The history and development of the kimonos were heavily influenced from clothing traditional Chinese Han people called hanfu through Japanese embassies in China in the fourth century. However, it was in the eighth century that the Chinese custom became popular in Japan. During the Heian period (794-1192) the kimono became increasingly similar to the current one, though at the time was still covered with a
Landline, is a series of performance installations by the artist Aakash Nihalani that explore themes of isolation and community.
‘in these new outdoor works, colorful bars pass through individuals, connecting them to each other and functioning as extensions of the urban landscape. the participants examine their own insides and connections, a visual expression of both the isolation and community I often feel living in brooklyn.
LaMonte grew up in Manhattan, New York. In 1990, she graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with a Bachelor in Fine Arts with honors. Immediately after college, she was awarded a fellowship at the Creative Glass Center of America, in Millville, New Jersey. Following that, she moved to Brooklyn, New York, and worked at UrbanGlass, a not-for-profit public access glass studio.
Chanel argued that art and fashion are two opposing concepts as: arts are ugly things that become beautiful, fashion beautiful things that become ugly.
Today there is an converse phenomenon because ‘fashion already offers’ the “Ugly” as a genuine aesthetic form.
Fashion is a contemporary osmosis that re propose and “sign” what we live, but if the taste is questionable and varied,
Winner of an Avery Dennison Fashion Innovation Award and student at Nottingham Trent University, the young designer of Hong Kong research solutions and architectural possibilities able to represent the complexity and dynamism. Inspired by the architecture of Zaha Hadid, the design of Yung Wong disturbs the stillness of the surfaces with winding asymmetry and geometric mosaics that evoke the vector graphics and disarticulate fading on
“Yiqing Yin studied at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, Immigrating from China at age 4, tossed between countries, her clothes have often provided her with a point of reference: “Returning to my clothes, was like living once more within my body and my emotions; I was at home.” Her aim has been to create a garment that protects and reinforces, being at the same
Sophie Delaporte, of the so-floaty-it’s-cathartic imagery (see here & here), lends her lens to the latest Comme Des Garçons / Idoménée Book. A mix of color-theming and cut-outs plays together in this well-crafted series.
Sophie, trained in both photography and film, jets between Paris and New York and brings the best of both city’s backgrounds to her work. which manage to marry both a touch
Sandra Backlund is a fashion designer with an exam from Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm. She gratuated in 2004 and founded her own lable the same year.Since then her work has been selected and supported by some of the most important editors and exhibition curators in the world. In 2007 Sandra Backlund was the Grand prix Winner of the Festival International de Mode &
I am Anja. Living in a suitcase, moving around most of the time. However, I am officially coming from a small village near Radovljica and currently living in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Graduated from University of Ljubljana, Fashion and textile design in 2012 and did an exchange at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (Fashion design department) in Copenhagen in 2010/11.
“You are the fiery life of divine substance, you blaze above the beauty of the fields, you shine in the waters, you burn in sun, moon and stars.” — Hildegard Von Bingen “In archetypal symbolism, clothing represents persona, a kind of camouflage which lets others know only what we wish them to know about us and nothing more. We are often “clothed” in our own
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