Style + Design Iris van Herpen Finds Beauty in “Transmotion” for the Fall 2020 Couture Jul. 6, 2020 Fall 2020 marks the first season that couture, the bastion of handicraft, is going digital. Iris van Herpen, who has challenged the métier’s notion of what constitutes a unique garment by creating one-offs using technology, is well-positioned to make use of a digital platform. »
Style + Design From ‘Game of Thrones’ to Digital Couture Jul. 6, 2020 Carice van Houten, the Red Priestess, brings an Iris van Herpen dress to life in a short film. »
The Freedom Garden Initiative Is Giving New Meaning To Victory Gardens Jun. 19, 2020 Like so many small businesses in the wake of COVID-19, Studio Lily Kwong, a landscape design studio founded in 2017 by landscape artist Lily Kwong, postponed its major projects...With new restrictions and the revelation that coronavirus was posing a major threat to food access, Kwong and her team began looking to history for inspiration. »
Art + Culture Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg look to the future in Louvre Abu Dhabi sci-fi podcast Jun. 1, 2020 Louvre Abu Dhabi is inviting us to go thousands of years into the future thanks to an absorbing audio and visual experience created by the Soundwalk Collective group which is known for creating “sonic landscapes”. The piece, We Are Not Alone, begins with the museum architect Jean Nouvel who has recorded a message for future generations. “A narrator then places the audience within the tale’s futuristic world, inviting them to imagine the museum’s surroundings in a galaxy that has survived long after human extinction,” a statement says. »
Art + Culture 9 Lessons To Take From Renowned Interiors Photographer François Halard’s Provençal Home May. 27, 2020 Until now, the Provençal bolthole of photographer François Halard has been little more than a glorious footnote to his shots of private homes belonging to everyone from Yves Saint Laurent to Antony Gormley. »
Art + Culture Wes Lang Releases ‘For the Good Times’ Print Edition With Almine Rech May. 25, 2020 Renowned French dealer Almine Rech recently announced a print collaboration with contemporary American artist, Wes Lang. You may know Lang as the creative mastermind behind Kanye West’s YEEZUS graphics back in 2018, His work consists of unruly drawings, sculptures and paintings that often incorporate controversial imagery from American history including Native Americans, the confederate flag and more. »
Art + Culture As Long As You’re Stuck in Your Apartment, Give Yourself a Story to Live May. 21, 2020 Artist Peter McGough has always insisted on living as if he’s in another era. »
Style + Design Iris van Herpen Imagines a Fashion Future in Which Clothes Are Only Made on Demand May. 20, 2020 Van Herpen has always been at the vanguard of fashion and technology, while maintaining her focus on the beauty of the human body and its movement—she is, after all, a trained dancer. Here, she shares her thoughts on shows, production, and the ultimate ideal of circularity: technology that brings us closer to nature and its cycles. »
Art + Culture CXA Agency Releases Return to Work Guide for Safe & Responsible Shoot Production May. 15, 2020 ‘How’ is one of the fashion industries’ greatest questions of today. ‘How’ will we work together again? ‘How’ will shoots work? ‘How’ will we stay safe? These questions and more prompted Steven Pranica, President of Creative Exchange Agency, to put process to paper and develop answers to ‘how’ in CXA’s “UnPause – A Guide to Safe & Responsible Production.” »
Style + Design Creation in Destruction: An Interview with Someone Who Smashes Cosmetics for a Living May. 13, 2020 If matter is neither created nor destroyed, explain to me the existence of Creator, Destroyer, and all-around Womancrush Marissa Gimeno, whose job it is to smash, smudge, puff, drip, and swish beauty products into the gorgeous images you see in editorial and advertising. »
Photography + Film Still Life With Fly Swatter, or Hourglass, or Lemons May. 13, 2020 Five housebound photographers used everyday items to create images that speak to both their inner lives and the world beyond their walls. »
Style + Design “There is so much in fashion that is unexplored” says Iris van Herpen in Dezeen’s exclusive video series May. 7, 2020 In the first of three exclusive video interviews with Dezeen for Virtual Design Festival, fashion designer Iris van Herpen explains how her training as a ballet dancer led her to pioneer the use of new technologies and materials in haute couture. »
Style + Design Closet Tour with GQ’s Jim Moore Apr. 30, 2020 The legendary editor walks us through his wardrobe and discusses his decades-long career in fashion. »
Art + Culture Inside the Boutique Agency That’s Changing the Face of the Industry Mar. 20, 2020 It is fitting that Creative Exchange Agency, the powerhouse artist management, production, and creative content firm, should be located in a sleek Chelsea high-rise penthouse towering above the center of the international art world. With the kind of floor-to-ceiling windows that would give weaker stomachs vertigo, the office of the agency’s founder and principal, Steven Pranica, has commanding views of Manhattan’s cultural, financial, and commercial sectors. »
Art + Culture How to Run a Successful Fashion Creative Representation Firm Mar. 20, 2020 In December a story about a former high-powered fashion agent and print magazine photography director sent shockwaves through New York’s creative and editorial community – especially those whose careers have taken a nose-dive since digital came into the picture. »
