Interviews
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
Susan Cianciolo, from the 90s: «I can’t understand my work because I’m making it»
Susan Cianciolo about her way of creating: «Even the given theme could take you in a different direction. It's always a surprise. My work can get changed many times before...
Fostering creative play at all ages – Louise Follain is the Editor-in-chief at Combo Magazine
Editor-in-chief of Combo Magazine Louise Follain shares her inspiration, goals and future along with the publication’s origin story: from idea to print magazine. Each issue features creative content from recipes...
The message by Joshua James Small: a collection of ten looks, opposed to sixty
«I can tell a story about every piece of clothing I’ve ever made or bought» - Joshua James Small discusses the narrative behind his collection, Thru These Tears
In a beauty salon, a twenty-six-year-old brush continues to do its job – Cim Mahony
Since 2014 hairstylist Cim Mahony has received a limited number of clients by appointment only at his salon, which he opened together with his wife Lotte Barnholdt in the center...
Asa Butterfield, interview with the star of Sex Education – his face is an icon
Asa Butterfield’s debut on Netflix marks a breach of the barriers between cinema and streaming platforms. Netflix is focusing on actors borrowed from the silver screen
Garogosi, wearable sculptures leading the way on sustainable practice in jewelry making
Capturing a moment in glacier history: British artist Sevan Garo Nigogosian brings together man and glacier in his one-off wearable sculptures
Terrence Zhou’s avant-garde garments in Metaverse are redefining the realities of fashion
Wuhanese fashion designer Terrence Zhou shares his dynamic approach to building a New York-based Avant-guard brand
Dysfunction – the relationship between creativity and mental health
Why are artists still not attributed with the creative respect they are owed in a multi-billion industry in conversation with Gregor Barratt
The Womb and Florilegium showcase Rebecca Louise Law’s humanity
A silenced discussion of pain women undergo in birth and mankind’s absence of mindfulness have driven Rebecca Louise Law
Ethics and technology: the art of restoration according to Isabella Villafranca Soissons
The director of the Conservation and restoration department of Open Care expounds the technical, methodological and ethical issues restorers have to deal with when restoring a contemporary artwork
Leiko Ikemura’s evocative imaginary: cosmic landscapes and hybrid figures
Japanese-Swiss artist Leiko Ikemura showing in-between creatures and possibilities of representation of self in Riding The Waves at Tim Van Laere Gallery in Antwerp
Dustin Yellin and the Anthropocene in motion: «Students should learn about Frank O’Hara and Jesus»
The Descriptive, Prescriptive and Impossible: to tear down distinction between art and science - Dustin Yellin taps into societal issues: «What I do is make a trail through the woods»
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
«I was a listener as a kid» – Jim-E Stack on the creative journey behind his career
The producer discusses his music, letting his intuition do the work and following what feels good «It was never a genre, or artist, it was whatever made me feel something»
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
Disrupting the fast-fashion industry: one garment at a time – Daniella Samper and Elias Stahl
Here are two visions of the future where fashion retailers say ‘no’ to deadstock, and produce only what customers need
Do opposites attract? Dior’s heritage tuned into Los Angeles streetwear aesthetic along with ERL
Artistic director Kim Jones taps into Dior’s archive going back to the early 90s when the Resort 2023 guest designer Eli Russell Linnetz was born
A spiral glass pavilion hosts over three hundred timepieces: Audemars Piguet, Musée Atelier
The museum opened in June 2020 was designed by BIG studio as an extension of the historic headquarters of the famous Swiss wristwatch manufacturer Audemars Piguet
Lorenzo Vitturi’s art blurs the line between reality and fiction through hybrid creations
Creating new meaning through art «My work is a continuous research, combining elements that could not coexist in the real world due to nature or geography»
From Accra to London – James Barnor captures societies under transition in six-decade career
From Ghana’s independence to London’s transformation into a multicultural hub, Barnor’s photography tells the story of societies through people in the studio and on the streets
«With Instagram, everybody has the patience of five-seconds» – Sasha Frolova on creative industry
«I've never wanted my photography to be controlled by industry because of my emotional attachment to it. I don't want to shoot for the sake of shooting. I want to...
Sergio Mottola, Public Pressure – Fostering the artist-fan relationship through NFTs
«NFTs disrupted the world of creativity as MTV disrupted that of music, when people realized that music videos could open the music industry to a new world of marketing, positioning...
Understanding the present day using the scientific discoveries of the past: Benjamin Labatut
Benjamin Labatut discusses why he believes we have ceased to understand the world and what twentieth century scientists can still teach us
When the recycling of wood and the concept of protection collides: Tadashi Kawamata
A conversation with the artist around the concept of protection from shelters, the recycling of planks of wood and the collaboration with the students from Brera Academy of Fine Arts
Subliminal youth and the quest for freedom – reviewing: Marie Tomanova’s photography book
New York, New York, the city, the people. Marie Tomanova introduces her work at W hotel in Rome. «It’s about the connection with the person you’re looking at»
Nikola Uzunovski – the Macedonian artist prompts a dialogue between man and his surrounding environment
I travelled from Italy to the Meteorology Department at the University of Helsinki in Finland to study the arctic climate, its temperature, wind speed and humidity, to understand which materials...
The Japanese expression pika pika is the mantra for ceramist Yuko Nishikwa
The work of Brooklyn based ceramicist Yuko Nishikwa is guided by the Japanese onomatopoeia ‘pika pika’, calling «a reaction that moves the observer. This industry has quality»
In conversation with McArthur Binion: «my work is tremendously about hands»
«The hesitation is in the way I speak». American artist McArthur Binion challenges Minimalism art history by layering personal objects behind geometric grids
Transparency means ‘to go beyond’ and ‘to appear’. Formafantasma in dialogue with Joseph Grima
«We recognie design processes to have an effect and determination, a form of transparency. I am a globalist when it comes to ideas» – Joseph Grima in conversation with Formafantasma
‘Why Beauty Matters’ – Stefan Sagmeister balances philosophy with scientific research
«If you don’t like the term Beauty, you could replace it with intentional form». The graphic designer argues for the inclusion of Beauty in academic discourse
A nomadic childhood, opera and The Alan Parsons Project: Alice Merton’s roots
Berlin-based singer-songwriter, Alice Merton opens up about her musical influences, life after releasing her debut single
No One You Know, a short movie by the artist Danijel Žeželj for C’mon Tigre new release
Mixing sounds and rhythms from Africa to the Mediterranean Sea, C'mon Tigre and Croatian cartoonist Danijel Žeželj tells us stories of humanity and nude reality
Vincenzo Palazzo, Vìen: «freedom emerges as a beautiful outrage to social entrapment»
«Vìen it's a clash» – Blending London, punk parties and underground music. What it is like to be an underground brand according to Vincenzo Palazzo
Lampoon 23 / Transition: to define where we are today
Take it for granted, no excuse: nothing will be ever the same as it was before. It’s a moment of transition. This is a moment of transfer from a rejected...
History of Night and Destiny of Comets, Gian Maria Tosatti – from a provincial to an urban asset
In conversation with Gian Maria Tosatti. A reflection on the Italian industrial landscape and man’s relationship with his immediate and less-immediate environment
Liliane Lijn – 1969 to the present. «Diversity is what makes us more equal»
Born in New York City in 1939, Liliane Lijn moved to Europe in 1958: «there is a kind of coherence between what I did then and what I do today».
Queer intimacy and female nudity, a defiant body of work by artist Jenna Gribbon
«The idea is to make the viewer conscious of the fact that they are consuming an image of a body which belongs to a person – they are no longer...
Studio Sarmite: Harvesting, producing, designing pine skin leather through bark
«I extract the bark on my own and it's not regularly harvested either. The final product ranges from earthy brown to pink to deep terracotta colors with a scent of...
Can the monster speak? – Dr. Noémi Michel on the politics of voice alternative economies of attention
Monster derives from the Latin monstrare, to demonstrate. Dr. Michel’s methodology explores this notion of bringing forward shared realities of others and being transparent
Pushing Bauxite Residue, a.k.a. red mud further into architectural industries – Studio ThusThat
Kevin Rouff, Paco Boekemann and Guillermo Whittembury: The challenge to change the perception of red mud to consider it a potential sustainable resource
Blurring boundaries of identification through a multilayered artistic practice – Jesper Just
«I approach an image from several possible angles so to challenge the museum’s audience» — a conversation with Danish multimedia artist Jesper Just
«The idea of transparency can be ideological and political» David Spriggs talks with Regine Schumann
Visual artists David Spriggs and Regine Schumann discuss the role of transparency, both in its physicality and concept: fFrom material, to object, to luminance constraints
«Either you have it, or you do not» – Sofia Tchkonia on Georgian fashion’s future
«They are not afraid of what they want to do ». A city between Eastern, Western and Soviet influences fosters the new generation of designers
Capturing chaos on unprimed linen. The lysergic still life canvas of Pedro Pedro, California
«Online everything becomes flat, which is how many people consume art today and I think my paintings work well seen via the digital». Bringing back the still life for digital...
Forget the shock: pastel colors by Sébastien Notre – an inner urge that it’s not traumatizing
«I don't want to do things to shock people». Soft is often a synonymous of weak. Pastel colors allow the artist to show the contrast between strong images and soft...
