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Cano's techno-baroque couture
Technology is probably more 'in' than fashionnowadays yet it's more and more involved in it driving tomorrow's garment design and manufacturing process providing fresh blood in terms of ideas and...
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alien spooky flamboyance
Leyre Valiente is another Spanish accomplished talent, actually a prominent member of European next generation designers who made a name for herself by molding leather like no one else...
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heritage meets innovation
If not a historic London mansion, what else could beexpected to host the new collection of a label on the threshold of 200 years? Pringle of Scotland, the iconic brand established in 1815 at the...
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Irish roots 'n' Celtic knots
Derek Lawlor is a renowned designer whose sculptural jewelry pieces denote a perfect knowledge of forms and materials pushing the boundary of knitwear with his couture range artworks ”...demonstrating...
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wrapped in textile daydreams
The periodically recurrent Afro-ethnic trend takes afresh new look through the curious melting pot ofpatterns and shapes created by Christa van der Meer,the young Dutch fashion designer who graduated...
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floaty frocks for streetwise girls
London is universally known as the cradle of inventive designers who dare to jump with both feet into the cutthroat world of high-end fashion with a wealth of talent and knowledge: Michael Power is...
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Ballade N°1.G Op.23
Jamie Wei Huang is a Central Saint Martins alumna who sharpened up her skills interning at Christopher Kane and Alexander McQueen carefully establishing her womenswear label soon after graduation. She...
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tarred & feathered individuality
If it's true that fine feathers make fine birds, what about the striking quilled creations by London educated Icelandic designer Anita Hirlekar? The Central Saint Martins BA graduate who has always...
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alien cartoon characters
Last summer I declared myself eager to see the next collection by Senegalese eccentric designerSelly Raby Kane because she's able to take mybreath away with her cultured irony a collectionafter the...
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Ifitry art lab at SMS
'Ifitry' is the engaging Moroccan art center overlookingthe Atlantic Ocean founded in 2011 outside the town of Essaouira to provide ”a very complete picture of the current Moroccan artistic production”...
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Dori Tomcsanyi's ski lodge lifestyle
Hungarian designer Dori Tomcsanyi established her namesake high-end womenswear label in 2010 and its urban sophisticated touch ”by using simple yet unique and raw style and clean cut items madeof high...
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working class' power shoulders
Carrie-Ann Stein is a London-based designer bornin Lancashire who gave up a reliable career in law to pursue fashion: year after year she began to feelunfulfilled realizing that she was actually made...
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eyemazing makeup art
'insomnia'It was late night when I stumbled across the mind-blowing counting sheep makeup above and I became suddenly awakened yearning to ferret out everything about it and its gifted author: I was...
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she used to love me a lot
...I sat down beside her and she smiledShe said where have you been it's been awhileShe was glad to see meI could almost read her thoughtsShe used to love me a lot...Johnny Cash, 'She Used To Love Me A...
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OC's perceptions of reality
What a glass of water perched upon an umbrellaor a floating woman face has to do with everydayfashion? They just represent the latest step in thepopularization of art that the world of fashion started...
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turning rags into works of art
La fille à la balançoireLet this long week come to an end with a flourishthanks to the awe-inspiring works by Caroll Bertin, a self taught French textile artist who turns as if by magic old shabby...
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punk rock anarchy in mint condition
Here comes a riveting collection that subtly evokes the anarchic thrill of early British punk rock by mixingits signature paraphernalia, namely circle-inscribed capital 'A' letters, black leather,...
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Bienvenue chez Heezin!
”Bienvenue chez Heezin!”, a brand new womenswearlabel whose carte du jour includes a noticeably happy approach to everyday fashion and truly feminine outfits that look breezy and sophisticated at the...
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art Caturday
On Mona Lisa's lapIt was love at first sight with Zarathustra, the chubbyred cat that appears in countless masterpieces throughout the history of art ”to pep 'em up!” as Russian visual artist Svetlana...
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tender monstrology
”Don't be afraid to fall down into the water, to sinkslowly into the seabed. Perhaps, there you will seea light and find the entryway to a new world. Perhapsyour skin will turn into the bark of a tree,...
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