Resort 15 Influencer Collection: Marc by Marc Jacobs
The second Marc by Marc Jacobs collection by Brit duo Luella Bartley and Katie Hillier was inspired by the Mercury 13 group of women who were…
Emerging Trend Resort 15: Persimmon
Bright, bold, warm tomato red shade. Works well with the new Nordic blonde, warm neutrals or clashed with hot pink. USP: This shade of…
Emerging Trend Resort 15: Trapeze
We’ve been monitoring this silhouette for several seasons and Resort 2015 sees the voluminous trapeze line incorporated into coat and dress styles. USP:…
Resort 15 Influencer Collection: Fendi
Karl Lagerfeld and Silvia Venturini Fendi (daughter of Anna Fendi – baguette – and mother of Delfina) continue their contemporary evolution of luxury and…
Resort 15 Influencer Collection: Sportmax
A refined collection of relaxed, slouchy tailoring combined with ladylike nipped-in waists and A-line skirt silhouettes Inky blues and black offset with bold red…
Virtually fitted footwear
High quality increasingly means high-tech to luxury consumers. Finnish bespoke footwear brand The Left Shoe Company is using high-tech 3D scanning to ensure the…
See this: Colour Play
Expressing a playful approach to design, Itay Ohaly‘s installation at Israel’s Design Museum Holon is part of the ‘Playing at Design’ exhibition that runs till June 7th….
Studio Toogood collaborates with Hostem
Studio Toogood has taken up a 6-month residency in Shoreditch’s Hostem boutique, turning it into an artist’s atelier – selling furniture, concrete bowls, books…
Emerging Trend Resort 15: Colour Corrosion
Recreating the effect you get from repeat-washing your favourite T-shirt or jeans, the patina of age is embraced as super-soft fabrics are industrially washed…
Second life materials
Exploring the beauty to be found in the everyday and the overlooked, Sophie Rowley (soon to graduate from Materials Futures MA at Central St Martins) brings…
Resort 15 Influencer Collection: Burberry Prorsum
Citing his inspiration as British handcrafts, watercolours, village greens and the books he’s been finding in flea markets, Christopher Bailey’s resort collection featured countryside-inspired…
Colour Provenance
Colour Provenance is a visual investigation celebrating colour as more than something we see daily and take for granted, or simply as a…
Beautiful objects from Insects
Depleting resources and the continuing evolution of the symbiosis between man and nature, sees designers look to nature to provide materials. The From Insects…
The Next Black
“Fashion is concerned with what’s happening in the next five minutes,” says Suzanne Lee, founder of Biocouture, a pioneering design consultancy focused on bringing living and…
Deconstructed silk cocoon
Inspired by the beauty of silk and its inherent properties such as a natural stiffness and shine, German designers Nicole Goymann and Christoph John, have designed a…
RESORT 15 INFLUENCER COLLECTION: LOUIS VUITTON
Nicolas Ghesquière’s second collection for Louis Vuitton featured an eclectic combination of 70s-inspired shapes, embellished fabrics, delicate details and OTT mismatched prints. Referencing the Oceanographic…
SEE THIS: Horst P Horst
This autumn, the V&A will hold a retrospective of the work of Horst P. Horst (1906-99), one of the 20th century’s greatest fashion photographers….
The Fragrance Lab at Selfridges Beauty Project
The Fragrance Lab is a collaboration between trend forecasting agency The Future Laboratory and Selfridges, as part of their Beauty Project . Future Lab got together with…
Add meaning through colour
Dutch design duo rENS are passionate about the colour red and explore its meanings and applications in their work, using a dyeing process based on…
Adidas x Instagram customised trainers
Simultaneously jumping on two bandwagons at once (avid Instagramming and standout sneaks), Adidas has announced that it is pairing up with Instagram to allow…
