Archive for October 2025
CLIMATE ART AWARD: PRIX COAL 2025
The climate art award, Prix COAL 2025, spotlights visionary artists who turn environmental crisis into cultural power, reimagining water not just as resource, but as ritual, memory, and myth. This year’s edition of the Prix COAL, France’s leading award for ecological art, focuses on a powerful theme: freshwater. While floods and droughts grow more extreme,…
Read MoreTakuya Uemura: Where Architecture Meets Ikebana in Kobe
If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if an architect picked up a pair of flower shears, meet Takuya Uemura, a man who designs buildings by day. He brings branches to life by night. Based in Kobe, Japan, Uemura is both an architect and an ikebana artist. Takuya Uemura skillfully blends the precision of structural…
Read MoreLARS MERTENS REWRITES THE RULES OF MENSWEAR
Belgian designer Lars Mertens fuses storytelling, craft and colour into a vision that resists labels and sparks imagination. Lars Mertens Menswear Indeed, menswear has always danced between rules and rebellion. At the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, designer Lars Mertens is shaping an approach grounded in curiosity and freedom. Refusing Boundaries Labels Don’t Define…
Read MoreLa Réserve Paris – Hotel and Spa
La Réserve Paris is an Intimate Urban Mansion in the Heart of Paris Tucked away in the prestigious 8th arrondissement, La Réserve Paris – Hotel and Spa is a sanctuary of discretion and refinement. Unlike traditional 5-star palace hotels, La Réserve evokes the atmosphere of a private urban mansion. It welcomes guests who share a…
Read MoreCowley Manor Experimental through the Looking Glass
Step into a Storybook Realm Where History Embraces Wonderland at Cowley Manor Cowley Manor Experimental reimagines the country house hotel experience with a contemporary twist. Renowned designer Dorothée Meilichzon has crafted a stylish and refined vision for this Gloucestershire hotel. Collaborating with the creative Experimental Group to bring it to life. Cowley Manor, a stunning…
Read MoreMyrtos Flavours of Greece
A Greek Culinary Journey through Heritage and Heart with Chef Asimakis Chaniotis at Myrtos. London has no shortage of culinary heavyweights, but step inside Myrtos, and you’ll quickly discover why this new Greek fine dining restaurant is making waves. Prepare to embark on a delightful journey through the sun kissed landscapes and flavour rich dishes…
Read MoreALAINPAUL- AUDITION
ALAINPAUL Spring/Summer 2026 ALAINPAUL Spring/Summer 2026 shown during Paris Fashion Week investigates the act of dressing. It’s an action which has always carried a performative narrative. The designer frames it as an audition, an everyday rehearsal in which the body negotiates identity through fabric and form. For him, the dancer’s ritual—practice, repetition, correction—becomes a lens…
Read MoreFRIVOLOUS CARTOONS: KÁRI ÞÓR BARRY’S PLAYFUL TAILORING
Icelandic designer Kári Þór Barry merges cartoon exaggeration with precise tailoring, turning oddities into intelligent, wearable narratives. Cartoons Meet Craft For centuries, humans have found humour in exaggeration, from cave paintings to Looney Tunes. Today, Kári Þór Barry channels that same spirit into tailoring. Moreover, a cat in a suit became his starting point, sparking…
Read MoreLITKOVSKA Spring-Summer 2026 “(DIS)CONNECTED”
The LITKOVSKA Spring-Summer 2026 (DIS)CONNECTED collection hit Paris Fashion Week like a quiet storm. Designer Lilia Litkovska turned the runway into a meditation on tension: belonging versus detachment, visibility versus invisibility, silence versus voice. As a result, her work asked what it means to stay real in a world built on pressure to conform. The…
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