‘Since I started exploring knitting techniques a world has opened up for me. The potential of this discipline, to create textures, structures and shapes in various materials, seems infinite.’
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Dutch textile designer Nanna van Blaaderen reaffirms each of her words with all her creations. Taking as inspiration source animal life and nature she has...
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Oh, yes, they did it again; photographer Andrea d’Aquino has joined again our friend Jenny Germer to give shape once more to this beautiful editorial of powerful colours and urban tropicalism, this time for Quality Magazine. Make up in sorbet shades by Eda Yildiz is my new vital necessity today. Vi-tal.
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Oh, sí, lo han...
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Born in Taiwan, but trained in London-based Central Saint Martins, Shao Yen represents one of the new rising talents in the emergenging British scene including in his resume -among another things- interships in Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan and Clare Tough and a commissioned display window for department store Selfridges within the project Bright Young...
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The Little Decissions we Make is the latest exhibiton by photographer Pancho Tolchinsky, opening tomorrow in ROJO gallery in Barcelona, an interesting graphic study of social microworlds. A peculiar way of portraying people through the spaces in where they live; spaces that talk about choices and tastes, preferences and emotions.
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The Little Decissions we...
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The combination of Miu Miu Fall/Winter 11/12 collection and a cruise boat may probably give rise to plenty of plot lines around which building a short film but I think it is pretty clear that the final result has, actually, nothing to do with the idea one could have about some pleasant holidays on...
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Spirograph is the latest T-shirt collection by RottenFresh Collective, inspired by the classic geometric drawing game that, by using plastic gears, gives shape to figures made of mathematical curves known as hypotrochoids & epitrochoids.
Handmade illustrations, unique washes and hand screen-prints distinguish once again the creations by this London-based brand.
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Spirograph es la última colección de...
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I don’t really think we are here to judge things that are out of our understanding. At least not me. Everybody fights with owns demons the best he or she can.
I do think, though, that anybody that has managed to move us, deserves a moment to be remembered.
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No creo que estemos aquí para...
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That moment of night inflection in which one could not actually clarify if it got too late. Or, suddenly, is too early already.
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Ese punto de inflexión nocturna en que uno no podría dilucidar con claridad si se ha hecho demasiado tarde. O, de pronto, ya es demasiado temprano.
Pics: Tali...
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Talking about weather may be a little bit recurrent in here. But it is not due to a lack of imagination, actually, but to the fact that weather in here is so unpredictable and annoying that you really feel like criticizing it 24/7. I might have told everybody by now that it has been...
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There are few occasions when musical stars pass you by unnoticed when you happen to come across them on the street. How many times have you seen one of your favourite artists on the street and melted when your eyes connected with theirs for that second? You know, that fleeting glance. It may sound...
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Sky-blue, yellow and pink in pastel shades are mixed with prints of irregular stains. Mini dresses and super tight bodysuits draw the limits of feminin body in the latest collection by Mal-Aimée, presented in 080 Barcelona Fashion last week, while marked shoulder pads and fluid shapes, on the other hand, sculpt a new one:...
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Omar Kashoura’s stylistic references are subtlely woven in the collection he recently presented in 080 Barcelona Fashion: messages in neon lights by Bruce Naumans, Woodstock festival, social union pursuing mutual support and the liberation movements that took place during the ’60s and ’70s inspire this relaxed proposal of soft shapes and a delicate retro...
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Closely linked to music and American culture as usual, photographer Hedi Slimane portrays for his Diary this time Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Nirvana’s late lead singer and guitarist, Kurt Cobain.
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Como siempre, estrechamente ligado a la música y la cultura americana, el fotógrafo Hedi Slimane retrata para su Diario esta vez a Frances...
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Nomadic monochrome outfits by Karlotalaspalas deserved last week, once again, the recognition of the Best Menswear Collection award in 080 Barcelona Fashion reasserting the work of this young Spanish designer as one of the most promising of the moment.
Around the concepts of hope and faith as essential survival mechanisms, Karlota builds up in...
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Migratory movements inspire the first collection Toni Francesc showed yesterday in 080 Barcelona Fashion, although Francesc is not exactly what we would call a newcomer since he has previously taken his creations to catwalks in Mexico, New York or even Russia.
Tan and earthy shades mostly, with flashes of vivid red and deep blue,...
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It might have been the colour wave that has invaded us this season what has inspired the guys in Jan iú Més to venture into those chromatic fields not so explored by them in their previous collections. For next summer, Jan and Alfonso move away a little bit from that sober palette of them...
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Josep Abril is one of the most consolidated designers showing their creations in 080 Barcelona Fashion; he created his label in 1996 and, since then, has spent his time making his own line grow at the same time that he has been in charge of the creative direction of Armand Basi One, has launched...
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Catalan designer Miriam Ponsa showed yesterday in the new edition of 080 Barcelona Fashion her new proposals for next summer, under the name of Festa Major she takes finds inspiration, this time, in popular Catalan celebrations, incorporating in her designs such iconic elements of this celebrations as castellers, cabezudos or streamers.
Fluid drapings, asymmetries and...
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Last year, by this time, Markus Lupfer presented his latest Resort 2011 collection in Soho House in Berlin, in an event in which, among many others, were Olivia Parlemo and me. Among many, many others, I mean.
This year, coherently following the sophisticated but playful spirit that reigns all his creations, he has joined now...
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There has been a little bit of everything in this latest edition of Haute Couture in Paris: from the disturbing first couture collection in the house of Dior without John Galliano, who had been its creative director for the last fifteen years, to Azzedine Alaïa’s public comeback with his first show in eight years...
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