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...
View Articlesimplicity 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...
View Articlelet 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...
View Articlevisual 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...
View Articlegoodbye 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...
View Articleshades 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...
View Articlenothing 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...
View Articlerock 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...
View Articlethe 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...
View Articleup 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...
View Articlegoing 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...
View ArticleSpanish 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...
View Articlebook 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...
View Articlethird-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...
View Articlefashion 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...
View Articlethought-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...
View ArticleTokyu, 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...
View Articlecolor-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...
View Articleclothes 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”...
View Articlenever 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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