Trendletter
March 2009 - I: Trends developed from Continuity
March 2009 - II: Cultural Heritage
March 2009 - III: Fashion for Sun, Sea & Sport
April 2009 - I: Political Fashion
April 2009 - II: The Power of Fashion for Identity & Status
April 2009 - III: Opinion about men, style, internet...
May 2009 - I: Designing the media, Zeitgeist of music
May 2009 - II: Fashion archives history, Your perfect design, The luxury of recycled trash
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Video: 'Birthday' by
Tosca from the new album 'No Hassle'. For the new album Richard Dorfmeister and Rupert Hofer have mixed
analog and digital, live instruments and sampling. On their website you can find the musicians' statements about the album, which is
about contemplation and concentration: hearing the music helps to make free
from pressures from outside or internally. For Rupert Hofer the aim was to make
"... An album to invest one hour of your
attention and concentration, almost like an audio massage." Tosca is on tour (partly with visual artist Fritz Fitzke)…
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Frank Thiel
Curtains, folds and the political system of a
society. Frank Thiel presents new photographs
showing curtains made of fabrics arranged in folds at the Sean Kelly Gallery,
New York. His work is addressing the recent history of Berlin...
Fashion
archives history
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Maison
Ventury Paris
Emmanuel Touraine
presents the early launched label Maison Ventury Paris with the debut
furniture collection entitled 'Divine' created by designer Vincent Cadena. At
the same time, the two fashion addicted had the idea to motivate their
clients to become a designer…
Your perfect design
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Workshop Missoni
You are invited to enter
the typical Italian way of making fashion, which begins at the loom: an
installation, capturing the sounds of the laboratory and Missoni knitting
machines, recorded and written for the installation by composer Pietro
Pirelli...
Fashion
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U.F.O.:
Blurring the boundaries between art and design Ronan und Erwan Bouroullec's 'Rocs' are made for
deconstructing the space. The design idea behind comes from 'software': the
system allows you to elaborate your taste infinitely by building your own
architecture!
Your perfect design |
FASHIONOFFICE INSIGHT by publisher Karin Sawetz
New internet
technologies are quantifying your behaviour and interests as anonymous
information. The ones who are interested to benefit from the new technologies
more individual can add interest categories associated…
Your perfect design
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Ciclus SS09
Question: Is the
half-moon bracelet made of film material like it is used for movies? Eco-designer
Tati Guimarães: "It is made of films
like those used in printers before digital replaced the need of film to
print, for example, newspapers...."
The luxury of recycled trash
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Maurie Polak
US jewellery designer Maurie Polak's
pieces seem to be Voodoo inspired amulets to support the wearer in the
awareness that the moment is only in the case limited if you let it end in
the presence. The designer has used…
Fashion
archives history
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Good Signs - Bad
Signs
"...parallels between the rhythm and
repetition of songs and typical regional knitting patterns...," curator Eva Kreissl invites the visitor to experience the meaning
of symbols in game situations like a symbol quiz, sound-effects test…
Fashion
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Carla Gallas SS09
Why male suits for the
bags? "I use male suits for the bags mainly because they are 100%
eco-friendly, including inside. They are a way to give a new use to an old
piece. Usually the laptop bags are a bit boring..."
The luxury of recycled trash
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Busy P, Kavinsky, and autoKratz on
Levi's Unbuttoned Tour
Last year the label toured with the 'Rebellious
Girls" Uffie, the Brazilian Girls and Maral Salmassi. This
year they have chosen boys. |
unika(r)t by Irene Wölfl
The Austrian designer
Irene Wölfl presents her label unika(r)t during the 3rd edition of
Designformat from 8 May until 25 July at the workshop kaRja in Vienna. How to give old material the appeal of luxury...
The luxury of recycled trash
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GlassesUSA SS09
Question: "Your website navigation shows several categories; one of
them is 'Fashion'. What’s the difference between the other glasses and
the Fashion glasses?"
Fashion
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Ursula Neugebauer
The Austrian Design
Festival assembly celebrated with the opening of the exhibition "tour en
l´air" by German artist Ursula Neugebauer four days of fashion,
music, art, interior design and virtual worlds with works by more than 70
designers/artists from Austria and East European…
Fashion
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Archaeology of
the Future
curated by Li Edelkoort
In the first five weeks
since the exhibition is running over 7.000 people visited the Designhuis to
find out more about the ‘Archaeology of the Future’. In May, the
exhibition center by the Design Academy Eindhoven extended the presentation
until 28 June…
Fashion
archives history
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Video: 'She's an
Apple Pie' by Kissogram
The electro-pop duo Jonas Poppe and Sebastian Dassé started in 1999. Today, Kissogram is among the most important bands of the Berlin independent scene. The musicians are on
tour: 5 June Moscow, 12 June Altdöbern (DE), 26 June Vienna…
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Fashion Calendar
DMY International Design Festival Berlin 2009, 3 – 7 June in Berlin
“Same same, but different!” is the motto of the Design Festival Berlin 2009. You are invited to attend exhibitions, performances, lectures such as Pecha Kucha, workshops and open studios. Find out how international designers are planning our future http://dmy-berlin.com.
Participating Project in Making Worlds, the 53rd Venice Biennale
Xu Tan: Keywords School • Venice, 4 – 21 June Venice
Since 2006 the Chinese artist Xu Tan researches ‘keywords’. Through his guidance every member, every ‘keyword’ serves as a medium to trigger different individuals to take part in certain conscious activities. The public flow of consciousness constitutes the main content of the ‘Keywords School’. The recruitment for the ‘Keywords School’ runs until 31 May! http://www.xutan-keywords.com
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