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idyllic childhood memories
I agree that the whole pleasure of clothing design lies in its making (of course when you have realistic expectations it works even better) as the motto of Japanese womenswear label 'IN-PROCESS by HALL...
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Korlekie's glamorous Ophelia
Since Victorian times, Shakespeare's character of Opheliaretains an exceptional popularity inspiring with her sad fate and her self-murder by water artists of all kinds and she looks ideally suited to...
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paint it, black
I see a red door and I want it painted black No colors anymore I want them to turn black I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes I have to turn my head until my darkness goes...from...
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back to black
Don't get me wrong, although I've seen better days I'm not in a black mood, I've simply chosen this title to mark the second black & white post in a row (while saluting Amy who would have turned 30...
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UAE's double celebration
دولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة, Al-Imārāt al-‘Arabīya al-Muttaḥidaor United Arab Emirates if you prefer, is a country on cloudnine these days: the mood is quite upbeat because today's 42nd National Day...
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it's me again
Ukraine is the news these days with people on the streets asking for the country to be part of EU yetas far as I know the ties with Russia are strong as ever, mostly in the Eastern and Southern...
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Frank Zappa memorial barbecue
> artwork © by John Fisher <'The Grand Wazoo' is playing all around my house to mark today's twentieth anniversary of Frank Vincent Zappa's death while his compositions are aired by the national...
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Yojiro Kake, the designer as a storyteller
It's surprising that a gifted Japanese fashion designer can come to live and work in a messed up country like Italy: don't get me wrong, I love my native country and I understand how our age-old...
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Marie Antoinette like a geisha
Dubai-based Pinoy couturier Furne One knows how to cater to a woman's every whim: his highly embellished dresses always have an evocative and tantalizing impactthat emphasizes the designer's unique...
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mourning that smile
image credit: Ben Curtis/APThe whole world mourns the loss of Nelson Mandela and this emotion happens to be sincere rather than ceremonial, like inthis gorgeous image taken in Soweto, Johannesburg,...
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Bea Szenfeld's Haute Papier
You know how often fashion meets geometry andtherefore paper through origami-inspired creations made by several designers by cutting, bending and shaping it into structures and dresses redolent of the...
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Protø3Dype creativity
Eugenia Alejos is a young Spanish fashion designer who'sprobably best known for her illustration works and namely the fabric collages she came to exhibit at home and abroad. She's a multidisciplinary...
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see me, feel me, heal me
The world of fashion has always been the place ofunfailing experiments with new materials or to discovernew ways of transforming the existing ones, achieving amazing and sometimes totally unexpected...
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where cultures come to clash
'She', acrylic on linen, 2011The collision of cultures shapes our world much fasterthan continental drift and there's a gifted Afro-American female artist who depicts their clashing through an...
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wasp-waisted greetings
Xmas time comes around making me homesick for rest after a quite tough year yet I won't bother Santa asking for mentalrepose and good cheer: I will simply unplug for a while notwithout sending my best...
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Selma according to Ku
...I've seen it all, I've seen the darkI've seen the brightness in one little spark...nugget excerpt from Björk's ”I've seen it all” in 'Selmasongs'Johan Ku - the Taipei-born knitwear virtuoso whose...
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upside-down glamour
Let's get dazzled before the year comes to an end with the stunning images from the December issue's editorial of Schön! magazine called 'Fortune Cookie'.Schön! was established in 2009 as an online mag...
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happy turn of the year
image credit: Chris Helgren/ReutersThe leaf of a Japanese maple tree coated with ice makesme think of a joyful hand waving goodbye to 2013 in thesuperb image taken by Thomson Reuters'...
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'thank you Saigon'
I'm not especially in the mood for fashion editorials,yet I've just returned from an exciting stroll around the city of Saigon through the pages of Đẹp mag, the lifestyle magazine and biggest influence...
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architects of air, color and light
photo © by Lamar Francois (part.)Yesterday - actually two days ago Down Under - the forecourt of Sydney Opera House was transformed into a multi-sensoryevent with the opening of 'Exxopolis', a massive...
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