From left: A look from Zoe Twitt F/W10; The inspiration: the White Lady in La Dame Blanche At the age of seven, Australian fashion designer Zöe Twitt was already traveling the world visiting textile factories, albeit with her parents who owned a textile company. By the time she hit college, where she dabbled in acting [...]
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Carin Wester’s Beeping Sleauty
June 3, 2010 – 5:39 am
Beeping Sleauty, Swedish designer Carin Wester’s F/W10 video, hooked me with its word play. It’s the sort of creative use of the English language that only foreigners can successfully employ. Despite the title, the actual video is fairly dark with a dominant Scandinavian aesthetic. It’s notable for its ability to both highlight Wester’s signature style—clean [...]
Dossier in Conversation with Lars Andersson
May 6, 2010 – 5:17 am
Designer Lars Andersson There’s something mystical about knitwear designer Lars Andersson. Yes, it’s the dark, draped aesthetic of his women’s and menswear but it’s also a sense that the Swedish-born designer, who has called New York home for over a decade, has discovered his true calling: producing hand-loomed and often handmade, yet modern clothing out [...]
Elise Øverland Curates F/W10
April 8, 2010 – 5:31 am
New York-based designer Elise Øverland explains her work as combining “power, raw, moxie and sophistication” into clothes that “are not for a specific age, but more [for] the attitude of the person who wears them”. Here, she selects nine artists who inspire her and dresses them in a creatively complementary piece from her F/W10 collection. [...]
The World According to Rad Hourani
April 7, 2010 – 5:31 am
An artistic depiction of the pensive designer “When I was a kid, I was really religious. I believed in Jesus and my grandfather was a priest. But at one point, I started traveling and I saw other religions and I said to myself, ‘What makes me believe that my religion is better than his, or [...]
