Designer Ana Locking explores in Under Beauty -her collection for this Spring/Summer 12 season- the darkness that lies underneath beauty; the imperfect, the grotesque that appears just on the edge of the abyss of the sublime.
Her interpretation of the dark side of perfection results -in the jewelry scene- in statement thorn necklaces in...
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Frank Horvat’s work goes further than fashion and publications like Vogue, Stern or Harper’s Bazaar; during the more than 60 years of career of this member of the prestigious Magnum agency his work has also comprised fields like nude or travel photography. The Italian photographer presents now Horvatland, an special application for iPad with...
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Last week it took place in the Cooper Design Space building, in downtown Los Angeles, the second edition of COEUR, an accessories tradeshow created by Henri Myers last October.
The amazing selection reaches the perfect balance gathering together already stablished brands with new talents in the accessories field, and combining shoes, bags and jewelry in...
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Fortunately, we have the sun back after two days of unusual rain. Unusual rain: how does that sound? A-ma-zing! And for this sunny Sunday, nothing more inspiring that Neon Deluxe, the editorial by Yossi Michaeli with Alyona Subbotina for the latest issue of Dazed & Confused Korea. Right: more pastels and neons.
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Afortunadamente, tenemos el sol...
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I feel really target for Prada’s lookbooks, every season is the same: if I ever had any doubt about any of Miuccia’s proposals when some of her amazing lookbooks appear they are all blown away in seconds and, suddenly, I love everything. You see; these collages are created for indecisive people like me.
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‘Rewilding’ is a new study about gender roles and androgyny but it also is a beautiful portrait of contemporary femininity in the shape of a book by American photographer Cass Bird who travelled, during the summers of 2009 and 2010, with a group of different women to Sassafrass, Tennessee to portray them. Bird will...
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If you are in Barcelona next Thursday, March 15th, you can’t miss ‘Lilit‘, the solo exhibition by illustrator Judit García-Talavera en Arte Aparte (C/Bruniquer, 9 Premise 4) where she will show, till next April, 15th, a sample of her personal work.
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Si estás en Barcelona este jueves 15 de Marzo no puedes perderte la inauguración...
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We had not known much about Alessandra Facchinetti since she was invited to leave the creative direction at the house of Valentino, in one of those faster-than-light movements, only one year after its founder Valentino Garavani announced his retirement.
The Italian designer joined Pinko last year to give shape together to her new project Uniqueness...
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The latest editorial by Justin Hollar for March issue of Nylon magazine -with styling by James Rosenthal- takes this season’s trend of pastel colours to a higher level of desirability, something not easy at all when they need to be mixed with each other. The secret, in three words: touch of neon. You can...
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A couple of days ago, wandering around the neighborhood I discovered this shop called Heist. I have to confess the discovery was only half by chance and half by moral obligation: you don’t need more than two days in L.A. to know that Abbot Kinney Blvd. in one of those street you can’t skip...
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Kaune Sudendorf, the gallery for contemporary photography in Cologne, Germany, presents tomorrow Friday the exhibition Three Boys from Pasadena, a collective show with the works by photographers Mark Arbeit, George Holz y Just Loomis which, after its debut in the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin was also presented in New York and Paris.
Besides...
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Chicago-based designer Laura Lombardi presents her latest collection of handmade jewelry for next summer with little plates, medals, geometric pieces and chains in cascade. The beautiful images were, once again, shot by Heather Culp.
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La diseñadora Laura Lombardi, afincada en Chicago, presenta su nueva colección de joyas artesanales para este verano a base de pequeñas placas,...
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Artist Aitor Saraiba opens tomorrow Thursday, March, 8th, in Mutt Gallery in Barcelona, his first solo exhibition: I’m Not Naturally Evil.
His drawings, of simple and spontaneous lines, of naïve and nostalgic mood hide, after their first innocent appearance, a strong psychological load that explores the evil side -opposite but sometimes intrinsic- of good and...
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Sometimes it seems kind of complicated to stare at Kirsten Dunst’s languid look while being able to separate her from the trail of her role in The Virgin Suicides, even more than ten years later. Ten. It doesn’t mean that this is either a good or bad thing, actually, only that it seems a...
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Diego Diaz Marin is a Spanish photographer living and working in Italy. Through his playful, ironic and colourful point of view he has already portrayed campaigns for brands like Aquazzura or Just Cavalli Underwear.
His latest work is this campaign for Italian bijoux brand Schield: a new summery explosion of color, energy and -why...
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Maria Parsons is a Danish/English fashion designer who graduated at The Design School in Kolding, Denmark, with her collection Back to Mystery City, inspired by a tin tray she found on a street market. Rich in eye-catching colors and silhouettes, embroideries and beading, Maria travelled to India to give shape to the collection.
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There’s no way of getting tired of the amazing pieces by Kathryn Blackmore for her jewelry brand The Vamoose, everything is always so delicate and subtle but, at the same time, so surprising.
When I read the text that accompanied this picture in the latest entry of her blog -explaining that this necklace, made...
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The peculiar portrait of Hollywood by photographer Terry Richardson is now summed up in twenty-five images, exhibited through March, 31st in OhWow gallery in La Cienega Boulevard, in Los Angeles.
The show, named Terrywood, talks -through light signs, portraits of famous people and other icons of pop culture- about different concepts associated to Hollywood like...
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SuTurno is a Madrid-based creative studio founded by Julia Vergara and Javier Gutiérrez Bayo who, among many other things, have already designed prints for brands like Marc Jacobs, Baum und Pferdgarten or Hoss Intropia. On the other hand, id.02 is a project by Hugo Gallego, a fashion designer who, after learning tailoring techniques in...
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I don’t really know if I could find a better expression for our last move than ‘change of scene’; although the change does not only imply the scene but also the country, the continent, the time zone… The thing is I can’t think of a more opposite place to Germany than Los Angeles but,...
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