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Hedi Slimane: High Fashion, Hard Edge

By Katherine • Nov 8th, 2008 • Category: Designers, Fashion, Fashion Photography, Photography, Recent Posts

A recent issue of V Magazine featured photographs by designer and photographer Hedi Slimane. He is Paris-born and is accredited with a wide range of accomplishments to date, in addition, he signed with Art + Commerce in October of this year. Though there are rumors, according to New York magazine, that he is secretly planning [...]



Designer of the Week: Delineo Design - Industrial Design

By Megalongcat • Oct 8th, 2008 • Category: Fashion, Footwear, Furniture Design, Industrial Design, International, Product Design, Recent Posts

More and more designers have been emailing use their work as of late and I never thought I would see the day where I had to swim through design projects, designers, and exhibitions on a daily basis.   I’m obligated of course to take care of these in the order they arrive and this week [...]



Basso & Brooke’s Kaleidoscopic Runway

By Katherine • Sep 19th, 2008 • Category: Apparel, Designers, Fashion, International, Recent Posts

London Fashion Week was washed over with a wave of color this Wednesday when Basso & Brooke’s Spring/Summer 09 Collection came down the runway.  The collection was Japanese inspired, with kimono-like silhouettes and patterns and prints in every color imaginable. Each garment emerged as if pieces of the brightly colored, geometric backdrop of the runway [...]



Fashionable Fitness: Stella McCartney’s New Adidas Line

By Katherine • Sep 19th, 2008 • Category: Apparel, Design Ethics, Designers, Fashion, International, Recent Posts, Sustainable Design

Stella McCartney opened up the gym for London fashion week, complete with Olympians, to display her new collection of Adidas sportswear. Her winter collection for 2008 is currently available at Adidas, but her sustainable spring 2009 collection debuted this week in London. And what better way to show off sportswear than seeing it in action [...]



Why Marc Jacobs Is Bigger Than Fashion Week

By Katherine • Sep 18th, 2008 • Category: Apparel, Designers, Fashion, Recent Posts

Having wrapped up on September 12th, the New York City  Mercedes Benz Fashion Week showcased many astounding fashion design talents. Among the many collections, the Marc Jacobs Spring 09 show stands out as one of the most unique shows this year. Leave it to fashion designer Marc Jacobs to completely turn around the spring silhouette [...]



Illustrated Apparel: Catalina Estrada and Maria Elvira Crosara collaborate

By Katherine • Sep 2nd, 2008 • Category: Apparel, Designers, Digital Art, Fashion, Graphic Design, Illustration, International, Recent Posts, Textiles, Traditional Art

Colombian illustrator Catalina Estrada brings a sense of renewal to the traditional Latin-American style with fresh coat of vibrant color and imagination. Through her studies she has achieved a Graphic Design degree from Medellín, Colombia, and a degree in Plastic Arts from Barcelona. Her illustrations turn small magical worlds that work perfectly as graphic patterns, [...]



Plaid Shorts and Preps Today

By Megalongcat • Jul 21st, 2008 • Category: Current Design Event, Fashion, Recent Posts

We’ve all seen it. The infamous plaid shorts. For those of us who grew up in the suburbs of any major city, we all understand that these shorts are automatically linked with popped collars and polo shirts and in turn these fashion pieces are associated with certain stereotyped groups or cliques of people. These groups, [...]