Interviews
Accessories born from clay and realized into a surrealist form: Eva Verwicht
The insight into a student project Folies Créatures on the transformation of flora and fauna into a set of bags realized by a sculptural approach of creating clay and 3D...
Dynamic prints and artisanal, handmade plissé: Julia Heuer
It is a period of reflection that relates to aesthetics, taking place before considering the restraints of production. Intw Julia Heuer
Mats Rombaut abandons leather for vegan options – Rombaut and Vìron
Making products requires constant investment in improving the creative process. Mats Rombaut, founder of Rombaut and Víron: «Sustainability means necessity»
The expanded version of Genesis: Tessa Dixson gives it a second life
«I am starting fresh and this time I would like to start from zero». Singer and model Tessa Dixon on her new single and her approach to music during the...
Radio Raheem – It is easy to make a radio, it is hard to make a good one
Discovering a Milan-based web radio, born in 2017 from the minds of music and culture professionals to connect people and ideas
The syncopation phenomenon: Anri Sala is an enhancer of awareness
Anri Sala: «My work is linked to this tension taking place between on-beat and off-beat within the architecture of syncopation»
Hodakova: The Stockholm brand repurposing garments headed for landfill
1)Born from the creativity of Ellen Hodakova Larsson, Hodakova is the Swedish brand producing one-of-a-kind pieces created from repurposed materials
Deception game at Villa Panza: in Sudden Time Chiara Dynys toys with our perception
1. Chiara Dynys returns to Villa Panza with four site-specific installations which retrace her artistic career and revisit her recurrent themes: colors, light, the meaning of anomaly and thresholds
Oscar Anton: Chocolate and music for breakfast – cartoons were a prize for the weekend
«What is the opposite of waiting for release? To release as many songs as I can» Oscar Anton challenges the limits of the music industry
The universal language of geometries is the focus for Damien Poulain
Influenced since his childhood by advertising and billboards, Damien Poulain developed a style that draws from graphic design, architecture and other cultures
Manual versus automatic concepts – Nabil Nayal is mixing old and new patterns
Syrian designer, Nabil Nayal, brings the concept of affordable sustainability combining historical and contemporary patterns
Senegal, a bridge to Milan: Maria Manga balances her roots
«More than a search for elements of inspiration, the roots of the past balance the union between what is and what will be»
A childhood beguiled by hands weaving tapestries
We must learn from our antecedents. Fashion designer Cecilia del Carmen Juarez Balta embodies the meaning drawn from her roots and the memory of Peru
Flowers and Art: William Farr puts together flowers and waste materials
«It’s a statement on nature, detritus, about chaos and about human hunt». William Farr’s artworks questioning on materialistic obsessions and human assumptions
Moroccan mindset and artisans are key to LRNCE’s lifestyle brand of handmade pieces
«Every piece is a small part of Morocco, it’s a small part of me, it’s bringing two worlds together». Laurence Leenaert on LRNCE’s connection to the local craftsmanship and raw...
The poetry of masturbation and self-pleasure explained in a documentary
Masturbation, shame and societal taboos are the point of discussion of the independent documentary Four verses of self-pleasure
Cutting bodies and pasting parts: the art of Pablo Thecuadro
The wholeness of his artwork forms a jigsaw puzzle against a backdrop made of cutouts, the reflection of the Spanish artist as a collage artist
From Yemen to Peru, traveling around the world through the photographs of Richard de Tscharner
Music and photography: the exhibition Il canto della Terra is not only an ode to the earth, but also a way to honor the work of Austrian composer Gustav Mahler
Patricia Urquiola and the gamble of designing from secondhand materials
Fun Aristocracy: Inlays and buildings, damasks and plots, some exponents of a ‘Fun Aristocracy’ – talents undeclared from titles
Chris Moore on photographing the buzz of a fashion show for sixty years
A changing industry and changing times. Photographer Chris Moore, a pioneer of runway photography, discussed the ups and downs of six decades spent in front of a camera
Stasi is the new album from Populous: about slow-flowing music
The mix of instrumental hip hop and ambient music recalls the beginnings of Populous as a producer and his debut in the international electronic scene
Giuseppe Buccinnà leather research in civil engineering and contemporary arts
Giuseppe Buccinnà: leather, accessories, and designs from the mind of a civil engineer and fashion designer in Milan
The aesthetic of playground: Carsten Höller invites our inner child
It's never about irony – even if, according to Carsten Höller, it is impossible to go down a slide without smiling
Lampoon / Transition: the flesh, the body and the divine in pursuit of Anthropocene
In her photographs, performances and installations, Bianca Lee Vasquez forages and unravels the reverence nature holds among every living being
Luke Evans – mythology, humanity and aesthetics of an actor
«For me acting means searching for the person’s humanity in the character. I am completely focussed on human sensitivity»
Thierry Guetta as Mr. Brainwash in street art and advocacy
«The messages of my artworks and what I do are about sharing and giving» - Mr. Brainwash’s art: from Bellini Nautica and Leonardo to the Pope
Mary Katrantzou is positive: every snake can become a butterfly
Economically powerful brands like Bulgari can provide crafting resources that usually are not available: nowadays, this should be the premise for every brand collaboration
Transition: Margiela has moved on from fashion – fashion has not moved on from Margiela
An attempt to demystify fashion’s invisible man: «He could have all the glory and fame - instead he decided to step away to let the garments and the Maison speak...
Rely solely on the skill of the artisan is perilous for a designer – Ronan Bouroullec
«When you see your work has a social impact, people continue to work and to survive». Ronan Bouroullec on how centering the artisan can lead to a sustainable industry
A Bestiary of the Anthropocene, a recollection of our geological epoch – in conversation with Nicolas Nova
Sars-Cov-2, 5G, plastic flowers or antenna trees: the newly developed creatures of our times are portrayed in the last project imagined by Nicolas Nova and Disnovation
MoDusArchitects’ heterogeneous body of works: private homes, school buildings small-scale infrastructures
The latest project by the Italian architectural firm based in Bressanone consists in the renovation of a traditional alpine lodge located within South Tyrol’s Dolomites UNESCO World Heritage site
Nudity: the flesh, the body, and the divine in the character of Planthropocene
Body is sacred, nudity is art, and nature is a living being. Bianca Lee Vasquez seeks the veracity and the reverence nature holds with living beings: «We need to see...
The Girl With The Black Bag, the Simone bag campaign film
Hermès have unveiled its campaign film ’The Girl With The Black Bag’ starring the Simone Hermes bag, firstly seen on the runway in the Fall–Winter 19 show in Paris
Carving a shape for future women: Palazzo Galliera’s retrospective on Chanel
Following a period of renewal and improvement of its structure and offer, Palazzo Galliera opens to the public again with a personale focused on the female fashion icon
Being a woman under a global pandemic. Stories of femininity and isolation
Miu Miu keeps on its Women’s Tales series, centered on the female gaze in independent cinema. The last entry, ‘IN MY ROOM’, explores solitude and heritage during the Covid-19 lockdown
