Just a brief thought I needed to share to dispel some doubts: No, I do not believe clothing is confined only to its functionality. I acknowledge our need for immodesty, exhibitionism, communication and identification. I acknowledge that basic needs are … Continue reading
This is a very short dissection, more like an opinion piece, but sustained by a very simple idea I have been building in the last couple of years, about the misuse of Trends in Creative Industries. Who follows my work … Continue reading
‘Absolute Individualism’ is a Trend about mankind becoming a global village that ignores all boundaries, where individual difference is the common point of connection between civilians. It is about craving for difference and a place in the sun within a huge … Continue reading
‘Gynoid vs Android’ is a female Trend about woman’s need for new apparel shapes after thousands of years of bipolar oscillations between straight and hourglass figures, as the new era of sexual equality approaches - when women’s finantial power will overtake men’s - and Architecture … Continue reading
‘Our body is our edge’ is a Trend about sculpting our bodies and give them the power to emerge from ages of obscurity and give clothes shape, instead of its previous submissive condition where it was molded by stiff and ‘packaging’ garments. Our … Continue reading
‘Long live the beauty’ is a Generation X Trend about its perspective about the pursuit of youth, which has now been extended to a pursuit of longevity on youthfulness, influenced by a growing average life expectancy and science promises about having extended time and medicine tricks that … Continue reading
‘Fashion + Architecture’ is a Trend about merging several layers of dwelling that involve each human being like overlapped epidermis, such as clothes, transportation, apartments, community shelters… imagination can make us rethink boundaries and human scale up to buildings and sky-scratchers. 9 billions will make … Continue reading
Egle Cekanaviciute, a young fashion designer from Lithuania, came up with the idea that Orthopaedia and Tailoring are both natural or artificial ways of Bodymoulding, just like plastic surgery. So she developed this project that merges the function of both fields of … Continue reading
The Invisible Bicycle Helmet – or in its original name, Hövding – was born in 2005 on a joint master thesis in industrial design at the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University in Sweden by the hands of the designers Anna and Terese. Hövding is … Continue reading
You can also read this article, published in Urban Times, here. How can we design responsibly in the fashion industry? We just need to use our brains. At least as much as we use our hearts. This is the first rule … Continue reading
The Ad Makeover is a new idea that Dove had to reverse these negative thoughts women could develop while confronting annoying but consuming banners in Facebook that constantly insist on telling readers they should do something about their bodies. Well, Dove … Continue reading
(image source: http://www.massmovement.uk.com/ - official site) MM, The Mass Movement is a London-based dance agency which is remarkable for this unique reunion of highly respected and talented dance professionals, mixing multiple styles and individual expressions into one supergroup. They refer to their … Continue reading
“The problem that block the eye-sight by the cap of raincoat when turning the head has been solved” – say Cai Zezhou, Zhou Yimin & Chen Yuliang, the creators of FreeVision Raincoat for Red Dot Award. The inner edge of this … Continue reading
You can also read this article, published in Urban Times, here. Listening to what women have to say today can be as crucial as knowing how to adapt to incoming cultural changes, because women are seriously starting to show proof of a tremendous … Continue reading
