I found out that the theme this year was sustainability which was very exiting for someone with my background in this new area of fashion. The opening show was by a designer from Minas Gerais, Mary Designs, she designed the clothing and the accessories, and the hats stood out in a bit way to me. They are made of newspaper, with a refined paper maiche…

I find it confusing that several countries are being crippled economically when they still have their people.

What do people really need? You would have to say that housing, food, and clothes would be the bare essentials. In order to be ‘civilised’, one could say that electricity, roads, health care, and computers are essential too. But to…

Join a Virtual Gathering of Visionary Teachers, Authors, Artists, and Leaders to Co-Create the Birth of a New Conscious Culture …

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete"

When you hear the words peer to peer your first thoughts might be illegal downloads. But this is like thinking of joyriders when someone mentions cars. Peer to peer is a entire phenomenon, a PHILOSOPHY, an emerging universe…

French architecture agency Palatre & Leclére have done an amazing job with their latest project, the Ecole Maternelle Pajol in Paris, combining all the elements necessary for the education of tomorrows brightest stars, the children!  With bright colors, art installations, and just pure happiness, who wouldn’t want to send their…

Designer Riccardo Tisci wanted to portray the euphoric energy of a rave in Givenchy’s Fall 2012 campaign. This led photographers, Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, to capture the models in a blurred motion as to emanate the essence of ravers. The campaign featured model Stella Tennant, which Riccardo Tisci chose because of her energetic beauty…

Tastefully filling a polished office space with lots of swirling and leafy plants is no easy task, but the uber-modern Ljubljana Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Slovenia manages to beautifully bring the outdoors in with a stunning interior garden that whips through the space. The original building and…

Now that spring is on its way we’re starting to see the beginnings of new trends for the season. Ombre hair color has kept its momentum, but its evolving into new variations of colors and application styles into the so called “dip dye” hair color. Its similar to an ombre and color melting technique but is more focused on just the ends and usually encompasses a bright fashion…

Yayoi Kusama is renowned throughout the world for her repetitive, rhythmic, and even hypnotic work with polka dot patterns. Throughout the years, she has assiduously covered paintings, drawings, sculptures, films and performances, creating gigantic installations where, in an attempt to share her psychological traumas and fears, she immerses the viewer in…

What we love best in a street wear line: bright, colorful graphic prints in basics that you can wear every day.  Luckily Polish street wear label Dream Nation has us covered, and they’re doing so in eco-friendly materials. This season they’ve made leggings, t-shirts, dresses and trousers…

The exhibition illuminates the various facets of organic design and traces how the concept of organicism runs throughout twentieth-century design. Organic design is commonly associated with soft, flowing forms. Many designers seek models from nature or use organic forms to…

Annie Vought has set to design boom images of her newly developed pieces for her existent collection of handwritten, cut-out correspondence. the Oakland, California residing artist considered the countless email, SMS, instant messages and twitter posts received in her life, and…

"When I create my images, it’s important that there is an obvious human touch behind them, a genuine feeling of craftsmanship to the picture. That is probably why I mix different techniques so freely and use everything from ink and gouache to pencil and paper…

Ad Age Trend Report Explores Strategies for Social-Media Platforms, Organizing Your Team and What to Measure

Consumers are investing serious amounts of their time in social-media platforms, with 16.6% of all online minutes now spent on social networks. With so much focus on social as a marketing tool, it's worth stopping and mapping out a smart social strategy.

A new Ad…

I just discovered the work of Swedish illustrator/paper artist Hanna Albrektson, and I must say that I really enjoyed looking through her portfolio. Especially striking are her beautiful drawings over photographs and her shoes and bags made from paper. She is very talented and technical and is always open to receiving new types of…

As runway shows come to an end for 2012 bridal lines, it is interesting to see how history does repeat itself, even in the wedding industry. The history behind wedding gowns is deep and complex, whether from a religious point of view or a fashion point of view, wedding gowns have gone through numerous transformations. Today as we see colored wedding dresses…

Jason Wu's Spring Collection was off the chain with ultra feminine Kaws-inspired prints paired with Wu’s classically tailored silhouettes. But what really took the cake was the stunning makeup and bold hair. I’m obsessed with the needle-like black…