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by Silke Gehrmann-Becker
What would “Gone with the Wind” be without Scarlett O’Hara’s green velvet dress, “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” without Audrey Hepburn’s LBD? Now the Victoria and Albert Museum in London has dedicated a major exhibition to the pivotal role played by costume design in film – illustrating how it goes further toward determining a film’s plot and narrative style than one might think.
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by Anne Kaestner
Anyone visiting Frankfurt over the next couple of weeks will simply encounter Iceland everywhere. The remote fabulous country is Guest of Honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair this year and the Museum für Angewandte Kunst has just opened an exhibition on Icelandic design. Above all fashion labels such as Spaksmannsspjarir, Mundi, Ásta Créative Clothes, Barbara I Gongini and Shoplifter are now the talk of the town here.
News & Stories | Salone del Mobile 2011 – supported by Villeroy & Boch Tiles
by Sandra Hofmeister
Heading for Milan - An increasing number of fashion labels are discovering the world of residential interiors and inflating their image into that of outfitters for all walks of life. To what extent furniture manufacturers dare to enter other product segments in the future remains to be seen.
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by Meret Ernst
Among designers, the word "trend" is definitely a no-no to be avoided at all cost. Rightly so, as the term refers to something that purports to be new but is actually well known. Yet it is worth looking at the concept a little more closely to discern the mechanisms operating behind it.
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by Nina Reetzke
Armed with a camera and a laptop, fashion nerds collect inspiring impressions for their Blogs on the street, report on fashion events or simply place themselves in the limelight. Simone Werle's book "Style Diaries" portrays 40 fashion bloggers from all over the world.
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by Annette Tietenberg
Few are quite as conversant withthe language of fashion as Hussein Chalayan. It is no wonder, then, that the British fashion designer's retrospective - currently on show at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art - is based on the alphabet. This certainly does not mean, though, that the order of the characters is set in stone. Nor, indeed, that a final end point is visible. Chalayan's language incorporates the body, space, image, music, text and textiles, functioning on the borders of what can be said.
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by Thomas Wagner
Richard Avedon (1923 to 2004) is one of the 20th century's most famous fashion photographers and portrait makers. Schirmer/Mosel have now published a fascinating illustrated book entitled "Avedon Fashion", which presents a selection of fashion photographs from six decades.
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by Markus Frenzl
Even just a few decades ago the roles were clearly distributed: on the one side, the superficial and ephemeral world of fashion, and on the other the world of furniture design, which strives for timelessness and for durability. At this year's Salone in Milan, a surprising amount of cross-over between fashion and furniture was in evidence, as for instance. - How strong is the reciprocity between these two apparently so different disciplines today?
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by Claudia Beckmann
In 'The House of Viktor & Rolf', the Dutch designer duo present a review of the fashions they have created over the last 15 years. Once again, they have come up with a big surprise: instead of presenting their work on a catwalk, their creations are to be seen in a huge doll's house.
News & Stories | Salone del Mobile 2011 – supported by Villeroy & Boch Tiles
Two years ago, Foscarini and Diesel presented their first luminaire collection. Initially, the joint venture struggled owing to the fallout from the global economic crisis, but now it is receiving feedback from a recovering market. Sandra Hofmeister spoke to Carlo Urbinati about luminaires between product design and fashion design.
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by Jochen Stöckmann
When models on the world's major catwalks present prêt-à-porter and haute couture, given the almost sculptural qualities of the fashion it is hard not to wonder whether the items can be worn in everyday life. Wolfsburg's current exhibition "Art & Fashion. Between skin and clothing" explores just how fashion and art interact.
For the design of the fashion boutique "Delicatessen", the New York architects from Z-A studio chose a low-price, highly prevalent material: the shop is clad almost entirely in perforated white chipboard.
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by Claus Richter
The catalog "Drawing Fashion" presents drawings of haute couture from 1910 to the present day. Drawings, watercolors and gouaches by illustrators including Georges Lepape, André Edourd Marty and René Bouché enchant readers with their outstanding beauty.
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by Amelie Znidaric
Vienna has for years now been trying to establish itself as a capital of international fashion. And Austria's largest fashion spectacle, the "10 festival for fashion & photography", has just finished. But the country's most successful designers were not in on the act.
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by Markus Frenzl
Martin Margiela is the conceptual thinker of fashion, but one who consciously remains invisible. His oeuvre is more present than ever before on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the existence of Maison Martin Margiela: in the form of exhibitions in Antwerp and Munich, an installation in Milan and a book that is coming out in the fall. It all shows that he pre-empted not only trends in fashion but also in furniture design.
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by Claudia Beckmann
He is a like a phantom. Almost everybody has heard of him, but hardly anyone has ever seen Belgian fashion designer Martin Margiela. While he has managed to stay as good as invisible for over 20 years now, his oeuvre has been constantly present and truly celebrated.
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by Sandra Hofmeister
Rem Koolhaas macht jetzt Mode. Bruce Willis trägt seine T-Shirts, und Miuccia Prada verkauft sie.
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