The collection is by Zara Gorman. All images are the courtesy of Zara Gorman.
AIF’s November Picks
All the items are available for online shoppers with worldwide shipping and to local shoppers in Lugano, Ticino. Our November picks for you are: The white Butterfly coat by Nasim Akhavan for 290$ With handmade […]
SHEGUANG HU
A model presents a creation of the SHEGUANG HU at Hu Sheguang Haute Couture Collection show during the China Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2014 in Beijing, China, Oct. 29, 2013. (Xinhua/Chen Jianli) (cn)
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Margiela’s work with deconstruction in fashion was very conceptual. He used part of vintage cloths and resembling them which resulted in cloths that seem completely new. Just what Frank Gehry did in Architecture in 1977/1994 […]
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In an essay by Patricia Mears “Fraying the Edges; Fashion and Deconstruction.” Mears shows that deconstruction in Fashion is not as theoretically influenced as that of architecture. In the early collections of Comme des Garcons […]
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Over the last 25 years globalisation and information technology led to developments in both fields of Fashion and Architecture. In 1980s, Gianni Versace and Hermes both used the classical motifs-the Greek pretor key pattern. column […]
André Courrèges, Lord of the Space Ladies (1923-2016)
“Where do his tennis dresses, his sailor dresses come from? Where did he find them? On the steps of Delphi. In the wardrobe of Electra. They are modern and they are antique,” wrote Violette Leduc […]
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The work of Paul Poiret in Fashion industry has some Art Nouveau´s popular curvilinear shapes of the late nineteenth century. In this time the simplicity of form and fluid ornamentation was important. the shapes coming […]
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In 1850s, the prefabrication in building materials and steel construction made more open architecture and lighter spaces. The use of fewer structural elements in construction building. The Crystal Palace, designed by Joseph Paxton for the […]
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