Among hordes of tourists, baywatchers, surfers, wonderskaters and the rest of the miscellaneous amalgam, Mollusk Shop is the place to find the perfect souvenir when visiting Venice Beach. You can read my article about this amazing surf shop in Absolut Mode Society.
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Entre hordas de turistas, baywatchers, surferos, prodigios en monopatín y demás amalgama variopinta, Mollusk...
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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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Jim Mangan is an American photographer that, after a long professional career in the skateboarding scene decided, instead of chosing, joining both of his passions. This election has recently given place to his latest book named Winter’s Children, which is a beautiful collection of images aiming to show the true spirit of this sport....
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Definitely, if there is an incombustible couple in the fashion industry, it has to be Rodarte sisters, who not only design their own collections but, if necessary, they can also create the attires for the ballet in Black Swan, an special collection for Opening Ceremony or even release a book.
Rodarte. Catherine Opie. Alec...
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The exhibition of Polaroid images by German photographer Helmut Newton, which is taking place since last June in the foundation named after him, here in Berlin, has just been extended till May next year.
The editorial house Taschen, besides, has just released an amazing book compiling all these images which you can buy here. Christmas...
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Dior Couture by Patrick Demarchelier includes, as its own name shows, a hundred couture gowns by maison Dior lensed by French photographer, combination that makes of this book a treasure like no other and which will be released on December, 6th, although it can be already pre-ordered here.
The publication, with texts by Ingrid Sischy,...
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How many times have you found yourself so amazed with Swedish photographer Lina Scheynius‘ work that you would have given anything to take it home with you? Sincerely, it happens to me anytime I discover some of her images.
Her fashion editorials are full of emotional notes that go way further than the simple commercial...
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Only a designer -and all the ones around him/her, actively contributing to carry out the project- knows the real work behind a show that, after months of everlasting days and sleepless nights, goes away lasting no more than a few minutes.
Designer Montse Liarte, who has already shown her creations several times in 080 Barcelona...
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Dane Beesley is a photographer from Brisbane that, for the last ten years, has been taking photographs of the most outstanding bands in the international music scene, from The Kills to Yeah Yeah Yeahs, including also names like Cat Power or Mogwai. Now he has selected some of these images, compiled during the...
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By 2007, between chats and glasses of wine, Stefan Brüggemann portrayed one evening her friend Isabella Blow in her house, while she showed him the already mythical acquisitions she made at the Alexander McQueen graduation show.
The images of that spontaneous session are compiled now in the book Isabella Blow by Stefan Brüggemann published...
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How big is difference between talking about “those gloves with all the fingers together” and talking about mittens? Not to mention those T-shirts “that have a diagonal seam like this (please kindly accompany “like this” with the pertinent emphatic hand gesture) on the shoulder” and which real name is as easy as a two-syllable...
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The umpteenth incursion into the golden blonde privacy comes now in the shape of a book. As if a totally exposed life had not been enough and after the exhaustive examination of her last photo shoot, analyzed in detail trying to discover in her languid and absent expression some premonitory signals of the imminent...
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“Últimamente he trabajo casi exclusivamente con papel blanco diferentes objetos, recortables, instalaciones y performances. Gran parte de mi trabajo está hecha de folios A4 en blanco. Es, probablemente, el medio más común y más consumido que se utiliza hoy en día para transmitir información, pero rara vez nos damos cuenta de la real...
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El CAAC de Sevilla expone hasta el próximo 5 de Julio Miguel Trillo. Identidades retrospectiva de 170 imágenes de este icónico fotógrafo gaditano, afincado en Barcelona, cuya obra supone el testimonio gráfico de toda una época. Y de más de una; tras la movida madrileña que le hizo famoso, Trillo ha extendido su campo de acción...
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Mañana celebramos Sant Jordi por aquí, fiesta que conmemora como el Santo anteriormente mencionado liberó al pueblo de la amenaza de un dragón gigante y -como en todos los cuentos felices- acabó casándose después con la princesa. La tradición dice que a los chicos se les debe obsequiar con un libro y a las...
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Cada vez más a menudo escucho a gente que, trabajando en moda, asegura que lo que más desea es montar su propio negocio tipo: hotel rural, restaurante campestre, spa urbano, floristería-cafetería (sí, los dos en uno) o cualquier otro espacio del estilo que, ideado para servir en exclusiva al deleite de los sentidos de su...
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