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Swinging Paper
Paper, buttons, passion for fashion and creativity… These are the ingredients used by fashion designers Viviana Garofalo and Anna Chiara Esposito to create these nice dresses you see in Marcella Rallo’s photos. Dresses made of paper inspired to the ’60s and to the icon Twiggy. Miniskirts and clothes with A line that remind to Mary ...
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Wearable Foods by Sung Yeon Ju
Korean artist Sung Yeon Ju made these awesome dresses out of real fruits and vegetables as part of her series Wearable Foods. This series which link fashion, art and food design, deals with the concept of creating images that interchange the actual reality and the made-up reality on many levels. Every photo amazes for the colors and vegetable ...
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Organic Sculptural Dresses by Tiziano Guardini
The first time I met Tiziano Guardini was in January at the White Trade Show while I was wandering among the stands with Petra Kovács. Initially, we noticed all the materials chosen by the fashion designer: raffia, bark, pine needles; then we were pleasantly surprised discovering that those clothings were sewed using the technics ...
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100 years of Chanel with short film by Karl Lagerfeld
Chanel marks 100 years with short film “Once Upon a Time” which stars Keira Knightley as Coco Chanel directed by creative director Karl Lagerfeld. The black and white short film is centered on the opening of the Chanel boutique in 1913 in the well-heeled holiday town of Deauville in northern France. The 18-minute film was premiered in Singapore ...
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Mal Aimée: a World of Contrasts
Mal Aimée is one of the brands that caught my attention during Designers Apartment in Paris, where the designers Léonie Hostettler and Marcus Borgeaud have shown their fourth collection. Léonie and Marius, after their first meeting at the Geneva University of Art and Design and after working together with Nina Ricci, in 2010 showed their collection of ...
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Philip Karlberg for Plaza Magazine
Take a look at these sunny, tasty fruity faces. These fruit faces are by photographer Philip Karlberg, who realized these interesting still-life photos with stylist Mattias Nyhlin for the current, May edition of Plaza Magazine. Orange, lime, cauliflower seem to be very posh divas from the ’50s portrayed by Picasso! www.minkmgmt.com/philip-karlberg/ www.plazamagazine.com
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glamDAYS: May 2013
- From the 4th of May, the famous concept store Corso Como 10 in Milan, will house in the Carla Sozzani gallery, the traveling exhibition of World Press Photo, famous all over the world as the most important award of photojournalism. The aim of WPP is to make aware all the visitors about the most ...
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Le Moine Tricote: Contemporary Knitting
Alice Lemoine is the third fashion designer I met at Designers Apartment in Paris during Fashion Week. Lemoine studied fashion in Tokyo, Japan, as well as worked for Michele Lamy and Rick Owens, and then she decided to start her own label Le Moine Tricote, which means the monk knits. Her work is centered on the ...
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Progetto Calabiana Milano & A.I. Artisanal Intelligence: Fashion & Design
During the 52nd Salone del Mobile, ProgettoCalabianaMilano recently inaugurated in the city of fashion, has opened its doors to design’s world in collaboration with Case da Abitare. The project has been created to help emerging fashion designers and designers who are still without their own showrooms, giving an exhibition centre where they could show their ...
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Casadei Patchwood Collection
Talking of beautiful wooden accessories we’d like to highlight this geometric pattern that reproduces the varied wood grain created for the 2013 S/S by Casadei. “Patchwood” (patchwork+wood) is the unique design that Casadei applied to the iconic “Gaga” Wedge and to the flat sandals. This mosaic, created manually, plays with the contrasting tones and hues ...
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Tesler-Mendelovitch: Wooden Clutches
Can wood be a textile? I really love this project centred on new kind of materials and “natural textures” without leaving out contemporary shapes. The wooden clutches are very chic and very architectural with interesting geometric trimming which remind of a beautiful origami. Tel Aviv based design duo Tesler-Mendelovitch is a Textile Design Team, that research and develop a wide range ...
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Fashion Font by Yvette Yang
Fashion Font: how to link typography and fashion. This original project, centred on wonderful visual font collections, has been created since 2007 by Paris based Korean designer Yvette Yang. She collects images from fashion collection books and magazines, and then she does collage work. Using collage method by hands and playing with fashion, which is ...