Creating cutting-edge fashion in Germany isn’t really a dog’s life. I mean, look at the competition – what does Germany fashion industry really has to offer besides Birkenstock? That’s why Berlin has turned to a Mecca for aspiring talents and young designers. Trying to pull off the same number in Italy, however, is a pretty tough job. Besides all odds
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Being a Madonna fan is my guilty pleasure. Judge me if you want, I get inspired by the force that this 53-year old powerhouse of reinvention (not just Photoshop nip/tucks), business and marketing. Now admit that you love her too and let me feed you what expects us in 2012 from the material girl. Madonna will be releasing her new
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So I’m arrived back at school this past week and I feel as disconnected as ever. However I am slowly crawling my way out of the social hole I dug for myself by going to Berlin last semester. I needed to get away from it with a distraction… something in the city… Something like Art Hack Day, as brought up
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Bulgaria is not just a third world-country defined by its notorious corruption and high-level crime rate. It is also a source of raw talent and true inspiration. And this project is here to prove that. Let me introduce you to under-the-line.tv – an independent platform for video and short films. It’s a project of a friend of mine, Vasil Germanov
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Woodkid is Yoann Lemoine, an acclaimed French director and photographer. He started learning illustration and animation at Emile Cohl School, Lyon, France and screen-printing techniques at Swindon College, London. After college in 2004, Lemoine started illustrating in several magazines and children’s books, in France and the USA. At the same time, he joined a French production team and started to
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Berlin is a city full of aspiring designers and innovators. Some of them find a stage to express themselves during Berlin Fashion Week – right under the spotlight, in the tent at Brandenburger Gate. Others end up at a studio in a warehouse in Kreuzberg. These photos are the full series of shots of the type of behavior that has
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You know those moments when you feel so proud of your country that you’re about to cry? Well, I almost never have those moments because there are more than enough reasons to be ashamed of my homeland. Thus, Vladimir Karaleev gave me one of those truly patriotic moments during Berlin Fashion week. Vladimir Karaleev’s presentation of his vision for women’s
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Is Thom Browne for real? The New York-based designer famous for his prankster fashion collections took his irony and sarcasm to a completely new level. The Herman Munster inspired show separated the fashionistas in two poles – those who hate the new collection and those who love it but wouldn’t really wear it. Women’s Wear Daily said Browne’s “silly show”
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This is maybe one of the most captivating collections of Fashion Week season 2012/2013. The Belgian designer and agent provocateur Walter Van Beirendonck used exclusively faceless models to present his new collection. Usually when you watch a runway show your perception of the models is not really one of human beings. However, Walter took this concept to a new level
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Dries Van Noten manages to put a multi-media installation down on a pair of trousers or a coat. During the presentation of his latest collection I couldn’t help but think if the colors and prints are too much, and if they don’t start to remind me too much of the crazy patchwork clothes by Desigual. However, unlike the commercial company
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Have you visited the transmediale website recently? It looks horrible! It’s so 1999. It’s just wrong. It’s simply incompatible. At transmediale 2012 everything will revolve around the theme in/compatible. Incompatibility refers to the condition that arises when things don’t work together – a pervasive phenomenon in the field of technology. Both developers and hackers are always working to improve systems;
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The other day I was thinking about musical influences and what makes me so attracted to them. While I was thinking about this, listening to my digital music library on shuffle, a song by Kate Bush came on, and it then struck me! Though I came across Kate Bush sometime around mid 2002 (Yes I know I was a late
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