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puffy-knitting & glossing
Xiao Li, the London-based Chinese talent I met last year in Florence where she was deservedly awarded the ”Feel the Yarn” contest prize (previous post here), has been in the spotlight at the...
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voguish on a budget
Fast fashion changed pace at the beginning of 1990swhen brands began competing for market sharesby introducing more lines per year at lower priceswhile globalization paved the way for clothing brandsto...
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grimed with beauty
Dresden-based young photographer Matthias Hakeris a media computer science student who discoveredphotography in 2008 soon building up a wide-ranging portfolio of images including people and weddings,...
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Uta's art wear
Uta Bekaia is a multimedia artist and an ”art wear”designer as he introduce himself born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia (an independent kingdom inmedieval times before being absorbed by the Russian...
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vintage Berthoud
It happened again, the time-machine mood took meall of a sudden while I was browsing through vintage magazines. I was overcome with acute nostalgiafor regular fashion editorials made with the...
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Peter, Paulette and Drella
My previous post expressed the time-machine mood thatsometimes takes me but I'm not the only one walking through the past. Peter Jensen's resort 2014 collection is largely inspired by two American...
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un dimanche particulier
Yesterday I was delighted to join a gathering ofparticular importance, LVMH's ”Journées Particulières”,the weekend event in which over 40 sites throughoutEurope open their doors to showcase the...
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Frida in H's swan song
Here she comes again: a gripping fashion editorial has been inspired once more by Mexican legendary painter and proto-feminist Frida Kahlo. Titled ”Frida reloaded”, the fashion story is featured in...
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Hallo, it's me!
image © by Yulia Zhdan, styled by Anna LitkovskaIt was Halloween night when I met Dina Lynnyk's 'Creepy Kids', a spooky photo shoot she made for the trick-or-treating nite (here) and her own label...
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looking at the shadow self
Atlanta-based ceramist Kirsten Stingle has been involvedin storytelling throughout most of her life: she started out working with the Gorilla Theatre, the ”living theatre for thinking minds”, founded...
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knitted Salvation Mountain
Meeting the unconventional knitwear creations by London-based designer Katie Jones was a joyoussurprise: although still studying at Central Saint Martins, she was already pushing the boundaries of...
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having fun with the sitter
'The Sitter' is the quirky name of the s/s 2013 collectionby Taiwanese born, London-based designer Shao Yenwho moved to London in 2003 to study at celebratedCentral Saint Martins while apprenticing...
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perfection is boring
I bet you remember I'm hog-wild about the irreverent approach of young Singaporean designer Max Tan and his signature ”maximizing on minimalistic ideas”. Max conjures up silhouettes concealing the...
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to the stars above
image credit: Youtopic.itToday is a truly sad day for Italy because one of its finest minds, astrophysicist Margherita Hack, passed away in the early morning. Born in Florence in 1922, she made...
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we, lazy Raphaelites
It's quite impressive how an eclectic collection ofcontemporary clothing can be inspired by indulging in idleness. Edward Curtis is a young British studentwith a BA (Hons) in womenswear fashion design...
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hand-drawn beautiful people
When it comes to fine-tuning the gift for fashion design,London's Central Saint Martins stands alone: I'm nutsabout ”Beautiful People”, the final collection by BA fashion print grad Amanda Harrisson...
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Margiela's artisanal flair
Maison Martin Margiela is widely known for its deconstructed aesthetic; often hailed as iconoclast and experimental, the brand expresses its creativity through up-cycling, transformationand...
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been there, done that
...Where you been for the last few days? I want you back Put my feet back on the ground I don't need the lost and found I need somebody to tell me when I've Been there, done that Been there, don't...
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the body and its dress
I'm impressed by the strongly conceptual approach ofFinnish born, Berlin-based young designer Emilia Tikkawhose work investigates the human body as an entityand as the media of our time. Tikka's latest...
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bleu en français
Catalan born gifted designer Manuel Bolaño took meaback with the theatrical style of his ”A little about me”s/s 2011 womenswear collection (previous post here),yet his 'd'après McQueen' style steadily...
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