Maria Hristina Agut
Mara Palena and the ungraspable side of memory. Oikeiôsis the ultimate human experience
Mara Palena studies the gap between the recorded self and the present – «It's out of my control. Something that fascinates me is always a moment in between two moments»
Milan, Italy: Boyy and Fos are crafting an expressive shelter as a shop
Fos is all about pollination when it comes to spaces. For their Milanese store, Boyy collaborated with the Danish designer to enhance their zesty pieces
Ottolinger and womanity: ready to unwear
«We felt something was missing for women in the fashion market». Ottolinger duo, Cosima Gadient and Christa Bösch, forms new vocabularies of the feminine and the thrust towards womanity
Kim Ann Foxman an interview aboutherDJing career and the rave community
«The industry has opened up, the community has opened up. It is way more diverse in terms of gender, sexuality, and color». Kim Ann Foxman on raves music, photographed by...
Michel Gaubert: Can Fashion Soundtracks Carry Political Messages?
"Music is an image, fashion does fashion" – portraits of Michel Gaubert, an interview for Lampoon on shows and cinematic events
Fashion at the time could not afford to be independent. 4th of July celebrations
How can fashion overcome the colonizer mindset? From fashion shows, exhibitions, and design, independence doesn't look as long-lasting as we need it to be
Nude photography book as explorative therapy. Mackintosh and the body
«I have to remind myself how this can become a safe space for somebody, honoring them for being brave». Talking bodies and wildlife with Caroline Mackintosh new book
Hope, recognition, and devotion – Pharrell Williams debut at Louis Vuitton
In Paris, Pharrell Williams unravels the LVers Menswear collection, an imitation of his eclecticism – the artist's debut as creative director for Louis Vuitton
Workaholics vs. artisanship, the Fendi collection is for men who create
Using the Fendi Factory landscape as inspiration, Silvia Venturini reveals its sphere of development. The menswear line comes as a praise to the production chain
Fosbury Architecture, decentralizing spaces: Everyone Belongs to everyone else
Fosbury Architecture, a collective curating the 18th Venice Biennale, challenges the norms of the exhibition., «pushing people to go outside the outskirts of the Biennale»
SpazioSerra and Virginia Dal Magro – the undefined movement of traces and spaces
«It can become a concept of above and below, of visible and invisible, of natural and artificial». Observing the gap in between and the threshold in creation
Fabio Quaranta: what happens in the post-menswear era?
Fabio Quaranta: interdisciplinary collective instead of fashion brands, archives instead of collections - «I felt the need to lose the authorial, individual aspect»
«To catch an idea you need to go primitive»: a conversation with Guglielmo Poletti
Spring Studio introduces Guglielmo Poletti's work. The designer aims to display style as a derivation of structure. Construction becomes a meaningful aesthetic
From technology and transhumanism to creating tribes: Roberto Rigon’s graphic niche
What to expect from creative merging with artificial intelligence? A conversation with Roberto Rigon, the creative director that already uses it in editorial design
Naomi Accardi: a niche that involves football and fashion
«I also feel compelled that the time has come to allow others to have a voice» Naomi Accardi traces a path for sports and fashion storytellers
The 76th edition of the Cannes Festival. What happens in the French Riviera Cinema
With an ode to Catherine Deneuve, the 76th Cannes Festival in France remains a closed-circle ceremony. The Jury presided by Ruben Östlund looks for innovation
The revolution in Iran where poetry takes part – Bita Malakuti speaks of Islamic womanhood
To speak about your country when you can't speak about your lover's body. Before leaving Iran, Malakuti faced censorship as much as appreciation as a theater critic
King Charles represents a new facade of the United Kingdom. Monarchy stays still
The coronation of King Charles portrays an ever-growing fascination with power and sovereignty in a West-centric culture. Real life and its best scenography
Met Gala’s homage to Karl Lagerfeld. Why do we insist on creating idols?
A last bow to the designer who impacted contemporary aesthetics and pioneered the creative director part – Karl Lagerfeld at the Met Gala reduced to a cliché
Body metrics and upcoming fashion currencies: Julie Pelipas and Bettter.us
«It's kind of an ideal membrane for you to be protected, to feel confident, to collect emotions in». Julie Pelipas discusses creating a relationship with garments
Oscar 2023 – which is the difference between an actor and a personality?
Hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, the Oscars welcome the first leading role nominations for an Asian woman next to blockbuster performances from Lady Gaga and Rihanna
Kindness is punk: Westwood’s advocated ideals pursued by the Vivienne Foundation
«We cannot stand human suffering». Vivienne Westwood's seek for justice is coronated with a not-for-profit foundation in her name, continuing her work for a green economy
Paris Fashion Week: Ludovic de Saint Sernin, the label, Balenciaga’s redemption
The tension bubbling up around fashion shows resembles the call for anti-fashion, for something to eradicate a well-preserved, self-absorbed ecosystem as the one of fashion
Change is inevitable. Under Daniel Lee, Burberry plans on conquering the youth
London Fashion Week marks the Burberry rebranding with ex-Bottega Veneta designer in the lead. The Brits are coming to the rescue, this time dressed in faux fur
Artcurial auctions Bauer Grunwald’s heritage, leaping in a Venetian scenery memoir
Between art-deco and byzantine features, the Bauer Grunwald Palace is a veritable style crossword. Artcurial auction house engages its unique pieces to a trade
Paris Couture. Fashion’s return to allegorical storytelling has Schiaparelli to thank for
Schiaparelli 23 Couture is more about three-dimensional sculpting than surrealist motifs. While animal heads stole the show, masculine tailoring marked femininity
Gamification is just another word for creating tribes. Filip Custic plays with tech-art
Diving in the Madrid art scene, the multidisciplinary artist parades the raw tissue of beauty. Smartphones, mirrors, and masks, he tackles contemporary identities
«It’s a very raw state of mind»: JW Anderson restyles the concept of nakedness
Between farm core, erotic stamps and leather, in Milan, JW Anderson Menswear collection leaves us with footwear thanks to the Wellipets collaboration
Marie Tomanova’s new book is a sweetener for immigration harshness and desolation
Tracing an itinerary of self, Marie Tomanova collects images from her return home. It Was Once My Universe is an intimate volume, documenting the urgency to belong
Chanel and Kristen Stewart: an attempt to revere cinema is about costume design
Virginie Viard revises Alain Resnais's L'Année Dernière à Marienbad, presenting a short movie starring Kristan Stewart: she becomes the inspiration for the Spring 23 line
Anaglyph prints and dune-filled sceneries: Hermès 23 Spring line requires 3D glasses
Held at the Paris Tennis Club, Hermès Women Ready envelops all the escaping intentions into a spirited outwear reform made out of raincoats and sculpted leather
To be optimistic about the future: Michele De Lucchi, Davide Angeli, Mathieu Lehanneur
Architecture and design operate as indicators: What our world is versus what it can become. The Satellite Stations and Inventory of Life research people's responses to verified and imagined realities
Break Performance. Between the body of nature and the human orderly disruption
Daoyang Han, Peng Ding, and Huadong Zhu: three architects use their bodies to perform order disturbance juxtapositioning urban surroundings and green elements
Gal and Hiroshima: meet the photographers perverting gender norms
The two Brazilian artists debate performing gender performances. Their exhibition becomes a public confession about abusive behaviors in a straight-centered society
Visual tales from the street. In conversation with Berlin-based photographer Lukas Hoffman
Between urban sceneries and street photography, Lukas Hoffmann engages the viewer in aesthetic experiences. «I want the image to be captivating and not what's in it»
Repurposing your clothes: they can even become dinner. Paula Ulargui Escalona for Loewe Menswear 2023 collection
Paula Ulargui Escalona for Loewe Menswear 2023 collection: the young Spanish designer imagines ways to socialize responsible consumers with grass dipped clothing
Can art take inspiration from clothing? Alexander McQueen curates the Process exhibition
Starting from the pre fall/winter 2022 Alexander McQueen Collection, twelve female artists were invited to create an art piece inspired by the clothes
The land of freedom is where black people were oppressed. Rahim Fortune is 2022 Arles photo festival winner
I can't stand to see you cry exhibition shows «history has also made it more difficult for men and women to love each other» – in conversation with Arles prix Roederer winner
The couture scene: Kimhekim is about obsessions and nuanced sexuality
«It's about rearrangement and reconstruction». Kimhekim represents the new couture wave as a young designer braids past and future Korean sensibility into clothing
The polaroids reminiscing Gus Van Sant’s directing process: talking to Kaat De Jonghe
Dries Van Noten and Die Plek present an exhibition of photographs by Gus Van Sant at the Little House, Dries Van Noten Los Angeles
Culture has to travel. In conversation with Carl Gerges on Bottega Veneta’s The Square
«I had to create a space where people would be able to express themselves». Bottega Veneta and Carl Gerges set up the first fashion hub dedicated to dialogue and interaction
Staging a Spanish fashion inquisition. Dior in Seville – the Spanish cultural hub
'The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain’ - in its characteristic feminist tone, Dior recalls a cathartic flamenco and a daring bullfighting. Choose your player
Romy Schneider at the Cinémathèque française, 40 years after her disappearance
«The United States had had their Marilyn. We could dream of it just as much». The Parisian exhibition portraying an eternal mark of inspiring womanhood
Hold by the poolside of the Monaco Beach hotel. Chanel Cruise 22/23
For this fashion cruise, Chanel becomes nostalgic and dreamy over the past voyages to Monaco and La Pausa. The place is «a matter of feelings above all»
Franz Egon von Fürstenberg – when images are «an element of the collective confidence»
Images of life and work alongside portraits of contemporary artists. Photographing art becomes the recollection of a creative tribe manifestation
Unwrapping the inclusion emergency in fashion magazines with Janice Deul
For the 2022 edition of IED Factory, students have to imagine the magazine of the future. Self-representation and diversity are indisposable
