Review
Ottolinger – Cosima Gadient and Christa Bösch: post-apocalyptic rips to athleisure
Cosima Gadient and Christa Bösch are ripping and burning the fashion playbook in a most literal sense, creating garments that do more revealing than concealing
Design Chronicles – Flos Chromie, lamps coming out from their homes
The human brain perceives color as reflected light of varying spectral wavelength, associating it with personal and collective emotional responses – a phenomenon known as color-emotion synesthesia
Art Thou, Polimoda – best works selected by the curator Massimiliano Giornetti
Emotional awakening is the emblem of this collection and considers the new professionals as drivers in this respect through their visions
Lampoon – Diverso: I have shot unripe vegetables rather than flowers
Photographer Stefano Ortega letting the human being entering into an undefined love/friendship with the soil.«I want the proximity/distance to the subject to be clear»
Elizaveta Litovka on Dom Perignon: «the bottle of champagne was talking a lot»
«It erupted, bubbles flew in all directions and I managed to hear of celebration, of women, romance, flowers, dates, important events, travel, of Russian weddings where champagne is traditionally drunk...
Playing games: Maria Grazia Chiuri revisits her youth for Dior: «This nonsense of a game»
Maria Grazia Chiuri fuses references from the Rome of her childhood with Sixties Dior designs to propose an optimistic post-pandemic future at Paris Fashion Week
Knitwear and Hydropower – going greener, Drumohr makes few real steps forward
Born in the 1700s, a knitwear house Drumohr defines tradition: in conversation with Owner and Ceo, Mr. Michele Ciocca: «We want the term sustainability in our brand to turn into...
Golden Goose: unlearning standards of perfection, Italian heritage and American sports culture
Golden Goose marks its twentieth year since conception: a dive into the brand’s history from power moves and success stories to controversies and challenges
What would have been a simple project, became a fashion story – Sergio Calderoni
A Walt Disney cartoon called Mickey and the Beanstalk in which the antagonist was a giant playful kid and his gestures became the mood of the shooting
System conception and alphabet of signs: Domenico Romeo ‘Anime Armate’
Domenico Romeo research «considers the Opera as a system in its perennial changing shape and size»
Author Marlowe Granados offers a guide to female confidence in her book Happy Hour
Women rule in Happy Hour, men merely persist at the side-lines. Granados smiles, «I could not imagine writing a novel about these girls trying to find boyfriends»
Lars Brønseth captures all in blue life scenes
«The cobalt blue has been my color. I’m not sure when it happened. It seems to catch my attention whenever it’s within sight. It’s the starting point where textures merge»
Breath Ghosts Blind – Maurizio Cattelan’s latest exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca
Through a human, a dog, an airplane, a monolith, and a thousand pigeons, Cattelan layers his art with narratives of politics, society, and reality
Petros Efstathiadis unproductive machines are reminiscent of Modern Times
An idea prevailing upon another, an end with nothing heroic and no explanation - in conversation with Petros Efstathiadis
Disassembling discarded objects to reassemble them back: Nicole McLaughlin plan
The New York-based designer considers her work as the opposite of what Marie Kondo values, encouraging her audience to keep what they have
David Luraschi. French-American photographer: the ‘faux dieu’ of perfection
«Sometimes when you try to be an artist making your work complicated and cryptic you are not actually being an artist». David Luraschi on the beauty of day-to-day life
Stefano Graziani’s Taxonomies pay homage to Carl Linnaeus’ utopian enterprise
Taxonomies – Stefano Graziani pays homage to the father of modern taxonomy through his travels around the globe concluding his insight and studies on the naturalist
Women’s jobs are 1.8 times more vulnerable than men’s jobs due to the crisis
True to its Roman roots, Bulgari has increasingly invested in conserving the past and ensuring the future, not just through design, but through arts and education initiatives
In Fendi, craftsmanship lies in fur and leather: Kim Jones proceeding with a responsible sourcing
Instead of pushing on a new approach for Fendi, Kim Jones rifles through the archives of the house, observing what Karl Lagerfeld did and what Silvia Venturini Fendi has been...
Silver made in Italy – Giovanni Raspini, cerapersa and bronzobianco techniques
Italy hosts a heritage of shaping noble metals that traces back to the 5th century B.C. Its history is a rich one and Giovanni Raspini is proud to honor it...
Alex Black proposes a technical study in the materiality of photo paper
Ready-made from home combined in a rigid and calculated sense of composition. Man Ray's lesson: a photogram is a recording of the physical nature of light
108 days of Summer through the lens of film director Peter Spark
Perfecting the practice of lazy summer days. Peter Spark captures the essence of summertime through photographs that speak of salty kisses and sun on your skin
Brooks Shane Salzwedel’s photography, between the possible and the imagined
Salzwedel uses his inner strength and inner child to tell his story: a self-created process involving different materials to portray natural and unnatural landscapes
A.B.O. THEATRON. Art or Life traces the career and life of Achille Bonito Oliva
«I never cared too much about what I have done in the past, I only care about what I am going to do when I grow up». An exhibition celebrates...
Even if you wear it wrong, you’re wearing it right: Y/Project X Fila – Glenn Martens
Glenn Martens’ brought Paris Men’s Fashion Week to a close with his capsule collection with Fila, producing hybrid pieces of layered sweatshirts and split polo-neck collars
L’Oréal and Unesco: ‘The World needs Science, and Science needs Women’
Francois-Xavier Fenart states «Having only a third of female researchers all over the world, of which very few in top positions, is a waste of talent and opportunities»
Genova Design Week: Vito Nesta on display at Palazzo Reale in Genoa
Traditional and contemporary intertwine in the halls of Palazzo Reale, through the works of designer Vito Nesta in collaboration with the Architecture and Design department of the Genoa University
Lampoon / Transition – How the darkroom shapes the creative light of film photography
DIY darkrooms to vivacious color theory: Photographer Jenny Brough discusses her process to capturing energy with the click of her camera
It could be a political agenda: flowers to investigate African historical narratives
Flowers for Africa is the winning project of the Prix Marcel Duchamp. Kapwani Kiwanga is urging the public to question existing historical narratives in African decolonization
An accent on Missoni’s heritage: on Ottavio’s centenary, Angela exits creative direction
Ottavio Missoni. The designer’s centenary in an exhibition at MA*GA Museum in Gallarate – the city where Missoni’s history and revolution began
No rules in love, but condoms: there should be no limit to sexual experimentation
The condom series – make love with whoever you want: an invitation to be promiscuous whenever you want, but always kind. Four writers, four stories, about sex
Zordan embraces LCA: It’s not just what you buy, but also where you buy
Zordan shows it is possible to measure carbon footprint even in custom work, as seen in the LCA method used in physical retail space creation
Transitioning – the Abrau Peninsula in Nanna Heitmann’s photography
Thus spoke Zarathustra. A philosophical journey through the Black Sea and the Mediterranean vegetation fueled by the four elements
Alexandre Benjamin Navet stepped out of his comfort zone, he placed flowers in vases
Layer by layer, color by color, research by research: the French artist details his collaboration with Van Cleef & Arpels
For Patagonia, social justice is inextricably linked with environmental justice
Patagonia takes a sand «This is a time where you can’t step away from tough questions. It’s a time for businesses to raise their voice and have an impact»
Ovum – family, circularity, rebirth. Artists ponder the meaning and shape of eggs
The recurrence of a process marks the sign of rebirth as art imitates life in his rendition of the egg. Six artists share their own visions of Ovum
«Never show four white stitches in one image» – A talk with Jonathan Hallam
An interpersonal fascination between Martin Margiela and multidisciplinary artist Jonathan Hallam led to La Femme de Cabine – an homage to the House, fusing anonymity with ubiquity
Consumers of luxury goods are paying attention to the engagement beyond the product
The digital panel Innovating the Present for a Sustainable Future highlighted Bvlgari's commitment to CSR and introduced the Virus Free Fund – the report
Lampoon / Transition – Maddalena Arcelloni: We mean it if we say it’s all about HER
The unbearable lightness of being a woman: a midway between meaningfulness and irony is used to explore the Dior ideal of femininity
Transitioning – The butterfly effect and the irony of contempt
Ria Mort’s balancing act: visiting Greece, a planet created from a balloon made of recycled materials is a fairy tale
Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Venice. DYSFUNCTIONAL and the paradoxes of functional art
DYSFUNCTIONAL: Carpenters Workshop Gallery at Ca' d'Oro, Venice, an exhibition still relevant today. Error leads to perfection; high quality craftsmanship comes from experience, case analysis, manual skill handed down without...
From upcycling marine waste to mixing surfwear with couture.
Designer Antonin Tron: «I never claimed that ATLEIN is sustainable, because as long as you’re creating something, you’re creating waste. It’s not a perfect system»
Creation/Destruction – her hair play like tree branches: visual art by Stas May
Collage and collide: a research that drives to the intersection of nature and man, fragments of color, fragments of black and white - it’s a sunny morning in Brooklyn, New...
Dior Her – Maria Grazia Chiuri: it’s no longer about clothes, but about political efforts
We should all be feminist because this is (still) a men’s world: «Hers is a world to be discovered, in which she lets you enter gradually»
One trench coat is still defining a social status: Burberry’s historical narrative
From the language of wartime economy to modern experimentations: how Burberry trench coat underwent changes over the last hundred years
