Images by Oskar Gyllenswärd Nasir Mazhar is not your mother’s milliner. When he launched his line of eccentric cranial accouterments in 2008, the hairstylist turned truly mad hatter presented a unique aesthetic that fused the grungy East London look with dark, seemingly medieval sentiments. His first presentation, which featured everything from a clear, cranium-engulfing bulb [...]
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A Moment with Tze Goh
November 14, 2011 – 6:12 am
Stills from Tze Goh’s Spring 2012 Film After graduating from the Central Saint Martins MA program in 2010, 32-year old Tze Goh captured London with his clean, minimalist approach to womenswear. Since, the Singapore-born, London-based designer has furthered his quietly elegant aesthetic through at once stark and delicate collections that explore garment construction. Case in [...]
A Moment with Maria Francesca Pepe
October 3, 2011 – 7:21 pm
Images by Cara Stricker Maria Francesca Pepe is one wicked chick. The Italian-born, London-based jewelry designer has made her mark with sometimes Goth, sometimes punk, sometimes fetish, but always feminine tubular necklaces, hammered metals, charm-rings and studded everything. This season, Maria looked to love potions and snakes for inspiration. Titled “Poison,” her spring collection combined [...]
Arielle de Pinto at Vicenza Oro
May 19, 2011 – 8:29 pm
26-year-old Arielle de Pinto’s chainmail silver and vermeil jewelry has an otherworldly quality. Whether it’s the at-once-elegant-and-decayed cascading necklaces and gloves from her main line or the cleverly abstracted stainless silver figurine rings from her diffusion line, ADP, the Montreal-based designer’s jewelry transports one to another time and place; a time and place more mystical, [...]
Chronicles of Paris Fashion Week – Fall 2011: Viktor & Rolf, Issye Miyaki, A.F. Vandevorst…
March 24, 2011 – 8:08 am
Images by Ellie Campagna …Costume National, Zadig & Voltaire and Vionett. Dai Fujiwara for Issey Miyake and Danish duo Viktor & Rolf have an acute ability to convey their concept on the runway. They push beyond hemlines and color palettes to transport us from the Tuileries tents and into the complicated, or sometimes crystal-clear, world [...]
