Pedro Friedeberg is a surrealist artist from Mexico. He also claims to have invented several styles of architecture, as well as one new religion and two salads. He creates bright, patterned and absurd images and objects that delight the imagination. A surrealist in paint and practice, filling his days making art and other said activities:… Read more »
Sol is the fourth collection of silk scarves from Think Positive textile designer Emilie Cacace until the name of Andéol – her accessories label and textile project. Each collection Emilie travels somewhere new to explore the cultural heritage of that place, with a particular focus on its textile traditions. All her research and studies, she… Read more »
Karen Knorr is truly a citizen of the world having been born in Frankfurt, raised in Puerto Rico, and educated in Paris and London. She is now a Professor of Photography at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, Surrey. Since the 1980s much of her art has focused on ideas of cultural heritage, with… Read more »
Kit Neale is the print centric menswear label from London. His prints have a graphic, boy-ish quality that is almost childlike, this season lobsters, airplanes, stripes, under the sea in bright pop colours were the focus, inspired by the British seaside. Developing the print range takes a lot of research including trips to museums, markets… Read more »
The night before photographer Gabriele Galimberti set out out on a trip around the world, his Tuscan grandmother made him her special ravioli. The meal inspired his project “Delicatessen With Love”, a document of the grandmothers of the world and the special dishes they cook for their families.
A baroque fantasy land of leopard rugs, oriental textiles, mirrored walls, trompe l’oeil art, marble bath tubs, art deco light fixtures, Agyness Deyn’s Williamsburg loft has a lot going on – to say the least! It’s a little kitsch, a little grandma takes a trip, and we love it. The former model sold the apartment… Read more »
We stumbled across these beautiful images, created by Flickr user totaviva. Using Google Earth he then stitches together landscapes from all over the world, using colour grades to highlight the beautiful patterns that only nature could create.
Designer Martina Spetlova was studying chemistry in Prague, before she began a career as a fashion designer, graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2010. Her scientific mind reveals itself in her work with her commitment to exploring unique textiles and the meticulous construction of her garments. For her fall 2013 collection Martina works with pleated… Read more »
Hilda Hellström is a Swedish-born London-based artist who investigates ideas of myth, perceived reality, universal truths and subjectivity. Her father is a carpenter and her mother a psychoanalyst, these two inclinations compound within her in beautiful way. In 2011 she worked on a series of tiles, urns and vessels (pictured above & below), titled “Sedimentation”…. Read more »
PET waste is a major environmental concern all over the world. Every society in the world consume larges amounts of plastic, but the very thing that makes it so useful to consumers – durability – is what makes it so hard to dispose of. Plastics outlive it’s consumers, taking more than the average human lifetime… Read more »
We spotted the work of Andrea Bergart on one of our favourite blogs Sight Unseen. Andrea’s paintings are bright and fancy-free, inspired by the vibrant textiles of Ghana, where she studied – she now lives in Queens, New York. She also experiments with silk canvases painting the surfaces with dyes. She has even had the… Read more »
We first wrote about Laurenceairline when designer Laurence Chauvin Buthaud launched her second collection a year ago. Born in Cote d’Ivoire, Laurence moved to Paris as a small child. After working for Louis Vuitton, she decided to branch our on her own, reworking the vibrant prints of African textiles into modern menswear, featuring paneled shirts,… Read more »