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Monthly Archives: April 2010
Pae White’s Smoky Beauty
April 19, 2010 – 8:16 am
Chalk up another point for fashion in the never ending “Is fashion art?” debate. Pae White’s 30-foot-long tapestry featuring smoky swirls on a black background (currently on display at the Whitney Biennial) once again places textile design in the fine-art file. While the digitally loomed fabric hasn’t yet been manipulated into a creation reminiscent of [...]
Fuori Salone at Design Week in Milan
April 17, 2010 – 11:26 am
Images by Paolo Simi. Text by Elisa Lusso. Introducing Milan Design Week is a challenge. It is an arduous duty to reconcile past definitions of “design” with new creations that take the concept to an entirely different place. Meanwhile, one also needs to determine the right place to look and be. From the grocery store [...]
The Inspired Life
April 17, 2010 – 11:20 am
Images from The Inspired Life. From left: Jon Manheim and Akiko Stehrenberger; Magda Wosinksa. New York creative life is an unceasing river of stimulation, in which individuals act as sieves, eliminating the clutter and absorbing inspiration. They combine these new loves with past influences to construct a unique world that leads them to their next [...]
Dossier in Conversation with Andrea Pappaletter
April 16, 2010 – 4:49 am
Images by Silvia Bergomi Currently in the fashion department at Rodeo Magazine and in his final year at Istituto Marangoni, Andrea Pappalettera is a stylist on the rise. As the child of two dynamic visionaries who own a graphic design and communications agency in the middle of Milan, he has been building his artistic arsenal [...]
