By Cyril Foiret 20 Apr 2011 @ 11:01 am |

During Milan Design Week, famous Italian glass maker Venini celebrated their 90th anniversary show with an exhibition by Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana with their new ‘fragments’ standing lamps alongside earlier blown glass sculptures and a large installation piece. READ MORE
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By Ani Tzenkova 20 Apr 2011 @ 9:09 am |

Swiss designer Emilie Melden is one of the 7 womenswear designers who has been selected to be a contestant in the Hyeres 2011 Best Designer Competition. Some of the judges include Raf Simmons, Proenza Schouler, Lazaro Hernandez & Jack McCollough, and Christopher Kane. Her designs are eccentric and look to be extremely well constructed. There is definitely a great sense of fantasy in her work,
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Hyeres 2011 Design Contestant,
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By Cyril Foiret 19 Apr 2011 @ 10:37 am |

In this body of work, Graem Whyte revisits and refines elements of his recent past work in miniature landscapes to invite the mind to dream about the magic and mystery in the world around us–to honor the past, while envisioning a better future.
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Graem Whyte Miniature Landscapes,
Landscapes,
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By Cyril Foiret 19 Apr 2011 @ 10:12 am |

Mjolk Homme’s latest A/W 2011/12 menswear collection is gorgeous! Presented by Lars Stoten it is grungy sportswear with British tailoring. The mood is electricity—a bold reflection of British working class youth, and a visual homage to Lars’ early 80s ›bother boy‹ roots. Mjölk’s exquisite structural leitmotif, and the emphasis on READ MORE
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LookBook,
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By Ani Tzenkova 19 Apr 2011 @ 9:13 am |

What a pleasant and interesting surprise was it for me to discover that Hermes just debuted their Home section at Milan’s Furniture Fair. Hermès’ creative director Pierre-Alexis Dumas has called architects Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines, who also designed Centre Pompidou in Metz to design the Hermès Pavillion. The striking exhibition space made out of cardboard tubes woven with paper aimed at creating a set of
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RDAI Studio,
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Monika Leonik "Behind the Mirror"
“Dresses that pretend to be other garments, other objects. Fabrics that lie. Prints that look three-dimensional but are flat. Bodies that are skewed and warped by their enclosing garments. Garment shapes that defy their own laws. Clothing that does not seem real.”
The exhibition “Looking Twice: Fashion and Illusion”, a platform for emerging British talents and their explorations into the illusory nature of dress, showcased the work of fashion graduates from
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Ara Jo,
Central St Martins College of Art and Design,
Charlotte Helyar,
Dinu Tudor,
Edinburgh College of Art,
Eunmi Hwang,
Eva van Aalst,
Fashion Curation,
fashion exhibition,
Hiroko Nakajima,
illusion,
London,
London College of Fashion,
Mandy Sharabani,
Monika Leonik,
Natalie Rae Richardson,
Saloon Films