

It was love at first sight with the absorbing costumesrealized by designer Katarzyna Konieczka who wasborn in Gdańsk, northern Poland, graduating from the International School of Costume and Fashion...

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goodbye knitwear legend

Missoni in his studio portrayed © by Keith Trumbo (part.), 1980Ottavio Missoni, the legendary Italian designer whoestablished the iconic brand with his wife Rosita back in 1953, passed away serenely...

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shades of Pakistan

above: an old man carrying cotton sacks in Peshawar,photo © by Mohammad Sajjad/APbelow: drying up previously dyed fabric in Lahore,photo © by Arif Ali/AFP/Getty ImagesThe beauty of Pakistan lies in its...

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nothing but flowers

Mother's Day is approaching and it's customary for my blog to mark an occasion like this with flowers celebrating it like a thanksgiving for spring sharing the pictures I took in the last two weeks...

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rock me like the '80s

Emma Mulholland made her debut as a fashiondesigner two years ago as one of four TAFE students (the Technical And Further Education Commission  of New South Wales) chosen to present a range at the...

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the amazing Temperley sisters

Today's story begins in the desert outside the Banyan Tree Al Wadi, a gorgeous resort surrounded by rolling dunes close to the town of Ras Al Khaimah, UAE,  where gifted 'true Brit' sisters Alice and...

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up north, on the farm

Iceland, despite its size, in recent years came into its own as the cradle of several 'creative industries';the arts are constantly flourishing turning the smallisland country into a cultural...

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going overground

DZHUS is the conceptual womenswear label founded by young Ukrainian designer and stylist Irina Dzhus, an underground talent that goes overground at a brisk pace shaping her new architectural approach...

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Spanish leather meets Japanese denim

To celebrate ”The Year of Spain in Japan”, an initiativeto boost the country's profile held exactly 400 years after the first Japanese ship reached the Spanish shores,a creative exchange between famed...

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book as artwork

books cascading down the museum's entrance by Alicia Martín from the series 'Biografias', 2012An truly impressive literature cascade by Spanish artist Alicia Martín hangs down from the window of the...

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third-hand charm

I confess I heard about Momo Wang, a gifted young London-based Chinese fashion designer, thirdhandbut I fell in love with her work straightaway.Recently graduated from Central Saint Martins, Momo is...

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fashion done right

Della is a socially responsible fashion label based inL.A. that's changing the way people shop: founded by designer Tina Tangalakis who studied costume design at CalArts, the California Institute of...

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thought-provoking folkish couture

Ulyana Sergeenko is a Russian stylist, photographer, designer and a true connoisseur of upmarket fashion from the customer's point of view yet her own approach to haute couture looks quite unfamiliar...

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Tokyu, ikebana for the head

Australian milliner Anna Shoebridge sketches out herhomage to Japan with her latest 'Tokyu' collection celebrating the timeless influence of Japonism through sculpted headpieces for all seasons: each...

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color-matching fellowship

image credit: Mehmet Karaca/Solent NewsMother Nature proves to be the greatest colormatching system through this camouflaged color-co-ordinated duo sporting identical shades of green: a green chameleon...

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clothes as accessories

Japanese thirty-something designers Keiko Miyakoshi and Kohrogi Hitoshi founded the Osaka based ROGGYKEI label in 2006 inspired by the concept of ”clothes as accessories, accessories as clothes”...

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never too old to play dress up

The title tells it all: this one's a gripping collectionintended to show respect and admiration to thoseelders who keep experimenting with their style in a joyful manner (Ari Seth Cohen, the mastermind...

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