SSENSE MONTREAL : A STEEL GREY FLAGSHIP
SSENSE is an online platform that blends culture, community, and commerce. Based in Montreal, it offers a mix of established luxury brands and more emerging brands. The SSENSE flagship was designed by David Chipperfield Architects. A 1,200-square-meter, 19th-century space, built as a “building within a building” adjacent to the city’s iconic Notre Dame Basilica. The […]
ROBERT WUN OR THE AESTHETICS OF FEAR
Born in Hong Kong, this London designer has cultivated a language of sculptures with futuristic overtones. After a debut at the London College of Fashion in 2012, Robert Wun launched his brand two years later, taking his couture practice into a universe close to science fiction and the natural world. Honored with the ANDAM Fashion […]
NINJA HANNA, PRAISE FOR NOSTALGIA
The Swedish photographer, based in Stockholm, uses her radical and sensual, poetic and humorous eye in her compositions, which are fueled by the whole aesthetic of nostalgia. Voluptuous women, post-punk fashion, muscle cars, collages, cinematographic settings, snapshots, nudity… Everything comes together in a play of light, artistic blur and intense, matte colors. Ninja Hanna’s pictures […]
INTO THE OTHER WORLDS OF ZHONG LIN
The Malaysian photographer strikes our senses with images that are both mysterious and provocative, sensual and disturbing, opening up new dimensions. Flowers protruding from faces, bodies wrapped in fabric, prickly red lips, eyelashes as long as hair, silhouettes lost in misty water… Welcome to Zhong Lin’s strange, disturbing, and fascinating worlds. Her work reflects the […]
ELENA IV-SKAYA, ODE TO THE MODERN WOMAN
Beauty, elegance, and femininity define the work of this photographer and former model through her very aesthetic, luminous and colorful choices. “The woman is meant to be celebrated; the muse is feminine. I want my models to be beautiful and elegant, no matter what look I’m going for.” Elena Iv-skaya’s strength and energy is evident […]
NADEZDA NIKOLOVA
Elemental Forms Nadezda Nikolova (b. 1978, Serbia) is a Croatian-Bulgarian-American artist based in Oakland, California. She studied 19th-century phototrophic (light energy capturing) printing processes at the University of Kentucky and the George Eastman Museum. Having learned the old photographic techniques so prized and reused today, she produces photograms on wet collodion plates (called tintypes). Imaginary […]
MELISSA X UNDERCOVER THE NEW COLLAB’ OF THE MOMENT, HALFWAY BETWEEN JAPAN AND BRAZIL
Once again, the Brazilian brand Melissa, known for its recycled and recyclable plastic shoes, but also for its remarkable collaborations, strikes a blow. A move made with the UNDERCOVER brand by Japanese designer Jun Takahashi. Available since February 8th, this happy union highlights the strong points of the Japanese designer, which very quickly defined the […]
SUBLIMATING THE VALUE OF ESPACE
South Korean design studio H Office designed the interiors of the Seoul-based fashion brand Nomanual, whose walls are symbols that imply complex narratives. The 125m² flagship shop is the brand’s first physical shop, located in Sangsu-dong, Mapo-gu, in the heart of Seoul. The space is an incredible play of perspective, reflection, distortion, and infinity. It […]
THOMAS DEMAND, THE ART OF TROMPE-L’OEIL
France – Paris The first major retrospective of the German photographer and sculptor is on show at the Jeu de Paume, presenting his photographs of life-size reconstructions. Since the 1990s, Thomas Cyrill Demand has been questioning the viewer’s relationship to the image and to time. His photographs reconstitute places through significant events, media episodes, or […]
1997 FASHION BIG BANG
A decisive year in the history of contemporary fashion, which saw the current fashion scene take shape at the turn of the millennium, 1997 hit the catwalks and left a lasting impression on people’s minds. Whether we remember the shock of Comme des Garçons’ introduction of deformed bodies with the “Body Meets Dress, Dress Meets […]