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far away, on Lake Chad
It is certainly not the first time that interior textiles are interpreted through a fashion point of view yet the Russian edition of AD - Architectural Digest, the illustrious international magazine...
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riding on the ”Shanghai Express”
Let's take a travel through time ideally boarding the old Shanghai Express train ferry thanks to luxury accessoriesdesigner Charlotte Olympia Dellal who ”began designingfrom her love of fashion and...
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Kofta's platonic solids
It's quite hard to turn my thoughts to troubled Ukraine the day after the grisly murder of Italian independent photojournalist Andy Rocchelli, 30, who was covering today's presidential election for...
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'Gamut': minimal with a flow
Norwegian designer Damien Fredriksen Ravn is a devotee of punk music living and working in Antwerp, northern Belgium,where he graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts afterhis fashion foundation...
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designer(s) for tomorrow
DfT stands for 'Designer for Tomorrow', the fashion talent award conceived by Düsseldorf-based Peek & Cloppenburg company and its online shop Fashion ID to provide a visible platform ”supporting...
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unconventional fabric habitats
Japanese artist Aki Inomata amazes everyone with her latestpiece of work, a living interaction between female bagworm moths - which usually live in portable cases constructed out of plant debris - and...
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Latvian mythological crowns
I was suddenly struck by the beauty of a red-headed model, her face painted white to accentuate the gorgeous headpiece she wears, that subtly evoked to my eyesa young Nordic princess wearing a quirky...
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Bineta Sanor: the most divine waxprints
”Long torn between her love for fashion and her humani-tarian sensibility,” French young designer of Senegalese lineage Bineta Sanor”has found through her creations a way to combine her two passions”...
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a walk in the woods
Today has been a sweltering day - actually the opening day of what promises to be a long hot summer - we reached35°C in the afternoon with sweat tops, huge rectangularsunglasses and step-ins popping up...
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Thomas Tait: on structure and fluidity
All eyes are on Canadian-born young talent Thomas Taitsince he won the first LVMH Prize: with a three-year technical degree in womenswear from Collège LaSallein his hometown Montreal, Thomas then...
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at the crossroads of stylishness
Let's meet again (after more than three years, though)the delicate feminine style of Croatian-born, Australian designer Karla Spetic who wanted to become a fashion designer ever since her chidhood...
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mind-blowing knickknackery
”That's for sure a fresh take on recycling!” I said tomyself stumbling across the impressive portraits ofrichly adorned she-warriors wearing suits made with objects of everyday life. Fully amazed by...
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Ioana Ciolacu's elegant paradox
'Ioana Ciolacu' is a RTW womenswear label based in Bucharest, Romania, whose creations blur ”the lines between femininity and masculinity, with an emphasis on tailoring, a personal use of materials...
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in a state of mindfulness
I always knew the acronym AWOL in its original meaning,Absent Without Official Leave, but now Singaporeanpracticed designer Alfie Leong - the mastermind behind 'A.W.O.L.' and 'Mu' labels - gives a new...
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Dutch winter in Paris
'Léo Paris' is the name of an interesting womenswearlabel obviously based in the Ville Lumière founded by young designers Matthias Medaer and Leonneke Derksen,both graduates of Antwerp's Royal Academy...
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Quinn's first cracked canvases
Today's the day of Richard Quinn's floral abundance: the young designer to be with a natural aesthetic who conceives his creations like the canvas of a painter comes from London, namely from Central...
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Peter Movrin's hidden jewelry
I'm eventually back after two hard-pressed weeks,too tired of the to and fro to keep on blogging as usual, yet the striking collection by Slovenian designerPeter Movrin - the only son of a butcher who...
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is space the place?
Young Chinese designer Ge Bai, MA womenswear fashion graduate from London's Royal College of Artspecialized in knitwear, conveyed a subtle Sci Fi character to this year's graduate collections: models...
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rookie designer's charming power
Ashley Miella's graduate collection took my breath away at first glance: I saw in my mind's eye threehooded Wiccan witches who don't fly on broomsticks but walk at leisure pace through the woods on...
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mad as a hatter
My beloved readers' eyes must miss nothing while scrupulously patrolling the narrow boundary betweenart and fashion design and I bet the spooky creationsof a young 'mad hatter', Romanian-born fashion...
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