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NJA MAHDAOUI: strokes of liberation
Nja Mahdaoui is one of the most celebrated living contemporary artists in the arab world. His bold and highly rhythmic work, derived from the arabic letter, is internationally renowned and can be found...
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Not all fun and games : Abdel Bounane
Last month, the Gaïté Lyrique digital creation center opened its doors in Paris, after many years of construction. A companion shop also opened next to the gorgeous building : the AMUSEMENT creative...
View ArticleWhat will you do for the summer holidays?
What will you do for the summer holidays? This is a question we here often these days, a perfect conversation piece celebrated from Athens to Paris, London to New York. As a result of this planning...
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marc turlan: STAR NOTORIOUS
First, he covered them up with a resin mask, then he cut their eyes out, with a scalpel and after with a laser. This is not Dexter, this is artist Marc Turlan, who always finds new ways of torturing...
View Articlecomme des garçons white drama
A few weeks before the Hyères madness, I had the incredible opportunity to once again spend a few days with Galliera curator Olivier Saillard as he put together not 1 but 2 special exhibitions in a...
View Articlethe ANDAM
230 000 euros for a young designers… who says the French don’t support talent ? For 23 years now, the ANDAM prize, created by Nathalie Dufour and presided by no less than Pierre Bergé, has rewarded...
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the museum of everything
Art. What is it ? Where does it start, and where does it end ? In today’s contemporary art “market”, it seems no one bothers asking the question anymore. Art, as it would appear, is whatever is made by...
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Olivier Saillard, Violetta Sanchez, and 25 ways to be a turncoat
“We nominate McQueen at Mugler and Armani Casa at Margiela… We nominate Margiela at Schiaparelli and order him not to make any collections to preserve the surrealist spirit of the house.” Curator...
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MONSIEUR HERVÉ
What’s in a name ? You can ask Kenzo Takada, Martin Margiela, John Galliano, Valentino Garavani or Helmut Lang – designers who, for various reasons, left the company which bears their name, and then...
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john lawrence sullivan : in the ring
Tokyoite Arashi Yanagawa, the man behind menswear label John Lawrence Sullivan, has quickly become a fixture of the men’s fashion circuit. The choice of name for the label is perhaps the most telling....
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undercover (and inside out)
Japanese designer Jun Takahashi, the creative force behind the cult label Undercover has been a major influence in Japan’s fashion scene for more than a decade. After vanishing for two years from the...
View Articlevalli mythologies
The Stimuleye presents a new film for Giambattista Valli’s fifth haute couture collection for Fall 2013, following last season’s Jonas Mekas-influenced film The Other Side of Paradise. This season, the...
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Kostas Murkudis
Putting Kostas Murkudis, with his East German utilitarian approach, at the helm of Closed jeans, a brand defined by the relationship between function and form, is a match in heaven, in a time where the...
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paris is dead – bap-tepr-ism
Welcome to your Paris baptism. Photography by René Habermacher. Styling by Suzanne von Aichinger, with Maison Martin Margiela. Concept by Antoine Asseraf. Transcribed by Amandine Flament. Translated by...
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